Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 334 Who is the Hunter?

I slept soundly until dawn.

Link slowly woke up, did his morning exercise, ate his meal, and then went out.

This time, however, they didn't act openly. Instead, after leaving the martial arts school, they quickly found a place to disguise themselves and change their appearance.

Those who were tailing him quickly lost track of Link.

This news, once it reached back, caused many people and forces to have different thoughts.

There were concerns, such as those of the Wei family father and son; there were expectations, such as those of some Immortal Martial Arts practitioners and forces that were at odds with the Wei family; there was excitement, such as Yun Xinying, who was looking for an opportunity to make her move.

"Hmph hmph hmph..."

Yun Xinying stared at the blurry image on the surface of the water in the basin in front of her and let out a smug laugh, "No matter how cunning you are, you still have to drink my foot bath water."

An invisible and intangible surveillance eye followed Link leisurely behind him, showing Yun Xinying all of Link's movements.

Link was completely unaware.

This performance made Yun Xinying look down on the increasingly declining Human Immortal Martial Arts in recent years.

So-called rising stars are just being manipulated by her at will.

Yun Xinying laughed happily for a while before starting to prepare.

She first took a clear mirror, transferred the monitoring and imaging technique from the basin to the mirror, then tied her usually loose hair into a bun, changed out of her long dress, put on clothes that were easy to move in, and then did a little makeup.

A short while later, a completely different Yun Xinying appeared.

The kind of man who has been intimate with her wouldn't recognize her.

After wandering around the room and taking out some spellcasting materials, Yun Xinying activated a mechanism, opened a secret door, and sneaked out of the manor through a tunnel.

Once outside the manor, Yun Xinying glanced at herself in the mirror to confirm Link's latest whereabouts and direction.

Unbeknownst to him, Link had already left the bustling main city and headed towards the western suburbs, a place Li Sisi had visited once before.

There is a haunted house there where many strange things have happened.

Li Sisi grew up in a martial arts school, which fostered her fearless personality.

Invited by several classmates, I gladly agreed to go on an adventure to this haunted house.

"Hmph, you have a good eye."

Yun Xinying curled her lip and said disdainfully, "So what if you figured out there's something wrong here?"

This haunted house was indeed the place where Yun Xinying first attacked Li Sisi.

However, the organization had long since severed all ties with her and the haunted house.

The clues that Link can uncover while staying in the haunted house all point to highly misleading places.

According to the original plan, Yun Xinying should have let Lin Ke investigate.

But now, Yun Xinying is determined to personally deal with this somewhat annoying guy.

I don't have that much energy to play hide-and-seek.

Taking two yellow talismans from her shirt pocket, Yun Xinying held one in her left hand, made a hand seal with her right hand, and chanted an incantation to activate the power of the two talismans.

He then stuck the two yellow talismans on his calves, and immediately felt as light as a swallow, greatly increasing his speed.

Having chosen a direction, Yun Xinying quickly headed towards the haunted house.

Before long, we arrived near the haunted house.

This haunted house was a location carefully chosen by Yun Xinying based on Li Sisi's personality.

She is very familiar with the neighborhood.

Having found a familiar spot to conceal themselves and launch a spell, they lay in wait.

However, before going into hiding, Yun Xinying carefully set a trap in the haunted house.

Even if the trap is not triggered, it will not affect the ambush.

But what if?

That would be a huge profit.

the other side.

Link multitasks, focusing on the investigation while simultaneously using the Surveillance Eye to monitor the movements of the person performing the spell, and using the monitoring methods he devised inspired by the Surveillance Eye to observe the people in the martial arts school.

The fact that they were able to place surveillance cameras in his bedroom suggests collusion between insiders and outsiders.

In other words, there is a spy in the martial arts school.

External threats must be eliminated, and internal problems must also be addressed.

Before long, before Link even left the city and reached the western suburbs, he made a discovery.

The night before last, I went with Senior Brother Shi to the dock to pick up one of his martial arts school disciples. We sneaked into his room and carefully searched it.

The search focused on the bookshelves and desks.

It seems they're looking for whether Link made a written record of the investigation results.

After the search was completed, the mole, having found nothing, slipped out of the room with a disappointed look on his face.

The surveillance equipment left behind by Link quickly followed.

Following this lead yielded results.

The mole left the martial arts school with a normal expression, wandered around, and came to a teahouse, where he pretended to drink tea and listen to storytelling.

In fact, shortly after the mole ordered tea and snacks, someone sat down behind the mole, back to back.

