[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an":3,"chapter-laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an-laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an-chapter-111":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hiding in the Martial World to Become Ancestor",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2229669,4164,"Chapter 111","laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an-chapter-111",111,"\u003Cp>Chen Mu was a bit confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Hidden Dragon prodigy was a celebrity known to martial artists throughout the Great Zhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Famous on the list!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But getting on the list wasn't easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Hidden Dragon List\" doesn't look at cultivation, only at battle records...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait, battle records?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu’s heart stirred; he put down his chopsticks and walked toward the counter...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu returned to his seat and continued eating and drinking, but his movements slowed down significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some inquiries, he understood the reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Hidden Dragon List,\" which updates every three months, had been updated over half a month ago!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu had the honor of being on the list, ranked second to last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides him, there was another person on the list, but that person's ranking was much higher, eighty-third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ranked eighty-third upon entering the list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can see the combat power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu got on the list for killing Sun Jindong, Fang Yuanfu, and five others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other genius who just got on the list fought ten against one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They're all monsters~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding what was going on, Chen Mu sighed inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being on the Hidden Dragon List, even second to last, meant he was famous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the kind that spreads throughout the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the person who jumped into the river and escaped last time was a member of the force behind the 'Hidden Dragon List'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The existence of the \"Hidden Dragon List\" had reached thousands of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force that publishes the list had long been investigated clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Mystery Gate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sect was very mysterious, one of the \"Nine Great Strange Gates,\" and also belonged to a force with a long heritage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Members of the sect rarely showed their faces, and most were peripheral members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew how many official members the \"Heavenly Mystery Gate\" had or who the Sect Master was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, those at the very top of the world, the Myriad Phenomenon Realm experts, should know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Heavenly Mystery Gate\" only publishes the list and never participates in various disputes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they knew about the \"Heavenly River True Qi\" and he had killed people, there was no need to worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This could be considered to have put Chen Mu’s mind at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Chen Mu knew that the people of the Fang family in Hannan would inevitably connect him to it after seeing the latest \"Hidden Dragon List.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the battle records was an Innate eighth-stage expert who was \"injured and not yet recovered\" dying at his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Nanyun Prefecture, besides Fang Yuanfu, who else could this Innate eighth-stage expert be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Being so far away, the tentacles of the Fang family's power can't reach Tai'an Prefecture...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu continued to listen while eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the whole afternoon, Chen Mu stayed at the \"Hero Tower\" and figured out the distribution of forces in Tai'an Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tai'an Prefecture had jurisdiction over eight counties, with an overall area equivalent to Nanyun Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the martial atmosphere was much more prevalent than in Nanyun Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, besides the government offices and the Martial Suppression Office, the Jianghu was led by ten major forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were: Golden Sun Gate, Green Splendor Gate, Twin Saber Gate, Eight Directions Sword Sect, Giant Willow Villa, Seven Stars Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the four great families: the Wang family, the Qi family, the Zhao family, and the Zhou family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of these ten major forces had Innate late-stage experts sitting in charge, and each family had several Innate martial artists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Correspondingly, the number of Innate martial artists in the Martial Suppression Office was also higher than in Nanyun Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chen Mu left the \"Hero Tower,\" he bought a copy of the main information on all the large and small forces in Tai'an Prefecture, including the experts within the Martial Suppression Office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, after finding an inn to stay at, he lay on the bed and flipped through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, he went through a real estate agency and rented a small courtyard in the inner city, paying six months' rent at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a patrol envoy of the Martial Suppression Office, the duration of supervision was not fixed, but it was generally one year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Chen Mu was not short of money, it was inconvenient to stay in an inn every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having an independent small courtyard was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accommodation solved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu went out and inquired about the location of the mass grave outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he left the city, went around the mass grave, and looted more than a dozen internal energy cards, five power cards, and a pile of energy cards and stamina cards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept the internal energy cards, used the power cards one by one to strengthen his body, a weak enhancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returned to the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went around the inner city and outer city, looting several more internal energy cards, cultivation cards, and skill cards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill cards were post-natal martial arts, and the internal energy cards were still accumulated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resident population of Tai'an Prefecture city was hundreds of thousands, with a floating population of two or three hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With so many people and a prevalent martial atmosphere, there were fights and brawls almost every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one here had seen Chen Mu and didn't know Chen Mu’s identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for \"Prodigy Chen Mu,\" they talked about it, but no one thought he would appear by their side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, Chen Mu resumed his daily routine from the beginning in Nanyun Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For several consecutive days, he wandered around inside and outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Incidentally, he also ran to the eight counties below, looting twenty or so internal energy cards from the mass graves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After wandering for ten days, Chen Mu finally wrote a letter and sent it to the Martial Suppression Office, to Zhao Fuzhou’s junior fellow apprentice in Tai'an Prefecture, Lu Tang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a secluded restaurant in the inner city, in a private room on the third floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Chen, you came to Tai'an, why didn't you say so in advance? How could I let you spend money?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang, who was of medium build, with a round chin and very fair skin, held a wine glass and said helplessly, \"For the next few days, you must let me treat you, it's settled!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu smiled. \"Brother Lu doesn't need to entertain me too much; I won't be leaving Tai'an for a while. There's plenty of time to drink.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's true.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang smiled. \"Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated Brother Chen yet! Come, Brother Chen, let's have a drink!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, that was just luck, a life-and-death explosion under duress.\" Chen Mu raised his glass, and the two toasted each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hidden Dragon List, one hundred and seventh place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang didn't say it directly, but the meaning was obvious, and Chen Mu naturally understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were someone else, they might envy and be jealous of him, this \"Hidden Dragon prodigy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang wouldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang, only twenty years old, was already at the fourth stage of the Innate Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Tai'an Prefecture Martial Suppression Office, which had many experts, he belonged to the top ten figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, Lu Tang had a master who was a Myriad Phenomenon Realm expert!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hidden Dragon prodigy\" was just a name; the actual benefits couldn't be compared to disciples with strong backgrounds like Lu Tang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the reason why Chen Mu, as a patrol envoy, met with Lu Tang, a silver-rank guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other guards might be corrupt, collude, or defect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang wouldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he were brain-damaged, he wouldn't!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he wasn't short of resources at all and didn't need to do these shady things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serving in the Tai'an Prefecture Martial Suppression Office was just coming over to gain experience and gild himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eating and drinking, conversing happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After three rounds of wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu asked directly, \"I suppose Brother Lu knows my mission in Tai'an Prefecture; I wonder if Brother Lu has any suspicious personnel? If there is a list, that would be best.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There really isn't a list.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang pondered. \"There are a few suspicious people. One of the biggest problems is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang lowered his voice. \"Pei Renguang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A light flashed in Chen Mu’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Renguang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person in charge of the Tai'an Prefecture Martial Suppression Office?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person with the strongest strength and highest status in the Martial Suppression Office actually had the biggest problem?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Brother Lu, did you discover something?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu also lowered his voice. \"This concerns Lord Pei; we must have solid evidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no evidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Tang shook his head. \"I'm just suspicious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uh~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Mu blinked, a bit speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suspicion alone won't do!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless...\u003C\u002Fp>",1459,"2026-06-18T00:52:17.758Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","6064e6bdcba583b556c5f3889292fe47c715c8c225c536908003bcdcca42cf0a","laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an-chapter-112","laying-low-in-the-martial-world-to-become-the-an-chapter-110",576,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhiding-in-the-martial-world-to-become-ancestor-cover.jpg"]