Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 587: Amazing Detective Di Renjie

Even after a long time, thespiritstood still. I was afraid that the Spirit Congregating Formation would lose its power. I closed my eyes and lashed the whip at the locationthathad the thickest murderous aura!

“Argh!”

At the same time, Jiang Teng screamed painfully. The murderous energy around me vanished at that instant.

I recognized that it wasn’tanythinggood. I turned the power switch on and ran to Jiang Teng’s room. On the way, I saw the bodyguardrushout of his room. Together, we went to Jiang Teng’s room. We had to take in a deep breath when we saw what happened in the room. Jiang Teng was clutching his bleeding head. He was rollingon the ground.

“Hurry! Call the ambulance!” I shouted andwentto the living room to grab the first aid boxtobandage Jiang Teng’s forehead.

The ambulance came and took Jiang Teng to the hospital.Ashe was pushed into the emergency room, some policemen walked to me from the other end of the corridor. It turned out the hospital hadcalled the police.

Fortunately, the leader of that police team was Old Wu,the manthat had taken me to the Evidence Departmentearlier. He helped me out of this possible misunderstanding. Old Wu knew that I was investigating these cases, so hehad cometo confirm the incident. Afterward, hewaited with me and the bodyguard.

I hadn’t seen thespirit’s face yet, andmy client was almost killed. I swore I wouldsolve this case.If not, I would take my signboard down!

The doctors tried their best to save Jiang Teng’s life, buthe was still unconscious. The bodyguard and Iswappedshifts to watch him in the patient room for one day and one night. He hadn’t woken up by the evening of the next day.

The bodyguard was worried. “Willthespiritcome to the hospital?”

My eyes brightened athis words. The Yin energy in the hospital was thick, whichfacilitated the ghosts to come here. Moreover, thespiritdidn’t succeed in killing Jiang Teng yesterday, so hewould probably come again tonight to accomplish his mission. I pulled myself together and asked the bodyguard to move Jiang Teng to another room.

The bodyguard shook his head. “The doctor told me that before Mr. Chairman wakes up, he needs to stay in the ICU.”

I turned to see Jiang Teng. It was true that he shouldn’t stay in another patient room. I thought for a while. “Could you persuade the doctor to let me enter the room? I canwear scrubsorprotectiveclothes.”

The bodyguard was hesitant. I frowned.“Unlessyou want his head to explode,you should go.”

The bodyguard immediately turned and headed to the Dean’s office. After a while, he returned with two sets ofprotectiveclothes. He gave me one andputon the other set of clothes.

I realized that he also wanted to accompany me. “Later, just wait aside and be quiet. Do not let thespiritfind you.”

When we entered the ICU ward, the door immediately closed behind us. It felt like all the noise of the world outside was stopped behind that door.

I took out theSacredText of Daoism from my bag and putthe bookon Jiang Teng’s bed. I didn’t know the origin of thespirit, so I decided that it would be good to use the most common method to deal with it.

I taught the bodyguard a few verses of thesacredtthat were easy to remember. “When you seeanything wrong, just read the Sacred Text of Daoism.”

The bodyguard nodded. He brought a stool and sat by Jiang Teng’s bed. I opened the Yin and Yang Umbrella to shield the entranceto theroom and held the Sirius Whipin myhand. I felt more confident now.

At around midnight, a cold wind suddenly twirled up from the floor of the room. Iimmediately pulled myself together and waited to see if the Yin and Yang Umbrella wouldreact. However, the umbrella had hovered still for quite a long timewithout moving. I knew that if I delayed it,something badwould happen. I hurriedly screamed, “Read the text!”

The bodyguard responded well. He started to read the Sacred Text of Daoism. As his lips moved, the book on the bed suddenly glowed in gold light. The book’s halo then expanded and covered Jiang Teng and the bodyguard entirely. As soon as the gold light shrouded them, an iron whip tore the wind and hit the halo!

The halo shook under the impact. I worriedly looked at Jiang Teng, then exhaled in relief as the man didn’t react badly.

While I was feeling lucky that the Sacred Text of Daoism worked, the wind turned to hit me from above. My heart dropped at the moment.

