The breath is gone? Zhao Chen took a look at the long river flowing north in front of him, and searched for the imprint about it from the memory of the original owner.

This river seems to be known as the Li Gong River, and it is rumored that the ancestors of the Li family took pity on the drought and lack of rain in Yumen County, and the people had difficulty drinking water and irrigation, so they split the Daxue Mountain in the south with a sword, leading countless streams from the mountain.

Then another sword opened the river, so that the stream converged into the current Ligong River, flowing to the big lake around Yumen County.

Therefore, the main channel of this river is not like the rest of the rivers with many twists and turns, but goes straight to the north, so it is also called "Tianjian River".

The grandfather of the original owner once wrote the couplet of poems "Opening the mountain and inheriting the saints, and diverting the sword river due to the situation", praising the great achievements of the ancestors of the Li family.

It can be said that it is not for nothing that the Zhangye Li family has been able to dominate Ganzhou for hundreds of years and is still highly respected by the people.

After thinking back for a while about the past experience of the original owner painting with his biological mother by the river, Zhao Chen retracted his thoughts, only to find that Yan Hongxia was still standing by the river and watching, her brows furrowed, as if she was thinking about some problem.

"Sister Hongxia, what are you thinking?" Zhao Chen thought about it and took the initiative to ask.

"The 'Breath-Seeking Technique' is a natal spell that I have newly cultivated, and so far, there are only three people who know it, including you," Yan Hongxia did not underestimate Zhao Chen because ......he was young, but asked rhetorically, "Do you understand what this means?" ”

"Is it that the people of the 'Xinguang Temple' somehow learned about your tracking methods and used the 'Heavenly Sword River' to cut off your breath? So you suspect that the other two people besides me may have leaked secrets? Zhao Chen immediately grasped the point.

He didn't pay much attention to Yan Hongxia's pursuit of the target before, after all, the "Hongxia Sword" was famous, and it was normal for the other party to know that her methods were targeted.

But now it seems that this is not the case.

"The other two people who know about it are me and my immediate boss, the supreme governor of the 'Provincial Bureau' in Yumen County...... I don't believe he'll have a problem.

"And although the members of the 'Xinguang Temple' are indeed good at stealing secrets, it only took me five days to cultivate this spell, so they didn't have time at all......

"So, I can't figure out what went wrong." Yan Hongxia seemed to be talking to Zhao Chen, and she seemed to be talking to herself.

Hearing this, Zhao Chen also lowered his head and pondered for a while, combined with the many crime-solving film and television dramas he had watched in his previous life, coupled with the problem that the names of the exercises mentioned by the master were different from ancient and modern, he suddenly had some inspiration, and asked again: "Sister Hongxia, your 'Breath-seeking' spell sounds completely different from the Li family's sword technique, where did it come from?" ”

Yan Hongxia was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then turned her head, stared at Zhao Chen with burning eyes and said, "I got it at the auction at the monks' gathering...... You mean, there's something wrong with the guy who sold me this spell? ”

"Not necessarily the seller, but the one who knows that you bought the spell." While Zhao Chen spoke, he also had doubts about Yan Hongxia's ability to handle cases, after all, even a half-baked person like herself who had just watched detective film and television works could think of something, but she was a professional "Taoist official" who couldn't notice it?

Although Zhao Hongxia is indeed young and may not have enough experience, doesn't the "Provincial Bureau" give internal training?

Oh yes...... Even if there is training, it is estimated that at most it will be to give some cases for her to study by herself, and there should be no summary of rules and the like...... After all, knowledge is "toxic", and things that involve laws, academics, and "Dao" may not be able to read too much even for a "Mana Realm" monk like Yan Hongxia......

What a hole in this world!

When Zhao Chen started to think about it, Yan Hongxia had already listed several suspicious targets in her heart, and decided to clean up the remnants of the evil organization of "Bingquan Town", and immediately returned to Yumen County to investigate, and pulled out the tail of "Xinguang Temple".

"Xiao Chen, you are so smart, do you want my sister to recommend you to the 'Provincial Official Office'?

"I see that you use the 'Taiyi Five Elements Fist' for body forging, and I think it should be the 'Golden Mansion Jade Room Twelve Gates Xingqi Secret Record'.

