4: Break through five realms in a row and reach the fifth level of skin training!

【Year One: You diligently Cultivated the Three Yuan True Nurturing Skill, but due to blocked Meridians, your True Qi was difficult to circulate, and you failed to enter the Realm.】

【Year Three: After three years of clearing, your Meridians were unblocked, your Qi and blood flowed like a Dragon, and your Realm advanced to the Skin Refinement First Level.】

【Year Five: You occasionally gained insights while observing the sunrise and sunset, and your Realm advanced to the Skin Refinement Second Level.】

【Year Seven: Through your unremitting efforts, your Realm advanced to the Skin Refinement Third Level.】

【Year Nine: You diligently Cultivated, finally achieving another Breakthrough, and your Realm advanced to the Skin Refinement Fourth Level.】

【Year Twelve: Your talent was limited, and you found Cultivation difficult, but with the accumulation of time, your Realm advanced to the Skin Refinement Fifth Level.】

As the text appeared line by line on the light screen, Jiang Lan's Aura also rapidly increased.

The text disappeared, and Jiang Lan, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes, a divine light bursting forth from them.

Skin Refinement Fifth Level!

Jiang Lan could feel that he was completely a different person compared to a few minutes ago.

If they were to fight, even a hundred of his former selves piled together wouldn't be enough to last three minutes against his current self.

The gap was simply too immense, completely incomparable.

Jiang Lan finally understood why a Martial Artist at the Leather Refining Seventh Level could sacrifice a village of over four hundred people.

If the village was full of ordinary people, his current self could do the same.

“Is this the power of a Martial Artist...”

Jiang Lan looked down at his hands, a sense of daze rising in his heart.

After a moment of thought, he stood up and walked to the table, picking up the bronze mirror on it.

The person in the mirror had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, coupled with the Aura between his brows, making him a genuine handsome man.

No wonder that Brothel girl was so enthusiastic just now... Putting down the bronze mirror, Jiang Lan sat back on the bed.

It had to be said that this body's talent was truly not very good.

Twelve years, only to reach the Skin Refinement Fifth Level.

In Jiang Lan's memory, people with similar Martial Dao talent could completely Cultivate to the Skin Refinement Eighth or Ninth Level in ten years.

Even if their talent was a bit better, it wouldn't be strange for them to enter the Bone Forging Realm, the second Realm of Martial Dao, within ten years.

However, Jiang Lan was not worried about this.

After all, others had to genuinely Cultivate for that long to improve their strength.

While his talent seemed mediocre, in reality, he could directly enhance his strength by injecting lifespan.

It was true that a full twelve years passed on the light screen, but in reality, Jiang Lan went from being an unranked individual to the Skin Refinement Fifth Level in less than two minutes.

The only thing he had to pay was his own lifespan.

Mere lifespan, what's there to worry about?

Jiang Lan's gaze swept towards the light screen, looking at the large 'One' after the lifespan column, and twitched his lips.

No big deal, he would interrogate Zhao Guisheng again tomorrow, and perhaps there would be other gains.

If, as Jiang Lan thought, Green Lantern Sect followers were automatically judged as demons by the System, then as long as he could get more information about Green Lantern Sect followers from Zhao Guisheng, find them, and kill or suppress them, he could increase his lifespan.

As for whether he could defeat them, it was not within Jiang Lan's consideration at all.

He was a member of the Demon Suppression Division; if he couldn't defeat them, couldn't others?

At worst, he would ask his colleagues to arrest the people, and then he would personally suppress them; the effect would be the same.

Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

“Knock knock—”

Jiang Lan composed himself and looked towards the door.

“Come in.”

The door was pushed open, and Chen Heguang, dressed in brocade, walked into the room with several oiled paper packages in one hand and a pot of wine in the other, smiling.

Jiang Lan stood up and said:

“Uncle Chen, why are you here?”

Chen Heguang smiled and placed the things in his hands on the table.

“I came to see you. How was your harvest from the Scripture Pavilion?”

Jiang Lan's eyes flashed.

“I've found some leads.”

“That's good.” Chen Heguang's expression was very relieved as he sat on a chair. “Come, let's have a drink, you and I.”

Jiang Lan responded and sat opposite Chen Heguang.

He knew why Chen Heguang had come.

It was nothing more than fear that he hadn't managed to get started this time and was feeling upset, so he came to comfort him.

Chen Heguang looked around the room and suddenly smiled.

“Lan'er, you're not young anymore, and it doesn't look right for this home to not have a woman to manage it. Is there any girl you fancy? I can find a matchmaker to arrange a marriage for you.”

Jiang Lan: “...”

Was he being pressured to marry?

He pursed his lips and refused:

“No, Uncle Chen, as you know, I don't have that in mind for now.”

Chen Heguang chuckled, “Alright, I won't rush you.”

Jiang Lan unwrapped the oiled paper packages, then took a cup and poured a glass of wine, pushing it towards Chen Heguang, changing the subject:

“Uncle Chen, is the matter of the tiger demon easy to handle?”

“Alas...” Hearing Jiang Lan mention the tiger demon, Chen Heguang sighed, “Troublesome. A Bone Forging Realm tiger demon alone would be fine, but the key is how many Tiger's Accomplice that thing has under its command. If we really confront it, it will be too difficult to avoid casualties... I've sent scouts; let's see what the situation is on Black Wind Mountain first.”

Jiang Lan was silent for a moment.

Currently, he was only at the Skin Refinement Fifth Level; if he truly dared to seek trouble with that tiger demon, it would be suicide.

So, even if he wanted to help, he was powerless.

Before he could speak, Chen Heguang continued:

“The world is not peaceful. Recently, in addition to the Green Lantern Sect's frequent movements, several incidents of monsters harming people have also occurred in Yan Capital City.”

“Oh?”

Jiang Lan raised an eyebrow.

“Uncle Chen, tell me about it?”

Chen Heguang glanced at Jiang Lan and said:

“You know about the matter of Steward Li's family of seventeen in the north of the city two days ago, right?”

Memories automatically surfaced in Jiang Lan's mind.

Two days ago, Steward Li's family of seventeen had all died tragically at home.

They all died by being disemboweled, with all their internal organs missing.

The incident caused quite a stir at the time, and the case was taken over by the Demon Suppression Division, so Jiang Lan naturally knew about it.

Jiang Lan nodded, “I know.”

“Today, while you were interrogating Zhao Guisheng, Scholar Qian's family of seven in the north of the city also met with disaster. The method of death was the same as Steward Li's family two days ago.”

Jiang Lan's eyes widened slightly.

He had interrogated Zhao Guisheng in the afternoon.

In broad daylight, it dared to break into a house and kill a family of seven?

“Was it caught? What kind of thing did it?”

“No, that beast is very cunning; it ran away before our people arrived.” Chen Heguang shook his head. “But the coroner said that the perpetrator should be a wolf demon, with a Martial Dao Cultivation between the Skin Refinement Third and Fourth Levels.”

“Wolf demon?”

“Yes, logically speaking, a wolf demon roaming the city should not be difficult to find. But in the past two days, our brothers have almost searched the entire Yan Capital City and still haven't found any trace of that beast.”

At this point, Chen Heguang gritted his teeth.

“The most crucial thing is that this beast even dares to commit crimes right under our noses! If I catch it, I'll definitely pull out its tendons and skin it!”

Jiang Lan didn't speak, staring into the distance thoughtfully.

He probably knew where that beast was hiding.