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

The head of the night watch was feeling very overwhelmed.

Forget it.

He reported the matter directly to higher authorities.

Let the Night Watch headquarters in the desolate state have their own headaches.

This is too bizarre.

Many aspects are unreasonable.

He couldn't figure it out either.

It may also involve a master of the third rank and a master of the sixth rank.

Even if he finds out something, there's nothing he can do about it.

Especially that being of the third rank, they had no way of dealing with him.

Let alone a night watchman in a prefectural city, even a night watchman in a county city would be helpless against a master of the third rank.

Only the commander-in-chief of the desolate state can deal with this kind of person.

He should honestly report whatever results he finds in his investigation.

There's no need to speculate about the rest.

Zhongzhou.

At Haoran Academy.

Mei Jingfei left Haoran Academy and headed towards an assassin's stronghold in a nearby city.

He was brought back by his father these past few days.

I've been thinking about a question.

How was he discovered by Gu Chen in Jiuwan City?

How did Gu Chen know in advance that he would be going to the Yu family to commit the crime that night?

He believes that he left no clues about what happened before.

It would be absolutely impossible for Gu Chen to find out about him on his own.

Think about it.

There is only one possibility.

He was betrayed.

Among the group from Haoran Academy who went to excavate the tomb treasure together.

Someone betrayed him.

Many of them knew that he was a womanizer.

He couldn't figure out who this person was.

But he dared to betray him.

It almost ruined his reputation.

This is far from over.

He planned to hire an assassin organization to directly target Gu Chen.

As long as we kill Gu Chen, we can force him to reveal who betrayed him.

That way you can find clues about this person.

He'll make sure this guy regrets it.

During the reign of Emperor Shen.

The largest assassin organization.

It is Lou Wai Lou, one of the three external forces.

This transcendent force, with several terrestrial deities in charge, claims that as long as you can afford the price, they can kill anyone you want to kill within the divine dynasty.

They arrived at one of Lou Wai Lou's outposts.

Mei Jingfei cut to the chase: "I need you to help me kill Gu Chen, the head of the Jiuwan City branch of the Night Watch of the Desolate State, in the Black Rock Prefecture of Yuehai County, and to extract from him who betrayed me among the Haoran Academy disciples who went on this treasure hunt, and how much silver I need!"

Upon hearing this, the person in charge of the outpost...

He said, "Come back in a day. We need to determine this person's identity, background, and strength before we can give you a quote."

"Okay." Mei Jingfei turned and left.

Here in the desolate state.

One day.

All branches of the Night Watch in the entire desolate state were mobilized to investigate.

No clues have been found regarding the unknown powerful figure who injured He Teng and the leaders of the four top forces.

Even based on intelligence reports from below.

They can't even figure out whether this unknown expert is at the peak of the sixth rank or at the upper third rank.

This infuriated Chen Lei.

On the Wen family's side, Wen Lingtian deployed the entire Wen family's forces to hunt down this unknown expert within the desolate state, but with little success.

I have absolutely no clue.

Looking at He Teng, whose injuries had begun to heal after taking the Great Rejuvenation Pill, Chen Lei pondered for a moment.

He said to one of the Night Watch personnel, "Go and summon Deputy Commander Gongsun to see me."

There are two deputy commanders of the Wilderness Watch.

Gu Chen's second senior brother, Gongsun Yuan, was one of them.

soon.

Gongsun Yuan then received orders to come to Chen Lei's residence.

"My lord, what brings you here?" Gongsun Yuan bowed to Chen Lei and inquired.

Chen Lei waved to him.

Then he looked at him and said, "I remember your seventh junior brother, Gu Chen, the chief of the Night Watch of Jiuwan City in Yuehai County. He's quite good at tracking and investigating cases, right?"

According to the information he obtained about Gu Chen.

When Gu Chen was still in Zhenshi County, he helped Shangguan Wuqing's sixth disciple, Tie Yangtian, to track down a large amount of information about the strongholds of a heretical cult called the Black Heaven Cult, which enabled Tie Yangtian to wipe out the Black Heaven Cult in one fell swoop.

Continuing from what happened some time ago.

