Evergreen Immortal.

"It seems that Mr. Chai hasn't found out about me yet."

Li Rui looked at the light red smoke.

That's right.

Even in previous lives when technology was more advanced, cases of killing people and dumping bodies in the mountains were almost always unsolved.

Even if Chai Jingong is very capable, it is extremely difficult to find out this kind of thing.

Take back your mind.

"Strengthening Qi and condensing Yuan to open up the sea of ​​Qi."

This is a Longmen realm formula that has been circulated in the world for a long time.

That's it.

After jumping over the dragon gate, you must continue to strengthen your true energy, polish your Dantian with the shape of Qi, and form Qi Yuan, and then you can open up your Dantian into a sea of ​​Qi.

Once you open up the Qi Sea, you will naturally step into the sea-viewing realm.

This process is extremely long.

Generally speaking, without more than ten years of hard work, it is almost impossible.

Ning Zhongtian is extremely talented, and he has been in Yuelongmen for three to five years, but he is still stuck in the first stage, vigorous.

This also shows how difficult it is.

It is not difficult to say that it is difficult to strengthen Qi. You just need to continue to nourish Qi along the path of Liu Jin. It will only be more than a hundred times stronger than Liu Jin's original Qi. Otherwise, if the Qi is not enough, how can you support Ning Yuan and the Qi behind it? ocean.

Of course, if there are a large number of magical elixirs to assist, it can indeed speed up the speed of strengthening one's energy.

Maybe the elixirs for strengthening the body are all at least the sixth grade. Even those from big clans cannot afford them for everyone, unless they are talented people like Jiang Linxian who have gathered the strength of a clan to create them.

‘I heard that Jiang Linxian opened up the Qi Sea in only seven years, becoming the best in Yunzhou. ’

If he hadn't been so stunning, he wouldn't have been dubbed the Jiangdong Sword Immortal by the world.

Li Rui came from a humble background, so of course he didn't receive that kind of treatment.

If you want resources, you have to fight for them yourself.

He took out a small jade bottle from his arms.

Inside were six fragrant elixirs, which were the sixth-grade elixirs found from Gao Zhen.

"They are all Qi-Building Pills."

Qi-Building Pill is the most common type among the sixth-grade elixirs.

Common does not mean low value.

On the contrary, one Qi-Building Pill is worth twenty seventh-grade elixirs. This is because it is most sought after by warriors and has the greatest demand. Therefore, alchemists often have three batches of sixth-grade elixirs, including one of them. .

The conversion unit has been changed from gold and silver to elixir.

The higher the level of elixirs, spiritual weapons, and elixirs, the value increases exponentially.

It's easily worth a thousand pieces of gold.

What is the concept of Qianjin?

One thousand kilograms of gold can only be pulled by a horse-drawn carriage.

The elixir is small in size, needed by almost all warriors, and lasts a very long time.

Naturally, it has become a currency-like existence.

The imperial court also had special regulations on this, and specifically selected the most popular elixirs of each grade as benchmark elixirs to regulate the market.

Six sixth-grade elixirs are one hundred and twenty ordinary seventh-grade elixirs.

Li Rui is just a sixth-grade official.

And it's just the kind of people who enjoy the benefits, and they don't have the real power of the sixth grade. The sixth grade realm has just been broken through, so of course they can't afford it.

Talk about it.

This is also thanks to Gao Zhencai.

Six Qi-Building Pills are enough to last for a long time.

As for Gaozhen's sword, it had long been melted into iron by his apprentice Liu Tiezhu.

Gao Zhen was born in the Gao family, so the sword was of course made of sixth-grade spiritual iron. But because of this, Li Rui had no intention of casting the spiritual iron into a weapon, and instead asked Liu Tiezhu to make the inner armor.

The sixth-grade spiritual iron material is already rare, but now it is in the limelight, and the people from the Criminal Department are still working on the case in An Ning Guard.

If he took out a weapon with the same material as Gaozhen's sword at this time, it would be difficult not to be suspected.

It is made into inner armor and is suitable for hiding under clothes.

"No wonder so many people like to be robbing swordsmen. This is really efficient in obtaining resources."

If it weren't for Gao Zhen, he definitely wouldn't have been able to get so many sixth-grade elixirs in one go.

Li Rui took out a Qi-Building Pill and put it into his mouth.

The refreshing smell exploded in the lips and teeth, entered the body along the throat, and the immortal energy in the Dantian boiled instantly.

The Wu Gu operates on its own, completely squeezing out every drop of the Qi-Building Pill's effectiveness.

"As expected of a sixth-grade elixir."

Li Rui could feel that under the influence of the Qi-Building Pill, the Immortal Xuan Qi was at least several times more active than usual. Taking the Qi once at this time would be more effective than a hundred times on normal days.

If not, the Qi-Building Pill would not become the most popular pill among sixth-grade warriors.

He took a deep breath and hurriedly started the technique.

After a long walk.

Then he got into bed and fell asleep.

Three days passed.

"Master Chai, have you found anything?"

Cao Wei walked into the courtyard of the General's Mansion specially prepared for Chai Jinggong and other officials from the Ministry of Punishment and the Cleaning Department. He saw that the room was full of files. The officials of the Ministry of Punishment looked like students coming to Beijing to take the exam, lying on the desks and studying hard. .

Seeing such a fiery situation, he secretly praised Chai Jingong for his good governance.

Chai Jingong, like everyone else, flipped through the files in his hands.

