The Huo family is about to hold a family meeting, but Li Mu is unaware of this. He is currently strolling on the streets of Nanpei City.

He habitually scanned the area around him with his divine sense. The area was mostly filled with shops selling jade, and there were also many exquisite jade artifacts.

In his consciousness, he would occasionally see people watching the stone being cut, and those people would sometimes sigh and sometimes rejoice.

Without realizing it, I glanced at a hardware store and saw various lengths and thicknesses of nails on the shelves, so I went inside.

Li Mu held a half-inch iron nail in his hand, weighed it in his hand, and casually threw it at a big tree by the roadside.

Feeling that it was almost as effective as the "death nail" in killing people, I bought ten kilograms of it directly from the hardware store.

I was thinking of making some death nails myself, but now that I have iron nails, I don't need to go through that trouble.

Next to the hardware store was a general store. Li Mu thought he would buy some more bottled water there, but once inside, he felt a bit awkward.

Since I'm not buying just one or two bottles, buying too few would be worse than not buying at all, and buying too many would be awkward to put them in the ring in front of the shopkeeper.

He pretended to leave the shop and then secretly went into the warehouse behind the general store.

He put all the dozens of boxes of mineral water in the warehouse into the ring, and also took some snacks and liquor.

After leaving behind 20,000 yuan and a gold bar, Li Mu disappeared from the general store.

As for whether the shop owner would call the police because of the missing goods, Li Mu no longer cared after committing the theft.

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After leaving the general store, I hadn't walked far when I heard a commotion of exclamations coming from a jade shop: "The price has gone up! The price has gone up!"

Li Mu scanned the area with his divine sense and saw a middle-aged man holding half a piece of raw stone, weeping with joy.

In the middle of that half-stone, a patch of green emitted a pale blue fluorescence; it must be emerald, and it was very translucent.

On a whim, Li Mu went into the shop and even considered buying a few rough stones.

One tourist put it: if you come to Nanpei City and don't gamble on stones, it's like you haven't been there at all.

There are thousands of raw stones of various sizes in this courtyard; it would take an average person several days to see them all.

Li Mu possessed divine sense. He released his divine sense and scanned the area, and immediately understood. He then selected a slightly larger stone.

The stone was red inside, almost purplish, and very translucent. Li Mu even sensed a spiritual energy within it.

If you use this piece of red jade to make jewelry, without refining it, they will all be magical artifacts.

Li Mu wanted to buy it, but the owner asked for five million, which put Li Mu in a difficult position because he couldn't afford it.

He currently has a maximum of two million in his bank account, hundreds of thousands in cash in his ring, and hundreds of gold bars. It's impossible for him to use gold bars to buy stones.

However, this did not stump Li Mu. He spent 20,000 yuan to pick out a piece from the low-priced rough stones.

After being cut open, its value increased fivefold, and it sold for 100,000.

Li Mu, caught up in the thrill of gambling, bought another rough stone for 100,000 yuan, and gambled it again, winning six times over, and bought it for 600,000 yuan.

Li Mu bought a third rough stone, spending 550,000 yuan, and it turned out to be a high-quality icy purple jadeite. This time, the profit was several dozen times higher.

Amidst the bidding frenzy of people shouting "purple eyes!", it finally sold for nearly forty million.

Li Mu left the shop with over 30 million yuan and the red jadeite rough stone, amidst the strange looks from the crowd.

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Li Mu left the shop, put away the raw stones, and disappeared without a trace in a few flashes.

He really didn't expect to spend so much time gambling on stones, but having this experience during his trip to Nanpei City was not bad.

He arrived in Nanpei in the morning, spent more than an hour strolling along the main road, and nearly four hours gambling on stones.

It's time to get down to business; we need to go to the Huo family to collect our debts.

Li Mu had been chatting with people at the jade shop, and he roughly knew the location of the Huo family: Huo Family Village, south of the city.

Knowing the general location, and with the help of his divine sense, he believed he could easily find the Huo family.

