A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 257 Exposed
At this time, it was just getting dark, and Wei Yutian's house had already been taken over by the soldiers of the government office.

The backyard, which was usually dark at night, was now as bright as sparks, and soldiers holding lanterns were guarding every intersection.

Secretary Qin led Ruan Fengshan to the pavilion next to the rockery.

There was nothing else on the stone table in the pavilion except a pot of tea and two teacups.

Shen Yanliu was dressed in casual clothes, sitting in front of a stone table, pouring tea with his left hand while his right hand was behind his back.

Ruan Fengshan walked into the pavilion, bowed and clasped his fists, and said, "Fengshan greets the county lord."

Shen Yanliu had a blank expression on his face. He raised his hand to the seat and said, "Manager Ruan, please take a seat!"

Ruan Fengshan sat down opposite Shen Yanliu. Shen Yanliu held a cup of tea in his left hand and handed it to Ruan Fengshan, saying with a smile, "I just learned the tea ceremony. Please try it and give me more criticism and corrections."

Ruan Fengshan immediately stood up slightly, took the teacup, and sat down again, saying, "How dare I? How dare I?"

After Ruan Fengshan sat down, he held the tea in both hands, took a sip, and praised the tea highly.

Since Ruan Fengshan walked into the pavilion, Shen Yanliu's eyes have never left Ruan Fengshan's face. He carefully watched the subtle changes in Ruan Fengshan's expression. At least from the beginning, he hadn't seen any flaws.

The chief of his own escort agency turned out to be a member of the Filthy Blood Cult. He should have been nervous and humble. If he was too calm, it would have been a problem.

Shen Yanliu said: "It's just old tea from the previous year, it can't be called good."

Ruan Fengshan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Really? I didn't drink it."

Of course he didn't taste it. He was feeling very uncomfortable at the moment, so how could he be in the mood to taste the tea?

"Shopkeeper Ruan, have another drink!" Shen Yanliu said with a smile.

But this time Shen Yanliu did not hand the teacup to him, but only half-raised it in front of him. Ruan Fengshan had no choice but to stand up, lean forward slightly, and take the teacup held by Shen Yanliu.

At the moment when Ruan Fengshan caught the teacup with both hands, Shen Yanliu's right hand, which had been behind his back, suddenly stretched out, and there were steel claws on his right hand.

Shen Yanliu stretched out his right hand, clenched his claws into a fist, and punched towards Ruan Fengshan's chest.

Ruan Fengshan was shocked and retreated suddenly. His lightness skill was quite good and his body instantly tilted backwards like a big bird and flew out of the pavilion.

Shen Yanliu followed like a shadow, and in mid-air outside the pavilion, he punched Ruan Fengshan in the dantian.

Ruan Fengshan was hit by the punch and immediately began to bleed from his mouth and nose. He fell on the grass outside the pavilion and rolled a few times. As soon as he steady himself, Shen Yanliu's hooked iron claws grabbed him on the head, like an eagle pouncing on a rabbit, and there was no way to avoid it.

"You filthy remnant, this county will destroy you!"

Shen Yanliu's eyes were bloodshot, his true energy surged, and his iron claws were like hooks, grabbing Ruan Fengshan's head.

The square scarf hat that Ruan Fengshan was wearing exploded in an instant, with rags flying everywhere. His hair bun also instantly became messy under the stimulation of his true energy, like a tumbleweed.

Shen Yanliu's iron claws dug into Ruan Fengshan's hair that was standing up like weeds, as if it was going to tear Ruan Fengshan's head apart in the next moment.

But at this moment, Shen Yanliu's power suddenly dissipated, and the weeds on Ruan Fengshan's head drooped down instantly. Shen Yanliu's iron claws and eagle hooks rose up quickly in an instant. Although Shen Yanliu's power dissipated quickly, the eagle-hook-like fingers of his iron hand still hooked off three baby fist-sized pieces of Ruan Fengshan's scalp.

The scalp was bloody and had long strands of hair hanging down.

Shen Yanliu exerted his true energy, and the three pieces of scalp broke off the iron hooks.

Ruan Fengshan sat on the grass. Although his scalp hurt, his eyes were full of fear. He knew that he had just walked through the gates of hell. His Dantian was injured and there was a slight pain, but Ruan Fengshan knew that his Dantian was not damaged. As long as he rested for a period of time and took good care of himself, he would be able to recover.

