Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 164 Tianjiao
Yaowang Hall, a large hall with a square table, where the three shopkeepers, Yang Luchan, Kou Ming and a few others were sitting. It can be seen from here.

Although Yaowang Hall has several master chefs, only the five people at this table can truly enter the decision-making level. It has nothing to do with strength, it’s just a different division of labor.

After a whole night of meetings, even though all five people practiced martial arts, they could not help but show signs of fatigue in their eyes.

"We talked all night, and all we did was to decide on the general direction. First we'll build a firewood and iron shop, and then we'll swallow up the Fish and Dragon Society..."

Yang Luchan placed his hands on his knees, sitting very straight, his brows calm, and said:
"But I always feel that Yulong will hide deeper than Chai Tiepu. Judging from the fact that they sent Ma Mingfeng to be the first to speak out and make wild claims with the intention of dominating the market, they must have something to rely on. Otherwise, how could they have the confidence to challenge us and Chai Tiepu?"

"It is said that the Chai Tie Pu has the support of the government and has reached a secret agreement with the county government to privately build the 'Divine Power Crossbow'. This is the source of their confidence. What is the basis for the Yulong Society?" The third shopkeeper Cao Shouxiong asked softly, "Just relying on a genius disciple Ma Mingfeng? That's a joke."

"This only shows that the ichthyosaur will hide its true colors even deeper, just like a venomous snake. We need to be more vigilant."

The chief treasurer Qin Sifan said:

"But the reason why we are targeting Chai Tie Pu is very clear. Xie Qingfeng of Chai Tie Pu and Kou Ming and Chen Ku of Yao Wang Tang are in competition with each other as young people. If Xie Qingfeng is valued by the Grandmaster, then Chai Tie Pu will become more powerful and we will have no power to fight back."

"That's true."

Yang Luchan said slowly:
"I agree to attack the firewood and iron shop first, but we still need to discuss in detail how to do it."

Zhang Yuanhai, the second shopkeeper, smiled coldly and said, "Of course we have to play to the strengths of our Medicine King Hall. Don't forget what our Medicine King Hall does. It's not as convenient and quick as giving drugs. Even if Xie Wenyuan and Xie Qingfeng are fourth-level warriors, we have poison that can deal with them."

"There are indeed poisons to deal with warriors in the fourth realm. In the hall alone, there are drugs such as 'Six-Rank Red', 'Seven-Step Soul-Calling Powder', and 'Seven-Oriented Bone-Dissolving Powder'."

Cao Shouxiong frowned slightly and said:
"The difficulty is how to succeed. The defense of the Chai Tie Shop is as strict as that of the Medicine King Hall, or even stronger. If we poison a large area, it is inevitable that innocent people will be hurt. The government will not sit idly by and watch us make such a big fuss."

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"Six-grade red is a collection of the six most powerful poisons in the world. They are purified and ground into powder and mixed together. They can be dissolved in water or rolled into pills. They only need to be the size of a mustard seed and thrown into water or food to kill dozens of people. Or if it is blown into the air, ordinary people will bleed from all seven orifices and die if they breathe it in. Unless the martial arts are cultivated to the level of 'five realms strong', there is no way to resist it."

Chen Ku was in his room looking through the various poisons recorded in the Medicine King Hall. Not to mention arsenic and heartbreak grass, they might be effective on ordinary warriors, but if they were aimed at warriors above the fourth level, it would be difficult for them to be effective instantly.

"This sixth-grade red is not easy to refine. It is actually classified as a 'four-level medicine prescription' in the atlas. With my current means, I am not able to refine it myself."

He was lost in thought.

"Even in the Medicine King Hall, only two or three alchemists can make a dose of poison like this, and it is worth a thousand gold."

Chen Ku looked through the other poisons in the book.

For example, the Seven-Step Soul-Calling Powder and the Seven-Oriented Bone-Dissolving Powder are of the fifth-level grade. It is difficult for the entire Medicine King Hall to refine and synthesize just one dose within a year.

"Compared to the Seven-Step Soul-Invoking Powder and the Seven-Oriented Bone-Dissolving Powder, the Six-Rank Red can be bought on the black market. In fact, it is sold secretly from the Medicine King Hall..."

Chen Ku was very active at this time.

Secretly said:

"If I tell my master and several shopkeepers that I plan to poison that old man surnamed Xie, I guess I can apply for a copy. But they will definitely ask me and show concern for me, especially when they ask me how I plan to poison him, and I won't be able to answer."

