Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 71 [With More Money Comes Greater Risk] (8600 words)
[Note: This is the amount of two chapters today, I merged them into one chapter and posted it.

Today is New Year's Eve, it is better to be together than to be apart.

I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year! 】

I set it to automatically update at 8am, but when I woke up I found it was blocked. The system said I wrote something illegal...

I checked it and quickly modified it before reposting it.

Unfortunately, the few dirty words I wrote were deleted and you can’t see them...]

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Chapter 70 [More Money, Greater Risk]

In the practice room on the basement floor of the villa.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged in meditation, practicing the Energy Transporting Technique several times, and also practicing the Finger Sword a few more times.

He was very skilled in condensing vital energy. With just a thought, the vital energy could be quickly transported to his fingertips, condensed into a line, and then burst out.

After practicing this [Finger Sword] for a few days, Chen Yan tried it out. With his current level of vitality, if he used all his strength, he could penetrate a piece of bluestone!

The power is comparable to that of a bullet.

However, Chen Yan can only use the finger sword at this level three times at most, no more than that.

It’s not that my energy can’t keep up, but my fingers can’t take it.

After all, he is still a flesh and blood body, and the effectiveness of the vital energy in nourishing the body has a ceiling. It is impossible to really make the body as hard as iron.

He tried it, and after using the [Finger Sword] at full power for the third time, his fingers began to swell and there was a slight sharp pain.

Chen Yan thought about it and decided to invite Gu Qingyi over and ask for advice in a humble manner.

When Gu Qingyi came downstairs, she was holding a freshly washed apple in her hand. The 21-year-old stepmother nibbled on the apple, glanced at Chen Yan's swollen fingers, and shook her head, saying, "You did the right thing. The problem is that your body is too fragile."

Chen Yan is not the kind of person who sticks to the old ways.

Since one finger can only be used three times...

But I have ten fingers!
Can't we just take turns?

So, in the next few days, Chen Yan had nothing to do, so he tried to modify the route of the finger sword's energy flow, bursting out from the index finger, and then to the thumb, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger...

Gu Qingyi learned about Chen Yan's actions and was a little surprised by his ingenious ideas.

"After you created this move, it must have been passed down for many generations. Didn't any of our predecessors think of this idea?" Chen Yan was also a little curious.

Gu Qingyi shook his head: "...People who practice combat techniques are much stronger than you. We don't have the problem of our bodies being unable to bear the pain in our fingers."

As he spoke, Gu Qingyi casually broke a piece of bluestone with his bare hands in front of Chen Yan, then pinched a piece of bluestone in his hand and gently rubbed it into powder!

Chen Yan looked at her pair of white and tender hands and swallowed subconsciously - when she had pulled him to fly close to the ground, her hands had clearly felt very soft and tender...

However, as a 22-year-old illegitimate son, it is not appropriate for him to stare at the hands of his 21-year-old legal mother.

Chen Yan quickly looked away and said casually, "You can't think of it because your fingers don't hurt, not because your thinking is rigid! Once I figure out this method, all five fingers can be used to perform finger swords at will... Do you know there's a martial art called..."

"Do you want to talk about the Six Meridians Divine Sword?" Gu Qingyi tilted his head and thought about it, then spoke out quickly.

Now it was Chen Yan's turn to be surprised: "How did you know this? Have you been reading novels online these days?"

Gu Qingyi's tone was very calm: "Do you think the domain is very closed? Or do you think that people in our domain know nothing about your world?"

"How to say?"

Gu Qingyi said, "I told you that there are passages between the two worlds. These passages, opened up by magic arrays, travel between the boundaries. Although it's not easy to pass through, people from the domain occasionally come to your world."

Chen Yan's expression became more serious. "What are people from the Domain Realm doing in our world?"

Gu Qingyi looked at Chen Yan deeply and said, "Although your world is not suitable for cultivation and lacks resources, you are lucky to have a peaceful world. This world... is very comfortable."

