Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

After He Teng left.

Liang Xiaoyun and several members of the Night Watch got up from the ground.

They all glared angrily at He Teng.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

He Teng was a sixth-rank expert, and behind him was Chen Lei, the newly appointed chief of the Wilderness Guard.

No matter how angry they were, they could only suppress their anger.

This involves factional struggles within the Night Watch, which is beyond their authority to comment on.

"Are you alright?" Gu Chen asked, looking at the others.

"Sir, we are alright," Liang Xiaoyun and several Night Watch personnel replied.

"Hmm." Gu Chen nodded, then left the Night Watch and returned to his residence to refine pills.

He Teng's matter was just a side issue; alchemy was the important thing, as it ensured his and the Cheng family's income and could not be delayed.

On He Teng's side.

After leaving the Nine Bays City Night Watch.

He left Jiuwan City directly.

Having been rebuffed by the Night Watch of Nine Bays City, he naturally saw no need to stay there any longer.

He couldn't give up on the matter of the four top powers searching for the treasure; Gu Chen wouldn't give him any face.

He can go to the cities near Jiuwan City; I believe there are plenty of people who will give him face.

Gu Chen, he'll get what's coming to him.

It took an hour.

He Teng arrived at Xiling City, which is adjacent to Jiuwan City, and went directly into the Night Watch of Xiling City.

The head of the Night Watch in Xiling City is a man with powerful connections; his backer is the head of the Night Watch in Heiyan Prefecture.

Upon seeing He Teng, the newly appointed chief of the Wilderness Guard, arrive as his personal disciple, they wished they could immediately become He Teng's dogs.

She immediately obeyed his every word.

"I want you to mobilize the forces of the Xiling City Night Watch to monitor the four top forces that have recently arrived in Black Rock Prefecture: the Divine Fist Sect, the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, the Haoran Academy, and the Golden Radiance Palace. Find out their movements, what they are doing now, and report back to me after you have investigated everything," He Teng said to the head of the Xiling City Night Watch.

"Yes, sir." The head of the Night Watch of Xiling City immediately went to do it.

Now that Chen Lei is the Chief of the Night Watch of Huangzhou, as long as he can leverage his relationship with He Teng and get on his good side, he will have a chance to climb the ranks in the future.

He can't miss it.

In the Xiling Mountains.

The four top-tier forces are still urging the third-tier forces to dig up the mountain range like crazy.

We strive to uncover the entrance to the cemetery as soon as possible.

And then it got late afternoon.

In the ranks of Haoran Academy.

One of the young men quietly left the group.

After returning to the outskirts of Jiuwan City and changing her appearance, she went directly into the city.

The next few days.

On the other side of the Xiling Mountains, the excavation work is still in full swing.

Here in Jiuwan City.

But something strange happened.

The government office in the city.

Today, another wealthy family came to report the case.

Last night, their young lady was defiled by that womanizer again.

This is the fourth such incident in the past few days.

Starting four days ago.

Every day, members of wealthy families in the city come to report the case.

They claimed that their eldest daughter was secretly taken in at night by a philanderer who drugged and defiled her before calmly leaving.

Among them are some family forces in Jiuwan City that have experts at the Innate Realm.

Recently.

The constables of the government office investigated everywhere, but found no trace of the flower thief.

The city is now in a state of panic.

Many wealthy families arranged for skilled guards to stand watch outside their young mistresses' boudoirs overnight.

I'm afraid my young lady might also fall victim to it.

The officials in charge of the government office were very annoyed by this flower thief.

If we don't catch him soon...

Chaos is inevitable in Jiuwan City.

He immediately sought help from the three major agencies: the Surveillance Bureau, the Divine Garment Bureau, and the Night Watch Bureau.

These three agencies do not usually handle these cases.

However, when the government requests their help, they will provide some assistance within their capabilities.

After all, cases that the government office cannot handle will, to some extent, affect the stability of public order.

When it comes to this, these three agencies have a responsibility to take action.

