From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Zhang Muzhi laughed heartily, hugged Liu Zi, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "But don't be impulsive again in the future. Don't let those people in fancy clothes slander you. It's okay, they're just bastards who love to watch the drama unfold. Who do they think they are? Everyone has their flaws."

"I've got it, Father!"

Liu Zi was very simple and honest, and nodded vigorously.

With Liu Zi starting the conversation, the bespectacled seventh brother also spoke up: "Big brother, you know me. Although I like to be passive, I value loyalty the most."

Then, the fifth brother spoke up: "Big brother, I'm waiting for you to find me a wife."

The fourth brother even said, "Big brother, whoever you tell me to kill, I will kill without hesitation!"

The third and second brothers exchanged glances, remembering their past brotherhood and the fact that they had only known Sister Hua for less than a day. They regained their senses and solemnly swore to Zhang Muzhi that they would never betray him!

"That's right! That's what a good brother is like!"

Zhang Muzhi hugged his six brothers, overjoyed.

Afterwards, Zhang Muzhi asked Jiang Liu, "Thank you, otherwise the seven of us brothers might have fallen apart because of that scheming woman."

What should we do next?

Jiang Liu said, "I've already distributed the money."

"understood."

Zhang Muzhi understood immediately.

The implication was that it was their turn to distribute the money.

Most of the money Jiang Liu had distributed in the previous five days had been taken back by Huang Silang. Now that Zhang Muzhi was distributing the money, it proved that they also had the ability to take the money back from Huang Silang and return it to the people, thereby gaining the people's trust.

And then—

Given Huang Silang's extremely money-grubbing nature, he would definitely try to take the money back.

This will incite public outrage.

Zhang Muzhi affirmed that this was also what Jiang Liu hoped to see.

The Great Sage who descended to earth can temporarily become the backbone of those people, but in the end, they still have to stand up straight on their own.

Otherwise, even if they moved the landlord's table back to their own home, they wouldn't be able to truly be in charge.

However, to make the people's broken spine grow back all at once—

It's not realistic.

Furthermore, Jiang Liu and his group wouldn't stay in Goose City for long.

So, until the people's backbone shows signs of healing, he, Zhang Muzhi, will have to temporarily become the backbone of Goose City.

He wanted to find a way out for the people, but he couldn't be all talk and no action. The path was right under his feet, so he started from a small county town!

then.

Under Ma Bangde's pained gaze, Zhang Muzhi and his six brothers distributed real gold and silver, as well as calligraphy, paintings, and jewelry obtained from Huang Silang's family, according to the different populations of each household.

"What are they trying to do? They've sent all my money out again?"

Huang Silang sat on a dilapidated, creaking chair and waved to Hu Qian beside him.

With a bitter expression, Hu Qian asked, "Master, what is it?"

"Gather a hundred servants, disguise them as bandits, and at night, search every house and take all my money back!"

Huang Silang's face was contorted with rage. "I'm going to teach that Great Sage a lesson! Weren't the bandits wiped out? How come there are still bandits? I'll see what he has to say tomorrow!"

"Master, we only have about twenty servants left." Hu Qian opened his mouth, somewhat unable to look directly at Huang Silang, whose eyes were now bloodshot.

"what?!"

Huang Silang opened his mouth, spitting as he said, "My four hundred servants are down to only twenty-odd? When Pigsy and that wicked boy searched my house, they even beat them all to death?"

"No."

Hu Qian said cautiously, "They all ran home, took off their shirts, and went with their families to collect the money. I suppose they won't return the money to you, sir."

In an instant, Huang Silang's eyes turned completely red!

"A bunch of traitors! Are they planning a rebellion?"

Huang Silang jumped up from the chair in a flash, grabbed the chair, and slammed it against the corner of the wall, smashing it to pieces.

As a result, Huang Silang staggered back a few steps, fell down, and sat on the ground with a thud.

Hu Qian added insult to injury, "Master, that's the last chair left in the house."

Huang Silang: "..."

"Aren't you going to help me up?"

Hu Qian stepped forward and helped Huang Silang up.

"Even if there are only twenty-odd people, get them on the job and bring back as much of my money as possible!"

Huang Silang gave a firm order: "Those guys who went to take the money are just greedy; they wouldn't dare to actually side with the county magistrate and that wandering monk!"

"Yes."

Hu Qian immediately went down to make arrangements.

just.

Since Huang Silang's savings had been completely depleted, these twenty-odd people didn't even have clothes for the night. But in order to carry out orders, they could only tear off towels and pieces of cloth to cover their faces.