"What do you mean?"

"Come and collect some new and interesting things from your world and take them back." Gu Qingyi whispered, "Some people have thought before about coming to your world to search for special weapons in order to fight... well, ...

Chen Yan frowned and said, "You mean, people from your realm came to us to get some technological products, such as... weapons?"

"I guess so." Gu Qingyi raised his hand and made a gun gesture. "For example, some of your firearms, we also brought some back to imitate. But unfortunately, gunpowder is still too weak. And it seems that the rules of the world suppress it. After your gunpowder got to the domain, its power was reduced by more than ten times. We can only set off fireworks back there."

Chen Yan sneered: "Just guns? You may not know that in our world there is a kind of extremely powerful..."

"Are you talking about nuclear weapons?" Gu Qingyi shook her head. "They're useless. My third uncle came to this world many years ago. He went to a country in the north and stole a nuclear warhead to study. The result left him very depressed."

Chen Yan's mouth twitched... Stealing nuclear warheads?!

He frowned and asked, "What are you frustrated about?"

"Third Uncle seemed to be talking about fission and some kind of reaction. In our world, it can't react at all, so... it can't be used."

Are the rules of chemistry and physics different? Chen Yan pondered...

It seems like there is some kind of balance.

The natural rules of the real world suppress cultivation. Cultivation is difficult, vital energy is thin, and resources for cultivation are scarce. Moreover, abilities above the Heavenly Man Realm cannot be used here!
The laws of nature in the domain suppress the technological side. The rules may be completely different from those in one's own world. There are different differences in gunpowder, chemical reactions, physical laws, and fission, which makes it impossible for thermal weapons to show their power in the domain?
Did they ban each other's most powerful means of force?

Gu Qingyi continued, "The military tactics of your world are useless here, so when our people come here, they can only occasionally bring back some new and interesting things from your world. Your world, on the other hand, is very rich in material comforts."

Chen Yan frowned. "But after getting to know you, I still feel that you're not very familiar with many things in our world—you can't even use ordinary household appliances."

"I just don't know how to use your latest home appliances. The boundary wall makes it difficult to traverse the magic circle. It's not always possible to come here. For example, my third uncle last visited your world twenty or thirty years ago.

I heard from my family that he always brought back some new and interesting things from your world. Although he didn't bring too many, at least we can be considered to have some familiarity with your world."

Gu Qingyi said, smiling: "For example, the Six Meridians Divine Sword you mentioned - I have also read Jin Yong's novels."

She actually read Jin Yong's novels?

Chen Yan was a little surprised - but then she thought, her so-called Third Uncle had come to this world twenty or thirty years ago. At that time, Jin Yong's works were quite popular.

But now... she definitely hasn't seen "The Overbearing CEO" and "Thirty Years in the East, Thirty Years in the West". As for things like the bathroom going in the opposite direction, she definitely doesn't know about it either.

"I've read all of them, including The Laughing Book, The Divine Hero Yi Bi Yuan, and Flying Snow and Shooting White Deer." Gu Qingyi snorted, "Don't think I'm a nobody!"

"Yeah, yeah, you're not." Chen Yan sighed.

"Not only that, I also know about the Imperial Jade Wine, which is one hundred and eighty yuan a cup!" Gu Qingyi's face was a little proud. "Uncle San also brought back a TV and a machine that can play discs."

"Wow? You know about the Imperial Jade Wine? You know how to play the tango with four drums?"

"Of course I know!" Gu Qingyi smiled, but it soon faded. He shook his head and sighed, his tone somewhat regretful. "I only found out when I came here this time that the old lady who made the Imperial Jade Wine has passed away. My third uncle originally asked me to see if I had any new works and bring them back for everyone to see."

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Gu Qingyi seemed to have accidentally revealed some information about the domain.

Chen Yan deduced that the realm was not the kind of cultivation world similar to the ancient times as he had imagined before.

