I'm already invincible, and you're telling me I just logged in?

Xu Yan opened his mouth, but said nothing.

How should he explain this?

At first, he only wanted to subdue the man and hand him over to the authorities, but the moment Wang Hu drew his dagger, every slash was aimed at his vital points.

He only killed someone in self-defense during the fight.

Xu Yanming clearly saw the kill rewards on the panel, but why wasn't Wang Hu's name on the government's bounty list?

He didn't believe that the cheat system would malfunction; something must have gone wrong.

Seeing that he had no answer, the judge did not ask any further questions and wrote down the verdict.

According to the laws of Xuan Kingdom, murder is punishable by death.

Xu Yan was sentenced to death by hanging, to be carried out next autumn.

One of the bailiffs listening in sighed softly, his eyes filled with regret.

This young man had good intentions, but unfortunately he didn't know his own strength and lost his life.

Xu Yan was escorted by a government official through a narrow, damp passageway and into a dungeon.

Instead of sitting down and waiting to die, he strode to the fence and called out to the figure that hadn't gone far, "Officer, please wait!"

The officer paused, turned around, walked to the cage, and looked at him through the iron bars.

Xu Yan didn't waste any words, took out a pill from his pocket and handed it over. The officer glanced at it, frowned, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Now that things have come to this, we can only try every possible way to save ourselves.

Xu Yan said, "I am Xu Jiao's son from the Xu family. Please ask the officer to pass on a message for me."

"I accidentally killed a fugitive, and he's in jail now."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan's expression visibly changed.

The Xu family, Xu Jiao?

He had worked in this government office for ten years and had seen many cases of scions of powerful families committing murders and then trying to get their families released.

I initially thought this young man in coarse clothes was a hothead who saw injustice but didn't know the consequences.

I was just feeling sorry for him.

In retrospect, he was nothing more than a spoiled brat who tried to escape trouble by relying on his family background.

Chen Xuan's eyes were filled with disgust as he coldly said, "According to the rules, the Xu family will be notified."

After saying that, he turned and left along the passageway.

Xu Yan stood there, looking at the pill in his hand, and sighed softly.

Wang Hu is not a kind-hearted person, so his cheat system is unlikely to be flawed.

The only possibility is that something went wrong somewhere.

He didn't want to sit idly by and wait for his death, so he could only hope that the Xu family, who had never given him a kind look, could prove his innocence.

......

An hour later, Xu Sanqi arrived at the dungeon.

Upon receiving the news, he informed the master, who then sent only him alone.

Xu Sanqi looked at Xu Yan through the iron bars, his eyes full of schadenfreude.

At first, he was wondering why Xu Yan had suddenly disappeared.

Unexpectedly, he was arrested by the authorities and implicated in a murder case.

He slowly took out a pill from his pocket and handed it over through the iron bars.

"The master said that if you still care about the Xu family's reputation, then don't wait until the autumn to be executed. You'd better know your place."

His hand loosened, and the pill rolled onto the cold, damp floor of the cell.

Xu Yan glanced down.

The panel indicates it is poison.

After taking it, one will die suddenly within an hour.

Xu Yan looked up at Xu Sanqi, "Is this my father's intention?"

Xu Sanqi nodded without hesitation.

"Otherwise, who do you think sent me?"

The dungeon was quiet for a moment.

Xu Yan did not pick up the pills, but walked to the corner of the cage, sat down, and closed his eyes to ponder.

Xu Sanqi waited for a while, and seeing that he had no intention of taking the pill, his tone became a little impatient.

"Xu Yan, what do you mean by this? Are you disobeying the master?"

Xu Yan didn't open his eyes, and said coldly, "Tell Xu Jiao when you get back."

"From this day forward, I, Xu Yan, will have no further connection with the Xu family."

"Ungrateful!" Xu Sanqi glanced at him, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.

He prepared to go back and tell Xu Jiao everything.

Chen Xuan stood not far away, taking in the whole scene. He frowned, but said nothing, and left with Xu Sanqi.

After the two left, the dungeon fell silent again.

Xu Yan looked at the poison pills on the ground and suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"It's true that it's better to rely on yourself than to rely on others."

He took out a top-grade Mind-Enhancing Pill from his pocket and swallowed it.

From this moment on, the obsessions that the original owner had left in his body, affecting him day and night, finally dissipated completely.

From now on, he is Xu Yan, but no longer Xu Yan of the Xu family.

They knew that anything of value that a prisoner had would be confiscated.

Without hesitation, Xu Yan swallowed the remaining two top-grade Bright Heart Pills at once.

He opened the panel and glanced at it.

[Superior Mind-Enhancing Pill: Increases martial arts experience gain efficiency by 200% (Effective time: 45 days)].

Fortunately, the effect time displayed in the status bar of the pills is cumulative, so there was no waste.

Guan Xuyan's cell was just an ordinary cell, because his cultivation level was far from requiring special supervision.

Xu Yan roughly calculated in his mind that if he could break through to the Cave Meridian Realm before his execution, he might still be able to make a gamble by using "Unity of Heaven and Man".

Since no one can clear his name, he will find a way to get out on his own.

The Supreme Mind-Enhancing Pill has an extremely terrifying effect on the mind.

In just one day, the experience points of the Seven Injury Fist increased by ten points.

The next day, Xu Yan's blood and qi surged, and he broke through to the second level of the Body Tempering Realm.

[ID: Xu Yan]

[Level: LV3 (0/30)]

[Qi and Blood Value: 120/120]

[Internal Force Value: 30/30]

External Attack: 16

[Internal Attack: 0]

External Defense: 5

Internal Defense: 5

External Martial Arts: Seven Injury Fist (Beginner Level 10/100)

[After each level increase: External attack +3, Health +10, Internal energy +5]

......

The next day, the yamen was dimly lit. Chen Xuan sat at his desk, with a stack of portraits and files that the police had sent not long ago beside him.

Qingshi Town is located on the border of Xuan Kingdom, so news travels slowly, and these files were delayed on the road for some time.

Chen Xuan has worked in the yamen for ten years and is now a clerk, responsible for organizing, registering and archiving documents.

He picked up his brush, dipped it in ink, and registered them one by one in order.

When his gaze fell upon one of the portraits, Chen Xuan paused, his pen poised.

"Wang Hu, for three counts of adultery, is hereby rewarded with thirty taels of silver."

When he saw the crimes recorded in the case file, he was suddenly stunned.

The face in the portrait was rugged, with sinister eyes; it was the very person Xu Yan had killed yesterday.

Chen Xuan glanced at the portrait and the dossier a few more times, and after confirming that everything was correct, he suddenly stood up.

He recalled Xu Yan's explanation from yesterday.

"This person is a fugitive!"

......

I don't know how much time passed.

The prison was dimly lit, making it impossible to tell the time.

Xu Yan had just finished eating the prisoners' food and was about to close his eyes to meditate for a moment when a series of footsteps approached from afar and stopped outside the iron bars.

The prison door was opened from the outside, and looking up, Chen Xuan was standing in the doorway.

Meeting Xu Yan's gaze, he said, "Today, the Bureau of Arrest and Expedition has sent over a new batch of case files and portraits."

"I've checked, Wang Hu is indeed a fugitive."

"You can leave now."