On the Night Watch side, Lin Fei and Liang Xiaoyun received the news.

He also led the Night Watchmen to begin tracking down the flower thief.

However, they investigated with the people from the Divine Garment Division and the Surveillance Division, and reviewed a lot of information about the Divine Dynasty forces and independent cultivators who had recently entered and exited Jiuwan City.

No information matching this flower thief was found.

No faction possessed expertise in this area, and no independent cultivators secretly infiltrated Jiuwan City.

If it comes.

The Bureau of Inspection and the Bureau of Divine Garments can find out.

For example, they keep records of people from forces like Haoran Academy entering Jiuwan City and several nearby cities.

That night.

Lin Fei approached Gu Chen.

In terms of tracking and investigating cases, he felt that no one in the entire Nine Bays City could compare to their Director Gu Chen.

If you encounter a problem that you can't solve, just go find their director, Gu Chen.

After hearing Lin Fei's description, Gu Chen was stunned: "You mobilized all your personnel, investigated the scene, and searched through all the files, yet you still can't find a single womanizer?"

"Yes." Lin Fei said with some helplessness, "Today we received a request for help from the government office. We joined forces with the Surveillance Department and the Divine Garment Department to investigate the wealthy families who were targeted by that flower thief in the past few days. We combined the information from the scene with the descriptions of the victims and checked the information of the cultivators who have recently entered and left our Nine Bays City, but none of them matched."

"That womanizer was extremely arrogant. He used a special drug that could make people mentally alert but put them in a state of arousal. Several young ladies from wealthy families were victimized while in this state when he succeeded in his ways. Afterwards, they could all remember the womanizer's appearance, but the height, build, and appearance described by each of them were different. It was as if they had not encountered the same person, but four completely different people," Lin Fei said.

"But we combined their descriptions of four different flower thieves of varying heights and appearances and questioned many cultivators in the city, but we couldn't find anyone who matched their descriptions. It was as if they were four people who didn't exist," Lin Fei said. "We suspect that this flower thief has mastered the art of bone shrinking and disguise. This ability can not only change one's height, figure, and body shape, but also one's face, which is why we can't find him."

After listening to Lin Fei's explanation, Gu Chen nodded and said, "I understand. You can go back now. I will investigate."

"Yes, sir." Upon hearing this, Lin Fei turned and left.

The adults agreed.

I'll check it out.

With their adult investigative abilities.

This flower thief will surely have nowhere to escape.

Once their adults find out the identity of this womanizer, they'll have to see for themselves.

Who exactly is this guy? He managed to outmaneuver the combined forces of the three major organizations.

After Lin Fei left.

Gu Chen returned to his room, took out a copper bowl, and said directly to it, "I want to exchange information about the notorious womanizer who has been committing crimes in Jiuwan City these past few days, as well as his current hiding place."

The copper bowl indicated that exchanging this information would cost one thousand taels of silver.

Not much.

Gu Chen put the silver directly into it.

Gu Chen wasn't very interested in capturing this womanizer.

Gu Chen was mainly interested in the bone-shrinking and disguise technique that Gu Chen possessed, which could change one's body shape, height, and appearance.

If we can take it from him, it will be more advantageous for him to do some underhanded things in the future.

At the same time, it will also make it easier for him to change his identity and do other things.

These days, he uses a human skin mask every time he goes out to buy pills. This method is ultimately a bit low-end and can't change his height and build. If someone with a keen eye investigates carefully, they will still find clues.

This bone-shrinking and disguise technique can solve his problem in this regard.

The silver in the copper bowl disappeared.

A message appears:

The notorious womanizer who has been causing trouble in Jiuwan City these past few days is none other than the Jade-Faced Scholar Mei Jingfei. He is a disciple of the Haoran Academy, and he is currently on his way to the Yu family in Jiuwan City to carry out his murders. These past few days, he has been supervising the Tianwan Gang's grave-digging in the Xiling Mountains during the day, and at night he will use his bone-shrinking and disguise techniques to return to Jiuwan City and engage in his womanizing activities.