Find Someone! (Two Chapters in One, 4,000 Words)

"Mama Wang, please arrange for two of the most beautiful female dogs for my Doggy, around the same age, and remember to use the best dog food. Also, find two female dogs to have a chat with my friend."

"Please rest assured, young master. Come, please come inside."

"Teacher... teacher..."

"Woof~~~~Woof~~~"

As soon as they entered Spring Breeze Pavilion, Qian Xiaopang was half-pushed away by several girls, and Doggy was also carried to the backyard by several maids.

"Mama Wang, just let those girls have a heart-to-heart talk with my friend."

"I understand, it's about having a heart-to-heart talk..."

"No, I mean we really need to have a heart-to-heart talk, just a chat."

"Okay, okay, let's just chat, I understand..."

"..."

Although Jiang Lin wasn't sure if the other person truly understood... they should understand, right... they should...

Following Mama Wang up the stairs, Jiang Lin looked around the Spring Breeze Pavilion branch.

The layout inside is not much different from the Spring Breeze Pavilion. The first floor is the stage, and there are various spectators next to the stage. The second floor is also a seating area, and from the third floor onwards, it is a place to learn the local dialect.

Surprisingly, Jiang Lin felt a sense of home at this Spring Breeze Pavilion branch, which had a similar layout.

"Young master, are you going to practice the dialect tonight, or are you going to practice the dialect?"

"This humble woman has some knowledge of musical instruments; I wonder if you, sir, would be interested?"

"The jade pendant at your waist, young master, is so beautiful."

"Young master, my shoulders are so sore..."

Some of the girls at the Spring Breeze Pavilion saw a handsome young man walking step by step up to the third floor and all rushed over to him.

He's so handsome, I'd be willing to pay for his tutoring myself, let alone have him tutor me.

"Young master, would you prefer one-on-one tutoring or multiple tutors to one student?"

Mama Wang also stopped and looked at Jiang Lin with a smile, even feeling a little flutter in her heart.

"Mama Wang, I have a jade pendant here that suits Mama Wang very well. Would Mama Wang be willing to accept it?"

Jiang Lin smiled and took out a translucent jade pendant from his pocket, placing it in Mama Wang's palm.

When she saw the jade pendant, a look of surprise flashed in Mama Wang's eyes.

"Oh, young master, you're too kind. Come, come, let's go to the room and rest. I'll have Fang Er come over later. You've just arrived in Donglin City, you don't know, but Fang Er is the top courtesan of our Spring Breeze Pavilion."

As she spoke, Mama Wang pulled Jiang Lin into the room. The girls behind Jiang Lin stomped their feet in anger as they watched such a handsome scholar being led away, but there was nothing they could do...

Pulled into a room and with the door closed, Jiang Lin casually cast Isolation Array.

"Young Master Jiang..."

Mama Wang bowed slightly.

"Hello, Aunt Wang."

The jade pendant we just saw didn't have anything special about its appearance; in fact, its style was the kind commonly found on the market. However, the material was different.

Because... this jade pendant is made of plastic...

Jiang Lin had only mentioned it casually back then, and Xiao Hei had already produced the plastic. Although the technology was not yet mature, it was already quite good. These limited-production plastic products became the exclusive tools of the Sun Moon Sect's intelligence agency, Spring Breeze Pavilion.

After all, plastic is durable, lightweight, and practically the best choice for bumping into someone.

"The landlady said that someone from headquarters would be coming to provide guidance soon, and I didn't expect it to be such a handsome young man."

"Aunt Wang, you flatter me." Jiang Lin pulled out a few clothing sketches he had previously given to Aunt Lin from his pocket. "These clothes are just a small token of my appreciation, but they should help boost Spring Breeze Pavilion's sales a little."

Mama Wang took the picture and looked at the strange yet beautiful style of the illustrations, especially the women dressed in strange clothes. Each picture was accompanied by descriptions such as "JK", "School Swimsuit", "Lolita", and "bunny girl". Her eyes lit up immediately.

"I'd heard from the proprietress that the young master's ideas were often eccentric but always highly effective, and seeing it today, I can confirm it's true."

Mama Wang tucked the blueprints into her bosom, pulled Jiang Lin to a chair, and poured him a cup of tea. "What would you like to ask, Young Master Jiang?"

"I've heard that dead bodies have risen from the ground in Donglin City, and a plague is rampant, but why does it seem like no one in Donglin City is talking about these things, and everything is peaceful?"

"Of course no one talks about it, because those who died were all cultivators from outside the city. The ordinary people here know nothing about the deaths of those cultivators in Donglin City, and they don't even know that Donglin City is already plagued by disease in the mouths of the immortal sects outside."

"Huh? Isn't Donglin City a combination of Mr. Zombie and Resident Evil?"

"Resident Evil?"

"Never mind, Aunt Wang, please continue."

Although she didn't quite understand what Young Master Jiang had just said, Mama Wang remembered that the landlady had told her that Young Master Jiang sometimes had a bad temper, so she didn't pay too much attention to it.

only...

