Chapter 27

Plum Blossom Thief.

To be honest, Li Miao's impression of this name was not deep.

If it weren't for people mentioning it one after another, he wouldn't have remembered this name at all.

He only remembered that fifteen years ago, he took a job from Zhu Zai to kill someone in a place. He killed for half the night and faced a young man with a feminine appearance in a room.

Li Miao stepped forward and gave him a sword, but he didn't dodge and almost died at Li Miao's hands.

Later, this person fled from Li Miao and used light-body technique to escape.

This person was not an important figure, nor did he have any title. There were many experts in the place where Li Miao was that day, and he had no time to chase an insignificant person.

He just glanced at his fleeing figure and remembered his light-body technique and the plum blossom-like birthmark on the back of his neck.

This was also the reason why Li Miao could recognize this person's light-body technique today but couldn't recognize Zhao Dehua's claw technique, because Li Miao couldn't be considered to have fought him at all; he just blocked him, didn't block him, and then he went to save his life.

Later, this young man committed a few cases on the run, and because of the plum blossom birthmark on the back of his neck, he was called the "Plum Blossom Thief."

Later, this person should have been afraid of the Embroidered Uniform Guard's pursuit and disappeared for two years, but was accidentally searched out by the Embroidered Uniform Guard in a major case and died.

The corpse was sent to Shuntian Prefecture, and after verification by a specialist, it was confirmed to be the Plum Blossom Thief himself.

The matter of this person ended there.

So Li Miao was very strange; this person had no reputation back then, his martial arts were not necessarily very good, and his death was even more sloppy. If Li Miao really had to evaluate him, he was just a "small fry."

How could he run into two people related to him one after another, as if he were some mastermind?

"Plum Blossom Thief?"

The person in night clothes heard Li Miao's question, hesitated, searched his memory for a moment, and shook his head.

"Never heard of this name, Senior."

Li Miao saw that he didn't look like he was faking, and asked again: "How did you get your internal energy and light-body technique?"

"Senior, my name is You Zi'ang. What I've been doing all along is the trade of a 'gentleman on the beam'."

"Five years ago, I found a wealthy family in Beizhili and wanted to take some money from their house to use. In the study, I found two secret manuals."

"One for internal energy, one for light-body technique, so I took them both. Later, I practiced them myself and found they were just right, so I've been practicing them until now."

"I really have no relationship with that Plum Blossom Thief. If you have a grudge against him, I'll tell you the address of that wealthy family, and you can go find him."

"I'm just a thief. You can see it too; I don't know fighting methods, all my skills are only in light-body technique, I never hurt people, and I don't have the ability to hurt people. The cultivation method was also stolen by me unintentionally, and I really don't know that Plum Blossom Thief at all!"

"If you count the account on me, I'm really wronged!"

You Zi'ang begged for mercy, and by the end, he was full of grievances.

Li Miao heard this and originally intended to catch this person and take him back to Wang Hai for interrogation.

But he saw You Zi'ang lowering his head, and a trace appeared on the back of his neck that was originally blocked by his clothes.

Li Miao's pupils shrank, and he stepped forward and pulled down You Zi'ang's back collar.

On the back of his neck was clearly a blurry plum blossom-shaped birthmark!

"Se, Senior?"

You Zi'ang was suddenly pulled down by his clothes and shivered, thinking that he often walked in high-gate wealthy families and always heard that big figures often had "dragon-yang hobbies." Today, he actually bumped into one!

What a disaster; if he had known this earlier, he would rather starve to death than come to this Wu mansion to steal money!

Li Miao looked at the birthmark carefully, grabbed You Zi'ang's hand, and locked his pulse.

"Bone appearance... only twenty-something years old. When I saw the Plum Blossom Thief fifteen years ago, he was already twenty-something; the age doesn't match."

"Cultivation method..."

"This is?"

Li Miao let go of You Zi'ang's hand and laughed out loud.

"Interesting, interesting!"

"I only thought he was an insignificant fry back then, but I didn't expect him to be a great talent with ideas!"

He channeled his true energy into You Zi'ang's body to explore the path of the Plum Blossom Thief's internal energy.

This internal energy was quite good, barely considered high-level.

But the truly noteworthy thing about this internal energy was that when the true energy ran to the three acupuncture points of "Fengfu," "Yamen," and "Dazhui" on the back of the head, it deliberately took a turn, and the true energy stagnated and did not dissipate.

Although it would not cause any harm to the practitioner, over a long period of time, it would leave blood stasis under the skin.

And this blood stasis would leave a plum blossom pattern on the back of the neck!

Because the name of the Plum Blossom Thief was exactly because of the plum blossom-shaped birthmark on the back of his neck.

That is to say, everyone who practices the Plum Blossom Thief's internal energy will automatically become the successor of the name "Plum Blossom Thief"!

The world is like a tide, people are like water, one generation of newcomers replaces the old.

The Jianghu is inherited from generation to generation, and there are always people who want to be the hero whose name is known all over the world, and there are always people who want to be the devil whose evil name spreads all over the Jianghu.

But no matter how talented you are, how righteous you are, or how many evil deeds you have done to make the whole Jianghu fear you. As long as you die, you will be forgotten completely in twenty or thirty years.

The Jianghu is like this; people are just sand in it, occasionally leaving a trace, which will soon dissipate with the end of life.

And this Plum Blossom Thief chose another path.

Li Miao's true energy wandered along the internal energy operation trajectory in You Zi'ang's body, as if he could hear the young man with a feminine appearance speaking.

"My bone appearance is not good, I cannot become a top expert, and I cannot make a great name for myself in this Jianghu."

"I am clearly talented and have excellent understanding. But restricted by my bone appearance, I am compared with some mediocre people, living a mediocre life and dying quietly."

"This Jianghu may not even know that I have been here."

"I am not reconciled."

"I am not reconciled..."

"I am not reconciled!"

"My body is just a pile of flesh and blood, my face is just food for mosquitoes and flies after I die, and my name is unknown to anyone."

"This is not important."

"I want everyone, this Jianghu, to remember my name forever in the future."

"Plum Blossom Thief!"

Li Miao understood why the Plum Blossom Thief was pursued by the Embroidered Uniform Guard back then, yet still deliberately committed cases without covering up his most important feature, making the name "Plum Blossom Thief."

He did it on purpose.

He wanted everyone to remember that plum blossom pattern and then distribute the unique internal energy he created.

In this way, even if he died, everyone who practiced his internal energy in the future would inherit his characteristics and become his substitute. As long as they made a name for themselves in the Jianghu and were seen with the mark on the back of their neck, it would remind people of the "Plum Blossom Thief."

This was his plan, the plan he made to leave a trace in this Jianghu.

Another form of "longevity."

(End of chapter)