Chapter 59

"Carrying the supreme bone, proving the path to ascend to heaven."

This Jade Bone Realm can only be reached by a very small number of martial artists with special constitutions.

Coincidentally, Martial Bone is one of them.

Reaching the Jade Bone Realm is of great benefit to the subsequent climbing of realms, and Li Rui naturally didn't intend to let it go.

And for him, it wouldn't take too much time.

It's just that the amount of elixirs required for Jade Bone is really too much for him now.

"Still have to make money."

Li Rui sighed lightly.

The Jianghu of the Yu Kingdom has the saying of "Wealth, Companion, Law, Land."

This "Wealth" that ranks first naturally goes without saying; money can solve more than ninety percent of the troubles in this world, and running around all day is not for three or two pieces of silver.

The second "Companion" doesn't just refer to a partner; it also includes masters and relatives; if you have someone in the court, you have no worries about anything, and if you have someone to lead the way, you can avoid many detours.

"Law" is the technique; a profound and suitable technique can make practicing martial arts twice the result with half the effort.

This last "Land" refers to... spiritual soil.

As everyone knows, if you want to refine spiritual elixirs, besides the master's superb alchemy attainments, you must also have spiritual herbs.

And spiritual herbs only grow on spiritual soil.

Actually, spiritual soil is not as mysterious as rumored; it is generally a fertile land containing special spiritual substances, which is extremely rare.

It is said that at first, it was a rule discovered by a herb picker.

In the same place, every few years, one could pick herbs with strange effects, which were called spiritual herbs.

Similar to picking mushrooms in a mushroom nest.

Experienced herb pickers often remember these spiritual herb nests and can continuously obtain substantial income.

Later, this matter quickly attracted the attention of some alchemists; after several generations of research, it was determined that the root cause actually lies in the soil where the spiritual herbs grow.

Note, it is soil, not land.

Only a thin layer on the surface can be called spiritual soil.

Those big sects circle land everywhere, actually to occupy spiritual soil, and the number of spiritual soils in a sect also reflects the foundation of this sect to a certain extent.

To compete for spiritual soil, these forces have had no shortage of conflicts, and bloodshed and death are common occurrences.

But this kind of thing has never ceased.

If you want to become a strong person, you must fight.

It's just that the way of fighting is very particular.

"Hall Master, these people like Sun Ming are really not things; they actually dare to collude with human traffickers and start the business of human trafficking, and I don't know how many good family girls have been harmed by them and sold to brothels."

Liang He said indignantly.

For these few days, he stayed up late to look at the account books, with two large dark circles under his eyes; although exhausted, he still couldn't cover up his anger.

Li Rui was calm.

Or perhaps it was the numbness after seeing too much suffering.

Human traffickers are hateful, but if there were no people wandering in the black path, where would the servants of wealthy families and the women in brothels come from?

How would the masters in the government office enjoy themselves?

It's just human nature.

All Li Rui can do is guard his original heart.

Liang He saw that Li Rui had no reaction and was a bit anxious: "Hall Master, these people don't just trade boys and girls, they also sell fake medicine, sell meat injected with water... and, and..."

He said a lot in one breath, but seeing Li Rui still indifferent, he became even more irritable.

Young people are the ones who can't stand these filthiest things.

"And they sell private salt!"

Li Rui's mouth curled up slightly, and a flash of light shone in his eyes.

"Private salt... that is indeed a heinous crime."

"???"

Liang He had a question-mark face.

He had just listed dozens of crimes, and the Hall Master only listened to the selling of private salt?

Several days passed.

Liang He thought Hall Master Li would take some action.

No matter what the crime, at least it could return a little bit of clarity to the black market.

But to his surprise, after Li Rui learned about everything, he was still like nothing had happened, reading books as usual.

Even the number of times he went out was less.

Making Liang He unable to figure it out.

However, he also understood that the black market had been operating for so many years, and the culprit naturally couldn't just be a small Sun Ming.

It wasn't him, and it wasn't even someone Li Rui could move.

"Can it only be like this?"

He looked at Sun Ming and became angrier; if it weren't for remembering Li Rui's words, he would have rushed up and beaten Sun Ming violently.

"Brother Sun."

Liang He smiled and nodded at Sun Ming.

"I am indeed mature."

Sun Ming was a bit flattered; originally, he handed over the account books and thought he would be made things difficult for, but he didn't expect that nothing happened after several days.

The kid who came to the black market with Li Rui even nodded and bowed to him.

Sun Ming instantly felt relieved.

"I said, those who can be deacons are not fools; the business behind the black market is Vice Helmsman Zhao, the county magistrate, and even the masters of the general helm."

"Where is it that a small deacon dares to move?"

As long as you are a person who "understands the situation," you will choose to turn a blind eye.

The previous deacon was like this.

"The old man is a reasonable person."

Sun Ming grinned and also revealed a kind smile at Liang He.

Liang He thought of the sounds he heard in the alley and felt nauseated, walking a few steps faster; he really didn't want to see this fat face of Sun Ming again.

But this scene fell into Sun Ming's eyes.

"The old man is afraid."

Look, his little brother runs away when he sees me.

Sun Ming straightened his waist.

"Be humble and prudent, send something another day; it's just that I don't know if he's already seventy, can he still do it? This batch of live goods has two top-quality ones, no... what if it's a homosexual hobby..."

Sun Ming's small eyes blinked, pondering Li Rui's preferences.

As long as you figure out the boss's preferences, the matter is half done.

Early the next morning.

When Li Rui came to the fifth floor of the black market, an exquisite box was already placed on the table.

It was as big as a person's head.

Li Rui walked to the table and lifted the lid of the wooden box; the golden color came into view.

"Gold?"

His eyebrows raised.

There were full gold bars in this wooden box, looking to be at least one hundred taels.

One tael of gold is ten taels of silver.

That is to say, there were a full one thousand taels of silver in this wooden box!

Li Rui licked his tongue: "The black market is really rich."

A small commander could actually take out one thousand taels; even he, this hall master, couldn't take out so much money.

"Bribing me?"

Li Rui shook his head with a smile.

"He is indeed a smart person."

Sun Ming doing this is actually understandable, and he is not stingy, willing to spend a lot of money.

Even Li Rui was tempted.

"It's just a pity, not people of the same path."

He couldn't let a person of Zhao Wei stay by his side.

Beside the couch, how can others be allowed to snore?

The stance issue is a fundamental issue, not something that can be made up for by personal technique, just like he would never think of pleasing Zhao Wei.

Spending no matter how much gold and silver is useless, unless he is willing to defect.

But what good end can a traitor have?

So Li Rui's philosophy has always been either not to make enemies, but as long as they become enemies, then go to death.

Being kind to the enemy is being cruel to oneself.

(End of chapter)