Once I enter the pass, great Confucian scholars will surely debate the classics for me.

White lanterns hung in front of the Yang family mansion, and white cloth and strips were also hung on the plaque.

Two servants, dressed in mourning clothes, stood guard at the gate of the mansion.

Zhou Qingfeng, disguised as a commoner, visited alone, ostensibly to offer condolences, but in reality to request an audience with Madam Yang.

Then, the servants who stayed behind confirmed that Ren Wuji's statement was true.

After Yang Jianxin's body received condolences and remembrance from his colleagues, his coffin was transported out of the city by members of the Yang clan and taken back to the ancestral grave for burial. Now, apart from a few servants guarding the mansion, there is no one else in the Yang residence.

However, this does not mean that Zhou Qingfeng trusts the autopsy report issued by Xin Wuji.

Because Zhou Qingfeng had known Ren Wuji for quite some time and had interacted with him many times, he understood that this young man with kidney deficiency was very good at assessing situations and had no basic professional ethics or bottom line as a coroner.

I used to be able to use my power to make him produce a fake autopsy report, and others can also use their power to change the contents of an autopsy report. In fact, the methods of making fake reports are more sophisticated, legal, and compliant.

For example, if the Luo family gang were to secretly use tricks to trip him up and mislead his investigation, all Ren Wuji would need to do is conceal a few seemingly unimportant but actually crucial pieces of information.

This can easily influence the final direction and outcome of the entire case investigation.

Previously, Ren Wuji concealed his cultivation level and cut off the kidneys of a cultivator at the Food Fiend Realm at the Ma Family Medical Clinic. This means that Ren Wuji possesses at least the strength of the Food Fiend Realm and is also involved with the Ma Family's shady businesses.

Can you guarantee that Ren Wuji has no contact or involvement with the Luo family gang?

Such a complex person probably has many secrets hidden in the shadows.

Given the current situation, rather than believing the autopsy report is genuine, believing in Ren Wuji's professional ethics, and believing that the Luo family gang didn't tamper with things in secret, Zhou Qingfeng would rather believe his own eyes.

Only by personally conducting an autopsy to determine the true cause of Yang Jianxin's death can an accurate judgment be made.

Even if the autopsy yields no results, it doesn't matter. Going to the Yang family ancestral grave to open the coffin and perform the autopsy will only take up a day and a night at most, which is no loss to me.

In a sensitive, complex, and dangerous period, one must simultaneously prepare to seize power, guard against assassination attempts, and solve cases to protect oneself. Most people would have become mentally exhausted under such high pressure and would not even know how they died.

However, Zhou Qingfeng's mental strength has gradually increased and deepened over the past ten years. Even when facing such a complex, ever-changing, and turbulent high-pressure situation, he can still maintain a clear mind and act with reason and strategy.

Inside the Zhou residence, Zhou Qingfeng made a special trip back to the library to ask the old cripple to accompany him for protection. He also told the old cripple what he was doing, hoping that the old cripple would lend a helping hand out of consideration for their years of friendship.

"Alright, it's rare for you, Zhou Silang, to personally ask me for help, so I'll naturally give you face."

For the past ten years, the Zhou family has provided for the old cripple's every need, from food and clothing to shelter and transportation, without ever lacking anything. In addition, there is the master-disciple relationship with Su Shuiyao. When Zhou Qingfeng asked the old cripple to protect him, the old cripple naturally did not refuse.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qingfeng clasped his hands in a respectful bow and said, "Thank you, Mr. Liao."

The old cripple closed the books in the library and placed them on the shelf, smiling slightly: "Let's go, and come back quickly."

Zhou Qingfeng said, "Mr. Liao, please wait a moment. I need to find a cultivator at the Food Fiend Realm who is proficient in autopsy to accompany me. This person must be from out of town and have no dealings with the local powerful and influential people, so that I can trust him."

The old cripple asked, "Is there anyone suitable?"

Zhou Qingfeng uttered two words softly: "To fulfill a dream."

Zhou Qingfeng knew where the Dream Fulfillment Organization was, but he had never been there once.

This heretical organization, which covers all the major cities across the empire, is quite peculiar.

If you pay money to make a wish, your dream will come true; if it doesn't, it means you haven't paid enough.

They wanted to find a cultivator at the Food Fiend Realm who met their criteria immediately.

Given Zhou Qingfeng's current network of contacts, spending some money to have his dream fulfilled is the most cost-effective option.

As I said before, if you encounter difficulties, find a way to overcome them and get things done yourself. Don't always ask your superiors for people, materials, money, or resources. Anyone can ask for things; even a dog could do it.

A moment later, Zhou Qingfeng and the old cripple arrived at the Dream Fulfilled Boat.

The Dream Boat is situated on a river within the city. This river runs through the entire Sword Tower City, dividing the Sword Tower in two, hence its common name: Two and a Half.