But reality isn't a TV drama; if you only cover the lower half or the upper half of your face, the chances of being recognized are extremely high.

therefore.

That night, every household that was "visited" by those twenty-odd people recognized the robbers as Huang Silang's henchmen. Before, they would only try to squeeze money out of them; now, they dared to rob people directly in the middle of the night!

# Chapter 73 The Manipulation of Heaven and Earth, All Things Understand

on the street.

Outside the county government office.

The drums for appealing grievances resounded loudly.

Dozens of people came to report the crime, all saying they had been robbed the night before, and some even claimed their wives and daughters had been raped, which was outrageous!

Even so, Zhang Muzhi couldn't do anything to Huang Silang.

reason?

It's impossible to catch the perpetrator red-handed.

Huang Silang had plenty of reasons, and the bullied people could only hold their breath for the time being!

Two or three more days passed like this.

The number of people coming to report the case is increasing.

Seeing that no one from the county government came, Huang Silang assumed that they wouldn't be able to come looking for trouble with him anytime soon, and became even more smug, intensifying his actions.

Some of the servants who had originally left the Huang residence ran back, kowtowed to Huang Silang, and became his dogs once again.

resignedly.

The people could only find the river.

"The bandits in the mountains are easy to deal with, but the landlords in the city are not so easy to fight."

Faced with the people's pleas, Jiang Liu spread his arms wide, "How can the county magistrate search his house without evidence? It doesn't make sense; wouldn't that be robbery?"

Upon hearing this, they were all filled with sorrow.

But Jiang Liu did not let this sorrow continue. He stirred his mind and spirit, and red and blue patterns appeared on his arms. He used his Qi to transform them into tiny, red and blue pellets the size of sesame seeds.

With a rub, the bullets transformed into strands of hair with a gradient of red and blue.

"However, I can give you a protective spell."

Jiang Liu separated the individual hairs, saying, "If anyone bullies you again, hold these hairs between your ring fingers, clench your fists, shout 'Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Earth Traveler!', and throw a punch at the person trying to bully you. I will summon the Great Sage Equal to Heaven to save you!"

During his seclusion that day, Jiang Liu was carefully experiencing one of the four methods brought by the innate talisman diagram: avoiding death and prolonging life. He also began to cultivate the water and fire yin-yang qi body in the 84,000 void apertures around his body.

of course.

With Jiang Liu's current cultivation level, he is not able to transform all the Qi within these 84,000 acupoints into clones. However, these Water-Fire Yin-Yang Qi Pills are ultimately based on his Heart Monkey Heart Fire Qi and Will Horse Kidney Water Qi, and are one with him. Relying on the Qimen framework built with the five internal organs as the foundation, they can connect with these Water-Fire Yin-Yang.

Qimen magic is not something that can be used simply by constructing the Qimen structure; one must also learn the principles of how various magics operate.

If we compare Qimen Dunjia to a calculator, then the process of performing magic with Qimen Dunjia is like entering numbers into the calculator and pressing "=" to get the result.

A complete scientific calculator with all kinds of equations pre-set; users only need to be able to apply these formulas flexibly.

Jiang Liu uses the five internal organs as the central palace, the three passes and nine orifices as the innate Bagua, and the eight extraordinary meridians as the acquired Bagua. Although he has constructed a Qimen framework, he has not actually systematically studied the various "formulas".

Just like a scientific calculator:

It can be used for logarithmic calculations, trigonometric function calculations, etc., but most people who get it can only use it to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

The information about Qimen Dunjia obtained from Senior Brother Zhuge of the Sanyi Sect did not contain any "formulas" for the specific execution of spells.

Therefore, if Jiang Liu wants to learn Qimen magic, he only has two paths.

First, figure it out on your own little by little.

After all, the framework has already been built. In the future, once the five gods have been sealed and the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth have been gathered, it will take time to explore.

Second, those who marry into a family who possess magical skills, such as the Wuhou School and the Shuzi School.

and so.

In theory, Jiang Liu is currently unable to unleash powerful Qimen techniques.

However, relying on one of the three abilities besides "avoiding death and prolonging life" brought by the innate talisman diagram, it is possible to use this strange framework to make the mind and will ignore space and manifest with the water, fire, yin and yang qi pills as coordinates.

That ability was named by Jiang Liu as:

The universe is manipulated!

Ren Jiating once said that in the book left by the six-fingered monkey, it was described that this talisman could help people condense bone claws, integrating offense and defense, and ignoring space.