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"Have you heard? Zhang Aofeng, the Zhang Family Patriarch of one of the Four Great Families, and Zhang Aochi, the Zhang Family's Second Strongest Expert, were attacked and killed by a mysterious person last night. Both had their throats slit by a single sword and died in their bedrooms."

"My heavens! The Zhang Aofeng brothers had supposedly both advanced to the second-rate realm! Who could be so powerful? Slitting their throats with one sword?"

"Who knows? In Yan Yun County, the people capable of doing that could be counted on one hand!"

"Oh, right. The constables from the Arrest Bureau have been conducting inquiries everywhere today. They say Chief Constable Zheng was so furious he spat blood and swore he would catch that Hundred Knowledge Divine Lord for spreading rumors and slandering him!"

"Different people see different things. Every time Hundred Knowledge Divine Lord exposed something, the information checked out. Besides, rumor has it that all Li Laocai's farmland in Qingniu Town went to his younger sister Li Chunxia. A promotion, a fortune, and a dead wife—if something happens to his wife, Li Chunxia... that farmland... hehehe."

"Shh, big brother, you can't say that!"

Evening.

A thin young man with a sallow face sat at a wall-side table in Lin's Noodle Shop in the western part of the city, noisily slurping plain noodles from his bowl. Listening to the low murmurs of diners at the neighboring table, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes.

"I can't make any more exposures for a while. I need to hurry up and raise my Disguise Technique proficiency. At the same time, I'll switch identities to buy Qi and Blood Pills. Improving my strength is what matters!"

Having made up his mind, Qin Wang took out some copper coins to pay the bill, then limped toward an alley not far away.

This was the small courtyard Qin Wang had rented anew.

It had three large blue-brick, tiled-roof rooms.

It was a hundred zhang from the street, with small courtyards in front and behind. Its walls stood one zhang high, and he had rented it under the alias "Zeng A'niu."

"First, I'll practice the Flying Eagle Movement Technique a few times, then I'll train the Disguise Technique."

Qin Wang took out the key and entered. Pulling out the Flying Eagle Movement Technique manual, he began to practice.

Inside the room.

Following the Flying Eagle Movement Technique, Qin Wang's figure shifted continuously.

The final three moves of the Flying Eagle Movement Technique were respectively Eagle Spreads Its Wings, Eagle Flies to the Nine Heavens, and Eagle Soars Across the Sky. Judging by their names, they were grand and majestic. Though they could not truly let one soar through the sky to the nine heavens, their leaps, evasions, and changes in form were far beyond the first three moves.

Before dawn.

Daily Intel Has Been Updated!

Today's Intel

1: You paid attention to the Chen Family yesterday and obtained related intel. Chen Kun, the Chen Family Patriarch, cultivated the Purple Sunflower Swordplay and experienced a tremendous surge in strength. He killed the Zhang Aofeng brothers before dawn yesterday, avenging the severed-finger grudge. Last night, he went to the Black River Gang to demand an antidote for Soft Bone Poison from Ji Zhang, but failed.

2: You paid attention to Chief Constable Zheng Kecheng yesterday and obtained related intel. Zheng Kecheng suspects that the Qingniu Town exposure is connected to Yan Yun County's Hundred Knowledge Divine Lord. He has already gone to Yan Yun County's northern gate to investigate information on everyone who entered the city in the past two months. In three days, his investigation will lead to you.

5: You paid attention to Zheng Kecheng yesterday and obtained related intel. Zheng Kecheng is investigating the source of the "raw paper" used by Hundred Knowledge Divine Lord for the exposures, and has retrieved the paper from the previous Qingniu Town exposure from the Arrest Bureau's case-file archive for comparison.

6: You paid attention to Zheng Kecheng, the Chief Constable of the Arrest Bureau, yesterday and obtained related intel. Zheng Kecheng received orders from the Morning Envoy and has already relayed the arrangements in Yan Yun County. He has also prepared for the worst. If the Divine Constable Bureau refuses to let the matter of ending a family line go, he will completely abandon his identity as a chief constable and return to the Heavenly Fortune Alliance controlled by Prince Jin.

7: You heard diner Xu Jiayin discussing Prince Jin's rebel army yesterday and obtained related intel. Li Jingzhong, Prince Jin's Great General of Zhennan, has led one hundred thousand troops to capture Jinshui City in Yanzhou. Yanzhou has fallen, and his next step will be to enter You Prefecture!

