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Chapter 181 The Altered Painting
Sure enough, the moment Ximen Kankan saw him, he jumped down from the armchair, came over with the speed of a small ghost, produced a small green porcelain bottle from his sleeve, and held it up in front of Mo Qian.Mo Qian looked at Ximen Kankan's face with wary eyes and asked, "What is that?"Ximen Kankan smiled and lowered his voice. "Your Dragon Flame Fat. It's here."Mo Qian's expression changed at once and he reached out to take the bottle. But Ximen Kankan pulled his hand back, and in a flash the porcelain bottle had disappeared back into his sleeve.Ximen Kankan returned to the desk, settled back into the armchair, and picked up his tea. But while he drank, his eyes kept sliding sideways toward Mo Qian.Mo Qian laughed and sat down in the armchair across the desk from Ximen Kankan. "Kankan, a friend of mine needs this medicine urgently."Ximen Kankan focused on his tea as though he had not heard, deliberately avoiding Mo Qian's eyes."I know. I still owe you two spring palace
Chapter 180 Progress through Practice
Ximen Kankan looked at the badly burned results, then picked them up and held them out to Shi Kang with a cold expression. "Shi Kang, give this to the dog."Shi Kang took them and looked at the blackened meat in his hands, puzzled. "Is this... really something a dog would eat?""If the dog won't eat it, you eat it." Ximen Kankan stared at Shi Kang with irritation.Shi Kang was stunned but had no choice. He carried the burned meat off to find the dog.Over on the grass, Mo Qian was moving through forms with the oxtail knife.He was working through the exchange with Ximen Kankan in his mind, going over each move he had lost and reorganizing his understanding.Ximen Kankan's Thunder Smoke Blade was exquisitely built and had genuinely opened something new for him.Ximen Kankan watched Mo Qian on the grass, moving through what looked from the outside like odd, disconnected gestures, and clicked his tongue. "What is the point of martial arts? All that bitterness, just making life harder for
Chapter 179 A Deal for a Sparring Partner
Mo Qian listened and shook his head quietly. This short melon really is willful. First thing in the morning and he wants grilled meat.When Shi Kang and Mo Qian arrived at Xueyan Residence together, they found Ximen Kankan already out by the entrance managing the fire. Under the bright morning sky, the heat from the grill had his face gleaming with sweat.The moment Shi Kang saw Ximen Kankan crouching over the fire himself, he exclaimed, "Young master! This kind of work should be left for me! You'll give yourself heatstroke!"Ximen Kankan turned his head, about to say something, when he spotted Mo Qian. His round body practically bounced upright. "Where have you been all this time? Shi Kang went to the bureau to look for you again and again and never found you!"Mo Qian looked at Ximen Kankan's face, which had picked up a few smears of charcoal ash, and laughed. "I'm a dart master. Naturally I go out on dart runs. Not everyone has a father who owns a pharmacy and gets to stay home and
Chapter 178 Finding a Sparring Partner
Once he pondered carefully and deeply absorbed the elemental forms within them, he discovered he had developed a distinct capacity to break down any sword technique into its component elemental forms.In other words, he could decompose any sword technique into combinations of elemental forms.This opened a path he had previously been searching for without success: a genuine framework for fusion.Introduce the elemental form into fusion, Mo Qian thought, his eyes brightening.He turned the idea over and began to try it.But after the first attempts, his confidence deflated. He had oversimplified the problem. Even if he could break a technique apart, how would he reassemble the pieces into something new?As the saying goes: destruction is easy, creation is hard.No wonder Xiao Zongting, having devoted his whole life to this pursuit, had only produced three incomplete moves to show for it.Creating martial arts from the level of elemental forms was not easier than existing methods. It wa
Chapter 177 The Rewards of Liulu
The promotion was nothing to dismiss either. Apprentice escorts and full escorts did the same work, but apprentices earned less. Becoming a full member meant his pay would finally match the work."In addition, I have authorized a special allocation from Chief Accountant Xu Shouxian of one thousand taels of silver to be used toward your cultivation. It will be distributed to you monthly over ten months.""I caution you that this money is not to be spent carelessly. It is to be used for cultivation."Mo Qian cupped his fists and answered firmly, "Understood."He thought to himself, however: I am worth tens of thousands of taels at this point. Why would I spend a cultivation stipend carelessly?What Ruan Fengshan had said so far had clearly been agreed upon before Mo Qian arrived and came as no surprise to the room. Most people responded with little more than a glance in Mo Qian's direction.But the next thing Ruan Fengshan said produced a shift in nearly every expression in the hall."T
Chapter 176 Promotion Ahead of Schedule
At that moment, Ruan Fengshan said calmly, "The rice-character lantern meant the gold had left the city, everything proceeding as planned. A single-character lantern meant things had gone wrong and to evacuate immediately. Is that not correct, He Guizhou?"Hearing Ruan Fengshan lay out precisely the signal he and Yu Wenlong had agreed on, He Guizhou's legs went soft beneath him."The county magistrate has his methods. You already know all of this. Would you rather be sentenced and broken on the rack, or will you confess now?" Shen Yanliu looked at He Guizhou with cold, still eyes.The moment He Guizhou met Shen Yanliu's gaze, something in him gave way. Shen Yanliu's manner of sentencing was even more frightening than Jie Daohan's.He Guizhou collapsed forward, kowtowing repeatedly like a chicken pecking grain. "Your Honor, this subordinate was blinded by greed for a moment. Yu Wenlong offered me five thousand taels of silver to release that sky lantern signal. I was deceived by him...
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