That world would occasionally communicate with their own world. Although the degree of this communication was only sporadic, it was enough for the people of the domain to maintain a certain understanding of some of the technological, civilization, and cultural achievements of their own world.

They even brought back thermal weapons for research, so they probably also researched some scientific and technological achievements - the third uncle that Gu Qingyi mentioned even brought back things like televisions.

However, due to the existence of the boundary wall, there are many restrictions on traveling between the two worlds, and time limitation may be one of them.

Gu Qingyi had said before that the magic circle on the boundary wall could only be passed through at intervals.

If the last time was twenty or thirty years ago... then the people in the domain world should still have the same level of understanding of the real world as in the 1990s?

No wonder, this girl knows about the Palace Jade Liquor, but doesn’t know about smoking, drinking, and perming her hair.

Gu Qingyi has always kept his mouth shut and refused to reveal too much about the domain.

Especially...what were the people in the domain fighting against? She refused to reveal a single word about this.

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Chen Yan spent three days figuring out the Qi version of the Six Meridians Divine Sword. Gu Qingyi had been a great help—after all, she was the one who taught Chen Yan the [Finger Sword] attack skill, and she was naturally more familiar with the Qi circulation mode than Chen Yan.

The route of the vital energy circulation, from the shoulder to the arm and then to the fingertips, and from the index finger to other fingers, is not as easy as it sounds.

If Chen Yan fiddled with the circulation of vital energy on his own, he would have wasted countless hours, like a blind man asking for directions. With the help of Gu Qingyi, an expert, he could achieve twice the result with half the effort.

In three days, the outline of the Yuanqi version of the Six Meridians Divine Sword began to take shape. Chen Yan's five fingers could release finger swords, but except for the index finger used in the original version of the finger sword, the effects of the finger swords released by the other four fingers were... hard to describe.

The thumb is quite powerful, more than twice as powerful as the original index finger version!
But the speed of the vital energy circulation is very slow. Chen Yan roughly estimated that if he used his thumb to release the finger sword during battle, the vital energy would be stimulated, then circulated to the thumb, and finally shot out...

The process takes a full five seconds.

The pre-swing process of skill activation is too long!

Unless during a fight your opponent stands there stupidly and serves as a target for you, otherwise, although the thumb sword is very powerful, it has little practical significance.

The fastest one is the little finger.

The speed of Qi circulation and condensation is even three times faster than the original index finger.

The power is much smaller.

Even though Chen Yan used all his strength, the power could only penetrate a thin piece of wood.

The power of this type is roughly equivalent to an ordinary person's punch.

The good thing is that this level of power won't hurt your fingers, so you can unleash a lot of bullets.

After three days of research, the twenty-two-year-old eldest son and the twenty-one-year-old stepmother finally came up with the vital energy version of the Six Meridians Divine Sword...

Gu Qingyi suddenly remembered something and looked at Chen Yan and said, "There's something I haven't figured out."

Chen Yan asked casually, "What's the matter?"

Gu Qingyi's pretty face showed a serious expression as she spoke word by word, "It's clearly a martial art performed with five fingers, so why is it called the Six-Pulse Divine Sword?"

Chen Yan was stunned: "..."

Well, he vaguely remembered that it seemed like it was written in Jin Yong's original book that the six meridians of the Six Meridians Divine Sword were derived from some theory of tendons and meridians...

But when I first read the story, I just remember that it was an exciting one, so who cares about these things?
Was it that the fairy sister's poisoned clothes-changing scene in the woodshed wasn't pretty? Or was it that the frank encounter between Menggu and Menglang in the ice cellar wasn't exciting?
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On the morning of the fifth day after the Shankui incident, Chen Yan left home and passed by the central square. From a distance, he saw the old man next door standing there, dressed in training clothes, stretching his arms and legs. The myna bird cage was hanging on a horizontal bar nearby.

Seeing Chen Yan coming over, the old man greeted him with a smile, then looked Chen Yan up and down.

"Didn't you take the medicine I prescribed for you? Your problem with excessive Qi and blood hasn't improved at all."