Link manipulated the monitoring device to walk around to the front of the person and see what they looked like.

After a moment's thought, Link recognized the man as a servant often used by Wei Bowen, the refined young man and Li Sisi's childhood sweetheart.

"As expected, you have a problem too."

Link remained outwardly calm, but thoughts raced through his mind.

The mole and his henchman, who had come to make contact, began to talk and report the results of the search.

After the conversation, the servant instructed the mole not to reveal his identity or make any further rash moves to avoid arousing suspicion.

Even if your identity is exposed, don't reveal your identity as a long-time follower or Wei Bowen, otherwise the mole's elderly mother in the hospital won't receive proper treatment.

The mole collected the money pouch left by the servant and sat for a while after the servant left the teahouse before returning to the martial arts school with a complicated expression.

After listening to their conversation and observing the mole's behavior, Link remained completely unmoved.

Their resolve to purge the internal traitors remained unwavering.

All beings are suffering.

Those who seek to harm others because of their own suffering do not deserve sympathy.

Now that we've found another clue, we certainly can't let it go.

The surveillance device abandoned the mole and quickly found Wei Bowen's henchman, following him back to the Wei family manor.

However, Link couldn't pay attention to the Wei family manor for the time being. He was about to reach the haunted house in the western suburbs and needed to concentrate.

Link gave the monitoring device a command to record video and audio, and then stopped paying attention to it.

Last night, inspired by the evil Eye of Surveillance, Link devised this surveillance method/spell with remarkable ease, and its effects are extremely powerful.

It can monitor the video and sound in real time, and also record for later viewing.

The energy and spirit consumed in performing this method/technique are not much, but maintaining it continuously is quite mentally taxing.

However, with Link's current mental energy reserves, he can maintain this for more than six hours without affecting his combat power.

Therefore, after using the evil magic of the Surveillance Eye to investigate in reverse and discovering that the person behind the scenes was about to take action against him, Link quickly decided to capture the other party at the haunted house in the western suburbs.

Firstly, they inquired about certain matters, and secondly, they interrogated the other party about their evil practices.

Link certainly wouldn't practice evil magic; he was just using it as a reference and a starting point to see if he could unlock more of the mysteries of knowledge.

Soon, we arrived at the haunted house in the western suburbs.

Lin Ke pretended not to have found Yun Xinying's hiding place, circled the perimeter of the haunted house to make sure there were no other traps, and then entered the haunted house with the lurking personnel.

He planned to operate inside the haunted house, carrying out arrests and torture.

The haunted house is a typical detached three-story residential building.

There was an open space in front of the door, a hall inside, rooms on both sides, and a kitchen, toilet, pigsty, and a room for storing miscellaneous items behind the hall.

There is a large cellar beneath the storage room.

The strange events that are rumored all happen in the cellar.

Link pretended not to notice the trap set in the cellar and plunged in.

"Hahahaha..."

A wild, triumphant laugh instantly echoed throughout the entire haunted house.

Hanging upside down in the air, with his blood, strength, and true energy all bound, Link showed a look of panic on his face at just the right moment.

He began to struggle violently, but he could not break free from the net that had entangled him.

"Who's there? Show yourself!"

After his failed attempt, Link became enraged and cursed, "You despicable scoundrel! You plotted against me! If you've got the guts, step forward and fight me one-on-one!"

While cursing, Link continued to struggle.

The more they struggled, the tighter and more firmly the net entangled them.

"This is the young master Link, the genius disciple of the Bajiquan Martial Arts School? I'm somewhat disappointed!"

Yun Xinying was actually quite surprised that the trap she had carefully laid could actually achieve such great success. At first, she was skeptical and thought it was a trap, so she did not show herself immediately.

Even though this trap is actually a simplified version of the method the organization used to deal with Li Shuwen, specifically targeting martial artists of the Human Immortal Martial Arts.

When he realized that Link really couldn't handle the Net, he had the idea of ​​mocking him to his face.

Yun Xinying herself didn't know why she had such a thought; she just had a gut feeling that doing this seemed like a good idea.

So, Yun Xinying walked in from her hiding place outside the haunted house, while scoffing at the situation.

"What's wrong? Feeling aggrieved?"

Yun Xinying walked into the cellar, gently waved her hand, and lit several torches on the wall.

These torches were left behind by Li Sisi and her friends during their last adventure.

"No, it's not about feeling stifled."

After Yun Xinying entered the haunted house, Link stopped struggling and waited patiently.

Upon seeing Yun Xinying in person, he silently scanned her with his spiritual power, his feelings quite complicated.

