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"Next, Old Granny Wang, confess your illegal activities in full detail."

"My lord, I mainly act as a matchmaker, as a dowry negotiator, as a supporter, taking on younger folk, and behind closed doors... I also trade in flirtations, running 'Horse Paddock Six'."

The so-called trading in flirtations naturally involves love affairs that go against propriety, morals, and ethics. Plainly speaking, it's about arranging trysts between married men and women.

'Horse Paddock Six' is essentially pimping, introducing rich bosses to new business ventures.

"Hmm, quite the wild ways. Go on, tell me more, I'm all ears~" Yi Chen's expression brightened slightly.

"I took the official's money to play matchmaker for the young ladies and wives, and that day, the gold..."

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"Next, Fan Guiwu, with a name like that, I can tell you're no good. Confess your crimes fully and quickly."

"My lord, in order to settle in Tianfeng Prefecture, I had no choice but to sell my wife and children..."

"Don't keep talking, you're wasting food!"

"Guards, execute him by dogs! Immediately! Right now!"

This individual reminded Yi Chen of a certain electronic pet from his previous life, known for pimping out wives and daughters. A surge of anger intensified within him, prompting a severe backlash.

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The sixth layer of the Yin Yang Cave Divine Pupil Technique's mesmerizing abilities were utilized by Yi Chen to their utmost limit, exceedingly efficient. They worked flawlessly on these low-level thugs.

Following the principles of severity, harshness, and speed, the lighter sentences involved laboring in mines and eating potatoes, while severe ones meant decapitation. Human traffickers were all executed by dogs, and for a time, the courtyard outside was a scene of rolling heads.

Cart after cart of corpses were carted out, silencing innumerable powers and earning the applause and cheers of countless commoners!

The commoners were not interested in hearing false confessions, they only wanted to hear the just sound of beheadings!

As time passed, the moon reached high into the night sky.

"My lord, shall we call it a day?" Li Shiye said with a mournful face. He and his staff had been bustling about all day without a moment's rest, eating meals in shifts, barely hanging on.

"So be it!"

"Everyone has worked hard today, I decree triple the allowance for everyone."

Upon hearing these words, Li Shiye and the staff were instantly reinvigorated.

"My lord, we can continue!"

What is wolf culture? You're only a wolf when you're well fed. A wolf eats meat; only dogs consume filth.

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Offering a mere three thousand copper coins a month, if you expect others to risk their lives for you, they'll only teach you that you get what you pay for.

This was also why Yi Chen started taking money from the major families as soon as he arrived.

Yi Chen used the mighty presence of Feng Linsu and his strength as guarantees to rapidly establish his absolute authority within the Tianfeng Prefecture's Peace Bureau.

As he hadn't targeted the lifelines of the major families, focusing only on some gray or black industry, they were unlikely to fight him to the death. The finesse with which he handled the situation demonstrated considerable skill.

Chopping sausages, if done excessively, could provoke backlash, but do it too little, and the desired effect is not achieved.

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In the end, Yi Chen still let Li Shiye and the others go to rest.

He had big plans for this group of staff; wearing them down would be counterproductive.

"Xu Xiaoxun!"

"Madam Frost!"

"Yin Illusion Demon Sect!"

"The Seventh Prince!"

Yi Chen pinched the bridge of his nose and gazed at the several large characters on the file, falling into deep thought.

Though his strategies were sure to curb the trend of population disappearances in Tianfeng Prefecture, the mystery of Xu Xiaoxun's death still baffled Yi Chen completely, void of progress.

The four terms in front of him were now the crux of his strategy to solve the case!

At the very heart of it was the reason behind Xu Xiaoxun's death.

"The first possibility, murder!" Yi Chen wrote down another line of text.

According to Qi Yuan, Xu Xiaoxun had been investigating the disappearances in Tianfeng Prefecture. It was his obsession, and before his death, he had been secretive and anxious. If it were murder, it would mean that he had evidence so compelling that those behind the scenes, when weighing the lesser of two evils, had no choice but to kill!

But if that was the case, where did his wife go?

Xu Xiaoxun was of humble origin, and to have risen to the position of the Peace Commissioner in Tianfeng Prefecture, dominating over Qi Yuan, one can tell that his wisdom and strategy were not to be underestimated. Killing one or killing two, it didn't make a difference; there was no need to treat his wife differently.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Unless... the murderer was his wife? Was she planted by the people behind the scenes to stay beside Xu Xiaoxun?

Or perhaps, Xu Xiaoxun sensed the impending danger and had his wife hide with the evidence?

"The second possibility, suicide!" Yi Chen wrote down another potential explanation.

This possibility had also crossed his mind.

Yi Chen had managed to turn the situation around so quickly by leveraging his position and his formidable cultivation, alongside his ruthless and precise methodology.

The circumstances faced by Xu Xiaoxun were different; Tianfeng Prefecture was full of warlords, who seemed to be uniting against him.

His cultivation, while not lacking, certainly didn't rank among the best, and if pitted against the Family Head Huang, it would probably still be inferior.

"Could it be that Xu Xiaoxun intended to play a game with his life, to gain half a point over destiny?"

"Why was he so desperate? What had he discovered? Was the adversary so formidable that no measure other than this extreme one could effectively challenge them?"

"Did he use his own life to draw the attention of higher powers, all for the sake of seeking justice for the people who had disappeared from Tianfeng Prefecture over the years?"

"Damn it, that doesn't make sense either, where did he find someone skilled in the Yin Illusion Heartbeguiling Palm to strike him like that."

"Could his mysteriously vanished wife know that technique?"

Hisss!

Yi Chen couldn't help but take a sharp breath, as he suddenly remembered a key point.

Yin Illusion Heartbeguiling Palm.

If it were murder, the killer's choice of this method would be to muddy the waters.

If it were suicide, then obviously it was meant to make a big splash. In these times of world change and unsettling human hearts, the death of a Peace Commissioner inside his residence, caused by a technique of the Yin Illusion Demon Sect, would certainly draw a lot of attention.