Chapter 35 Get the secret book, strike first
As for the three martial arts books with special attributes, the lowest one would cost nearly 3 taels of silver, while the total amount of silver notes Liang Zifeng and the others had was only over taels.
"Does your Wanbao Pavilion collect secret books?" Liang Zifeng thought that he still had quite a few secret books, all of which had been optimized by himself, so he asked.
"Of course we will. However, if it is a secret manual that we already have, we will not accept it." The clerk nodded and said happily.
Compared to silver bills, if the clerks can receive the secret books, they have to have made special achievements to get them. Therefore, the clerk was very interested in the secret books that Liang Zifeng mentioned.
"If the secret books that you already have in Wanbao Pavilion have been optimized, will you accept them?" Liang Zifeng felt that the secret book in his hand should not be a special one, and Wanbao Pavilion might have it, so he asked.
"Well...if it is successfully optimized and passes the appraisal of our master, we will accept it." The clerk frowned and thought for a while before speaking.
"That's good, you go and ask the master for help." After Liang Zifeng said that, he took out a few secret books from Leng Yuzhao's package and placed them on the table.
The clerk looked at the several secret books on the table with some disappointment, because they were all common secret books, but he still asked someone to ask the master for help.
An hour later, the magician finished appraising all the secret books on the table, and highly praised the optimized parts in them. He even wanted Liang Zifeng to introduce him to the magician. He believed that the magician who could make such optimizations, regardless of his strength, had a level of knowledge that most people could not even dream of.
In the end, Liang Zifeng took out several optimized secret books and successfully exchanged them for the secret books he wanted. Wanbao Pavilion even gave him 800 taels of silver notes as compensation, because after being appraised by the magician, the secret books Liang Zifeng gave were all precious and top-grade yellow-level secret books.
Liang Zifeng was very happy to have obtained 4 martial arts books. In the past few years, he has been trying to transform true qi into true fire, but he has no clue. He hopes that the fire-attributed martial arts can provide him with ideas and inspiration.
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When it was approaching midnight at night and everyone else had fallen asleep, Liang Zifeng changed into black tights and quietly flew out of the window.
For those who were following them during the day, Liang Zifeng attached a trace of mental power to them, so that he didn't have to use mental power to monitor them all the time. He could sense the other party's position with just a little sense, unless the distance between the other party and himself was more than a hundred miles.
Liang Zifeng followed the direction he sensed and soon arrived at the slums of Yichun County, floating a hundred meters above a yard.
The yard below is not big, and the surrounding houses are somewhat dilapidated. In the yard, a group of people are gathered around a campfire, roasting themselves by the fire and discussing something.
There were a total of 6 people in the yard, all of them were middle-grade warriors, one of them was of 4th-grade strength, the other two were of 5th-grade and 3 were of 6th-grade.
"How are the preparations going?" asked the 4th-rank warrior.
"Don't worry, my lord. The brothers are ready. We will meet at the target inn at 5: p.m." A warrior with rank strength said.
"My lord, I think we should report this to the headquarters. Ma Rulong's words may not be credible, and I'm worried that he will use us as a gun." Another warrior with rank 5 strength seemed to be somewhat dissatisfied with this action and gave his reasons.
"Yes, my Lord. Ma Rulong is only telling us now about what happened three years ago. It is obvious that he has bad intentions. I think it is better to act with caution."
"Why do you care so much? He's just a country brat, pretending to be a descendant of a big family. Except for his grandfather who dares not show his face, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"Yes, that boy is wanted by the Liang family in Beijing. We can pretend to be the Liang family in Beijing and kill that boy. This way, we can get revenge and prevent trouble from coming to our White Dragon Sect."
"Well, through the investigations over the past few years, the boy surnamed Liang is also a suspect in the incident three years ago. I also know that Ma Rulong has bad intentions.
He is a strong man at the peak of the 4th level, but he didn't want to deal with the boy himself, and said that he didn't want to provoke Liang Tianye. But I guess that the boy surnamed Liang is not simple in strength, so I asked you to pretend to be from the Liang family in the capital this time.
Can the Heaven Shaking Cannon be in place before the hour of Chou?"
"My Lord, three Heaven Shaking Cannons have already arrived, and another four will be here at about 3:4 pm."
At this time, Liang Zifeng in heaven was already burning with anger. He did not expect that the people below were the ones who had preached in Majiaji three years ago. He had obtained a large number of secret books in their stronghold, and thought that he had done it without anyone knowing, but now they had come to his door.
He never expected that the person who betrayed him was Ma Rulong, whom he had some affection for. This made him want to fly to Majiazhuang immediately.
"How did Ma Rulong know? There was absolutely no one who saw it at the time, and it was impossible for anyone to know."
"Is it... a guess? Yes, there are not many powerful people around Majiaji, but what is Ma Rulong's purpose?"
Liang Zifeng continued to pay attention to the situation below while thinking in his mind. At the same time, he was also wondering why Ma Rulong wanted to deal with him. It seemed that there was nothing about him that was worthy of the other party's concern.
Liang Zifeng couldn't think of anything about himself that was worthy of the other party's attention, so he lost his patience. Looking down, a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and then he took out three throwing knives and threw them downwards.
There were about 200 people in the buildings around the yard. Liang Zifeng knew that these were all members of the White Dragon Cult, so he didn't feel any guilt for killing them.
On the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, the moon was not big, but there were many torches around, so the area around the yard was not particularly dark. However, people's vision in the dark is not very good, especially ordinary people, who basically have some night blindness. Even the vision of low-grade warriors is not much better.
At this moment, three faint lights suddenly appeared around the yard, floating like ghosts. After a moment, the three lights turned red, and the smell of blood began to spread around.
"Enemy attack~" A shrill cry rang out from a corner.
“Swish~swish~swish.”
When the alarm sounded, the six middle-level warriors in the yard jumped out one after another. When they saw the surrounding situation clearly, they all gasped.
What caught their eyes were corpses lying all over the place, all of them were followers of the White Dragon Cult.
"Who is it?! Come out to me!" The fourth-grade master from the White Dragon Sect looked around with a ferocious look on his face and shouted angrily.
After the venerable monk finished shouting, the seven or eight surviving believers gathered around him with fear on their faces.
"Hu~Hu~" The few middle-grade ones who had just come out were also breathing heavily with anger on their faces, and were looking around one by one.