Free Web NovelChapter 811: Chapter 65: The Golden Needle Case (Added for Alliance Hierarch Bingkejian)
"Uh..."
Lin Youxie froze on the spot.
Even with her exceptional intelligence and familiarity with the art of eliciting information, she hadn’t expected Jiang Wang to be so unsympathetic and his words so chillingly cold.
Such an arrogant demeanor completely contradicted the personality Jiang Wang had previously displayed.
It also left her unsure of how to continue.
"Brother Jiang!"
Fortunately, Zheng Shangming, who had returned, broke the awkward silence.
"Arrest Officer Lin." Zheng, the young master, glanced at Lin Youxie: "Are you acquainted with Brother Jiang?"
"Somewhat!" Lin Youxie said.
"Have you found anything?" Jiang Wang asked directly.
"There are two suitable cases," Zheng Shangming said as he took out two files and was about to explain them to Jiang Wang.
"Over here," Jiang Wang said, hooking his arm around him and walking towards a corner.
Clearly intending to avoid Lin Youxie.
Lin Youxie could only shrug helplessly and watch them walk away.
When the two men reached the corner, Zheng Shangming asked in a low voice, "Is there some misunderstanding between you and Arrest Officer Lin?"
Jiang Wang’s blatant avoidance of Lin Youxie just now had not escaped his notice.
While flipping through the files of recorded cases, Jiang Wang casually replied, "Can’t say it’s a misunderstanding, maybe just a clash of personalities."
He didn’t want to elaborate on Lin Youxie’s subtle suspicions about him. Speaking up might only make him seem more guilty.
"I see," Zheng Shangming nodded, paused for a moment, and couldn’t help but remind him, "Arrest Officer Lin’s family has held the Qing brand for several generations in this government office. The connections are intricate, and she might be able to speak with some retired influential figures. If you have any grievances against her, it is better to avoid confrontation. Of course, I’m not saying you can’t handle her, but we all need to look forward, and there’s no need for this."
Zheng Shangming’s words were a sincere consideration for Jiang Wang, and they also showed respect for him.
Seeing him again, Jiang Wang repeatedly noticed Zheng Shangming’s transformation, which was truly a rebirth from the ashes. This indicated how deeply the humiliation that Wang Yiwu had brought upon him.
At the same time, Zheng Shangming’s words also explained why Lin Youxie, merely a Grade-5 Qing brand arrest officer with Tenglong Realm cultivation level, dared to pester Jiang Wang time and again, indifferent to Jiang Wang’s threats.
Why even the God of Arrest, Yue Leng, seemed to see Lin Youxie with different eyes, and even when investigating the case of the "Hell Has No Door Taishan King," he only took Lin Youxie with him.
Linzi was too big, the waters too deep, a veritable den of dragons and crouching tigers.
Even the son of the Beiyar Commander was extremely cautious around her. There must be some remarkable connections within the Lin family that could shelter Lin Youxie.
Fortunately, Jiang Wang’s impoliteness was only verbal, and he had not done anything untoward.
However, the pressure of being watched by a Qing brand arrest officer with no known roots versus one with an impressive background was distinctly different...
"It’s not that I have any complaints," Jiang Wang said with a wry smile and a shake of his head: "It’s just that this Arrest Officer Lin always pulls me into conversations about things I’m not interested in. I just avoid it, that’s all."
Zheng Shangming seemed thoughtful but said nothing more.
One of the files was about a complex mystery with some obscure clues on the Near Sea Archipelago.
Broken silverware, cracks on the scene, bizarre disappearances...
Jiang Wang felt a headache looking at it and skipped over.
The second task was much simpler and more direct—apprehending a criminal from the External Building Environment.
They only knew that this person was hidden in the Near Sea Archipelago, but his specific whereabouts were unknown.
What interested Jiang Wang the most was that this person’s identity was none other than an elder of the Gold Needle Sect.
In the Forest Sea Source Realm, those who journeyed with Jiang Wang included Su Qiyun, who posed as a disciple of the Beam Top Building but actually came from the Tianfu, and the other was Wu Quji, from the Gold Needle Sect.
Wu Quji was honest and straightforward, with a clear-cut personality, which was quite admirable. His medical expertise and cultivation were truly extraordinary, able to concoct an antidote for the Hidden Snake’s poison in an incredibly short amount of time.
