Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 115 - 98: Eight Meridians of the Meridian Opening Realm! The Escaped Zaiyang Sect Believers!

Moreover, the matter has already spread and cannot be reversed, so he can only give up.

'Ou Haquan is someone who has opened twelve meridians.'

Su Que heard the news while chewing on the beef jerky and thought to himself.

'If even Ou Haquan has been subdued, it must be the handiwork of the head of the Tang Sect in Jiannan Prefecture City, Shenlou.'

'If I had known this news at that time, I would have been able to seize the opportunity of the Tang Sect elite being out and rob the Heart Scripture of Myriad Poisons from the Tang Sect stronghold…'

'What a pity…'

...

After a full meal, Su Que went to continue expanding his meridians in a cave over fifty miles outside Jiannan Prefecture City.

He circulated True Qi to gradually expand the "Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian" on the Hand Three Yin Meridians.

Since Jiannan Prefecture City's acknowledged strongest, Li Tunshan, had opened fifteen meridians, he also set his target to open fifteen meridians.

Ou Haquan at most possesses the Celestial Deformed Foot of the 3rd Realm: Ascension; relying on his twelve-median Martial Arts Realm, he has few opponents in the Prefecture City.

If he opens fifteen meridians, relying on the Seven Injuries Fist of the 7th Realm of Divine Transformation and the Celestial Deformed Foot of the 6th Realm Divine Skill, he can walk unchallenged in the Prefecture City.

By then, the Ou Family, the Tang Sect, or the Thunderbolt Army would pose no threat to him!

Moreover, he would then go to the Tang Sect to obtain the cultivation method for the next realm for the Heart Scripture of Myriad Poisons.

As his Poison Technique further improves, even facing siege, he would have no fear.

This way, he can live and cultivate peacefully in Jiannan Prefecture City.

...

Unknowingly, another half month had passed, and Su Que's days were full with practicing daily.

During these days, when he went to refine pills and retrieve them, the gatekeeping Daoists often said that Elder Qingxuan wanted to meet him.

Moreover, when commissioning alchemy, Elder Qingxuan even lowered the price, seemingly trying to win his favor.

Su Que did not know what medicine Elder Qingxuan had in his gourd, but he calmly accepted the price reduction.

Then he told the gatekeeping Daoist: "Thank Elder Qingxuan for me," and left the Pill Palace.

Each time he obtained an elixir, he did not relax his vigilance.

He would scratch some powder off each pill with his fingernails and feed it to wild chickens and dogs.

Seeing the wild chickens and dogs unharmed, he would then consume the elixir.

Besides visiting the Purple Sun Temple, he would also occasionally go to the Mo Jin Commerce Association.

To see if there were any powerful Evil Techniques for sale.

But there were none.

There were orthodox cultivation techniques, though.

However, they were expensive and useless to him.

Having gone a few times, Mo Lin, the manager of Mo Jin Commerce Association, always invited him to drink at the Drunken Immortal Tower in Jiannan Prefecture City.

One should know that eating and drinking require removing the mask.

This Mo Lin likely wanted to know his identity.

Su Que refused each time.

Over the past half month, Su Que devoted himself to expanding meridians.

The "Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian" in the Hand Three Yin Meridians had been expanded.

Now, the "Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian" in the Foot Three Yin Meridians was also about to be completed.

The next morning, after Su Que got up, he first sat cross-legged on the bed, using True Qi to expand the "Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian."

Finally, the whole meridian expanded suddenly, the capacity for True Qi to flow through increased, and the speed followed.

'Eight meridians…'

The expansion of the meridians in the foot has taken his Lightweight Body Technique to another level.

Su Que got out of bed, washed briefly, went outside for breakfast, and immediately went to the government office to check in.

After checking in, before he could go to the archives room, an official handed him an envelope:

"Inspector Su, this is the action record of the famous captors Yan Shouheng, Gu Yichao, Luo Guo, and the four constables Zhang Song, Liu Yongtai, etc., handed to you now."

In public office work, everything should leave a trace.

"Okay." Su Que responded and took it.

He immediately remembered that there really were many absentees during the roll call today.

Those three famous captors and some constables were not present, and he wondered what important event had caused so many martial artists to gather simultaneously.

