I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

The second group took only 27 minutes to travel from Cangfeng Mountain to the city center of Beijing.

On the road, the number of people injured had increased from six to nine.

Cheng Fang projected the live video onto the car's screen.

The man, around thirty years old, stood shirtless in the middle of the commercial street, his skin flushed red, with veins bulging on his neck and chest.

Two security guards tried to approach, but he threw each of them three or four meters away.

The most troublesome thing is that he hasn't awakened any special abilities.

There were no magical artifacts either.

He's just an ordinary person.

"I practiced for forty minutes."

Cheng Fang flipped through the documents, "I bought the 'Supreme Twelve Breaths Qi Refining Technique' online, priced at 666."

Qin Zhao glanced at it.

"This name is only worth six dollars and sixty cents."

Nobody picked up on the joke.

Lin Ye had already opened that so-called cultivation method.

It has twelve pages in total.

The first four pages are about breathing.

Then it begins to guide the flow of Qi through the lung meridians, down to the Dantian, and through the gates.

At first glance, it looks quite presentable.

Wanling only scanned it once.

"Pieced."

"What do you mean?"

"Copy a section from the east, copy a section from the west."

"There are traces of at least three different methods within it, and they are not a single system at all."

Lin Ye continued reading.

There was a route on page nine that looked familiar to him.

The Candlelight Gathering.

It is not a complete set of techniques.

It was the incomplete Qi-inducing method that they first released online.

Someone took it, altered it, and stuffed in a few breathing techniques from who-knows-where, turning it into an "ancient secret manual".

The key is that it can truly draw in qi.

Therefore, they are even more dangerous than pure scammers.

The car had just stopped.

Another muffled thud came from the commercial street.

The man crashed into a metal table, his eyes already bloodshot.

People are being evacuated from seven surrounding areas.

Lin Ye did not rush forward immediately after getting out of the car.

Ling Ting overwhelmed him.

The man's body is in complete disarray.

The spiritual energy surged repeatedly along several pathways in the chest and abdomen, with the area around the heart and lungs being particularly affected.

He didn't get stronger at all.

They're using their own bodies as pressure cookers.

"Don't let him keep running."

Lin Ye said, "The more you move, the more chaotic your energy will be."

Cheng Fang went straight to meet him.

When the man saw someone coming, he roared and punched Cheng Fang in the face.

Cheng Fang did not retaliate.

Turn to the side, clasp your wrists, and press down.

But as soon as he touched him, the spiritual energy accumulated in the man's body suddenly poured into his right arm.

The power surged instantly.

Cheng Fang was pushed back half a step.

Lin Ye had already heard where that aura was heading.

"Don't lock your right hand, loosen it!"

Cheng Fang immediately released it.

The man lost his footing and fell forward.

Lin Ye cut in from the side.

The pulse was not interrupted.

The meridians of such people are already in a chaotic state. Forcibly cutting them off could potentially damage their heart meridian.

He slapped the man on the back.

"Qin Zhao, press down on my shoulders."

The two men simultaneously pinned the person to the ground.

The man was still struggling, his chest heaving more and more.

"I'm going to succeed!"

"I have successfully activated my Qi!"

"Let me go!"

Lin Ye frowned as he listened.

"If you practice for another two minutes, your portrait will become your funeral photo."

The man still wants to earn money.

The next second, the spiritual energy in his chest surged back up again.

puff!

He spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground.

They finally behaved themselves.

The team doctor immediately stepped forward.

Linye reported the location.

"The congestion is most severe on the side of the lungs, and there's still some lingering gas in the abdomen. Don't administer sedatives directly."

There weren't any spectacular battles on site.

But it's more unsettling than arresting an ordinary heretical practitioner.

Because this is only the first one.

really.

Just as the person was lifted into the ambulance, Cheng Fang's terminal beeped three times in a row.

Eleven cases in North China.

Jiangnan region, 27 cases.

In the southwest, it has already exceeded forty.

