Chapter 218: First in History

Under the night, a car drove into the gate of the General Stop-Gong Office.

After the car stopped steadily, Wen Ke and Li Fei got out of the car.

This was the night Li Fei came out of seclusion; Wen Ke finally persuaded the high-level officials of Wu'an University to let Wu'an University come forward to help Li Fei clear the relationship, allowing him to come to the General Stop-Gong Office to see Shangguan Xiao.

The two walked to the building in front, and Steering Envoy Fu Lang walked out of the building to greet them in person.

In fact, the reason why Li Fei could meet Shangguan Xiao so quickly and smoothly this time, besides Wu'an University's efforts, was that Fu Lang also played a very key role in it.

Shangguan Xiao asked Fu Lang to help her with three things, one of which was to find a way for her to see Li Fei.

Now this matter could be considered accomplished.

Ten minutes later, Li Fei met Shangguan Xiao in a separate interrogation room.

Now Shangguan Xiao had been formally detained, not just losing her freedom and unable to contact the outside world, but also having mandatory measures applied to her, with special handcuffs on her hands.

Of course, against a Foundation Establishment powerhouse, a pair of handcuffs certainly couldn't trap her; normally, Shangguan Xiao should also be fed Qi-dispersing elixirs, and soft nails should be driven into several important acupoints on her body, etc.

But because Fu Lang was there, these means were not used.

He couldn't help his friend's daughter clear her name, but at least within the General Stop-Gong Office, he could try his best to let Shangguan Xiao suffer less.

"You are here."

Shangguan Xiao revealed a smile after seeing Li Fei, a look of joy appearing in her cold eyes, and she asked with concern:

"How was the seclusion?"

"Hmm."

Li Fei nodded vigorously at Shangguan Xiao.

Shangguan Xiao took a deep breath, revealing a look of shock.

Before the seclusion, Li Fei had confessed to her that this seclusion was to impact the breakthrough.

So now Li Fei's nod represented a successful breakthrough.

In March of this year, Li Fei had just broken through to the late stage of the Qi-Changing Realm, even if he skipped the stage of polishing internal force and started breaking through directly from the peak of the Qi-Changing Realm.

From completing the "Return-to-One" to breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, Li Fei had only used two months!

This speed was too shocking!

"Good, very good!"

Shangguan Xiao looked into Li Fei's eyes and said seriously:

"As long as you live well, with your aptitude, you have hope of reaching the peak of martial arts within ten years!"

The peak of martial arts in this world is called Martial Saint.

Shangguan Xiao believed that Li Fei had a chance to become a Martial Saint within ten years!

"Ten years..."

Li Fei naturally understood what Shangguan Xiao meant.

If he wanted to reach the peak in ten years, he had to live well now.

"I learned from Wu'an University that many of the resources obtained by the Qingyuan Boxing Village over the past years were provided by Zhang Shiwei?"

Li Fei asked.

He was very puzzled by this, because if it were really like this, it couldn't be faked, and there was no reason for Shangguan Xiao not to notice it at all.

Shangguan Xiao sighed:

"At first, I thought it was my father using family resources to secretly help me, so I didn't guard against it; my father probably had the same misunderstanding. Now that I think about it, when I took the initiative to contact him for the first time after many years, saying that I wanted to enter officialdom and serve as the First Seat of the Xingcheng Stop-Gong Office, he didn't feel strange at all and agreed immediately. A part of the reason for this is probably that he thought I had already been actively preparing."

Li Fei was enlightened.

It seemed that the person behind the scenes also understood the psychology between Zhang Zongyang and Shangguan Xiao, this pair of father and daughter, very well, so they could lay out the trap so cleverly.

But in this way, many things were really hard to explain and clarify, because in fact, Shangguan Xiao had indeed "colluded" with Zhang Shiwei very early on.

"Aunt, I am afraid this trap is aimed at Teacher."

Li Fei said his speculation.

Shangguan Xiao nodded; she had also thought of this point long ago.

"I want to know what exactly happened between you and Teacher in Datong Prefecture back then? What grudges were left behind?"

Li Fei asked.

This was the main purpose of his visit this time.

Since the person behind the scenes started laying out more than ten years ago, it must be an enemy that Hao Yi and Shangguan Xiao had formed in the past.

He had to figure out the ins and outs of the matter first before he had hope of finding a way to break the trap.

"Xiao Fei, listen to me."

Shangguan Xiao shook her head, "This matter involves too much; don't get involved anymore; you have a more distant future and shouldn't be dragged down by our old grudges."

She asked Fu Lang to help her see Li Fei, not to ask Li Fei for help, but to persuade Li Fei to let go, and at the same time to communicate many things in advance to avoid the "Green Face Ghost" being implicated by her.

"Aunt!"

Li Fei interrupted Shangguan Xiao, "You persuade me to let go; do you think Teacher will let go?"

Shangguan Xiao paused and said: "I have my own arrangements for your Teacher; you don't need to worry."

The second thing she asked Fu Lang to help with was to bring a message to Hao Yi.

"Aunt, there is still room for recovery in this matter; it shouldn't be given up just like that."

