How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 191 Ning City Trial, Hu Ya in Trouble

"Actually... I think you can just hand over your research results to Qianlong. They have plenty of talents, and as long as they get this material, naturally someone will take over your research direction, and naturally, no one will bother you."

Xiang Yixiu said, "You still don’t understand, I can’t possibly have any substantial contact with Qianlong directly, even if I am willing to hand over the materials to them, I need an intermediary, and he is the most suitable one."

"Shackles of our sect, right?" The graduate student was silent for a long time...

"Let’s not talk about this, book a ticket, we’re flying to the Maldives tomorrow."

"Oh my god, you put a fire brick in the archive room, take me to the Maldives, I feel like it’s going to be very tough for me to handle you alone for seven days and nights. You martial artists are too fierce, some can’t stand it." The graduate student complained, but even the complaints were laced with charm and allure.

"No worries, it’s a tourist area, you’ll find beauties from all over the world there, you can always find a scapegoat when you can’t handle it..."

The next morning.

Xiang Yixiu flew away.

Lin Xiaosu hadn’t slept all night and also left the archive room that morning.

Outside were a few graduate students, who informed him of the situation: "Classmate Little Su, the professor has gone to the Maldives."

Lin Xiaosu was slightly stunned.

Another graduate student said, "The professor has arranged it, you can stay here, and you’re welcome to look at the materials anytime."

"Thanks to the professor, but I have other things to take care of, I must go." Lin Xiaosu slung his over-the-shoulder bag: "Fellow classmates, goodbye!"

After leaving the lab.

He walked through the campus that was flanked by poplar trees.

It’s kind of absurd to think about it, poplars planted in the campus are water hogs, sucking up all the moisture. Once planted, they cause the nearby trees to wilt, their leaves turning yellow like it’s early autumn...

He hailed a taxi to the high-speed train station and bought a ticket back to Huanggang.

Once on board, the high-speed train set off, racing from the increasingly autumnal Northwest towards Dong Chu Province in the central region.

At this moment, Xiang Yixiu had just arrived at the airport.

He then received a message from the graduate student and stared at the info on his phone, his brows furrowed tightly.

The female graduate student beside him glanced at it and laughed: "Professor, your scapegoat has seen through your clever plan and bolted."

"This lad... what is he thinking? To run off after just one night? Isn’t that a loss for you? Have you mistaken your role? You’re supposed to be the detective. People come to you for services, and it’s perfectly respectable for you to charge money. The case might be a bit tricky, but is money tricky..."

This is the fundamental reason he had set in his mind why Lin Xiaosu was so suitable to be the scapegoat.

Lin Xiaosu is a detective.

He is a professor.

This professor doesn’t seek fame or wealth; he simply dislikes hassle. In fact, with his reputation as a professor, in light of life-and-death public welfare issues, it is embarrassing for him to accept money.

But should Lin Xiaosu fear the hassle?

What you do is detective work.

Your hassle is your business.

People come to you with cases, and you charge them through the nose. Isn’t that good?

Instead, he fears the hassle and runs off without even finishing reviewing the materials, sigh...

Of course, he couldn’t have imagined he was wrong about this.

He was looking at Lin Xiaosu from a conventional perspective.

The speed at which Lin Xiaosu viewed the material was beyond his imagination.

In just one night, where others might barely wet their feet at the edge of this research ocean that took twenty years to fill, Lin Xiaosu had already thoroughly examined every drop of water in the sea.

That’s the formidable nature of Human Tao Orchid Heart.

Resting in his high-speed train seat with his eyes closed to refresh himself, he inwardly remarks that this trip was truly worthwhile.

Having left Miao Ruolan after just having tasted the joys, he had come to the great Northwest over a month ago.

This was his longest journey for work so far.

But also, it was the most rewarding one.

Kun Cang, the veil of mystery, had been lifted; to him, Kun Cang was no longer shrouded in clouds and mist.

Firstly,

Secondly, his cultivation was no longer shrouded in clouds and mist.

Previously, he only knew he had practiced Ancient Martial arts and that his combat ability was quite impressive, but he had no idea about his position within the Ancient Martial hierarchy, nor did he know what other ranks lay beyond. novelbuddy-cσ๓

Now he knows.

He was only Observing humans before, and not thoroughly. Now he’s reached Observing Earth Realm, and next is Observing Heaven. These are the Three Observations, and beyond these, there are the Three Realizations...

He knew the origin of the silver fish in his Sea of Consciousness, the very mysterious "Heavenly Tao Primordial Spirit."

He also knew that with his current combat capabilities, he could compete with Awakeners. This was very gratifying. On his last trip to the Southern Border, facing life and death dangers with Du Tiange, now let’s see you, Old Du, climb up from underground and try me? Handsome boy here will beat you ’til your dad don’t recognize your mum!

Thirdly was the real goal of his trip to Kun Cang.

Array!

The Blue Demon said that to find the Otherworld passage in Nanjiang Kongque valley, Qianlong had no way, but Kun Cang might, through arrays.

The Blue Demon was right, coming to Kun Cang he indeed found array information.

But the Blue Demon was also wrong.

Kun Cang itself didn’t have much array heritage; the array he found didn’t belong to Kun Cang but to the distant Ancient Array Sect.

This array, even in the eyes of top figures in Kun Cang, was amazing, bringing great excitement...

