Chapter 28: Testing

"Father, I...I..."

Chu Xi's face turned pale, he stammered, and couldn't speak for a long time.

Chu Changqing looked gloomy, and asked coldly: "Where is Hu Xiaohou's son Zhu Hao?"

Yesterday, he and Hu Xiaohou had a good chat. They both told their sons to enter the treasure of the thief Yiming and cooperate with each other to fight the enemy together.

Now, his son returned empty-handed and seriously injured, but Hu Xiaohou's son disappeared. Could he have died in the treasure?

"He... died!"

Chu Xi's face was gloomy.

"Sure enough!" Hearing Chu Xi's answer, Chu Changqing nodded, and the gloom on his face increased. "Now, tell me everything you experienced in the treasure!"

Chu Changqing heard it and hurriedly started to tell the story.

After a while, Chu Changqing finished his story and looked at Chu Changqing eagerly.

"Zhu Hao wanted to drag you to death together, but he was burned to ashes on the spot. He really deserved to die. But the mysterious person you mentioned is not simple!"

Chu Changqing thought about it for a few breaths, and said in a low voice with a thoughtful look on his face.

Chu Xi hurriedly replied: "Father, that Qin Shopkeeper is also not simple. It is very likely that he stole my and Xishui's storage rings!"

"No! If nothing unexpected happens, the storage rings of the two of you were most likely stolen by that mysterious person, and Qin Shopkeeper is very likely to be dead. The treasure of the thief Yiming finally fell into the hands of the mysterious person!"

Chu Changqing shook his head and then expressed his opinion.

Chu Xi was stunned immediately, and then frowned and thought.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his father's opinion was extremely close to the actual situation.

As the head of Luoshui Pavilion in Qianyang County, Shopkeeper Qin has a wide range of friends and is cautious. It is unlikely that he would offend two marquises at the same time for two storage rings.

Only that mysterious person, because no one knows his identity, could do such a bad thing without restraint.

However, there is one thing that Chu Xi can't figure out.

That is, since the mysterious person has successfully seized the treasure of the thief Yiming, why didn't he kill him and Su Xishui on the spot, but rescued them from the ground, and then took away their storage rings. What does this mean?

"Humph!"

Suddenly, a cold snort interrupted Chu Xi's thinking.

Chu Changqing stood up, with his head held high, his hands behind his back, and after pacing back and forth for a while, he shouted, "Butler!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a gray-robed man immediately walked in from outside and bowed to Chu Changqing: "My Lord, do you have any instructions?"

"Immediately order the arrest of all the people wearing black robes and black masks in the entire county recently. After catching them, torture them severely and force them to tell me their itinerary in the past two days. Anyone who participated in the Luoshui Pavilion auction yesterday must report to me!"

Chu Changqing looked majestic and shouted sternly.

"Yes, I will arrange the execution immediately!"

The gray-robed man was stunned for a moment, then bowed and replied, and hurried away.

After the gray-robed man left, Chu Changqing sighed secretly.

Although he expected that the mysterious person might have quietly hidden himself, or simply left Qianyang County, he still held a glimmer of hope that he could find him.

"Okay, go down and take good care of your injuries!"

After a breath, Chu Changqing turned his head and said to Chu Xi.

Chu Xi nodded, looking lost, and limped out of the room.

At the same time, when Su Xishui returned to the Su Mansion, she was also questioned by Su Shilun.

After listening to his daughter's story, Su Shilun almost had the urge to vomit blood.

At the auction, he spent a high price to buy a place to enter the treasure of the great thief Yiming, but his daughter Su Xishui not only got nothing, but her storage ring was stolen and she was seriously injured.

"Mysterious black-robed man!"

Like Chu Changqing, Su Shilun quickly judged that the mysterious man in black robes was the biggest winner of this treasure hunt.

However, the Su family was not a marquis family after all, and did not have any authority, so they could not openly search for black-robed people throughout the county.

In other words, the Su family suffered this great loss, and could only bear it silently and think that they were unlucky.

...

When Chu Tian woke up, it was already the early morning of the next day.

After sleeping for a whole day, his spirit had fully recovered. He packed up everything and came to the garbage department of the Marquis' Mansion as usual.

Soon, Chu Tian learned from Bai Lao that Chu Changqing had directly ordered to capture warriors wearing black robes and black masks everywhere, and tortured them severely to force them to tell the true itinerary of the past two days.

"Haha, interesting!"

In the garbage department, Chu Tian sat in the supervisor's seat, rubbing his palms on the chair handles, and sneered secretly.

Since Chu Changqing is willing to give such an extremely ridiculous order, let the other party toss it. Even if the other party racks his brains, he probably can't think that the mysterious black-robed man is in Qianyang Marquis' Mansion, under his nose!

In the afternoon, taking advantage of the opportunity of the convoy going out to dump feces, Chu Tian came to the street and visited several shops in a low-key manner. After carefully disposing of several items, he exchanged them for ten medium-grade spirit stones.

Late at night.

In the room, Chu Tian sat cross-legged, holding the wood spirit life bead in his hand, and whispered: "Old Ba, are you okay? Can you teach me how to absorb the wood spirit evil spirit in this bead?"

