Chapter 127 Persistence
Chen Ji is a paranoid person.

To achieve his goal, he would do whatever it takes, even get hurt. He would not turn back until he hit the wall. He recited Zhayun over and over again, determined to produce purple energy in his meridians.

However, that blazing sword energy, like the blazing sun, was even more persistent than him...

Chen Ji sat cross-legged in the dim apprentice dormitory and recited it for a full hour, a total of twelve times.

All the wisps of purple air that were born were ruthlessly cut off without exception.

"This is strange," Chen Ji muttered to himself, "The Tiger Sect and the Sword Sect can coexist peacefully, but Zhayun Sect can't?"

"Is it because the sword species and Zhayun are both sword arts, so they can't coexist? Try again!"

Just as he was about to recite it for the thirteenth time, he heard the rapid chirping of birds outside the yard.

Chen Ji recognized that it was the copper whistle of the Secret Service. However, the bird's chirping in the past was as clear and sweet as a magpie, but this time the bird's chirping sounded so urgent that it seemed as if the bird's nest was about to be robbed.

He stood up and walked out of the clinic, only to see Golden Pig's carriage parked diagonally opposite the clinic.

Chen Ji got into the carriage with ease. Before he could speak, Jin Zhu said ferociously with sweat all over his forehead, "If you can't repair it, don't repair it!"

Chen Ji: "..."

He pretended to be confused: "How did Master Jinzhu know that I couldn't succeed? Is he watching me?"

Jin Zhu knew he had said something wrong, and quickly wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "I was worried that you might be too hasty after just getting the cultivation path, so I came all the way to remind you. You must know that although the cultivation path can make you transcend the mundane world, you must also be relaxed and tense in moderation when practicing, and you must not rush in blindly."

Chen Ji said, "Thank you for your concern."

The golden pig rolled his eyes and said, "By the way, did you encounter any confusion during your practice? Maybe I can help you solve one or two problems."

Chen Ji shook his head: "No."

The Golden Pig was heartbroken: "Think about it again!"

Chen Ji glanced at him and explained nonchalantly, "Sir, when I practice this method, I always feel that there is a kind of energy that is about to be born, but I can't touch it or find it."

The Golden Pig thought for a moment and said with concern: "Maybe you are too tired these days, so you can't calm down when practicing. Think about it, you have only slept for three or four hours in the past few days, how can you practice well? Why don't you have a good sleep first!"

Chen Ji hummed: "Your Excellency's words make sense. I will go back and have a good sleep now."

The Golden Pig was relieved: "Very good, very good, go ahead."

When Chen Ji got off the carriage, he sat in the carriage as if exhausted. Twelve of his bones were pulled out in one hour. What's the difference between this and torture? I'm afraid that if he falls into the hands of the thieves of Jing Dynasty, this will be the end.

At this moment, Golden Pig sat in the dim carriage, enjoying a moment of tranquility alone. He felt no excruciating pain, no fear, and was extremely relaxed.

After a short break, he muttered quietly, "This kid is quite hardworking, much more hardworking than Tianma was back then. But, what's wrong with his cultivation path? He has a top-class talent, so why can't he get started? Is it a problem with his cultivation path?"

He patted the carriage and said to Xifeng who was guarding outside: "Go back to the inner prison and continue to interrogate that thief Jing Chao... Ouch!"

The golden pig's expression changed drastically.

Didn't you just agree to it? Why don't you go back to sleep and start practicing again? !

When Xifeng heard his exclamation, he quickly lifted the carriage curtain, poked his head out and asked, "Sir, what happened to you? Did you have an upset stomach?"

The Golden Pig gnashed his teeth and said, "Blow the copper whistle and call Chen Ji out!"

As the birdsong sounded, a moment later, Chen Ji got into the carriage again and asked in confusion: "Sir, you just said goodbye, why are you calling me again?"

The Golden Pig asked seriously, "Do you remember my advice to have a good rest?"

Chen Ji said calmly: "I remember, I went to sleep as soon as I got back and didn't practice anymore."

The golden pig was speechless.