Hearing Cao Wei's voice, he raised his head with a tired face and showed a smile:

"Master Cao."

Then he stood up and stretched: "There happens to be something that I want to ask Brother Cao for confirmation."

Cao Wei raised his eyebrows slightly: "Master Chai just asks questions and tells you everything you know."

Chai Jingong seemed to be thinking about the words:

"Gao Zhen. Why do you know Duke Wei?"

In the Yu Kingdom, except for Emperor Taizu who granted great titles to the heroes when he founded the country, the control over titles became extremely strict in later generations.

Even a wealthy family like the Gao family still does not have a title.

Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron, not even a Baron.

You should know that the title can be inherited, unless there are no male descendants, or the family is extinct, it will be taken back by the court.

Once a family gets the title, they can eat the emperor's food for generations.

Therefore, the titles are almost all given to the descendants of the Zhu royal family, and the court does not want to see a family inherit the title, gradually become bigger, or even threaten the country.

The Zhu royal family who got the title were also strictly controlled in the capital, without fiefdoms and power.

They just ended up being noble.

Perhaps Emperor Taizu also found that there were too many dukes and marquises who were happy to be issued, so most of the marquises died in his hands when he was in power, and there were only two dukes left.

After thousands of years of evolution.

During this period, many titles were taken back for various crimes.

Those who remain today are all famous families trusted by the emperor.

The most famous one among them is of course the Marquis Dingyuan, an old minister who followed Emperor Taizu to fight for the world since he started his army in Feng'an.

Among the ministers who followed Emperor Taizu, Marquis Dingyuan was not the first in terms of military merit, and he was even worse in terms of civil administration. His title of Marquis did not seem out of place among the ministers.

But it was precisely because of this that he was spared from the reckoning of Emperor Taizu.

In addition, the old Marquis Dingyuan's ability to give birth to sons was unparalleled in the world, so the lineage of Marquis Dingyuan became more and more prosperous, and now it has become a pillar of the empire.

But the situation of the Duke of Weiguo is very different from that of the Marquis Dingyuan.

If the Marquis Dingyuan represents the founding heroes, then the Duke of Weiguo represents the old forces of the previous dynasty.

Yes, the old Duke of Weiguo is the uncle of the Emperor of Xuanguo of the previous dynasty, and also the military god of Xuanguo.

Just when Emperor Taizu and the army of Xuanguo were fighting fiercely, this military god uncle actually chose to surrender.

Emperor Taizu was overjoyed.

He promised him the title of the Duke of Weiguo on the spot.

Most of the remaining forces of the previous dynasty were under the command of the Duke of Wei.

Although the lineage of the Duke of Wei was the only two dukes in the State of Yu, they rarely appeared in the government.

Cao Wei pondered for a moment:

"I also asked Gao Zhen about this matter. According to him, he met the Duke of Wei when he was traveling. With the support of the Duke of Wei, he was able to become the garrison commander of Anning Guard."

Chai Jingong frowned slightly.

Gao Zhen was young and had just passed the military examination and was able to become a powerful official of the sixth rank garrison commander.

It would be strange if there was no one behind him.

But Gao Zhen, a member of the Gao family of Luyang, how could he be promoted by a duke who rarely showed up?

You know, the current Duke of Wei is already two hundred years old.

He has not shown up in the court for a full hundred years.

He has already torn Gao Zhen's files.

If Gao Zhen wanted to be an official, the Ministry of Personnel would of course send people to investigate the situation and make a file, which recorded Gao Zhen's life in detail.

He was an unknown disciple of the Gao family at the beginning, and it was only in the past six or seven years that he rose to prominence as if he had opened his mind.

I think it was at that time that he got the support of the Duke of Wei.

Cao Wei asked tentatively: "Why, Brother Chai, do you think that the person who killed Gao Zhen might be related to the Duke of Wei."

He did not continue.

The lineage of the Duke of Wei was in decline, but it was not something that he, a lieutenant general, could discuss.

Chai Jingong sighed lightly and shook his head:

"It's not certain yet, it's just a guess."

Murder.

Generally, it is either a random murder, such as a thief killing a beggar casually. This kind of case is the most difficult to solve.

There is no motive or premeditation.

There is almost no connection between the two.

But Gao Zhen is an officer of the Anning Guard, and he is also a sixth-rank master.

It is possible to kill a sixth-rank official of the court casually, but it is very small.

Therefore, Chai Jingong is more inclined to premeditated murder.

Since it was premeditated, there must be interests involved, and the murderer must benefit by killing Gao Zhen.

Before, he thought that it was the enemy of the Gao family who did it, but now it seems that it is more likely that it was the enemy of the Weiguogong lineage.

When he thought of this.

Chai Jingong had a headache.

The Gao family of Luyang was already difficult enough, and now there is a Weiguogong.

Chaos, too chaos.

Both sides are big figures that cannot be offended, and it is difficult for him, a small doctor of the Ministry of Justice, to be caught in the middle.

Cases, especially those involving officials, are not unsolvable, but dare not be solved.

Even the Ministry of Justice dare not make a decision at will.

After all, the Ministry of Justice is a tool for the court to maintain stability, not to really uphold fairness and justice.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult."

Chai Jingong was about to continue sorting out the documents when a soldier trotted into the courtyard.

The An Ning Guard soldier first bowed to Cao Wei and Chai Jin, and then said, "General Cao, there is a scholar outside the door who claims to be from the Imperial Observatory and wants to see you, sir."