Chapter 141: Pacifying the Country with Martial Arts, the Pillar of the State

"Survive? You're probably already thinking about how to kill me to silence me in a while, right?"

Hearing Li Fei's words, Zhao Yi immediately sneered.

Although she was young, she was very sharp, and after being poisoned by Li Fei, she had been thinking of ways to save herself.

Saying she was a successor of the Nightmare Sect at the beginning was just to make Li Fei feel wary and not dare to kill her.

Later, when the lie was exposed, she told the secret of the Dream-Like Decree and introduced the value of the Dream-Like Decree to Li Fei in great detail, which was also to save herself.

The more valuable the Dream-Like Decree was, the more valuable her life was!

"This Dream-Like Decree requires specific techniques for regular maintenance. Without me, this Dream-Like Decree will turn into a piece of scrap iron in your hands within a month."

Zhao Yi said to Li Fei.

"Maybe you're still lying?"

Li Fei looked at Zhao Yi calmly.

Next, Zhao Yi did something that surprised him:

The other party suddenly picked up the small medicine bottle on the table, poured out a Nether Spring Poison pill, and swallowed it in one gulp!

"What's the meaning of this?"

Li Fei looked at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi's eyes revealed extreme ferocity, like a wounded mother wolf protecting her cubs:

"You want the Nightmare Sect's cultivation method and the maintenance method for the Dream-Like Decree. If I just say it out loud, do you dare to believe it? It's better to interrogate me again using the method you just used, so you'll know if I'm lying!"

Li Fei looked deeply at the young woman in front of him, somewhat surprised by her decisiveness.

However, he did not soften his heart because of this.

Just as he said to Zhao Yi before, the chance had already been given, but the other party didn't cherish it and insisted on repeatedly provoking him, so don't blame him for being ruthless.

If he hadn't been more skilled today, it might have been his Ghost-Slaying Blade and other things that were taken away by the other party.

As for whether his life could be saved in the end, no one could say for sure, after all, human hearts are unpredictable.

"Fine, you can start speaking."

Li Fei said calmly.

There were too many cultivation methods for the Nightmare Sect, and it was impossible to finish speaking in a short while, and Li Fei couldn't remember them, so he asked Zhao Yi to speak directly about the parts related to the Dream-Like Decree.

In the next ten minutes, Li Fei repeatedly interrogated Zhao Yi on the content she said, confirming all the details over and over again.

Zhao Yi had already been poisoned once, and this time, being poisoned again, the pain she felt was even deeper.

Back then, even the spy from the Meijia Country who had undergone strict training couldn't withstand such pain, and Zhao Yi couldn't withstand it either.

But she knew that if she couldn't make Li Fei believe her, it would be very difficult for her to survive, so she gritted her teeth and completed this interrogation, showing extremely strong willpower!

"Alright."

Li Fei gave the other party the antidote when Zhao Yi was almost about to faint.

At this moment, he could almost be sure that Zhao Yi was telling the truth, or rather, the maximum extent of the truth he could get in the current situation.

If he continued to force her, the other party's statement wouldn't change anymore.

Through interrogating Zhao Yi, Li Fei had a detailed understanding of the Dream-Like Decree:

There were a total of eleven implants inside the Dream-Like Decree!

Half of these implants were middle-three-grade, and there were even upper-three-grade ones!

All the implants used by martial artists to condense the foundation of their martial arts are lower-three-grade, because the human body is too fragile at the beginning and cannot withstand implants of too high a grade. Afterward, as the realm improves, the physique also strengthens, but building the foundation of martial arts must maintain balance, so the other four types of implants can only be lower-three-grade.

Only after the foundation of martial arts is completely built and one steps into the next realm can a martial artist continue to incorporate middle-three-grade or even upper-three-grade implants.

The same principle applies to magic treasures.

And this Dream-Like Decree in Li Fei's hand was once the life-bound magic treasure of a Daoist True Monarch, an item of the highest grade, naturally accommodating high-grade implants.

High-grade implants do not need to be artificially fed with pills or anything like that to provide energy; this type of implant will absorb the free energy between heaven and earth by itself, or in Daoist terms, it will automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the survival of the high-grade implants inside the Dream-Like Decree; they have all entered a dormant state, as long as they are not stimulated indiscriminately.

What really needs to be worried about are the middle-three-grade and lower-three-grade implants inside the Dream-Like Decree.

Every month, different techniques need to be performed to integrate different materials into the Dream-Like Decree to maintain the implants inside.

This is why cultivating techniques is more expensive than cultivating martial arts; practicing techniques costs money, and maintaining magic treasures costs even more money!

So much so that a Great Mage in the Possession Stage like Zhao Renjie left Zhao Yi quite a few things after he died, but he didn't leave her much money.

