Chapter 256: 256. It seems like you've grown taller.
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Reading "Bitter Cultivation and Enlightenment Sutra" was a move that killed a thousand enemies but harmed oneself by eight hundred. Lu Yao felt dizzy and experienced ringing in his ears, and it took him quite a while to recover through regulated breathing.
While he was recuperating, the three women destroyed the bodies and traces of the crime scene.
The task was exceedingly simple—a missile had blasted a pit as deep as a swimming pool, which was perfect for disposing of the bodies and car before backfilling it with soil.
They only left behind a car that could still be driven. In a moment, they would ride this car, belonging to the Izumo people themselves, to rob the Izumo Embassy.
By the time Lu Yao had finished regulating his breath, the girls had just completed their work.
The group drove to the embassy in a grand manner and entered through the main gate.
Immersed in essence, only a bunch of riffraff remained there, with the strongest only being in the Marrow Washing realm.
These people were taken out by Li Pei in an instant with "Moon Shadow Star Plucking," dying with puzzled expressions, clueless about what had happened.
Afterward, the family shopped around like they were "browsing through a supermarket," taking whatever caught their interest.
With Lu Yao's Mind Force spreading out to detect, secret rooms and hidden compartments were all revealed, leaving no place to hide, and were all uncovered.
After a search, they found many classified documents, secret manuals, silver, jewelry, and even a hundred taels of gold!
Li Pei was both shocked and ecstatic, smiling so widely her mouth almost reached her ears, her face flushed with excitement as she exclaimed, "Gold! A whole 100 taels! Look, everyone, look!"
"Not bad."
"Pretty good."
Liao Ya and Liao Qe glanced back briefly and continued to work on the safe.
Feeling ignored, Li Pei thought the two country girls didn't understand the value of gold and explained,
"This is essential for advancing to the Jin Gold Body Realm. The value of these 100 taels of gold is beyond imagination..."
Still, the sisters didn't seem too concerned, focusing on the safe and forcefully tearing it in half with a grunt and a spirited call of "Open."
Inside were several documents and some black and white photos. Liao Ya gathered them all up to take home and examine later.
By this time, Lu Yao had also finished his search and came over, holding a sack of items as well.
Li Pei eagerly presented her find, "My lord, look~ it's gold! I unearthed it from a hidden compartment under Kotaro Komura's desk."
"Quite nice, quite nice," Lu Yao said with a smile and then added, "We should get going."
Li Pei sensed her lord's indifference and was secretly amazed: Could their home be so wealthy that even gold was in no short supply?
After their "shopping" spree, they drove away as boldly as they had arrived. Since the car originally belonged to the Izumo Embassy, it did not attract much attention.
It was already evening by then. When they passed by Yongding River and saw no one around, Lu Yao kicked the car into the river with a flying kick.
The group casually carried their spoils back home.
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Many of the documents they found inside the embassy were in foreign languages, but fortunately, Li Pei was proficient in English, French, and German.
She sat on a Taishi Chair, began to translate on the spot, and her expression grew more solemn the more she read.
The documents obtained from the safes and hidden compartments were all Izumo's classified information, and they seemed to be far from good news.
Liao Qe, giggling, pulled Lu Yao back to their room "to rest."
The girl prepared a basin of warm water and helped her beloved wash his feet, employing the "Foot Comfort Technique" with skillful manipulations.
Then she initiated her most proficient technique, "Carp Stance," her slender and tense waist moving like an agile fish, flexing her sleekly defined abs.
Lu Yao lay on the bed, enjoying the care bestowed by the beauty. Suddenly, Liao Qe leaned over his chest, close to his ear, and asked,
"Who's better, me or Li Pei?"
While asking, she didn't stop her movements, but Lu Yao was too distracted to enjoy it and hastily summoned his Focused Spirit to answer seriously, "You're both great, I like you both~"
"Hmph~" Liao Qe squinted her almond-shaped eyes at him, bit her lower lip with her pearly white teeth, obviously not satisfied with the response.
Seeing that she was about to question him further, Lu Yao simply transferred a surging and scorching Inner Breath to her.
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Blood-Exchange Warriors' Inner Breath can even boil water. Under Lu Yao's control, although it caused no harm and only benefits, it still made Liao Qe scream in shock from the scalding.
