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Zheng Xuan squatted on the ground, panting heavily. It was such a close call. He never expected that Zhao Erbiao would be alright when the first shot hit his chest.

That shot hit solidly.

Zheng Xuan stood up, took out bullets from his pocket, loaded the revolver, and then walked up to Zhao Erbiao's body with the gun in his hand.

First, they took the short knife from his hand, then they opened his chest and saw several bullet holes in his chest, and a bullet was lodged in his chest flesh, two centimeters deep, but it hadn't broken through his chest skin. This...

Zheng Xuan frowned, pondering to himself that the ability to do this must be a skill granted by the sequence.

Zheng Xuan guessed correctly; this was indeed a skill granted by the sequence. Zhao Erbiao was a dual-sequence user, and his teachers were the martial arts practitioners who sold powerful pills in the martial arts world.

Don't underestimate these martial arts practitioners. Although they belong to the lowest class, they are usually dual-class practitioners, proficient in spears, sticks, fists, and martial arts, as well as martial arts remedies.

Therefore, one of Zhao Erbiao's two major sequences is Martial Artist Sequence Nine: Ming Jin Martial Artist. The kung fu he cultivates is the famous Iron Shirt Kung Fu in the martial arts world, and thus he awakens the skill: Hardening!

This skill evolved from his long-term training in Iron Shirt and his performance of breaking boulders on his chest. It can harden his entire body instantly and allow him to withstand bullets.

However, the time was very short. After taking one bullet from Zheng Xuan, her strength was broken, which is why she was killed by Zheng Xuan's next few shots.

Besides the martial artist sequence, he also has a physician sequence nine: wandering physician. It's true that those who travel the martial arts world are half doctors. Therefore, he has also achieved some success in the physician sequence and entered sequence nine. His awakened skill is also very unique and is called: inferior medicine!

This skill is quite peculiar; he used this method to make fake medicine.

This skill allows him to make any fake medicine he comes into contact with taste and look just like the real medicine for a short period of time. No one can tell that the medicine is fake just by looking at it.

This is also why he was able to pass off the fake as genuine and deceive everyone when he sold it to Zheng Jinyao.

But a fake is still a fake. The fake medicine can only maintain its state for one hour. After one hour, the fake medicine will be exposed.

Zheng Xuan looked at Zhao Erbiao and had to admit that there were many talented and extraordinary people in the martial arts world. If he hadn't recently practiced Bajiquan and become much more agile, he might have been tricked by Zhao Erbiao using his hardening skill.

Thinking this, Zheng Xuan began rummaging through Zhao Erbiao's bag. This kid had been deceiving people in Tianjin for so long, there must be a lot of treasures in this bag.

Opening the bundle, Zheng Xuan was not disappointed. First, there was a large bag containing four hundred silver dollars, which must have been money he had swindled from Zheng Jin. Then there were a dozen or so loose silver dollars.

"It can't be this little bit of money," Zheng Xuan thought. Then, under the bundle, he found two deposit slips, each worth five hundred silver dollars. One was from HSBC in England, and the other was from Banque de l'Indochine in France.

Zheng Xuan put the silver notes away, planning to take them out again in a few days. However, they had traveled all over the country and couldn't possibly have only this much money.

As he was thinking, he noticed a sandalwood box in the bundle. He opened it, and a fragrant aroma of medicine wafted out. Zheng Xuan looked inside and saw two porcelain bottles and a small piece of pure white lotus root.

The porcelain bottle is inscribed with the words: Ruizhitang.

Ruizhitang is a time-honored brand in Tianjin and a leading pharmacy in the city. Their medicines are known for their high quality.

Zheng Xuan opened the porcelain bottle, took a sniff, and his eyes lit up immediately: Qi and Blood Pill.

These are two bottles of genuine Qi and Blood Pills, but one bottle only has six pills left. The few missing pills were clearly used to set a trap. Zheng Jin didn't take fake Qi and Blood Pills on either occasion; they were genuine products produced by Ruizhitang, which is why he felt the medicine was effective.

"One and a half bottles should be enough," Zheng Xuan muttered to himself. He was now only one step away from Ming Jin, and with one and a half bottles of Qi and Blood Pills, he should be able to complete the final breakthrough.

Thinking to himself, he put the two bottles of Qi and Blood Pills away, then his eyes fell on the half lotus root in the box.

If it can be placed together with the Qi and Blood Pill, then this lotus root must be no ordinary item.

As Zheng Xuan thought about it, he reached out and grasped it, and immediately felt a chill that went straight to his head. He couldn't help but shiver.

He then felt the bottleneck in his corpse retriever sequence loosen slightly.

"This lotus root..."

Zheng Xuan's glasses lit up. Could this be useful for his corpse retriever sequence?

Zheng Xuan's progress using the visualization diagram is currently very slow; he may need some potions specific to the Corpse Retriever sequence to improve faster.

Could this lotus root be...?

Unfortunately, the sequence of corpse retrievers is too fragmented, unlike the orderly inheritance of the martial artist sequence.

Each stage advances to the next, and countless predecessors have experimented with many versions. For example, when entering the martial artist sequence Nine Bright Strength, there is Qi and Blood Pill to assist. Of course, in addition to Qi and Blood Pill, there are some other tonics. For example, it is said that in addition to Qi and Blood Pill, the Bagua Sect also has a special blood-strengthening soup!

Because, in the martial arts sequence, some predecessors have reached Sequence One, so there is a clear lineage of elixirs for this advancement path.

However, corpse retrievers are different. Their sequence has been interrupted for many years. If they want to improve, they mostly have to figure it out on their own or naturally break through through the accumulation of time.

However, this half of the white jade lotus root made Zheng Xuan feel as if he had obtained an item that could help him advance to the eighth level of the Corpse Retriever sequence.

Although Zheng Xuan didn't know the name of this lotus root, he was certain it was a treasure.

It was only many years later that Zheng Xuan learned that this lotus root had been introduced from beyond the Great Wall. It was a rare ice-heart lotus root that grew in Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain. He had bought this piece from Zhao Erbiao at a high price from the head of ginseng in Changbai Mountain.

Zheng Xuan was overjoyed to have acquired two treasures; it was truly a windfall.

He turned around and patted Sanhu and Erzi's bodies again, finding more than a dozen silver dollars. Sanhu also had the fake medicine they had made, as well as three British steamship tickets. Zheng Xuan piled these things together and burned them along with the corpses to destroy the evidence.

After finishing all that, Zheng Xuan straightened his clothes, brushed off the mud, and went home as if nothing had happened.

That's how things are in this day and age. A person dying is more common than a dog dying. If no one reports it to the authorities, no one will investigate.

After strolling back home, the fisherwoman had already prepared dinner and was waiting for him. Zheng Xuan hadn't been home for two days, and she was extremely worried. She was relieved to know that Zheng Xuan was back.

Eating, sleeping, and studying the Kun character formula with the fisherwoman go without saying.

Meanwhile, Zheng Jin, having successfully completed such a large deal, was so happy that he wanted to treat Wei Datong to drinks. Wei Datong couldn't refuse and could only have a few drinks. However, Wei Datong was thinking about his kickbacks and naturally didn't dare to drink too much. Zheng Jin, on the other hand, got quite drunk and returned home.

He found his parents, uncle, aunt, and maternal grandfather all there, and they saw Zheng Jin like this.

Feng Guiqin asked, "Son, did you manage to buy it?"

Zheng Jin then hiccuped and said, "Don't worry, I've bought all five bottles of Qi and Blood Pills."

Upon hearing this, the uncle said from the side, "Take it out and let's take a look."