Chapter 618: Chapter 114: Breaking Boundaries
“If that Marquis wants to fight, I am willing to have a match with him.”
The veiled woman in the room spoke in a soft voice.
Though veiled and her features unseen, her figure and aura alone were enough to assure one at a glance that she was indeed a beauty!
There are not many who could say they are willing to fight Li Fei these days.
Therefore, the woman is Shen Tuyue, ranked second on the Fengyun Leaderboard!
“Can you win?”
The woman who was applying makeup in front of the mirror was the proprietress of the Red Sleeve Tavern and also a good friend of Shen Tuyue’s.
She turned around to look at Shen Tuyue, asking curiously.
“It would only be known after fighting,” Shen Tuyue said indifferently.
“That one has even severely damaged the Flying Sword of the True Master Qing Yu of the Daluo Sect, can you do that?”
The proprietress of the Red Sleeve Tavern looked at her friend with concern.
“I can’t do that, but that doesn’t an he can definitely beat .”
Shen Tuyue said, blinking at her friend, “I’m not bad either.”
“Indeed rare, aside from Zhu Fenghua, finally there’s another Martial Artist in the sa realm who can kindle your will to compete.”
The proprietress of the Red Sleeve Tavern suddenly showed a sly look, “But Zhu Fenghua is, after all, a man in his thirties, not very handso either. Li Fei, however, is a different story, fresh and delectable, a good match for you. Haven’t you taken a fancy to him?”
“How could that be possible?”
Shen Tuyue looked at her friend, annoyed.
“Not even a little bit?”
“You really are annoying!”
“Hahahaha.”
“….”
What followed was all whispered confidences between the won.
…
Gansheng Province train station.
Li Fei and his companions were welcod onto the carriage by a host of officials from Gan Province.
Most of those coming to the station to receive Li Fei were from the Gan Province Inspection Departnt, led by the Inspector General Zhong Han.
Although the Inspector of Gan Province did not co in person, sending this cabinet official to welco Li Fei also showed a great deal of respect.
After all, in terms of official rank, Li Fei was still one level below the other party.
The motorcade did not head straight to the hotels in the provincial city but went to the Inspection Departnt first, as Li Fei had suggested they had ti to discuss work.
Upon arriving at the Inspection Departnt, Zhong Han led Li Fei and the others into a conference room.
It wasn’t long before soone ca in carrying a stack of case files.
“Zhuang Kun, you start by briefing everyone on the case.”
Zhong Han instructed a man.
“Yes.”
Zhuang Kun nodded; he was the Deputy Director of Supervision of the Gan Province Inspection Departnt, holding the sa rank as Li Fei:
“Marquis Jing’an heard from Feng Province, and we imdiately started an investigation based on the content of those letters, eventually catching three suspects.
However, in the process of apprehending these three, our n were ambushed. Soone wanted to silence them by killing these suspects. In the end, two died, and one was injured. We were only able to save one of them.”
“Oh?”
Li Fei only knew that the intelligence he had obtained in Datong Prefecture had yielded so results in Gan Province, but he was unaware of these complexities.
“Who are those who ca to silence them? Have you found any leads?”
He Jian, who sat beside Li Fei, could not help but ask.
Zhuang Kun shook his head, “We are still investigating, but so far we haven’t found out.”
“How is that possible?”
He Jian raised his voice, looking skeptically at Zhuang Kun.
To have people intercepted and killed within their own jurisdiction and to end up without any clues seed inherently problematic.
“….”
Zhuang Kun looked sowhat embarrassed.
Zhong Han, seated to his side, readily admitted, “Indeed, we failed to perform our duties well on this matter. Please forgive us, Marquis Jing’an and Mr. He.”
His admission of fault as a cabinet official made it difficult for others to continue pressing the matter.
But there was soone who did not care about such formalities.
He Jian, “The attack happened ten days ago, and in these ten days, have you truly found not a single clue? What about the suspect you captured?”
Zhuang Kun, “…The suspect was critically injured and near death on the day of the attack. It took us a few days to resuscitate him, and he’s still in critical condition, making interrogation difficult.”
He Jian, “No other clues at all?”
Zhuang Kun, “…There definitely are clues, but we haven’t co to a concrete conclusion yet.”
The atmosphere beca sowhat tense.
Li Fei did not stop He Jian.
So things that would be seen as pride or arrogance coming from him were befitting for He Jian to say.
To crack this case, it required soone like He Jian.
“I need all details of your actions on the day of the attack, and I have to speak with everyone who participated.”
He Jian made his request directly.
Li Fei remained silent, only looking at Zhong Han.
Zhong Han made eye contact with him and nodded, “No problem, we will provide full cooperation.”
With that, the awkwardly tense eting concluded.
He Jian got to work with his team mbers, while Li Fei requested to see the critically injured suspect.
With the suspect in such poor condition, many interrogation thods could not be used for fear of accidentally killing him.
Li Fei possessed the “Gate of Dream Realm,” which allowed him to probe for the desired information through his subconscious.
He wasn’t worried about being detected by the other party during his ‘invasion,’ so he decided to take the most violent approach!
“The suspect is inside.”