8: You paid attention to news from the Divine Constable Bureau yesterday and obtained related intel. At eleven o'clock last night, three first-rate experts from the Divine Constable Bureau—Soul-Severing Hand Zhao Yong, Flying Swordsman Lin Kang, and Life-Taking Swordsman Su Jin—pursued Yue Quan, the Snow Lotus Emissary of the Snow Lotus Sect. Yue Quan had his left arm severed and his left eye shot blind, but Ji Zhang took him away through an underground passage. All upper-ranking members of the Black River Gang were slain.

9: You paid attention to Li Hongfei yesterday and obtained related intel. Tongrentang Pharmacy's business has declined, and Li Hongfei hates you to the bone. He has contacted the assassin organization Blood Kill Hall to search for your whereabouts.

10: You paid attention to Li Hongfei yesterday and obtained related intel. Li Hongfei has hidden 3 Dragon Blood Pills and 10 Tiger Blood Pills in the courtyard residence at No. 88 in the western part of the city, intending to save them for his grandson.

"Hm?"

"The intel has refreshed!"

Qin Wang looked at the panel, anticipation filling his eyes.

Every refresh of the intel could bring new discoveries.

"Chen Kun cultivated the Purple Sunflower Swordplay, his strength soared, and he killed Zhang Aofeng, the Zhang Family Patriarch? That's insane, isn't it?"

Looking at the first piece of intel, Qin Wang furrowed his brow deeply.

The increase in strength gained by trading away one's manhood was actually this enormous?

One had to know.

Zhang Aofeng stood alongside Zheng Kecheng, Chen Kun, the Su Family Patriarch, and the Lin Family Patriarch as Yan Yun County's five great experts!

Yet Chen Kun had simply ambushed and killed him in the night?

The Zhang Family was finished.

"That old beast Zheng Kecheng will suspect me in three days?"

"He's a spy? Placing bets on both sides? Passing information between the Great Cang Dynasty and the Heavenly Fortune Alliance?"

"The Heavenly Fortune Alliance is under Prince Jin's control?!"

Qin Wang looked at the second, fifth, sixth, and seventh pieces of intel, his brow furrowing deeply.

He had already heard about it.

Prince Jin of the Great Cang Dynasty had raised troops under the banner of "cleansing the court of evil influences," seizing quite a few cities in Great Cang.

But he had never expected it.

The Heavenly Fortune Alliance was also under his command, while Zheng Kecheng was an informant and spy for the Heavenly Fortune Alliance!

According to the intel.

Before long, Li Jingzhong, the Heavenly Fortune Great Protector under Prince Jin, would lead one hundred thousand troops in an attack on You Prefecture!

"We can only take one step at a time."

Qin Wang thought to himself.

When the nest is overturned, how can any egg remain whole?

For now, guarding against Zheng Kecheng and raising his own strength—becoming a hard egg when the time came—was the true path.

He ignored the eighth piece.

"That old thing Li Hongfei contacted Blood Kill Hall to find my trail?"

Seeing the ninth piece of intel, Qin Wang furrowed his brow deeply.

Assassin organizations excelled at hiding, stalking, and tracking. He still had to be careful.

"Eh? Dragon Blood Pills? Tiger Blood Pills?!"

When Qin Wang saw the tenth piece of intel, his eyes lit up at once, and his heart began to pound uncontrollably.

One had to know.

Tiger Blood Pills were more effective than Qi and Blood Pills. They were refined from hundred-year medicinal herbs supplemented with the essence blood of fierce tigers!

Dragon Blood Pills were even more potent than Tiger Blood Pills. They were refined from two-hundred-year medicinal herbs supplemented with the essence blood of Python Flood Dragons!

Medicinal ingredients for pills like these were scarce, and they were difficult to refine. The success rate of forming pills was not high either.

Qin Wang had never expected it.

That old thing Li Hongfei had actually refined several of them and saved them for his grandson!

And they were hidden in the courtyard residence at No. 88 in the western part of the city!

If he could get those 3 Dragon Blood Pills and 10 Tiger Blood Pills, then with their formidable medicinal effects, wouldn't he be able to advance to the second-rate realm in a short time?

"Recently, I need to pay closer attention to Tongrentang Pharmacy and Li Hongfei. Hopefully, I can obtain more exact information about the Dragon Blood Pills and Tiger Blood Pills!"

"At the same time, I'll pass by the courtyard residence at No. 88 in the western part of the city and gather intel!"

"I must get my hands on them!"

Having made up his mind, Qin Wang practiced the Minor Scarlet Sun Cultivation for a while longer before collapsing onto the bed to sleep.

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PS: Many brothers pointed out that intel entry 10 seemed padded, so later on, unimportant entries will no longer be refreshed and will be skipped.