After the college entrance examination, my identity as a Mahayana Immortal Venerable could no longer

Chapter 93 This debt begins with the Bureau of Astronomical Observation.

Outside the abandoned textile factory, cold rain extinguished the emergency lights.

The third layer of the blockade has been completely destroyed.

Shen Qingci leaned against the barricade of the police cordon, a cut on her forehead, blood streaming down her cheek. The pistol at her waist had long been removed and thrown into the muddy water two meters away.

Three members of the Celestial Surveillance Bureau lay in pools of blood, their fate unknown.

Engineer Zhou knelt to the side, his hands covering his head, trembling like a leaf.

Several men in black raincoats cordoned off the scene. The leader was a bald man who was playing with a military dagger in his hand, looking at Shen Qingci with a forced smile.

"Director Shen, don't look at me like that. We're all working for our superiors; whoever pays our bills, we have to follow their rules."

Shen Qingci spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"The Celestial Surveillance Bureau is directly under Yanjing. What kind of organization is your Jiangnan Martial Arts Association, daring to use guns on my turf!"

The bald man stepped forward and patted Shen Qingci's face with the back of his knife.

"Yanjing is too far away; it can't interfere with the affairs of Jiangnan. As for that well, Gu Ku's old case, and that half-page of the well-suppressing record—the province intends to burn them all. As for you…"

He turned to look at Engineer Zhou, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Engineer Zhou said you made a deal with a kid named Lu Yuan down in the mine. That breaks the rules."

Engineer Zhou quickly looked up, his voice hoarse.

"Brother Tiger! I've confessed everything! That Lu Yuan was an outside helper that Shen Qingci found. He knows talisman magic, and he's definitely after the well-suppressing nail! You promised me that as long as I hand over control of the water pump, you'd send medicine to my son!"

The bald man, nicknamed Tiger, grinned.

"Of course I have the medicine. But I'll have to wait until you go downstairs before I burn it for you."

His eyes turned cold, and with a flick of his wrist, the dagger slashed directly at Zhou Gong's neck.

Just as the blade was about to touch the skin, a loud bang suddenly came from the well in the backyard of the factory.

"boom!"

The circular steel mesh, weighing several hundred kilograms, along with the cement well rim, was blasted open by a tremendous force, sending rubble and steel fragments flying in all directions like cannonballs.

Two men in black who were standing close together were instantly pierced through the chest by shrapnel and flew backward with screams.

A figure burst out of the muddy water and landed steadily on the ground.

Lu Yuan carried Tao Xuan in his hand and the unconscious man on his shoulder, his breathing not even faltering.

He casually tossed Tao Xuan to his feet and glanced around the room.

When Shen Qingci saw Lu Yuan, her tense nerves relaxed abruptly, and she immediately shouted.

"Mr. Lu, be careful! They are from the Jiangnan Martial Arts Association, and their leader is at the peak of Inner Strength!"

Tiger shook the water droplets off his dagger and looked Lu Yuan up and down.

"Are you the foreign player?"

He sensed Lu Yuan's aura but didn't detect any internal energy fluctuations, assuming he was just a esoteric master who knew a bit about divination and escapism.

"You're quite agile; you managed to climb out of the well unscathed. But this place is sealed off today, so the person you're carrying, and that nail, will both have to stay here."

Lu Yuan didn't even look at him, and walked straight towards Shen Qingci.

"I told you to clean the outside and wait for me, and this is all the useless trash you get?"

Shen Qingci gave a bitter smile.

"The incident happened suddenly, and the provincial authorities directly transferred personnel, bypassing the established hierarchy."

Tiger's face darkened completely when he was ignored. He was a well-known figure in the Jiangnan martial arts world; when did it become the turn of a mere brat to put on airs in front of him?

"He won't listen to reason, so he'll have to suffer the consequences! Kill him!"

The remaining four men in black simultaneously drew their short swords and pounced on Lu Yuan from four directions. Their footwork was steady, their coordination extremely precise, and they blocked all escape routes.

Lu Yuan didn't even turn his head.

He simply raised his right hand and snapped his fingers casually.

"Smack."

A crisp sound rang out in the rainy night.

The four men in black, who were pouncing in mid-air, froze in their tracks.

The next second, their bones cracked rapidly, their chests collapsed, and they crashed to the ground without even twitching, dying instantly.

Tiger's sneer froze.

He didn't even see how Lu Yuan made his move. Without any external release of internal energy or protective qi, the four external force martial artists died silently.

