After Li Mu finished discussing the martial arts trade fair with Cheng Yishi, Li Hongjun returned with Cheng Yibai.
Cheng Yibai also looked to be in his early thirties. The two brothers were about the same height. He was not as flamboyant as Cheng Yishi, nor as handsome. His first impression was that he was calm and composed. Judging from the murderous aura on him, Li Mu should be at the peak of the Yellow Realm or the early stage of the Profound Realm.
When Li Hongjun introduced the matter, he specifically mentioned that the two companies had reached a cooperation agreement, and that the auditing work was currently being carried out by the financial auditing departments of both parties.
Cheng Yibai came over to see Li Mu, the guy who was almost beaten to death a while ago, and now he's become a highly praised expert in his brothers' eyes. He wanted to see just how skilled this expert really was.
After exchanging greetings, he noticed no fluctuations in Li Mu's aura or blood, and felt that Li Mu wasn't even as strong as Li Hongjun. What was going on? He looked at his bald brother, who was cowering behind Li Mu, and asked with his eyes, "Is this the expert you were talking about?"
To his surprise, the usually flamboyant guy completely ignored him, even glancing upwards with a shifty look in his eyes. Wasn't that just asking for a beating?
After exchanging pleasantries, Cheng Yibai sat down in the study and noticed the changes in his brother beside him. His blood and energy were vigorous, and his breathing was unstable—clearly, he had just advanced in his cultivation level. Upon learning the details, he discovered it was because of the pills given to him by Li Mu, which allowed him to break through his bottleneck within a single day.
After hearing his brother's story, Cheng Yibai's opinion of Li Mu immediately changed. The fact that Li Mu not only gave away the elixir but also helped his brother protect the Dharma and rescue him immediately made him realize that Li Mu was a very generous person and that he should broaden his horizons. He then decided to befriend Li Mu.
At the same time, he also had his eye on the magical "Breakthrough Pill". He didn't want to use tricks on Li Mu, but rather to form a friendship bond and then exchange it for equal resources. This idea coincided with Li Mu's.
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After entering the study, Cheng Yishi fiddled with the small jade bottle in his hand, occasionally guiding Cheng Yibai's eyes to look at the cabinet full of pills, which made Cheng Yibai's heart burn with excitement.
If they could gain Li Mu's approval and become his friend or ally, they could benefit from the medicinal resources he possessed. Even if they could obtain five to ten Breakthrough Pills annually, the Cheng family's strength would be unimaginable in a few years.
Cheng Yibai was no longer the novice Cheng Yishi was; he had long since become a martial artist, now at the peak of the Yellow Realm, and knew far more about martial arts over the years. Although the Cheng family was a martial artist family, with seven or eight martial artists in the family, the one with the highest cultivation was his uncle, who was said to be at the Earth Realm.
The Cheng family's strength is unmatched in the secular world, but it's no match for those hidden sects.
A sect is called a sect because it must have martial artists at the Earth Realm or above. The Earth Realm is also known as the Grandmaster Realm, and those who possess this level of skill are qualified to establish their own sect. The strength of a sect is not determined by its top-tier martial artists, but by the number of martial artists at the middle and lower realms.
As the conversation unfolded, Cheng Yibai became uneasy when he learned that Li Mu wanted to exchange pills for a spot in the martial arts trade fair. This was a perfect opportunity to befriend Li Mu. If things went well, the Cheng family and Li Mu might be able to reach more cooperation agreements.
"Young Master Mu, I would like to invite you to visit Xishan in the next couple of days. My Cheng family will certainly welcome you with open arms."
Exchanging quotas for pills is definitely a profitable deal, but since he couldn't make the decision himself, Cheng Yibai decided after a brief moment of thought to invite Li Mu to the Cheng family, striking while the iron was hot and as soon as possible.
"Going to Xishan? I was just about to go out for a stroll. It would be good to pay a visit to the Cheng family. Thank you for the invitation, Young Master Cheng."
Li Mu nodded in agreement. He was about to leave anyway, and now that someone had invited him, it would be perfect. It would be good to visit the Cheng family. If he could get resources or an invitation from the Cheng family, it would be killing two birds with one stone.
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After seeing the Cheng brothers off, Li Mu put all the bottles and jars in the study cabinet into the safe. After explaining some cultivation matters to Li Hongjun, he began to prepare his gear for this trip.