Shen Yanliu smiled and used his left hand, which was not wearing a steel gauntlet, to pull up Ruan Fengshan, who was sitting on the grass with a grim look on his face.

Ruan Fengshan struggled to stand up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said with red eyes: "The county magistrate wants to kill me?"

Shen Yanliu said: "If I really wanted to kill you, you would be dead now."

Shen Yanliu patted Ruan Fengshan on the shoulder and said, "Alright! Stop putting on such a dead face! The chief of your Yuanshun Escort Agency is a member of the Filthy Blood Cult, and you personally invited him from outside. You want to get away with such a big case without shedding your skin?"

Ruan Fengshan said in a hoarse voice, "Your Excellency, please understand! The escort agency makes a living in the underworld, and it cannot do without someone to keep it in place. I have been stuck in the Inner Breath Realm for many years, with no hope of breaking through, so I invited a master in the True Qi Realm to come to the escort agency as the head of the agency. This is also for the development of the escort agency's business. Who would have thought that this person is actually a member of the Filthy Blood Cult?"

As Ruan Fengshan spoke, he actually began to wipe away his tears.

"Alright!" Shen Yanliu said, "Even so, you are at least guilty of negligence. This little injustice is nothing, right? You should check the internal affairs of the escort agency yourself, especially Luan Jingfu's confidants. Check them out for me thoroughly."

"Yes!" said Ruan Fengshan.

Seeing that Ruan Fengshan's expression had finally recovered a little, Shen Yanliu said, "You go."

Ruan Fengshan bowed, clasped his fists, and walked away with unsteady steps.

As soon as Ruan Fengshan left, a figure flashed out from behind the rockery. It was Shen Yanliu's confidant, Tang Wanhong.

Shen Yanliu called Tang Wanhong and showed him Wei Yutian's secret room mandala. He wanted to discuss with Tang Wanhong how to deal with the case and how to exaggerate the results of the case. When the two were almost done discussing, someone suddenly came to report that Ruan Fengshan had returned to the city.

Shen Yanliu immediately called Qin Shuban and asked him to invite Ruan Fengshan here.

The chief of Yuanshun Escort Agency is a follower of the Filthy Blood Cult. Ruan Fengshan is the manager of the agency, so how could Shen Yanliu not be suspicious?
However, after that test just now, Shen Yanliu's doubts had been dispelled, and he could almost conclude that there was nothing wrong with Ruan Fengshan.

He was in the pavilion and suddenly attacked, punching Ruan Fengshan in the dantian area of his abdomen. Shen Yanliu actually controlled his own strength in this punch. He just wanted to test the depth of Ruan Fengshan's internal strength and didn't really want to cripple Ruan Fengshan.

If Ruan Fengshan was really trapped in the inner breath state, then his dantian would be injured by that punch, but it would not be damaged. With proper care using precious medicinal herbs, he could recover.

But if Ruan Fengshan's dantian was not injured by that punch just now, it means that his internal strength has already broken through the shackles of the inner breath realm and advanced to the true qi realm.

After that punch, Ruan Fengshan's mouth and nose were bleeding, and it was obvious that his dantian was damaged!
This is one of them!

Secondly, the grab just now was caused by the full force of his true energy. If it had been a moment later, he would have crushed Ruan Fengshan's head.

But at this critical moment of life and death, Ruan Fengshan did not unleash his Divine Blood Skills!

From these two points, we can see that there is nothing wrong with Ruan Fengshan.

Ruan Fengshan returned to the escort agency with blood gushing out of his mouth and nose. As soon as he walked into the room in the backyard of the escort agency, his originally sad expression instantly turned as cold as ice.

"Shen Yanliu! You son of a bitch! I will kill you sooner or later!"

Ruan Fengshan said this, spitting blood foam on the ground. If he hadn't swallowed a pill when he left the escort agency, dispersing half of his true energy, he would have been exposed by Shen Yanliu's punch just now!
What was even more dangerous than that punch was that, at that moment of life and death, he desperately suppressed the dirty blood magic in his body and prevented it from exploding.

This Divine Art of Filthy Blood will operate automatically in many scenarios. In normal situations between life and death, this automatic operation can save lives.

But in the situation he was in just now, if he relaxed his mind for a moment and failed to suppress the Filthy Blood Divine Art and prevent it from exploding, he would be finished!
(End of this chapter)