Magic God Crosses Borders

About fourteen hours later, Yun Ye finished his magic power cultivation in the last hour.

Opening the chat group again, the new messages had already piled up to 99+.

Yun Ye was a little surprised. He scrolled through the missed messages with interest and found that most of them were related to Su Haoming.

Simply put, since Su Haoming's return, the Chang'an Black Tea Case had made rapid progress.

First, regarding the Missing Bride Case, just as Su Wuming had predicted, the missing bride's body was indeed buried in a specific location.

He casually pointed to a spot on the map, and the county office dug up a total of eight bodies. The constables were full of admiration, thinking him a celestial being, and their obedience to his orders was no longer as resistant as before.

At the same time, Lu Lingfeng's investigation into the ghost market was exposed, and many influential figures who drank Chang'an Black Tea were displeased.

The Crown Prince Li Longji, who was in the midst of a heated rivalry with the Eldest Princess, did not want to offend these people because of this. Thus, he shifted the blame to Lu Lingfeng and charged him with dereliction of duty for Yin Shirou's death, ordering him to stay home and reflect on his mistakes.

Lu Lingfeng felt depressed but had no choice but to stay home and drown his sorrows in wine.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Wuming visited again and sounded out Lu Lingfeng regarding the daughter of Pei Jian, the Vice Minister of Personnel.

Pei Jian's daughter, Pei Xijun, was a talented woman skilled in painting and calligraphy. She was infatuated with General of Valiant Might Xiao Bo Zhao and was engaged to him. However, not long ago, General Xiao had unfortunately died in battle in the Western Regions. When the news reached the capital, Miss Pei was heartbroken and became melancholic, rarely smiling. This was not a secret in the capital, and Su Wuming had heard of it long ago.

But when he visited the Pei residence, he was surprised to find that the person Pei Xijun painted as her beloved was not General of Valiant Might Xiao Bo Zhao, but General of the Guards Lu Lingfeng.

Su Wuming realized there was a misunderstanding and used a provocation to test Lu Lingfeng.

Fueled by alcohol and anger, Lu Lingfeng finally revealed the truth.

It turned out that he and Xiao Bo Zhao were cousins. When Xiao Bo Zhao was appointed General of Valiant Might and led troops to the Western Regions, Miss Pei decided to host a farewell banquet for her fiancé. However, Xiao Bo Zhao was at a pleasure house at the time and did not want to leave. So, he shamelessly asked his cousin Lu Lingfeng to go in his place.

Lu Lingfeng, who already disliked his cousin, intended to expose his true colors to Miss Pei as soon as they met.

But unexpectedly, he fell in love with Miss Pei at first sight. Not wanting to see Miss Pei heartbroken, he went along with the deception.

Upon learning the truth, Su Wuming had a flash of inspiration and resolved the misunderstanding between them with a dramatic "resurrection" scene late at night.

Lu Lingfeng finally learned that Miss Pei had also fallen in love with him at first sight, and Miss Pei finally understood that the person she had fallen for was not Xiao Bo Zhao, who had died in battle, but General of the Guards Lu Lingfeng.

Putting aside their romantic entanglement for now.

In short, after this incident, the relationship between Su Wuming and Lu Lingfeng improved.

Coincidentally, Su Wuming had persuaded the Chang'an constables and was preparing to lead them to investigate the ghost market again. However, he was an incorruptible official with a modest salary, making it difficult for him to offer the generous rewards he had mentioned. Therefore, he approached Lu Lingfeng, who came from a wealthy family.

Although Lu Lingfeng was confined to his residence at the moment, he did not want to stand idly by.

Instigated by Su Wuming, he finally made a decision—since he could not openly mobilize the Jinwu Guard, he would bring only three trusted subordinates and accompany Su Wuming and the Chang'an constables to investigate the ghost market again!

When Yun Ye scrolled to the bottom, he caught up with the live text broadcast of the second investigation of the ghost market.