After he possessed the transformation of the Red-tailed Bee.

The biggest advantage of being able to change into the size of an insect or a bee is that it can conceal its identity and allow it to do shady and despicable things, such as poisoning.

But this matter involves the fundamental secret of his life, how can he leak it to the outside world?

The reason why he wanted to poison Xie Wenyuan.

One is that the conflict between Yaowangtang and Chaitiepu is irreconcilable, and they have become mortal enemies.

Secondly,

Chen Ku could already feel the old shopkeeper's strong hostility towards him. Apart from the bait of the Thirteen Guardians' quota thrown by the Divine Hammer Guardian that day, there was also his deep hatred for the Firewood and Iron Shop. All of these had already destined him to be the one who must be killed in the old guy's heart.

Now that I have the ability to sneak up on him, why not do it?

"First, sell the fur and antlers of the Nine-Colored Deer. The reward of 500,000 taels of silver is enough for me to buy 10,000 doses of poison."

Set your mind.

Chen Ku left Yaowang Hall, and after going out, he transformed himself into "Erlang", wearing a bamboo hat, and walked towards the Gray Clothes Building in the black market.

But came to the street.

I saw a lot of strangers and thought:
"Since the Grandmaster came to Baojiao County, more and more outsiders have come here in the past two or three days, and the frequency has increased."

Suddenly,

There were children on the street holding a bunch of newspapers and shouting:

"Newspapers for sale! The Jianghu Gazette, co-published by Miss Shengnan from a famous family and the county's Tongwenguan, is out now... It will tell you about the backgrounds of three geniuses who came to Baojiao County today. One copy costs only one penny."

Chen Ku listened.

With a slight thought in his mind, he called the newspaper boy and said:
"Have some."

He casually took out a penny, threw it to the child, and got a copy of the "Dibao".

"Okay, sir, take it."

The court bulletins first appeared in the imperial court offices and were used to spread news about the appointment and promotion of officials. However, after the founding of the Daji Dynasty, many private business bulletins evolved from them.

The famous family in Qiulong Mansion made their fortune by publishing this Jianghu Gazette, and its reputation spread far and wide.

Unexpectedly, after Shengnan came to Baojiao County, he actually pulled Jiang Shaoyou and his family together to start this kind of underworld newspaper in Baojiao County.

Chen Ku looked at the newspaper in his hand and saw the first line of the front page was written in bold ink, which read "Master Qin's guardian entered the treasure dragon, and the three proud people heard the news and wanted to become his disciples"...

"Three proud ones?"

On the official newspaper, there were three small portraits, each of which explained the origins of the three people:

"Di Jianqing, the current heir of the Di family in Qiulong Mansion, is only sixteen years old and is about to enter the Jade Muscle Realm. He possesses three unique skills, among which the family's unique skill, the 'Kanglong Mace', has been cultivated to perfection."

Chen Ku saw the description of the young boy in the portrait.

I was deeply surprised:
"Such a genius?"

Just looking at this identity and qualifications, he has already left Senior Brother Kou Ming far behind. Senior Brother Kou Ming, now 24 or 25 years old, has mastered two unique skills and has practiced the family-inherited Iron Palm to perfection, but...

In terms of bone age, he is seven years younger than Di Jianqing!
"Is this the genius-level disciple of Qiulong Mansion?"

Chen Ku was very clear about one thing in his previous life: there were countless geniuses in the world, and IQ and talent were the most unfair things in the world.

Baojiao County is not small, with a population of 100,000. When Chen Ku was nearly eighteen years old, he was called a "genius" because of his rapid cultivation speed.

But Baojiao County is just one of the thirty-six counties of Qiulong Prefecture.

The entire Qiulong Prefecture has over a million households and nearly ten million people. With such a huge population base, it is not surprising that many "unparalleled geniuses" are born.

as predicted.

When Chen Ku looked down, there were three geniuses in total, all of whom had terrifying talents similar to Di Jianqing.

"Cai Feihong, the second daughter of the Qiulong Cai family, is only eighteen years old. Three years ago, she was engaged to the third son of the Wu family, a family of divine detectives in Qiulong Prefecture. However, she disobeyed her father's orders and went to the Wu family alone to break off the engagement, which angered her father, who expelled her from the family. Unexpectedly, in the past three years, she had many adventures and not only cultivated to the Jade Muscle Realm, but also obtained a unique sword technique and mastered it."