Painted boats were moored everywhere along the riverbanks. These boats were exclusively for literati, wealthy merchants, celebrities, and the sons of the powerful to sightsee, play, and dine on the water. Various courtesans also accompanied the boats to eat, drink, and play.

While Yuanmeng Huafang appears to be an entertainment venue, it actually engages in many illegal and irregular activities.

More than ten years ago, the Dream Fulfillment base here was completely wiped out overnight by the Plum Blossom Secret Agents because the person in charge of the base was involved in the seizure of the Xi Yi Treasure. As a result, the headquarters sent people to establish a new base.

The new Dream Fulfillment Base is the same as always, paying taxes and making money as usual, as if nothing had ever happened.

Zhou Qingfeng and the old cripple were led into a private room on the pleasure boat and were received by geishas.

The geisha smiled slightly: "The Dream Fulfillment Organization will help you fulfill your dreams. May I ask what your wishes are, gentlemen?"

Zhou Qingfeng said, "It's just a simple wish to perform autopsies."

"But I require the Dream Interpreter to be at least at the Devouring Fiend Realm, proficient in autopsy, and an outsider with no connection to the locals or forces. They only need to accompany me to perform an autopsy and can return in a day and a night."

The geisha smiled and took out a small golden abacus, calculating as she spoke: "The wish level is 'evil' difficulty, and the starting fee is three million magic coins. Because the wish is simple, the fee can be reduced to eight hundred thousand magic coins."

"However, the client's identity requirements are extremely strict, requiring an additional 310,000 coins. After all that, the total comes to 2,510,000 coins. Will the client pay in cash or drafts?"

Zhou Qingfeng reached out and flipped his hand, taking out a stack of banknotes from the storage space of the Holy Ring and handing them over. Money is something you earn to spend, and as long as it can provide convenience, then the money is well spent.

The geisha smiled and accepted the money. After counting it, she said, "Please wait a moment. A dream-maker will definitely accept your order within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. I will bring him to see you then."

The geisha who fulfills her dream gets up and leaves, taking 70% of her fee. She then posts her handwritten wish list on the wish board below the cabin so that the dream fulfillers at the dream fulfillment center can grab the orders in time.

Below the cabin, numerous dream fulfillers swarmed forward, quickly reading the contents of the wish lists.

[Special Wish: To Perform an Autopsy]

[Difficulty: Extreme]

Total reward: 753,000 coins

[Wish details: To accompany the person making the wish to an autopsy; the journey will take one day and one night.]

[Requirements for taking this job: Out-of-towner, proficient in autopsies, and with no connections to locals or powerful figures.]

[This wish can only be accepted by one Dream Fulfiller of the Fiend Rank.]

After reading the message, the dream fulfillers looked at each other in bewilderment. It wasn't that the wish was difficult; on the contrary, it wasn't difficult at all, and they could even earn the more than 700,000 yuan of magic money without any risk.

However, the wishes of the person making the wish were too demanding; even if they were experts in autopsies, they could not meet the requirements of people from other places.

Even if the conditions for people from other places are met.

It may not necessarily meet the condition of having no interaction with local people or forces.

These stringent conditions stumped 99% of the top-tier dream fulfillers.

However, they didn't find it strange, because the wishes of those making wishes were varied and diverse.

There have even been bizarre cases of people paying dream-fulfilling masters to seduce their wives in order to find an excuse to divorce them.

In short, there's no limit to how bizarre wishes can get.

In this corrupt world, everyone suffers from some form of mental illness; normal people are the odd ones out.

“I’ll take this job.” A hunchbacked man with a shovel-like magical artifact in his hand and bandages wrapped all over his body squeezed through the crowd. His hair was disheveled and messy, like a bird’s nest, with strands of hair covering his blue face.

He reeked of a rotting corpse, a smell that was nauseating.

The crowd frowned and made way for them, not out of fear, but because it smelled so bad that no one wanted to get their hands on it.

The geisha smiled slightly: "Grave Digger, please follow me."

The gravedigger slowly followed the dream-fulfilling geisha into the VIP box.

Through the introduction of the dream-fulfilling geisha, the gravedigger had a brief meeting with Zhou Qingfeng.

The geisha smiled and introduced, "This gravedigger is a traitorous cultivator from the gravedigger sect. He has only been in Sword Tower City for three to five days. He is a cultivator at the Devouring Fiend Realm and is proficient in autopsy. He will help you fulfill your wish this time."

The gravedigger planted his shovel on the ground, his hunchback bowing his head: "You pay, I'll examine the body, and everything else is none of my business. I won't ask you any more questions, and you shouldn't ask me any more questions either."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly.

I've never heard of the gravedigger before.

However, the tomb-raiding gate is mentioned in "Unofficial History and Secret Records".

The core ideology of the Grave-Digging Sect is to excavate graves and rob the rich to help the poor. They specialize in digging up the tombs of the powerful and wealthy, stealing their burial goods, euphemistically calling it "robbing the rich to help their own poor."