Immediately, I jerked backward to avoid the attack. However,I was too slow and allowedthe whip to hit my leg.

I thought my leg would be broken, but it was just alittlenumb. I became skeptical.That whip could smash people’sheads like a watermelon, but my leg just felt a tiny bit of pain. Did he deliberately show me mercy?

Soon, I stopped thinking about this idea. I took a handful of cinnabar powder and tried to sprinkle it on him. Thespiritmoved aside to dodgeit.

I almost criedwhen I saw thatthe cinnabar powder worked! I finally found one thing that thisspiritwas afraid of. After cursing, I sprinkled the cinnabar again. I cheered upto see thatthespiritsmokedwhere the cinnabar hit him. I hurried to control the Yin and Yang Umbrella to cover him.

The Yin and Yang Umbrella spun fast and hovered above him. However, I found that the light from the Yin and Yang umbrella didn’t create any damage to thespirit.

He lifted his headto lookat me. He smirked.

It was the first time I saw his face. Hehadchiseled facial features. His nose was straight with a high bridge, and his eyes were as bright as the early morning stars. His beard also gave touches of natural righteousness to him. He looked familiar.

I was somewhatirritated, so Icrazilylashedmy whip at him. However,he was able to dodge all of my attacks. When the Sirius Whip’s power was drained, thespiritgave me another cold smirk. In the next moment, he flashed and disappeared.

After hewasgone, an image appeared in the back of my head. It was the stone stele Ididn’thavethe chance to observe in my dream!

The next morning, I asked the doctor, “Are thereany famous attractions in this area?”

“Hmm, there’snothing famous here. Ah, yes.There’s Di Village.”

“Di Village?” My head buzzed. I finally confirmedmy guess.I borrowed the car from the bodyguard and wearily drove to Di Village. However, there was nothing in that place. I had to ask some locals and learned that the remains of the Di Village had been relocated to Tanghuai Park.

Tanghuai Park was just a few hundred meters away. I walked andarrivedthere in around ten minutes. From a far distance, I sawabig locust tree. People said that Di Renjie’s mother had planted it herself. There was a stone stelein the shade of the tree. It read,“Old Hometown of Duke Di of Liang.”

Gosh! The stone stele in my dream was the sameasthis one!

I walkedalongthe small path in the park and soon, I saw the ancestral hall dedicated to Di Renjie. There was a bronze bust of Di Renjie planted outside the ancestral hall. At first glance,everything seemed normal.

“Was I wrong?” I wasn’t satisfied and continued walking.

Inside the ancestral hall was a smaller statue of Di Renjie holdingaweapon. He was wearing ablack official uniform from the Tang Dynasty. His statue looked majestic.When I saw the weapon in his hand, I took in a deep breath of cold air. Thiswhip that was made of four different iron sections was the sameasthe one thespiritused.

In history, Di Renjiewasan important courtier his whole life, and he built everything with his bare hands. Moreover, hewasthe Chancellor twice during the Tang Dynasty. While in his office, healways took careof the people andgotrid of the corrupted officials. He helped Wu Zetian build a prosperous Tang Dynasty. Moreover, Di Renjie had a special talent.He was a god-like and righteous judge, which wasrare during that time!

When he was in his office at the Court of Judicial Review, he spent a whole yearsolvingmany cases ofinjustice.There were as many as seventeen thousand people involved in the cases.After he solved thecases, none of thepeoplecomplainedabout injustice. People then startedaddressinghim as the“AmazingDetective Di Renjie.”

When foreigners read about Di Renjie’s stories, they were stunned. They called himtheSherlock Holmes of the East.

In legends, to facilitate Di Renjie when he solved the difficult cases, the former Emperor bestowed upon him a weapon called Kang Long Jian—the Dragon Neck Truncheon. Itrepresented the emperor himself. With this weapon, Di Renjie could first beat the incapable ruler and second, hit the evil citizens!

Whether thelegendary whipreally existed or not, it was where the people in ancient timesputtheir hopes. It was representativeof Di Renjie’s upright and plainspoken image.

Since Kang Long Jian only hit the evil-doers, I understood why Di Renjie had always shown mercy to me after a few confrontations.

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