New and dark light years

Chapter 452 Planting Spies in the Immortal Execution Society

Li Lin met Zeng Hongluo in the evening.

At this moment, Zeng Hongluo was covered in blood, with countless tiny holes all over her body, clearly ravaged by the "Tianjingsha" technique.

She stared wide-eyed at Chu Rengong with resentment.

Chu Rengong leaned against Li Lin and said sweetly, "Husband, it was this woman who poisoned my recipe."

Li Lin nodded, looked at Zeng Hongluo on the ground, and said, "You brought her back so I could interrogate her?"

"No, I just want my husband to kill her with his own hands. After all, she almost killed you, and she will kill me too."

Chu Rengong felt lingering fear when he thought about handing over the poisonous formula to Li Lin.

Li Lin shook his head and said, "There's no need. I shouldn't be the one to interrogate her. Let the yamen runners handle it."

At this moment, Chu Rengong pulled Li Lin aside and said, "There are some things in the Zhuxian Society that are not convenient for ordinary people to know, as it would not be good for them."

Li Lin thought about it and agreed.

The Immortal Execution Conference will definitely involve matters related to cultivation, and it would be bad if ordinary yamen runners knew about this.

It wasn't that Li Lin was afraid of competing with others, but rather that he was afraid some of the yamen runners would have inappropriate thoughts and want to do things beyond their capabilities.

He nodded and said, "Then let's conduct the trial here."

Zeng Hongluo was practically on her deathbed, her consciousness fading. Hearing their conversation, she instinctively let out a mocking laugh: "I'm about to die... what are you still interrogating me for...?"

Hearing the prisoners on the ground speak, Li Lin looked down at her, then just smiled, and bent down to press several acupoints on Zeng Hongluo.

As a skilled doctor, Li Lin knew exactly how to save lives.

Zeng Hongluo's bleeding stopped immediately, and she continued to breathe, sustaining her already limited life force.

"I won't say anything," Zeng Hongluo sneered. "Don't waste your time."

Chu Rengong's eyes darted around a couple of times, and he said from the side, "It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. What do you think would happen if we threw you into a beggar's alley?"

There are beggars everywhere in this world, it's just a matter of how many there are.

Even under Li Lin's rule, where public security was relatively stable and official conduct was relatively clean, he was still unable to ensure that everyone had land to cultivate and every family had a house to live in.

It's just much better than other places.

“You dare…” Zeng Hongluo’s face was filled with fear.

Therefore, women are the ones who understand what other women are afraid of the most, and only women enjoy bullying other women.

This is the case between Zeng Hongluo and Chu Rengong.

Li Lin raised his eyebrows, somewhat disagreeing with Chu Rengong's statement, but then dismissed the idea.

Let's deal with people from the martial arts world according to their rules.

Chu Rengong looked at her and said smugly, "Do you think I dare to do that!"

Zeng Hongluo shuddered at the thought of being thrown into a pile of beggars and manipulated by those smelly men. She hurriedly said, "Please, just kill me."

Chu Rengong had been waiting for her to say that. Hearing this, she smiled smugly and said, "Then tell me everything you know, and I will ask my husband to give you a dignified death."

Zeng Hongluo shifted her gaze to Li Lin.

Li Lin nodded slightly.

Zeng Hongluo looked at Li Lin's face for a while, then said, "The Chu Palace has made a profit."

Chu Rengong's expression immediately turned smug. Then she glanced at Li Lin and returned to her usual demeanor: "Speak."

"What do you want to ask?"

"Why does the Immortal Execution Society kill cultivators?" Li Lin asked.

"A cultivator like you, seizing the spiritual energy of the world..."

Li Lin waved his hand and said, "You might be able to fool ordinary people with this, but it's pointless to fool me. Spiritual energy is a resource, but aren't primordial energy and yin energy also resources? There are countless martial arts practitioners in the world, and the primordial energy consumed by so many people, when converted into spiritual energy, is far greater than the amount used by us cultivators."

Zeng Hongluo's eyes widened slightly. Even with such a simple movement, her face stung with pain after she did it.

After all, her face was covered with small blood pits, almost like a lotus seedpod.

"Can vital energy be converted into spiritual energy?" Zeng Hongluo asked incredulously.

Li Lin smiled without saying a word.

Chu Rengong frowned and said, "Don't ask so many questions. Your husband is interrogating you now, understand?"

Zeng Hongluo took a breath and said through the pain, "Although my status in the association is higher than Chu Rengong's, I still don't have access to the most core secrets. If I had to say what's unusual about him, it's that the Grand Master is a bit inhuman."

