The road is vague

Chapter 160 Belated Reward
After leaving the Song family mansion, Li Mo came to work at the Tianming Division as if nothing had happened.

Today was different from the past, and he felt particularly happy.

"General Li!"

"General Li..."

The inspectors of the Ministry of Destiny continued to perform their duties and handle related work in an orderly manner.

It is worth mentioning that.

Bai'an County Tianming Division has added three new faces this year.

It seems that the saying that the county is focusing on the construction of Bai'an County is not groundless.

If this trend continues, it is expected that after March next year, the Tianming Division of Bai'an County will establish its fifth small flag.

By then, Zhu Wei will probably be promoted or leave. Mr. Tian is getting older and it is probably time for him to retire. Of the three vacant small flag positions, Wang Ping, who will temporarily take over Zhu Wei's power as the executive captain, will definitely be able to occupy one. The other two will need to be carefully elected. At present, it seems that Huang Yue has the best chance.

Huang Yue is a member of Gao Zhengyi's team. He was originally assigned the task of rescuing Doctor Wang in Liutao Mountain. He was responsible for sneaking into the mountain stronghold and made the first contribution. His performance has been good in the past two years.

"After this incident, I must ask Zhu Wei for advice on the art of talismans."

Having witnessed Zhu Wei's various talisman techniques with his own eyes, Li Mo has great confidence in the talisman techniques he mastered.

In addition, given the hardships they had experienced together, I believe Zhu Wei would not refuse.

For now, the Ministry of Destiny should just continue to perform its duties in this way, so as not to alert the enemy.

Thinking like this.

Li Mo came to the office and continued to take out the "Bronze Peptide Script" to study it. However, because he could not get into the state, he kept having random thoughts and his learning efficiency was not high.

"General Li."

There was a knock on the door from Zhao Xiaonan outside, and Li Mo looked up.

"Please come in."

After Zhao Xiaonan opened the office door, he walked towards Li Mo with a smile.

"Your four commendations have arrived, along with two letters."

"it is good."

After Zhao Xiaonan left, Li Mo looked at the four commendations in surprise. It was not until he saw that two were from his master and two were from the court that he suddenly realized what was going on.

The first is the reward for uncovering the case of the Hidden Dragon Organization.

Li Mo took a look at the rewards from his master and the court, and was immediately overjoyed. They were both huge rewards!
Lingmu Sect actually gave a contribution to the sect equivalent to Li Mo's seven or eight years of service as deputy chief of the Tianming Division, plus a great merit.

The imperial court rewarded him with 30,000 taels of silver, a bottle of miraculous elixir, and a commendation for his outstanding inspection.

"Thirty thousand taels of silver."

After repeated confirmation, Li Mo was overjoyed.

His annual salary was about five or six thousand taels of silver, which was equivalent to five or six years of court salary and was equivalent to three thousand spirit stones.

After carefully putting away the banknotes, Li Mo pulled out the stopper of the jade bottle containing the Miaoling Pill.

A stream of pure spiritual power floated out from the jade bottle.

After Li Mo took a deep breath, he suddenly felt relaxed and happy, with an endless aftertaste.

"It actually has such astonishing medicinal power. Not to mention the Gathering Spirit Pill, even the three Foundation Establishment stage exclusive elixirs purchased from the Alchemy Hall cannot compare to it. For a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the medicinal power is even a little too fierce."

Having said that, it is not a big deal for Li Mo.

His Dantian meridians have become extremely strong after being continuously transformed by the Creation Pill.

He has strong resistance to all kinds of backlash.

"Even now, I still haven't felt any stagnation in my mana. Unconsciously, I have accumulated a large number of elixirs, but I still have no place to use them."

Li Mo was thinking about his own medicinal elixir background.

"Nine Foundation Establishment Stage Piaomiao Demon Pills. Once I've mastered the alchemy technique, I can refine them into Foundation Establishment Stage Creation Pills. Then, I'll use the Soul Gathering Pills allocated by my master in batches. In another three years, I'll have ten. After that, when I've mastered the Five Thunders Transforming Dust Technique, I'll be able to decompose the formulas for the three exclusive elixirs in the Alchemy Hall. By exchanging my master's contributions for the necessary spiritual herbs, I can refine another thirty elixirs. Now, I've also received ten Wonderful Spirit Pills as a reward from the court. Most importantly, I have the Piaomiao Spirit Eye Array to aid my cultivation..."

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but show anticipation.

"The middle stage of foundation building is just around the corner."

However, if you want to break through the middle stage of foundation building, you still need to face bottleneck problems.

Fortunately, he still had a recipe for Ningxin Dan in his hand, which he had exchanged from Cao Lingjie, a monk from the Lingcao Sect in South Korea, which would help to weaken the bottleneck in the middle stage of foundation building.