"Fu Huangfei, from no sect or school, suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and no one knows his origins. At the age of seventeen, he has defeated many Jade Muscle Realm masters in a row. He is suspected to have the 'Shaoyang Limai Body'. He does not need to practice, his innate meridians are unobstructed, and he can smoothly reach the fourth level of meridians by eating and drinking. Now he has reached the entry level of the third level of Jade Muscle."

Chen Ku looked at these three geniuses.

Two men and one woman.

I couldn't help but sigh again:
"The world's talented people are like crucian carp swimming across the river."

Baojiao County is still too small.

Qiulong Mansion is a wider world.

Just as Chen Ku was holding this page of the newspaper and slowly walking towards the Gray Building.

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"This famous tomboy, we have only been in Baojiao County for the second day, and you have already made our identities known to everyone. How annoying."

In the Hongyan Tower, a sturdy boy, about sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in brocade and silk, with a handsome appearance, listened to the shouting of the newspaper boy outside, angrily smashed the two gold-handled copper maces in his hands heavily on the ground, and muttered:
"When I enter the Fifth Realm, I will go to the famous newspaper shops and burn all their newspapers to ashes."

The young man was Di Jianqing.

"The famous family is a 300-year-old brand and has accumulated a lot of heritage. Let alone the fifth realm, even the sixth realm cannot make them in awe."

Sitting next to Di Jianqing was an eighteen-year-old girl with a thin figure, beautiful face, and a cold temperament. She was dressed in red and had a sword on the table. She drank a cup of tea and said:
"Besides, she won't just report us. When the time comes, other people will also report. It will be good for us too. We will know who will come to compete with us for the spot of Grandmaster's disciple."

"I'm not very interested in those people from Qiulong Mansion."

Fu Huangfei, one of the three geniuses, crossed his arms and just stared at the words in the last corner of a newspaper on the table.

[Chen Ku from Baojiao County has been practicing for half a year and is suspected to have reached the peak of the Mysterious Pass. In terms of talent and aptitude, he is not inferior to the three great geniuses at all. He is likely to become the number one local enemy that the great geniuses from the prefectural city will encounter when they come to Baojiao County.]

Bang Bang~
Fu Huangfei stretched out his slender fingers and tapped the table:

"On the contrary, I am very interested in Chen Ku. I heard that his bloodline can avoid fire, but I don't know... whether it can avoid my 'Mysterious Fire Power'."

The three of them sat in the lobby of Hongyan Building to eat without hiding their whereabouts.

In this way, he was openly watched by all kinds of people in Baojiao County.

But he didn't know it.

Among this large group of ordinary gang members, there was a tall old man who was slowly picking up dishes with chopsticks, staring at Fu Huangfei with interest.

"This little fellow's 'Shaoyang Limai' does have the conditions to cultivate the first level 'Liyang Zhenqi' of my Huangjue Sect's 'Huntian Ba ​​Ti'."

Shan Lingguan said to himself:

“Apart from anything else, Xiao Qin’s move did attract the young people from Qiulong Mansion and even other mansions. Maybe he can pass on the Hun Tian Tyrant Body to the third and second level. Even if he can’t pass it all on, he can still leave some incense.”

at least,

This guy named Fu Huangfei can pass on one level to him, but whether he can do so or not still needs careful observation.

now.

The three geniuses at the table had almost finished their meal.

"We're done eating. Do you want to accompany me on that matter?"

Di Jianqing finished his meal, wiped his mouth, whispered in secret, lowered his voice and smiled:

"After all, we are the first group to come to Baojiao County. How can we not make some noise?"

"Ping An Dao? If the three of us join forces, we can indeed try to attack one of their incense altars. If we can take down an incense altar before the Grand Master makes a move, we will surely become the first wave of heroes to enter the Grand Master's eyes and win a lot of favor."

Cai Feihong gently grasped the sword on the table, showing his sharp edge:

"Let's investigate first."

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In the Gray Building.

"The distinguished guest has come again. What reward have you come to hand in this time?"

The middle-aged man in gray at the counter had already recognized this "Erlang". Although he had not come to the Gray Building many times, he would submit a reward worth tens of thousands every time.

The list of ghostwriters in Baojiao County has ranked "Erlang" tenth.

"Come and pay the reward for number fifteen on the bounty list."

Chen Ku lowered his hat brim and said slowly:
"Let's find a quiet place."

"The fifteenth... is that... the Nine-Colored Deer worth five hundred thousand taels?"

(End of this chapter)