166: Chapter 166 Hidden Dragon List

"Who is he?" Hearing Shangguan Jingyu address Chen Hu as Brother Chen, Shangguan Lingnan's gaze immediately landed on him, carrying a mix of suspicion and vigilance.

Seeing her Senior Sister's expression, Shangguan Jingyu knew she had misunderstood. She quickly explained, "Senior Sister, don't misunderstand. Actually, I smelled the fragrance of tea from Brother Chen's side and specifically came over to ask for a few cups. Brother Chen is a very good person; not only did he not blame me, but he even invited me to drink his Spirit Tea."

"Is that so?" Shangguan Lingnan remained somewhat suspicious.

"Young lady, why not sit down and have a few cups?" Chen Hu smiled.

"No need!"

Shangguan Lingnan said indifferently, then looked at Shangguan Jingyu. "Junior Sister, we should be going."

"Alright then!"

Shangguan Jingyu nodded reluctantly, then said to Chen Hu, "Brother Chen, I'll come find you to play again when I have time."

"Good, take care, young ladies!"

Chen Hu responded with a chuckle.

This pair of Senior Sister and Junior Sister was quite interesting. The Senior Sister was a Martial Artist in the Late Stage of the Marrow Refining Realm, and the Junior Sister was a sorcerer in the Late Stage of the Dan Soul Realm.

After walking out of the pleasure house, Shangguan Lingnan couldn't help but start lecturing. "Junior Sister, you must remember, when you are out, do not eat or drink things from others casually. As the saying goes, people's hearts are treacherous; who knows if there is poison in what you eat or drink!"

"Senior Sister, you think too poorly of people!" Shangguan Jingyu pouted. "Besides, it was I who took the initiative to ask Brother Chen for tea. It's one thing that you aren't grateful to him, but you're even suspicious of him."

Shangguan Lingnan said helplessly, "You, you're still young. Who knows if he intentionally lured you over!"

"Aren't I fine?"

Shangguan Jingyu was a bit angry. She felt that Chen Hu was actually quite good—he was generous and his conversation was witty and humorous.

Shangguan Lingnan frowned slightly. "Just because you're fine this time doesn't mean you'll be fine next time. In short, from now on, you are not allowed to eat other people's things!"

"I know, you're so annoying!"

Meanwhile, at the Zhenwu Division, in the courtyard where the Division Chief resided, a burst of Marrow Refining Realm Aura suddenly erupted, but soon, that Aura retracted.

Half an hour later, Luo Ningshuang walked out of the room and called out, "Someone come here!"

A Zhenwu Guard pushed open the courtyard gate and asked, bowing, "Division Chief, do you have any instructions?"

"Bring me a meal!"

Since going into seclusion, she hadn't eaten. Although eating exotic beast meat could satisfy hunger, in her view, exotic beast meat was not for satisfying hunger, but for Cultivating.

On the other side, shortly after Shangguan Jingyu left, Chen Hu also brought General Zhao Zilong back to the Fierce Tiger Gang General Hall and found a book on military strategy to read.

In this world, books on military strategy could still be circulated freely. The only exception was the method of military formations; every type of military formation was a secret treasure of a Family.

Although Chen Hu was an ordinary person in his previous life, thanks to the ease of accessing knowledge in his previous life, he had read The Art of War and some other military strategy books.

Compared to the military strategy books from his previous life, the books in this world focused more on how to train troops, with fewer strategies. This was mainly because this world was a Xuanhuan world, and there were things like military formations.

Even if your strategy was strong, it was of little use when facing absolute strength. For example, if you set an ambush on both sides of a cliff using bows and arrows, falling rocks, rolling logs, and fire oil to launch an attack, it would definitely be a great success in an ordinary world.

But in this world, as long as there were experts in the enemy army, they could simply charge up the cliff and reverse the defeat.

Secondly, the reflexes and strength of Martial Artists far exceeded those of ordinary people. A sneak attack might cause them to fall into a brief panic, but as long as they calmed down, it wouldn't be difficult for them to avoid falling rocks and rolling logs. Precisely because of this, the military strategy books in this world discarded many strategies.

