My blind date failed, so I had to ascend the throne and become emperor.

Chapter 145 Obtaining the Ancient Power

hum.

The energy of the formation spread out like ripples, and in the blink of an eye, the escaping stench of blood was bound within the range of the formation. The flower beds and the ground within three meters around the corpse were corroding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Captain Wu, my uncle and the others who had retreated to the range of the formation at this moment looked at the corrosion pits formed on the ground with solemn expressions, and some of them even showed a bit of fear on their faces. Fortunately, they retreated in time, otherwise they would have been contaminated by the fishy gas and the consequences would have been serious.

"What the hell is that?"

Someone couldn't help but ask.

Zhou Ping said in a deep voice, "It should be the backlash of the Blood Evil Talisman. This talisman uses the totem of an ancient fierce beast. By drawing on its power, it will naturally be attacked by the power. I didn't expect that even a trace of the power of this ancient fierce beast would be so terrifying."

"Who is the deceased?"

He looked at Captain Wu and his uncle.

My uncle hurriedly said, "The deceased was named Lin Xiaowei. She had just developed spiritual roots two months ago, but our tests just now showed that her spiritual energy was approaching 500. I asked the residents of the surrounding area, and they said that Lin Xiaowei often went out with a man named Chen Bailou. They said that before her death, she had an argument with Chen Bailou."

"The reason for the quarrel was probably because Chen Bailou secretly raised two girls..."

Captain Wu then retrieved the file.

Zhou Ping took a look and frowned.

"Xiaoping, what's wrong?"

My uncle asked.

Jiang Xia, Su Qier, Zhu Xiaoyue and the others all looked at Zhou Ping.

"This file is too simple."

"Too simple, what do you mean?"

"One of them cultivated his spiritual roots half a year ago, and the other two months ago. Before cultivating their spiritual roots, they were both ordinary office workers. However, there is no special information in their files after cultivating their spiritual roots."

Zhou Ping stared at the location of the corpse. The pit where the corrosion had spread was already over two meters deep, but the speed had slowed down. He continued, "The person who could create such a blood evil talisman is definitely not simple. And judging by the degree of backlash on the corpse, the other party's target is not Lin Xiaowei, but our Special Department!"

Hear this.

Captain Wu, my uncle and others were suddenly shocked.

"Zhou Ping, are you saying that even if you don't use any means to make the pattern clearer, the corpse will still backfire and emit that foul, corrosive gas?"

Zhu Xiaoyue expressed what was in everyone's mind.

Zhou Ping nodded. "Yes, my method can only trigger the energy of the blood evil talisman in advance. Imagine if the body is carried back for an autopsy and a sudden backlash occurs, and you are not prepared for this, what will be the consequences?"

Captain Wu's uncle and Su Qier's expressions suddenly changed.

Although they are all cultivators, and some of them have more than three thousand spiritual energies, judging from the degree of corrosive poison gas in the formation, they are afraid that even if they use spiritual energy to resist, they will still suffer from corrosion.

Captain Wu gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it! How dare they murder the Special Section? This matter must be thoroughly investigated!"

Everyone realized the seriousness of the matter.

The other party must have some support if they dare to target their special department.

And it is very likely that this is not just the first time, they may continue to target us in the future. If we don’t find out as soon as possible, the special department may suffer heavy losses.

at this time.

Zhou Ping and Captain Wu's phones rang at the same time.

The two looked at each other, and both saw seriousness in each other's eyes.

really.

It was the headquarters calling.

He told them to be careful of corpses with patterns on their chests.

"It appears this incident is nationwide."

Captain Wu clenched his fists. "Currently, corpses have exploded in over twenty areas, emitting foul-smelling fumes. Hundreds of Special Branch members have been injured, including more than ten team leaders... This vicious incident strongly resembles the work of a cult."

"Zhou Ping, thanks to you being here this time, we were able to avoid any casualties. However, the General Administration has already classified this as a national case, so your emergency response team will have their hands full. I will fully assist you and get to the bottom of this case as quickly as possible."

Zhou Ping had not expected this matter to be so serious. He had originally planned to take Jiang Xia, Chen Xue, and Tian Xiaoqin out for a trip in two or three days to strengthen their relationship and sort out their own cultivation, but they ended up encountering such a major case.

However, as the captain of the Special Department Huazhong Emergency Response Team, it is normal for him to encounter emergencies. If it weren't for Captain Wu's help last year, he wouldn't have been able to take Jiang Xia to wander around the ancient ruins so leisurely.

"Let's go back and have a meeting."

Some members were left behind to guard the place, while the others drove back to the Special Department Building.

soon.

In the conference room.

