"The Northern Darkness Divine Art"

"It was Little Lu Comrade! Thank you for eliminating another Evil Ghost for Tianhai City!"

Zheng Hai quickly realized who he was talking to. He hurriedly took off his gloves and saluted Lu Siye.

He truly admired cultivators like Lu Siye, who kept watch over the living and rid them of evil.

Faced with the salute of a veteran criminal investigator, Lu Siye was at a loss.

He hurriedly stuck the Blazing Blood Blade into the floor and returned the salute, copying Zheng Hai.

"Not at all! It's just part of my job. Officer Zheng, have you joined the Town Demon Suppression Division?"

Lu Siye looked at Zheng Hai's uniform. It was exactly the same as the uniforms worn by the Town Demon Suppression Division members who had delivered things to him earlier.

Besides, he could faintly sense a trace of qi and blood fluctuations from Officer Zheng. He had probably only just entered the world of cultivation.

"Yes, I'm an auxiliary member of the Town Demon Suppression Division now. I'm responsible for cleaning up the scene and verifying the situation."

Zheng Hai nodded, then led Lu Siye aside to make way for his colleagues behind him. He briefly explained his role.

"Then I won't disturb you while you work!"

Lu Siye glanced at the other auxiliary members of the Town Demon Suppression Division, who had reached the restroom entrance and were looking back at Zheng Hai. He spoke a little awkwardly.

"It's fine, it's fine!" Zheng Hai hurriedly waved a hand and headed over to his colleagues.

Not long afterward, the four of them confirmed the Mirror Ghost's existence and strength. They immediately awarded Lu Siye 56 points and a few thousand yuan in bonus money.

When Zheng Hai came out of the restroom, he was carrying a mirror with a knife mark in it.

"Officer Zheng, what are you doing with that?" Lu Siye asked, pointing at the mirror.

"Oh! Objects that have been possessed by ghosts are usually more likely to attract another ghost, so we have to..."

Zheng Hai began explaining, but Lu Siye interrupted him before he could finish.

"That's great!" Lu Siye blurted out.

As soon as Lu Siye heard there was a chance it might attract another ghost, his eyes lit up.

"Huh?" The four of them looked at him in confusion. How the hell was that a good thing?

"Ahem. Well, could you give me that Evil Spirit Mirror?" Lu Siye coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, then asked.

"What do you want it for?" Zheng Hai eyed Lu Siye warily. Years of investigative experience told him that this behavior was highly unusual.

"Ahem! Since this mirror might attract ghosts, I thought I could hang it in my room. Then, if a ghost appears in Tongjiang Residential Complex, it'll sense the Evil Spirit Mirror and come to me first. That way, the safety of other ordinary people will be better protected."

In that moment, Lu Siye's intelligence reached the peak of his life. He immediately came up with an excuse on the spot.

"So that's what you meant. I misunderstood you!" The four of them finally understood and couldn't help saluting him.

A comrade who cared so deeply about the lives of the people—and they had actually doubted him just now. Damn, they really were awful!

"Well, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!" Lu Siye scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.

"It's because the Town Demon Suppression Division has people with such high moral awareness as you, Little Lu Comrade, that Jiuzhou enjoys the peace it does today. Please let me thank you on behalf of the people!"

Zheng Hai grabbed Lu Siye's hand and spoke with emotion.

"Thank you!"

"Thank you!"

Before leaving, the four of them each shook Lu Siye's hand to show their gratitude, leaving him rather embarrassed.

Before they went, they also took Shi Yimin, who had had his Yang energy drained by the ghost, with them.

Lu Siye stood upstairs and watched them leave.

After they were gone, Lu Siye carried the mirror to his own door and instinctively patted his pocket.

Suddenly, he froze. When he had gone to rescue the others last night, he'd climbed straight across from the balcony and forgotten to bring his keys.

With no other choice, Lu Siye climbed from Shi Yimin's balcony back into his own apartment, unlocked the door from inside, and carried the mirror into the living room.

Not long after he set the mirror down, his phone rang.

He picked it up and heard that his delivery had arrived. It should be the two martial arts manuals he'd casually ordered online earlier.

Lu Siye hurried downstairs, greeted the security guard in the booth, then ran back upstairs with his package.

He eagerly opened the package, took out the two manuals, and spread them out on the table.

One of the manuals was the supreme martial art of the Xiaoyao Sect in Mr. Jin's Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. It was called the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

They said that once someone mastered the Northern Darkness Divine Art, every acupoint in their body could absorb another person's internal energy and transform it into Northern Darkness True Qi.

Northern Darkness True Qi contained both yin and yang. Its yang aspect was as hot as molten rock, while its yin aspect was several times colder than ice.

And because Northern Darkness True Qi was founded on yin and yang, it could accommodate all martial arts under heaven.

The other manual was also a top-tier movement technique from the Xiaoyao Sect, called Lingbo Microstep.

Based on information he'd found online, Lu Siye learned that:

The name Lingbo Microstep came from the Book of Changes. It was based on the sixty-four hexagrams, and its practitioner moved by stepping on the positions of the hexagrams in a specific order.

From the first step to the last, the steps formed a large circle.

It was the best movement technique for leaping about in confined spaces.

Lu Siye opened the two manuals. They contained detailed instructions for all sorts of cultivation methods, though he had no idea whether any of them were useful.

The techniques even came with a couple of illustrations and diagrams of the body's meridians. They looked convincing enough.

No wonder the two books had cost him over a hundred yuan. At first glance, they really did look impressive.

They were perfect props for showing off.

However, these two martial arts manuals were still fake and couldn't be practiced yet. They had to be enhanced first.

Lu Siye picked up the Northern Darkness Divine Art and silently chose to enhance it.

"Does the host wish to spend 1,200 Fear Points to enhance the Northern Darkness Divine Art?"

Gasp~

1,200 Fear Points!!!

Lu Siye sucked in a sharp breath. That cost more than enhancing his Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill had.

But the more Fear Points it cost, the more valuable and powerful the technique must be.

Grinding his teeth, Lu Siye chose to enhance it.

After 1,200 Fear Points were deducted, the fake Northern Darkness Divine Art produced an even greater spectacle than the two techniques he'd enhanced before.

The pages began turning by themselves. Yin and yang qi rose visibly from the book, coiling around each other like a Taiji symbol.

A distant, ethereal cry of a Kun came from within the yin and yang qi. A giant fish, extremely similar to the legendary Kun, leaped from the yin qi and plunged headfirst into the yang qi, transforming into a Peng before soaring upward.

Its clear, piercing cry split the sky. The Peng rode the wind upward, then plunged rapidly back down.

It passed through the yin and yang qi in an instant and merged directly into the pages, transforming into elegant characters that appeared on the paper out of thin air.

The pages closed by themselves. The four large characters on the cover, "Northern Darkness Divine Art," had now transformed into "Northern Darkness Divine Art - Volume 1."