Master

The next day.

After finishing his morning practice, Fang Yu left home and strolled over to North Peace Avenue.

He had only walked a short distance when he saw a large group of people gathered at the west end. As he got closer, he saw that people were cutting down the big willow tree.

'This is?'

Fang Yu's heart skipped a beat. 'I just delivered the letter yesterday, and today someone comes to cut down the tree. Has it failed?' Is the Sun Household not going to pay, but instead cutting down the tree as a show of force?

As he approached, he quickly spotted Zhou Daqing and the others outside the crowd. He immediately shouted, calling everyone over and asking, "What are you doing? Why did you cut down the tree at such a convenient time?"

Zhou Daqing said, "I heard that the Liu Household bought this land, saying they're going to open some kind of general store here. So, they've cut down the trees to build the shop."

Fang Yu frowned slightly. "The Liu Household, which Liu Household?"

"And then there's the Liu Household, the Liu Household from Tattered Clothes Alley!" Zhou Daqing said.

'There's no doubt about it, it really is the Liu Household!' Fang Yu stroked his chin, completely baffled by the meaning of the Liu Household.

"He only asked them to bury a thousand taels of gold under the tree, but they dug up the whole tree. A thousand taels of gold sounds like a lot, but it wouldn't even fill a shoebox."

It seems his extortion attempt failed; the other party is completely ignoring him!

Fang Yu licked his lips and was about to leave when he suddenly sensed someone looking in his direction.

In his Divine Thought sense, a man dressed in a scholar's robe, resembling a scholar, slowly swept his face across his eyes, then looked at Zhou Daqing and the others beside him, before glancing in other directions with a look of confusion on his face.

Fang Yu's heart stirred, and he focused his Divine Thought on the scholar. The next moment, he clearly sensed that the scholar tensed up, and at the same time, an extremely surging power of Qi and Blood and qi surged in his body.

'Such powerful Qi and Blood and blood!'

Fang Yu thought to himself, and his Divine Thought immediately penetrated the man's clothes and began to scan him in depth. Soon, a human body perspective image came into view. On the image, there were the man's eight extraordinary meridians and the rapidly circulating Qi and Blood routes.

'Could this person be Master?'

Fang Yu thought to himself, then sensed a token on his chest, similar in style to the cup in his hand, except that the token read:

' Purple Robe - Xiao Sheng '

Fang Yu was slightly taken aback. "He really is Master!"

Within the Embroidered Robe Bureau, the highest rank for Robe Agent is ' Purple Robe ', which corresponds to the rank of Third Grade general, commonly known as ' Master '.

At this moment, the Master's Qi and Blood were circulating rapidly, his body was slowly becoming congested with blood, and his physique began to swell, as if he were about to make a move at any moment. Moreover, blood and sweat were slowly seeping from his forehead.

'Could this Master be able to sense my Divine Thought?'

A thought flashed through Fang Yu's mind. The next moment, the frequency of his Divine Thought fluctuations, or power, began to decrease, causing the accuracy of Fang Yu mental modeling of the surroundings to decline. It went from a high-precision model to a perception of only some simple lines.

As soon as he lowered the frequency, the Purple Robe Master swayed slightly and slowly turned his head to look around.

By this time, even more people had gathered to watch the spectacle, and Fang Yu and his companions blended seamlessly into the crowd, remaining completely inconspicuous.

"Hoo..." Xiao Sheng let out a deep breath, his whole body as if he had just been pulled out of the water, his inner clothes were soaked. He left the area with extreme vigilance and disappeared into a small alley.

Fang Yu watched the Purple Robe Master disappear out of the corner of his eye, lost in thought.

'It seems that Master really can sense my Divine Thought, or rather, martial artists in this world, after reaching the Master level, will have their perception enhanced to the point where they can detect Divine Thought.'

'In that case, did I already alarm the Li Household's Master yesterday? So, their act of cutting down the tree today was meant to show me, and also to show the Embroidered Robe Bureau.'

'Now that the Purple Robe of the Embroidered Robe Bureau has personally come here to investigate, has he discovered anything?'

'If this Master's perception is comparable to Divine Thought, then I can't usually turn the power up to maximum, as it would easily alert the Master.'

'With so many people around, it's not too difficult for the other party to identify them. But if someone walks right up to you face-to-face with no one else around, it becomes much easier to pinpoint their location.'

Upon realizing this, Fang Yu immediately decided that in the future, he would only use the lowest power setting unless absolutely necessary, so as not to disturb any Master he might accidentally encounter.

Although Master are rare, this is, after all, the Bei'an Prefecture City, and he often walks the streets, so the probability of encountering Master is still quite high.

However, encountering Master doesn't seem to be entirely a bad thing.

Fang Yu's mind then conjured up the Master model established by the deep scan earlier. The strength of the opponent's physical body and the circulation of Qi and Blood were recorded. In this way, he could know the direction of the opponent's cultivation Cultivation Method and Qi and Blood, and thus make reference to it.

Fang Yu thought about this, a smile appeared on his lips. He realized that he no longer needed to worry about his future martial arts skills. If he wanted to learn a certain Cultivation Method, he could simply perform a deep scan of the corresponding martial artist and obtain it. This was much more intuitive and effective than those handwritten, mysterious martial arts manuals filled with various metaphorical descriptions.

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After watching the big willow tree being cut down, Fang Yu wandered around to other places, preparing to think of other ways to make money.

When he returned the next day, a wooden frame for a room had been erected on the same spot.

When they came back on the third day, the storefront had already been set up, and even the signboard had been hung up.

Sun's North-South General Goods

Fang Yu glanced at the plaque and was about to leave when he saw a cart pulling a large box approaching from afar. After the cart entered Fang Yu's perception range, the contents of the box came into view.

'This is?'

Fang Yu was slightly taken aback. He focused his Divine Thought on the inside of the box, and as the model became clearer, he could confirm that the box was filled with gold, amounting to as much as ten thousand taels.

'Ten thousand taels of gold!'

Fang Yu's breathing quickened slightly, a series of thoughts racing through his mind: 'Could the Sun Household have built this shop just to store gold?'

But he only wanted one thousand taels of gold, so why did they send ten thousand taels? Did I ask for too little?

The car stopped in front of the grocery store, and then several men carried the boxes inside, placed them in the middle, and then locked the store door.

By this time, there were not many onlookers left. Fang Yu slowly walked past the shop, using his Divine Thought to perceive his surroundings, and then discovered many individuals with powerful Qi and Blood.

These people were scattered in the surrounding shops, some drinking tea, some eating, and a few even mingled with Zhou Daqing and his group, chatting and boasting.

Fang Yu was having a headache. With so many people watching, how could he possibly make a move?

Although he could directly store the gold into the Mirror-Breaking Pearl within the range of his Divine Thought, with so many people watching, if the gold suddenly disappeared, those of them nearby would certainly become suspects, thus coming under the Sun Household's scrutiny and bringing uncontrollable risks.

How should I collect this money?

Fang Yu thought to himself, then walked towards Zhou Daqing and the others, and chatted with them enthusiastically.