Li Lin raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean?"

“I’ve met the Grand Master once. He looks like a human, but he doesn’t feel human to me.” Zeng Hongluo pondered for a moment and said, “The Vice Grand Master and several elders also don’t seem very human.”

Chu Rengong was extremely surprised: "Not human? What is it? A Gu person... No, that's not right, Gu people are a recent phenomenon."

“They weren’t Gu people either.” Zeng Hongluo’s voice became even weaker: “I can’t describe the feeling. They look like people, but they don’t feel human to me.”

Li Lin fell into thought.

Chu Rengong asked, "Is there anything else? This little bit of information isn't very meaningful."

Zeng Honglu thought for a moment and said, "The leader is going to assassinate Qin Tuo in a month, but I don't know the exact time."

Chu Rengong said, "What does this have to do with us? What we want is..."

“This intelligence is quite good.” Li Lin interrupted Chu Rengong, looking at Zeng Hongluo and saying, “How can you confirm that this information is true?”

“They said it to my face. We were discussing which cultivators to deal with.” Zeng Hongluo’s eyes were almost closed, and her voice was weak. “Qin Tuo was at the very front of the list, followed by the emperor, and then you.”

Chu Rengong snorted: "To actually put that scoundrel Qin Tuo before my husband, the Grand Master doesn't know his stuff."

Women's competitive nature can be quite inexplicable.

Li Lin nodded, then asked, "Do you want to live, Chief Zeng?"

Chu Rengong turned his head and looked at Li Lin in surprise.

Zeng Hongluo's eyes were almost closed as she slowly said, "My face is like this, I don't want to live anymore..."

Women, especially beautiful women, value their appearance more than their lives.

Even if her face is healed now, it will still be pockmarked and uneven, so she might as well be dead.

Li Lin laughed and said, "I can heal your face, making it exactly the same as before."

Zeng Hongluo's eyes snapped open, her previously lifeless gaze now filled with anticipation: "Really?"

Li Lin said, "I am a military governor and a cultivator, I would not lie to you on such an important matter."

If she can live, and won't become a stinky monster, Zeng Hongluo is very willing to live.

She asked anxiously, "Can it really be restored to the same state as before?"

“I’m skilled in alchemy and my medical skills are also quite good, what do you say?” Li Lin smiled. Zeng Hongluo took a deep breath, then the pain in her body almost made her faint. She trembled for a moment and said, “Then what do I need to do…”

“Continue to be your former leader, and return to the Immortal Execution Society as my undercover agent.”

Zeng Hongluo said helplessly, "It's impossible. The Yulin County branch was destroyed by Chu Rengong and that big monster. If I go back, I will be punished just the same, and I probably won't survive."

"Then, why don't we just let you make a contribution?"

A longing for life appeared in Zeng Hongluo's eyes: "Aren't you afraid that I'll agree to your request, but then sell you back home?"

“I will naturally find a way to make you not dare to do that,” Li Lin laughed. “I am skilled in alchemy and also know medicine. It would be too easy for me to make a few kinds of poisons that take effect at set times and make people wish they were dead.”

Zeng Honglu smiled wryly and said, "Alright, what credit can I take back?"

"Let's heal you first." Li Lin called out to the side, "Yan Jing, come out."

A female ghost emerged from the void.

Upon seeing her, Zeng Hongluo's eyes flashed with horror.

Although she was beaten to the brink of death by Chu Rengong, the Great Demon who froze nearly a hundred people in an instant was far more terrifying to her.

"Take her back to the backyard."

Li Yanjing took small, quick steps to Li Lin's side: "It's not good to let her see the real Madam."

"It's alright, she'll see it and be even more dedicated to helping us." Li Lin smiled.

"Then I will listen to my husband."

Li Yanjing beckoned, and Zeng Hongluo transformed into a stream of light, disappearing into her sleeve.

This skill of 'moving objects' is the legendary Five Ghosts Moving Technique.

Li Lin had tried to learn from Yan Jing, but he couldn't master it.

Because Li Yanjing couldn't explain it clearly; she only knew how to use it, but she couldn't explain how or why she could use it.

Li Yanjing then disappeared, and Li Lin rode his horse to the Chu Palace and returned home.

When they arrived at the backyard, they saw Zeng Honglu lying on the grass, looking up at the Tree Fairy floating in the air, her eyes filled with horror.

She could sense just how powerful this True Lord floating in the air was.

Upon seeing Li Lin and Chu Rengong enter, she shifted slightly and asked, "Governor, two women came to see me for a while. Judging from their conversation, they must be your principal wife and concubine."

