Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Honglin tilted her head, looking at Li Gu who was sitting cross-legged and meditating with his eyes closed. She carefully examined his profile. He was not bad-looking. The Demonic Sect actually used such a good-looking man as a consumable. This was truly intolerable...

I'm so angry! I'm so frustrated, I might as well read a book.

She took out an adult novel, "The Plum in the Silver Vase," and flipped to the place she had read last time. The protagonist was a medicine merchant who had an affair with the wife of a pancake vendor, engaging in sexual intercourse in all sorts of ways.

Beautiful, so beautiful!

at the same time……

Li Gu has entered a critical period.

The medicinal power of the Foundation Building Pill exploded, and all the spiritual energy accumulated in the body immediately began to surge, frantically washing over the meridians. The intense spiritual energy fluctuations caused a tearing pain between the bones.

In the face of repeated impacts, the old martial arts meridian system shattered, and a new cultivation system began to take shape within the body.

In the era of martial arts, true qi is stored in the dantian. In the era of cultivation, true qi is transformed into spiritual qi and begins to flow into the purple palace.

Just as all the spiritual energy began its massive relocation...

The inner demons arrive silently!

A deceptive voice echoed in Li Gu's ears: "The path of cultivation is a lonely one. You must sever your seven emotions and six desires and break with everyone and everything around you in order to break through the Great Dao."

Li Gu floated in his own fantasy, and said to the deceptive voice, "Really? Is my current training method wrong?"

"Really!" The voice chuckled. "Who cultivates immortality without living in seclusion in the mountains and rivers? Don't go astray. Quickly return to the right path, leave the city, go into the mountains... Abandon everything, and you can transcend everything."

Li Gu grinned: "You're lying to me! You're my inner demon, deliberately trying to lead me down the wrong path and make me go mad. You can't fool me."

The voice screamed, "I didn't lie to you! Hua Qianfang lied to you, Zhang Yi lied to you, Zheng Xiaodong lied to you, Meng Ting lied to you, Bai Yan lied to you, Hong Lin lied to you too... Everyone around you is lying to you. They all want to drag you into the mortal world, making it impossible for you to transcend it. You should kill them all... kill your sister to prove your Dao..."

Li Gu threw a punch...

"boom!"

The inner demons have vanished.

The boundless spiritual energy surged into the Purple Mansion, the gaseous spiritual power transformed into rolling spiritual liquid, and a blue Daoist aura rose around him, allowing him to transcend the mortal realm and establish his foundation, doubling his lifespan.

Li Gu suddenly opened his eyes. It was already daylight outside. The whole night had passed. Golden sunlight streamed through the window and onto the table, where a book, "The Plum in the Silver Vase," was half-open.

Li Gu turned his gaze to the embroidery bed, searching for Hong Lin's figure.

Huh?

She's not in bed, where did she go?

I could smell the fragrance very close to my nose.

Li Gu glanced to the side and found her. Hong Lin was sitting right next to him, her little mouth pouting, about to kiss his face.

"Huh?" Li Gu quickly dodged to the side, instantly clearing two meters away: "Lord Hong, what are you doing?"

"Tch! He actually broke through at this time."

Honglin withdrew her pout and instantly resumed her indifferent expression: "Hurry up and leave after you've finished your breakthrough. It's getting light, and I still have to go to the government office to work. You also have to go to the Six Doors to report for duty."

Li Gu was full of question marks: "Hey! Lord Hong, aren't you going to explain yourself?"

"What's there to explain?" Hong Lin remained calm, as if she hadn't done anything at all. "I'm an old woman, and you're a handsome young man. It's perfectly reasonable for me to want to take advantage of you a little, isn't it? I'm just unlucky to have been caught. Consider it repayment for the night I spent protecting you."

Li Gu: "..."

Is this supposed to be an explanation?

Li Gu jumped up, clasped his hands in a salute, and said, "Thank you for protecting me, Lord Hong. I have just completed the Foundation Establishment and need some time to consolidate it. I will take my leave now."

After saying that, he took off running.

Honglin watched his retreating figure disappear into the distance, then chuckled, "Alright, the foreshadowing is done. When will Junior Sister come knocking on my door to insult this wicked woman who stole my man? I can't wait."

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It's morning; I just finished my morning prayers.

The Six Doors were bustling with activity. Kailong was training new recruits again, having just taken two newly joined constables out. Honglin had recently recruited quite a few new people, including constables, yamen runners, and odd jobs. It was clear she was covering for Li Gu and his group; the more new people there were, the less likely Li Gu and his group would be suspected.

Cai Xinzi crossed her legs and flipped through the official gazette.

Niu Jin and Ma Zhi huddled in a corner, whispering to each other.

Various noises entered Li Gu's ears, and his vision broadened, as if everything around him was under his control.

Li Gu felt that his hearing, vision, smell, and touch had all increased exponentially. He had just taken a bite of a steamed bun and discovered that his sense of taste was also very different; he could now even taste how much alkali had been added to the bun in one bite.

Is this the change that occurs during foundation building?

However, other Foundation Establishment cultivators all possess magical treasures and artifacts, enabling them to fly on these artifacts. They also have various talismans, array plates, and so on, and some even raise spirit beasts.

But Li Gu had nothing.

The most destitute Foundation Establishment cultivator in history was none other than Li Gu.

Unfortunately, he can't go out to look for these things right now.

His only advantage now is that he has seen through the Demonic Sect's conspiracy; the Demonic Sect is in the open, while he is in the shadows.

Li Gu stood at the window, observing the main street outside the yamen through the crack in the window.

The yamen is located on "Zhongdajie" in Jiangzhou, the busiest and most prosperous street in Jiangzhou City. It is always full of traffic and people. Although it is early morning, the hardworking people have already set up stalls all over the street. The shouts of various meat and vegetable vendors rise and fall, forming a warm white noise.

Li Gu pushed his five senses to their limits, observing the unnatural aspects of the street.

The yamen is Hua Qianfang's "key point of suspicion," so he will definitely arrange a corpse puppet to monitor the main gate of the yamen. Moreover, he will definitely not use the Ouyang brothers, because he has no grudge against the Ouyang brothers. So it must be Zhou Shijie.

That guy must hate me to the core, so he's definitely very proactive in searching for me.

Haste makes it easy to make mistakes!

Li Gu soon discovered that there were no vendors near the entrance of a small alley diagonally opposite the government office. Usually, there would be several middle-aged women selling vegetables in baskets there, but today there was not a single vegetable stall in sight.

A fishmonger carrying his load walked to the alley entrance. Just as he was about to put the load down, he suddenly made a sniffing motion, frowned, shook his head, and walked away to find another place to set up his stall.

A thought flashed through Li Gu's mind: There!

Just as he thought of this, Zhang Yi approached from behind and whispered, "There's a good chance that a corpse puppet is hidden in that alley."