Chapter 303

"Li Laoge, the border between Yu and Witch is turbulent. Nie Nie Siming took eight hundred armored soldiers out of the city overnight, and Cao Wei went too."

Waking up in the morning.

Ning Ning Zhongtian came to the Li Canjun's Mansion and told Li Rui about what happened last night.

"Mm, I know."

Li Rui nodded.

Ning Ning Zhongtian raised his eyebrows, not understanding why Li Rui was so calm.

"Did Li Laoge leave an inside agent?"

Li Rui rolled his eyes: "With such a big commotion last night, how could I not have heard it? It kept me awake all night, it was truly annoying."

"..."

Ning Ning Zhongtian was speechless.

'It must be that Li Laoge's methods are too elusive, making me so suspicious.'

He smiled bitterly and then cursed: "This Nie fellow is really not a thing. Taking eight hundred people out of the camp, such an important matter, and he didn't even tell Li Laoge."

Who in Qinghe doesn't know that Nie Nie Siming doesn't get along with the Li Canjun of the Anning Guard?

Those sects are all fence-sitters.

Li Rui's prestige had originally reached its peak because of the Qinghe hunting grounds, but now, because of Nie Nie Siming's suppression, it had been weakened by more than half.

Some sects looked at the situation and, seeing it wasn't right, all defected to Nie Nie Siming and secretly caused trouble for the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

Even inside the Anning Guard.

The control was not as good as before.

Now Li Rui spends most of his time in the mansion doing nothing, which looks like he has been sidelined.

Everything is inseparable from Nie Nie Siming.

Li Rui waved his hand indifferently:

"Fourth Brother, anger hurts the body and damages longevity, so don't get angry easily."

"General Nie is the Qinghe Inspector appointed by the Marquis, we should just listen to General Nie."

The position of Inspector.

Is a temporary position.

The official rank can be high or low according to the matters being inspected.

The Inspector of Yunzhou can have a status comparable to a Department Magistrate, with great power.

Like Nie Nie Siming, all matters in Qinghe are within his inspection scope; to put it plainly, he is the biggest official in Qinghe.

All officials in Qinghe have to listen to Nie Nie Siming.

Since he is a superior.

Then there is no need for him to tell his subordinate, Li Rui, about what he does.

Telling is a favor, not telling is also his duty.

Nothing to criticize.

Li Rui takes this kind of thing very openly.

And because Nie Nie Siming came to Qinghe, although the border is chaotic, he doesn't need to worry about it himself. Compared to this, suffering a little grievance is simply too worth it.

With Li Rui's persuasion.

Ning Ning Zhongtian didn't say anything more.

Since he was already here.

He stayed and had a bowl of meat porridge in the Li Canjun's Mansion before leaving satisfied, making Wang Zhao suspect that Ning Ning Zhongtian came specifically to mooch a meal.

Ate breakfast.

And practiced in the mansion.

When Li Rui went out, it was already noon.

The Li Canjun's simple and unadorned day officially began.

The Anning Guard only has a thousand people in total; last night, Nie Nie Siming took away eight hundred people in one breath, equivalent to leaving only the four battalions of soldiers in Ning Ning Zhongtian's hands.

The once lively drill ground was much quieter.

Li Rui went out, still to the Trade Office, still for the monster pen matter.

As soon as he entered the door.

Yan Yan Zhongxing greeted him, sighing as soon as they met:

"Li Laoge, this time you must help your younger brother."

Li Rui stepped aside slightly, dodging Yan Yan Zhongxing's hand that was about to grab his sleeve, and said indifferently: "Lord Yan, what happened?"

Yan Yan Zhongxing's palm missed, feeling a bit awkward:

"It's not the monster pen, but the merchant caravan matter."

Li Rui looked serious.

Although he was promoted to Li Canjun of the Anning Guard, because the mutual trade between the two countries became increasingly important, he continued to hold the position of Trade Office Captain.

The merchant caravan matter was his primary duty.

Yan Yan Zhongxing: "Li Laoge, recently the merchant caravans have been having frequent accidents. Besides the bandits from the East Witch looting, recently there has been a group of monsters gathering, specifically attacking the convoys transporting monsters. I heard that many of them are monsters that were previously sold and then escaped for some reason."

Monster attacks.