Holding the envelope, Su Que went to the archives room, opened it immediately, and took out the papers inside to read.

This was a confidential document that needed his personal attention for sealing and archiving.

After browsing it, he learned that the absentees from the roll call today, the famous captors and constables, had joined forces with the Thunderbolt Army to pursue and capture the notorious outlaw Lu Sheng of the Zaiyang Sect.

The document stated that Lu Sheng, as a Four Blood Martial Artist, must possess considerable information on the Zaiyang Sect.

If captured, it would significantly aid in destroying the Zaiyang Sect.

Since the famous captors and constables from the government office often investigate cases and have rich experience in pursuit and tracking, the Thunderbolt Army let them accompany the operation.

'A Four Blood Martial Artist, yet so many mobilized… Something doesn't seem right…'

Although Su Que read the document, he felt his information was limited and could not infer much.

Thinking over it, he sealed and archived the document.

Then he left the archives room.

...

The autumn sun shone languidly in the sky.

Lu Sheng, with a bundle tied to his back, walked briskly in a forest.

Holding a complexly branched stick, he cleared the traces behind him while walking. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

His face, flushed from urgency, was sweating.

This face was fair, delicate, and handsome, with skin so smooth it made many women envious.

Speckled shadows from the trees fell on his face, giving it a hard-to-describe beauty.

He was originally the son of a small gang's leader, but when he was eighteen, the gang was wiped out by Gui Risheng.

To survive, he had to become Gui Risheng's plaything.

Over four years, Gui Risheng's trust in him grew.

His Martial Arts were guided by Gui Risheng, and he held significant influence within the Zaiyang Sect, handling many life-and-death matters.

Moreover, he had figured out Gui Risheng's cultivation habits.

Knew that every period, Gui Risheng would seclude himself for two days.

Three months ago, he even discovered the location of Gui Risheng's martial arts secret manual.

Thus, he conceived the idea of stealing the manual and escaping.

Having reached the Four Blood Martial Artist level by twenty-two shows his martial talent.

Gui Risheng's martial arts originate from the Liang Country Imperial Palace.

Even the worst martial arts from the Liang Country Imperial Palace are extraordinary outside.

He thought that with his martial talent and cultivating these martial arts, given time, even Gui Risheng would not be his match.

Lu Sheng knew he would surely be pursued by the Zaiyang Sect after escaping.

He planned to find a place to hide, secretly cultivate martial arts, and reemerge in the world once strong enough.

After planning, he seized the opportunity last night when Gui Risheng began his secluded training to act immediately.

He successfully stole the secret manual, poisoned three of Gui Risheng's closests who discovered him, and fled from the Zaiyang Sect.

After Lu Sheng escaped, other closests found the three blackened corpses and chaos in Gui Risheng's bedroom.

Moreover, they discovered that Lu Sheng was nowhere to be found.

They speculated that Lu Sheng poisoned the three people and took some items from the sect leader.

These items might be very important.

Then, they reported the matter to other Zaiyang Sect believers.

Upon learning this, the other high-ranking members, knowing Gui Risheng could not be disturbed during seclusion, immediately acted to start searching and pursuing Lu Sheng.

To destroy the Zaiyang Sect, the Thunderbolt Army had planted spies within the sect.

After getting the intel, the spy immediately relayed it to the Thunderbolt Army.

The Thunderbolt Army, upon receiving the intel, promptly mobilized, sending people to search everywhere and notified the checkpoints outside Jiannan Prefecture City to be mindful of masked or handsome people.

Simultaneously, they recruited those good at tracking from the government office to assist them.

In the forest.

Lu Sheng, while walking and clearing traces, headed towards a distant mountainous area.

He planned to hide in the mountains, secretly practice martial arts, and reemerge once he succeeded.

He had also glanced at the stolen secret manual while on the road.

It was because of this manual that Gui Risheng had such martial prowess.

No one could hold a secret manual without peeking.

Although tempted to practice after peeking, Lu Sheng restrained himself.

Because initially practicing these martial arts would be very painful and cause heavy bleeding.

Having endured myriad perversions over six years, he wasn't afraid of pain or bleeding.

But beginning martial arts practice now would impede his journey.