If he could refine this pill, coupled with his extraordinary talent in cultivation, it shouldn't be a big problem for him to advance to the middle stage of foundation building.

After receiving the reward from the Great Zhou Canglong Organization, Li Mo looked at the commendation for the last time he wiped out the evil locusts in the Abandoned Infant Valley.

Lingmu Sect only gave a contribution reward equivalent to half a month's term of office.

The court rewarded him with one hundred taels of silver and a permit for twenty days of paid leave.

Compared to the reward for uncovering the hidden dragon organization's secret activities, killing the unformed evil spirit in the Abandoned Valley is just an ordinary reward and is really not worth mentioning.

“It’s really quite different.”

Li Mo shook his head and smiled. This was the life of an inspector.

As for those trivial cases in daily life, the commendations will be converted into performance and distributed at the end of the year.

In Li Mo's mind, the threat posed by the locust evil spirits in the Abandoned Valley to Bai'an County is undoubtedly much more serious than the destruction of Baixiu Peak by the Hidden Dragon Organization.

But this is just considering from the perspective of a county.

If we look at it from the perspective of the entire country, the threats posed by the two are not at the same level at all.

As for the two letters, one was from Lu Cuicui and the other was from Zhang Qin.

Li Mo first opened the letter from Lu Cuicui.

"I have formally applied to my master's sect to separate from my mother, and they have agreed. Lately, my mother has often come to me, urging me to do those dirty, filthy, and shameful things with her. She used to be so wonderful, but everything has changed since my father's death. I am filled with grievance, anger, and pain. She may be a good wife, but she is definitely not a good mother. I miss you very much and hope you can come back to see me soon."

Li Mo took a deep breath and looked at the ink on the letter again.

He could feel the pain and loneliness in Lu Cuicui's heart.

Deep in her heart, there seems to be a humble depression that only those closest to her can feel.

After careful consideration, Li Mo picked up his pen and wrote a reply letter.

He planned to go to the black market soon and buy a batch of medium-grade spirit stones at any price, and send this letter to the post station by the way. It should be delivered back to the master before February.

Then he opened the letter from Brother Zhang Qin.

"Li Mo, Lord Dou has already chosen the site for the Beishan Sect. After learning that you were the one who facilitated this, the village head is planning to build a chastity archway for your mother in Shanbei Village. The village has been making great efforts to prepare for this project. In addition, building the Beishan Sect will require a lot of manpower. Everyone in the village has gone to help, and they can earn a lot of money every day. People in the town are also planning to invest in the village and build a restaurant..."

The so-called chastity arch is an archway building built to honor women with pure and noble moral values.

Hua'an Town has only been a part of the Daqian Kingdom for a few years, and this should be the first related building.

It can be seen from this.

The appointment in Hua'an Town was a painstaking effort to please Li Mo.

"Mom..." It has to be said that the village covenant of Hua'an Town really touched Li Mo's soft spot.

As he looked at the handwriting on the letter, he couldn't help but think of his mother who raised him. His eyes suddenly became clear and his eyes became slightly moist.

in the afternoon.

Li Mo first went to the post station and sent the letter to Lu Cuicui in Qingming Mountain.

Afterwards, he went to Daohua Trading Company and exchanged all of the more than 30,000 taels of silver notes he had for cash. Then, he used the 30,000 taels of silver to buy 26 medium-grade spirit stones on the black market.

According to the market price of mid-grade spirit stones, Li Mo suffered a slight loss.

But hurry up and follow the right path.

After experiencing the powerful strength of this set of Six Dings and Six Jias matrix puppet shell, he always felt that it would be safer to replace the low-grade spirit stones with medium-grade spirit stones as soon as possible.

With these twenty-six medium-grade spirit stones, plus the remaining medium-grade spirit stones he had, it was enough to replace the thirty-six medium-grade spirit stones.

After returning to the mansion.

Li Mo quickly replaced the spirit stone for the matrix puppet.

This set of semi-finished puppet shell has already consumed at least 15,000 spirit stones of his. Later, it will need to be matched with the Six Ding and Six Jia formation, which is another huge expense. It can be seen that the powerful strength of the matrix puppet is based on huge resources.

Now with the support of these mid-grade spirit stones, Li Mo no longer needs to worry about the long-term combat of the Six Ding and Six Jia matrix puppets in the short term.

After doing all this.

Li Mo carefully checked the six waves of green water matrix puppets and the eight trigrams spirit gathering matrix puppets that were guarding the mansion.

Then he carefully put away Liu Biao's storage bag.

Liu Biao was a disciple of Lingmu Sect. The things in his storage bag were all stolen goods. Apart from taking a quick look at the books on martial arts and secret techniques, he did not touch anything else. All these things would have to be handed over in the future.

