179: Chapter 179 Grandmaster? Sorry, you fall under the jurisdiction of the Consumer Rights Protection Law.

Chapter 179

The second basement level of the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, special interrogation room.

The blinding shadowless lamp shone onto the all-metal interrogation chair.

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's hands were tightly locked to the baffle in front of him by a pair of high-density magic-sealing metal handcuffs, and his feet were connected to a half-ton anti-riot ground anchor.

His thin, withered face still exuded arrogance.

The four walls of this room were engraved with miniature matrices that isolated Spiritual Qi; his proud ninth-layer Body Tempering True Qi couldn't even let out a fart right now.

Gu Changan pushed the door open and entered, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

Chen Xiaobei followed him in, carrying a thick stack of documents, which he slammed heavily onto the table.

"Director Gu, it's useless for you to arrest me," Sect Leader Ye Cangyun snorted coldly, leaning back. "I, Ye Cangyun, open my doors to teach disciples based on true ability. The martial Dao Legacy is inherently Heaven-Defying. If those pieces of trash want to reach the sky in a single bound and sacrifice some of their Physique as the price, it is only natural!"

He lifted his chin, his tone righteous and confident.

"One is willing to hit, and the other is willing to suffer. This is called the rules of the Jianghu."

Gu Changan didn't respond.

He flipped open the folder on top of the desk, pulled out a stack of medical reports stamped with red seals, and pushed them one by one in front of Sect Leader Ye Cangyun.

"Take a look," Gu Changan tapped the table.

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun glanced at them; they were all diagnostic conclusions of severe organ failure and neuro-atrophy.

"These are the seventeen students who were severely injured while receiving 'Meridian Opening' at your martial arts gym." Gu Changan picked up a pen and pointed at one of the photos.

The photo showed a frail teenager hooked up to a ventilator.

"His name is Sun Hao, sixteen years old this year. A high school sophomore," Gu Changan looked up at Sect Leader Ye Cangyun. "A minor."

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun didn't even lift his eyelids: "His parents brought the check and delivered him to my door themselves; they even signed the black-and-white liability waiver. They coveted the ultimate techniques of my Xuantie Sect, so who can they blame if their life is thin?"

Gu Changan leaned back against the chair.

"You should learn about the 'Law on the Protection of Minors'," Gu Changan said in a flat tone. "Agreements involving major personal injury and life safety of minors are legally considered invalid, regardless of whether the guardians have signed them."

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun frowned.

Gu Changan pulled out a few more agreements for adults.

"As for these adults," Gu Changan threw the agreements on the table. "When you performed the so-called True Qi Infusion, did you clearly inform them that they would be drained of their Innate Physique and life essence?"

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun fell silent. Of course, he hadn't said that. With this evil art of the Star-Absorbing Formation, who would still come to die if he told them?

"Under conditions of severe information asymmetry, and with the existence of violent coercion and personal control within the martial arts gym," Gu Changan placed his hands crossed on the desk. "This is called a major misunderstanding and fraud. These liability waivers you made the families sign are called absolutely invalid contracts under the 'Contract Law'."

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun slammed his hands onto the interrogation chair's baffle, the metal collision emitting a harsh sound.

"Simply absurd!" Sect Leader Ye Cangyun roared. "I am a martial Dao Grandmaster! This old man can shatter boulders with a single punch! I eat based on my strength! This world is inherently ruled by the strong; do you think a few pieces of waste paper can constrain me?"

Chen Xiaobei sneered from the side.

He opened the tablet in his hand and projected the screen directly onto the white wall of the interrogation room.

It was a bank transaction statement dozens of pages long.

"Sect Leader Ye Cangyun, stop calling yourself a Grandmaster every other breath. Look at your accounts," Chen Xiaobei pointed at the dense numbers on the screen. "The funds you collected under the guise of 'Physique development fees' and 'apprenticeship fees' since you took over the Xuantie Sect ten years ago."

"Every single transaction has a record."

"The cumulative total amount is 340 million."

Chen Xiaobei took back the tablet: "You earn more steadily than a listed technology company, and you're talking to me about the strong being respected?"

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's eye twitched violently, and his breathing became rapid.

Gu Changan spread his hands.

"Grandmaster? Fine. You are better at fighting than me, and I admit you can shatter blue bricks with one punch," Gu Changan stood up. "But as long as you open a gym to take in disciples on Huaxia soil and charge fees with clearly marked prices."

Gu Changan leaned his hands on the table, staring down at Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's eyes.

"In terms of social attributes, you are just a service industry practitioner providing training services."

"Since it is a service industry, you fall under the jurisdiction of the 'Consumer Protection Law'," Gu Changan tapped the table heavily with his finger. "You provided toxic and harmful services, causing serious physical harm to consumers. This is called extremely egregious commercial fraud and intentional injury!"

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun was completely broken.

His theory of the law of the jungle, which ran rampant in the martial arts world, was ground into the dirt by these few modern legal terms in front of this young man wearing a jacket.

He considered himself high and mighty, yet he was forcibly defined as a "service industry practitioner".

This was the ultimate insult to his nearly one hundred years of martial Dao cultivation.

"Gu Changan! Stop trying to suppress me with these rules of common Mortals!" Sect Leader Ye Cangyun struggled wildly in the chair like a trapped old wolf, the handcuffs leaving bloody marks on his wrists. "My True Qi has already fused with their Innate Physique! Even if you sentence me to death, they won't be able to turn back into normal people! Even if this old man dies, I'll have seventeen people to drag down with me!"

