"Don't come any closer!"
The young eunuch shrieked in alarm, trying to draw the attention of anyone nearby.
"Heh heh heh!"
Amid eerie laughter, Zhou Yi approached step by step and seized the eunuch by the throat.
"My true qi blankets the four directions. Scream your throat raw if you like—no one will come save you. Get down there early, and you might be reborn early too!"
The young eunuch's face flushed crimson. He felt surging true qi flood into his body; his meridians and organs could not endure it, and in an instant, he was crushed to pieces.
The true qi circulated through the corpse, slowly grinding its bones to dust until only an intact skin remained.
Zhou Yi carried the skin to the well. With a bang, it burst apart, and pus, blood, shattered bones, and flesh dissolved into the water. The young eunuch vanished from the world completely.
"This Bone-Dissolving Art truly is an excellent method for destroying corpses and erasing evidence!"
Back in the room.
Zhou Yi faced the bronze mirror, which reflected a youthful face.
"Fourteen years now. I have never shown my true face, always wearing a false one. Will I eventually forget who I am?"
After a long silence, Zhou Yi took out disguise paste and applied it.
His face, which had originally been seventy or eighty percent similar, became ninety-nine percent alike. Even the man's own parents would struggle to distinguish real from fake.
"From this day onward, I am Xiao Shanzi!"
Xiao Shanzi's original name was Li Dasha. He had once been an idle vagrant in the capital, doing nothing all day and surviving through petty thievery.
When Zhou Yi happened to see Li Dasha's appearance, he had a gambling den attached to the Surveillance Bureau play a trick, luring Li