Chapter 19: Re-entering the Library

Li Heng casually took out a piece of silk cloth and wrapped up the Vast Earth Map, not letting its divine strangeness be revealed.

Then, he took it away directly.

As for whether this was suspected of intentionally tampering with a crime scene? What a joke, he was a Demon Exorcist.

He could completely take this painting away in an open and aboveboard manner.

Just making up a pretext of seizing evidence would suffice.

After Li Heng left the reception hall, he wandered around. He discovered there were no signs of a struggle in the surroundings; those people from the Giant Wave Gang seemed to have evaporated instantly, with unfinished wine still on the tables.

He felt vaguely alarmed.

He felt that this Weird was definitely a big fish; if he could catch it, he might be able to get rich overnight.

At this moment, Li Heng heard a commotion outside.

He frowned, feeling a bit strange.

Wasn't this place cordoned off? Could it be that people from the County Government had come again? Or was it the Demon Suppression Division...

"Hmph, are a few pieces of trash worthy of guarding this place?"

Meng Hao casually flipped over the few bailiffs outside.

After these bailiffs were flipped onto the ground, their faces were filled with panic, but they dared not resist, instead kneeling to beg for mercy.

"Open your eyes wide and look clearly, you lowly servants! I am from the Demon Suppression Division; are you worthy of questioning my affairs?"

At this moment, Meng Hao was somewhat annoyed.

He had a sudden whim just now and intended to come to this Weird Giant Wave Gang to take a look, but he was blocked by these bailiffs.

That look in their eyes was also looking down on him.

Sure enough, a peasant is a peasant; their vision is so short-sighted that they didn't even recognize him.

These bailiffs were secretly complaining in their hearts.

This young master was so overbearing; they were only asking as a matter of routine, and he just flipped them onto the ground.

Even if you say you are from the Demon Exorcist's side, you have to produce proof.

Of course, they dared not say such words aloud. With this master's overbearing temperament, if they really dared to say such things, wouldn't they be beaten half to death?

"Meng Hao, you really have quite the temper."

Li Heng chuckled and stepped out from the Giant Wave Gang; his figure entered Meng Hao's sight, causing his expression to stiffen.

"Li Heng, why are you here?"

He frowned.

"A major case has occurred here, and people have gone missing for no reason. As a Demon Exorcist, why can I not come?"

Li Heng chuckled.

Meng Hao felt gloomy inside; he had a whim to come and take a look, and he could actually run into this persistent peasant?

It simply ruined his good mood.

"You naturally know about this case, yet you still dare to come here; aren't you looking for death?" Meng Hao said.

"Then that won't require 'Young Master Meng' to concern himself with this matter."

Li Heng chuckled and, without lingering with Meng Hao, brushed past him and left. Meng Hao looked at Li Heng's departing back, his face flickering between light and shadow, having an urge to strike.

However, in the end, he still did not strike.

Forget it; he had just started practicing a new technique, and since the technique had not reached the minor completion stage, it was temporarily unsuitable to have a conflict with others.

He still had to endure for a while; the future was his stage.

Meng Hao narrowed his eyes, thinking this way.

He was originally especially curious about what this peasant with a mysterious background, Li Heng, relied on to gain the old man's favor, so he especially wanted to strike and test him.

After all, say what you will, this peasant was also his former competitor, and the secrets within were worth his investigation.

However, now was not the best time.

As he thought, he walked into the Giant Wave Gang and wandered around. After a while, he felt inexplicably irritable, feeling a sense of Emptiness in his heart; what exactly did he come here for?

To suffer in this place filled with Yin Soul energy?

Meng Hao shook his head, feeling he was being inexplicable, and left directly, leaving behind only the bailiffs who had received a beating.

After leaving the Giant Wave Gang, Li Heng did not stop and returned directly to the Demon Suppression Division, to his own residence.

And he began to count his previous gains.

First was a Divine Power Crystal; by swallowing it with a special method, one could obtain a wisp of divinity.

Although Li Heng did not know what this wisp of divinity could do, after all, he was walking the path of a martial artist among cultivators.

Then there was this Vast Earth Map.

Li Heng could feel it.

Although the artistic conception of this painting was not as good as his previous Great Sun Visualization Diagram, it was only slightly inferior.

However, if he could use this for Visualization, perhaps he could also manifest the Earth Dharma Image and forge a foundation that would remain unmoved for eternity. He could even coordinate it with the Great Sun Dharma Aspect to manifest the supreme phenomenon of the Great Sun illuminating the Boundless Earth.

Using the Sun to symbolize light and the Earth to symbolize the World. In the aspect of the Great Sun illuminating the Earth, all ghosts and monsters would bow their heads.

Of course, greed leads to poor digestion.

Right now, the most important thing was still to visualize the Sun; after all, his progress in Visualization was only five percent.

When he had enough time, or when the progress could not advance any further, he could try to visualize the Earth and draw inferences about other cases.

Having experienced the struggle with the Weird, Li Heng's cultivation had also progressed somewhat.

This progress was reflected in the Original Qi within his body; a large portion had already been tainted with the Godly Intent of the Sun, gradually transforming into Sun Original Qi.

It was estimated that it would not be long before he could step into the Foundation Establishment Realm.

There was no need to fight to the death with others or make a breakthrough in the heat of battle; one only needed a perfect foundation, and success would come naturally. This was the ideal form of cultivation and life evolution.

Li Heng calculated that his only shortcoming might lie in the Taiyuan Technique.

However, he had no need to change it right now.

Although the Taiyuan Technique was ordinary among many cultivation methods, its strength lay in being upright and balanced; it would not cause any Original Qi to conflict, as it upheld the Dao of the Golden Mean in all things.

Furthermore, he possessed the Visualization Supernatural Ability, which destined him to visualize many things in the future. He did not want to die suddenly just because these things conflicted with one another.

Moreover, although the Taiyuan Technique was low-level for now, under the Visualization Supernatural Ability, this technique might not be incapable of being upgraded.

After all, the term "Taiyuan" was not simple.

It seemed he had to go to the Library to exchange for the subsequent parts of the technique and, while he was at it, investigate what exactly this Divine Power Crystal was. Li Heng pondered in his heart and made up his mind.

He left his residence directly and wove through the Demon Suppression Division.

He soon arrived at the Library.

Upon arriving at the first floor of the Library, the librarian had already been replaced by a very elderly man.

This old man held a book scroll and read it carefully, possessing a touch of scholarly air. It seemed that in his youth, he must have been a teacher.

Li Heng felt a bit of emotion in his heart and took out his Token.

"Old sir, I wish to exchange for the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Taiyuan Technique; I wonder where it is kept?"

The old man looked up, somewhat surprised.

"You young man are truly rare; you are still practicing the Taiyuan Technique at the Foundation Establishment stage? This technique has no bonus to combat power."

"It is fine, I am used to practicing this Taiyuan Technique."

Li Heng smiled faintly.

"Used to practicing it?"

The old man shook his head; it was not as if he had never heard such an excuse before—eighty percent of the time, it was because the young man was short on funds.

He probably didn't have enough Merit and could only practice the Taiyuan Technique, right?

"Young man, take my advice. If you save up a bit more Merit, you can exchange for the Evil-Slaying Record, which is worth four hundred Merit. Although the Taiyuan Technique only costs three hundred Merit, it is truly of little use."

"If a technique is too useless, it is very strenuous to deal with the Weird. My child was like that, too frugal! In the end, I had to trouble these old bones of mine to take on the position of Library Historian again."

The old man rambled on incessantly, even falling into his memories.