Chapter 237
Chapter 237: The Tong Family’s Ordeal
Li Mu had not expected Luo Dongyun to be so perceptive.
He had not even brought it up yet!
How embarrassing.
“Oh, Commissioner Luo, look at me. I am holding your cultivation arts and not letting go.”
“Here, take them.”
As Li Mu spoke, he pushed the cultivation arts further into Luo Dongyun’s arms.
Luo Dongyun did not dawdle either. He took out the Heaven-Shaking Compass and directly exchanged the compass for the books.
There was not the slightest trace of reluctance.
Because he knew better than anyone that the value of these cultivation arts Li Mu had brought could not be exchanged for even a hundred Heaven-Shaking Compasses.
Li Mu only wanted a spirit treasure like this to protect his life.
Forget Li Mu asking for it.
Once these four cultivation arts appeared, Luo Dongyun truly would have offered it of his own accord.
Li Mu put away the Heaven-Shaking Compass.
Luo Dongyun had already opened the cultivation arts and begun reading.
As for Meng Peipei, who had just been sent flying, she was still completely dazed.
Luo Dongyun had actually attacked her too?
But at this moment, she no longer dared to act rashly.
In any case, once the paper-format cultivation arts were released, she would be able to see them sooner or later.
Luo Dongyun praised them again and again.
“Good! Excellent!”
“You brat, this is no longer just a great merit. This is a towering honor!”
“You will absolutely receive the Heaven-Cleaving Medal!”
Just from its name, one could tell that the Heaven-Cleaving Medal was more than one level higher than the Mountain-Cleaving Medal.
It was the highest military merit medal in all of Huaxia, bar none.
It was basically equivalent to a death-exemption token.
“However...”
Luo Dongyun closed the cultivation arts, then tightly gripped Li Mu’s hand.
It was as if he was afraid Li Mu would run away.
“Although we truly do not want to force you to create anything, the situation is indeed urgent now.”
“After Stage Three, the death rate in every city has soared in a straight line.”
“Now that the phase of thorough probing between otherworlds is gradually passing, the next phase will be the most intense collision of territories.”
“The death rate will rise another level.”
“Although these attack cultivation arts will definitely have an effect, they cannot cover everyone.”
“But there are two types of cultivation arts that can cover everyone!”
“Defensive cultivation arts and movement arts!”
“They are even more universal than internal cultivation methods, and they are the most effective way to increase survival rates.”
“Brother Li! Good Samaritan Li! Genius Li!”
Li Mu calmly raised a hand and wiped his face.
“Mind the spit.”
“Today, I, Luo Dongyun, will petition on behalf of the people and morally coerce you just this once!”
“When you have time, can you create a defensive cultivation art and a movement art too?”
Li Mu sighed in difficulty.
“Since you old official have it rough too, I will let you order once.”
“Who told you to speak up?”
“You treat me well, so I treat you well too!”
“As long as you understand my heart.”
Li Mu patted Luo Dongyun’s large hand in a sincere and earnest manner.
Luo Dongyun’s old face was actually teased red by Li Mu.
He released Li Mu’s hand warily.
Li Mu chuckled.
“If there is nothing else, I will leave now.”
“So soon? I already arranged a meal for you!”
Luo Dongyun was speechless. This fellow had rendered such tremendous merit, yet he had not even entered the building. He had finished everything in the courtyard.
This was far too perfunctory.
“I still have things to do,” Li Mu said.
“What things? Tell me.”
Luo Dongyun naturally could not let him leave so easily.
“In that case, I might as well ask you. Does Bloodpool City have any Myriad Forms Iron? The larger the quantity, the better!”
“Myriad Forms Iron? What do you need that for?”
Luo Dongyun was immediately puzzled.
Myriad Forms Iron was rare to begin with, and its effects were bizarre.
To outsiders, it was somewhat obscure, but to people in this field, it was an extremely precious material.
Why did Li Mu need a large quantity of it?
“To make a weapon,” Li Mu said directly.
Right now, aside from looking for Profound Rank monsters to farm Triumph Points, he wanted to make a divine weapon that belonged to him.
Myriad Forms Iron had extremely strong malleability. It was not afraid of bending or snapping. Even if it was shattered, it could be stuck back together again.
As for its weight and strength, that depended entirely on what materials it devoured.
For example, Li Mu’s current Ruyi Cudgel had devoured that old turtle shell.
Now, the hardness of the Myriad Forms Iron was extremely astonishing.
Its weight had also reached at least over a hundred tons.
When Li Mu controlled it with the Divine Weapon Art to launch flying strikes, he was not restricted by its weight.
But when it attacked, it could still enjoy the bonus from that weight.
