Praise rose one after another as the commoners voluntarily made way, watching the Imperial Guard escort the criminals away.
Su Fei rode beside Captain Li.
Captain Li wore a broad smile as he said to Su Fei,
"Now that you've earned merit and made a name for yourself, kid, you're somebody in Qingzhou Prefecture."
Captain Li was in excellent spirits, stroking his long beard. Although Su Fei had solved the Missing Children Case,
Wan Mengchang of the Golden Saber Society had colluded with the Blood Sea Cult, and he himself had seized the man's weakness.
The court had always attached great importance to matters involving demonic cults.
There was no way his own merit would be lacking.
This Su Fei truly was a lucky general.
By the time they returned to the Thousand Households Office, it was already noon.
Captain Li sent Wan Mengchang and the others into the Imperial Guard's Heavenly Prison, then had someone notify the families of the missing children to come claim them.
Once everything had been arranged, Captain Li looked at Su Fei.
"You've rendered great merit this time. I'll report it truthfully to the Thousand Households Commander. Just wait for it, kid."
Su Fei cupped his hands.
"Thank you for your guidance, sir."
With the case concluded, Su Fei had no need to concern himself with the interrogations.
He found a quiet room for cultivation within the Thousand Households Office.
Closing the door,
he silently recited, "System, extract the Dragon Catching Skill and fifty years of cultivation!"
In an instant, the methods for exerting force with the Dragon Catching Skill flooded into his mind.
He condensed qi at his fingertips and controlled objects from afar.
The wooden table in the center of the quiet room seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, trembling faintly.
Su Fei raised a finger to test it and actually lifted the teacup on the table several inches into the air.
"What an excellent Dragon Catching Skill."
A sharp gleam flashed through Su Fei's eyes.
This martial art was an exceptionally formidable grappling technique. At profound levels, one could even move objects weighing a thousand jin from afar and seize things through the air.
Su Fei was greatly interested in this martial technique as well.
"System, consume twenty years of cultivation to improve the Dragon Catching Skill."
In the first year, you studied the Dragon Catching Skill's mental cultivation method day and night, barely managing to roll up fallen leaves from the ground.
In the fifth year, you attained enlightenment in battle. Your true qi moved as easily as your own limbs, allowing you to snatch weapons from your enemies at a distance. The Dragon Catching Skill broke through to Minor Accomplishment.
In the tenth year, you had mastered it completely. You could use true qi to draw objects within four or five zhang, and the Dragon Catching Skill broke through to Great Accomplishment!
In the twentieth year, qi condensed at your fingertips into swirling currents. Invisible force gathered around you, allowing you to draw in objects within ten zhang. The Dragon Catching Skill broke through to the Perfection Realm!
Cultivation results are being returned...
A vast surge of true qi rushed from his dantian to his fingertips as Su Fei activated the Dragon Catching Skill.
His hands felt as though they had turned into invisible giant pincers, and even the air around him flowed according to his will.
He pointed toward the stone stool in the corner. The bluestone block, weighing dozens of jin, floated before him like a paper kite.
"The Dragon Catching Skill for battlefield control at the Perfection Realm, the Nine Yang Divine Art to solidify my foundation, and the Thunderous Saber Art to charge into battle."
The three martial arts complemented one another, and his strength surged once more.
He still had thirty years of cultivation left, which he could use to improve the Nine Yang Divine Art.
As his core inner cultivation art, every increase in the Nine Yang Divine Art brought earth-shaking changes. Now that the Dragon Catching Skill had reached perfection, it was the perfect time to cultivate his inner art.
"System, consume the remaining thirty years of cultivation and fully improve the Nine Yang Divine Art!"
In the first year, you circulated Nine Yang True Qi to wash through your meridians. The qi and blood throughout your body boiled like a furnace, and the Nine Yang Divine Art gradually stabilized.
In the fifth year, you cultivated beneath the blazing sun, absorbing the yang qi of heaven and earth to temper your true essence. The true qi within your dantian became increasingly condensed, and you faintly touched the threshold of the third layer.
In the tenth year, you entered seclusion for three months. Your true qi completed a full cycle through your meridians. Fortune came to your heart, and the Nine Yang Divine Art broke through to the third layer!