The backbones of the emergency response team and Jiangcheng Special Section are all present.

On the way back.

Captain Wu sent the detailed information about the Fulin Community corpse case to the group. He signaled Zhou Ping to speak first. After all, Zhou Ping was the captain of the emergency response team, and his rank was higher than his, the captain of the special unit. Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhou Ping coughed dryly and said, "Everyone understands the information about the case, right?"

Everyone nodded.

After experiencing three major cases including the Fushan female slave case, the people in the special department and the emergency team were still very impressed with Zhou Ping, especially Master Cheng Zhen and others who had been dissatisfied with Zhou Ping before. They also admired him in their hearts. Wang Zhaoxian, who was involved in the Fushan female slave case, was the cousin of Qin Bing, the helmsman of the three major groups. Not only that, Wang Zhaoxian also made friends with many people of status and position.

Even monks like them would not dare to offend such a person easily.

There are very few people who are upright and dare to offend the powerful. It is easy to say, but very difficult to do it. Perhaps everyone on the Internet is such a person, but in fact, when it comes to actual practice, everyone shrinks faster than anyone else.

Not to mention someone like Wang Zhaoxian, even a small figure would not dare to truly resist.

Therefore.

People will admire those who dare to speak the truth, dare to face tremendous pressure, and dare to expose ugliness.

Therefore, Zhou Ping was admired by many people in the special department for killing Wang Zhaoxian.

Now he opened his mouth.

The meeting room fell silent.

"The female corpse case in Fulin Community is not an isolated case, but a major case nationwide. It has now attracted the high attention of the General Administration."

Zhou Ping looked at everyone and said seriously, "From the current situation, it seems the murderer is targeting our Special Section... Let me first explain the key to this case: the Blood Evil Talisman. I haven't practiced in the Taoist academy, but I know that creating a Blood Evil Talisman requires a special blood-drawing technique. This method is not accessible to ordinary people. Therefore, the focus of our next investigation will be on those practitioners who have access to this type of talisman."

"In addition, we must also focus on investigating the victim Lin Xiaowei's own network of relationships and other clues. Everyone knows that since the full liberalization, the number of cultivators in Jiangcheng has skyrocketed, and all kinds of monsters and demons have emerged. The cultivation circle is very chaotic. Although it will be difficult to investigate, we must put in the effort..."

After he finished speaking.

Captain Wu began to speak.

Next came my uncle who was investigating the crime scene and gave some directions from a criminal investigation perspective.

The meeting lasted until 11 o'clock at night.

Zhou Ping took his uncle, Captain Wu and others to the cafeteria for a midnight snack.

It was almost 12 o'clock.

He and Jiang Xia returned to Taiyuan Villa Community.

on the way.

Jiang Xia, who was driving, said, "Zhou Ping, do you think this was done by an evil organization?"

Zhou Ping had a few drinks, and the car was filled with the smell of alcohol. He shook his head, "It's hard to say, but I don't think so. The Evil Society has been very quiet recently, and Evil King Tang's energy is not currently in the country."

Jiang Xia frowned and said, "If it weren't for an evil organization, who would dare to so blatantly target the Special Section? For a hundred years, the Special Section's prestige among practitioners has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although the number of practitioners has skyrocketed, most practitioners dare not challenge the authority of the Special Section. Could it be another mysterious force like the Guigu Sect?"

Zhou Ping pondered, "There are too few clues right now, so there's no need to jump to conclusions."

In fact, what Jiang Xia said makes sense.

For hundreds of years.

The Special Section handles malicious incidents, and has the right to investigate anything related to practitioners. Therefore, over time, practitioners are afraid of the Special Section, but at the same time they also yearn to join the Special Section and become its members.

When he first cultivated his spiritual roots and entered the Special Department, his status suddenly changed. Now that he has become the captain of the Special Department's emergency response team, his status and identity are even more extraordinary. Even a foundation-building genius like Lei Jiming is afraid of him.

Most domestic organizations do not have such courage.

Unless it is the Guigu Sect, Jing'an Si and other forces, but those forces act in a secretive and unpredictable way, and have always focused on ancient relics, and rarely get involved in secular conflicts.

"There's no power in the country, could it be abroad?"

He thought for a while and temporarily suppressed these thoughts.

No matter how chaotic the situation is now, improving one's own strength is the top priority.

It's quiet at night.

Chen Xue, Tian Xiaoqin and others entered a state of meditation.

The two women had the Earth Dragon Pill that Zhou Ping got from the treasure hall of the space ship. Their cultivation has improved very rapidly recently, especially Tian Xiaoqin. With the same pill, her improvement exceeded Chen Xue's. In a few days, she will have no problem entering the late stage of Qi training.

pity.

