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Chapter 88: Excess Qi and Blood (Part )
Ten miles east of Yinyue County, Huoxu Village is surrounded by a mysterious red fog.

When the young county magistrate arrived here, he found that the small town was deserted inside and outside.

This made him secretly frightened. Although Huoxu Village had a small population, there were more than 300 households. However, there was no one here. There were only dozens of charred corpses lying in the houses.

What is surprising is that although these people were burned to death, most of the houses they were in were intact.

"Spontaneous combustion? It's very strange, like it's burning from my internal organs, flesh, blood, and spinal cord. What's the cause?"

After examining several corpses, the young county magistrate came to the center of Huoxu Village and looked at a huge pit there.

He glanced down and his expression changed slightly.

The pit is very deep, at least 80 feet deep, and the bottom is almost invisible at a glance.

What surprised the young county magistrate was the structure on the cave wall. He could clearly see the area twenty feet below, where there was a coal seam forty feet deep. Beneath the coal seam, there were a large number of purple-red crystals.

These crystals were mixed with coal and laid all the way to the bottom of the cave.

The young county magistrate was amazed to find that underneath Huoxu Village was a large-scale Ziyao Yuanjing mine and an associated coal mine.

At the same time, he heard faint cries coming from the depths of the cave, as if there were many women and children crying below. He also sensed a demonic breath that was very familiar to him.

"It's that guy's smell—"

The young county magistrate frowned, looked back at Yinyue County, hesitated for a moment, and then jumped into the pit.

His body was like a crane, and he used the wall of the cave for leverage and landed lightly at the bottom of the cave.

Below is a relatively wide space, and the surrounding stone walls are also densely covered with purple crystals of varying sizes.

There are four cave passages around, and the caves are extremely deep and no one knows where they lead to. The young county magistrate can only listen to the wind to determine his location and follow the sound to a cave entrance on the east side.

The young county magistrate was holding a tinderbox and observing as he walked.

"Looking at the marks on the walls of these caves, they're clearly human-made, yet they're very old and don't look like mines. I wonder who did this?"

This road is also winding and deep, with many forks along the way.

About a hundred breaths later, the young county magistrate walked into a large cave, which was at least a hundred feet wide and more than five feet high.

He also saw a group of crying women and children. They were all on a stone platform in front of him, tied together with chains.

In addition to women and children, there were dozens of men on the stone platform, all of whom looked depressed and frustrated, and some even cried softly.

At this moment, they were all attracted by the fire in the county magistrate's hand and looked over.

These people were full of expectations at first, but when they saw the seventh-rank official robes of the county magistrate, despair appeared in their eyes.

The young county magistrate stood at the entrance of the cave with a frown on his face.

"Array?"

Inside this cave, there is actually a large-scale formation, lurking on the ground and the wall, and is quietly activating.

Fortunately, the young county magistrate acted very cautiously. He did not rush in and just stayed on the periphery of the formation.

The county magistrate then felt something in his heart and looked behind him with a cold gaze: "Bloody Rain Miao Shi?"

Not far behind him, a tall figure was walking out of the darkness.

Soon after, the man's figure was fully exposed under the light of the fire stick. He was a man about two meters tall, with white hair and beard, and covered in blood-red armor.

It was hard to call him a human being. Apart from his extremely tall stature, he also had six strong blood-red arms extending from behind him.

If you look closely, you will find that the armor on his body is actually a layer of bone armor mixed with flesh and blood, and you can also see capillaries and blue veins on it.

"It's me!" The blood-red-armored man grinned in the firelight, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth. "Master Zhuang, you've been looking for me for a long time, right? Coincidentally, I've been waiting for you here for a while too."

Before he finished speaking, thunder-like roars came from the cave behind him.

Following the huge explosion, the cave dozens of feet behind this person collapsed in large sections.

The young magistrate looked at the blocked cave behind Xue Yumiao, his eyes fixed. "So this is actually a deliberate trap? Are you deliberately luring me here to make me leave Yinyue County?"

"That's right!" The man in blood-red armor laughed loudly with a ferocious look on his face: "Haven't you always wanted to kill me? You've been chasing me for the past few months. If I hadn't escaped here, I would have been killed by you. But now, I can accompany you to have some fun here." At this moment, his figure was like a swift and violent bear, rushing forward suddenly.

The young county magistrate's heart sank. The target of this bloody rain was not him, but the women, children and common people on the platform behind him.

