Chapter 28

Li Miao can 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 generally 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 achievements and start walking the Jianghu in their twenties.

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

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

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

Internal energy practice, a slight mistake can lead to deviation, and he could create this still brilliant internal energy on the premise of deliberately leaving tricks 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 limited by his bone appearance and couldn't have achievements. He was defeated by Li Miao with one sword strike, and was disheartened, knowing that no matter what, he couldn't become a true 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 insufficient, making it difficult to avoid the pursuit of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, so he temporarily disappeared and started creating 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 name attracting, there will definitely be people who go to practice his martial arts, and they will inherit the name "Plum Blossom Thief," and his plan will succeed.

Unfortunately, he died.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard wasn't even coming for him back then, 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.

And then he died.

Li Miao saw his corpse in Shuntian Prefecture, his neck was cut off with one saber, and there were 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, in the end, are just a handful of yellow earth.

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

His cultivation method drifted out, but it was scattered, the fighting methods were lost, and only the internal energy and light-body techniques 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 sent true energy into You Zi'ang's body and directly abolished his internal energy.

"Senior!!!"

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

"You'd better not practice this internal energy. Only iron weights fall from the sky, is there such a thing as a pie?"

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

Li Miao pressed his hand on You Zi'ang's back neck, pushed the palace to activate 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 yet firm and was relatively easy to dissolve.

"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 techniques to this extent just by learning from a book, which can be considered a gifted talent."

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

"If you really haven't hurt anyone, after serving 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 was abolished at this time, and he had become an ordinary person, his life and death were in Li Miao's hands, so where did he have the qualification to bargain.

He could only hang his head and say nothing, letting Li Miao act.

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

When he landed from the eaves, he happened to hear Xiao Si's words.

"This mother Gu has an owner."

Wang Hai saw Li Miao return, still holding 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, how come, this Gu insect didn't go crazy and kill people by itself?"

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

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

"But it died exceptionally slowly."

"If it were a Gu insect without an owner, acting according to its own instinct to kill, it wouldn't have the consciousness to refine itself. It can last until now, showing that it finished eating those flesh and blood, and someone specifically refined it according to the method."

"According to the things that happened before, this person might be someone in this Wu mansion."

Li Miao folded his arms and pondered for a while.

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

Xiao Si also used means to specifically lure this Gu insect to find them.

But now the Gu insect is caught, but an owner has emerged.

Killing people and refining Gu insects in Pingshan Guard so unscrupulously, don't you want to live? Or is there some grudge, even if you don't want your life, you have to make such a crazy move?

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

"Xiao Si, 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 intentionally asked the servants in the mansion during the day and knew the approximate 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 flashed 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. Everyone in the room was holding various tools and smashing and throwing them on the ground, exclaiming in their mouths.

There were also some female family members who 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, his appearance looked kind, he should be Squire Wu himself, and he was directing the servants to beat the poisonous insects.

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

He exerted true energy, combined his fingers into a palm, and struck toward the ground.

Bang!

A loud noise was heard, dust flew, and the poisonous insects in this direction were smashed to death on the ground one after another, 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, the poisonous insects in the courtyard were killed clean.

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

"Stop pretending, can you vomit blood from fear?"

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

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

(End of chapter)