Chapter 411

Seven or eight luxury cars are parked on the spacious street.

On the other side of the street, a magnificent mansion is located here.

In the center, two vermilion gates are open, and a white jade lion over two meters high is placed on each side of the gate.

The words 'Cheng Wang Mansion' are written on the door plaque.

There are not many mansions that can occupy an entire street in the inch-of-land-inch-of-gold Lanling City, and the Cheng Wang Mansion is one of them.

Cheng Wang is the own younger brother of the current Son of Heaven. After the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he designated an entire province as the fief for Cheng Wang!

Although it is not a real enfeoffment, a portion of the tax revenue of a province each year is also an astronomical figure. Even if Cheng Wang does nothing, just collecting this part of the tax every year is enough to be wealthy.

This shows that the current Son of Heaven is indeed close to his own younger brother.

Two people, one old and one young, wearing blue official uniforms, walk into this street and head straight toward the gate of the Cheng Wang Mansion.

"Two officials, is there anything?"

The guards at the door stop the two and ask.

"I am He Situ Jian, a first-class investigator of the Supervision Pavilion, ordered to investigate a case."

The old man takes out a token and shows it to the guards at the door.

"Seen Official He."

The guards salute very politely, "I will go and report."

He quickly turns and runs into the Wang Mansion, while He Situ Jian and his disciple Yuan Yuan Mengfei wait outside the door.

After a moment, a middle-aged man wearing a light red robe comes to the gate, bows to He Situ Jian, and says calmly:

"Seen Official He, I am Xi Ran, the steward of the Wang Mansion. I wonder what case Official He has come to the Wang Mansion to investigate?"

"Investigating the assassination case at the Altar of Heaven!"

He Situ Jian's gaze is stern, saying word by word.

Xi Ran's expression changes, and then he looks at He Situ Jian with the eyes of a dead man:

"Official He, do you know what you are saying?"

He Situ Jian's expression remains unchanged: "The mastermind behind the assassination case at the Altar of Heaven, the current suspect with the greatest suspicion is the Anshen Sect. I found that Ji Ji Xiuyong, a guest consultant of the Cheng Wang Mansion, is colluding with the Anshen Sect, so I specifically came to the mansion to arrest him."

Xi Ran is unafraid, looking at He Situ Jian's soul-stirring eyes, and sneers:

"Official He, I advise you, food can be eaten indiscriminately, but words cannot be spoken indiscriminately. Whether the assassination case at the Altar of Heaven is really related to the Anshen Sect has not been determined, yet you ran to the Cheng Wang Mansion shouting to investigate the assassination case at the Altar of Heaven. If this matter spreads out and damages the reputation of Prince Cheng, can you bear the responsibility?!"

It is said that a third-rank official is at the gate of the Prime Minister, meaning that a gatekeeper at the Prime Minister's mansion can be on equal footing with a third-rank official.

This is of course an exaggerated statement, but it also reflects certain characteristics of power.

If Xi Ran were really the steward of Chief Minister Ye Ye Zean's mansion, he could indeed speak to He Situ Jian like this.

But the nobles of the Great Lan Dynasty have no real enfeoffment, having status but no real power, so even some royal relatives are just looking majestic.

Normally, He Situ Jian, as a seat official of the Supervision Pavilion, is enough to handle many powerful people.

However, Xi Ran is not polite to him at all!

Only because Cheng Wang not only has a title but also holds military power!

The current Son of Heaven trusts his own younger brother very much and appointed him as the Provincial Military Commander, an 18-level military official!

The Military Affairs Department is independent of the six pavilions, the highest position is the Grand Marshal of Military Affairs, and then down is the Provincial Military Commander.

There are four Provincial Military Commanders in the Great Lan Dynasty, and Cheng Wang is one of them, in charge of the military affairs of the Northern Territory.

The Northern Territory border army, except for the more than 10,000 Imperial Camp troops directly under the Central Secretariat, the remaining 100,000 troops are all under Cheng Wang's jurisdiction!

This is the reason why Xi Ran, this Wang Mansion steward, dares to be so tough.

"I want to take Ji Ji Xiuyong back for questioning."

He Situ Jian ignores Xi Ran's threat and says directly.

Xi Ran's eyes are colder: "He is not in the mansion."

He Situ Jian's eyes have faint light flickering: "You are lying."

"Heh!"

Xi Ran sneers, "I said, the person you are looking for is not in the mansion, please return."

He Situ Jian looks at him without moving.

"Or, go and open a document to search the Wang Mansion, then you can come in and find someone."

Xi Ran shakes his head sarcastically and turns away directly.

He Situ Jian is about to step inside, but his eyes blur, and a young man holding a long sword suddenly blocks his way.

The young man's gaze is like a sword, stabbing straight at He Situ Jian:

"This official, this is the Cheng Wang Mansion. If you trespass, I can only draw my sword."

Yuan Yuan Mengfei, who follows He Situ Jian, changes her expression, hurriedly stepping forward and pulling her master tightly.