[Su Haoming: Here they come, here they come, my brother and the others are here!]

[Yun Ye: Does that mean you're not with Su Wuming?]

[Fan Xian: Oh?]

[Fan Xian: Old Yun is finally showing up!]

[Fan Xian: How is it? How's your cultivation progress?]

[Yun Ye: Still at Qi Cultivation Layer 1, but my magic power has increased. I can probably cast four basic spells now.]

[Su Haoming: Four?!]

[Su Haoming: You've only been there half a day longer than me, and you've improved this much?]

[Lin Yu: Of course. I told you, this place is a blessed land.]

[Lin Yu: If little Ye hadn't wasted so much time on spells, his improvement would have been even greater.]

[Fan Xian: ...]

[Fan Xian: What should I do? I'm already starting to regret it.]

[Lin Yu: @Fan Xian, it's okay, you're always welcome to change your mind!]

[Yun Ye: Stop talking about me. What's going on with Old Su?]

[Su Haoming: What else could it be? My brother is going to investigate the ghost market for the second time. He's bringing nineteen constables from Chang'an County, and he's also called Lu Lingfeng and three Jinwu Guards, but he just doesn't want me to go.]

[Su Haoming: I can't help it, so I can only follow and assist secretly.]

[Yun Ye: You weren't discovered?]

[Su Haoming: No, I used the wind membrane spell.]

[Yun Ye: I see!]

[Fan Xian: What do you mean, I see?]

[Yun Ye: The wind membrane is a sustained spell. After casting it, a millimeter-thick wind membrane forms on the body's surface. It can weaken and block most physical attacks, as well as lighten the body and blur its form.]

[Su Haoming: The ghost market is located underground. I arrived early and used the surrounding dim environment to hide without difficulty.]

[Fan Xian: ...Is this really a basic spell?]

[Su Haoming: Yes and no.]

[Su Haoming: To be precise, it's a growth-type spell. At my current level, it can at most deflect attacks to a certain extent. If the opponent has Lu Lingfeng's combat strength, breaking through the wind membrane is not a problem.]

[Su Haoming: Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. My cousin and the others are about to land.]

Unlike the last time they scouted the ghost market, Su Wuming had many more people this time. Using the secret entrance would make them easy targets for an ambush, so they chose to travel by water, landing at the ghost market via an underground river.

Seven or eight small boats, carrying Su Wuming and the other twenty-four people, docked silently at the shore.

About thirty meters from the shore, Su Haoming's body was enveloped in a hazy wind membrane. He hid in the shadows of the cave wall, silently watching his cousin and the others' every move.

According to Big Brother Lin, the mastermind behind the Chang'an Black Tea Case was none other than Yuan Lai, the magistrate of Chang'an County.

Besides Yin Shirou, his subordinates included many loyal death warriors, assassins, and the Four Fiends of Youli, who had once attempted to assassinate the emperor.

The Four Fiends of Youli had an extraordinary background, being among the few members of the Youli Clan in the world, each possessing formidable body-hardening techniques.

During the Yonglong era, the four of them had jointly entered the capital, attempting to assassinate the emperor. After failing, they fled to Chang'an County. Ultimately, they were captured alive by numerous experts from Chang'an and imprisoned in the Chang'an County jail.

Yuan Lai was already the magistrate of Chang'an County at that time. Using his position, he enticed the Four Fiends, turning them into his enforcers.

From Big Brother Lin's description, the body-hardening techniques of the Four Fiends were indeed extraordinary, making them practically impervious to blades and spears.

In the original work, the Four Fiends were already difficult to deal with when they appeared in pairs. If they all showed up together, could he really protect his cousin from them?

Su Haoming felt a bit uncertain. After a moment's thought, he decided to add an extra layer of insurance.

[Su Haoming: @Lin Yu, right, Big Brother Lin!]

[Su Haoming: After chatting in the group for these two days, I've just accumulated enough points, a hundred of them. Do you... want to come over and hang out?]