Meanwhile, the Chen family in Yanjing.
Recently, the Chen family has been immersed in a state of grief and indignation, the reason being the death of Chen Jiaxiong in a car accident, which has made the atmosphere in the family tense. If it were just a simple car accident, it would be fine, but in many ways, this is more than just a car accident.
More than ten days have passed since the car accident, and the Chen family all understands that someone is behind it all.
The simplest logic is that a driver who has been driving for the Chen family for nearly ten years would not disregard his own safety and drive at speeds exceeding 200 km/h, even if he was in a hurry. Also, there were only two corpses in the car; You Long, who should have been in the car, was missing.
"How's the investigation going?"
The council hall was filled with family members. The one asking the question was Chen Jizu, the current head of the Chen family. He appeared calm and spoke with an authoritative tone, but in reality, he was furious. At the height of the Chen family's power, someone actually dared to plot against their own family members. It was truly outrageous.
Ten years ago, Old Master Chen stopped managing affairs, and Chen Jizu took over all the family matters. The first thing he did after taking over the family was to spend a lot of money to win over a group of martial artists. Now the Chen family can wield great influence in Yanjing and even the whole of China, which is also related to his wise decisions. This time, someone dared to frame Chen Jiaxiong, which has crossed the bottom line of the Chen family.
If we don't take a firm stance now and investigate thoroughly, letting those in the open and those in the shadows know the Chen family's absolute power and ruthless methods, there will be endless troubles in the future. If someone dares to harm my nephew today, they might dare to harm my son or even me tomorrow. If my son is harmed or I suffer any mishap, it will prove that the Chen family is out of control, and those forces that are secretly watching will immediately jump out and destroy the Chen family, leaving not even a trace.
Upon hearing Chen Jizu's question, a middle-aged man stood up with documents in his hand. He was Chen Jiayu, a nephew from a collateral branch of the Chen family. He had served as a reconnaissance soldier in the military and was an intelligence officer trained by the old man when he was the head of the family. He had performed exceptionally well, and now he was in charge of intelligence investigation, analysis, and public relations for the Chen family.
Chen Jiayu looked at everyone and said:
"Master, the investigation has yielded results. We found that Jiaxiong's car kept accelerating after entering the highway, and maintained a speed of over 200 km/h until the accident. We also investigated the traffic situation of vehicles traveling in both directions in the two hours before and after the accident, including an Audi traveling in the opposite direction, whose dashcam recorded a few seconds of the accident."
We have had professionals analyze the footage of that car accident. They found that before the accident, a dark figure flew out of the car. Because the footage was so blurry, the experts speculated that it might have been a rather fat figure, or two figures embracing each other.
We also checked in Jiangcheng. Jiaxiong left the hotel after receiving a call from home, and went to the vicinity of Guojiao Lake on his way there. However, all the surveillance cameras in the Guojiao Lake area were out of service during that time. After investigation, it was confirmed that Jiaxiong's car entered the Longjun Mountain Villa area and stayed there for less than ten minutes before leaving. According to the villa security guard, there were three people in the car when it went in, and the windows were not opened when it came out, so they did not know how many people were in the car.
It has been confirmed that Li Jianjun's family lives in Longjun Villa. Jiaxiong is probably looking for Li Jianjun's son, Li Mu. As for what Jiaxiong did in the villa area at that time, it is unclear. Li Mu is still living in the villa.
After Jiaxiong left Jiangcheng, Shu Tiancheng, a disciple of the Tianyun Sect, went crazy searching for a man named Wang Jun. We also investigated him; he was a member of the Sihe Society. Wang Jun was the one who sent Shu Yaqi and another girl to Jiaxiong's room.
It's worth mentioning that over a hundred members of the triad collectively disappeared four days before the car accident. Later, I sent someone to the police station to inquire, and it turned out that Li Mu might be related to this disappearance case. Because Li's uncle, Li Shufang, arranged for Li Mu's release, this bizarre disappearance became a cold case.
After Chen Jiayu finished speaking, Chen Jizu nodded to him, gestured for him to sit down, and then asked, "Is there still no news from You Long?"
Chen Jiayu: "Not at the moment."
After Chen Jiayu sat down, Chen Jizu turned to the elderly man at the head of the table on his left and asked, "What do you think, sir?"
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