He was well aware of the allure of the path to spiritual practice for a young man. When he had just received the path to spiritual practice, hadn't he racked his brains day and night to think about how he could step into that threshold?

He could understand the young man's feelings, but he really couldn't bear it anymore!
At this time, Chen Ji bowed and said, "Sir, if there is nothing else, I will go back to the clinic and sleep."

Jin Zhu tightly grasped Chen Ji's wrist: "No!"

Chen Ji raised his eyebrows: "Hmm?"

Jin Zhu patted the wooden wall of the carriage and shouted, "Xifeng, go back to the inner prison. Chen Ji and I are going to interrogate the thief Jing Chao again!"

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Didn't the master ask me to have a good rest?"

Jin Zhu said earnestly, "I just remembered that Jing Chao Si Cao must have a lot of information to extract. If he spits out something more, you can help me analyze it. If you want to sleep for a while, just sleep in the car!"

As he said that, he took out a copper hand warmer from under his seat, carefully poured carbon powder on it and ignited it with a fire stick, then stuffed it into Chen Ji's arms: "Hold it and sleep, it's warm! Overthrowing the Liu family and the Military Intelligence Department is a serious matter. Back then, I stayed up for three days and three nights to keep an eye on a thief from the Jing Dynasty. Now that you have joined the Secret Service, you have to get used to it slowly!"

Chen Ji thanked him, slowly leaned against the car wall and closed his eyes.

He was certain that the purple energy he had gained during his training should be able to be fed back to the golden pig immediately. The brilliant sword energy that cut off the purple energy must have caused considerable damage to the golden pig, otherwise the other party would not have been so defensive and even dared not let him out of sight.

I just don't know if the tiger and the sword skills will be fed back to the golden pig immediately?
We have to try again to know.

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The carriage swayed along the bluestone slabs, and Chenji seemed to have lived a wandering life, coming and going all day long, drifting with the flow.

Outside the car, the cries of vendors walking through the streets and the laughter of children chasing and playing gradually faded away.

The carriage took him into the afterglow of the sunset and back to the world of martial arts. "Wake up." Jin Zhu patted Chen Ji.

Chen Ji opened his eyes and asked in a daze, "Sir, have we arrived at the inner prison?"

Jin Zhu said with a complicated expression, "It's hard for you. You have to live a life of blood and knife at such a young age. Don't worry, I will take charge and give you a long vacation after we overthrow the Liu family."

Chen Ji smiled, stood up and jumped off the carriage: "Thank you in advance, sir."

The two men lowered their heads, entered the iron gate, and walked deeper into the inner prison.

In the deepest cell of the inner prison, Manager Yuan had changed into a clean white prison uniform and was sitting at a dark red eight-person table, eating beef with chopsticks and drinking wine. His ten fingers were bloody and missing nails, and the way he held the chopsticks was particularly strange.

Hearing the sound of the cell door opening, the fat shopkeeper Yuan looked up and smiled at Jin Zhu and Chen Ji: "My lords, what did you get last night? Judging from your expressions, you should have stopped the Liu family's plan."

Chen Ji leaned against the door frame, unwilling to get close to this Jingchao master.

Jin Zhu, however, sat opposite Manager Yuan with a smile on his face, pinched a piece of beef and threw it into his mouth: "We are out there fighting for our lives, but you are living a carefree life."

Manager Yuan spread his hands and said, "We are just prisoners, how can we live happily? Have you two adults caught the mastermind, Liu Mingxian? If you do, it will be a great achievement! Congratulations to you two!"

After saying that, he picked up the white porcelain wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.

Jin Zhu said calmly: "Liu Mingxian is dead."

Manager Yuan was puzzled: "Did you kill him, sir?"

The Golden Pig replied, "No, it was the Liu family who killed him."

Shopkeeper Yuan was startled for a moment, then he burst into laughter, so much so that the oil lamp on the stone wall shook.

Jin Zhu frowned: "What's so funny?"

Manager Yuan gradually stopped smiling. "Liu Mingxian was killed by the Liu family. That means that from now on, the two adults will no longer be facing Liu Mingxian, the second-generation rich man, but the old man Liu who has stood firm in the court for more than 30 years."

