The male supporting character was actually myself.

He's being detained now, it must be at the behest of that old man with kidney deficiency.

Hmph! Who else but him would dare to lay a finger on her? What a bastard who doesn't treat his daughter like a human being! She was in such danger just now, she would have been dead long ago if it weren't for the system, and he didn't even show his face?

If someone offers me extra money to sleep with you in the future, don't hate me. It's your own fault for being sexist and looking down on me because I'm a woman...

While Mu Liuli was still lost in thought, Cheng Tinghe and her group had already arrived at the dock.

"Toot toot..." As the melodious whistle sounded, a ship registered under the name of the Mu Family Group slowly docked.

The dock supervisor couldn't help but find it strange. "Isn't this the Lightbringer? It just set off this afternoon, why is it back already?"

"Why can't we see anyone on the ship?"

"Call the Lightbringer and see what's going on."

"Strange, no response?"

"An empty ship suddenly came back. What's it up to?"

The people on the dock looked at each other in bewilderment. The others didn't know the person in charge, but they did understand the ship's destination and specific mission.

They turned back abruptly after setting off without responding. Could something have gone wrong?

Unable to contact the Lightbringer, and watching it round the dock and head straight for a slightly more remote coastline, the steward felt a vague unease.

He ordered someone to call headquarters to report, while he himself led a team to investigate.

"Host is absolutely right. They are indeed destroying evidence like madmen and dispersing the goods to other places."

Hehe, this soft, cute, and awesome cat intercepted all the goods and loaded them onto this ship, even keeping a list of recipients as instructed by its host. This will ensure the inspection team can easily uncover the most frequent contacts. Incidentally, it also put all the documents you prepared in the ship's hold.

Report complete, Over!

I don't know where she got a small navy cap and put it on her head. The fluffy little thing is holding the ship's wheel with one paw and making a phone call with her other paw. She looks very excited.

Jiang Chen sat on a small boat not far from the dock, fishing peacefully with a hat covering half his face. After hearing the report, he smiled slightly and said, "Well done. Now let's see if the inspection team can keep up the good work."

The waves rippled slightly, and the buoy floating on the water suddenly sank.

He calmly pulled up the fishing rod, and as a large fish was pulled from the water, the Horcrux reported that the entire secret room inside the dock office building had been dealt with.

"Elder Cheng, why are we suddenly at the dock?" The accompanying personnel looked at the people and ships coming and going at the dock with a puzzled expression.

Cheng Tinghe looked at the email that popped up on her phone again, a smile curving her lips as she said softly, "Someone wants to lend us a hand. This investigation trip to Wuhai City seems to be getting interesting."

The others were confused, but since the big boss had spoken, they could only obey.

"The Lightbringer." Seeing the ship slowly approaching, she narrowed her eyes slightly and waved her hand, saying, "Take control of this ship. Arrest everyone who tries to get close. Don't let anyone leak the news."

Everyone agreed and then dispersed to perform their respective duties.

Those who could accompany a Nascent Soul Realm expert on a mission were naturally experienced and capable members of the action team. They quickly discovered and subdued the manager and others. After the ship docked, the group carefully boarded the ship and conducted a thorough search.

"Xiao Bai, thank you for your hard work. You need to keep an eye on Mu Liuli. There are still some things that need to be investigated and guided here. I need to stay and see the results." Jiang Chen used his soul artifact to sense that everything was going smoothly. He took out the script and glanced at the new plot prompts, saying, "At this stage, dealing with the Mu family is the top priority. Just keep an eye on Mu Liuli's whereabouts and don't lose her. You don't need to worry about anything else."

"Okay, meow!" The fluffy ball saluted and hopped off the ship, heading into the distance.

He looked at the little white cat, now just a fleeting white blur, and a smile appeared on his lips. "This little guy is learning more and more; he can even skillfully sail a ship. He's really capable of handling things on his own now."

Chapter Twenty-Two: In Secret Action

A huge ship was quietly docked in the bay, and all the staff on board had been knocked unconscious and locked inside the cabin.

The warehouse was crammed full of white contraband produced in a neighboring country, as well as unrefined spirit stone ore that had not been officially approved.

The former is naturally a product offered to ordinary people for exorbitant profits; while the latter is no less illegal than printing money!

Martial artists need spirit stones for everything from trading and cultivation to the refining of many elixirs.

Most spirit stone veins are formed in toxic substances, and even mining them is a high-risk job.

Aside from certain high-quality, long-occupied mines that can yield pure spirit stones, the raw stones mined from other mines, especially those from illegal mines not officially approved for mining, carry a large amount of toxins.

These raw stones need to undergo a complicated refining process by relevant departments and pass the inspection standards customized by the High Martial Arts Alliance before they can be released to the market in controlled quantities.

Otherwise, if a large number of substandard and unpurified poisonous spirit stones flood the market, in addition to causing "inflation" in the martial arts world, it will also become a safety hazard if martial artists absorb too much toxic energy or mix it into pills.

The items loaded on the Mu family's ship were clearly substandard products—after simple purification, they looked no different from ordinary spirit stones, and low-level martial artists couldn't tell the difference.