Li Fei shook his head.

Shangguan Xiao was certainly not someone who would give up easily; her character was also unyielding, otherwise, she wouldn't have chosen to break with the family directly back then.

If this matter only involved her alone, she would fight to the last moment!

But this matter might involve Hao Yi, and might also involve Li Fei; this was something Shangguan Xiao couldn't accept no matter what.

"Xiao Fei, I haven't given up, but I hope you let me do it myself; don't get involved in this matter anymore."

Shangguan Xiao said, "I have already found a way to contact the investigation team; I will talk to them; what they want is to continue suppressing the Datong Prefecture government; as long as I don't plead guilty, they have a reason to stay, so I can talk to them."

The third thing she asked Fu Lang to help with was to help her contact the investigation team from the provincial capital.

Li Fei nodded: "That's what I thought too, so I will also contact the investigation team next."

"Xiao Fei..."

"Aunt, when you decided to break with the family back then, there must have been many people who persuaded you, maybe Teacher also persuaded you, but did you listen to them?"

Li Fei looked at Shangguan Xiao and asked.

"..."

Shangguan Xiao was silent.

Yes, she was also Li Fei's age back then, and she also resolutely chose to move forward when facing a crisis, instead of retreating.

She couldn't do it herself back then, so how could she ask Li Fei to do it now?

"I was sent out to apprentice at nine years old, and I met your Teacher at that time."

Shangguan Xiao spoke slowly, beginning to tell the past:

"Senior Brother's talent far surpassed mine, and he was given high hopes by Master since childhood. Master always said to him, you are the entire future of a sect! Later, Senior Brother also often kept this sentence on his lips."

"When I was sixteen, Master's old wounds recurred and he died; Senior Brother decided to take me back to Datong Prefecture, wanting to make a name for himself in Datong Prefecture and fulfill Master's last wish."

"At that time, Senior Brother's body had just initially grown, and he had only incorporated the implant not long ago; when he brought me to Datong Prefecture, he only had the cultivation of the early Body-Breaking Realm."

"Later, in just one year, Senior Brother broke through all the way, becoming a martial master of the middle Qi-Changing Realm, and also made quite a name for himself in Datong Prefecture; he had never been defeated in duels."

"My father took a fancy to Senior Brother's talent at that time and wanted to absorb him into the Zhang family, but Senior Brother refused; he was determined to make a name for his sect at that time and didn't want to borrow any external force at all."

"Later, Senior Brother began to challenge those geniuses in Datong Prefecture, and also never met a defeat!"

"By the time I was eighteen, Senior Brother had already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and encountered something that changed the trajectory of his life."

"He accidentally bumped into a noble family secretly trafficking people, so he took action to save those trafficked people and made a big deal out of it."

"At that time, with Senior Brother's talent and Foundation Establishment Realm, this matter was nothing; that noble family would just silently remember this dark loss. But after this matter, Senior Brother discovered the ugly faces of those noble families and decided to continue investigating to see if there were more similar things."

"This investigation uncovered too much filth..."

"But Senior Brother's approach was different from... from the Green Face Ghost's; he didn't secretly kill those evil people who were uncovered, but chose to make the evidence of these people's crimes public and then hand them over to the government to deal with."

Li Fei: "..."

Shangguan Xiao continued to narrate:

"This world is like this; every family, including the Zhang family, as long as they are in the upper class of society, who can be truly clean as jade? So Senior Brother's approach offended many people, but he didn't know how to restrain himself, and the evil deeds he exposed became more and more..."

"In this process, Senior Brother encountered many dangers, both openly and secretly, and his personal strength also grew rapidly in this process, soon reaching the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm and being listed on the candidate list of the Wind and Cloud General Ranking."

"But the stronger his strength, the bigger the things he caused, and the more people he offended. But later, he discovered that the government was actually also shielding those sinners, and even many officials in the government were colluding, doing even more disgusting things, so Senior Brother began to expose the evil deeds of the government together."

Li Fei: "..."

He felt that his teacher was simply like a protagonist in a novel, fighting heaven, fighting earth, fighting air all the way, but he was getting stronger and stronger.

He could imagine how high-spirited and dazzling his teacher was back then!

But from the fact that Hao Yi's foundation was damaged and he had been trapped in a small place like Xingcheng for all these years, it could be seen that the ending of this "novel protagonist" was likely not good.

Shangguan Xiao must have also chosen to support Hao Yi, so she completely broke with the family.

After all, the class that Hao Yi wanted to fight and change also included noble families like the Zhang family.

Shangguan Xiao sighed: "In fact, many people admired Senior Brother back then, and he also found some like-minded friends who wanted to change the status quo of this society with him, at least trying to change the status quo of Datong Prefecture. But what they wanted to achieve was too difficult, almost impossible to realize."

Li Fei thought of the previous Inspector of the Xingcheng Inspectorate—Huang Weiguang.

Hao Yi and Huang Weiguang were old friends for many years; looking at it this way, this former Inspector might be one of the like-minded people who worked with Hao Yi back then.

It was just that later Hao Yi failed, and Huang Weiguang was also "demoted" to Xingcheng, finally retiring in gloom.