"What about Elder Liu?"

Manager Yuan said in a serious tone, "Emperor Ning hates the Liu family to the core, but Elder Liu was able to control the Ministry of Personnel for fifteen years and run Yuzhou like an iron barrel. Can you two defeat such a giant?"

Jin Zhu pinched another piece of beef and put it into his mouth: "We two are not fighting alone. Behind me is the entire Silijian of the Ning Dynasty and the Prime Minister. Don't worry, you can't scare me away, and neither can Mr. Feng beside Liu Ge Lao."

At this time, Jin Zhu wiped the oil stains on his fingers on his robe and changed the subject: "Do you want to get out of the inner prison?"

Manager Yuan said with a smile, "Why not? I told you two of the Liu family's plan, wasn't it because I wanted to be free?"

The Golden Pig looked straight at Shopkeeper Yuan and said, "Then spit out some more, so I can ask for credit for you in front of the Prime Minister."

"What if I don't vomit?"

"Do you still have a choice?"

The cell fell silent.

Golden Pig and Shopkeeper Yuan were confronting each other, like two knives facing each other, and neither was willing to give in.

After a while, it was Shopkeeper Yuan who relaxed his tone first: "I have done a great deed for the two adults, but I still haven't seen any sincerity from the Secret Service. If you want to be honest with me, you have to let me see some hope, right?"

Only then did Jin Zhu pull out a roll of documents tied with golden silk from his sleeve: "This is the handwritten letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs that just arrived in Luo City today. You know, the letter I sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs should have arrived in the capital yesterday, but the handwritten letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs arrived in Luo City today. Do you know what this means?"

"What does it mean?"

"If we want to deliver this handwritten order to Luocheng within one day, we need to leave the capital before sunset yesterday, pass through six post stations in Baoding, Hengshui, Handan, Hebi, Xinxiang, and Zhengxian, change six war horses, and never stop..."

Chen Ji was standing aside, and the more he listened, the more familiar it became!
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This Mr. Golden Pig always gave him little shocks inadvertently.

Opposite the Golden Pig, Shopkeeper Yuan took the document and spread it out, looking at it quietly for a long time, his expression changing constantly, as if he was struggling.

He put down the written order and looked up at the Golden Pig: "If I can really become the Hidden Dragon of the Secret Service, then you will understand how correct my decision today is."

Chen Ji was puzzled. He didn't know what was written in the imperial edict that could make Manager Yuan change his position on the spot?

The Golden Pig stood up with the handwritten letter in his hand, stood beside the stone wall, and burned the handwritten letter to ashes with the flame of the oil lamp: "Tell me, what else can you do for us?"

Shopkeeper Yuan silently looked at the burned letter, and after struggling for a long time, he said, "I once made an appointment with Chang Jing to meet tonight, and he agreed."

The Golden Pig suddenly turned around and said, "Are you serious?!"

Then he shook his head: "No, no, now that Bailu Pavilion is destroyed and the battle at Mudan Bridge is known to everyone, how could Changjing keep the appointment?"

Manager Yuan said, "But during the battle at Mudan Bridge, everyone saw me jumping into the river to escape, but no one saw me being captured alive on the mudflats... What if he keeps the appointment?"

The golden pig's eyes were uncertain: "Where is the meeting?"

Shopkeeper Yuan said calmly, "Take me there tonight. I will lead the way for the two adults."

The Golden Pig laughed, turned around and walked out, saying loudly: "Xifeng, call all the spies here, no one is allowed to act alone tonight!"

When the cell door closed, he turned to look at Chen Ji: "What do you think?"

After thinking for a while, Chen Ji said, "Your Excellency should be able to see that he wants to take this opportunity to escape, otherwise, he wouldn't have to lead the way for us personally. However, his agreement with Chang Jing should be true. If no one helps him create chaos, he can't escape."

Jin Zhu sneered and walked out: "Then let's go, I'm worried that I can't find these Jingchao rats."

(End of this chapter)