Their spiritual roots were still quite inferior, and the efficacy of the Earth Dragon Pill they absorbed was lower than Zhou Ping's. When Zhou Ping took the Earth Dragon Pill, many factors added to it, which increased his spiritual energy by tens of thousands. But for the two women, he estimated that it was only 20,000 at most.

Apart from that.

Zhou Ping felt regretful that they were unable to comprehend and practice the "Fuxi Visualization Diagram", and they were unable to comprehend even the lower-level practice methods. What they were practicing now was the top-notch skills that Zhou Ping had purchased based on their spiritual root attributes, and it had also been improved through deduction of national destiny points. The skills were just enough for them to comprehend and practice.

But no matter how good the skills are, there is no way to open the nine orifices and become a nine-orifice practitioner.

However, judging from the changes in Tian Xiaoqin's condition, Zhou Ping felt that as long as he continued to let them receive his blessings and feed them with the essence nurtured by the fairy fire seeds through their bodies, they might be able to undergo a transformation.

"It depends on their own luck."

Zhou Ping said secretly.

He has done everything he can. How far he can grow in the end depends on the efforts of Chen Xue and Tian Xiaoqin.

call.

suck.

Empty your mind.

He opened the virtual box of national destiny.

The more than 10 million national fortune points above gave him great confidence.

[Should I spend 300 million National Fortune Points to deduce and upgrade the "Torch Sutra"?]

【Yes】

As Zhou Ping muttered in his heart.

boom.

In an instant, the entire virtual frame burst into a dazzling golden light. The virtual frame itself vibrated wildly, consuming such a huge amount of national destiny points in one go. The virtual frame was running madly for a full hour.

New golden font generated.

You spent 300 million National Luck Points and obtained the foundation-building method, "The Scripture of the Fire: The Human Scroll."

[Continuing to improve requires 1500 million national fortune points]

See this display.

Zhou Ping couldn't help but gasp. Although he knew that the Xinhuo Sutra was very powerful, he didn't expect that the number of National Fortune Points required to upgrade it again after just one upgrade would be so terrifying.

However, the larger it is, the stronger the foundation-building method is.

No hesitation.

He took a deep breath and chose to receive it directly.

boom.

Suddenly, an extremely huge flow of information poured into Zhou Ping's sea of ​​consciousness. Even though he was now a foundation-building expert with tens of thousands of spiritual energy, he was still bloated and painful by this flow of information, and finally fainted.

Two hours later.

He slowly opened his eyes, shook his swollen head, and soon a large amount of information flashed in his mind.

Read for a while.

Zhou Ping couldn't help but get excited. This "The Scroll of the Torch: The Human Volume" was much more complete than the one given by the Phoenix Fairy, and it also contained the origin of this foundation-building method. It turned out to be the supreme skill created by Emperor Suiren, the first of the Three Emperors of ancient times. It was divided into three volumes: man, earth, and sky. Once mastered, one would possess unfathomable supernatural powers that were beyond the reach of gods and ghosts.

The "Human" scroll contains many methods of controlling and utilizing fire, and even a kind of magical power called "Samadhi True Fire". This is a well-known magical power of immortals. When this fire burns, even immortals cannot resist it.

However, the Samadhi True Fire in the Human Scroll is mainly used to cultivate the fire of the kidneys, which is one of the three fires. Only when the three scrolls of man, earth, and sky are all completed can the true supernatural power of Samadhi True Fire be produced.

But even the fire of the kidney is very strong.

"Haha, it's worth it, so worth it!"

He had originally felt bad about spending three million National Luck Points, but now he felt it was worth it. With the Samadhi True Fire magical power, if that cold and powerful man dared to come again, he would definitely let the other party taste his power.

"From now on, I have to nourish the fire of the kidneys!"

Zhou Ping closed his eyes and continued to sort out and read the foundation-building method. The kidney fire required the powerful flame to be absorbed into one's body, smelting the internal organs and generating the fire of essence. It was one of the flames of Samadhi. Of course, the heart fire, kidney fire and people's fire could all display the Samadhi true fire magical power, but when the Samadhi was united, the power would reach its peak.

And now he has the fairy fire seed, which is enough to nourish the fire of essence.

"According to the Foundation Establishment Scroll, it takes an ordinary Qi cultivator a long time to cultivate it. However, I have reached the Supreme Foundation Establishment, and I also have the Immortal Fire flowing through my meridians, so it doesn't take much time... Using the Immortal Fire to forge the Dao Foundation, although I almost perished and experienced unimaginable pain, now it seems that the decision I made was the right one!"

(End of this chapter)