Human Clan Defender-Chapter 41 An Ominous Premonition

Gold, 3,000 taels!

Silver, 7,000 taels!

Various antique scrolls and paintings, valued at 20,000 taels!

Hearing Dong Qingsheng’s report, Shen Changqing’s expression involuntarily froze as he couldn’t help but exclaim, Indeed, three years serving as a Magistrate and one reaps hundreds of thousands in snowflake silver!

Three thousand taels of gold is the equivalent of 30,000 taels of silver. Just like that, it already amounts to 57,000 taels.

Shi Qingsheng said, "Besides these, the Zhao Family also owns several shops in Lin’an City, as well as some properties. The current estimated value is a little over 150,000 taels. Combined with the previous earnings, the total is approximately 210,000 taels."

Two hundred and ten thousand taels!

Shen Changqing took a deep breath.

An ordinary household’s annual expenses would be, at most, one or two taels of silver. The wealth of the Zhao Family in Lin’an City alone was valued at 210,000 taels. One could imagine just how much they had plundered from the people.

And furthermore, the Zhao Family in Lin’an City was just one of the main branches. In fact, the Zhao Family had spread its roots and branches far and wide.

Upon careful calculation, all the branches combined might even break through 500,000 taels.

"According to your orders, my lord, those antiques and properties will begin to be sold off tomorrow, converted into cash silver and deposited entirely into the Yamen’s treasury. Come next spring, they will be escorted along with the taxes to the Capital City!"

As he spoke, Shi Qingsheng handed a ledger to Shen Changqing. "Here are the detailed records for your review, sir."

"Hmm."

Shen Changqing took the ledger and carefully read through it. After a moment, he handed the ledger back. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

"Then let’s proceed as such!"

"Yes!"

Shi Qingsheng received the order and withdrew.

「——」

After a simple lunch, Shen Changqing didn’t go anywhere else. Instead, he stayed inside the Yamen and devoted himself to cultivating his Heavenly Martial Gang Qi.

In the bedroom, he sat cross-legged, took out a Pulse Condensation Pill, and swallowed it directly.

Once the elixir entered his belly, it immediately transformed into a powerful warm current.

As soon as the thought arose, Heavenly Centipede True Qi rose from the Dantian, merged with the warm current, and then surged toward a meridian.

BOOM!

A thunderous rumble echoed within his body.

The meridian, which would normally take a whole night to break through, was now effortlessly overcome.

Time passed by.

Every so often, Shen Changqing would wait for the Pulse Condensation Pill’s effects to wear off before consuming another.

Just like that, pill after pill of Pulse Condensation Pill was consumed.

When he reached to take out another Pulse Condensation Pill, he suddenly realized that the porcelain bottle was empty.

"Gone!?"

Shen Changqing’s face showed surprise, but then he quickly came to terms with it.

A bottle of Pulse Condensation Pills, at most, contained only eight pills. Normally, a martial artist would only consume one when facing a bottleneck. The rest of the breakthrough would rely on their own hard cultivation. To consume Pulse Condensation Pills throughout the process, like he had, was definitely rare.

Nevertheless, after consuming all the Pulse Condensation Pills, the results were pleasing.

The Heavenly Centipede True Qi in his Dantian had grown significantly stronger. Although it still couldn’t compete with Pure Yang True Qi, it was no longer as constrained in the Dantian as before.

The two powerful True Qi energies were beginning to show signs of conflict.

But the Heavenly Centipede True Qi was still too weak to swallow the Pure Yang True Qi, at least for now.

Looking at the panel, Heavenly Martial Gang Qi had jumped from the first layer directly to the third layer.

A top-notch martial arts technique that aims directly at the Innate Realm, I managed to break through from the first to the third layer in just half a day’s time. Utilizing external aid is indeed much faster than painstaking cultivation!

Upon seeing the data on the panel, Shen Changqing also took a deep breath.

If the Pulse Condensation Pills were supplied without limit, he might have been able to break through to the Innate Realm within a month without using the panel.

Shen Changqing just pondered this thought for a moment.

Firstly, the effects of Pulse Condensation Pills are astonishing, and their preciousness need not be mentioned. Obtaining them is definitely not easy.

Moreover, no matter how good the elixir is, it has side effects, namely Pill Poison.

When he swallowed the Pulse Condensation Pill, Shen Changqing had already noticed a lot of impurities forming in his body.

Fortunately, all those impurities were refined by the Pure Yang True Qi.

If the impurities had been one or two times stronger, even the Pure Yang True Qi would have struggled to refine them, and it certainly would not have been an easy task.

Forget it, cultivating entirely with the aid of elixirs is out of the question for now, but having enhanced the Heavenly Martial Gang Qi to the third layer has indeed saved a lot of time. In the future, with the acquisition of Slaughter Value, it’s possible to comprehensively enhance the Heavenly Martial Gang Qi.

According to the convention that higher levels require more consumption, Shen Changqing felt that the enhancement of two layers of Heavenly Martial Gang Qi had saved him at least eight to ten points of Slaughter Value.

Killing a Strange Monster about to break through to the Resentment Level only awarded him fifteen points of Slaughter Value.

That is to say, an average Ghostly Level Fiend could contribute about ten points of Slaughter Value at best, or perhaps even less than ten points.

At this time, the night had deepened.

Shen Changqing had specifically instructed not to be disturbed while he was practicing, so no one had come knocking at the door.

By the time he ceased his practice, his surroundings were pitch-black.

He got out of bed and lit the oil lamp in the bedroom, immediately dispelling much of the darkness.

But for some reason, as the light drove out the darkness, an uncomfortable feeling surged in his heart.

That feeling made Shen Changqing’s brow instinctively furrow.

What’s going on?

He was puzzled by this sudden premonition and felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn’t say exactly what was amiss.

It is said that the deeper a martial artist’s cultivation, the more accurate their premonitions become.

Now that I have reached the Innate Realm, if something bad really were to happen, perhaps it is indeed possible to have a premonition.

With that thought, Shen Changqing immediately became vigilant. It was necessary to be vigilant.

Although the situation in Lin’an City seemed stable on the surface, there were undercurrents flowing in secret, and it was uncertain when they might erupt.

Especially since he had just imprisoned the Zhao Family’s people earlier today, causing quite a stir—

Wait a minute!

The Zhao Family!

Linking his thoughts to the Zhao Family, Shen Changqing’s expression changed slightly.

Could it be—was someone actually trying to break them out of jail?

With this thought, he immediately stepped outside the house. The full moon hung high in the sky, unlike the usual darkness where one couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face.

Especially inside the Yamen.

Most areas had stone lanterns that would be lit by Government Officials at nightfall, unlike other places that were engulfed in darkness.

Yet even so, he could not settle his heart.

"Someone come!" Shen Changqing shouted loudly.

Before long, a Government Official rushed over hurriedly.

"What are your orders, sir?"

"Are all the people from the Zhao Family locked up in the cells?"

"They were all taken into custody earlier today."

"Has there been any unusual activity in the cells or the Yamen?"

"—There has been no discovery of anything unusual for the time being!"

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