Because the Dream-Like Decree is just a gold-swallowing beast!

If Li Fei didn't have the Qingyuan City Management Company and the Qingyuan Fist Village in his hands, he wouldn't be able to afford this kind of thing either.

"Now we can talk about the future."

Li Fei said after Zhao Yi had recovered.

"What do you want?"

Zhao Yi looked at him fiercely.

"It's definitely impossible to let you go just like that, and this thing can't be returned to you either."

Li Fei raised the Dream-Like Decree in his hand.

Even if he didn't covet this supreme treasure in his hand, he couldn't do the thing of letting a tiger return to the mountain.

Zhao Yi had extremely high talent and a ruthless enough temperament, and she had a supreme treasure like the Dream-Like Decree; this was completely the fate of a novel protagonist. If he let the other party go, what if the other party's techniques were perfected in the future and she came to his door?

But if he killed her directly like this, the Dream-Like Decree in his hand would be wasted, which was too much of a pity.

Regarding dual cultivation of techniques and martial arts, Li Fei had specifically asked Shangguan Xiao.

The biggest difficulty in dual cultivation of techniques and martial arts is that in the later stages, the implants of the technique system and the implants of the martial arts system will conflict, leading to the inability to continue breaking through realms.

But there are ways to reconcile this conflict, except that it requires taking a large amount of medicine, and this type of medicine will cause damage to the human body; no one can stand taking it in large quantities for a long time.

This is the fundamental reason why dual cultivation of techniques and martial arts cannot be walked through.

But this difficulty is simply not an issue for Li Fei, who possesses the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl!

So after understanding the dual cultivation of techniques and martial arts, he thought about finding a way to try technique cultivation after arriving at the Martial University.

He didn't expect that before he even started trying, he would get his hands on a True-One magic treasure!

This might be heaven's will.

Li Fei thought for a moment and said:

"Even if you hadn't been caught today, you would have gotten into trouble sooner or later if you continued stealing like this. It's better to follow me from now on; I have the ability to support this Dream-Like Decree."

Zhao Yi sneered:

"Next, are you going to slowly teach me the Nightmare Sect's techniques, and then when one day in the future you can perform techniques to maintain the Dream-Like Decree yourself, you'll kill me?"

Li Fei looked directly at the other party:

"Do you have any other choice? Even if that's really the case, at least you can live for several more years, and you still have a chance to slowly change my mind, which is better than dying in my hands right now."

Hearing this, Zhao Yi's expression dimmed, and she lowered her head:

"You're right, I have no choice, I can only listen to you."

"Hmm."

Li Fei suddenly asked, "How long can your technique effect last, on ordinary people?"

"About an hour or so."

Zhao Yi answered listlessly.

"That's still in time. Go and return the stolen things to their original owners now, don't let anyone notice."

Li Fei said.

Zhao Yi suddenly raised her head and looked at Li Fei in surprise:

"Big Brother, don't pretend to be a good person if you're a demon like that, okay?"

Li Fei picked up the small medicine bottle on the table:

"Like this, I'll set a rule for you first. From now on, just do what I say directly, don't talk nonsense."

Zhao Yi looked at the small medicine bottle in Li Fei's hand, revealing a look of terror.

She considered her willpower strong enough, but she still didn't want to try that feeling again.

"You, are you treating me as your slave?"

Zhao Yi said angrily, "A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. If you want to humiliate me, I'd rather die right now!"

She looked at Li Fei with a determined expression.

Li Fei smiled: "Don't worry, I won't make you do anything humiliating. You'll know later; I'm actually a good person."

"You're a good person?!!"

Zhao Yi recalled the cold look in Li Fei's eyes when he was interrogating her just now and felt a chill.

A person who carries poison with him, has mastered professional interrogation techniques, and can complete an interrogation without any ripples throughout, actually says he is a good person?

"Only those who can point a gun at others can be good people."

"What kind of twisted logic is that?"

"You forgot I gave you a chance before."

"I..."

Zhao Yi regretted it so much; her intestines were truly green with regret now!

If she had known, it would have been so good to leave at that time; why did she have to turn around and provoke this evil star?

"Go do your work."

Li Fei raised the medicine bottle in his hand and said to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, got up, picked up the backpack on the floor, and walked out of the private room.

Li Fei wasn't worried that the other party would take the opportunity to run away.

From the previous interrogation, he could see that Zhao Yi was a very ambitious woman.

If she didn't have ambition, she wouldn't have taken the risk to get money in the way she did today to maintain the Dream-Like Decree.

Such a person wouldn't be willing to give up a supreme treasure like the Dream-Like Decree.

Half an hour later, Zhao Yi returned to the private room.

This time, her backpack was empty; there was nothing left.

"Did you return everything to the original owners?"

Li Fei asked.

