Chapter 1034 — A Strange Case
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Qing Bo, for his part, cooperated by circulating the mnemonic of his own family's inner art...
Ten minutes later, Wei Zhao gave up without hesitation. It had been a complete failure, with no effect whatsoever; the situation remained exactly as before. Wei Zhao could not channel his own energy for Qing Bo's use, and Qing Bo could not absorb the energy Wei Zhao passed to him.
It seemed that Elder Jiao had been right after all: this transfer of energy came with a limitation of rank. He could only pass energy to cultivators of a lower rank than himself, and the peak of the rank immediately below his own was the ultimate bottleneck for such transfers.
In other words, so long as he did not reach the Earth Rank, he would never be able to turn Qing Bo and General Weiwu into Mystic Rank experts.
Wei Zhao had once thought his ability to mass-produce experts was quite impressive, but now it seemed rather useless.
True, he could create Yellow Rank experts, and in the mundane world a Yellow Rank expert was still a rare treasure, one in a thousand. A single Yellow Rank expert could cut a very imposing figure. But the crux of the matter was that the opponents and pressures Wei Zhao now faced did not come from the mundane world, but from the great clans on a higher plane. Within those clans, Yellow Rank experts were commonplace; most were Mystic Rank experts, and there were even Earth Rank experts among them.
Against such people, Qing Bo and General Weiwu, two top-tier Yellow Rank experts, were of no use at all. Wei Zhao would still have to face them on his own strength.
Never mind. Something was better than nothing. Wei Zhao sighed. Some people longed for a Yellow Rank expert and could not get one, and he could mass-produce them.
With that thought, Wei Zhao abandoned any further attempt to forge Qing Bo and returned to his room...
Lately, the surface-level public order in Songshan City had been quite good. The pickpocket gangs had vanished, the kidney-harvesting ring had been smashed, and the criminal forces led by Li Cihua had lain low, making no major moves.
By all logic, Qiu Lingshan ought to have been pleased amid such an atmosphere of peace, and indeed her superiors had publicly commended her several times. Since she took up her post as captain of the Criminal Investigation Division, public order in Songshan City had improved considerably, and Qiu Lingshan had cracked major case after major case, achieving remarkable feats. It was the fastest case-clearance rate in Songshan City's history.
Yet Qiu Lingshan felt a vague unease. In many cases, behind the calm lurked an even greater darkness.
Because several disappearances had occurred in Songshan City recently. They looked like ordinary cases, but Qiu Lingshan felt the matter could not be so simple.
Wang Lieqian was a migrant laborer. Three days ago, he had clashed with his contractor over unpaid wages, beat the contractor soundly, and then vanished without a trace.
The file showed that Wang Lieqian was a strongly built migrant worker with great physical strength, and that taking down the contractor and his several bodyguards would have been an easy matter for him.
The contractor had not even reported it to the police. It was only a snack vendor near the construction site who saw the fight and made the call.
Everyone assumed Wang Lieqian's disappearance meant he had fled to escape punishment, and naturally the officers handling the case would not go out of their way to meddle. After all, the contractor had said it was nothing and showed no intention of pursuing it; the whole affair could perfectly well be treated as an ordinary civil dispute. If the injured party would not pursue it, what was there for them to pursue?
Besides, the contractor had not been seriously hurt; it did not even amount to a minor injury.
So the responding officers simply jotted down a brief record and left.