This is not a sorcerer at all!

run!

Tiger had only one thought in his mind. He suddenly pushed off with his feet, breaking through the water on the ground, and retreated rapidly, heading straight for the factory gate.

Lu Yuan turned his head and looked at his back.

Did I let you leave?

He reached out his hand from a distance, his five fingers loosely clenched.

Tiger, who had already run more than ten meters away, suddenly stopped. He felt as if the air around him had instantly turned into solidified cement, trapping him firmly in place.

An irresistible force pressed in from all directions.

"ah!"

Tiger let out a piercing scream, his eyes bulging out, and his bones shattering inch by inch.

"Bang!"

He exploded on the spot, his blood and flesh mixed with rainwater, splattering all over the ground.

Zhou Gong knelt beside him, watching as the once arrogant Tiger Brother turned into a pile of mangled flesh. His stomach churned violently, and he collapsed to the ground and vomited.

The entire room fell silent.

Shen Qingci's breathing quickened as she stared intently at Lu Yuan. She knew Lu Yuan was strong; she had witnessed it at Cloud Peak Manor. But the way he casually crushed a peak-level internal energy expert still sent chills down her spine.

Lu Yuan withdrew his hand and walked up to Shen Qingci.

"I saved your life."

"Yes." Shen Qingci straightened up, suppressing the shock in her heart. "I'll remember this favor. As for what happened in the well..."

"The matter underground is not over yet."

Lu Yuan laid the man he was carrying on his shoulder flat on a clean cement slab and pointed to the brass lock on his wrist.

"Does your Bureau of Astronomical Statistics know this person?"

Shen Qingci took a step closer, the beam of her flashlight shining on the brass lock. When she saw the words "Lu Family" clearly, her expression changed instantly.

"The Lu family of Jiangnan? That's impossible! The Lu family line died out twenty years ago. How could someone be imprisoned under Gu Ku's watery eyes?"

"They died out of children twenty years ago?"

Lu Yuan looked at her, his voice cold and devoid of any warmth.

"Is this the record from your Astronomical Bureau?"

Shen Qingci broke out in a cold sweat. She keenly sensed that Lu Yuan's emotions were off; the hidden killing intent emanating from him was even stronger than when he had crushed Tiger Brother to death earlier.

"Mr. Lu, I really don't know. I hadn't joined the Celestial Surveillance Bureau twenty years ago. Gu Ku's old case has always been top secret, and only successive directors and a few core high-ranking officials have access to it."

Lu Yuan nodded.

"Okay. You said before that I would help you stabilize the well, so you would ask the Jiangnan warehouse of the Astronomical Bureau to open a door for me once and let me pick out three things."

"Yes."

"The conditions have changed."

Lu Yuan looked directly into her eyes.

"I want the Bureau of Natural Resources to lay out in front of me all the top-secret files from twenty years ago concerning the Lu family of Jiangnan, the Gu Ku case, and this saliva-filled eye, without missing a single word."

Shen Qingci looked troubled.

"This is too high a level of authority; the provincial bureau will definitely not approve it. Besides, with so many people dead tonight, the martial arts association will definitely make a big deal out of it..."

"If I can't make the decision, I'll just go get it myself."

Lu Yuan interrupted her.

"Anyone who tries to stop me, I'll kill them. If the Natural Resources Bureau doesn't give me an explanation, I'll wreck your entire Jiangnan warehouse. Do you understand?"

Shen Qingci gritted her teeth.

"I understand. Give me three days to retrieve the files."

On the cement slab, the man who had been unconscious suddenly coughed violently, coughing up a mouthful of black mud.

He slowly opened his eyes, his cloudy gaze sweeping around before finally settling on Lu Yuan's face.

The man's withered fingers gripped Lu Yuan's clothes tightly, with an unusually strong grip.

"You...you look like my older brother..."

Lu Yuan squatted down.

"I am Lu Yuan. My father's name is Lu Changfeng."

Upon hearing the name, a fleeting glimmer of light flashed in the man's eyes. He stared intently at Lu Yuan, his lips trembling as he forced out a few words.

"Don't go back to Yanjing...don't go to the main family home..."

"They...they're still looking for that box..."

The man's hand suddenly dropped, and he fell into a deep coma again.

Lu Yuan stood up and looked at the northern night sky.

Originally from Yanjing. (Box)

It seems that the mother's car accident, the sister's ordeal, and the uncle being tortured as the core of the formation for twenty years are all connected in one line.

This is only the beginning of the story.