This manifests on the face as a failure to manage facial expressions, which is quite remarkable.

Link never expected to make such a discovery in this world.

The High Council sent 64 of the most outstanding young wizards in the entire wizarding world to Iris Clark's trials. Was it really to help her complete the trials?

Are there any other hidden motives?

Or perhaps it wasn't actually about helping Iris Clark at all, but rather about achieving some other purpose?

Link couldn't help but feel a sense of doubt, but he quickly regained his composure and focused on the matter at hand.

Now that the key figure behind the scenes has appeared in front of me, there's no need to worry about the other party having some strange escape method. Why continue acting?

Before Yun Xinying's shocked eyes, Link, who was hanging upside down like a golden bell, bound by a net and suspended in the air, vanished in an instant.

A ghostly figure flashed behind her.

A few slaps.

The real Link used the methods of the Immortal Martial Arts to cut off Yun Xinying's meridians and acupoints, thus suppressing the flow of her qi and blood.

Then, using techniques to dislocate tendons and bones, all the joints of Yun Xinying's limbs were dislocated, and her jawbone was also removed to prevent suicide.

Then, at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow, he took out several silver needles and pierced several key acupoints on Yun Xinying's body, locking her mental power.

This fundamentally eliminates the possibility of Yun Xinying using evil magic.

A muffled thud.

Yun Xinying, who instantly lost her ability to move, speak, and cast spells, fell heavily to the ground.

However, she ignored the pain and her eyes revealed a complex mix of shock, panic, and fear.

I've been hunting geese all day, but today I've been pecked in the eye.

She thought she was the hunter, but in reality, she was the prey.

The sudden reversal of roles had a tremendous psychological impact on Yun Xinying.

"Let me introduce myself..."

Link crouched down, expressionless, and looked down at Yun Xinying, saying indifferently, "My name is Link, and I'm Li Sisi's eighth junior brother. I think you should know very well that you won't have a good ending in my hands. If you don't want to suffer any more pain, just tell me what I want to know, okay?"

As he spoke, Link repositioned Yun Xinying's jawbone, casually tossing out a sentence: "If you dare to scream, if you dare to curse, you have to dare to suffer. Every scream and every curse will be endured ten times like this..."

Before he could finish speaking, Link casually pressed a pressure point on Yun Xinying's body with his right index and middle fingers forming a sword-like gesture.

Yun Xinying immediately curled up, bent like a cooked shrimp, and cried out in pain.

He could only open his mouth wide, unable to even utter a single cry to vent his pain.

"Do you understand?"

As Lin Ke watched Yun Xinying endure the sudden, intense pain, panting heavily, he asked indifferently.

"I understand..."

A shadow of gloom and hatred flashed deep in her eyes, and Yun Xinying nodded in response.

"Good that you understand."

Link really missed his gold-rimmed glasses at that moment.

Even without gold-rimmed glasses, a pair of black-rimmed glasses that say "everyone here is trash" would be fine.

Otherwise, it always feels like something is missing that could make the atmosphere of the current scene more friendly.

Suppressing his chaotic thoughts, Link cut to the chase, asking, "Why did you target Li Sisi?"

Yun Xinying did not hide anything or lie, and replied truthfully, "It was to lure out your master, Li Shuwen."

"Hmm...aren't you afraid of dying?"

Lin Ke had been at the Bajiquan Martial Arts School for ten years, how could he not know that Li Shuwen was just his master's alias?

Link already knew his master's true identity and past deeds perfectly well.

Therefore, I wasn't too surprised by the other party's answer, but I was a little puzzled as to what gave the other party the confidence to provoke the "sharpshooter" who had been out of the game for a long time!

"The organization has ways to deal with Li Shuwen."

Yun Xinying's only goal at this moment was to buy time, so she answered every question.

"Oh? Like that trap we just encountered?"

Link became slightly interested.

That trap was indeed quite ingenious.

If it were the eldest brother or second sister, they would probably have already been poisoned and unable to resist.

In other words, Link has many strange and unusual trump cards up his sleeve, so he remains unaffected.

If the power of that trap were amplified several times, it might even harm Master Li Shuwen.

"Exactly."

Yun Xinying's answer confirmed Link's deduction.

"What's the reason?"

Link, however, did not delve deeper into the trap, but instead changed the subject.

Yun Xinying remained silent for a moment, gritted her teeth, and finally told the truth:

"To turn Li Shuwen into a puppet!"

"Let's go conquer a secret realm."

(End of this chapter)