Chapter 27

Plum Blossom Thief.

To tell the truth, 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 fifteen years ago, he took Zhu Zai's errand to go to a place to kill people. After killing for half the night, he faced a young man with a feminine appearance in a room.

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

Later, this person dodged Li Miao in a sorry state and used light-body techniques to escape.

This person was not an important figure, nor did he have any name, and there were many experts in the place Li Miao was that day who were killing him, so he had no time to chase an irrelevant person.

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

This is 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 didn't really fight him; 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 on, 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 didn't have much of a name back then, his martial arts weren't necessarily very good, and his death was even more hasty. If Li Miao really had to evaluate him, he was just a "small fry."

How could he bump into two people related to him one after another, as if he were some mastermind behind the scenes.

"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 it, and asked again: "How did you get your internal energy and light-body techniques?"

"Senior, my name is You Zi'ang. What I've always done is the profession of a 'gentleman on the beam'."

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

"One for internal energy, one for light-body techniques, 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, there is no strength in my arms, I don't know hidden weapons, I don't know how to 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 want to count the account on my head, then I am truly wronged!"

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

Hearing this, Li Miao originally intended to capture this person and take him back for Wang Hai to interrogate.

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

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

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

"S-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 "homosexual tendencies." Today, he actually bumped into it!

Why is this so bitter? If he had known this earlier, even if he starved to death, he wouldn't have come to this Wu mansion to steal money!

Li Miao looked carefully at the birthmark, grabbed You Zi'ang's hand, and held his meridian gate.

"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, truly interesting!"

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

He used true energy to enter You Zi'ang's body to explore the path of the Plum Blossom Thief's internal energy operation.

This internal energy is not bad, barely considered brilliant.

But the truly noteworthy thing about this internal energy is that when the true energy runs to the three acupoints of "Fengfu," "Yamen," and "Dazhui" on the back of the brain, it deliberately takes a turn, and the true energy is congested and does not disperse.

Although it will not cause any damage to the practitioner, over the years, it will leave blood stasis under the skin.

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

Because the name of the Plum Blossom Thief is precisely 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 passed down from generation to generation, and there are always people who go to be the great hero whose name is known all over the world, and there are always people who go to be the demon whose evil name spreads all over the Jianghu.

But no matter how brilliant you are, no matter how righteous you are, or how many evil deeds you have done to make the entire Jianghu tremble, as long as you die, you will be forgotten completely within twenty or thirty years.

The Jianghu is like this; people are just gravel 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 trajectory of the internal energy operation 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 brilliant and have superior comprehension. But limited by my bone appearance, I am forced to be mentioned alongside some mediocre people, living a life of nothing, dying without a sound."

"This Jianghu might not even have a few people who know 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, I want this Jianghu, to remember my name forever in the future."

"Plum Blossom Thief!"

Li Miao understood why the Plum Blossom Thief deliberately committed cases under the pursuit of the Embroidered Uniform Guard back then, and didn't cover up his most important feature, creating 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.

This way, even if he dies, everyone who practices his martial arts in the future will inherit his features and become his substitute. As long as they make a name for themselves in the Jianghu and are seen with the mark on the back of their neck, it will make people think of the "Plum Blossom Thief."

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

Another form of "longevity."

(End of chapter)