Gu Changan glanced at the time.

"Take him to the medical area on the third basement level," Gu Changan waved his hand at the two Special Police officers outside the door.

Ten minutes later.

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun was escorted into a massive laboratory filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

In the center of the laboratory stood a giant metal capsule resembling an MRI machine.

Dozens of thick, transparent tubes were connected around the metal capsule, and the other ends of the tubes were connected to seventeen small medical stasis pods.

Those seventeen victims, who were on the verge of death because their Innate Physique had been drained, were lying quietly inside.

"What are you doing!" Sect Leader Ye Cangyun looked at those complex modern instruments, and an unprecedented panic suddenly welled up in his heart.

Two researchers wearing heavy hazmat suits stepped forward and directly pressed Sect Leader Ye Cangyun onto the seat of that giant metal capsule.

Metal robotic arms extended from all directions, firmly fixing his limbs.

"Since there is a problem with the service quality, we must, of course, follow the after-sales refund process," Gu Changan stood outside the explosion-proof glass wall and said into the microphone. "Whatever amount of Innate Physique essence you consumed from others, you must spit it all back out in its original state today."

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun laughed wildly.

"Wishful thinking! My Star-Absorbing Formation is an ancient evil art; once swallowed, it has long since converted into my own True Qi! Do you Mortals understand what True Qi Fusion is? Extracting it with tubes? Ridiculous!"

Gu Changan ignored him and directly pressed the red start button on the console.

"Activate the super-level centrifugal extraction equipment. Start the reverse meridian dialysis program."

"Hum—"

The giant metal capsule emitted a low roar.

Twelve mechanical spikes equipped with high-voltage currents and nano-probes precisely pierced into twelve major acupoints on Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's body.

"Ah—"

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun let out an extremely shrill scream.

He felt as if his body had been thrown into a violent meat grinder.

The power of technology is overbearing and unreasonable.

This device didn't care at all what ancient evil art it was. It utilized high-frequency magnetic field resonance to forcibly lock onto the foreign life Origin with mixed attributes inside Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's body.

Through the high-speed centrifugal filtration of the nano-probes.

The pure life essence belonging to the victims was stripped away bit by bit from Sect Leader Ye Cangyun's turbid True Qi.

Along the transparent tubes, those energy liquids emitting a faint white light were injected back into the seventeen stasis pods with extreme precision.

The entire process lasted for a full two hours.

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun went from cursing loudly at the beginning to wailing shrilly later on, and finally turned into a pile of soft mud.

The True Qi in his body was completely drained, and his ninth-layer Body Tempering cultivation fell to the bottom instantly like a deflating balloon. He turned into a senile old man who couldn't even walk steadily.

The indicator lights of the stasis pods lit up green.

The victims, who had originally been gaunt and withered, gradually regained a rosy complexion, and their shriveled muscles became plump again.

The first to wake up was the sixteen-year-old teenager, Sun Hao.

He pushed open the lid of the stasis pod, sat up, and looked around blankly.

Gu Changan walked in and had the medical staff remove the monitoring patches from his body.

Sun Hao saw the Special Police in uniform and looked at Sect Leader Ye Cangyun, who had been drained into a useless person, his eyes turning red.

He got straight off the medical bed, walked barefoot to Gu Changan, and bowed deeply.

"Uncle, thank you for saving me," Sun Hao wiped away his tears, his gaze becoming exceptionally firm. "That old man lied to me, saying that if I learned martial arts, I could protect my family. I understand now; those were all fake. I want to be a police officer in the future, just like you."

Gu Changan was stunned for a moment.

He looked into the teenager's clear eyes and reached out to pat his shoulder.

"Good," Gu Changan smiled. "Study hard, take care of your health, and get into the police academy."

The subsequent cleanup work went exceptionally smoothly.

Two days later, the Donghai City Intermediate People's Court issued a verdict.

Sect Leader Ye Cangyun was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison for the crimes of illegal business operations, intentional injury, and fraud, with all illegal gains confiscated and a fine of 150 million imposed.

The Xuantie Sect was sealed off according to the law and suspended for rectification. All items involving ancient martial arts Legacy and cultivation were completely removed.

A week later, it was re-registered in compliance as the "Donghai City Xuantie Youth Martial Arts Fitness Training Center," officially incorporated into the joint supervision system of the Municipal Sports Bureau and the Education Bureau, where coaches must be certified to work, and the entire process is monitored online.

True martial arts should be used to strengthen the body, not to pretend to be supernatural.

Inside the office of the Bureau of Anomalies.

Gu Changan sat at his desk, and a mechanical electronic sound rang in his mind.

"[Ding! Detected that the host successfully took down an illegal martial Dao organization and defended the dignity of the law.]"

"[Mission Rating: S-Class]"

"[Reward Issued: [Body Tempering Perception] (Passive Skill)]"

"[Skill Description: The host's eyes can automatically identify the Physique strength, muscle density, and supernatural energy fluctuations of all life forms within a 500-meter radius. Any form of Realm disguise or breath-concealment technique is invalid data before the host.]"

Gu Changan raised an eyebrow.

This skill is practical. In the future, when going out to handle business, I'll be able to see through the trump cards of whoever is a master pretending to be a passerby or a mutant hiding in the dark with just a glance.