Looking at Jiang Lin, who was really handsome, Mama Wang felt it was a bit of a pity.

How come someone so handsome sometimes has a bit of a lapse in judgment?

"Aunt Wang?"

For some reason, Jiang Lin felt that there seemed to be a hint of sympathy and... regret in Aunt Wang's eyes.

"Oh, sorry, I was daydreaming."

Mama Wang took a sip of tea and continued.

"Young Master Jiang, you are unaware that the so-called plague or the resurrection of the dead is merely circulating among immortal cultivators; the common people have not heard a word about it."

"Aunt Wang, could you elaborate?"

"Actually, about half a year ago, demons started causing trouble in Donglin City. At that time, the City Lord invited cultivators from the vicinity of Donglin City to exorcise the demons, and in the end, the demons were eliminated."

However, after that, every now and then, so-called "monsters" would appear, and the City Lord would seek help from nearby sects.

As Immortal naturally understands that small sects and mortal kingdoms and towns coexist in a mutually beneficial way.

"Hmm." Jiang Lin nodded. "Major Daoist sects cooperate with the prosperous dynasty. The dynasty provides promising cultivators and funds, while the sects offer some protection to the dynasty. Donglin City has a similar relationship with the sects in the vicinity."

Aunt Wang nodded, but her expression held a hint of sadness.

"Just as Young Master Jiang said, however, the small sects and factions are not like those famous and promising major sects."

For many minor, insignificant sects, having a cultivator at the Sea Gazing Realm is already quite good. If they had a cultivator at the Dragon Gate Realm, they would have already gone to join those orthodox sects, let alone Golden Core or Nascent Soul Nascent Soul.

After that, whenever demons appeared, the small sects near Donglin City would send cultivators, who would always manage to defeat them and return victorious. But gradually, our Spring Breeze Pavilion discovered something amiss!

"Please wait a moment!" Jiang Lin poured himself a full cup of tea and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the fruit plate. "Alright, Aunt Wang, please continue. I'd like to hear more!"

Aunt Wang: "Young Master Jiang knows that although we are not the only brothel in Donglin City, our Spring Breeze Pavilion is quite famous!"

Jiang Lin smiled proudly, "Of course, this is the brand effect I promoted to Aunt Lin. In the future, we will not only open Spring Breeze Pavilion all over Wutong Province, but also all over the other Nine Continents! Even the Demon Race World! Those Beast Ear Girl in the Demon Race World have always been my... cough cough cough... I've gone off on a tangent, please continue, Aunt Wang."

"It's because our Spring Breeze Pavilion is famous that some cultivators like to come to our Spring Breeze Pavilion to learn the dialect. They learn it once when they come and reinforce it when they leave. Sometimes they even secretly go down the mountain to catch up on their studies."

However, a few months ago, whenever those sect cultivators finished exorcising Demon Queen, they would head straight back to their sects and stop attending tutoring sessions. Furthermore, since then, even the regulars who returned to their sects after exorcising demons no longer secretly went down the mountain for tutoring!

Hearing Aunt Wang's words, Jiang Lin frowned slightly, habitually touching his chin, understanding what Aunt Wang meant:

"Aunt Wang is saying that their behavior is too abnormal, and it's very likely that those who came to exorcise the demons are already dead, and those who returned to the sect are not the original ones?"

"Yes, those people from those sects who came to exorcise demons each time, those batches of people, are actually all dead. The ones returning to their sects are no longer the same people. In fact, I think that most of the cultivators in the small sects of Donglin are already dead."

Listening to Aunt Wang's words, Jiang Lin fell into deep thought.

Only Shape-shifting Technique, Disguise Technique, or Soul Exchange Technique can achieve this level of skill.

Shape-shifting Technique is a type of Illusion Technique. Almost every cultivator who reaches the Middle Five Realm can do it, since it's just a kind of illusion.

However, Shape-shifting Technique has too many limitations.

For a cultivator, once they reach the Cave Mansion Realm of the Middle Five Realm, they will naturally develop a pair of Eyes of Insight. This kind of Shape-shifting Technique can usually be seen through, because once they reach the Middle Five Realm, they can "see" the flow of Spiritual Power in the world.

Every cultivator's Spiritual Power is different, just like there are no two perfect leaves in the world.

Even if you are a cultivator of the Yin Yang School in the Upper Five Realms, you can at most confuse your Spiritual Power so that the other party cannot determine your identity, but you cannot completely imitate the Spiritual Power of any cultivator.

Therefore, each cultivator's Spiritual Power is like a person's identity card.

For example, what if someone goes to the Ten Thousand Demons Continent wanting to see Beast Ear Girl dance troupe, but has lost their ticket? How will their identity be verified for entry?

It's very simple, just release a wisp of Spiritual Power.

There will be a special magical artifact to match the Spiritual Power you have stored up, and then you can enter.