In the eighteenth year, your supremely yang inner force surged like rivers. Heat waves faintly rose with every gesture, and you stood only one step away from the fourth layer.
In the thirtieth year, you drew lightning into your body during a thunderstorm, fusing it with Nine Yang True Qi. A dragon-like roar erupted from within you, and the Nine Yang Divine Art broke through to the fourth layer!
Cultivation results are being returned...
The true qi in his dantian had completely transformed into thick Xiantian True Essence. Like a small sun, it radiated scorching heat, and as it flowed, waves of tingling comfort spread through his meridians.
Host: Su Fei Talent: God-tier Insight Technique Realm: Fifth Level of Xiantian Realm Martial arts: Nine Yang Divine Art—Fourth Layer, Thunderous Saber Art—Perfection, Dragon Catching Skill—Perfection Current cultivation: None
Fifth Level of Xiantian Realm.
Su Fei rose and stretched his limbs. Every step he took was as steady as a mountain, while Xiantian True Essence circulated endlessly within him. The internal injury left from taking Wan Mengchang's palm strike head-on had long since healed.
Leaping from the fifth level of the True Qi Realm to the Fifth Level of Xiantian Realm, the transformation brought by those thirty years of cultivation was nothing short of shedding his mortal frame and exchanging his bones.
He raised a palm and struck the empty air. Xiantian True Essence actually left a faint palm print on the wall.
"The fourth layer of the Nine Yang Divine Art is even more powerful."
Su Fei felt the surging true essence within him, his heart roiling with excitement.
Compared to true qi, the quality of Xiantian True Essence had improved by far more than tenfold.
This divine art truly was tyrannical. At the fourth layer, the Nine Yang Divine Art could already be released to wound enemies. Combined with the Perfection Realm Thunderous Saber Art and Dragon Catching Skill,
even against enemies at the seventh or eighth level of the Xiantian Realm, Su Fei was confident he could fight them.
He felt unbelievably powerful.
He could probably slap Captain Li to death with one palm. That man seemed to be only at the Third Level of Xiantian Realm.
Not to mention that Commander Chen.
If he dares to cause me trouble in private, I wouldn't mind giving him a surprise.
Humming a little tune in high spirits, Su Fei walked out of the Thousand Households Office and headed home.
Early the next morning, Su Fei arrived at the Imperial Guard's Thousand Households Office for duty, full of vigor.
The moment he entered the Strongmen barracks, Wang Meng and the ten Strongmen directly under his command surrounded him, all wearing excited smiles.
"Lord Su, you're finally here!"
Wang Meng rubbed his hands together, unable to conceal his excitement.
"Just now, the Thousand Households Commander sent someone with a message. He wants to see you personally."
"He said you're to go see him the moment you arrive."
The gazes of the surrounding Imperial Guards also turned toward him in unison. There was envy, awe, and a measure of curiosity.
Everyone knew that Lord Su had rendered great merit in yesterday's Golden Saber Society case. Now even the Thousand Households Commander wanted to summon him personally. This was not treatment an ordinary Banner Commander could receive.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Su Fei followed the messenger's attendant through the corridors toward the Thousand Households Commander's office.
Pushing open the heavy wooden doors, he saw two men in official robes standing opposite each other within the spacious study.
The man on the left was Captain Li. Seeing Su Fei enter, approval shone in his eyes.
The man on the right had a resolute face and sharp eyes. He was Feng Changqing, the Thousand Households Commander of the Qingzhou Imperial Guard, already fifty-six years old this year.
Because his martial cultivation was so profound, he looked no different from a middle-aged man in his forties.
"Subordinate Su Fei greets the Thousand Households Commander!"
Su Fei cupped his hands in salute, standing tall and straight.
Commander Feng studied him from head to toe for a moment before revealing a kindly smile.
"Su Fei, though you are young, you possess both courage and strategy. In a single day, you solved the Missing Children Case in the western part of the city and assisted in capturing Wan Mengchang of the Golden Saber Society, who colluded with the Blood Sea Cult. You have removed a great scourge from Qingzhou. Such merit deserves reward."
"Now that your deeds have spread, quite a few people in Qingzhou Prefecture know of your accomplishments."
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