This guy wants to threaten the lives of these people and force him into the trap behind him!
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The next morning, Lin Rui got up early and started practicing the Lei Ji Shen Yao Post in the courtyard of Zui Hua Lou.

The blood training efficiency of the grandmaster-level Lei Ji Shen Yao Pillar has been greatly improved.

It should be noted that the more you progress in the Blood Training Stage, the more difficult it becomes and the slower your cultivation speed becomes.

Lin Rui's blood training efficiency yesterday had dropped to 0.7% per cycle of standing meditation, and now it has recovered to 0.8%.

In addition, Lin Rui's thunder-type Qi accumulation speed has greatly increased, surpassing the fire-type Qi.

This was because Lin Rui had used a Type 2 allogeneic blood enhancer yesterday at noon, awakening the 'Thunder Blood' talent in this body, greatly enhancing his affinity for the thunder element.

He also took the risk of using a Type 2 alien enhancer to strengthen his own alien physical qualities.

"My current blood training progress should be around 48%, entering the middle stage of blood training. In addition, due to the isotropic reaction and the strengthening of the blood, the strength, speed, reaction speed and other indicators of my alien body were close to those of the original body yesterday. After the injection of the Type 2 alien body enhancer, it has surpassed them in all aspects, exceeding them by about 10%, and has also entered the captain rank—"

Lin Rui completed ten practice of the Thunder Extreme Divine Shining Posture, which took exactly one hour.

At this moment, blood suddenly gushed out from under his nose.

Lin Rui covered his nose with a handkerchief and looked at Ji Xueying standing on the wall.

Another reason why his physical fitness improved so rapidly was because of this Blood Knife Lady.

Lin Rui's body is now being taken care of by her, but the problem is that this man is too nutritious, causing him to have excess blood and energy.

Ji Xueying was a little puzzled. She opened her eyes wide and looked at Lin Rui in confusion, wondering why her master was looking at her like that?
Lin Rui smiled at her, wiped his nose and started practicing with the sword again.

Lin Rui's sword practice today was different from before. He only practiced the 'Thunderbolt Slash' move.

Although he had already mastered this sword move to the level of a grandmaster, he still felt a little unfamiliar with it.

Lin Rui practiced from yesterday noon until evening, but still felt unsatisfied.

He has not yet formed muscle memory, nor can he move his sword freely as if he had moved his arm. However, his sword speed has been trained to be very fast. He can complete the process from drawing the sword to sheathing it in an instant, so fast that the Blood Sword Lady cannot react.

But I still need to practice more in the future, as the Grandmaster-level "Thunderbolt Slash" is far more powerful than this.

Lin Rui had only practiced for half an hour when his waist badge started to heat up.

Lin Rui picked up the badge and sensed it, looking slightly puzzled.

Is it Zan Dian? Why did this clay Buddha from the government contact him?
He pressed the button on the beast's head, and heard the voice of Candian from inside: "Captain Lin, today the County Lieutenant is acting as the County Magistrate and summoning all yamen runners above the black belt level to appear before him within two quarters of an hour. Please return to the County Office immediately."

Lin Rui's eyes became even more confused.

The county lieutenant is taking the place of the county magistrate? Is the county magistrate not at the county office today?

What was the purpose of County Lieutenant Zhu Lingshi summoning them over?

Lin Rui instinctively became alert and turned around to loudly order: "Twenty-Seven, Xueying, the county lieutenant is summoning us to the county government office today. There may be something mysterious about this matter. Bring everything you need."

He also walked back to the fourth floor, put on the divine hedgehog armor inside his clothes, and put on a layer of third-level military leather armor on the outside that did not affect his movements.

Lin Rui then put away the talismans he had drawn and several medicine bottles. He placed half of them in a bag and the other half inside his sleeves and on his belt, both of which were close to his body and easy to access.

After Lin Rui was ready, he took Wang Sen and Ji Xueying to the county government office.

When he walked into the gate of the county government office, he saw Zhang Tianchang and several of his capable subordinates, as well as the chief constable Cao Jun and others in front of him. More than 20 black belts and deputy chief constables in the county government office were stopped at the door of the county government office lobby by a group of county soldiers.

Tie Ji Ying Yuan stood at the top of the steps, his hands behind his back, glaring coldly at the people below: "The county lieutenant has ordered that no one is allowed to bring weapons into the hall for today's meeting. Everyone, take off your swords!"

When Lin Rui heard Ying Yuan's words, his eyes suddenly became sharp.

(End of this chapter)