Li Rui pondered.

Since he opened the West Heaven Gate and could communicate with monsters, he knew that monsters just couldn't communicate with humans, and coupled with their different temperaments, humans felt their intelligence wasn't high, but in reality, they also understood the principle of having to repay every grievance.

Those monsters were caught and then sold, so they must have harbored hatred.

Attacking the merchant caravans after escaping is a matter of course.

"I will send people to investigate this matter."

Yan Yan Zhongxing was overjoyed: "Then I'll trouble Li Laoge."

Border between Yu and Witch, deep in the mountains.

Three people sat around a campfire, speaking in low voices.

"Li Laoge, you say if we do this, will the official lord in Qinghe City come?"

"Those officials are all like rats, which one of them is bold enough to leave the city to manage these things."

"Not necessarily. I heard that the Li fellow is famous in Qinghe for being able to fight. We'd better be careful."

The three burly men spoke one after another.

Among them, the youngest one spat to the side: "Fear a hammer! Our Li Laoge broke through a few days ago and is now a solid Innate martial artist. Would he still be afraid of a tiny Li Canjun of the Anning Guard? Ridiculous!"

If there were people from the Northwest Army, they would definitely recognize the identities of the three.

The Three Wolves of the Wind and Sand.

In the Northern Desert, they were three villains deeply hated by the Northwest Army.

Among the three, he ranked third, named Ma Lie, and his temperament was the most violent.

The second brother, He Yang, was cautious, and he was still worried: "That Li fellow is an official of the Yu Kingdom. If we kill him, the Yu imperial court will definitely not rest until we are dead."

A sneer flashed in Ma Lie's eyes:

"Second Brother, have you been in the mountains so long you've become stupid?"

"Our names have long been on the bounty notices; we are already not resting until dead, so what are we afraid of?"

"And didn't they say, as long as we brothers complete this job, we can go to the Witch Kingdom to be officials; that's the life people live."

Most of the time.

It was the second brother and the third brother talking.

The eldest brother, Ke Qi, just listened quietly.

The three of them were not born brothers, but sworn brothers later.

Sworn brothers in the Northwest Army camp.

If it weren't for that damn unscrupulous guerrilla general who insisted on sending them to die, maybe they would be generals in the Northwest Army now. Knowing it was sending them to die, they still had to go.

Anyway, he wouldn't do it, so he took his two brothers and fled the camp overnight.

After the guerrilla general found out, he led people to chase and kill them overnight.

They were still alive now, which naturally meant that the guerrilla general was already dead.

Deserters, and they killed a general; their names appeared on the Yu imperial court's bounty notices without exception.

All along.

They only dared to roam outside the borders of the Yu Kingdom.

Later, hearing that the Witch Kingdom was in chaos, they fled from the Northwest to the Ten Thousand Mountains.

For these years, they had been knife-wielders in the Witch Kingdom.

Now the City Lord of Giant Stone City in the Witch Kingdom found them and said that as long as they could kill a Yu Kingdom official named Li Rui, he would let them be the Vice City Lord of Giant Stone City.

They agreed without hesitation.

No errors, no omissions, read it all in one go!

If one can be an official, who would want to be a thief?

Anyway, they already killed a guerrilla general, so they didn't care about killing one more Li Canjun.

Just as the three were talking.

A man in a black robe walked over slowly:

"The goods of the Divine Weapon Villa have been robbed by me. Li Rui should be out of the city soon. You three only have one chance, don't let the City Lord down."

Ma Lie snorted coldly:

"We do things, why do we need you to point fingers?"

Before he finished speaking, Ke Qi opened his mouth: "Okay, don't worry, we will handle this matter."

And then looked at the black-robed man before him with some fear.

This black-robed man, in terms of his own combat power, might be far inferior to him, an Innate martial artist.

But he is one of the few Monster Controllers in the Witch Kingdom.

Monster Controller, as the name suggests, is someone who can control monsters.

They had been knife-wielders in the Witch Kingdom for so many years, so of course, they knew the power of Monster Controllers. Many people in the Witch Kingdom can control monsters, either by domesticating them or forming a symbiotic bond.

But Monster Controllers are different.

Not only can they talk to monsters, but they can even form soul links with monsters, not just one like a symbiotic bond, but many.

They are the true masters of monsters.

