Li Cheng Yi sighed as he read this, then looked at Keya, who was counting ants beside him.

"Wait here for me, I'll be back in a little while."

"Okay," Keya nodded.

The two were currently on a ridge between two rice paddies. There were old farmers working on both sides, so it wasn't a deserted place and safety wasn't a concern.

After instructing her, Li Cheng Yi hurried towards Tom's direction.

Soon, when he reached a corner out of sight, a black flash appeared, and he disappeared from the spot.

He reappeared next to Tom and the others.

Outside a small water tree forest, three adults covered in wounds and bloodstains lay on the grass.

'Such good kids... Good materials delivered right to my door, can't let any of them go.'

Li Cheng Yi glanced at the three of them. He first went to the woman who was almost out of breath, reached out his hand, and gently touched her brow.

A soft golden light suddenly shone from his fingertip, injecting into the woman's head.

That was the radiance force field.

Although this Flower Whisper was not strong, it was the one Li Cheng Yi used most frequently.

Healing, detoxifying, and dispelling curses, it was an all-purpose ability. Although it wasn't super strong in any one area, it wasn't weak either and could keep someone alive.

And using it on an ordinary person was truly like divine medicine.

The woman's vital signs quickly returned to normal. Li Cheng Yi withdrew his hand and walked towards the other person.

He did the same, and soon that person was fine too.

Finally, it was Tom's turn.

'Huh, it's not poison? Some kind of mental pollution? A curse?'

When Li Cheng Yi checked, he found that Tom's condition seemed different from what he had expected.

'But it doesn't matter, I can remove it with a little more force.'

He immediately increased the intensity of the radiance force field, enveloping Tom's entire body.

Soon, the curse was removed, and Li Cheng Yi left a little of the damage on Tom's body to avoid arousing suspicion.

After doing all this, Li Cheng Yi got up. After thinking for a moment, he reached out and gently touched Tom's brow.

*Hiss!*

A purple-black sword-shaped pattern flashed and disappeared instantly.

This was an unformed Wisdom Sword, one of the tens of thousands of Wisdom Swords he possessed, which could protect Tom's life in critical moments.

Such a good seedling couldn't be accidentally damaged.

After doing these things, he flashed back to his original location and walked towards Keya.

'In the future, this seedling can be named Detective, as a code name.'

The two didn't stay any longer and chose to return to the city.

They inexplicably went out of the city, waited on a ridge for a while, and then inexplicably returned to the city, leaving Keya completely confused.

But she didn't ask anything. Anyway, no matter what the boss did, she just needed to be responsible for protecting his safety.

Back at the office, Dounis was hiring people to paint the outer walls with waterproof paint.

"The New Moon people came again and went back when they saw Nia. Speaking of which, we really owe Nia a lot," Dounis said with emotion.

"Yes, Miss Nia is really our lucky star. Without her, my progress would have been much slower," Li Cheng Yi nodded in agreement.

At this time, Doulania was playing chess with Nilan, both of them focused and concentrated, obviously betting something again.

Li Cheng Yi sized up Doulania from the side. This was also a good seedling.

She was born with a strong mental infection ability, able to easily transmit her mental power and infect others.

Li Cheng Yi naturally planted a seed in her consciousness. In the past two years, Doulania was one of the two people, besides Tom, whose mental power had grown the fastest.

In fact, so far, Li Cheng Yi had turned the entire Luding City into his Thousand Faces Sword Manual farm. The seeds were sown, and everyone was growing safely.

And he, like an old farmer, painstakingly took care of everyone, helping them to block the wind and rain.

Of course, he couldn't let them not experience any wind or rain at all, but he had to help them avoid being killed by it.

Back in the office, Li Cheng Yi called Dounis over. He took out the previous investigation report and looked at it.

"There's a new job, help me investigate."

"Boss, our office has a new business, do you want to take it? It's an investigation case, they gave 200,000 yuan upfront. There will also be a split after the success! A rare big client!" Dounis lowered his voice and said quickly.

"Take it if you want to. Do my work first, you can hire a few more people to help," Li Cheng Yi said casually.

"Okay!" Dounis nodded.

If he had sold the office to Li Cheng Yi initially because of protection, now he truly felt a difference.

It was too smooth.

After the office was renamed to Forever Office, he no longer had the painful experience of begging and pleading with the departments in the city. People came to help him quickly and efficiently, without any delays.

His daughter Nilan couldn't feel this change, but as an adult who frequently ran to various departments, he could feel it the most.

So he now understood that the boss was definitely not as simple as he seemed on the surface.

He stayed to work with peace of mind.

"Has there been a big case recently in the water tree forest outside the city?" Li Cheng Yi asked.

"There was. A small cult was holding a gathering and performing a sacrifice there, and all thirty-plus people disappeared together, not a single one left," Dounis nodded.

He paused.

"But this matter was suppressed by the authorities. After all, it was an underground cult, not the regular kind. They died, so they died. They were all bad people with terrible backgrounds. Any one of them would be enough to be shot."

