Martial Saint through Reading

"Master, please speak, this servant will go up the mountain of blades or down into the sea of fire..."

"No need for the mountain of blades or sea of fire, just need you to spread this cultivation technique in the Criminal Defense Bureau." Chu Ming took out another cultivation technique.

Ah?

Another technique?

Why does it need to be spread in the Criminal Defense Bureau?

Fang Xiao received the manual and studied it intensely.

Only six pages, he read them quickly.

"Master, this is..."

Fang Xiao recognized that the cultivation technique in these six pages was more advanced than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique, but couldn’t compare to the Strong Bone Realm Technique just now.

Having obtained the Strong Bone Realm Technique, seeing this technique, he was not too shocked.

But after all, it’s more advanced than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique, something not easily exchanged with gold or silver, why does Master want it spread in the Criminal Defense Bureau?

"This technique is called the Blood Python Technique," Chu Ming said, "It seems more advanced than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique, but in reality, it isn’t."

"The Blood Python Technique is easy to start with, but the subsequent progress will be extremely slow."

"Moreover, if someone who cultivates the Blood Python Technique has practiced bloodthirsty techniques like the Blood Evil Technique before, they will emit a special Blood Evil Qi when drawing on Qi blood."

"If they can cultivate to Minor Success, they’ll find the Qi blood more solid, but they will also be restricted by the Blood Python Technique. Frequently drawing on Qi blood will cause it to collapse, unable to condense again in a short time."

After speaking, Fang Xiao’s eyes flashed: "Master wants to use this technique to draw out members of the Blood Evil Sect hidden within the Criminal Defense Bureau?"

Chu Ming nodded: "Housekeeper Fang, can it be spread?"

"It can, of course, it can!" Fang Xiao looked at Chu Ming with a complex expression, "Master, what have you gone through these days? Why have you become so..."

First, the master strategized to magnify the impact of poisoning in the Chu Family dining hall, prompting the Criminal Defense Bureau to thoroughly investigate the Chu Family, drawing the snakes out of their holes.

Then he devised using a technique to draw out hidden members of the Blood Evil Sect.

Targeting the Blood Evil Sect both internally and externally.

A series of tactics!

Is this something a mere sixteen-year-old boy could conceive?

Moreover, where did the Strong Bone Realm Technique come from?

Where did this Blood Python Technique, specifically intended to deal with the Blood Evil Sect, originate?

In all calculations, the master has only been in Baiyuan County for six or seven days since leaving Liuu Town?

Strategy, cunning, talent, disposition...

Fang Xiao looked around again.

Just this courtyard alone is four to five times the size of the one in Liuu Town.

Let alone this mansion, even compared to the Chu family in the east of the city, it’s larger.

In such a short time, the master not only comprehended multiple techniques but also designed a series of traps against the Chu family and Blood Evil Sect.

He was even recommended by three officials of Baiyuan County—the County Magistrate, County Magistrate, and Librarian—to assume the position of Standard Ninth-Grade Clerk.

Any one of these achievements would typically take three, five years, or even ten, dozens of years.

Fang Xiao recalled the comforting words Master said to Little Shan when leaving Liuu Town: "In three years, Master will obtain honor."

Three years?

Not even three months now, not even thirty days, only six or seven days!

"Master, tea is served."

Just as Fang Xiao was secretly shocked, Little Shan brought tea, with a maid serving pastries behind her.

Fang Xiao bowed to Chu Ming and retreated to handle the matters Chu Ming instructed.

With the Blood Python Technique, many hidden Blood Evil Sect members within the Criminal Defense Bureau can certainly be identified.

"Master, let me wipe your sweat."

"Master, have a pastry."

"Master, let me support you inside for a rest."

"..."

Familiar voices echoing around, a bit lively.

Yet it seems that such chatty concern feels like an actual home.

...

Criminal Defense Bureau.

"Fang Xiao, is this cultivation technique truly your insight?"

Lin Zhenwu held Shao Pengshu’s Tiger Blood Technique, looking at Fang Xiao in shock.