"Qing'er and Hongluan, what's wrong?" Li Lin squatted down and answered while taking her pulse.

"The two of them are just as strong as me."

Li Lin nodded: "If it really comes down to a fight, you should be stronger, after all, they have been practicing martial arts for less than three years."

"According to our intelligence, your wife Huang Qing... should be the eldest daughter of Prefect Huang of Tianjin, and your concubine should be a maidservant."

Li Lin nodded: "Yes."

"Before they married you, they must have been just weak women."

"Correct."

Li Lin nodded as he channeled a stream of spiritual energy into Zeng Hongluo's body to protect her heart and prevent her from suddenly dying.

Zeng Hongluo shifted her gaze to Chu Rengong beside her: "And Chu Rengong, her strength has suddenly increased significantly. She couldn't beat me before."

Upon hearing this, Chu Rengong laughed and said, "So what? You're no match for me now."

"In other words, Governor, you have a way to make people... or rather, women, quickly become stronger, and it seems there are no side effects." Zeng Hongluo's gaze swept over Chu Rengong's face twice before returning to Li Lin: "It can even make them more beautiful."

Li Lin smiled but didn't say anything.

Chu Rengong stood to the side with a rather smug expression.

Then Li Lin said to Chu Rengong, "Go to the warehouse and take out the Tianshan Snow Lotus. Then go find Steward Zhang and tell him to wait outside the study. I will go over and write a prescription later so he can go to the pharmacy to get some medicine."

Chu Rengong nodded and then walked towards the warehouse.

After Chu Rengong left, Zeng Hongluo looked at Li Lin and said, "My lord... I can do it too. What Chu Rengong can do, I can do as well."

She was really envious.

Now she understood why Chu Rengong's strength had increased so rapidly and why she had suddenly become much prettier—it was all related to Li Lin.

Admiring strength is an instinct ingrained in most women, especially since Li Lin is not only strong but also very handsome.

It's just self-sacrifice; she could do that too.

Li Lin said calmly, "You're too greedy."

"Why can Chu Rengong do it, but I can't?" Zeng Hongluo's eyes were filled with resentment. "As far as I know, she almost killed you, while I only gave you a recipe, which was poisonous, but..."

At this point, Zeng Hongluo couldn't continue, because she suddenly felt that she was perhaps even more outrageous than Chu Rengong.

Li Lin stood up and said, "I used my spiritual energy to protect your heart meridian, so you won't die for now. Lie down for now, and I'll go to the study to write a prescription for you. I'll go and refine the medicine for you now."

After saying that, Li Lin left.

After Li Lin left, Li Yanjing emerged from the void. She looked at Zeng Hongluo with disdain in her eyes: "Who do you think you are, daring to have such wishful thinking!"

"Why can Chu Rengong do it, but I can't!" Zeng Hongluo asked loudly. "She's a woman of the martial world, and so am I. She's a virgin, but am I not?"

"You're still a virgin?"

The speaker was Chu Rengong. She walked over from a short distance away, her eyes filled with surprise: "But I've heard that you have the nickname of being promiscuous, and I've also heard that you've had syphilis."

"If I hadn't done this, I would have been taken advantage of long ago. How could I have gotten to my current position as a branch leader?" Zeng Honglu sneered. "You think you're safe? It's fortunate you left Zhuxian earlier. Actually, some elders are already eyeing you, but they won't target me because I have syphilis, hahahaha!"

Chu Rengong pursed his lips; this was truly the first time he had ever heard of such a thing.

Li Lin had already written the prescription and handed it to the steward.

Not long after, the butler returned with a bundle of medicine wrapped in paper.

"Take it to the kitchen and have someone simmer it over a low flame for an hour, then add the Tian Shan snow lotus and simmer for another half hour."

Zhang Afu nodded and left with the medicinal herbs.

Li Lin stayed in the study, looking at the 'treasure' inside. He was thinking about which item would be more suitable to 'give' to Zeng Hongluo so that she could take it away and make it easier for her to 'make a contribution'.

His gaze swept over the Rainbow Immortal Sword, the Jade Bowl, the Soul-Suppressing Bell, and other immortal artifacts.

Finally, my gaze fell upon the Rainbow Sword.

He doesn't really like this stuff.

The 'seed' that Siluotuo left in the illusory space always felt a bit uncomfortable. Even though he infused it with his spiritual energy, it still gave off an unsettling feeling.

Letting her take it would be good, but that's not enough. We need to add some special effects to this white jade sword.

Li Lin thought for a moment, then suddenly came up with an idea and began to draw rune arrays on the immortal sword.

(End of this chapter)