Jiang Wang got along very well with him and they agreed to stay in touch after leaving the Secret Realm, but due to constantly being so busy, there wasn’t much opportunity.
Now it was good, handling a case related to the Gold Needle Sect.
The Gold Needle Sect was located in the eastern part of Qi Country, in Zhuhe County, which was also one of the border counties. It was adjacent to Da Ze County, but much smaller in size, only about half of it.
The county got its name from a plant called "Zhuhe" that proliferated throughout the region, red in color, growing redder as it ripened, resembling grains of rice and forming dense clusters, hence the name Zhuhe.
Because it was produced in great abundance, its price was not high, but as it could be used for food and as a medicinal ingredient, it had saved countless lives during the years of famine and was also known as "good grain."
Wu Quji told Jiang Wang that the founder of the Gold Needle Sect, due to his poor innate talent and difficulty in advancing in cultivation, offended others, and was therefore expelled from the East King Valley.
After leaving East King Valley, he wandered about, lost and confused, for a long while.
Finally, he settled down in Zhuhe County and found new meaning in life.
He broke free from the constraints of his own talent and, inspired by the Eastern King’s Twelve Needles, created the Life-Saving Golden Needles, thereby starting the history of Gold Needle Sect.
The techniques of Gold Needle Knitting Bone and Gold Needle Disease Locking that Wu Quji had used were part of the Life-Saving Golden Needles’ methods, each with its wonders.
Passed down to this day, the Gold Needle Sect had been in existence for more than two hundred years.
Wu Quji was the current direct disciple of the Gold Needle Sect, and his master was the second-generation Sect Leader of the Gold Needle Sect.
The one involved in the crime this time was Wu Quji’s martial uncle, Wu Yiyu, an elder of the Gold Needle Sect.
He plotted against the Sect Leader of the Gold Needle Sect, Wu Yiyu, and stole the secret manual of the Life-Saving Golden Needles, having already fled beyond the borders of Qi Country.
With the only two External Building Environment powerhouses of the Gold Needle Sect either severely injured and dying or fleeing across the border, the sect itself no longer had the strength to pursue the murderer, so they reported the case to the Prefectural Governor’s Office of Zhuhe County.
But since Wu Yiyu had already fled Qi Boundary, the Prefectural Governor’s Office of Zhuhe County could not go to the Near Sea Archipelago to handle the case and also lacked that kind of power; therefore, they escalated the case, which eventually piled up at the Imperial City Inspection Mansion, where Zheng Shangming rummaged through and brought it before Jiang Wang.
"This is the one." After meticulously going through the case, Jiang Wang slapped the dossier and made a decision.
Intelligence showed that Wu Yiyu was in the External Building Environment. freēwēbnovel.com
The strength comparison between Neifu Cultivators and Outer Building Cultivators was, generally speaking, such that a one-mansion Neifu Cultivator was slightly weaker than a regular External Building cultivator from one realm above; without any new Divine Skills, the disparity in strength would widen with each minor realm difference.
This was because the enhancement of strength by each Starlight Holy Tower was incredibly frightening. Only equally strong Divine Skills could narrow the gap.
If Divine Skills could be obtained in each mansion, the gap wouldn’t widen.
Under normal circumstances, a four-mansion Divine Skill cultivator would be slightly weaker than a fourth-realm ordinary External Building cultivator, yet a Tianfu cultivator was absolutely stronger than a regular Outer Building summit cultivator.
Of course, this standard was not fixed. With the development of the cultivation world, the top forces’ Starlight Holy Towers were all at the same level, and the degree of enhancement would not vary too much.
But everyone’s Divine Skills were different, and everyone’s development of Divine Skills was highly variable. The resulting disparities were simply immeasurable, even as vast as heaven and earth.
Take Jiang Wang, for instance, both his Samadhi True Fire and Astray Path were extremely powerful Divine Skills. If properly developed, it wasn’t difficult for him to overpower an ordinary Outer Building cultivator from two realms higher.
Take Li Fengyao as another example; the Divine Skill she obtained in her first mansion was beneficial to her cultivation and certainly of great value, but when applied to combat, it might not necessarily enable her to defeat an ordinary Outer Building cultivator from one realm higher.
To the current Jiang Wang, dealing with Wu Yiyu, a one-realm ordinary Outer Building cultivator, was not guaranteed to be an easy catch, but he had around a seventy to eighty percent confidence.
The remaining twenty to thirty percent lay in how to find Wu Yiyu.
