Volume Two: Naked Primitive Capital Accumulation - The Immortal Apprehension Office (Part One)

The Luo Family Medicine Shop on Phoenix Paulownia Mountain had set aside a room for Luo Qian. When nothing else demanded his attention, he rested there. The mansion of his dreams would start with this room.

Apart from Luo Qian, even Du Lengning would not enter it without permission. Yet now, a small, exquisitely carved Jade Qilin sat on the table inside.

Luo Qian spotted it as soon as he entered. There was no sign that the door had been touched. Someone highly skilled had clearly placed it in his room.

He was not surprised. Instead, he shut the door and window, then fed a wisp of his Immortal Aura into the Jade Qilin. With a crisp sound like breaking glass, the Jade Qilin split open, leaving something in Luo Qian's hand. A message rose from the fragments and appeared before his eyes: Secret Message One. Closely monitor Ge Yi Zhang's every move. Report immediately.

This was how the Secret Investigation Bureau issued orders to its Secret Stingers. It was Luo Qian's first assignment since becoming a first-rank Secret Stinger.

In his hand was a cloth bundle containing three things: a mask as thin as a cicada's wing, a medicine bottle, and an instant-communication jade talisman. The mask concealed his identity during missions. Even if he died, no one could remove it without the Secret Investigation Bureau's secret technique. The bottle held three poison pills. One was enough to kill even an Immortal. Succeed or die trying—that was every agent's creed, and Luo Qian had never imagined he would be an exception. The communication talisman was like a walkie-talkie in the Immortal Realm, though it had another name there: a contact talisman. With it, he could report the target's latest movements directly to Zheng Daoguang.

Ge Yi Zhang was the