"Is that so?" Li Cheng Yi thought. Tom and the others didn't die and successfully survived. They must have witnessed and come into contact with some dangerous and critical secrets, and something would definitely happen in the future.

He waved his hand.

"I see. You can go out now."

"Okay."

After closing the door, Li Cheng Yi walked to the window and looked towards the water tree forest.

'The seeds are starting to sprout, but I don't know the reason for the sprouting. This is not good.'

His mind stirred.

Immediately, three blurred human-shaped cyan auras appeared in his vision.

The three figures floated motionless, the auras gradually dissipated, revealing the true details of their bodies.

The first was none other than Tom, whom he had just treated.

He was wearing a brown leather jacket and camouflage pants, with a narrow-brimmed leather hat, his head lowered, his face calm, and his brown eyes revealing a trace of inexplicable sadness.

Below him, two Black Sea texts automatically floated: Detective.

The second was a deformed and disabled bald dwarf with his hands and feet severed. He held a broken bowl in his hand, trying to raise his head, but the eyes on his ugly face didn't reveal the pleading of begging, but calmness.

The Black Sea text below him was: Dwarf.

The third was the familiar Doulania.

The gentle and kind noblewoman was wearing a beige corset dress, her exposed forearms as white as lotus roots, and her face was not beautiful, only ordinary, but her eyes were like soft lake water, clear and flowing.

The Black Sea text below was: Noblewoman.

These three were the three people with the fastest and most stable growth after he planted the mental power seeds, and also the three with the best quality of mental power.

In the future, they might condense three faces of the Yuanshen Sword.

Such a projection was just a small skill of Li Cheng Yi's mental power control, not difficult, but it could very intuitively show the situation of the three people.

Under the remote seed transmission, the state of the three people would automatically appear and be fed back here.

Even strong emotional changes could be reflected here.

"Such good kids..." Li Cheng Yi looked at the three people, his eyes quite gentle.

What was hidden in the water tree forest that could make Tom's mental power grow so much at once?

He decided to go and see for himself.

It just so happened that he was a little tired from studying the positioning and spatial location of the Flower Whisper Beads recently, so it would be good to go out and relax.

The aura of Paine's Flower Whisper Beads seemed to be getting stronger and stronger over time.

Li Cheng Yi carefully studied through the reverse trace and Flower Whisper Beads positioning and teleportation technology, analyzing bit by bit, and gained some harvest.

His powerful comprehension once again made great contributions, helping him to gradually extend along the aura towards the depths of space, and was gradually forming a new technique for digging out traces in the depths of space.

Coming back to his senses, Li Cheng Yi walked to the corner of the curtains, and with a flash of black light, he disappeared from the office.

The next second, in the water tree forest.

In the depths of the dark forest, pieces of branches and twigs like door curtains hung down, making the light here even more gloomy.

The ground was wet and soft, like a swamp.

The dense dark green branches around seemed to have a thick layer of green mold on the surface, which made people feel chills in their hearts.

Li Cheng Yi just glanced casually, and his mental power spread out, quickly finding a new place again.

He stepped forward, floated lightly, and flew towards there.

Soon, a wetland that had been clearly destroyed appeared before his eyes.

Several black corpses in white robes were lying on the ground, their eyes all dug out, leaving only two dry blood holes.

But this was clearly not a recent new injury.

Li Cheng Yi approached, searched one of them, and found a tattered handwritten booklet.

It was a light yellow, rough handwritten booklet. Opening it, it was filled with dense hymns and sacrificial words praising a deity named Ra.

'Ra? This... seems to be the name of the main god of the White Praise Empire,' Li Cheng Yi recalled.

It was actually someone from the White Praise Empire?

He didn't expect that this domineering and powerful empire actually had this ability to make people's mental power undergo transformation and greatly increase its intensity.

Li Cheng Yi's thoughts turned, and a new idea quickly formed.

'If I can let Detective continue to grow so rapidly, it is estimated that it will take three more times to reach the peak of perfection, and then sublimate and transform.'

"Who!?" Suddenly a low voice came from the forest not far away.

Li Cheng Yi came back to his senses, his eyes turned slightly, and he looked in the direction of the sound.

In the shadows there, two tall figures in white robes quickly appeared. The silver stripes on their cuffs seemed to distinguish their identities, with the one with more stripes in front.

The two wore white masks covering their faces, only revealing their eyes. At this time, they looked at Li Cheng Yi with a hint of vigilance.

'Killing intent +1.'

'Killing intent +2.'

The two people's malice quickly flooded into Li Cheng Yi's mind.

"Coincidentally, as a passerby with completely white hair, I would like to ask the two of you, what is the purpose of the White Praise Empire coming here...?"

He smiled at the other party, and the Flower of Evil on the back of his hand instantly lit up with a faint purple light.

Completely white hair?

The two looked at Li Cheng Yi, unable to refute.

Suddenly, their eyes were gradually stained with a trace of purple.

'Flower Whisper: Power of Persuasion (There is a chance to permanently persuade the other party to change their camp and attitude.)'

(End of chapter)