From the fusion of Tongbei Quan to the Longevity Martial Saint

Ding Mingcheng turned his head and gave Fang Qing a complicated look.

He immediately led his men, carrying tools, towards the garden of the manor.

Even though it is winter.

But Ding Mingcheng still simply took off his shoes and socks.

Pick up your tools and start searching in the pond.

The pond was not large, and the dozen or so salt patrol officers quickly conducted a comprehensive search.

One of the salt patrol guards simply held up a box wrapped in oilcloth.

"Found it!"

Ding Mingcheng rushed over, snatched the box wrapped in oilcloth, and took it to the shore.

Ding Mingcheng carefully unwrapped the oilcloth, revealing an exquisite box inside.

When the box was opened, a burnt smell wafted out.

He took out a stack of letters that were half burned from inside.

Clearly, when the salt patrol surrounded the Liu family, the salt merchants, the Liu family tried to burn these letters.

Unfortunately, the salt patrol arrived too quickly, and they only had time to burn a portion of it.

When Ding Mingcheng quickly handed these letters to Gu Changyuan.

Gu Changyuan opened several letters that were burned to only half their original size and glanced at them briefly.

The next moment, his eyes were filled with joy.

Gu Changyuan turned his head directly to look in Fang Qing's direction.

"Brother Fang, you have done a great service again this time."

The merit points will probably be quite high again.

Upon hearing Gu Changyuan's words, Ding Mingcheng, Wei Wu, and the surrounding salt patrol guards all turned to look in Fang Qing's direction.

They still felt like they were in a dream.

Fang Qing only took a handful of rice and a small tuft of chicken down.

Looking into Liu Tianming's eyes, he said a few words and successfully found the evidence.

It can be said that even if Wei Wu and Ding Mingcheng racked their brains, they still wouldn't know how Fang Qing did it, step by step, move by move.

At the same time, they were also glad that Fang Qing was on their side.

If Fang Qing were on the Liu family's side, who knows how he would have manipulated them so easily.

With the evidence found, the Liu family, salt merchants, were immediately implicated in the case file of their property being confiscated and their clan exterminated.

At that moment, Ding Mingcheng took Fang Qing directly and proceeded with the subsequent house raiding procedures.

Fang Qing followed Ding Mingcheng to search every house for all the valuables they could find.

Finally, the two went directly to the study of the Liu family patriarch.

The study has a full bookshelf filled with all kinds of books.

Fang Qing even saw some body tempering techniques.

However, Fang Qing now possesses the Undying Golden Body Tempering Technique.

Fang Qing naturally didn't take these body tempering methods seriously, as they were only slightly better than the Mountain and River Body Tempering Technique.

Just as the two were organizing the books, Fang Qing suddenly spotted a fragment in the box at the very top of the bookshelf.

Just as Fang Qing touched the fragment, the golden interface in front of him trembled slightly.

[Top-tier movement technique: Fleeting Shadow Fragments...]

[Requires the sixth level of Body Tempering to fuse with...]

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Fang Qing's eyes lit up immediately.

Fang Qing now has the basic skills and combat techniques, but what he lacks is lightness skill and movement techniques.

Unexpectedly, during the raid on the Liu family, a salt merchant's home, they encountered a fleeting fragment of light and shadow.

"If the Martial Arts Forge considers this movement technique to be top-tier, then it must be extraordinary."

For Fang Qing, the most crucial question now is whether he can take the fragment, which was obtained by the Salt Patrol Guard during a raid.

Ding Mingcheng, who was tidying up the Liu family's belongings with Fang Qing, noticed Fang Qing holding a piece of iron in a daze and curiously peered at it.

"Huh? It's actually a fragment of a cultivation technique."

Ding Mingcheng took it directly, weighed it in his hand, and then sensed it slightly.

The next moment, Ding Mingcheng sighed helplessly.

"Unfortunately, this fragment of cultivation technique can only generate a slight sensation, and we have no idea what kind of cultivation technique it contains."

Upon hearing this, Fang Qing raised an eyebrow. Clearly, this wasn't the first time Ding Mingcheng had come into contact with fragments that looked like they were made of an unknown metal.

"Brother Ding, have you handled these kinds of fragments before?"

Ding Mingcheng nodded, seemingly unconcerned:

"In fact, similar fragments made of unknown metals have been found in many places in our Great Qian Dynasty."

"Many people say that there is a cultivation technique hidden inside this fragment. However, even experts at the True Essence Realm cannot sense the technique inside."

Upon hearing this, Fang Qing raised an eyebrow.

He finally understood how terrifying his martial arts furnace was.

The techniques contained in these fragments are probably only perceptible to those who have reached a certain level or possess a martial arts furnace like him.

Most importantly, even for experts at high levels, the techniques they sense inside are only fragments.

The Martial Arts Furnace can create a technique simply by combining fragments of information with martial arts principles.

This is the truly terrifying aspect of the martial arts crucible.

The next moment, Ding Mingcheng casually returned the fragment in his hand to Fang Qing.

"There are too many of these fragments, and it would be troublesome to register them. If you like collecting these fragments, you can just take them and use them as playthings."

"Don't worry, even if the salt patrolmen find out, they won't say anything."

Fang Qing's eyes lit up when he heard what Ding Mingcheng said.

Quickly take this fragment.

At the same time, a thought popped into his mind.

"If what Brother Ding just said is true, then wouldn't the Salt Patrol Guard's armory also contain many such fragments?"

As if knowing what Fang Qing was thinking, Ding Mingcheng directly explained:

"These fragments seem to have existed since the early days of the Great Qian Dynasty."

"Many people have taken these fragments to the Immortal Sect to inquire, but even the sects within the Immortal Sect don't know the origin of these fragments."

"There are rumors circulating that these fragments were left behind by the ancient immortals."

"Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of storytellers; no one can actually verify it."

Upon hearing this, Fang Qing fiddled with the fragment in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Just then, a commotion arose outside the Liu family manor, a salt merchant's estate.

Fang Qing and Ding Mingcheng both looked towards the outer perimeter of the manor.

A moment later, a salt patrol officer hurried in and reported:

"Lord Ding, just now, among the martial arts elites who were responsible for helping the Six Doors maintain order on the perimeter, one of them successfully captured a steward from the Liu family who had just returned from an outing."

"Lord Wei Wu has personally gone to handle the matter."

What Ding Mingcheng heard was that they had caught a returning steward of the Liu family.

To be honest, these officials would thoroughly investigate their backgrounds, and if they had done a lot of bad things, they would be exiled to Lingnan.

Of course, this is in contrast to the capture of Liu Tianming by Fang Qing, and the evidence he found of the Liu family's collusion with the salt bandits.

Being a steward for the Liu family is a trivial matter.

This did not attract much attention from Ding Mingcheng, Fang Qing, and others...

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