And there’s a fourth!

The fourth is quite interesting. On the way, he met a peculiar professor who demonstrated magical abilities comparable to Awakeners and also gave him a stack of data...

This pile of data was definitely valuable.

Xiang Yixiu truly imparted everything he could to him.

This was a bit strange.

Meeting by chance and hitting it off is possible.

But a chance meeting led to the stripping down to one’s underwear...

He really wanted to ask Xiang Yixiu, what exactly is your background?

If betting was an option, he would wager his no longer existent virginity that this professor had ties to Kun Cang!

Da Ri Xiaoyao Temple, Wuxiang Temple, Kun Cang, Xiang Yixiu, Hu Fu...

Each power, each individual, seemed shrouded in mystery.

Nanjiang University...

Lin Xiaosu put on the Dragon Eye glasses and searched for Xiang Yixiu, searched for Professor Yin Dingxian from last time, searched for Hu Fu, searched for Dawa...

Dragon Eye had no records of Hu Fu and Dawa.

But it had records on Xiang Yixiu and Yin Dingxian.

The information in Dragon Eye about Xiang Yixiu was very simple: Professor of the Biology Department at Nanjiang University, specializing in zoology...

The records of Yin Dingxian were relatively more detailed, Professor of the Biology Department at Nanjiang University, specializing in botany.

This person had attended many professional conferences, with unique insights on botany...

Suddenly, a piece of news scrolled by...

Lin Xiaosu was slightly stunned.

"A monster attack occurred in Ning City..."

His Dragon Eye had limited functionality, precisely speaking, only two features; the first, to look at a person and know their background, which he used the most.

The second was the general functionality of the internet.

Treating the glasses as a computer screen, he could browse the internet while lying down.

This news was internet information, not Qianlong’s specialized information.

In Ning City, a monster attack occurred on September 17 that left a couple dead.

The monster suddenly emerged from the ground, leading to the tragic death of the couple.

On September 19, another tragedy occurred in Hujiashang Village, Xi He town of Lai County, a small county northwest of Ning City, where a monster from underground caused another couple’s death.

On September 21, the monster reappeared, and witnesses saw it clearly with white Scale Armor, even capturing a blurry photo. The photo was very peculiar; the creature had very short legs, or rather, it was said to have no legs at all, just claws underneath, sharp as daggers...

Lin Xiaosu’s heart skipped a beat.

How similar was this to one of the underground races mentioned in last night’s documents?

"Earthfall Beast, a Fierce Beast adept at burrowing, with snow-white Scale Armor, enveloped in blood aura, with sharp claws on all limbs capable of cutting through metal and jade, lustful, fond of..."

Lin Xiaosu’s heart pounded.

He read through all the information about the recent monster killings in Ning City, and he already had an answer.

The photo of the monster, its characteristics, they all matched that of the Earthfall Beast, a strange underground creature.

The monster in Ning City was exactly the kind of underground Fierce Beast not recorded in the modern study of zoology but only existing in legends.

And it was in Ning City.

What place was Ning City?

It was Hu Ya’s training ground.

Had Qianlong chosen Ning City as the training ground for the Reserve because of this monster?

It was known that Qianlong training was not chosen at random; the training was often real combat. When sudden events occurred, and Qianlong’s higher-ups deemed them suitable for new recruits to practice, they would be settled as training topics.

If this was indeed the thought process, then one could only say that Qianlong had chosen the wrong topic.

An Earthfall Beast was not something that the Reserve could handle.

Even formal Qianlong members would struggle to deal with it.

The beast’s main feature was being impervious to blades and bullets, capable of burrowing into the ground as if into water, and extremely vicious.

For any individual, a blade and bullet-proof underground monster that comes and goes without a trace is dangerous.

From the 12th to now, for nearly a month, the monster killing spree continued.

The last news report was from yesterday.

What did this imply?

It meant that if Hu Ya had indeed targeted this beast for training, it had not been successful so far.

Failed training was not a big deal.

Wasn’t Xinyue also going crazy on the path of training?

But she was only going crazy.

Hu Ya was facing a real risk of life or death!

Ahead was Ningcheng Station.

Lin Xiaosu got off the train midway and hopped into a taxi heading straight to the site where the latest news came from, northwest of Ning City, He Yang Mountain.

On the taxi, he put on the Dragon Eye glasses and observed the surrounding mountain terrain.

This mountain was vast, shaped like a basin.

All seven murder locations occurred within this region, stretching thirty li from east to west, and fifty li from north to south.

Within this area, there were over two hundred thousand residents distributed across more than a hundred natural villages, including a thousand-year-old ancient town called Rui Chuan.

When the taxi driver heard that he was going to Rui Chuan, he kindly warned him that a violent event had occurred there yesterday, and hundreds of police officers had been deployed. "Young man, you have to be careful if you’re heading there."

Look, even the driver knew.

It revealed the sheer panic among the people living in this area.

At the top floor of a restaurant in Rui Chuan, in one of the rooms, two people were sitting, each wearing a pair of glasses, staring at the distant mountains.

From this vantage point, ordinary people couldn’t make out the distant mountains.

But with glasses on, it was a different story because the glasses they were wearing were called Dragon Eye.

These two individuals were Qianlong.

They were the two in charge of leading and evaluating the Reserve training: a man and a woman.

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