Now there are less than three months before the enrollment examination of Tianji College, and Chu Tian's cultivation is still at the peak of the fifth level of the body refining realm, and he has not been able to break through to the sixth level of the body refining realm.

Therefore, Chu Tian's heart is more or less anxious.

Swish!

Not long after Chu Tian finished speaking, a ball of light flew out of the broken knife, turned into a figure, and floated in front of Chu Tian.

It was Old Ba!

At this moment, although Old Ba's body was still a little illusory, it was much more solid than yesterday.

Obviously, he benefited a lot after devouring and refining the remnant soul of the great thief Yiming.

After Ba Lao appeared, he did not speak, but pointed a finger at Chu Tian's forehead, and then quickly flew back to the broken knife.

Chu Tian understood instantly when he saw this.

Ba Lao should not have completely refined the remnant soul of the great thief Yiming, so he needed to return to the broken knife as soon as possible to continue refining.

Then, Chu Tian closed his eyes and began to check the extra information in his mind.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Tian opened his eyes again, raised his hands, and his ten fingers flew rapidly, hitting the wood spirit life bead in front of him one after another.

After a while, a trace of gray-black air slowly overflowed from the wood spirit life bead, and was immediately sucked into his body by Chu Tian.

...

For the next two months, Chu Tian's daily life was very regular.

During the day, he got up early and rushed to the garbage department of Qianyanghou Mansion to start a busy day of work. When the sun went down, he returned to the room, closed the door, and concentrated on absorbing the wood spirit evil spirit in the wood spirit life bead.

Although there was only a trace of wood spirit essence in the wood spirit life bead, only a small part of the wood spirit essence was converted into wood spirit evil spirit.

But Chu Tian worked hard to absorb it for two months before he absorbed the wood spirit evil spirit in the wood spirit life bead.

As a result, his cultivation level rose by two levels in an extremely amazing way, reaching the peak of the seventh level of the body refining realm, and he was only a little bit away from breaking through to the eighth level of the body refining realm!

The huge aftermath caused by the treasure of the thief Yiming was also slowly dissipating.

After Chu Changqing ordered the arrest of a large number of black robe masked warriors, he used various means to torture them, but unfortunately he was unable to find the mysterious person in the end.

Slowly, Chu Changqing gave up the search.

He understood that it was completely impossible to find the mysterious person!

At this time, there was still half a month left before the Tianji College enrollment examination.

On this day, Chu Tian came to the Garbage Bureau early. After entering the courtyard, he found that the servants working in the Garbage Bureau were kneeling on the ground, their faces pale and their bodies trembling constantly.

Seeing this, Chu Tian frowned slightly, and walked towards the room in front with a gloomy face.

However, just as Chu Tian was about to step into the house, suddenly, a huge fist shadow passed through the void at a high speed, rushed straight to Chu Tian's chest, and punched!

"Not good!"

Chu Tian's face changed immediately, and his feet hurriedly stepped back several steps, trying to avoid the fierce attack of the fist shadow.

However, the speed of this fist shadow was too fast, far exceeding Chu Tian's retreat speed. In the blink of an eye, Chu Tian's chest was hit hard by the fierce fist shadow!

Puff!

Chu Tian vomited a large mouthful of blood, and the whole person was like a human sandbag, flying upside down, and after a breath, he fell heavily to the ground.

"Third prince!"

Seeing this, Ba Lao, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly stood up, rushed to Chu Tian's side, and carefully lifted up Chu Tian's upper body.

Chu Tian's face was as pale as paper at this time, panting, and staring at the door of the room opposite.

After a breath, a handsome and handsome young man in black walked out of the room, with a disdainful and complacent smile on his lips.

It was Chu Xi, the eldest prince of Qianyang Marquis's Mansion!

His younger brother Chu Li followed closely behind him and looked at Chu Xi, who was lying on the ground, with contempt on his face.

"A waste is still a waste. After practicing hard for several months, your cultivation has only returned to the fourth level of the body refining realm. You don't have to go to the enrollment assessment of Tianji College this time!"

Chu Xi walked slowly to the gate of the courtyard, turned his head and glanced at Chu Tian, ​​and said coldly and sarcastically.

Last night, his mother Liu told him to come to the Garbage Bureau early this morning to test Chu Tian's strength in person.

Chu Xi felt that this was totally unnecessary, but Liu's attitude was very firm, so Chu Xi had no choice but to agree.

Now that he has advanced to the ninth level of the Body Refining Realm, he personally tested it and proved that he was right.

It is really unnecessary to test the strength of a waste!

"Hey, Chu Tian, ​​listen to my brother's advice. Don't go to the enrollment test in half a month to embarrass yourself. If you know what's good for you, kneel down and return the silver bow to me tonight. I can let you be the garbage supervisor forever!" Chu Li grinned. Wow! Chu Tian was furious when he heard Chu Li's words. He spit out blood again and looked miserable. Chu Xi and Chu Li looked at each other, grinned at the same time, and then walked out of the courtyard in a swagger. "Third prince, are you okay?" Seeing the two leave, Bai Lao hurriedly supported Chu Tian and walked into the room. After helping Chu Tian sit down, he turned around to close the door. Chu Tian looked very miserable at the moment. It was really indecent to be seen by many servants in the garbage department. However, when Bai Lao closed the door and turned around, a deep shock immediately appeared on his old face.