They also discovered that Liu Xun, the senior member of the mining gang, was trading with the Yamamoto family of Japan, smuggling military supplies and rare minerals. They also found out that Liu Xun was actually an undercover agent planted in the mining gang by the Drowning Cult.

"Yes, Junior Brother does indeed have some exceptional abilities in tracking and investigating cases," Gongsun Yuan replied.

He wondered to himself if Chen Lei wanted Gu Chen to help him investigate the matter of injuring He Teng and the disciples of the four top forces and seizing the treasure from the Venerable's tomb.

"Tell him that I'm entrusting him with full responsibility for the matter of my disciple He Teng being injured by an unknown expert. Whatever level of expert he needs, I'll provide him with assistance. The Night Watch will give him the maximum authority, and I will also require the Surveillance Department to fully cooperate with him." Chen Lei said, "If he can't find out any information about this unknown expert within a month, then he can forget about being the head of the Night Watch in Jiuwan City."

Upon hearing this, Gongsun Yuan narrowed his eyes.

Is Chen Lei trying to use this incident to suppress his junior brother?

Gu Chen wasn't targeted in the case he solved last time.

He's going to be more open about this now.

"My lord, all branches of the Night Watch of the Wilderness have been mobilized for this matter, but we have been unable to find any clues. Handing it over to my junior brother is not something he can gain anything from, so it would be inappropriate to dismiss him from his post!" Gongsun Yuan looked at Chen Lei.

"Hmph!" Chen Lei sneered, "Gongsun Yuan, mind your place. I am the commander-in-chief of the Wilderness Night Watch. I am informing you, not discussing this with you!"

"What's wrong? Your junior brother did an excellent job investigating smuggling cases and cult intelligence before, but now that I'm here, he can't even handle a simple case!"

"This matter involves the injury of one of my Night Watch personnel, which affects the reputation of the entire Night Watch. The incident occurred in the mountains near Nine Bays City, so he bears an unshirkable responsibility. Just go and tell him directly."

"If we can't find any information about the murderer within a month, he can forget about being the head of the Nine Bays City Night Watch!" Chen Lei said coldly.

"Understood," Gongsun Yuan replied, then turned and left.

This was Chen Lei's well-intentioned scheme.

If his junior brother Gu Chen were to find out about this...

Even if he didn't achieve anything, it would still be considered a success, and it would also solve a major problem for Chen Lei.

If Gu Chen can't find out.

He could use this to directly dismiss Gu Chen from his post, thus suppressing him.

That's a clever plan.

He will report this matter to his master now.

Let's see what his master says.

Master can't just stand by and watch them be oppressed by Chen Lei like this.

Here in Jiuwan City.

After Gu Chen finished refining pills for a day.

He called Cheng Mengling over and said, "I forgot to tell you today. You need to focus on acquiring the list of high-grade spiritual herbs that I asked you to collect before. You need to acquire eleven of them in total. Bring them to me after you acquire one, and I'll give you silver."

Gu Chen was referring to the list of medicinal materials needed to refine the Red Copper Pill.

This list contains many high-level medicinal herbs.

It will take the Cheng family quite some time to collect a copy.

Gu Chen prepared to have them make the purchase ahead of time.

Once you've collected one portion, bring it to him, and he'll pay you the silver for that portion.

The Red Copper Elixir, through cultivation, imprints 120 protective divine runes within the body.

This would allow him to ignore attacks from all four realms of the traveler.

At that time, he will no longer be afraid of attacks from those below the third-grade Grandmaster level.

One must not neglect spiritual practice.

The materials needed to refine one batch of Red Copper Elixir cost approximately 30,000 taels of silver.

One set of materials for refining Red Copper Pills can produce ten Red Copper Pills.

One red copper pill can imprint a protective divine rune on his body.

He now has ten protective divine runes imprinted on his body.

There are still 110 more steps, which is the amount of medicinal materials needed to refine 11 portions of the Red Copper Pill.

In total, it would cost approximately 330,000 taels of silver.

Although there are many things to do, one still needs to cultivate oneself.

With such a heaven-defying treasure as the copper bowl, he must follow the path of cultivating both true essence and physical body, becoming an all-around player who can both withstand attacks and deal damage, to be perfect.