After a while, she seemed to melt and lay still on the bed, naturally lacking the energy to ask any more questions.
When Liao Qe had absorbed the first wave, Lu Yao continued to transfer most of his Inner Breath to her, helping her to cleanse and temper her bone marrow.
After a thorough rinse and purification, they embraced each other in sleep until dawn broke.
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The next morning, Liao Qe got up with a blushing face to change the bedsheet.
The beauty didn't even care to dress, her youthful, pale and pleasing skin was a delight to the eyes, while the faintly visible muscle lines highlighted her vigorous charm.
Lu Yao watched for a while before realizing something was off. He walked over, held the girl by her shoulders, and said, "Stand still, don't move, let me see... you seem to have grown taller."
After measuring, Lu Yao confirmed, "Indeed, you've grown taller. Originally 1.7 meters, now 1.72 meters."
Liao Qe touched the top of her head and said as if it were only natural, "Well, I'm still growing, aren't I?"
Lu Yao chuckled and gestured with his hands, "You've grown in other ways too~"
"Hmph~ What's that to brag about!" Liao Qe puffed out her chest with mighty ambitions!
"No need to exaggerate, you're great just as you are~"
As the two chatted and laughed, someone called through the door, "You lazy girl~!"
Li Pei pushed the door open and entered, holding two document folders in her hand.
"I've read the documents we brought back yesterday. Let me talk to your husband about it. That Kotaro Komura we killed has done quite some big things over the years!"
She opened one of the folders and pointed out the intelligence inside for Lu Yao to see:
"This man has constructed a complete intelligence system against our country! He's bribed Wang and Liu of the Military Intelligence Division and the Prime Minister's Office, as well as Li Zhongtang's nephew Zhang Shiheng, among others, providing them with intelligence."
"Look, this is a deployment chart of the Imperial Court's forces. Villages, roads, artillery positions, barracks... even the location of every well is marked with meticulous precision! They've even found out exactly how many pounds of greens are carried on the ships!"
Li Pei took a deep breath to calm herself and summarized, "With this intelligence network, Izumo has our Imperial Court's every move at its fingertips!"
Lu Yao nodded and asked, "What's next?"
Li Pei pondered for a moment, sighed, and said, "This is a huge scandal involving so many high officials... I'll sneak it into the Military Intelligence Division tonight. We have to send copies to all the major newspapers too, lest there be any cover-up."
"For that, I could lend a hand. Here, help me fold these intelligence documents into paper airplanes," said Lu Yao as he signaled the two girls to start folding.
Li Pei immediately reacted, "I almost forgot, you've had a miraculous encounter, and your ability to control objects has greatly increased!"
"Yes, but it's a pity I can't retain all this Mind Force. I can probably refine more than half of it."
The three of them got to work, and not long after, a stack of paper airplanes appeared on the table.
Lu Yao infused them with Mind Force and said, "Let's throw them together~"
Li Pei and Liao Qe gleefully picked up the paper airplanes, breathed on them to warm them, and threw them in the direction of the Imperial City.
The paper airplanes were lifted by an inexplicable power, soared into the air, and flew towards their predetermined destinations, which included the Military Intelligence Division, Imperial City Times, Divine Land Daily, Current Affairs Newspaper, and other organizations' headquarters.
"With this, it should be foolproof!" As he watched the paper airplanes fly into the distance, Lu Yao exclaimed, "Spirit Refinement is truly marvelous. I should strive harder to refine more Mind Force and not waste Comrade Komura's good intentions."
"Speaking of him..." Li Pei opened the second folder, "his Ice Jade Bracelet was unearthed from the 'Immortal Qin Ruins' in the south."
This intelligence report was interspersed with many black-and-white photos, all taken during the excavation of the "Immortal Qin Ruins."
Li Pei's breath was fragrant as she gently tapped on the photos with her pale fingers and continued, "This place is where Hong Renkun had his miraculous adventure. With good items like the Ice Jade Bracelet there, it's correspondingly very dangerous. Even the Izumo People suffered great losses and couldn't withstand it."
Lu Yao flipped through the photos showing underground structures in a pre-Qin style.
One photo showed a relief featuring a symbol that was strikingly "an eye in the center of a triangle!"