However, Cheng Tinghe, a Nascent Soul Realm expert, was able to determine in just one breath that this batch of spirit stones contained a large number of impurities.

When used as currency in transactions, it will not reveal its true nature in the hands of ordinary martial artists. However, once absorbed and used to refine pills, it will cause chronic poisoning. If the dosage accumulates to a certain level, it will cause the body to explode and die!

As a multi-purpose currency, the Spirit Stone market is strictly managed and offers extremely high profits. As a result, there are countless people like the Mu family who knowingly take risks for huge profits.

"Supply order?" Cheng Tinghe easily found the information that the little white cat had put out in plain sight. She glanced at it and couldn't help but sneer, "The Mu family isn't stupid. They know that unrefined spirit stones are risky, so they mine black mines and then sell them to the next buyer. All the spirit stones they use are from legitimate sources."

They're truly unafraid that this stuff will circulate on the black market and eventually revert to their own hands as poisonous pills. They're willing to harm others and themselves for profit; they're insatiably greedy!

The members of the inspection team who came with the bigwig to handle the case were all very excited.

I initially thought it was to support the elders and deal with minor cases of rampant tyranny by small aristocratic families. After all, judging from the online revelations, it at most involved illegal imprisonment and framing and extortion of Sword Spirit Sect disciples, which could be considered minor or major issues.

As long as the parties involved agree to a settlement, it will at most be just a dispute.

Who would have thought that upon arriving in Wuhai City, they would obtain a breakthrough clue under the guidance of a big shot, turning a small case into a major smuggling case that could lead to the confiscation of property and the extermination of entire families!

The sale of tons of contraband and large quantities of unrefined spirit stones would be a nationally sensational case on its own, let alone with the added bonuses.

The inspection team members were all eager to get started and make a big splash. As long as they successfully closed the case and returned to headquarters, they would have a significant achievement in their resumes, and might even be promoted directly to a higher rank!

"Don't be too happy yet. We've only made a good start with the help of others. The most important thing is to wipe out the Mu family in one fell swoop. We don't have enough manpower." Cheng Tinghe frowned slightly as she looked through the documents. "Don't forget, this is Wuhai City—the territory that the Mu family has occupied for many years. If we act rashly, we're afraid that even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake."

Upon hearing this, the deputy said in a deep voice, "We have the person in charge at the dock under control now, and he has confessed that he has reported to his superiors. Should we take action now and catch them off guard?"

“In terms of combat strength, we definitely have the advantage. But the Mu family has a large number of members, and apart from Mu Donghai, there are no other outstanding martial artists. However, there are over a hundred martial artists in the entire family, not counting the trained assassins. It is too difficult to rely on the inspection team to wipe them out in one fell swoop.”

"With evidence in hand, just arrest the main responsible persons. As for the others who have escaped, so be it. At worst, we can issue a nationwide manhunt. Do you think they can get away with it?"

Cheng Tinghe shook the thick stack of transaction documents in her hand and said in a deep voice, "I need to contact headquarters immediately to send more people. We must wipe them all out in one fell swoop, and we must launch a joint attack from multiple sides. Otherwise, once the upstream and downstream parties know that the Mu family has been arrested, they will immediately move. This is a great opportunity to crack down on the black market transaction. You don't want your chance to win a special merit to turn into a third-class merit, do you?"

To everyone's surprise, they even obtained information on the online and offline networks. If the operation succeeds and the entire network is dismantled, this will be a major case that will go down in history!

"Ding dong!"

Just as Cheng Tinghe was about to contact headquarters but was worried that too much delay might cause other complications, her phone beeped again.

"Duan Changyun?" Cheng Tinghe vaguely recognized the name.

The main reason is that he was just an ordinary person, yet he raised a genius son, Duan Mingyang. If it weren't for the fact that her cultivation method was special and couldn't provide more help to the child, she would have been tempted to take him as her disciple.

I was interested in Duan Mingyang at the time, and I also learned about his family background.

Duan Changyun was just an ordinary person working in the police department. He was fair, honest and upright. Most importantly, his jurisdiction was closest to Wuhai City, but they were not under the same system in terms of governance, which saved him a lot of trouble.

"That's all I can do for you. I have to rush off to another event." Jiang Chen waited until Cheng Tinghe and Duan Changyun made contact before leading his men to seize the secret room of the dock office building, which had already been taken care of by the soul weapon.

With a Nascent Soul Realm expert overseeing the operation, the subsequent cleanup won't be too difficult. He needs to hurry and find the next character card, because the virus has already updated the subsequent plot.

After Cheng Tinghe discovered that Mu Liuli's soul had been possessed, she teleported away and disappeared from the High Martial Alliance prison in order to protect herself.

The subsequent plot has nothing to do with the Mu family. Mu Liuli runs to the neighboring Xiangling City, changes her appearance, and adopts a completely different identity to continue her evil deeds while also developing rapidly.

In order to possess a young, beautiful but seriously ill woman, she used the pills rewarded by the system as bait, and forced her husband, who loved her to the core, to sign a divorce agreement and sell his wife to her as a slave under the pretext of curing the woman's incurable disease.

