Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 523 One Person Today: Biyou Village Chapter
Modern Beijing, the headquarters building of NaDuTong Company.

In Chairman Zhao Fangxu's office, Zhao Fangxu, Xu Xiang, Wang Zizhong, and Meng De'er, two of the original veterans who were with Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei, gathered together.

As the office door was knocked on, it opened, and Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao walked in. Zhang Chulan was also holding the book "Wang Yiri's Affairs" that Zhao Fangxu and Xu Xiang had given him.

Seeing Zhang Chulan arrive with "The Story of a King", Wang Zizhong and Mendel, who had been resting with their eyes closed, opened them. Meanwhile, Zhao Fangxu used the landline on the table to notify the outside, instructing them to clear the floor they were currently on.

"Chu Lan, you're back."

Zhao Fangxu and his group were not surprised by Zhang Chulan's attitude of coming to interrogate them, or rather, they were prepared for it.

Zhang Chulan then tossed the book "Wang Yiri's Affairs" in his hand in front of Zhao Fangxu.

"Chairman Zhao, Elder Xu, and the two seniors, you can't play games with people like this. How much do you actually know about Sister Bao'er's matter, and how many other people know about it?"

"Looks like this trip to Xi'an wasn't a waste, Chu Lan. How much did you find out?"

"There are many, but I want to hear them from you yourselves."

Zhang Chulan plopped down on the sofa. Feng Baobao still looked absent-minded, but when Zhang Chulan looked at Feng Baobao, his eyes and expression were no longer as composed as before.

If his previous understanding of Feng Baobao was that of an unconventional immortal with a mysterious past, now he had to add the label of an immortal who had been resurrected to Feng Baobao's identity.

The biggest gain from this trip to Xi'an to investigate the past activities of Wang Yi and his advisor Zhang Zhiwei was that they all knew an incomprehensible secret: Feng Baobao had died as early as 40!

A girl who had been confirmed dead by many people back then has now been resurrected and has lived in the world for decades in a state of immortality. He can't even imagine how much turmoil this secret would cause in today's society if it were exposed.

Immortality and resurrection—these two buffs combined are terrifying.

As a result, the moment they learned of this secret, they were taken into custody by their local counterparts, the person in charge of the Northwest region, and temporary worker Meng Duoduo. Others were unaware of this, but he and Feng Baobao were ordered to come to the capital immediately to meet with Zhao Fangxu and the others.

Seeing Zhang Chulan's state, Xu Xiang, who was already experienced, handed him a cup of calming tea and patted him on the shoulder.

"Regarding A-Wu's secret, we have only pieced together a rough outline in the last few years through the traces left by our master. As for the secret that A-Wu is Wu-Geng-Sheng's daughter, the only people who know this are the thirty-five people who swore brotherhood with Wu-Geng-Sheng back then, me, Lao Zhao, Lao Wang and Lao Meng, our master and the old Celestial Master, and you little guys who want to know what happened in the past."

"That's still quite a lot, Elder Xu. If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place."

"That's why we wanted you to use this diary left by your master to investigate the past, to catch those rats hiding in the gutter, and to see how many people still covet the secrets of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques. Unexpectedly, they are quite good at hiding and quite good at enduring."

"Now that you've made such a big move, Mr. Xu and Chairman Zhao, I'm afraid countless eyes are watching you from the shadows. Should I continue investigating?"

"The key to the problem is Chu Lan. Do you still want to continue investigating?"

Zhao Fangxu cut to the heart of the matter, and Zhang Chulan opened his mouth but didn't know how to answer.

“I don’t know, Chairman Zhao. Back on Longhu Mountain, Master Wang Ye tried to stop me. I couldn’t understand it then, but now, it’s no use trying to understand. We’re all in this mess. If we continue to investigate, will it cause another chaos over the Eight Extraordinary Skills? I really don’t want to think about it. Sister Bao’er, I’m sorry.”

"It's alright, Zhang Chulan. I already know I have two fathers. My biological father is named Feng Yao, and my second father is named Wang Yi. I have a family. I'm from Lantian. That's all."

