A lucky cat fell from the sky.

Chapter 101 A Call from the Military Department

Upon returning to Sixia Village, they discovered that Guo Sidi was missing.

To be precise, he left, leaving Wu Cheng a letter. Upon opening the letter, there were only a few lines: "Disciple, your master is gone. I am relieved that Xinghe Sect has you. From now on, you will have to bear the storms on your own. The world is turbulent, so please be careful."

Wu Cheng felt depressed after reading the letter.

Guo Sidi has abandoned his post, leaving the burden of the Star River Sect on his own shoulders. That's not all; the most important thing is that he just found a backer in the real world, but that backer has run away.

With only a martial arts apprentice level, how am I supposed to survive in the martial world?

If others find out that Guo Sidi is gone, they will be the first to come out and deal with him.

This old thing.

Wu Cheng thought to himself.

However, he didn't say where he was going or how to find him. He just left without a word, and Wu Cheng had nowhere to look for him.

With a sigh, Wu Cheng had no choice but to arrange his return journey.

Upon returning to Longqiu, Wu Cheng received even worse news: all the martial arts clubs he had taken over at the three universities in Longqiu had been vandalized.

The people who smashed up Longqiu's three university clubs were undoubtedly from the Lu family.

When Lu Dongxuan learned the truth, she left the Lu family, which enraged Lu Tongfa. He blamed everything on Wu Cheng and personally led a group to smash up the martial arts clubs. All the martial arts club presidents who followed Wu Cheng were wiped out.

Although these clubs didn't actually help Wu Cheng much, he already had a guaranteed admission spot.

But this touched his gang, which was tantamount to slapping him in the face.

Even if he didn't have Guo Sidi behind him, didn't he still have the even more powerful Jin Wanliang?

He also took two pieces of devil ginger, as well as so many secret manuals and so many medicine eggs he smuggled from the drug den.

Most importantly, he made quite a bit of money from Xiaohuangyu during his time at the medicine market.

He first upgraded all the skill books.

These manuals are not as expensive as the Star River Body Refining Technique, for a simple reason: they were created by new martial artists and have no value for inheritance.

After the upgrade was completed, Jin Wanliang examined Wu Cheng's work and then spat out many times in disappointment, saying, "These are all garbage, meow! What leg techniques and fist techniques, meow! Use these to burn in the fire, meow!"

Wu Cheng naturally couldn't bear to use it for firewood.

Although Jin Wanliang wouldn't be interested in these manuals, after upgrading them himself, he could probably easily sell them to a wealthy person and make a profit.

As for fighting against martial artists, Wu Cheng thought of those two pieces of demon ginger.

He's now at the Martial Apprentice level, so he can use these two pieces of Demon Ginger.

Although Demon Ginger is quite valuable, Wu Cheng is still willing to spend it on developing himself.

He swallowed the two pieces of demon ginger directly, and immediately felt all the power in his body being drained away, leaving him feeling as soft and limp as a ball of cotton.

He didn't know if it was the effect of the demon ginger or if he had been poisoned; if this continued, he would be doomed.

Terrified, he immediately turned to Jin Wanliang for help. Jin Wanliang said, "Don't worry, this is actually forcibly converting the strength in your body into power. It's just that the process will be a bit painful, but what's a little pain if you want to become stronger?"

Wu Cheng thought Jin Wanliang's words made a lot of sense.

A person's strength is inevitably accompanied by much suffering.

Especially for someone like Wu Cheng who has no prior experience.

He was like a weed without roots; to become strong, he had to put in much more effort than others.

What others can succeed on their first try, he has to do ten times; what others can succeed on their ten tries, he might have to do a hundred times.

Only by staying ahead of others and striving to be ahead of them can he have a chance of winning.

After all, people are not equal. Some people are born close to the finish line, while others start from a point light-years away from the finish line.

The pain of shifting his strength continued, and now Wu Cheng was so badly injured that he couldn't even beat a child.

Fortunately, Wu Cheng was in the old house and no one came to disturb him, allowing him to pass the time in peace.

However, judging from the results, his strength has not been completely transformed. He can only be said to have reached the peak of martial apprentice, the initial stage of Ming Jin.

At that moment, he received a call from the Ministry of War. After the phone automatically recognized the number, Wu Cheng knew that it was from the Ministry of War, as no one would dare to impersonate the Ministry of War.

The call from Wu Bu was from Zuo Liu, and his first words were to apologize to Wu Cheng.

Wu Cheng didn't know why Zuo Liu wanted to apologize: "Minister Zuo, you haven't done anything to wrong me."

"No, it wasn't there just now, but it is now. Xiao Wu, I have some bad news for you," Zuo Liu said.

Wu Cheng's heart tightened for no reason: "What news?"

"Tell me the truth, did you kill Ma Yiming?"

Wu Cheng's mind went blank for a moment.

He thought he had handled the matter discreetly, so how could it have been exposed so quickly?

Seeing Wu Cheng remain silent, Zuo Liu understood: "Little Wu, do you know what kind of background Ma Yiming has?"

"What's your background?"

"He was one of the three outstanding young talents of the Ma family in Ningzhou, and was considered a key figure that the Ma family was cultivating. Now that he has died at your hands, the Ma family will definitely not let this go."

"But he wanted to kill me, and I was forced to fight back. Besides, I'm only a Martial Apprentice, and he's only a Martial Master. The difference in strength is too great. How could I possibly kill him?"

“No need to explain,” Zuo Liu said. “Even if I believe you, the Ma family won’t. They’re quite ruthless, and I doubt we can protect you then.”

"What should we do then?" Wu Cheng knew that since Zuo Liu had called, he must have a solution. "He wouldn't be thinking of handing me over, would he?"

"How could that be?" Zuo Liu chuckled. "Although the Ma family is powerful, they wouldn't dare to offend a terrestrial immortal. If they really angered a terrestrial immortal, the Ma family would also face annihilation, wouldn't they?"

"So what?" Wu Chengzuo was wary of Guo Sidi, but Guo Sidi was actually no longer in Sixia Village.

"So we decided to take a compromise approach and punish everyone involved in this matter, including you. Don't worry, Ma Yiming's death will be an accident."

"Since it was an accident... why are you still punishing me?"

"Didn't I say that the Ma family is too powerful? I can't do anything about it. Even if it's an accident, they will still send someone to take responsibility. We will push this responsibility onto others, but you will also have to bear joint responsibility."

“Punishing you is actually protecting you, Xiao Wu, can you understand me?”

Wu Chengxin thought to himself that Zuo Liu's logic was quite bizarre, but since Zuo Liu had made a decision, it was obviously impossible to change it. He could only sigh and say, "Tell me, what is the punishment?"