Fang Xiao sat on a chair, dazed as he looked at the technique in his hands.

Another technique?!

Master is this...

He remained silent, flipping through the booklet in his hands.

This technique looked similar to the Blood Python Technique, the difference being the Blood Python Technique initially seemed easier to cultivate, while having hidden complexities.

And the cultivation technique labeled Tiger Blood Technique was similarly more advanced than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique, but it emphasized a gradual progression, without the fierce nature of the Blood Python Technique.

Lin Zhenwu saw Fang Xiao’s silence and directly took it as agreement.

"Instructor Fang, Brother Fang, you went to the Chu family, isn’t it to repay a life-saving favor, surely the Chu family has some treasure!"

Lin Zhenwu was somewhat excited: "A treasure that can help you infer cultivation techniques!"

"Otherwise, why would the Blood Evil Sect also be connected to the Chu family?" Lin Zhenwu fixedly stared at Fang Xiao: "Isn’t that right?"

"Right..." Fang Xiao put down the Blood Python Technique, looking at Lin Zhenwu irritably, "Right your ass!"

"Lin Zhenwu, do you really think there’s a treasure in this world that can help infer more advanced cultivation techniques than Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique?"

Fang Xiao stood, hands behind his back, gaze profound: "Cultivation technique inference requires a calm mind and spirit, not only did I comprehend this technique, but I also uncovered another."

As he spoke, another Blood Python Technique appeared in his hands.

"Another technique?" Lin Zhenwu turned to look, "Brother Fang, you and I have reached this age, don’t brag... wait, you really have?!"

He grabbed the technique to examine.

After reading it, Lin Zhenwu, much like when Fang Xiao held the Tiger Blood Technique, sat dazed in his chair.

"Brother Fang, you truly..."

Fang Xiao again folded his hands behind his back, adopting a posture of a sage: "I truly have."

"Moreover, this technique hides complexities..."

Fang Xiao put on airs in front of Lin Zhenwu, then revealed the plan for the Blood Python Technique, shocking Lin Zhenwu again.

"Isn’t it, Brother Fang, did you specially learn strategy? Can a stubborn person like you think of this? Or do you have a sage guiding you behind the scenes?"

Sage guidance?

Fang Xiao was calm on the surface, but not so internally.

Chu Ming’s schemes are more than he initially guessed.

If his guess is correct, the Tiger Blood Technique in Lin Zhenwu’s hands has effects similar to the Blood Python Technique and specifically targets not the ordinary constables of the Criminal Defense Bureau, but high-level personnel!

Is the master a sage?

From current observations, the master indeed is!

Fang Xiao recalled the past two months, initially thinking that the severe illness would lead the master to join his mother in passing, but who could have thought, Chu Ming not only woke up but even turned calamity into opportunity, as if opening up, practicing martial arts, reading books, not wasting a single moment.

Often because of physical fatigue, drenched in sweat, he would stop, but not really rest, quickly turning to read books indoors...

It seems the master’s achievements today are the fruits of his efforts.

"Brother Fang, can the Blood Python Technique truly draw out hidden members of the Blood Evil Sect?" Lin Zhenwu still asked uncertainly.

He truly couldn’t understand, the comrade he once fought alongside, had sunk so many years, Qi blood declined, strength greatly reduced, suddenly claimed to have inferred more advanced techniques than the Tiger and Python Body Refining Technique.

Moreover, it was concealed with complexities enough to make practitioners of the Blood Evil Technique emit special blood Qi.

Fang Xiao looked at Lin Zhenwu’s complex expression, his gaze growing deeper.

Actually, Lin Zhenwu’s feelings, he could very much comprehend, as during his previous exchange with Chu Ming, he felt the same.

"Yes." He nodded confidently. For a brief moment, he suddenly realized why the master seemed so calm about many matters, it was because the developments are expected.

Or rather, predictable.

He is that way now.

"Hmm?" Lin Zhenwu appeared somewhat worried, "Brother Fang, just an hmm, how can I be at ease."

"Don’t worry."

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