Feng Baobao's frankness left Zhang Chulan speechless, and he looked at Zhao Fangxu and Xu Xiang, wondering what they were thinking.

"Chairman Zhao, Elder Xu, I don't quite understand what you're thinking anymore. If I continue to investigate, more and more people will start looking into Bao'er's past."

"That's why we need you to continue investigating, Chu Lan."

"I don't know."

"Chu Lan, you only need to remember one thing: we will not harm you. Your grandfather will not, your father will not, your grandmaster, the Old Master, will not, and I certainly won't. More than anyone else, I want A Wu to live a happy life as someone just like us, but we can't help her. Only you can help her. Chu Lan, do you understand?"

Xu Xiang sat in front of Zhang Chulan, looked directly at him, and said these words without giving any reason.

Looking at the silent Prince Zhong and Mendel, and Zhao Fangxu blowing on his teacup, Zhang Chulan could only choose to believe them in the end.

"I understand, Elder Xu. I will continue to investigate. So, you must have called me and Sister Bao'er here for something else, right?"

"Hehe, you're quick-witted, kid. Sit down, I'll go call the people who are waiting. But before that, there's something I need you to take care of."

Seeing that Zhang Chulan was no longer troubled by Feng Baobao's matter, Chairman Zhao Fangxu finally spoke. As Zhao Fangxu pressed a button on his desk, Zhang Chulan soon heard several footsteps coming from outside the door.

At the same time, Xu Xiang also took a tablet from the table and recorded what happened in the world of supernatural beings during Zhang Chulan and his group's trip to Xi'an to investigate Feng Baobao's background.
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That night, on a mountain road in the Southwest Region.

A fully loaded van was driving along the road, carrying both men and women. Zhang Chulan was one of them, and he recognized several of the others.

Needless to say, Feng Baobao is a temporary worker in the North China region of Na Du Tong Company. The driver is a middle-aged man wearing sportswear and glasses. He looks very polite and his name is Xiao Zizai. He is a temporary worker in the Central China region of the company.

This guy was also there when the Quanxing gang caused a ruckus at Longhu Mountain, but Zhang Chulan didn't run into this colleague.

Sitting in the passenger seat was Gao Erzhuang, a temporary worker from the Northeast region. Zhang Chulan's first impression of her was that she was a cool and aloof older sister.

Sitting next to me in the back seat was Meng Duoduo, a temporary worker from the Northwest region. I had met her once when I first went to Beijing to meet Xu Xiang and Chairman Zhao. There was also a guy with flowing blond hair and a typical air of a certain city in the Southwest region, named Wang Zhenqiu.

He was the most active person in the car, claiming that it was the first time that the temporary colleagues from several regions of the company who were officially in charge of the supernatural community had gotten together, so they should get to know each other better. His attitude made Zhang Chulan's position seem precarious. There was also a temporary worker from the South China region... wait, did the temporary worker from the South China region come?

As the most unique person among the temporary workers in the van, Zhang Chulan was looking at each of them and wondering if he could turn them into an asset to Feng Baobao. But as he was thinking, he suddenly turned around and looked behind him.

Zhang Chulan saw a bald boy standing next to Feng Baobao and Meng Duoduo, swooning over them, which finally calmed him down.

The temporary workers from the South China region also arrived. One of them was a bald boy named Mu. For some reason, this guy always managed to make people ignore his presence, whether it was his aura or his visual presence. Whenever Zhang Chulan was doing his analysis in his mind, he would subconsciously skip over this colleague from the South China region.

Looking at the harmonious atmosphere in the car, Zhang Chulan's thoughts returned to the real reason why Zhao Fangxu had called him and Feng Baobao to the headquarters of Na Du Tong in Beijing.

"Biyou Village, originally named Ma Mao Village, was initially inhabited only by a large family surnamed Mao. Later, due to years of war, a large family surnamed Ma from the north fled here, settled down, and supported each other. The village was later renamed Ma Mao Village. In the mid-70s, a branch of the Ma family came to trace their roots..."

