From slave trader to the Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Laws

Willow shade?

Calming the Waves?

Are you here to see Xu Lian?

Problems sprang up like mushrooms after rain, one after another, so Jiang She simply spread his divine sense and peered into the alley.

The woman was beautiful, with a slender figure and exquisite curves. Although her breasts were not as proud and high as those of Madam Xu, they were still full and plump, with a perfect balance of size and shape.

Today, she did not wear her usual maid's dress.

Instead, she wore a black, close-fitting outfit that allowed for easy movement, covered by a light, matching cloak, and a straw hat with a low brim that covered most of her face, revealing only a section of her smooth chin and slightly pursed red lips.

She wore a pair of black tight-fitting trousers, the fabric supple and tightly wrapped around her long, straight legs, outlining the firm and smooth muscle lines of her thighs; her buttocks were round and perky, full like ripe peaches, weighing heavily on the trousers, swaying gracefully as she walked, exuding a unique charm and maturity of a mature woman.

At that moment, the woman was surrounded by a dozen thugs, standing in the shadows of the alley, looking as if they were about to fight.

Jiang She kept his eyes straight ahead, yet he could see that this woman had a predetermined fate.

A woman's destiny is called "tolerance".

It is a destiny unique to women.

This destiny can use body parts as containers to encompass all things, and it has three realms, from lowest to highest:

"Honey Water", "Sitting and Breathing in Zen", "Juque"

Once you cultivate to the level of "Juque", you can swallow enormous objects!

Simply put, it means being able to use certain parts of the body as storage bags, loosening and tightening them to allow large objects to enter and exit at will. For example, when fighting an enemy, one can pull out a large stick from one's ear, or in daily life, one can pull out various odds and ends from one's navel.

However....

Liu Yin doesn't use this fate skill often, but every time she does, it's surprisingly effective. So far, it seems to be a "honey pot" (meaning something that is not very useful).

...

...

"Young lady."

A rough voice rang out.

The speaker was a burly man who led the group of hooligans.

The burly man wore an open, old-fashioned jacket, revealing his dark chest covered in thick hair, making him look like a wild man. His face was bronze, with high cheekbones and a scar running diagonally across his left cheek behind his ear, the skin and flesh rolled up, making him look ferocious and terrifying.

At this moment, he was crossing his arms in front of his chest, his muscles bulging, the veins on his arms throbbing like earthworms, and his right hand's five fingers were constantly bending and straightening, while his knuckles were cracking.

"Young lady, things haven't reached an agreement?"

The burly man's voice was rough, like a bull in heat. As he spoke, he raised his hand, and his henchman immediately handed him a copper rod. He then gripped the rod in his palm, held it horizontally, and blocked the woman's path, saying fiercely:

"We've been waiting for you for a long time. If you don't hand over the money soon, don't blame us for being rough!"

This gang of hooligans is a group that usually freeloads in the suburbs. Some time ago, Liu Yin suddenly came to their door, paid a deposit of one or two taels of silver, and called them to cause trouble on the Xu family's open space.

As for the reason for this disturbance, it was nothing more than to find the assassin who almost failed in his attempt to calm the storm.

Liu Yin, being cautious and solitary, naturally wouldn't go looking for him personally.

Sending this gang of rascals was a way of testing the waters.

Thinking of this, Liu Yin glanced at the open space from afar.

At first glance, what comes into view is the high platform for inviting the gods, which resembles a black tower and is several times taller than the surrounding pavilions and rooftops.

The platform is almost complete: the base is built of bluestone, square and heavy, with chisel marks on the stone surface, still showing the freshness of being newly carved; the body of the platform is made of huge trees, with fir pillars like a forest, each one straight, with crossbeams between the pillars, the mortise and tenon joints fitting tightly, and iron hoops wrapped around and reinforced, making it as stable as a rock.

The eaves on the platform are beginning to take shape, and the brackets are layered, like a roc spreading its wings, ready to take off with the wind. From a distance, there are a dozen or so dark figures on the platform, some squatting and some standing, as small as ants, laying wooden planks, with hammers rising and falling, making a thumping sound.

Liu Yin withdrew his gaze, slightly raised his hat, and his sinister eyes landed on the burly man's face. He chuckled and said:

"You black bastard, what nonsense are you spouting?"

"I taught you to cause trouble, but instead you've resorted to sneaky tricks. You're not up to the task, yet you expect me to pay you? Heh, dream on!"

The actions of the Han dynasty went against Liu Yin's original intentions.

She originally intended to use the hooligans' disturbance to capture influential members of the Xu family, so that she could recruit them as her henchmen and find out who the assassin hiding in the Xu family was.

But unexpectedly... these scoundrels were all talk and no action, each one of them greedy for money.

However, among the crowd, a few ruffians still had some conscience. They were somewhat ashamed after being confronted by the woman, and they all loosened the boxes of goods tucked under their arms and wiped their sweaty faces.

Before the group could put down the stolen goods, the big man suddenly turned his head and glared at them.

