Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

As night fell completely, the prefectural government office fell silent.

Li Gula opened the back door of the yamen and entered the guest courtyard of Prefect Hong's house.

The minor officials here all have their own residences and go home at night, not staying at the yamen.

Only the residence of Prefect Hong was connected to the government office. The front hall was the main hall of the government office, and the back courtyard was her own. The defensive formation that covered the entire government office naturally included Prefect Hong's residence as well.

It seems that this was an arrangement made by the imperial court to protect its officials.

In principle, Li Gu and the other three should have gone out to find their own houses to live in before reporting to the yamen in the morning.

However, Prefect Hong knew that they were in grave danger living outside, so he made an exception and allowed the four of them to stay in a side room in the backyard of the yamen. This room was also protected by a defensive formation, so there was no need to worry about Hua Qianfang's men sneaking in at night and beheading them.

Li Gu and Zheng Xiaodong shared a guest room, while Zhang Yi and Meng Ting shared another. This was an ancient Chinese custom: when visiting someone's home, even married couples couldn't share a room, let alone lovers. Even today, some regions still strictly adhere to this custom.

Zheng Xiaodong was lying on the bed in a daze when he saw Li Gu enter. He immediately sat up and asked, "I heard from Junior Sister Zhang that you got into a fight with someone at the Six Doors today?"

Li Gu nodded and lowered his voice, "Don't worry, I only used internal techniques, not external skills, so no one will know that we come from Flower Valley."

Zheng Xiaodong quickly said, "I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about whether we can survive in the yamen. If we leave the prefect's yamen, we'll probably be caught by the Demonic Sect very soon."

"Yes!" Li Gu nodded. "We can't hide in the prefect's office forever and rely on the benevolence of Prefect Hong to survive. In the end, we need to be strong ourselves. We need to intensify our cultivation and improve our strength. When the four of us can join forces to kill Hua Qianfang, we won't have to be afraid."

Zheng Xiaodong scratched his head and sighed, "Hua Qianfang is at least a Golden Core cultivator, right? I even suspect he's a Nascent Soul cultivator. The gap between us and Hua Qianfang might not be something we can close in a few decades, but how much longer can we continue living in Governor Hong's house?"

This is a problem! A very specific one!

Li Gu patted Zheng Xiaodong on the shoulder and whispered, "There's a way to solve this. I see that Prefect Hong is still single. Go after her, make her fall in love with you, and make her your wife. Then we can live here forever."

Zheng Xiaodong was taken aback: "If you want to castrate me, just say so. Why beat around the bush?"

Li Guqi said, "How could I have wanted to castrate you?"

Zheng Xiaodong shook his head and said, "I'm going to chase after another woman tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow I'll get castrated by Junior Sister Zhang. Do you believe me?"

Li Gu: "..."

Zheng Xiaodong said, "This is such a difficult task, so I'll leave it to you."

Li Gu shook his head: "If you want to drown me, just say so. Why beat around the bush?"

Zheng Xiaodong was greatly surprised: "Drowned?"

Li Gu laughed and said, "Junior Sister can cry? Her tears are flowing like water, and I'd drown."

Zheng Xiaodong: "..."

Joking aside, both of them knew that the time they could hide under the protection of Governor Hong was dwindling.

Zheng Xiaodong finally showed a worried expression, lay back on the bed, and continued to stare blankly.

Li Gu sat cross-legged on his bed, ready to begin practicing his martial arts.

As mentioned earlier, one must be strong to succeed. If you don't want to live a life of hiding, you must work hard to cultivate yourself and defeat Hua Qianfang as soon as possible. There is no other way.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out the bottle of fake medicine.

I took a sniff, and it really did smell like Liuwei Dihuang Pills. This medicine is for nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys. Taking it indiscriminately can easily lead to internal heat, nosebleeds, and weakness in the legs when seeing women... Normal men should never take it indiscriminately.

However, Qin Zhen lied and said that "eating one pill can greatly increase one's cultivation level." Li Gu made the system force this statement to become the truth. In other words, regardless of whether it is Liuwei Dihuang Pill or not, eating it will definitely increase one's cultivation level significantly.

Li Gu gritted his teeth and decided to go all out! So be it if he has internal heat; he needs cultivation.

He picked up a pill from the bottle and popped it into his mouth.

Then quickly sit cross-legged, with your palms facing upwards, and silently practice the [Hidden Flower Heart Method].

The swordsmanship that Hua Qianfang taught his disciples was a fake; it wasn't the "Hidden Flower Swordsmanship" at all, but rather the "Gale-force Soul-Severing Swordsmanship." As for his lightness skill, the "Hidden Flower Movement Skill" was some kind of martial arts technique he'd gotten from somewhere, and it wasn't very sophisticated.

However, the [Hidden Flower Heart Method] is a truly top-tier heart method.

Li Gu only practiced for four years before reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, which shows that this mental cultivation method is extremely excellent.

Hua Qianfang teaches his disciples excellent internal cultivation techniques, but he only teaches them ordinary martial arts swordsmanship and lightness skills. Once a disciple reaches the seventh level of Qi Refining, he kills him...

He had a vague idea of ​​why Hua Qianfang did this! But the answer was a bit scary, and he tried his best not to think in that direction.

The Liuwei Dihuang Pills slowly melted in the stomach, and the medicinal effects began to spread.

Li Gu suddenly felt a huge surge of spiritual energy spreading from his stomach wall; the lie had worked!

He was a little flustered. This was his first time encountering a pill that could enhance cultivation. How was he supposed to absorb it? How was he supposed to refine it? He had no experience! No one had ever taught him before. The disciples of Hidden Flower Sect were clearly just Hua Qianfang's fodder; he wouldn't be kind enough to give them spiritual medicines and pills, so naturally he wouldn't teach them these things.

How can we guide absorption?

As Li Gu hesitated, he suddenly felt his [Hidden Flower True Qi] stirring within his body, like piranhas smelling blood. Without Li Gu even needing to command it, it swam along his meridians towards his stomach...

The hidden true energy seemed to transform into a lurking spirit beast within his body, voraciously devouring the spiritual energy emanating from the pill, as if enjoying a gluttonous feast.

Li Gu: "?!"

In a fleeting moment, she drifted into a dream. In the dream, Hua Qianfang placed a hand on her senior brother Sun Xing's shoulder. The former's true energy was like a ferocious beast, while the latter's was like a cub. The ferocious beast bit the cub, grinning maliciously as it swallowed it whole. The cub struggled desperately, but to no avail…

Merge a term of the same kind...

Li Gu suddenly woke up from his dream!

The sky outside was already bright. After a night, he felt that his stomach was no longer overflowing with spiritual energy, and the [Hidden Flower True Qi] in his body was no longer running wild, but quietly hiding in his Purple Mansion.

Li Gu tried to draw out his true energy from his Purple Mansion.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of true energy, which actually made his meridians feel swollen and painful.

This discomfort is caused by the increase in cultivation level.

Imagine a reservoir with water flowing through a flexible hose. One day, the water level in the reservoir rises significantly, but the hose doesn't expand. Naturally, it bulges out due to the water pressure.

Li Gu let out a long breath, cursing inwardly: Hey! Could the real name of this technique be something like "Northern Darkness Divine Art" or "Star Absorbing Technique"?