Chen Yan touched his head - he had been busy perfecting the [Energy Version of Six Meridians Divine Sword] these days, but had forgotten about the prescription the old man had given him.

"I'm going out to get some medicine today. Speaking of which, the medicines you prescribed should be available at any Chinese medicine pharmacy, right?"

Lao Deng smiled and said, "How about this? I'll prescribe you a thousand-year-old ginseng. Do you know where to buy it?"

Chen Yan nodded, and listened to Lao Deng say, "According to domestic market prices, a set of medicine costs about two to three hundred yuan. You can get ten sets of medicine according to my prescription. Boil one set of medicine every day, using three bowls of water to make one bowl of water. Drink this for ten days, and your condition should gradually improve."

One dose of medicine a day, two or three hundred a day, that's okay... Chen Yan is not short of money now, ten days will only cost two or three thousand, he can afford it.

"Actually, besides taking medicine, there is another way to make you feel better immediately." Lao Deng looked at Chen Yan with a smile: "Find a suitable girl who can harmonize your yin and yang..."

Chen Yan rolled his eyes and said, "Old man, you should watch less of the borderline stuff."

"Bah!" The old man sneered. "Do you think I'm teaching you a crooked way? In your situation, even finding a girl to balance your yin and yang isn't something that anyone can do. You know what dual cultivation is? It can balance your qi and blood, and... after this, both of you will benefit greatly!"
The boy is ignorant, and the dog bites Lu Dongbin!"

Chen Yan was a little unhappy about being called a dog so inexplicably early in the morning. However, just as he was about to retort, something suddenly occurred to him. He changed his expression and said with a smile, "Old sir, you are talking about the art of dual cultivation... do you understand?"

"Ha!" The old man turned his head away: "If I don't understand, there are not many people in this world who do."

Chen Yan looked at Lao Deng suspiciously - he would go back and try his prescription to see if it worked. If it didn't, the old man was just fooling people.

If the prescription works, I'll come back to him to learn the dual cultivation technique.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan waved his hand and said goodbye: "Okay, I'll go and get the prescription today. Well, you continue to exercise, I still have to go out to buy breakfast." Originally, he just wanted to go out to buy breakfast - he saw from a group that there was a breakfast shop nearby.

Things like fried dough sticks taste better if you buy them yourself and fry them fresh.

However, since he met the old man next door, Chen Yan simply turned back home, found the prescription, put it in his arms, and went out again.

He searched online for a Chinese medicine pharmacy close to his home. He went to the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist to look over the prescription. These pharmacies usually have pharmacists who are knowledgeable in medicine.

After taking a look at the prescription, the pharmacist said that the medicines on the prescription were just some things to regulate blood and qi, and they were just matched in this way. The pharmacist said that he didn't quite understand it, but he thought it seemed quite clever.

Chen Yan felt relieved and asked someone to bring back more than a dozen prescriptions.

Well, I bought a few more pairs and will let Gui Geng try them for a few days when I get back.

It’s okay if I eat it, I’ll eat it again!
He took the medicine bag and the prescription out, went to a nearby breakfast shop and bought some freshly fried dough sticks. Chen Yan held them in his hand and chewed them while walking home.

He had a lightening talisman on his body, so walking didn't require any effort. Instead, his body felt light and fluttering, as if he was riding the wind.

When I returned to the community, there was no one in the central square. Lao Deng next door must have gone home.

Without thinking much, Chen Yan walked to the gate of his yard and suddenly stopped.

Behind him, a black car drove slowly and stopped beside him.

The car door opened, revealing the figure of Chu Keqing, a woman.

Chu Keqing saw Chen Yan standing on the side of the road. Without waiting for her assistant to open the door, she pushed open the car door and walked out.

The weather was getting colder, but the woman was still wearing a lavender cheongsam, but she had a soft foxtail shawl draped over her shoulders. The snow-white foxtail shawl made her face look even more charming and lovely.