Zhao Yi said impatiently: "I couldn't remember whose some things were, so I could only do my best."

Li Fei didn't speak and picked up the small medicine bottle on the table again.

Zhao Yi panicked immediately and jumped up:

"Big Brother, I was wrong! I'll go and change it right now."

"No need."

Li Fei stopped her.

If she went again at this time, people might be waking up soon.

Anyway, it's fine as long as the general things are returned to the original owners; there's no need to be nitpicky about doing good deeds.

"Big Brother, what kind of person are you exactly?"

Zhao Yi asked cautiously.

She was truly afraid of Li Fei now.

What kind of good person feeds others poison at every turn?

"What you guessed before was right; I am a student of the Zhige Department of the Martial University. My name is Li Fei."

Li Fei said.

Since the two of them would be together for a long time, there was no need to hide this kind of thing.

"Are all students of the Martial University as terrifying as you?"

Zhao Yi asked with lingering fear.

"Probably not, I guess."

Li Fei smiled.

"What kind of implant do you use? Why did my technique have absolutely no effect on you?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't."

"Are you planning to dual cultivate techniques and martial arts next?"

"I have this idea."

"Didn't your teachers at the Martial University teach you that dual cultivation of techniques and martial arts has no future?"

"Does that mean you think I should kill you right now?"

"I mean you should keep me forever; in the future, I'll use the Dream-Like Decree for you and help you fight!"

"Heh, you're really beautiful."

"What do you mean? I'm not beautiful at all!"

"Then why do you think so beautifully?"

"... Your mother."

"What did you say?"

"Brother Fei, I was wrong!"

"..."

The two of them chatted all the way like this until the train arrived at Datong Fucheng.

Li Fei got off the train carrying two suitcases, and Zhao Yi followed behind him.

Zhao Yi originally thought Li Fei would let her help carry the suitcases, but she didn't expect Li Fei to have no such idea at all, which surprised her a bit.

Looking at it this way, the other party really didn't treat her as a servant.

"Go home by yourself first; I'm going to report to the Martial University now, and I'll come find you in the evening."

Li Fei said to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Renjie had previously rented a house in Datong Fucheng as a foothold for the two of them.

As for why he didn't buy a house, it was naturally to save money.

Housing prices in the prefecture city were much more expensive than in local cities, and some locations were even more expensive than in the provincial capital!

"Understood."

Zhao Yi responded, and seeing Li Fei walking in the direction of the tram, she hesitated for a moment and then quickly followed:

"Um, can you take me into the Martial University to have a look?"

"Hmm?"

Li Fei turned his head to look at Zhao Yi in surprise.

Zhao Yi didn't act coy and admitted directly:

"I always heard the old man tell me how amazing the twelve universities were, saying they were places for martial arts cultivation even more amazing than the Nightmare Sect, so I'm quite curious about the Martial University."

The twelve universities of the Great Lan Dynasty were different from the universities in Li Fei's previous life; not just anyone could go in to visit.

To get in, one must have a corresponding identity.

So there were still many, many people in Datong Fucheng like Zhao Yi who wanted to go into the Martial University to have a look.

Li Fei looked at Zhao Yi's expectant eyes and said without hesitation:

"No."

Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment, then her expression dimmed:

"Understood."

After saying that, she turned and left.

Li Fei didn't care and walked toward the tram not far away.

He was also here to report and hadn't officially become a student of the Martial University yet, so he wasn't sure he could bring people in to visit.

And out of caution, he didn't want people to know he knew Zhao Yi for the time being.

Next, Li Fei took the tram to a station near the Martial University and then walked to the Martial University.

After passing through a bustling commercial street, Li Fei saw the city wall in front from afar.

That's right, it was a city wall.

Datong Fucheng had no inner city; this city wall was built for the Martial University, so in a sense, the Martial University was the inner city of Datong Fucheng!

Li Fei carried his suitcases and walked toward the city wall, soon seeing a five-gate archway built of white jade stone.

Outside the archway, guards wearing black clothes and carrying rifles on their backs were standing guard, looking solemn and respectful.

After Li Fei approached this five-gate archway, guards soon took the initiative to walk up and ask politely:

"Hello, may I ask what you are here for?"

"I'm here to report."

Li Fei said while taking a document from his bosom and handing it to the other party.

This five-gate archway was the main entrance of the Martial University; he looked up at the plaque hanging on the archway in the middle.

What was written on this plaque was not the four characters 'Martial University', but eight characters.

The first thing Li Fei noticed was the inscription on the plaque—Imperial Brush of the 28th Year of Hongguang.

Imperial Brush meant it was written by the Emperor himself!

So this plaque was written by the current Son of Heaven himself and gifted to the Martial University.

Li Fei looked at the eight large characters on the plaque—

Pacifying the Country with Martial Arts, the Pillar of the State

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