[This group of people shouts slogans louder and louder, but their actions are increasingly disgusting.]

The most infamous incident involved exhuming the body of a princess and auctioning it off in public, with officials repeatedly proclaiming that the woman hadn't been dead long and should be sold while the body was still fresh. This act was so heinous that it thoroughly enraged the powerful and influential.

The powerful and wealthy began a coordinated purge of all gravediggers across the empire, like catching rats from the sewers, killing them one by one. Escape and hiding were useless; they would be found no matter what.

The once-powerful Tomb Raider Sect didn't even last a year in the hands of the powerful and wealthy. The sect was utterly destroyed, and all its experts above the Poison Devouring Realm were captured and slaughtered.

There were too many remaining small fry and lackeys; the powerful and wealthy were too lazy to bother hunting them down.

However, to prevent the Grave Diggers from making a comeback, it is said that a master has cursed the Grave Diggers, so that anyone who joins the Grave Diggers will be cursed and die, thus completely severing the Grave Diggers' lineage.

He thought the Grave Digging Cult was extinct, but he never expected to encounter a hidden Grave Digging Cult traitor here. After a moment's thought, Zhou Qingfeng decided not to ask any more questions, because it was indeed as the Grave Digging Daoist had said.

He pays for it and does the work.

Once the business was done, they went their separate ways.

It's not like we're making friends, there's no need to ask so many questions and create trouble for ourselves.

Having found the special talent the Dream Fulfillment Organization needed, and with dusk approaching, Zhou Qingfeng didn't linger. To avoid attracting attention and keep a low profile, he led the old cripple and the gravedigger out of the city on foot.

Then, deep within his consciousness, Zhou Qingfeng summoned the mysterious divination bucket and cast a divination for himself.

[Auspicious fortune reading: This trip to perform an autopsy is auspicious.]

Seeing this, Zhou Qingfeng formed a hand seal and summoned three spirit horses. The three of them then rode their spirit horses towards Yang Family Village.

The Yang family owned a private granary seven miles outside Jianta City. The estate was farmland purchased by the Yang family and was usually cultivated by serfs. The ancestral cemetery of the Yang family was located on the hill behind the estate, where the ancestors of the Yang family were buried.

The Yang family is a small but powerful family in Sword Tower City. There are 300 registered members, including direct and collateral descendants. The family's fixed assets are worth 20 million magic coins, and its annual income is also 20 million magic coins.

Of course, this is only the data on paper that is registered.

Only the Yang family members themselves know the full extent of the shady dealings involved.

The seven-mile journey passed without any incident.

We arrived at the gate of Yangjiazhuang.

Zhou Qingfeng stopped his horse and said loudly, "Please inform him that Zhou Silang has come to see Madam Yang!"

As the story unfolds, when Zhou Qingfeng personally arrives at Yangjiazhuang to verify the true cause of Yang Jianxin's death, the departure of the Fifth Division of Plum Blossoms also stirs up a storm.

In a side hall where the deputy director's office was located, Zhai Xingyuan received intelligence from below.

Yan Wenjiu clasped his hands in a salute: "Manager Zhai, Zhou Qingfeng is indeed very cautious. Our people have been secretly watching his every move, but he was dressed in ordinary clothes and disappeared into the crowd."

"Until dusk, he suddenly led two people out of the city through the north gate. If we didn't have friends at all four city gates, we probably wouldn't have known that Zhou Qingfeng had left the Sword Tower at this time."

Zhai Xingyuan frowned slightly: "Why is he not searching for the criminals, but instead leaving the city? What is his intention?"

Yan Wenjiu guessed, "I don't know, but according to the intelligence, he was heading towards Yangjiazhuang."

Zhai Xingyuan sat behind his desk, frowning slightly: "It seems Zhou Qingfeng is going to personally examine the body."

Yan Wenjiu guessed, "Could it be that he thinks we tampered with the autopsy report? But Ren Wuji isn't one of our people. For safety's sake, we didn't alter the autopsy report he issued at all."

Zhai Xingyuan's brows relaxed slightly: "Zhou Qingfeng has indeed achieved his current high position because he has unique qualities. You can tell from his actions that he is meticulous and cautious."

“He doesn’t trust the autopsy reports we handle, and suspects that we’ve tampered with them and misled him, so the best way is to go to the scene in person and examine the body yourself.”

"This has given us an opportunity to make a move."

Changing the subject, Zhai Xingyuan asked, "Manager Yan, how does Teacher Luo treat you?"

Yan Wenjiu clasped his hands in a salute: "Teacher Luo has been kind to me like a second life. Without Teacher Luo's guidance, how could I, Yan Wenjiu, be where I am today? Manager Zhai, just say what you have to say. Is there something you want me to do for the teacher?"

Zhai Xingyuan narrowed his eyes and decisively said, "Go and kill him."

Yan Wenjiu was startled, took a half step back, pointed to himself, and asked with wide eyes, "Me?"

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