This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 179 - 133: The New Era, The New Giant

October 29th.

The investigation team sent from the provincial capital arrived in Xing City, beginning their investigation.

By this time, the inquiries conducted by the Inspection Bureau into Mei Jia Country's spies and Yan Yichen had already concluded.

The spy case involved too many parties to be fully investigated by the Xing City Inspection Bureau, so Li Lei could only pass the interrogation results to the investigation team.

As for Yan Yichen's case, however, there was already a result.

This Chief did not admit to anything at first, instead continuously threatening Li Lei, the assigned official responsible for the interrogation, ordering him to release him.

According to the rules, even Li Lei, as the Inspector General of the Inspection Bureau, indeed had no right to interrogate the Chief of Zhi Ge Court.

However, as vital confessions were made by Mei Jia Country's spies, and then Li Lei personally led a team to find the evidence, Yan Yichen finally had nothing left to say.

"This Yan Shouzun had problems with his Martial Arts Foundation over a decade ago because he was over-eager in his practice, and if he didn't address it promptly, his condition could lead at best to a fall back to the Tao Foundation Realm, or at worst to the complete loss of his martial arts!"

"To resolve this issue, Yan Yichen ultimately decided to take a huge risk and cultivate a Demon Technique, which was a cultivation technique obtained by Zhi Ge Court when they eradicated Devilish Martial Masters. He didn't practice the entire technique, only the part used to repair damage to the Implant."

"The repairing method of this Demon Technique also involved plundering Implants from others, refining them, and then using them to repair one's own Implant. But this method was only a temporary solution, not a cure. After Yan Yichen repaired himself once, his own Implant would suffer damage again after some time and need further repairs."

"So, Yan Yichen had no choice but to secretly capture Martial Artists time and again, to gather Implants from their bodies for his own repairs. His actions were eventually discovered by the spies from Mei Jia Country who saw an opportunity and managed to connect Yu Hu with Yan Yichen, suggesting cooperation by half-threatening and half-enticing Yan Yichen into supporting the Tiger Saber Gang, while Yu Hu would use the gang to help Yan Yichen cultivate Martial Artists, and regularly provide mature Implants for him to repair himself."

"That was the initial reason for Yan Yichen's decision to support the Tiger Saber Gang, and indeed, with the strong backing of Zhi Ge Court, the gang was able to grow so rapidly."

In the living room, Li Lei gave Li Fei a detailed account of Yan Yichen's case.

Normally, as per the regulations, Li Fei was not supposed to know any of this.

Firstly, the letter with the confession had been delivered by Li Fei, who was already implicated.

Secondly, after capturing Yan Yichen, Shangguan Xiao visited the Inspection Bureau daily, injecting Force into him to strengthen the 'Imprisonment.'

With Shangguan Xiao's indispensable contribution to successfully interrogating Yan Yichen, it was both reasonable and appropriate to inform her of the outcome, thus Li Lei intended to pass the case details on to Shangguan Xiao through Li Fei, considering he was her martial nephew.

"Does the Tiger Saber Gang cultivate Martial Artists at such speed to deliver a Body Breaking Stage Martial Artist to Yan Yichen every so often?"

Li Fei expressed his doubt.

Just because he could progress from Embryo Cultivation Stage to Body Breaking Stage in a month didn't mean others could.

"For Yan Yichen's sake, the Tiger Saber Gang developed a quick version of Martial Artists, who could progress from Embryo Cultivation to Body Breaking in just two or three months, though it cost them their potential and reduced their lifespan, also resulting in poor Combat Power. However, the Tiger Saber Gang didn't care about these drawbacks; after all, these people were nothing more than 'supplements' prepared for Yan Yichen," Li Lei said with a grim expression.

Li Fei stayed silent.

Who would have thought that the esteemed Chief of Zhi Ge Court would 'consume' several people every year?

"Yan Yichen has now confessed, and his sentence will be announced soon, most likely death," said Li Lei, "Ordinarily, for a powerhouse at the Tao Foundation Stage, even if convicted of a capital crime, there might be a chance to undertake dangerous missions in order to redeem themselves, as such powerhouses are rare, and the court doesn't like to waste combat power. But with Yan Yichen practicing Demon Arts, the court has zero tolerance for cultivators of the Demon Path, so he can only be sentenced to death."

"What about Gu Zhenhui?"

Li Fei inquired.

"Ah, as for him, he's keen on self-preservation and might retire early just like Huang Weiguang did," Li Lei remarked.

"Early retirement?"

Li Fei found himself impressed by this Chief.

With such a huge mess in Xing City, bandits invading, heavy casualties among the City Guard Army, and some conspiring with foreigners to betray the country, this series of incidents would usually implicate Gu Zhenhui as the Chief, where someone else might have been incarcerated. Yet, he managed to arrange an early retirement for himself.

In contrast, Gu Zhenhui's adversaries, Yu Hu was already dead, and Yan Yichen was soon to be executed.

One could not help but acknowledge the Chief's remarkable maneuvering.

"Uncle Li, after this incident, you should be able to get promoted directly to become an Imperial Official, right?" Li Fei suddenly asked with a smile.

Previously, Li Lei had been promoted without advancing in rank, but with the major contributions he's made this time, neither Datong Prefecture nor the provincial capital could any longer justify holding up his promotion review.

"Haha, I hope so," Li Lei smiled in response.

He never imagined that he would one day become an Imperial Official!

"Then let me congratulate Uncle Li in advance."

Li Fei said with a smile.

"Hahaha."

Li Lei's hearty laughter filled the living room.

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November 9th, after over ten days of investigation by the provincial capital's team, many matters had been settled:

First was Chief Gu Zhenhui, who would retire at the end of the month, and a new Chief would be appointed to take over his position.

With Gu Zhenhui stepping down, many officials connected to his faction also got involved, with quite a few opting for 'early retirement.'