"The vitality of heaven and earth?"

When Li Mo was looking through Liu Biao's notes, he noticed this 157-year-old man and wrote down a passage.

"It turns out that mastering the power of Yuan Qi is the standard for dual cultivation of body and soul. Any other method of using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to improve physical fitness is just for body cultivators. In other words, those warriors who have achieved the Great Dao Golden Elixir are those who practice dual cultivation of body and soul. But it is also the most foolish method. Legend has it that the Great Zhou Dynasty once had a magical elixir that could help people sense the power of the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth. Spiritual energy cultivates the body, and Yuan Qi cultivates the soul. Those who cultivate the soul are not just physically strong, but can also manifest longevity, talent, divination, transformation, and foundation..."

This was the first time Li Mo had seen such an explanation.

He was surprised and pondered for a long time, then wrote it down in his notes. Then he had a vague feeling that his notes had become dangerous and had touched upon the secrets of heaven.

Although it was just a superficial touch, it still gave Li Mo a shock.

"Is it because the fall of the Great Zhou Dynasty is related to this, or is dual cultivation of body and soul taboo?"

But there is no doubt that Liu Biao's analysis is correct!
in the afternoon.

Li Mo came to the refining room, working hard to improve his basic refining skills and trying to appear extremely calm.

night.

Li Mo came to the county government office and asked about Wang Pan's residence through a yamen runner.

"The coroner left, apparently with a patrol officer. Oh, yes, a female patrol officer."

"Female inspector?"

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of Zhao Xiaonan.

He was not a stupid person. He immediately thought that the two of them were at the age of getting married and might be in further contact.

If the two of them really get together, it can be said that he has achieved something unexpected.

"Alright."

Li Mo smiled slightly at this, and then went back home to continue studying the "Fire Alchemy Sutra" to improve his basic alchemy skills.

Around the hour of Xu.

Wang Pan came to Li Mo's residence and knocked on the door gently.

Li Mo hurriedly put down the "Fire Alchemy Sutra", opened the door of the mansion, came out of the courtyard, and invited Wang Pan into the living room.

"Li Mo, you're finally back!"

Wang Pan sighed.

"I didn't expect that you, with such a high position, would still be so busy."

"It's just a coincidence that I've been caught up in a major case. After this period, I might have some free time. How are you doing here? Are you adjusting?"

"It's pretty good. I get along well with the people in the government office, and I've officially decided to take the exam for a position in the Ministry of Justice next year. I never expected that the medical books that I couldn't get into before would now be so interesting to me."

Wang Pan has a very cheerful personality and rarely comes into conflict with others.

Therefore, Li Mo doesn't have to worry about his interpersonal relationships at all.

"is it?"

Li Mo smiled wickedly when he heard that.

"Just getting along well with the people in the government office?"

Seeing Li Mo like this, Wang Pan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then her fair face turned red, and she was a little shy.

"I... do like Zhao Xiaonan a little bit."

"I knew it."

Li Mo smiled and poured Wang Pan a cup of tea.

Wang Pan mustered up his courage and looked at Li Mo expectantly.

"But, I am just a mortal now, and she is a cultivator. Will there be any obstacles between us?"

"There are definitely obstacles. Under normal circumstances, cultivators are naturally unwilling to combine with mortals."

Li Mo is calm and composed.

"However, Zhao Xiaonan is only a cultivator in the Qi training stage. Although she works very hard, I think her talent seems average. In the past two years, she has been diligent in her duties in Bai'an County and has not fought as hard as she did when I first met her. It seems that she has realized her own potential. If you can pass the imperial examination, you are not without a chance."

When Wang Pan heard this, he immediately looked excited.

Through the contact during this period, he felt deeply in love with Zhao Xiaonan, and sometimes even had trouble sleeping at night.

"Then...what should I pay attention to?"

"The number of male and female disciples in Lingmu Sect is relatively balanced, and generally speaking, they absorb the talent internally. However, I think Zhao Xiaonan is definitely not an ordinary person. She is beautiful and intelligent, with a scholarly air. She insists on having her own opinions and likes people with genuine nature. Your generous personality is a good match for her. If you can maintain your positive efforts and stay loyal for a long time, you should have a good chance. At least, no one in the department is worse than you."

Li Mo's words were sincere.

When he was in the first year of the Continuing Education Hall, Wang Feng originally wanted to bring him together with Zhao Xiaonan, but unfortunately the two were not destined to be together. Therefore, Li Mo had a certain understanding of Zhao Xiaonan.

Upon hearing this, Wang Pan immediately showed a look of anticipation.

"With your words, I will definitely do my best!"

He had no goals since he was born and had no motivation to do anything. Now he has finally found his goal.

(End of this chapter)