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

"Go to the Surveillance Department and ask them to cooperate in investigating the recent influx and outflow of rogue cultivators and personnel from various forces within Black Rock Prefecture, with a focus on cultivators at the fourth level of the Traveler Realm," Chen Lei said to a member of the Night Watch Division beside him.

By tracking these unknown powerful individuals, the Surveillance Department should be able to obtain useful information.

His disciple was beaten half to death.

He must get to the bottom of this matter.

Otherwise, wouldn't we become a laughing stock?

They laughed at his incompetence as the chief of the Night Watch of the desolate state.

His own apprentice was injured like this.

He couldn't even find the murderer.

"Yes." The man left as instructed.

"Go and issue my order: starting today, all the guards in the four prefectures and sixteen counties within the territory of the Wilderness State, as well as all the cities and counties under their jurisdiction, shall take action to investigate the situation of the unknown powerful individuals in each county and city."

"And report any suspicious transactions involving major pawnshops and brokerages in each city immediately. I want this murderer to have nowhere to hide in my desolate state," Chen Lei said to another member of the Night Watch Command.

"Yes." The man received the order and immediately went to carry it out.

Meanwhile, Chen Lei began to take action.

On the side of the four top forces.

The disciples who participated in the struggle for the tomb's treasure have returned to their respective factions.

After reporting the situation of this tomb raiding incident.

Several top-tier forces, including the four older generation figures who originally obtained the tomb key and map, were all furious.

They painstakingly deciphered the map and sent their juniors to search for the treasure, only to find that they had ultimately benefited someone else.

They immediately took action.

They each dispatched their respective factions to investigate the matter.

This is not over yet; they dared to steal their treasure and even injured one of their younger men.

They must find the person behind this and teach him a lesson so he knows what the consequences of offending the four top powers are!

That afternoon.

On the side of the Night Watch of Jiuwan City.

He then received an order from the commander-in-chief of the Wilderness Guard.

We request that we work with the Inspectorate to thoroughly investigate any unknown or suspicious individuals who have recently entered or left Jiuwan City.

Liang Xiaoyun and Lin Fei went directly to Gu Chen's residence to report to him: "Sir, we have a mission from our superiors. We are to put aside all other work for the next few days and do only one thing: work with the Surveillance Department to investigate all suspicious individuals who have entered or left Jiuwan City during this period."

"Something happened yesterday in the Xiling Mountains of Xiling City. He Teng, the disciple of the Commander-in-Chief, was injured by an unknown expert. The treasure that the four top powers have been vying for recently has also been stolen. Our superiors have given us the task of doing everything we can to track down the culprit." Liang Xiaoyun looked at Gu Chen: "What should we do?"

He Teng had just come to their Jiuwan City and swaggered around with the Night Watch.

This made them very unhappy.

They never expected to be injured, which gave them a secret thrill.

They didn't want to do the work of tracking down the culprit who injured him.

Therefore, I have come to consult Gu Chen.

After listening to their reports, Gu Chen said, "Then let's fully cooperate with the superiors' instructions and work with the Jiuwan City Surveillance Bureau to investigate this matter."

He Teng was beaten half to death by himself.

Even if it takes a huge cost to save it, the foundation will definitely be affected.

Chen Lei must have been enraged.

At times like this, it's best not to provoke Chen Lei.

Just follow his instructions and investigate.

Anyway, they won't find anything out by investigating.

"Yes." Liang Xiaoyun and Lin Fei left upon receiving the order.

They still felt a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, mixed feelings) in their hearts.

My own parents are truly selfless.

He Teng had treated their superiors this way before, yet their superiors were now not outwardly complying with but inwardly disobeying orders from above.

We must work with the Joint Supervision Department to investigate the perpetrator who injured He Teng.

There aren't many people like my family who repay evil with kindness.

After the two left, the entire Night Watch of Nine Bays City was immediately mobilized.

Go to the Joint Nine Bays City Supervisory Office.

They started investigating information on suspicious individuals who had recently entered or left Jiuwan City.

The main task is to investigate information on independent cultivators or members of powerful forces who have recently visited Jiuwan City and whose cultivation level has reached the sixth rank.

According to the intelligence provided, the unknown expert who injured He Teng and the leaders of the four top forces had the strength of a perfect sixth-grade expert.

When the Night Watch of Jiuwan City began its operation.

All the night watchmen in every city, county, prefecture, and county within the entire desolate state began to take action.

Go and investigate information about this unknown powerful figure.

soon.

The pawnshop where Gu Chen sold those four boxes of jewelry was investigated.