Monster Controllers have special physical requirements, so they are also extremely rare in the Witch Kingdom.

Once they take action, they can summon a monster tide.

Ordinary martial artists are crushed to death by monsters before they even see a person.

The black-robed man looked at the eldest brother, Ke Qi, and nodded with satisfaction: "You are very good, no wonder you can be the eldest among the three."

Ma Lie on the side was instantly annoyed:

"What do you mean!"

Just as he stood up, he was pressed down by Ke Qi.

"Li Laoge..."

"Shut up!"

The black-robed man looked at Ke Qi with a smile that wasn't a smile: "Don't worry, as long as you complete the matter, the position of Vice City Lord of Giant Stone City is definitely yours."

Ke Qi nodded: "I hope the people of the Qi clan can keep their promise."

The black-robed man said "Yo":

"How did you see that I am a person of the Qi clan?"

Ke Qi smiled: "I have also been a knife-wielder in the Witch Kingdom for six or seven years. If I hadn't even heard of the name of the Ten Thousand Monster Demon Lord Qi Feng, I should have died long ago."

The black-robed man Qi Feng's mouth lifted slightly:

"You are somewhat beyond my expectations."

As a core clansman of the Qi clan, his status is almost equivalent to the City Lord of Giant Stone City, so he dared to promise the Vice City Lord position.

"Since you recognize me, you should know that I have always been clear about rewards and punishments. As long as you can handle the matter well, the Qi clan will not treat you badly. I can go and ask the ancestor to bestow a surname upon you."

Ke Qi's eyes lit up: "Okay, it's a deal!"

After speaking.

Qi Feng turned and disappeared into the dark night.

Completely unable to see Qi Feng's figure.

Ma Lie then opened his mouth: "Didn't see it, this little white face is actually that fierce god, the Ten Thousand Monster Demon Lord."

Regarding Qi Feng.

He has a great reputation in the Northern Border of the Witch Kingdom, not even lower than an Innate martial artist.

Just because during the great war, he once triggered a monster tide and created a record of destroying a city alone; he is truly a super ruthless person.

Ke Qi, however, was in a very good mood:

"Let's go, this matter must be done."

The higher the status of the person who comes forward, the more the Qi clan values this matter.

The greater his chance of becoming the Vice City Lord of Giant Stone City.

'This knife-wielder life, I've long since grown tired of it.'

"Second Brother, Third Brother, once we become officials in Giant Stone City, we must build a five-courtyard mansion and take ten wives!"

Qinghe, Anning Guard.

Li Canjun's Mansion.

Deep night.

In Li Rui's room, the lamp was lit, and a silhouette was cast on the window paper.

He looked at the object in his hand, lost in thought.

It's done?

I saw that the Spirit-Testing Stone in his hand had changed from its previous crystal jade appearance to the gold stone appearance now.

If he took it out to use as gold, it's estimated that no one would notice.

Li Rui originally expected that nourishing the Spirit-Testing Stone would take at least several years, but he never expected that in just a few short months, it would actually be nourished into the appearance described in the Ten Thousand Spirits Book.

'Could it be that I really have the aptitude of an immortal?'

Li Rui was dumbfounded.

This speed was truly somewhat beyond his expectations.

However, since the Spirit-Testing Stone nourishment was done, he didn't delay anymore and immediately walked into the secret room, intending to smash the Spirit-Testing Stone with the pestle and mortar he had prepared.

But the hardness of this Spirit-Testing Stone was extremely strong.

In the end, the pestle was broken, but the Spirit-Testing Stone only suffered a little skin injury.

Seeing this, Li Rui simply drew the immortal blade Dragon-Slaying from his waist.

He smashed it down hard with the hilt of the blade as a pestle.

The Spirit-Testing Stone cracked at the sound.

"Sure enough, immortal weapons are still useful."

Li Rui was happy, his hands moved faster, and in less than a moment, a Spirit-Testing Stone like a gold stone was smashed into gold powder.

"Grind into powder, and then take raw."

Li Rui thought.

No wonder the immortals in legends liked to use gold stones as medicine; it's possible they were talking about this Spirit-Testing Stone after nourishment.

He tilted his head back.

And swallowed all the gold powder.

A burst of coolness spread from his dantian...

(End of chapter)