This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 351 - 77: Evil Beasts

Shangguan Xiao knew that the person sitting opposite her was an impostor, specifically arranged by Li Fei.

In the beginning, to create a diversion and lead the ‘Beast King’ Yu Longqing to believe that Qingyuan City Management Company was receiving goods in Baiyang City, apart from dispatching a group of people to Baiyang City to pretend to take delivery, Li Fei also had someone impersonate the Green-faced Ghost and appear there.

After absorbing the forces of the ‘Beast King’ and in order to intimidate those scattered followers of the ‘Beast King’, Li Fei also had someone impersonate the Green-faced Ghost and show up in other places twice.

This person impersonating the Green-faced Ghost was from Qingyuan Fist Village, who had followed Shangguan Xiao for decades and, like Xiang Du, was one of Shangguan Xiao’s most trusted confidants.

Even so, this person did not know the true identity of the Green-faced Ghost, understanding only that impersonating the Green-faced Ghost was to cover the true whereabouts of the latter.

Before going into seclusion, Li Fei had told Shangguan Xiao that within the next ten days, ‘Green-faced Ghost’ should stay in Green-faced Manor every day and even make one or two public appearances.

Today, with the downfall of the Iron Blade Sect such significant news, Shangguan Xiao had ‘Green-faced Ghost’ come from Green-faced Manor to discuss matters at the Zhang Estate.

However, once the two were alone together, Shangguan Xiao found herself unable to actually discuss anything with her subordinate, leaving them in mutual silence.

“I wonder how Xiao Fei is doing now?”

Shangguan Xiao thought worriedly to herself.

Li Fei hadn’t explained the ‘Ten-day Breakthrough Method’ in detail to her, only mentioning that his seclusion was for the purpose of breaking through to the Tao Foundation Stage.

Although Shangguan Xiao didn’t understand the specifics, her knowledge of Martial Arts made it difficult for her to imagine what method would allow someone to achieve a Breakthrough in just ten days, causing her to worry that Li Fei might be rushing and could suffer a Deviation.

After sitting in silence in the room for a while, Shangguan Xiao stood up to send the person away, and then returned to the Government’s guest house.

She had just sat down in her room when the phone on the table rang.

“Hello?”

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Shangguan Xiao picked up the phone.

“Madam Shangguan, we have results regarding the matter you asked us to look into.”

A man’s voice came through from the other end of the phone.

This person was an intelligence officer arranged by Qingyuan City Management Company in Datong Prefecture, responsible for probing intelligence on behalf of the company there.

When Li Fei left Datong Prefecture and returned to Xing City, he handed over all of his people remaining in Datong Prefecture to Shangguan Xiao, so she could also direct the personnel of Qingyuan City Management Company in Datong Prefecture.

That night, after receiving intelligence from the Inspection General Office, besides learning about a woman named Xiao Rui, Shangguan Xiao also found out who were the most suspicious people within the Zhang Family.

Afterwards, she continually pretended to interact with these suspects unintentionally, aiming to find out who had poisoned Zhang Zongyang.

A week ago, Shangguan Xiao noticed some clues, so she had the intelligence personnel investigate certain matters for her, and now they had a result.

“Go ahead.”

Shangguan Xiao subconsciously gripped the handset tighter.

“…”

From the other end of the phone, the intelligence officer conveyed his findings.

After listening, Shangguan Xiao’s gaze turned cold:

“Good, I understand, thank you for your hard work.”

Slam!

She hung up the phone harshly, the murderous intent in her eyes no longer concealable.

…

That night, Shangguan Xiao walked into a teahouse and settled down in a quiet, private room.

After a short while, a young man who bore some resemblance to her pushed the door open and entered.

“Aunt.”

Upon seeing Shangguan Xiao, he affectionately called out and smiled.

This person was named Zhang Shiwei, from the second branch of the Zhang Family.

According to seniority, he should indeed address Shangguan Xiao as his aunt.

Zhang Shiwei was twenty-nine this year, a martial master at Qi Change Early Stage. In terms of talent, he was just average; it was virtually impossible for him to break through to the Tao Foundation Stage in this lifetime.

Knowing that he had little hope in Martial Arts, Zhang Shiwei devoted himself fully to climbing the ranks in government service. He currently held the position of Forth Level Execution Officer, a ninth-rank official.

Among the younger generation of the Zhang Family, Zhang Shiwei was one of the few with the highest official rank.

But not being a direct grandchild of the second branch’s leader, Zhang Zongming, he had limited support. Coupled with insufficient cultivation, Fourth Level Execution Officer was likely the highest position he could ever achieve in this lifetime.

However, his authority as a Forth Level Execution Officer wasn’t small because he was in charge of the distribution and provision of Elixirs.

There were two sources of Elixirs for the Zhi Ge Courts across the realm: one part was self-produced, and another part was received from the higher Zhi Ge General Hospital.

Zhang Shiwei was responsible for allocating and distributing Elixirs to the Zhi Ge Courts below.

Because his name appeared on the suspect list provided by the Inspection General Office, Shangguan Xiao took the opportunity to proactively contact him.