All of them are related to the various "qi cultivation methods" circulating online.

Some of these are purely psychological.

Some people feel dizzy after training.

The real danger lies with those who pieced together fragments of ancient methods.

Before the spiritual energy was restored, even practicing these things for ten years might not produce any results.

Now the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is rising.

A little bit of the real thing is mixed in with the fake.

People can die.

"The source has been found."

The technical team sent over a diagram showing the propagation path.

It started as a paid group with just over a dozen people.

Two hours later, it was moved to seven platforms.

Then someone else processed it a second time and gave it a different name.

The Emperor's Qi Refining Techniques

"Opening the pulse in three days"

The Awakening Method for Ordinary People.

The number of downloads has exceeded 700,000.

Even more outrageous, many people in the comments section are sharing their "successful experiences".

My palms are hot.

My chest feels bloated.

I'm not sleepy at night.

All of them were mistaken for "qi sensation".

After Lin Ye finished reading, he asked:

"Is it too late to delete this now?"

Cheng Fang shook his head.

"Too late."

Screenshots are flying everywhere.

Official links can be blocked.

It's impossible to block the pictures on the phones of 700,000 people.

Both of them realized the problem.

Previously, cultivation knowledge was only in the hands of a few organizations.

Once the boundary was opened, the ancient methods began to leak out.

It's simply impossible to completely block it now.

The cultivators might not even be the first to lose control.

It's hundreds of millions of ordinary people who want to give it a try.

Just then, another temporary notice was sent out from within the Seventh Division.

Starting at 10 PM tonight, a new emergency category, "abnormal air-induced injury," will be added to the national medical system.

[Seven local emergency management departments jointly issued a risk warning.]

The assessment of basic breathing techniques has begun ahead of schedule.

The matter, which was still under discussion, was pushed hard by reality.

Cheng Fang looked at the last one.

"Looks like we need to speed things up."

Lin Ye knew what he was talking about.

Instead of letting everyone gamble their lives practicing with counterfeit goods online, it would be better to provide a set as soon as possible that at least won't kill anyone.

The issue is--

Who decides?

Ancient cultivation?

Seven places?

Research institution?

Or should we make it public and let everyone choose for themselves?

This is just the beginning.

A gasp suddenly rang out outside the commercial street.

It's not that someone lost control.

Everyone is looking at their phones.

The latest footage from Zangfeng Mountain has been released.

The integration of the mountain body has exceeded 95%.

After satellite re-mapping, the preliminary estimate of the newly added permanent area in the northwest of the capital exceeds 400 square kilometers.

The original provincial highway is completely gone.

Two rivers changed course.

The boundaries of the three administrative districts need to be redrawn.

more importantly.

The Hidden Peak Mountain Sect has formally submitted its first request.

[Mountain closed.]

They demanded that Cangfeng Mountain and its surrounding area within a hundred miles continue to be managed according to the sect's territory from two thousand years ago, and that modern personnel be prohibited from entering without permission.

After reading it, Cheng Fang's brows slowly furrowed.

"This is really going to be interesting."

Ordinary people were eager to start practicing.

The first batch of ancient repairmen has already begun to secure the land.

Lin Ye's phone vibrated at that moment.

Lu Zhixia.

He answered the call.

"What's wrong?"

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.

Are you still busy with Cangfeng Mountain?

"I just dealt with someone in the city who was practicing fake kung fu."

"Then you might have to come back."

Lin Ye stopped walking.

"What happened?"

Lu Zhixia lowered her voice.

"Seven sites have just sent over the first batch of ancient artifacts and stone fragments brought from Cangfeng Mountain, asking me to assist in their authentication."

There's something inside...

She paused.

"When looking at it in the mirror," said the woman in crimson robes.

"There are people inside."

Lin Ye's expression changed instantly.

"Alive?"

"have no idea."

"But not a remnant soul."

"And it just now..."

Lu Zhixia looked at the black bronze box on the table that had been sealed for two thousand years.

"He knocked three times."