Chapter 28

Li Miao could roughly calculate the experience of the Plum Blossom Thief back then.

His bone appearance was very poor, and his martial arts were average; this could be seen from the one time Li Miao saw him back then.

Experts in the Jianghu usually become famous in their twenties. Because the age most suitable for starting to practice martial arts is around ten, after more than ten years of hard practice, one should have some achievements and start walking the Jianghu in their twenties.

Like those with particularly good aptitude, sufficient resources for practicing martial arts, and high-level martial arts inheritance, and who are also hardworking themselves, such as Wang Hai and Mei Qinghe, they all reached the realm of first-class experts in the Jianghu in their early twenties.

And this Plum Blossom Thief, in his twenties, couldn't even take a sword from Li Miao, who was twenty, so he was probably at the level of a second or third-rate.

But his understanding must be very good, good enough to establish a sect.

Internal energy practice, a slight mistake can lead to going into a demonic state; he could create this quite high-level internal energy under the premise of deliberately leaving a trick on the back of his neck, which is already a handiwork beyond the imagination of ordinary Jianghu people.

He should have been practicing martial arts hard back then, but was restricted by his bone appearance and couldn't achieve anything. He was defeated by Li Miao with one sword, and his heart was cold, knowing that no matter what, he couldn't become a real expert.

So he thought of this plan.

Under the pursuit of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, he barely committed a few cases, which could be considered leaving the name "Plum Blossom Thief."

But after all, his martial arts were not good, and it was difficult to avoid the pursuit of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, so he disappeared for a while and started to create this internal energy.

He should have wanted to polish the internal energy well before coming out to commit cases, make a name for himself, and by the way, spread the cultivation method.

With his reputation attracting people, there would definitely be people who would practice his martial arts and inherit the name "Plum Blossom Thief," and his plan would succeed.

Unfortunately, he died.

Back then, the Embroidered Uniform Guard didn't even come for him, but accidentally discovered him while searching in the city.

The birthmark on the back of his neck was too obvious and was recognized at a glance.

Then he died.

Li Miao had seen his corpse in Shuntian Prefecture, his neck cut off with one knife, no other external injuries on his body, dying cleanly.

He didn't even make any decent resistance in the hands of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

All calculations were in vain, and in the end, it was just a handful of yellow soil.

His reputation as the "Plum Blossom Thief" was only heard of in a few places, and once he died, no one would take it to heart anymore.

His cultivation method was scattered, the fighting method was lost, and only the internal energy and light-body technique were obtained by You Zi'ang, barely considered his half-successor, but now they have fallen into Li Miao's hands.

Thinking of this, Li Miao channeled true energy into You Zi'ang's body and directly abolished his internal energy.

"Senior!!!"

You Zi'ang shouted in horror: "I have no grudge against you in the past, no grudge in the recent days, why abolish my martial arts!?"

"You'd better not practice this internal energy. There are only iron weights falling from the sky, is there any pie?"

"You have achieved someone else's calculation for nothing, and you have to bear his karma."

Li Miao pressed his hand on You Zi'ang's back neck, channeling blood, and dissolved the plum blossom-shaped blood stasis on his neck.

He had only practiced the Plum Blossom Thief's internal energy for five years, so the blood stasis accumulation was not very firm and was relatively easy to resolve.

"If one of my subordinates saw it, I'm afraid they would immediately turn red-eyed and come to hack you."

"You have no master to teach you, and you can practice light-body technique to this level just by following the book, which can be considered a gifted talent."

"You come with me, and I'll send someone to take you to Shuntian Prefecture to verify your past."

"If you really haven't hurt anyone, after you finish the punishment, I'll reward you with some imperial grain to eat."

"What do you think?"

What else could You Zi'ang say?

His internal energy had been abolished, and he had become an ordinary person, his life and death were in Li Miao's hands, so where did he have the qualifications to bargain?

He could only hang his head and say nothing, letting Li Miao do as he pleased.

Li Miao finished dissolving his blood stasis, reached out and grabbed his clothes, lifted him up, leaped into the air, and returned toward the Wu mansion.

Just as he landed on the eaves, he happened to hear Li Xiaosi's words.

"This mother Gu has an owner."

Wang Hai saw Li Miao return, still carrying a wilted person in his hand, knowing that the "ghost haunting" matter had been solved, and only the "Gu insect" problem remained.

"Battalion Commander."

Li Miao nodded: "I heard a sentence, why, this Gu insect didn't go crazy and kill people by itself?"

Li Xiaosi walked to Li Miao and reached out to let Li Miao see the centipede wrapped around her wrist.

"Master, I am a human Gu; if it were a wild Gu insect, it would die within an hour or two after eating my blood."

"But it died unusually slowly."

"If it were a Gu insect without an owner, killing people according to its own instinct, it wouldn't consciously refine itself. It can last until now, which shows that it finished eating those flesh and blood, and someone specifically refined it according to the method."

"According to what happened before, this person might be someone in this Wu mansion."

Li Miao pondered with his arms crossed.

He asked Xu Siyuan to inform the people in the Wu mansion to move out because he was afraid that there were too many people in the mansion and he couldn't take care of them. The remaining servants all lived together, and with the martial arts of the four of them, there wouldn't be any accidents.

Li Xiaosi also used means to specifically lure this Gu insect to find them.

But now the Gu insect was caught, but an owner popped up again.

Killing people and refining Gu so unscrupulously in Pingshan Guard, are they tired of living? Or is there some grudge, and they don't even want their lives, but also want to do such a crazy thing?

Thinking of this, Li Miao said to the three: "You go and call all the remaining servants in the mansion and gather them together."

"Li Xiaosi, you see if that owner is among these servants."

"I'll go to Squire Wu's side to take a look."

After saying that, he leaped onto the roof and went toward the property where Squire Wu was living tonight.

He had asked the servants in the mansion during the day and knew the rough location.

Li Miao galloped on the roof and heard the sound of crying and scolding from a small courtyard in the distance.

"That's it."

Li Miao leaped and landed on the roof of that small courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was in chaos at this time.

The ground was full of various poisonous insects, crawling around like headless flies. People in the house were using various tools to smash and throw on the ground, and there were exclamations in their mouths.

Some female family members were already scared soft by this scene, sitting on the ground trembling.

A middle-aged man in his forties stood at the door of the main room, pot-bellied, looking kind, should be Squire Wu himself, directing the servants to beat the poisonous insects.

Li Miao jumped down from the roof and landed in the middle of the courtyard.

He channeled his true energy, pointed his palm, and struck toward the ground.

Bang!

With a loud noise, dust flew, and the poisonous insects in this direction were smashed to death on the ground, full of stench. The servants who were beating the poisonous insects were startled and fell to the ground, but they were unharmed.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

After only four or five palms, all the poisonous insects in the courtyard were killed.

Li Miao turned his head, looked at a group of female family members huddled together, trembling, and said loudly.

"Stop pretending, can you be scared to vomit blood?"

"I want to see what kind of fierce person dares to keep Gu and kill people in the Central Plains."

"It's really not taking the Embroidered Uniform Guard seriously."

(End of chapter)