Chapter 463 - 129: The Two Brothers, Proud and Elated (3)

Instead, they all end up being someone else’s adopted son, like a dog.

Why not pick someone more powerful? Why get obsessed with an old eunuch of all people?

"Don’t worry, Second Bro, I know all that!"

Seeing that Guan Bao’s expression had relaxed again,

Yun Hu finally nodded his head.

Then, as if he remembered something, he let out a carefree laugh and said,

"Besides, it’s not like we got nothing out of this whole thing. At least our cultivation realm broke through to the next level, right?"

All thanks to this so-called "War God Skill."

Plus, after a few rounds of battle these days, all that experience stacked up, and Guan Bao successfully broke through to the mid-stage Innate, while Yun Hu reached late-stage Innate.

This progress is honestly crazy fast.

Yun Hu and Guan Bao finally got a taste of what those speed cultivators feel like.

This feeling is just awesome.

"Who knows, maybe soon enough, the two of us brothers can be called ’young Grandmasters’ too!"

If we’re talking about age, neither Yun Hu nor Guan Bao is younger than Ye Liuyun, but it doesn’t matter—nothing’s stopping them from daydreaming.

After all, Grandmaster, that’s a big deal.

How many who walk the Martial Arts path don’t dream of breaking through to Grandmaster?

"Hahaha!"

Hearing that, Guan Bao couldn’t help but imagine that glorious scene.

He lost control and burst out laughing.

"Looks like it’s finally our time to shine! With this War God Skill, forget Grandmaster, maybe even Grandmaster or Land Immortal isn’t out of reach!"

At this point, Yun Hu and Guan Bao had no idea that the so-called War God Skill was actually a Demon Path technique with serious side effects.

They still treated it like treasure.

It’s just that it’s still early days, and the side effects haven’t shown up yet. Even if you looked right at them, you wouldn’t spot the slightest sign of qi and blood depletion in either brother.

...

The next day.

With their spirit restored, the two continued heading to the palace gates, ready to take on one Martial Artist challenger after another.

At the same time—

Over on Ye Liuyun’s side, just out of the Imperial Prison, Ye Liuyun stretched his limbs a bit.

Not bad at all.

At least he came across two Talent Entries of blue quality.

That’s a pretty good haul.

Most of the time Ye Liuyun came by, he’d basically only spot white quality Talent Entries; once in a while, spotting just a few green ones was already lucky.

Now there were even blues!

It was just that, due to compatibility, they all turned into experience points for other Talent Entries, so at this rate—

He’s still a long way off from a red quality Entry.

But as for gold quality, it probably wouldn’t be long before he could evolve a few more.

Not bad, not bad!

Thinking about it, Ye Liuyun nodded in satisfaction.

He’d originally planned to just leave.

Now that he’s the Southern Governor, the Embroidered Uniform Guard HQ is basically Ye Liuyun’s to come and go as he pleases. He’s Governor now, so there’s no need to punch the timecard every day like before.

The reason he still comes every day is,

partly to look over case files, and partly to see if any decent Talent Entries show up in the Imperial Prison.

Missing out on that would be too much of a shame.

"Sir!"

Just then—

Si Nan, who’d been waiting outside the Imperial Prison the whole time, hurried up to greet Ye Liuyun as soon as he saw him come out,

with a dossier in his hand.

"Hmm?"

Seeing Si Nan like this, Ye Liuyun figured something was up.

He didn’t say much, just stopped walking.

"Sir, didn’t you have me look into that Mei Ji before?"

It’s already been a few days since then; if Si Nan hadn’t brought it up, Ye Liuyun probably would’ve forgotten about it.

The brothel woman with mid-stage Innate strength.

No need to think about it—a mid-stage Innate Martial Artist mixing in at a brothel definitely raises some questions. There must be some secret, unless she really was forced into it?

But,

Si Nan’s only now getting results after Ye Liuyun sent him to investigate days ago.

Seemed like he could tell what Ye Liuyun was thinking from his look.

Si Nan quickly explained,

"Sir, at first I just thought she was some ordinary woman, figured a quick check would be easy!"

After all,

there aren’t many intelligence networks in all of Great Qian that can rival the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

If they want to investigate something, the Embroidered Uniform Guard can usually handle it easily.

But this time,

things clearly didn’t go as Si Nan expected.

"At first, I found that this Mei Ji was the daughter of a merchant, but after her family fell on hard times and couldn’t survive, she was sold to a brothel!"

That’s a pretty common story in troubled times like these.

At first, Si Nan didn’t suspect anything.

But after taking a closer look, he found that a lot of the info in the report didn’t match reality.

It was obvious—someone had forged it on purpose.

And the forgery skill was amateurish, like a newbie did it.

After taking a deeper look, Si Nan could see there was a big secret hidden under the surface.

"Sir, this Mei Ji’s identity really isn’t simple. Have you ever heard of the Qingshui Pavilion?"

"Qingshui Pavilion?"

The name threw Ye Liuyun for a second.

He really hadn’t heard of it.

"It’s normal that you haven’t, sir!"

Seeing Ye Liuyun’s confusion, Si Nan explained,

"That Qingshui Pavilion was super famous ten years ago, but for some reason, it vanished completely about ten years back. Now, after so many years, hardly anyone in the jianghu has even heard of it."

Shows you—time is the scariest thing of all.

It can smooth out everything, swallowing it all up in the sands of dust and memory.

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