Mu Liuli separates two young people in love. She forces a woman who has recovered her health after swallowing a pill to cultivate with her. She slaps her and then gives her a sweet treat, constantly brainwashing her into believing that divorce was the right thing to do and that her ex-husband is not good enough for her.

Seeing that the PUMA was ineffective, he deliberately created a misunderstanding, causing the man who had given everything for his wife to commit suicide in despair. After learning the truth, the woman also jumped off a cliff to die for love.

Mu Liuli manipulated the two men, committing numerous evil deeds and earning generous rewards, quickly breaking through to become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Then, the martial arts exchange tournament jointly held by Guannan Province and Guanbei Province, as in the original storyline, officially began.

The wicked Mu Liuli relied on humiliating others to advance all the way to the finals, and then ambushed and killed Duan Mingyang, who had shown mercy.

Thanks to the clarity of mind rewarded by the system, she can still commit all sorts of evil deeds while maintaining a righteous and upright demeanor, distorting the facts, reversing right and wrong, and smearing the innocent. She can make the victims infamous and reviled for eternity, while she enjoys cheers, praise, and flowers while stepping on the corpses of the innocent. In doing so, she gains extraordinary alchemy skills and becomes a genius alchemist sought after by everyone...

"Since the virus doesn't care about morality and just changes its identity, it's not like I'm taking advantage of a loophole by letting the new character card appear ahead of time, right?" Jiang Chen controlled the large ball of light to fly south at an extremely fast speed.

He was looking for an alchemist who was harmed by Mu Liuli later in the story.

The other party has exceptionally high talent, but he is single-mindedly devoted to cultivating alchemy and ignores worldly affairs. Like a wandering cloud or a wild crane, he is hard to find. He only occasionally helps others refine pills when the opportunity arises, so he is not very famous among martial artists.

This alchemist named Feng Lingyu had no past grudges or recent conflicts with Mu Liuli, and they had no interaction whatsoever. It was only because after becoming a genius alchemist that Mu Liuli overheard someone whispering that her alchemy skills were not as exquisite and wonderful as Feng Lingyu's.

As a vicious villain, Mu Liuli is very aware of her role as an evil person.

How could she tolerate the other person being stronger than the genius girl with the system's assistance and stealing the spotlight?

However, Feng Lingyu never left the mountain unless absolutely necessary, so Mu Liuli set a trap, holding an alchemy competition with a rare spiritual plant as the reward, recruiting alchemists from all over the world and backed by the High Martial Alliance.

Feng Lingyu happened to need this rare spiritual plant, and upon hearing about it, she came to participate in the competition without any mental preparation.

In the end, she humiliated him in public using various means, and even used the items rewarded by the system to steal his most precious alchemy formula, which he had personally written.

Feng Lingyu was so angry that he vomited blood, but his Dao heart remained firm and he did not fall into demonic possession. Mu Liuli still felt that the reward was not generous enough, so she pretended to be kind and gave him a pill to stabilize his mind. However, after the High Martial Alliance tested it, she tampered with it and replaced it with a pill made with poisonous spirit stones.

After taking the medicine, Feng Lingyu realized something was wrong, but it was too late.

Mu Liuli seized the opportunity to turn the tables, accusing him of being a dignified alchemist who attempted to frame and extort the High Martial Alliance. She then continued to play the role of a morally upright and forgiving person, taking Feng Lingyu away under the pretext of curing his poison and saving his life.

Finally, under the dual torment of physical and mental suffering, the once-prodigious alchemy genius fell into demonic possession and was hunted down and perished.

However, the mastermind behind it all, Mu Liuli, gained the recognition of the High Martial Arts Alliance through her deceptive and elaborate schemes, and was even awarded a trophy for "A Healer's Compassion"...

According to the plot, this tragic character card is currently in seclusion and will not be lured out of the mountains for another two years.

Jiang Chen needs to find him one step ahead and, as an alchemist, completely crush Mu Liuli!

"Minister, how long will we have to wait?" Mu Donghai stayed in his office until dark, his heart filled with anxiety, like several cats scratching at his heart.

Especially after witnessing how Nangong Yingluo's Dao heart collapsed and she fell into demonic possession in prison, he couldn't wait to have a Nascent Soul Realm expert come and see if his "daughter" had a problem with her soul.

But no one came, so he ignored the guards' attempts to stop him and rushed into the minister's office.

The other party was playing chess with his secretary. Upon seeing this, he calmly said, "Just wait. I just received news from over there—the inspection team has changed course and gone to the food street at the dock for a meal."

"Eating?" Mu Donghai was stunned for a few seconds. "Which big shot did headquarters send over? Why did they go to eat right after the plane landed without even showing their faces? What kind of operation is this?"

The minister slowly placed a chess piece down and sighed, "You haven't heard about Elder Cheng Tinghe's temper and personality? She's a woman, and her strength is undeniable. She said that since she's finally here in Wuhai City, she wants to go to the popular food street to take some photos and post them on her WeChat Moments, so she asked us to wait a little while."

a little?

Mu Donghai twitched his lips. What nonsense!

How long can a woman spend shopping?