Zhuang Kun personally led Li Fei to the outside of a cell.
Inside the cell was a bed, and on it lay a man with a deathly pale face.
The strong sll of dicine, the stench of blood, and the odor of sweat mixed together, making the air in the cell sowhat foul.
“Do you need to wake him up?”
Zhuang Kun asked.
Li Fei shook his head, “No, please allow to stay alone with him for a while.”
Such a request would most certainly not be permitted according to regulations.
But as Li Fei was the Blue Patrol Envoy and had full authority over this case, Zhuang Kun agreed without any hesitation, took his n, left the cell, and closed the door.
Li Fei looked at the suspect on the bed, smiled slightly, and channeled his Void Thought into the Dream Command he held.
Soon, he entered the Dream Realm once again.
After mastering the Shadow Concealing Technique created by Zhao Renjie by using Dream Command, Li Fei now entered the Dream Realm with his subconscious projection remaining unchanged. A ‘false shadow’ would stay in place, while his ‘true body’ could move undetected.
This way, Li Fei didn’t have to fear being spied on by anyone from the Nightmare Sect.
In the Dream Realm, he saw the suspect’s subconscious projection and directly entered it:
He found himself in a battlefield littered with corpses everywhere.
Under the cover of night, iron armor, long spears, sabers, horses without their riders…
Bodies were strewn everywhere, blood flowed like rivers!
The battle here had ended. Li Fei looked around and quickly spotted on a small mountain of corpses not far away, a man clad in iron armor sitting on top.
The man’s iron armor was blood-stained and badly damaged, and the saber he held was notched in many places.
When Li Fei looked at him, the man seed to sense sothing and looked in his direction.
His eyes were as sharp as knives!
Under the protection of the Dream Command, Li Fei was invisible, so the man didn’t actually see him, but it still triggered the man’s alertness.
This level of alertness indicated that the man was accustod to being highly tense and sensitive.
Li Fei didn’t plan on concealing himself and walked straight toward the man.
He intended to completely shatter the man’s ntal defensese and then access the information he sought!
As Li Fei approached, the man on the mountain of corpses stood up, his eyes fixed intently on Li Fei.
When Li Fei reached the foot of the mountain, the man gripped his saber with both hands and leaped down, slashing through the air toward Li Fei!
With that one strike, the entire battlefield seed to co to life:
Horses neighed, blades and spears clashed, thousands of warriors shouted, and the air surged with killing intent!
A sea of blood poured down from the mountain of corpses, sweeping toward Li Fei.
Li Fei knew from intelligence reports that this man was a Tao Foundation Stage fighter, with roughly Fourth Tier combat power.
But that strike had already reached the level of Tao Power!
In the subconscious world of others, where they held the advantage of ti, place, and people, Li Fei was greatly suppressed. If not for the ability of Myriad Blood Pearl to also work within the Dream Realm, he would have difficulty contending with the owner of this subconscious world.
His prior risky venture into the subconscious world of Martial Arts Master Qing Xie was a gamble. If not for that True Master from the Nightmare Sect drawing so of the ‘firepower,’ Li Fei couldn’t be certain he would have made it out.
Now, the object of his intrusion was rely a Fourth Tier Tao Foundation Stage fighter whose combat power in the subconscious world was comparable to the Tao Foundation Stage Peak. Li Fei was not afraid.
He was subrged by the sea of blood.
In the next instant, streaks of golden light pierced the sea of blood, completely illuminating the nightti battlefield!
Clang—
The man’s saber struck down upon the blade.
Li Fei held his sword with one hand and blocked the strike, the imnse force causing the ground to cave in.
Li Fei began to sink, as if the man’s strike intended to cleave him straight into Hell!
The boundless sea of blood surged from all directions, the cries of battle thundering, as if Li Fei was facing the onslaught of thousands of troops and horses alone.
The man’s fighting style was imbued with the unadorned ferocity of the battlefield, absent of fancy techniques or complex variations.
It was all straightforward, a contest of strength against strength, will against will!
In the subconscious world, these were the man’s rules:
The strong stand.
The weak lie down.
One move determines life or death!
Li Fei’s body continued to descend, both physically and ntally enduring the impact.
But he was like an unyielding boulder in a storm, no matter how fierce the waves, they could only shatter against him!
The struggle reached a deadlock, with neither side overpowering the other.
After what seed an eternity, the force coming from the other side began to weaken.
At one mont, Li Fei’s sword pressed upward, and a brilliant golden sword light split the earth below!
The sea of blood collapsed, and the battlefield turned to dust.
When everything settled, Li Fei stood with one foot on the man’s chest.
The man’s iron armor was completely shattered, his saber broken!
Looking down from above, Li Fei’s eyes were a dark golden color:
“You lost.”
In the world of the subconscious, losing ant losing everything!
The man’s body fractured bit by bit, and all the information related to him beca clear in front of Li Fei, free to choose from!
Li Fei quickly found the key information he wanted to access, but as he was about to review it, it was as if he had suddenly touched an invisible string.
Snap!
The string broke.
The next second, that information burst into flas!
Soon after, the entire subconscious world was engulfed in a sea of fire…
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