"Hmph! You little wench, how dare you slander us!"

The burly man's eyes narrowed, and he waved his hand, signaling his henchmen to swarm forward: "Brothers! Tie her up! Take turns with her first, then send her to a brothel to be sold!"

"Big Brother is so righteous!"

Several hooligans licked their lips and walked up with ill intent.

The four men surrounded the woman.

They looked at each other, grinned, and pounced at each other!

"Thump!"

A muffled thud was heard, but it wasn't the woman being tackled; instead, it was four burly men who had pounced on her, their foreheads colliding in pairs.

The others looked at each other, none of them knowing what had just happened. Some sharp-eyed people saw a dark figure jump up from where the woman had been standing, but when they rubbed their eyes and looked again, they found that the woman had disappeared.

"What happened?"

"What about that little vixen?"

The ruffians were stunned for a moment, then hurriedly turned their heads to look around. But before they could take a few glances, they heard a whooshing sound from above:

"Whoosh—!"

A dark shadow fell straight down, leaving a trail of afterimages, and landed behind the burly man at the head of the group.

The burly man's eyelids twitched. He suddenly heard footsteps behind him, but before he could turn around, a breeze brushed against his sweaty back, sending a chill down his spine.

"Big brother..."

"Um?"

"That little vixen is behind you."

"Hey!"

Upon hearing this, the burly man turned around abruptly, and with a swift motion, he swung his bronze cudgel down, creating a powerful gust of wind!

"clang--!"

A crisp sound echoed through the old bluestone alley.

The bronze staff cleaved through the air and crashed to the ground. The force of the impact sent a jolt through the man's hand, making his tiger's mouth go numb. Just as he was about to switch hands to grip the staff, an embroidered shoe stepped on it.

He immediately stomped down!

"Bang!"

The ground in the alley shook with a loud bang.

With a loud crash, the bronze rod did not break, but instead pressed down on the big man's hand, pinning him firmly to the ground.

The bluestone slab beneath his hand was cracked from being stepped on, and the bones of his hand holding the stick were crushed inch by inch.

"Ha!"

He felt a sharp pain, and a sweet taste filled his throat.

His eyes stared upwards in fear and unease, but he couldn't make out the woman's face under the straw hat.

He could only tremble and say in a shaking voice:

"You little vixen... oh no, my heroine, spare my life!"

"Oh?" A smile, her red lips parted slightly beneath the bamboo hat, revealed pearly teeth. "So eager? You don't want the money anymore?"

"No...no more."

The big man grimaced in pain, barely managing to squeeze out those words through his teeth.

Looking back, he found his underlings frozen in place, completely terrified.

Seeing this, the burly man had no choice but to continue smiling obsequiously:

"A female...heroine."

Liu Yin ignored him and instead pressed down harder on the copper rod with the sole of his foot.

"Click!"

With a crisp crack, the copper rod pressed down, and the hand bones beneath it immediately cracked again. However, the excruciating pain in the hand did not subside, and the ulna and radius of the big man's forearm began to crack inch by inch.

The sound of bones cracking was fine and crisp, like an iron awl striking ice. The big man's eyes widened, and he gritted his teeth in pain.

"Heroine...madam, spare my life..."

The big man's lips trembled as he begged for mercy, enduring the pain. However, before he could finish speaking, Liu Yin had already raised his foot and kicked him!

"Bang--!"

With a muffled thud, the big man's body flew backward, but the copper rod still pressed down on his palm. The force of his backward movement and the downward force of stepping on the copper rod tore each other apart. In the blink of an eye, there was a tearing sound, and a muscular arm was torn off from the shoulder blade!

next moment.

Blood splattered, spraying blood flowers in mid-air. A crimson arc followed the flying body, leaving a red trail on the ground, like a blood mop dragging across it.

Followed by.

With a loud crash, the burly man slammed into the stone wall.

Blood spurted out like graffiti, staining half of the green wall red, but the severed arm was still pressed under the stick, its five fingers still twitching incessantly.

Liu Yin patted the tips of her shoes, as if afraid of getting her embroidered shoes dirty.

She lowered her eyes, her voice as cold as iron:

"I paid you a deposit of one or two taels, but you failed to perform your duties properly. Today, I'm cutting off your arm as interest."

"Get out of here now!"

Upon hearing this, the hooligans felt as if they had been granted a pardon.

They were already terrified, so upon hearing this, how could they not leave?

Several people cautiously stepped forward and helped the burly man, who was on the verge of death. Their movements were hasty, and when they touched his wounds, the man closed his eyes and screamed in pain, then convulsed.

"Big...Big Brother, hang in there..."

"Hurry! Hurry!"

The group fled in panic, their footsteps hurried and disorganized, not even caring about the bamboo baskets they knocked over at the corner of the alley.

"waste!"

Watching the hooligans flee, Liu Yin spoke coldly.

He thought angrily to himself, "Those scoundrels outside are really useless. Now I'm the only one who can investigate this myself."

Before he could finish speaking, a sound suddenly came from the alley entrance.