After a while, General Zhao Zilong knocked on the door and entered with an invitation.

"Brother Hu, this is an invitation sent by the Nangong Family for their auction!"

"Alright, put it on the table. By the way, go investigate and see who else the Nangong Family sent invitations to, and record their home addresses!" He did not intend to attend this auction under the identity of "Chen Hu".

"Yes!"

General Zhao Zilong accepted the order and left. In the afternoon, General Zhao Zilong returned and handed Chen Hu a booklet. It recorded the addresses of the families to whom the Nangong Family had sent invitations.

Suddenly, Chen Hu noticed one Family in the booklet—the Su Family.

Previously, the Su Family head, Su Quanzhong, had entrusted Matchmaker Wang to propose a marriage, wanting to marry his daughter of a concubine to him as his main wife. He had refused. At that time, he was busy going to the Small Mountain Village and didn't bother with this guy. Now that this guy had fallen into his sight, he intended to borrow this guy's identity.

Thinking of this, Chen Hu directly used the Earth Escaping Technique to head to the Su Family. Soon, Chen Hu arrived at the Su Family.

When he used his Spiritual Sense to find Su Quanzhong, he couldn't help but chuckle. "Damn, this Master Su is a man of passion, doing that in broad daylight...!"

However, from the sunken eye sockets of this Master Su, it was clear that this guy was extremely weak.

A few minutes later, Su Quanzhong finished, pulled up his pants, and walked out of the room. For the next hour or so, Chen Hu recorded Su Quanzhong's speech habits and behavioral habits. Then, Chen Hu escaped underground and left.

Returning to the Fierce Tiger Gang General Hall office, he began to imitate Su Quanzhong. After practicing for a while, he had completely mastered the other person's tone of voice and behavioral habits. Once he used the Transformation Card to become him, Chen Hu estimated that even the entire Su Family wouldn't be able to tell in a short time that he was an imposter.

Meanwhile, in a civilian house near the Nangong Family, Xia Zhong arrived.

"Any discoveries?"

The team leader in charge of surveillance shook his head. "Sir, nothing discovered."

"Does the Nangong Family have any secret passages?" Xia Zhong asked thoughtfully. As an old intelligence officer, he naturally considered secret passages, so he shook his head. "The Nangong Family has a total of three secret passages, all of which are being monitored by our people, and no one has entered or exited!"

Immediately, Xia Zhong frowned. "You say, could that sorcerer have already left Linjiang Prefecture?"

"It's hard to say!" The team leader hesitated. "Perhaps he isn't planning to seize the Spirit Medicine, but intends to buy it with money!"

"Let's hope so!" Xia Zhong sighed softly. He had a premonition that this mission would not be easy to complete.

Near the end of the workday, Chen Hu called Gao Hangzhou to the office and asked a few questions. Upon learning that the members originally under the Yiqi Sect had not caused any trouble after merging into the Fierce Tiger Gang, he decided that tomorrow he would have Deputy Gang Leader Xiao Yue lead the people from the Iron Blood Society to defect. This way, the number of his underlings would surge again.

After sending Gao Hangzhou away, Chen Hu also decided to finish work. But just at this moment, Er Niu ran over in a hurry, holding a book. As if presenting a treasure, he shoved the book to Chen Hu. "Boss, take a look!"

Chen Hu took the book and saw a few extremely imposing characters written on the cover—Great Yong hidden dragon ranking.

The next moment, he turned to the first page. It was an introduction to the hidden dragon ranking. Simply put, this hidden dragon ranking listed 100 extremely promising young people. There was only one rule for entering the ranking: age must not exceed 30.

Besides this hidden dragon ranking, there were two other rankings, the Heaven Ranking and the Earth Ranking, which were about to be released. The Heaven Ranking recorded the ten strongest experts of the Great Yong Kingdom. The Earth Ranking recorded the one hundred experts after the Heaven Ranking.

"Damn it, someone is looking to cause trouble!" After reading the opening introduction of the hidden dragon ranking, Chen Hu realized the problem with the ranking.