The shopkeeper was taken directly to the night watchman's office in the prefecture for interrogation.

"I truly had no idea that those four boxes of jewelry were stolen by that man. Your Honor, please understand!" The pawnshop manager felt utterly wronged.

Gu Chen hadn't thought much about the four boxes of jewelry he had pawned at their pawnshop.

He initially thought that Gu Chen, who could take out four boxes of jewelry directly from his storage bag, must be at least a top-tier expert. He never expected that Gu Chen might be the culprit who injured the personal disciple of the Night Watch Commander.

That's absolutely outrageous.

"The matter is still undecided. At present, we can only make inferences. You just need to describe the person's physical characteristics and the details of his pawning at your pawn shop," said the head of the Night Watch in the prefectural city.

They discovered that the pawnshop had received four boxes of jewelry the previous day.

It's highly likely that it's the unknown powerhouse who injured He Teng and the disciples of the four top forces.

So they brought the shopkeeper in for investigation.

However, according to the shopkeeper, the person who sold these four boxes of jewelry took them out directly using storage bags.

Only those at the top three ranks who have developed divine soul power can use storage bags.

It's unlikely to be related to this matter.

After all, the person who injured He Teng and the leaders of the four top forces was only a sixth-grade perfect expert.

The difference in their levels is too great.

of course.

There is another possibility.

The unknown expert who injured He Teng and the leaders of the four top forces was himself a master of the upper third rank.

When he made his move in the tomb, he deliberately concealed his cultivation level to confuse people and prevent them from tracing his origins.

After all, he injured people and stole the treasure, but the people outside the tomb didn't see him carrying a bunch of things out.

They came out empty-handed.

The treasures he robbed were probably put into his storage bag.

The shopkeeper nodded and began to explain: "The man was hunched over and looked quite old. He was wearing a long blue robe and dressed like a wandering monk. His voice was slightly hoarse. After he entered our pawnshop, he took out four boxes of jewelry from his storage bag, haggled with me for a while, and then pawned the four boxes of jewelry to us for 196,000 taels before leaving."

"You didn't send anyone to follow them, and they pawned nearly 200,000 taels of goods at once. Weren't you tempted?" The head of the Night Watch looked at the pawnshop manager.

"We were prejudiced at the time and mistook that person for a top-three level expert, so we didn't dare to have any ulterior motives. After all, a top-three level expert is someone our pawnshop can't afford to offend," the shopkeeper explained.

This is the truth.

After Gu Chen left their pawnshop.

He stopped paying attention to where Gu Chen was.

They dared not even consider targeting a master who was suspected to be a high-ranking expert.

"Understood, you can go back now. We'll call you if we need anything." The head of the Night Watch nodded, then waved for the pawnshop manager to leave.

There's no point in keeping him here now.

This unknown powerful figure has already left their pawnshop.

If we want to continue the investigation, we need to see if the Surveillance Department has detected the whereabouts of this unknown powerful figure.

At the same time, this clue.

We need to report this to our superiors.

This adds another possible identity information to this unknown powerful being.

soon.

The Night Watch Division contacted the Surveillance Division to investigate the whereabouts of the rogue cultivator who left the pawnshop yesterday.

The clues came from the Department of Supervision.

After leaving the pawnshop, the man went to an institution that sold pills and bought sixty-eight Grade 5 Huahai Pills before leaving and heading directly out of the city.

This has led the Night Watch into another misconception.

If this unknown powerful being is a high-ranking expert.

It has already developed divine soul power and can use storage bags.

He wouldn't buy a fifth-grade Huahai Pill.

After all, this pill is for breaking through to the fifth rank and for the daily cultivation of fifth-rank experts.

He has already reached the upper three ranks, so it is unnecessary.

He would only need it if he had not reached the upper three ranks, but was only at the sixth rank perfection.

But how could someone at only the sixth-grade perfect realm possess the power of a divine soul to use a storage bag?

Perhaps, there is only one possible truth.

The elderly rogue cultivator who came to sell jewelry was not the same person as the unknown powerhouse who injured He Teng and the leaders of the four top forces in the tomb; they were two different people.

The two may have a master-disciple relationship.

The old, wandering cultivator came to help him settle his debts.

After settling the debt, the old man, a rogue cultivator, took the Grade 5 Transformation Sea Pill he bought back to give to that unknown expert for cultivation.

Only in this way can it be explained.

However, this makes one thing inexplicable.

That unknown expert was not at the upper third rank, had not developed divine soul power, and could not use a storage bag. So how did he manage to bring the treasure out of the tomb in the first place?

He secretly took those things from somewhere and brought them out without anyone noticing.