"This exercise is the inheritance of the Taichu Dao Jun, although there is no very good translation of its fundamental mental interpretation so far, but it is based on refining the 'true qi', and the quality is also quite good.

"With the two 'serious' true qi foundations, there is a chance to refine your eyes first.

"And as soon as the eyes are opened, there is a miracle, no matter which school of 'Gun Fighting Technique' can be achieved immediately, and with the 'Silver Moon' that your mother gave you, ordinary monks who refine the Seven Tricks can fight.

"In this way, after two or three months at most, I can protect you as the 'evil slayer' of the Ninth Rank.

"This is a well-paid, relatively free position, and with an official status, you will have a lot less trouble doing business." After solving the doubts, Yan Hongxia, who was in a better mood, liked her friend's stepson more and felt that he should join the "Provincial Official Office" to show his talents.

But let what she said was out of the blue, Zhao Chen, who didn't know much about the "Taoist official", was not moved at all, but he didn't refuse directly, only said, "Think about it, and talk about it when it becomes a true qi", and then asked what she had just said that made her confused:

"Sister Hongxia, aren't 'True Qi' and 'Refining Technique' the first two independent realms of 'Tongxuan'? And the "Secret Record of the Twelve Gates of the Golden Mansion and Jade Room" only records the method of opening up the twelve canons and the eight veins of the strange meridians, as well as many small meridians, and there is no content of refining the knack......

"How can you listen to your tone, sister, before the 'true qi' is consummated, you can 'refine the knack'?"

When Yan Hongxia heard this, she explained with a smile: "The inner disciples of the Shangzong and the core disciples of the family really first cultivated the true qi to perfection, penetrated the twelve canons and the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, and then refined the nine orifices in turn, condensed the divine soul, and built a 'bridge of heaven and earth' to attract the vitality of heaven and earth into the body, and achieved 'mana' in one fell swoop.

"This kind of cultivation is twice the result with half the effort, they often build a foundation at the age of thirteen or fourteen in a hundred days, and after condensing their true qi, they will achieve 'mana' within two or three years......

"But they are from the upper sect and the family...... People have abundant resources, so they can only concentrate on cultivation, and there is no need to think about other ......

"But we ordinary cultivators are different...... Heh, don't talk about us, even the Li family is only the descendants of those descendants who can barely have this treatment......"

At this point, her face showed some mixed emotions, and she paused for a few seconds before continuing,

"In short, we need resources to fight for and take risks, which naturally requires self-defense.

"And the pure True Qi Realm, except for some moves that are slightly more powerful, or the true qi that has been cultivated is of high quality, and has its own supernatural powers, it is not much stronger than when forging the body, and sometimes it can't even beat the talented body forging martial artists.

"Therefore, it is unlikely that ordinary cultivators like us will be able to cultivate the true qi to perfection step by step, and generally open up two to four righteous sutras, and when the true qi is sufficient, they will give priority to refining the 'eye knots' and 'ear knots'.

"Hehe, if it was a few hundred years ago, the order of refining still needed to be based on the exercises learned, and the choice of first practice was given priority to the strong moves in his own classics.

"But in the past 100 years, with the prosperity of firearms, the people of the rivers and lakes will basically choose to refine the 'eyes' and 'ears' that can enhance the 'gun fighting technique'.

"As I said before, once the 'eye aperture' is opened, no matter which school of 'gun fighting' can be small, and once the four orifices are successfully opened...... That is to say, the 'eye aperture' and the 'ear aperture' are refined, and the 'gun fighting technique' is instantly completed, and the combat power will not be inferior to the master of the nine apertures.

"If you can tailor another 'Lianzhu Divine Weapon', then even an ordinary 'Mana' realm can only avoid its edge.

"My uncle 'Desert Flying Eagle' Yan San, have you heard of it? Although he has only refined the 'Nine Tricks' so far, with his 'Condor Fighting Technique' and the exclusive 'Flying Eagle Divine Gun', he has even killed the leader of the horse thieves in the mana realm.

"Even if it's me, I can only win him after cultivating the 'Red Emperor Raising Yuan Sword Qi'."