"So how did Teacher and the others fail in the end?"

Li Fei asked.

Shangguan Xiao's eyes were deep: "Senior Brother and the previous Garrison Commander of Datong Prefecture clashed directly, or rather, they clashed with an entire class represented by that Garrison Commander. What is the result of confronting such power? You have actually already seen it: a Great Martial Arts Sect like the Tiefeng Sect disappeared just like that! A Martial Arts Master like Gu Xianfeng died just like that!"

"Senior Brother was only one step away from becoming a Martial Arts Master back then; he wanted to wait until he broke through before tearing his face off and making a big mess! But he was interfered with at the critical moment of his breakthrough, and in the end, not only did he fail to break through, but his foundation was damaged, and he was almost hopeless to ever practice martial arts foundation again in his life."

"Finally, if it weren't for Master Shi Caiming coming forward to protect Senior Brother, Senior Brother would have died directly in Datong Prefecture like many others back then."

Li Fei was startled: "Master Shi Caiming? Is it the current President of Wu'an University, Shi Caiming?"

Shangguan Xiao nodded: "Yes, that's him."

"There was no Wu'an University back then; Master Shi Caiming was the number one expert in Datong Prefecture and even the entire Feng Province, and he was highly respected, teaching many students and pointing out many experts, with extremely high status and reputation in Feng Province. Master Shi Caiming cherished talent back then, so he chose to protect Senior Brother. But even Master Shi Caiming could only do his best to save Senior Brother's life."

Li Fei was silent.

This was probably because Hao Yi's foundation was damaged and he was hopeless to ever break through again, so the powerful people in Datong Prefecture were willing to let him go.

But since they let him go, why did they lay out a trap to murder Hao Yi again after many years?

"Aunt, what big shots did Teacher offend back then? Who do you think is most likely to choose revenge after so many years?"

Li Fei asked.

Shangguan Xiao looked at him helplessly: "If you want to talk about offending, Senior Brother offended almost all the big shots in Datong Prefecture back then."

Li Fei: "..."

Shangguan Xiao: "The previous Garrison Commander retired early because Senior Brother caused so many things back then. If you want to talk about hatred, that Garrison Commander and his family must hate Senior Brother to the bone."

"Besides that, many big shots who were brought down by Senior Brother back then are still alive, and they all have the possibility of revenge."

"And there are those geniuses who had their hearts broken by Senior Brother, such as Xu Jing who had troubled you before; this person was also a heaven-defying genius famous throughout Feng Province back then, and was also considered a Foundation Establishment powerhouse with hope of representing Feng Province on the Wind and Cloud General Ranking. But he was defeated by Senior Brother many times and is still brooding over it to this day..."

Li Fei now understood why Hao Yi couldn't come to Datong Prefecture.

This was purely because there were too many enemies; coming here was equivalent to poking a hornet's nest...

Next, Li Fei asked Shangguan Xiao about many things from the past in detail until the time was up, then left the interrogation room and parted with Shangguan Xiao.

He got back into the car and left the General Stop-Gong Office with Wen Ke, returning to Wu'an University.

"Professor Wen, I want to see President Shi Caiming."

In the car, Li Fei suddenly said after a moment of silence.

Wen Ke was not surprised by this, but shook her head: "President Shi has health problems and has been in seclusion all year round; unless there is a major event, he does not see guests."

"Then there is a huge event now."

Li Fei said sincerely.

Wen Ke smiled, her tone still gentle:

"President Shi will no longer manage these things."

"I am not talking about this matter."

Li Fei shook his head.

"Hmm?"

Wen Ke turned to look at him.

Li Fei also turned to meet her gaze and said word by word:

"I have already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

Screech—

The driver who was driving suddenly slammed on the brakes, and the tires rubbed a long mark on the ground.

Wen Ke looked at the driver in front, and the other party hurriedly apologized:

"Sorry, sorry."

Then continued driving.

Wen Ke looked back at Li Fei, her expression grave: "What did you say?"

"I said, I have already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

Li Fei said calmly.

He certainly wouldn't say directly that he only used ten days to complete the breakthrough; that was too shocking and would only be treated as a monster and an alien.

In fact, the time he broke through to the late stage of the Qi-Changing Realm was March of this year; because of the special nature of his internal force plus his mental power being strong enough, he could skip the stage of polishing internal force, and once he broke through, he was at the peak of the Qi-Changing Realm.

Calculated this way, it took him more than two months to break through from the peak of the Qi-Changing Realm to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

But even at this speed, it broke the history of martial arts practice in the Great Lan Dynasty!

No, it was not just the history of martial arts practice in the Great Lan Dynasty.

For a thousand years, in the history of human martial arts practice, the fastest record for breaking through from the peak of the Qi-Changing Realm completing "Return-to-One" to the Foundation Establishment Realm was 92 days.

Now, Li Fei had broken this record!

That is to say, his breakthrough speed at this stage was the first in history!

Wu'an University produced a student whose breakthrough speed was the first in history; such a thing was naturally a huge event.

Seeking monthly tickets.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 219 =====