Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

How is that possible?

The expression on the second senior brother's face when he fell down was quite interesting.

On the day Li Gu collapsed after failing to break through, his second senior brother had clearly examined his meridians and confirmed that Li Gu's meridians were completely severed, just like Senior Brother Zheng's. Only then did he feel at ease treating him as a dead man.

It's really hard to imagine why he can still move. Not only can he move, but he has also broken through to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

His face was etched with resentment, confusion, and terror...

But Zheng, the senior student next to him, suddenly lit up.

Li Gu slowly sat up from the bed, got out of bed, and stood up straight.

The second senior brother collapsed to the ground, staring at Li Gu with disbelief...

Li Gu squatted down, leaned closer to him, and said with a friendly smile, "Thank you so much for your help, Second Senior Brother. I really broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining using your method. I'm so touched! Oh dear, what's wrong? Is your Guanyuan acupoint damaged? No, no, I have to treat you."

After saying that, he reached out and grasped his second senior brother's pulse point, and his true energy entered his second senior brother's body.

Li Gu's palm strike to the Guanyuan acupoint was different from the Second Senior Brother's attempt to strike the Guanyuan acupoint using his cultivation. The former was an external force injury, not an internal energy movement, so it could not cause qi deviation and the degree of injury was completely different.

The second senior brother could still speak. He struggled to open his mouth and managed to utter two words: "Spare...me..."

Li Gu pointed at Senior Brother Zheng with his other free finger, then at himself: "Have you considered sparing us?"

Second Senior Brother: "..."

Li Gu showed no intention of stopping. He channeled his true energy into his second senior brother's body, flowing against the flow of his meridians. He quickly discovered that his meridians were not severed. He was only lying on the ground because of his injuries, but it wasn't a big problem. Li Gu could help sever the parts that weren't broken.

"Pfft!" The second senior brother spat out a mouthful of blood. He felt that Li Gu had severed several of his meridians. The true energy was still advancing along his seven meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, severing them at every important point.

As Li Gu's skill continued to advance, the second senior brother's body gradually lost sensation.

The second brother soon lost all feeling in his body; the part below his neck had completely detached from his brain's control...

He mustered the last bit of strength in his voice, took a deep breath, and said with difficulty but fierceness, "I... am highly respected... in the Hidden Flower Pavilion... if something happens to me... countless people will investigate the real culprit... you can't escape..."

Li Gu chuckled softly, "Although I don't have your reputation, I'm completely paralyzed, so no one would suspect me."

Second Senior Brother: "..."

"Don't worry about me, just relax and stay paralyzed." Li Gu spoke gently, mimicking his second senior brother's usual tone, like a caring older brother. However, the true energy in his hand attacked the second senior brother's throat, shattering all the meridians in his neck.

At this point, the second senior brother could no longer speak, becoming like senior brother Zheng, with only his eyelids still able to move.

Should we kill him?

Killing him would be the safest option, lest the second senior brother also have some strange system that can repair himself.

Li Gu turned his head and looked at Senior Brother Zheng.

The latter's eyes were clearly pleading with him. Although his eyes couldn't express anything too complicated, Li Gu could understand that Senior Brother Zheng didn't want Second Senior Brother to die. He wanted to see an extra bed added to the lonely house and watch the guy who had ruined him become paralyzed in bed like him, year after year.

But there are risks involved!

It all depends on whether Li Gu is willing to take the risk.

What are the chances that my second senior brother has the same system as me? Not very high! It's definitely worth a gamble.

Is it highly likely that Second Senior Brother can be cured by someone else? Not very high! No one in Flower Valley can cure a body with all its meridians broken, not even Master. Otherwise, when Senior Brother Zheng was paralyzed a few years ago, Master would have cured him long ago.

After considering for three seconds, Li Gu decided that the risk was worth taking. He had to make the bad guy experience the feeling of being completely paralyzed, otherwise it would be too easy for him.

He withdrew his hand, not attempting to penetrate the second senior brother's brain.

Having understood Li Gu's actions, Senior Brother Zheng's eyes were filled with complex emotions, a mixture of joy and exhilaration.

The next thing to deal with is how to clear myself of suspicion.

Li Gu's gaze pierced through the window, looking towards the center of the flower valley, towards the direction of the cold jade stone...

The heavy rain continued to fall, the sound of the rain enveloping the entire flower valley. There was no moon in the sky, and the night was deep and dark. Even if Li Gu focused all his cultivation on his eyes, he could not see the Cold Jade Stone.

His cultivation level is already the highest in Flower Valley. If he can't see it, it means that the other disciples can't see it either.

Senior Brother Zheng seemed to have figured something out.

Li Gu quickly stripped off his clothes, even his underpants, leaving him completely naked. Then, he grabbed his second senior brother and walked into the rain.

As soon as he stepped out of the house, Li Gu activated the [Hidden Flower Movement Technique]. His body floated lightly into the air, leaping over a large patch of mud before landing on a rock. His toes touched the rock, and he leaped several more feet, landing on another rock…

Not a single footprint was left on the muddy ground.

Before long, Li Gu arrived at the Cold Jade Stone, placed his second senior brother on it, first arranging him in a cross-legged sitting position, then loosened his grip, letting him slump down on his own...

After doing all this, Li Gu floated up again, continuing to make sure that every step landed on the stone without leaving a single footprint. He floated back to the lonely house, took out the cloth that his junior sister usually used to cleanse him, and wiped himself clean from head to toe, especially his hair, which he wiped several times to make sure it would dry as soon as possible, at least before Meng Ting came the next morning. Then he put on his own clothes.

Senior Brother Zheng watched Li Gu's performance quietly, a satisfied smile in his eyes.

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Before we knew it, the rain stopped, and the first rays of morning sunlight pierced through the clouds.

The sunlight shines gently on the flower valley after the rain.

Before the flowers, ravaged by the heavy rain all night, could even straighten up, the door of the lonely house opened, and Senior Sister Zhang walked in, carrying a small basket containing Senior Brother Zheng's breakfast.

As usual, she quietly sat down on the edge of Zheng's bed, gently stroked his face, and was about to cleanse him when she suddenly noticed that his eyes were wide open, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Oh? You seem to be in a good mood." Senior Sister Zhang rarely spoke, her tone gentle: "What good thing happened? Are you so happy you couldn't sleep all night?"

Li Gu was surprised: You could even tell that? Just how well do you know Senior Brother Zheng?

"I don't know what's so funny about you, but you can't even tell me." Senior Sister Zhang lightly punched Senior Brother Zheng.

The door opened, and junior sister Meng Ting arrived. As soon as she came in, she heard senior sister Zhang talking, which startled her slightly. She rarely heard senior sister Zhang speak, so what was going on today?

Senior Sister Zhang was in a good mood and turned to her junior sister, saying, "Ask your junior brother Li what good thing happened in the lonely house last night?"

The junior sister shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Senior Sister Zhang, don't joke about this. My Senior Brother Li can't speak either... Ah? No, how did it become my family? We're not married!"

Just then...

"Second Senior Brother... someone come quick! Something's happened to Second Senior Brother!"

A junior brother's scream rang out in the distance, followed by a large crowd gathering around the cold jade stone. From time to time, exclamations of surprise could be heard from the younger junior brothers and sisters: "What happened to Second Senior Brother?"

"Oh dear, even the second senior brother can't speak anymore."

"Go quickly and invite the senior sister here."

"It seems like the meridians are severed!"

Chaos reigned in the flower valley, but Senior Brother Zheng on the bed was even happier, his smile spreading from his eyes and instantly filling the entire lonely room...