"Rustling..."

It is the sound of a person walking with small steps.

"Who?"

Liu Yin turned around with a start, looking towards the alley entrance, only to see a thin, frail figure trembling as it leaned against the wall to emerge.

He was one of the people who had intentionally put down the box earlier.

"It's you? What are you doing back here?"

Liu Yin spoke coldly, saying that the hooligans had broken their promise first, and she had already shown mercy by not killing them all.

However, his greater concern was that killing someone here would attract the attention of the underworld and expose him.

Liu Yin would never do something so uncertain. She was about to wave the ruffian away when she heard him, trembling, say:

"Heroine...heroine, just now in the Xu family's open space, it seems...it seems a very important person has arrived."

"Oh?"

Liu Yin immediately became interested: "What do you mean by that?"

The rogue's legs trembled as he replied, "Replying to...replying to the heroine, I sneaked to the warehouse by the open space just now, intending to steal some boxed goods, but...but I just overheard some craftsmen whispering that the master's carriage had arrived."

"Um?"

Liu Yin's gaze sharpened: "Continue!"

Upon hearing this, the rogue swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down: "I saw that carriage. It was drawn by four horses, with fragrant wheels and precious riders. A lantern with the character 'Xu' hung on the shaft. When the curtain was lifted, an extremely beautiful young lady stepped out."

"Is it Xu Qingyue?"

Liu Yin felt a sudden chill and hurriedly questioned him.

Xu Qingyue is the head of the Xu family's business empire, the only daughter of the Xu family's direct line, and her status is extremely noble. How could such a person travel without expert bodyguards secretly protecting her?

If it really was her, Liu Yin dared not move.

She has always been a woman of few words and deep thought.

If we rashly attack Xu Qingyue, we might not only fail to capture her, but also alert her and bring endless troubles in the future.

Fortunately, upon hearing this, the rogue hurriedly waved his hand in acknowledgment:

"Heroine, that young lady is not Xu Qingyue, but her personal maid. She only stood for a short while after getting off the carriage before getting back on and returning."

"But a man got off the carriage and didn't go back with her. Instead, he stayed in the open space, arm in arm with the foreman. He looked like he had been sent to supervise the work."

Ok?

Supervisor?

Liu Yin's thoughts raced.

The construction of a high platform for inviting the gods by the Xu family has recently become a major event in the capital, known to everyone in the streets and alleys. Xu Qingyue has personally come to the construction site in her luxurious carriage and has also specially left someone to supervise the work...

It seems...

This person must have gained Xu Qingyue's trust and is her confidant. He must have some influence in the household, whether as a steward or a close attendant, someone who can speak for the Xu family.

If we capture him and interrogate him thoroughly, perhaps... we can find the fellow assassins hiding in the Xu family.

At that time, we can discuss the matter in detail.

Thinking of this, a glint flashed in Liu Yin's eyes, and he hurriedly asked:

Where is that man now?

The rascal trembled at her sudden sharp tone and quickly pointed to the west side of the open space:

"Over there... by the cedar lumber yard, under the shed, that young man in the blue robe is..."

Following the direction it pointed, Liu Yin looked towards the west.

On the west side, under the warehouse shed, timber was piled up like a mountain.

The newly felled fir trees, after being peeled and dried, are straight as spears, their light yellow wood gleaming with a faint oily sheen in the sunlight; wood shavings are scattered between the stacks, thick and piled up like snow, and when the wind blows, they are swept up in fluttering white flakes that dance in the air.

Several sheds were built next to the log stacks.

The shed was simple, with bamboo frames covered with thatch and reed mats, and the uneven roof trembled slightly in the wind.

Under the shed, figures moved about, and a dozen craftsmen were busy at work. Some swung axes to chop wood, and wood chips flew out with a sound; some bent over to push planes, rolling up thin wood shavings like surging waves; and some squatted on the ground, holding ink lines and flicking them with ink. With a soft snap, a straight ink mark was left on the wood.

All around, the sounds of sawing and planing wood blended together, and there was a constant clattering and hammering noise.

Liu Yin's gaze swept quickly, instantly locking onto a tall, upright figure under the workers' shed.

The man stood with his back to the camera, dressed in a blue robe, and was leaning slightly forward, as if examining the blueprints spread out on the ground.

The craftsmen around him treated him with respect.

Some bowed in response, while others stood at attention with their hands at their sides.

Although the man's face was not clearly visible, his composed demeanor and calm bearing were certainly not those of an ordinary servant.

"Is this the person?"

Liu Yin questioned him incessantly.

She believed that the craftsmen feared and respected him because of his status.

Little did they know that the craftsmen respected him because this man had just completely won them over with his single-handed carving skills.

"Yes! It's him! The man who stepped down from Miss Xu's carriage!"

The rogue nodded slightly.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yin raised her red lips slightly and smiled.

Ah!

It's true what they say, "You can search high and low without finding it, but then it comes to you effortlessly." The man I've been looking for has finally been found!

Tonight....

I'll show him the power of my "honeydew"!