Looking at the information on the tablet, Zhang Chulan understood that the Ma family branch that traced their roots in the mid-70s was the one who had mastered one of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, protected by Wang Yi and his own master. The Ma family was originally one of the same family. Wang Zizhong and Mendel, who had been invited by Xu Xiang and Zhao Fangxu, also provided explanations.

"Chu Lan, after this period of investigation, I think you have guessed a bit about it. Back then, the First Brother and the Celestial Master used their unparalleled cultivation to forcibly suppress the riots caused by the sworn brotherhood of the Thirty-Six Thieves and the emergence of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques."

At the time, the various factions present had no doubt that the people who were supposedly killed on the spot by the First Brother were faking their deaths. However, the First Brother put on a good show, and the powerful families like the Celestial Master's Mansion, the Three Ones Sect, and the Tang Clan were in sync with him, so they had to accept it. No one wanted to offend the two top masters at the time.

However, at the time, everyone tacitly agreed to a rule that these people could no longer appear in the world under their original identities, and the Eight Extraordinary Skills could not reappear; otherwise, they would turn against them. Later, many things happened: the leader was gone, and the Celestial Master confined himself to Longhu Mountain for more than forty years, but this unspoken rule remained.

Therefore, the company and the remnants of the Jia Shen clan who coveted the Eight Extraordinary Techniques both adhered to this tacit agreement: as long as the inheritors of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques didn't come forward on their own, the company could pretend not to see it, and they had to obediently keep it hidden until…”

“Until my grandfather passed away and my father never returned, I, as Zhang Huaiyi’s grandson, stepped into this circle of extraordinary people.”

Zhang Chulan picked up where the two elders left off and explained the reason why the world of supernatural beings was once again in turmoil.

Everything is connected.

Whether it was the thirty-three people who were protected by Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei back then, or the various factions that coveted the Eight Extraordinary Skills, they all went quiet and recuperated after that great chaos.

However, as time went by, those who coveted the Eight Extraordinary Skills, who called themselves remnants of the Jia Shen era, as well as the thirty-three surviving individuals with successors who were protected by Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei, all began to have designs on them, including his own grandfather.

The remnants of the Jia Shen rebellion are still harboring treacherous intentions, constantly testing the limits of the company and the elderly Zhang Zhiwei. Meanwhile, the thirty-three people, including their grandfather Zhang Huaiyi, who may still be alive, do not want to continue living in anonymity for the rest of their lives, and at least they do not want their descendants to continue living such a life.

Similarly, the company also understands that if these remnants of the Jia Shen era who covet the Eight Extraordinary Skills and the living inheritors of the Eight Extraordinary Skills are not dealt with, they may explode into chaos over the Eight Extraordinary Skills at any time.

Therefore, all three parties reached a tacit understanding on this matter: the death of their grandfather Zhang Huaiyi and the disappearance of their father served as a pretext to lure the remnants of the Jia Shen clan who coveted the Eight Extraordinary Techniques to come and investigate, thus giving the company a reason to intervene.

Immediately following this was his own entry into the world, with his advisor Zhang Zhiwei organizing the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony for him, and then the company holding a meeting of the Ten Elders to convey his attitude.

Then he took over "The Story of Wang Yi" and began to investigate the truth of the past. In the process, the successors of the two Eight Extraordinary Techniques, Feng Hou Qi Men and Ju Ling Qian Jiang, appeared by his side.

The Biyou Village introduced on this tablet was built by the descendants of Ma Benzai, the fourth of the Eight Extraordinary Skills, Divine Machine Hundred Refinements.

“Zhang Chulan, let me put it this way. We know where the eight masters of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques are in China, but because of the unspoken rules we all followed, we couldn’t actively interfere, like you did before. So, although I’m very unhappy that Ma Ben’s descendants have caused this mess, I can understand it.”

"So, Chairman Zhao, are you suggesting that I, as a fellow descendant of the Eight Extraordinary Skills, try to persuade them?"