She recognizes this young man.

Xi Xi Yuchen, a famous swordsman in Lanling City, at the peak of the Dao foundation stage, whose name is on the candidate list of the latest issue of the Wind and Cloud General Ranking!

If the other party wants to kill He Situ Jian, one sword is enough.

Inside the Cheng Wang Mansion, Xi Ran, who was arrogant in front of He Situ Jian just now, is standing respectfully beside a young man wearing luxurious clothes.

"Your Highness, He Situ Jian has left."

Xi Ran says.

The young man in front of him is the Cheng Wang Heir, Qin Qin Ziyu.

Cheng Wang has been leading the army in the Northern Territory for years. Qin Qin Ziyu, as the Cheng Wang Heir, is the master of this Wang Mansion and also the representative of Cheng Wang in Lanling City.

Qin Qin Ziyu leans on the railing, looking at the koi in the pond below, and scatters the fish food in his hand, causing hundreds of koi to scramble for food.

Behind him, a gray-clothed man is kneeling on the ground, his forehead touching the ground.

The gray-clothed man is Ji Ji Xiuyong, whom He Situ Jian wants to take away, also a peak Dao foundation stage combatant, one of the guest consultants of the Cheng Wang Mansion.

Qin Qin Ziyu turns around, claps his hands, and looks at Ji Ji Xiuyong kneeling in front of him:

"Raise your head and speak."

Ji Ji Xiuyong slowly straightens his body, his expression solemn.

"Mr. Ji, you have been working hard for the Wang Mansion all these years, and it can be considered a great achievement. If you have any requests, you can mention them."

Qin Qin Ziyu says lightly.

Ji Ji Xiuyong shakes his head: "If it weren't for the Heir's rescue, I would have died long ago. I know the Heir's promise is worth a thousand gold. Since you have promised to take good care of my family, I have no other requests."

Although he did not ascend the Wind and Cloud General Ranking, he is also a top expert in the Dao foundation realm, but he has been stuck at a bottleneck for many years.

Seven years ago, he forced a breakthrough, but failed, almost causing his Dao foundation to collapse and die.

It was Qin Qin Ziyu who spent a lot of resources to save him, and spent a lot of money to help him heal, allowing him to maintain most of his combat power.

"Good, your son's expenses in the university from now on will be covered by the Wang Mansion. If he can break through to the Dao foundation stage, this Heir will choose a high-level Dao foundation for him from the Wang Mansion."

Qin Qin Ziyu says lightly.

Even in the thirteen universities, the vast majority of students can only obtain the inheritance of ordinary Dao foundations. The inheritance of a high-level Dao foundation is enough to make people fight for it.

Ji Ji Xiuyong is overjoyed: "Thank you, Heir!"

Qin Qin Ziyu nods: "Go."

Ji Ji Xiuyong stands up, bows deeply to Qin Qin Ziyu one last time, and turns away.

After he leaves, Qin Qin Ziyu feels some regret:

"With just that little bit of clues, he could actually find the Wang Mansion. This name of He Situ Jian as a god detective is really well-deserved."

Xi Ran on the side says softly:

"Heir, do you want to send someone to warn He Situ Jian?"

Qin Qin Ziyu shakes his head: "People like He Situ Jian will not eat that set. Moreover..."

Pausing, he asks:

"What moves has the Marquis of Jing'an had recently?"

Xi Ran: "For more than a month, he has been staying in the mansion without coming out."

Qin Qin Ziyu frowns slightly: "You said before that he bought a lot of things from the internal treasury. Have you found out what he bought?"

Xi Ran: "They are all materials used to refine magic tools."

"Refining magic tools?"

Qin Qin Ziyu is a bit stunned, "What exactly does he want to do?"

Not only him, many powerful people in Lanling City are paying attention to the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion at all times, wanting to know what Li Fei is doing.

Qin Qin Ziyu's expression keeps changing.

He is very clear that today it was just He Situ Jian coming to the door, and he could easily block it.

But if it were that Marquis coming to arrest someone, it wouldn't be so easy for him to deal with.

After all, that Marquis even dared to slap the First Prince's face, not to mention him, this Cheng Wang Heir?

Thinking of the rumors that have been making a lot of noise recently, Qin Qin Ziyu stands up abruptly:

"Go, prepare, I want to visit the eldest cousin."

His eldest cousin is the First Prince.

"Yes."

Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

Inside the secret room, Li Fei pours a bottle of cyan liquid that emits a bone-chilling smell into his palm.

Then he pinches a seal with one hand, a green leaf symbol lights up on his brow, and he casts a magic art.

Powerful virtual thoughts are injected into the cyan liquid in his palm.

Soon, these liquids integrate into Li Fei's palm.

Gradually, the skin of Li Fei's palm turns green, and the muscles begin to stiffen...