Li Mu took off with his Cloud Chasing Steps and headed south of the city. On the way, he passed the Nanpei Herbal Medicine Trading Market and went in for a stroll.

He entered the medicinal herb market mainly because he saw some fresh black knot grass.

However, after entering the market, Li Mu bought all kinds of medicinal herbs, including black knot grass, golden basil, coptis, ground grass, scutellaria, veratrum, and blue ear grass.

He bought quite a lot, dozens of kilograms of each item.

With these medicinal herbs, Li Mu can refine blood-clotting pills and injury-healing pills.

Both of these medicines are for external injuries. The blood-clotting pill has a hemostatic effect, while the wound-healing pill is very effective in healing wounds.

The previously refined Rejuvenation Pill mainly treated internal injuries to the meridians and internal organs. All three types of pills are healing pills, but they have different specific uses.

After buying the medicinal herbs, it was getting dark.

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People are gradually returning to the Huo family's old residence.

Huo Yushan's sons, Huo Huanchen and Huo Huanyu, have both returned, as have his grandchildren Huo Ming, Huo Qin, Huo Feng, and Huo Jun.

Several nephews and nieces from collateral branches were also included, except for two grandchildren, Huo Dun and Huo Lian, who were too young to return as they were still in school. Everyone who was supposed to come back did.

After these people returned and greeted him, seeing the old man's solemn expression, they sat together in the study waiting for him to speak.

Although a table full of food and drinks was laid out in the living room, the old man didn't dare to mention eating unless he spoke up.

Including this family meeting, there have been three such meetings in the past two months.

The first time was just a few days after Huo Zheng disappeared. Everyone was worried when they heard about it, and they all used their resources to do their best to find him.

The second time was when they heard that Huo Zheng's disappearance was related to Li Mu of Jiangcheng, and they discussed how to deal with the Li family of Jiangcheng. Everyone understood that Huo Zheng would not be coming back.

Moreover, after the second meeting, everyone's attitude changed, and they were no longer very concerned about Huo Zheng's disappearance.

This third time, it's probably for the assets left by Huo Zheng, and some people are already hoping to get a share of the pie.

Perhaps apart from Old Master Huo Yushan, who still harbors some resentment over Huo Zheng's disappearance, the others present either wished Huo Zheng dead or didn't want another person to come out and divide the family property.

This is also the tragedy of wealthy families. When it comes to inheriting assets, there are quite a few scions of wealthy families who fight to the death, all for the sake of getting a bigger share.

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When Li Mu arrived at Huojia Village, it was already dark.

After scanning the area with his divine sense, he confirmed that this large place was indeed the Huo family's old residence.

To his surprise, the Huo family members were gathered in a study, as if they were having a meeting.

When Li Mu stepped off the flying sword, he landed directly in the Huo family compound. The compound was filled with jadeite rough stones, but Li Mu had no interest in them.

"Bang!"

Li Mu kicked open the study door and went inside.

A loud bang startled Huo Huanchen, who was speaking.

The dozen or so people in the room stared in astonishment as a young man entered, their mouths agape.

A few seconds later, a young man with a flushed face stood up, pointed at Li Mu, and cursed:

"Where did this little brat come from, daring to cause trouble at my Huo family? Are you drunk?"

Li Mu casually slapped him, knocking him to the ground, his life hanging in the balance.

"I am Li Mu. I heard you went to Jiangcheng. Are you looking for Huo Zheng or me?"

After Li Mu finished speaking, several people who were about to get up sat back down. Then, as if they had thought of something, they all stared at Li Mu with wide eyes.

"Li Mu?!"

Sitting behind his desk, Huo Yushan read Li Mu's name aloud, then said:

"Li Mu, my Huo family has not offended you. Why did you kill Huo Zheng and then come to our door to attack us? Don't you have any martial ethics at all?"

When Li Mu heard the old man talk about martial ethics, he almost laughed.

The Huo family thought they were dead because the Li family was small and had no one to retaliate against. So they joined forces with the Chen family of Yanjing to try to suppress their own company.

Now they want to talk about martial ethics? Is this sophistry or treating people like fools?