After she got off the car, she gently pushed her glasses on the bridge of her nose, walked quickly to Chen Yan's side, bowed her head and respectfully called out: "Senior!"

Chen Yan laughed inwardly, but put on a cold expression on his face: "What are you doing here? Are you still not convinced by what happened last time?"

"Junior dare not." Chu Keqing's tone was obviously a little gentle: "New Year is coming, junior...junior came to visit Senior Chen and give him some New Year gifts."

As she spoke, Chu Keqing looked down at what was in Chen Yan's hand.

A packet of Chinese medicine?
This wasn't surprising; it was normal for a senior expert in the esoteric arts to create their own healing remedies. Chu Keqing herself was also knowledgeable in pharmacology and had several unique recipes. Much of her fame as "Purple Elder" stemmed from her exceptional medical skills.

I just took a look at the packaging bag of the Chinese medicine, and it clearly had the name of a pharmacy on it... I've never heard of such an expert making medicine and going to a chain pharmacy to get the medicine?
This matter is just like when Principal Wang's father wanted to sell a house and listed it on Beike.com.

"Senior...are you going to get medicine?" Chu Keqing asked cautiously.

Chen Yan glanced at the woman and said nothing.

Chu Keqing took a deep breath. "I don't mean anything else. I just want to say... if you need some herbs, I have a small pharmacy. It's not big, but the herbs are all top-quality and well-seasoned. If you need them, I'm willing to give you some..."

Chu Keqing didn't lie. She did have a small pharmacy, but it was not open to the public on weekdays. The pharmacy didn't have a large stock of medicines, but it did have a lot of precious medicinal materials.

This pharmacy was only used for her to make friends with powerful people. Many of her clients, who were either rich or noble, would seek medical treatment and medicine from her.

Chen Yan looked at the woman, then pretended to be indifferent and looked away - he really didn't dare to look at her any longer.

Now he has too much energy and blood. This woman is really a monster, and she has a natural sexiness. In Chen Yan's current state, it is like placing a round and ripe peach in front of a person who has been hungry and thirsty for three days!

If he stared at her a few more times, Mr. Chen would probably not dare to stand up straight on the spot.

After coughing, Chen Yan said slowly, "Since you're not here to cause trouble, then consider yourself a guest. Come in and have a seat."

After saying this, seeing a look of joy on Chu Keqing's face, Chen Yan reached into his pocket, took out a wrinkled prescription, and threw it to the woman.

"Since you're willing to send me the medicine, please give me twenty doses according to this prescription."

"Okay! Please rest assured, senior, and let me handle it!"

Chu Keqing was even more delighted and took the prescription and unfolded it to take a look.

When I first saw the beautiful calligraphy, I praised in my heart: He is indeed a senior master. Few people can write such beautiful calligraphy nowadays!

Looking at the prescription again... Chu Keqing also understood medical knowledge, and her expression couldn't help but become a little embarrassed, and a blush appeared on her pretty face.

Without saying a word, he folded the prescription and put it in his bag, muttering in his heart: This should be a prescription for "removing heat" and "eliminating desire"... This senior... isn't he already ninety-one years old?
Well, this senior has regained his youthful appearance and now looks young. He should be in the prime of his life, but... the medicine he took is too strong.

How big of a fire is it?

Chu Keqing suppressed her inner guesswork but didn't dare show it on her face as she politely followed Chen Yan into the house.

After the gate of the courtyard was opened, he left his assistant behind and told him to move the gifts inside. Chu Keqing followed Chen Yan into the courtyard.

As soon as she stepped into the yard, Chu Keqing's expression suddenly changed! !

(This vitality?!)

Chu Keqing had also been practicing for many years, so she was very familiar with the concept of vital energy. Furthermore, her realm was comparable to Chen Yan's, so she could naturally sense the external vital energy of heaven and earth.

