Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

Seeing that Qiao Rui insisted on hiring a coroner, Chen Nian had no objection. After all, it would only mean having someone make one more trip, so he ordered Lu Jia to ride back to the city as fast as he could to find the coroner.

About an hour later, Lu Jia came riding at full speed with a thin old man.

"I am Liu Yidao, a humble man. I am honored to meet Lord Chen and hero Qiao!" The coroner dismounted and bowed to Chen Nian, and then clasped his fists to Qiao Rui. He was also a wine lover and had participated in the "Three Gourds, No Leaving the City" event, so he recognized Qiao Rui.

"Old Liu, there's no need to be polite. Go and see how the dog died." Chen Nian pointed to the ridges below the embankment.

Chen Nian had been a constable for many years and was very familiar with Liu Yidao, the top coroner in the county, so he spoke casually.

The black dog had been dead for many days and had been soaked in water. Fortunately, it was winter and the body had not rotted so quickly. However, the smell was really bad. Chen Nian and the others would rather stand on the dam and feel the cold wind than go down.

However, Liu Yidao had a way to deal with the meal he was eating. He took out minced garlic, ginger and vinegar from his leather bag, mixed them evenly on a piece of cloth, and then covered his mouth and nose with the cloth. Although it was spicy and smelly, it could protect against the stench of corpses and possible epidemics.

After doing all this, Liu Yidao walked towards the field alone.

The bag is full of tools, and the coroner has his own set of procedures for performing autopsies.

Drug test, injury check, autopsy...

Half an hour later, Liu Yidao packed up his tools, took off his "work clothes" and put them away, then washed them in a nearby ditch before returning to the embankment.

"Reporting to Lord Chen, Captain Lu, the black dog was beaten to death and then thrown into the river." Liu Yidao said with certainty.

"Oh?" Qiao Rui was shocked. Something was wrong.

"How can you be sure that he didn't drown?" Chen Nianqi asked.

"Anyone who drowns will have struggled before death. There will be mud, sand and water plants in their paws, mouths and noses, and a lot of dirty water in their stomachs... But the dog didn't have any of these symptoms."

Liu Yidao talked eloquently, and at the end he added, "The most important thing is that the black dog's heart was smashed to pieces!"

"Huh?" Chen Nian was suddenly startled and blurted out: "That's not right, how come I didn't notice such a serious injury?"

Seeing Chen Nian's expression of disbelief, Lu Jia hurriedly ran over to check, enduring the stench.

Huang Jingxuan wanted to go over when he saw this, but was stopped by Qiao Rui, "You're joining in the fun, aren't you afraid you won't be able to eat tonight?"

"You have to endure the fear. You will have to kill people to take revenge in the future. You have to adapt to it first." Huang Jingxuan said seriously with his head raised.

This kid...Qiao Rui patted his apprentice's shoulder and let go of his hand.

Huang Jingxuan ran down quickly.

"Master Chen, have you seen the wound on the black dog's front limb?"

On the embankment, Liu Yidao saw that Chen Nian didn't believe him, so he asked with a smile.

"Well, isn't that the scratch caused by the water flowing into the rock?" Chen Nian said.

"It may be, or it may not be, but apart from the purple scar here, there are no signs of severe blows anywhere else on the body, and its heart is definitely badly broken."

Liu Yidao shook his head and continued, "I guess it was kicked to death by someone and fell directly into the river."

"You mean it was kicked in the heart and died before it fell into the river? How much force did that take?"

Qiao Rui was surprised and wondered if he could do it. After a moment, he shook his head. Kicking a dog to death was no problem, but to make it so that there wouldn't be many visible scars on the outside and to directly explode its heart would be difficult. It seemed that a special way of exerting strength was required.

"As Young Master Qiao said, it is indeed true!" Liu Yidao said with a smile.

At this time, Lu Jia and Huang Jingxuan had returned. Lu Jia looked fine, but the stench made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Huang Jingxuan's face was pale and his mouth was bulging. He must have been trying hard not to vomit.

The kid has a good character and wants to improve himself, so Qiao Rui lets him do it.

"The heart is indeed broken into pieces!" Lu Jia nodded to Chen Nian, indicating that what Liu Yidao said was true.

This... Everyone looked at Liu Yidao, hoping that he could give a reasonable explanation.

"Have you ever heard of Li Que, the 'Poison Dragon Drill'?" Liu Yidao asked with a smile.

"Li Que, the leader of the Blood Killing Gang back then?" Chen Nian's expression changed as he remembered it, but then he frowned and said, "But he is dead now."

"Then I'm not sure. Maybe he is his successor, or a skill similar to the Heart-Destroying Kick?" Liu Yidao shook his head. This was not what he cared about. He just wanted to confirm that his inference was correct.

"Wait, Uncle Chen, what is the Blood Killing Gang and what is Li Que? You should explain it clearly." Huang Jingxuan was unhappy to see that they were playing guessing games. He had just suppressed the nausea in his heart, but his face was still a little pale.

Seeing that Qiao Rui and the others didn't know, Chen Nian didn't keep them in suspense and slowly began to speak.

The leader of the Blood Killing Gang, Li Que, nicknamed "Poison Dragon Drill", has a pair of heart-destroying kicks that are specifically designed to explode people's hearts.

This person's martial arts was peculiar. No matter where he kicked someone, his internal energy could penetrate silently into the person's heart and then explode, and no damage could be seen from the outside. Sometimes, a light kick from him might result in someone being hit.

At that time, the imperial court had not yet formed the Qingtian Guard. The order of the martial arts world relied on the pressure of the four major sects in the world. Shaolin was responsible for the Central Plains and the northern martial arts, Wudang took care of the southern martial arts such as Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong, the western martial arts such as Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou were under the responsibility of Shushan, and the martial arts in the east such as Jiangzuo, Jiangyou, Lianghuai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang were controlled by the Beggars' Sect.

At that time, the Blood Killing Gang was located within the sphere of influence of the Beggars' Gang. Li Que relied on his strange martial arts skills and was rarely provoked, so he acted without scruples. He was cruel and murderous, and did all kinds of evil. Finally, the Beggars' Gang took action to suppress him and destroyed the entire Blood Killing Gang.

So that's how it is. Qiao Rui thought to himself that the black dog's death was indeed as Chen Nian said, as he was hit by that heart-wrenching kick, but the man was already dead?

Really dead?

"The Beggars' Sect only destroyed the Blood Killing Sect, but did you clearly say that Li Que has been killed?" Qiao Rui suddenly asked.

"That's not the case. It's just that since then, Li Que has never appeared in the martial arts world again, so everyone thinks that Li Que was killed by a master of the Beggar Gang." Chen Nian explained.

"That may not be the case!" Qiao Rui shook his head, a gleam in his eyes.

"What kind of crap is the Beggars' Sect? How can it be any better than the Blood Killing Sect? This guy named Li Que might have been recruited by the Beggars' Sect and become an elder."

"This is consistent with our initial inference."

"This matter is definitely related to the Beggars' Sect!"

"Yes, it must have been done by the Beggars' Gang!" Huang Jingxuan also said. He also had no good feelings towards the Beggars' Gang. He and his sister had been bullied by people from the Beggars' Gang.

"In that case, what should we do?" Chen Nian asked. He also believed in Qiao Rui's judgment.

"I will report the results of the investigation. Don't worry about it. Things are different now. As long as the evidence is solid, I will make the Beggars' Sect pay for it!"

Qiao Rui's eyes were sharp and his aura was overwhelming.

"Let's go back to the city!"