As long as he kept finding Myriad Forms Iron and adding it into the Ruyi Cudgel, Li Mu would absolutely be able to forge a divine weapon that could freely expand and shrink, with an overwhelmingly powerful quality.
Therefore, every time he arrived in a city, he had to find ways to scrape together Myriad Forms Iron.
“Oh, I know the Military Supply Department of the Bloodsea Military District should have some. As for what is scattered on the market, I do not know.”
“But there is one family you should be able to visit.”
“There is a family in Bloodpool City called the Wang Family. Their family specializes in the business of high-end weapon and spirit treasure materials.”
“They possess a special secret method for refining weapons and spirit treasures. Their influence is truly not small.”
“I have heard that their family seems to have Myriad Forms Iron!”
“Great! Farewell!”
After Li Mu finished listening, he cupped his hands and directly prepared to leave.
But Luo Dongyun grabbed him.
“Come back. I provided you with a lead. Did that not save you time too?”
“Do me the honor and have a meal here.”
Zhang Baihe, who was behind them, also came forward and advised him.
“That is right. The people of the Military Merit Bureau are all waiting for you to come!”
“If you leave just like this, we truly will have no way to explain it.”
“If word gets out, people might think our Military Merit Bureau somehow offended you!”
Their hospitality was difficult to refuse.
Li Mu could only set the matter aside for now.
But he did not forget to instruct the Mute Women.
“Mute One, Mute Six, go ask around about this Wang Family. The rest of you mute sisters, split into groups of two and scatter to investigate the whereabouts of Myriad Forms Iron.”
The Mute Women nodded, accepted the order, and left.
At this moment, in Drunken Cloud Restaurant, a fairly high-end restaurant in the northern part of the city.
Inside a private room, several Law Enforcement personnel in casual clothes were attending a banquet.
The host was a young man.
The young man’s eyes were full of bitterness, but he forced a smile onto his face.
He respectfully stood up with a cup of wine in hand and bent forward.
He said to two middle-aged men among the Law Enforcement personnel, “Presiding Judge Lin, Deputy Minister Song, I toast you two leaders.”
“Now that the case has reached this point, I, Tong Feng, ask for nothing else!”
“I do not even ask for fairness or justice anymore!”
“My elder sister has been taken away by him, and whether she is alive or dead is unknown. I only ask that she be found!”
“As long as my elder sister comes back alive!”
“I... our Tong Family will no longer pursue this matter!”
“I beg you two leaders to uphold justice for our Tong Family this once!”
“I will drink first as a sign of respect!”
After he finished speaking, Tong Feng’s eyes were already red.
He was afraid he would lose control, so he used the act of drinking to tilt his head back and empty the cup in one gulp, then fiercely wiped the corner of his eye.
At the side, the young noble who had helped him arrange this banquet looked at Tong Feng somewhat speechlessly.
Inwardly, he thought that Tong Feng truly did not know how to speak.
He had just been prepared to wait until Tong Feng finished speaking and then smooth things over for him with a few words, but Tong Feng had already drunk the wine.
The young noble instantly sat there somewhat awkwardly.
As for Presiding Judge Lin and Deputy Minister Song, neither of them picked up their cups at all.
Presiding Judge Lin said indifferently, “Young Master Tong, your Tong Family can at least be considered a pharmaceutical company of some size.”
“You cannot speak without basis.”
“What do you mean, you do not even ask for fairness or justice? Am I, Lin, not fair in how I handle matters?”
As he spoke, his plump body leaned back. His hands clasped together and rested on his legs as he raised his brows and looked at Tong Feng.
Deputy Minister Song snorted coldly even more directly.
“So after all this, Young Master Tong has taken us for corrupt officials!”
“I would not dare drink this wine.”
Tong Feng’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
He knew he had said the wrong thing.
But this matter truly could not be blamed on him.
Concern bred chaos. His family was a proper pharmaceutical family. Although it was only third-rate, they had always behaved honestly and lawfully.
But just because he had failed to recognize the disciple of a major family at a banquet, that family disciple had borne a grudge against him and jokingly said that if he became Tong Feng’s brother-in-law, Tong Feng would definitely recognize him.
As a result, his elder sister had disappeared the next day.
By now, she had been missing for about a week.
Reporting it to Law Enforcement and looking for connections had both been completely useless.
He also had no evidence, so he simply could not contend against a first-rate family.
Even today’s extremely humiliating “reconciliation” proposal had only been arranged after his family spent a great deal of money to find someone to make connections, begging these two key figures for help.
He had not expected that because he had said the wrong thing, all their efforts would once again be ruined.
Just then, the private room door was shoved open with a loud bang.
A dandy young master swaggered in with both hands in his pockets.
“Yo! Drinking, are we?”
When Tong Feng saw this person, his heart completely sank into hell.
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