As she stepped into the yard, she immediately felt that the concentration of vitality in the yard was at least three times higher than outside!
Such a rich vital energy - Chu Keqing had traveled all over the country and visited many famous mountains and rivers, and had also seen those so-called paradises in the publicity, but she had never seen vital energy as rich as this!

Moreover, with Chu Keqing's perception, she could sense that there seemed to be some kind of power in this courtyard, like a siphon effect, drawing in endless vitality from all directions of heaven and earth bit by bit and gathering it in this courtyard.

Once the vital energy is extracted, it gathers here and no longer disperses, as if it is restrained by some invisible force.

(It is comparable to the magical powers of immortals!)

Chu Keqing's face was full of shock. She followed Chen Yan, and her breathing suddenly became faster.

Hearing Chu Keqing's rapid breathing, Chen Yan turned his head and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

Chu Keqing lowered her head and said honestly, "It was the junior who lost her composure... Here in the senior's residence, the vitality is overflowing. This kind of magical power really shocked the junior."

"It's just a simple formation." Chen Yan knew that Chu Keqing could sense the changes in her vital energy, so he deliberately said indifferently, "Old Master Zi is well-known in Jinling Prefecture. Hasn't he seen this kind of formation?"

Chu Keqing: “…”

Not to mention this kind of formation that can control vital energy, even the spell cast by this senior, Chu Keqing had never seen it before!

Chu Keqing was not unfamiliar with the formation of arrays - however, as someone who was skilled in the art of metaphysics, he only knew some basic Feng Shui arrays.

This kind of control over vital energy, which is almost a supernatural power of the immortals, only exists in legends and fantasies for her.

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Gu Qingyi was originally upstairs. When she heard someone enter a room downstairs, she walked down the stairs and said dissatisfiedly, "You said you were going to buy fried dough sticks, what took you so long?"

Chen Yan smiled and threw the bag of fried dough sticks on the table: "It's freshly out of the wok, still hot."

Gu Qingyi's face finally showed a little more smile. She saw Chu Keqing following behind Chen Yan. The 21-year-old mother looked calm and indifferent: "Are there guests?"

Chen Yan nodded casually and said, "Yeah, a friend came to give me some New Year's goods."

Chu Keqing stared at Gu Qingyi seriously for a few seconds, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Subconsciously, he glanced at Chen Yan again.

This Senior Chen Yan...is indeed...a scumbag!

I have met him before in a shop near Luo Yunzhai. At that time, he was accompanied by a young, lovely and gentle girl.

Then after I met him, Luo Qing's matter involved the proprietress of the Internet cafe - who was also a pitiful beauty.

Now there is such a beautiful woman hiding in the family!
This Senior Chen Yan was just as he had observed with the Qi-gazing technique when he met him that day - he had a lot of romantic interests!
However, Chu Keqing hesitated for a moment, looked at Gu Qingyi but didn't know how to greet her, so she looked at Chen Yan for help.

Chen Yan scratched his hair and said vaguely: "This is... a distant relative of mine."

Chu Keqing was gentle and agile. She was intimidated by the presence of Senior Chen Yan, and without hesitation, she politely greeted Gu Qingyi, "Greetings, Senior!"

She was clearly over thirty years old, and Gu Qingyi was at least ten years younger than her, looking no more than twenty years old, but she could call him "senior" without any difficulty.

This 91-year-old senior Chen Yan looks like a young man in his twenties. Who knows how old this stunning-looking girl is?

Maybe being my own grandmother is enough.

This family...I'm afraid they are all masters!
Gu Qingyi pulled the corner of his mouth and gave a polite smile: "Hello."

Then, Gu Xiaoniang rushed into the restaurant holding the fried dough sticks.

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Chen Yan led Chu Keqing to sit on the sofa in the living room.

As a post-2000s kid, he didn't like drinking tea and didn't know how to practice tea ceremony, so he just took a bottle of mineral water and placed it in front of Chu Keqing.

"Okay, just tell me what you want." Chen Yan looked at Chu Keqing.