"No, I want you, Wang Ye, and the Feng siblings, as descendants of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, to witness the demise of the myth of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques."

Returning to the present, Zhang Chulan recalled Zhao Fangxu's words, still unable to understand the reason behind them.

Witness the shattering of the myth of the Eight Extraordinary Skills?
This is a good idea, but if the myth of the Eight Extraordinary Skills were so easily shattered, it wouldn't have been remembered by various schools and sects for decades.

Especially for those aristocratic families and sects that have been passed down for thousands of years, they have seen all kinds of brilliant geniuses and methods of establishing their own sects over the years, but they have never paid as much attention to the Eight Extraordinary Techniques as they have to the Eight Extraordinary Techniques.

If the purpose is simply to witness the demise of the Eight Extraordinary Skills myth as a descendant of the Eight Extraordinary Skills, why bother sending out all six temporary workers from the company's six major regions?

He didn't understand.

"Zhang Chulan."

Black Pipe, the temporary worker from the Central China region who was driving, had been watching Zhang Chulan deep in thought through the rearview mirror and spoke up.

"Yes, Brother Clarinet, we've met before."

“I know what you’re thinking. Since we’re all in the same car and going to the same place, let’s be frank and clear about what’s on our minds. Otherwise, when we get to the village, we’ll have to be wary of our own people when we make a move.”

“Since you’ve said that, Brother Black Pipe, I’d like to hear everyone’s opinions. Chairman Zhao’s task for me is to witness the demise of the Eight Extraordinary Skills as a descendant of the Eight Extraordinary Skills. So, Brother Black Pipe, what role do you play as temporary workers in the company’s six major regions?”

"Heh, this young man is quite cunning. Old Xiao, it's inconvenient for me to drive. Can you or Duoduo talk to this kid?"

"Hey Blackie, let me speak~"

The lively Meng Duoduo eagerly raised her hand and became the tour guide.

"Zhang Chulan, you should know what the situation is like in Biyou Village right now."

"It's clear. The mission statement is very clear. Perhaps in order to prevent their lineage from living in anonymity, Ma Benzai's descendants, led by his great-grandson Ma Xianhong, publicly revealed their identities as descendants of the Eight Extraordinary Skills for the first time in the community. They also opened up avenues and posted messages in the community, wanting to re-enter the world and the community. Therefore, they changed the village name to Biyou Village."

Moreover, those who excel will be publicly taught the Divine Hundred Refinements, one of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques. According to intelligence, there is no ordinary person in the entire Biyou Village, including the original villagers; they are all extraordinary individuals.

"You have a pretty comprehensive understanding, but have you noticed a problem with the intelligence?"

"what is the problem?"

Zhang Chulan was slow to realize what was happening, but he did eventually understand.

It was exactly as the intelligence report stated: the entire Biyou Village, including the original villagers, is now populated by people of different kinds.

"Do you understand now? That's the problem. If an entire village is full of superhumans, it's impossible for such a village to be without records. In fact, before Ma Mao Village was renamed Bi You Village, the only family with superhumans in this village was Ma Ben's family, the one led by Master Ma. So where does the problem lie?"

"Divine Craftsmanship Refinement?"

Meng Duoduo shook her head and corrected, "Divine Refinement is a miraculous skill, capable of turning the rotten into the miraculous and possessing the ingenuity of the gods. However, according to the research data on the Eight Extraordinary Skills left by Senior Wang Yi and the Old Celestial Master, Divine Refinement alone does not have the ability to transform ordinary people into extraordinary beings."

At this point, Zhang Chulan also recalled his previous trip to Lüjia Village to handle the case of the attack on Duanmu Ying, a master of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques.

"You mean, this involves remnants of the Jia Shen rebellion?"

"Not too stupid, but it's not worth making such a fuss if it's just the remnants of the Jia Shen rebellion causing trouble. Since they are historical remnants, they are destined not to cause any big waves. Our target is those insiders who have heard the news and gathered in Biyou Village, or rather, ordinary people who have been attracted by the ability to be transformed into superhumans."

(End of this chapter)