Therefore, to determine your identity, all you need to do is have the other person cast a fireball spell. Those who know you will naturally know whether the Spiritual Power is yours.

Of course, Jiang Lin had considered the possibility that the other party might not use Spiritual Power at all, thus avoiding detection, but how could that be possible?

While it's true that only those at the Nascent Soul Realm stage can determine your identity by observing the Spiritual Power within someone without them casting spells, if you use Shape-shifting Technique, your own Spiritual Power will definitely surround you, since it's a technique you use with your own Spiritual Power...

Unless it's a female Fox Demon at the Immortal Realm, and specifically a white fox, whose Illusion Technique are already at their peak, combining Shape-shifting Technique with seductive arts, making them undetectable to cultivators below the Jade Purity Realm. If the other party is a man, even those at the Jade Purity Realm probably wouldn't be able to detect it...

Therefore, Jiang Lin felt it was unlikely to be Shape-shifting Technique. After all, even though the other party was from a small sect, their Sect Leader should at least be a cultivator at the Middle Five Realm (Cave Mansion Realm and above, Nascent Soul Realm and below), right? Otherwise, is your sect just playing around?

A Spiritual Power detector should be installed at home, it's not expensive anyway. Jiang Lin remembers that the Sun Moon Sect store had a discount promotion back in the day, Jiang Lin he bought two and got one free for 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stone...

So, could it be Disguise Technique?

The only difference between Disguise Technique and Shape-shifting Technique is that Shape-shifting Technique involves using one's own Spiritual Power to create an illusion, while Disguise Technique is simply a Mask...

The former is simply like burying one's head in the sand. After all, if the other party is at the Middle Five Realm, if you use your Spiritual Power to use the Shape-shifting Technique, it's as if you have a layer of Spiritual Power membrane on your body. Even if others don't recognize you, a fool would know that you used the Shape-shifting Technique to cover up your identity.

Jiang Lin had no idea who invented this technique...

Therefore, Jiang Lin usually uses the Disguise Technique. After all, the Shape-shifting Technique is too useless, while with the art of Disguise Technique, all you need is a face.

However, there are some tricks to this mask. Some can be undetectable by those at the Cave Mansion Realm, others by those at the Sea Gazing Realm, and so on. Jiang Lin remembers that Xiao Hei, together with the Xiao Hei Yang School Yin Yang School from the sect, Tai Er Zhen Huang, created a mask that was undetectable by those at the Nascent Soul Realm.

Jiang Lin also checked the system shop; at most, only those at the Jade Purity Realm wouldn't be able to detect it.

Even when encountering a Nascent Spiritual Apertures Nascent Soul Realm, such as his senior sister, Jiang Lin only needed to close his spiritual apertures and don the system's disguise (although he was eventually recognized).

However, it's unlikely that those people are Disguise Technique. After all, cultivators practice every day, and using Spiritual Power is as easy as drinking water. Even if you have a mask, wouldn't using Spiritual Power give you away? If you don't use it, then you might have a problem.

Isn't this just like how Lin Pingzhi was unable to have sex after practicing the Evil-warding Swordplay? Even Yue Lingshan would have to question it.

If that's the case, then it must be the last one...

"Could it be Soul Exchange Technique?!"

Jiang Lin blurted it out subconsciously, and felt cold sweat break out on his forehead.

"To be honest, Young Master Jiang, I also think it's very likely Soul Exchange Technique."

Aunt Wang subconsciously lowered her voice.

The Soul Exchange Technique is an extremely famous secret technique of Yin Yang School cultivators, and it is known as one of the three great soul techniques of Yin Yang School, along with the Soul Control Technique and the Soul Curse Technique!

Among them, the Soul Exchange Technique has the highest threshold and is the most difficult to cultivate among the three major soul techniques!

The basic requirement is to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

If he reached the Nascent Soul Realm, Jiang Lin wouldn't think much of it. He figured if he couldn't fight, he'd just go back to the inn right now and cling tightly to his senior sister's leg, begging for protection.

The key issue is that Yin- Yin Yang School cultivators at the Nascent Soul Realm are truly disgusting...

If Pure Martial Warrior is straightforward (single-minded), then Yin Yang School master can make you feel like you're dying...

Jiang Lin once remembered that he accidentally removed the bandage that Tai Er (a chuunibyou) Zhenhuang guy always wrapped around his hand when he was in the Sun Moon Sect. As a result, he had diarrhea for a month and had to lean against the wall to get out of bed every day.

But why would he be a cultivator from the Yin Yang School?

The Yin Yang School is extremely difficult to cultivate; many people go mad while practicing, and some even believe they've always been a Xiao Xiao...

Yin Yang School cultivators who have reached the Dragon Gate Realm are considered treasures, so how could they possibly appear in the Dugu Demonic Sect?

And what exactly is the purpose?

Suddenly! Jiang Lin thought of something!

The Yin Yang School excels at formations! Formations require sacrifices! The system also has a clue: "[Her people]"

"Blood Name Array!"

They're going to...!

Looking for someone!