"...A few days ago, there was a disturbance in Zijin Mountain by the mountain leader. It should be the senior who suppressed it, right?" Chu Keqing asked.

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at the woman: "How did you know?"

Chu Keqing took a deep breath and told him about how she discovered that there was evil energy spreading out from the mountain, and then she went to Zijin Mountain to investigate, and then she told him about a series of things she saw and heard afterwards.

Finally, she took out the remaining piece of talisman paper she had seen and placed it on the coffee table.

"It was only after seeing this that I was certain it was your work. There was a riot in the mountains with a mountain boss, but when I went there, there was no trace of him. And then there was this thing left behind. I dare to guess that you must have taken action to deal with it."

Chen Yan thought for a moment and said calmly, "It just happened to be the right time."

As he spoke, he raised his eyelids and glanced at the woman: "You didn't come here just to inquire about this matter, did you?"

"No." Chu Keqing shook her head and said softly in her characteristic voice with a natural nasal tone, "I dare not pry into your actions. I am only seeking to verify this matter for another matter, which is also related to the purpose of my visit today."

After a pause, Chu Keqing spoke more cautiously, "Since you are willing to help with Shan Kui's matter, it shows that you are also compassionate and willing to protect mortals... I came here this time because I encountered a difficult situation in the past two days. I am not experienced enough to solve it, so I had to take the liberty to come to you and ask for your help."

After hearing this, Chen Yan frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "You have a good cultivation base and are quite famous in Jinling Prefecture. Is there anything that you can't solve with your cultivation?"

Chu Keqing's expression remained unchanged as she shook her head and said, "It is true that I am unable to solve the problem. After thinking it over and over again, I still have no clue, so I took the liberty to come to you."

Chen Yan glanced in the direction of the restaurant. Gu Xiaoniang was sitting there with a fried dough stick in one hand and a cup of soy milk in the other, eating and drinking with full concentration - but this woman must have known everything he said and did here.

Chen Yan said, "The New Year is approaching, and I don't have much time to take care of other things recently."

Chu Keqing pondered for a moment before saying, "The owner who entrusted me with this task is a wealthy merchant, a long-time client of mine. This time, he came to me for help, and it was not difficult for me to refuse. However, after hearing his account of the entire matter, I felt that this was a difficult situation.

But this friend has encountered this kind of difficulty and has nowhere to turn to, so I can't help but help, I..."

Chen Yan smiled at her and said, "That's your friend, not mine."

Chu Keqing was not in a hurry. She took out a pen and paper from her bag, quickly wrote a string of numbers, and then pushed it in front of Chen Yan.

"This friend is willing to give me this reward. However, I am not skilled enough, and I know I am unable to do this. If you are willing to help me, I am willing to give you the full reward!"

As for me... I don't ask for anything else, I just want to follow in front and help out, broaden my horizons, and gain some experience! That's enough!"

Chen Yan glanced at the string of numbers on the paper - this string of numbers was enough to buy the villa he was currently renting.

This is no small amount of money!

However, Chen Yan is not the kind of person who values money over his life... Although the money is tempting, Chen Yan knows better: if it is not an extremely difficult situation, people may not be willing to pay such a large reward.

The more money you have, the greater the difficulties and perhaps the greater the risks!

Chen Yan tapped his fingers on the table, his face calm. "Tell me first what exactly it is. I'll make a decision after I listen."

Chu Keqing breathed a sigh of relief - the other party did not directly refuse, it seemed that her judgment was not wrong.

Chu Keqing carefully analyzed the matter of Senior Chen Yan helping Mr. Fang and came to her own conclusion: although this senior is a hermit, he... should also like money!
It seems that it is right to directly disclose the amount of remuneration.

Taking a deep breath, Chu Keqing calmed herself down and slowly told a strange story...

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Happy New Year to everyone! May your family be healthy and happy! May you all be prosperous and wealthy!

[Please give me some tips as red envelopes, no need to be too much, just a token of appreciation for the good fortune]

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(End of this chapter)