He looks calmly at his left hand, carefully perceiving the changes in it, and then picks up a pen with his right hand to record on the paper:

"When the stone root marrow and blood soul integrate, it will cause the flesh and blood to harden..."

After all the changes are recorded, and the left hand no longer has new changes, Li Fei begins to circulate his power.

After more than half an hour, his left hand gradually returns to normal.

This is him circulating the 'Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method' to restore the alienated body tissues to their initial state.

The Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method can restore implants. Using it to restore other tissues of the human body, the difficulty is even reduced a lot, so Li Fei quickly completed the transformation of this unique skill.

Over the past month, he has tested all the refining materials that might be used with the blood soul in his body once.

If someone else did this, even with the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method, they would have died countless times.

But Li Fei has the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to transfer damage, so he can make mistakes again and again.

With the increase of experimental data, Li Fei has basically calculated the 'material properties' of the blood soul!

Now, he has completed the last set of experiments and can finally start 'refining tools'.

"What kind of magic tool should I refine myself into?"

Previously, because Li Fei had the treasure Ru Meng Order in his hand, the first choice for his future life-bound magic tool was definitely to refine the Ru Meng Order.

But now that he wants to refine himself into a magic tool, there are many directions he can consider.

However, Li Fei did not hesitate for too long before he had the answer in his heart:

"Refine a flying sword!"

Ever since he knew that there was such a thing as a flying sword in this world, Li Fei has been yearning for it.

Later, he saw a flying sword with his own eyes, and even came into contact with a flying sword himself, so he liked this magic tool even more.

Sword cultivators are the group with the strongest killing power among sorcerers. Using a flying sword as a magic tool, perhaps it is not as flexible as other sorcerers in terms of means, but in a head-on confrontation, sword cultivators can shake martial artists!

And there is another important reason why Li Fei chose to refine a flying sword, which is that Bai Bai Zihao wrote several conceived tool refining plans in the secret manual, one of which is refining a flying sword.

Bai Bai Zihao is a Martial Saint. Even if he practices dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, he is more inclined to use magic arts to enhance his martial arts.

So the flying sword in the plan he conceived, he believes that if the human body is refined into a flying sword body, first of all, the physical strength will definitely be greatly improved, because one of the characteristics of a flying sword is that it is strong enough.

Secondly, the attack means will definitely be greatly improved, because the killing power of a flying sword is powerful.

Finally, there are speed and flight, two characteristics that are also very important for martial artists.

So Bai Bai Zihao feels that a flying sword is one of the magic tools most suitable for martial artists.

The refining plan he wrote in the secret manual is not specific, because he has not practiced it, and it is all theoretical deduction.

But this is enough for Li Fei, which can save him a lot of effort.

And Li Fei has the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method, so he is not afraid of making mistakes.

Of course, a flying sword cannot be refined just because you want to.

A flying sword must be hard enough, and at the same time sharp enough.

The Hunyuan Diamond Power that Li Fei practiced happens to possess both characteristics, so his body's 'material properties' meet the requirements for refining a flying sword.

So only the last point remains:

The most critical point of a flying sword lies in remote control, which requires the use of space-attribute implants. And the requirement for the fit of space-attribute implants is very high, not everyone can match it.

Among one hundred Attachment Period Grand Sorcerers, probably only one person has such talent.

Li Fei is not sure if he also has talent in this area.

He stands up and leaves the secret room, and makes a phone call.

That afternoon, a box emitting cold air was sent to the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

This is the third-grade superior magic arts-type implant—【Space Trace】—that Li Fei bought from the internal treasury using his exchange quota as the Marquis of Jing'an.

【Space Trace】 is a space-attribute implant, very rare, and also a necessary implant for a flying sword.

Inside the secret room, Li Fei opens the box and takes out a square ice cube.

In the center of the ice cube is a silver-shining amber, which is 【Space Trace】.

A green leaf symbol lights up on Li Fei's brow. He drives 【Phantom Leaf】 to cast a magic art, injecting a virtual thought into 【Space Trace】.

This is a detection magic art to detect the reaction of 【Space Trace】 to Li Fei's virtual thoughts.

The silver-shining amber begins to glow.

The magic art cast by Li Fei will make 【Space Trace】 refract different colors, divided into: white, blue, green, red, gold.

If it refracts blue, it means Li Fei has a certain degree of fit with the space-attribute magic arts-type implant and can barely integrate.

Green represents a good fit, and red represents an excellent fit.

A few seconds later, a brilliant golden light refracts from the amber in front of Li Fei's eyes!

"Finally, it went smoothly once."

A smile appears on Li Fei's face, looking exceptionally bright under the reflection of the golden light.

Gold represents the top-tier talent!

If Li Fei had walked the path of magic arts from the beginning, he would be a natural sword cultivator!

The 47th year of Emperor Hongguang, August 27th.

Under the night sky, a batch of things worth more than 4 million was transported from the internal treasury to the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

No one knows that this unprecedented 'refining tools with the body' in this world began tonight.

(End of chapter)