Lu Ding looked down below.

"Those who are injured return to White Ridge for treatment, the rest come with me!!!"

With one command.

Not a single investigator left.

Although no one died.

Injuries were still unavoidable.

Just look, the investigators following Lu Ding were quietly discussing among themselves.

"Old Zhou, you took a hit, are you okay? Grand Guardian said those injured should return to rest, you..."

"Ah, it's a small problem, just apply some medicine casually. This kind of opportunity is rare and hard to come by. Just from earlier, I estimate I can earn at least five hundred contribution points, and that's only from getting one kill."

"Just this short while, five hundred!!!"

"If I go back now, wouldn't I suffer a huge loss tonight?"

"Now following along, I'll be more careful later, tonight I should earn at least several thousand!"

"Earning several thousand in one night, if we have a few more nights like this, tens of thousands would be easily achievable, right?"

A young man nearby, flying while applying medicine to his wound, chimed in:

"I wouldn't even dare to imagine this. When we were in Hanjing, where would we have such good fortune?"

"We couldn't even do a few missions in a whole month, just cultivating day after day. Without contribution points, just cultivating is so inefficient."

"This stuff requires taking pills, adding supplements, without money what's the point of cultivating?"

"Yeah, tens of thousands of contribution points a month, after deducting necessary daily expenses, saving up for some time, I could exchange for heavenly materials. Then wouldn't my cultivation level skyrocket? This is an opportunity, we must seize it!!"

"Exchange for heavenly materials, I also want to save up to exchange for heavenly materials, but I want to save more, to buy a villa, build a manor in a better area of Hanjing for my parents."

Qin Jinghao, mingling in the crowd, poked his head over: "Why bother with all that trouble? Just buy it directly in the new city?"

"After we take over the new city, just buy in the eastern part, actually you might not even need to buy."

"By then, those aristocratic families, forces, sects, and such, will definitely have a lot of land. They aren't honest, after we eliminate them, build it ourselves. Make it whatever style you want. Our bureau is even cooperating with the Ji family."

"By then, give them money, have them help, they'll even give discounts. For land issues, just apply with Secretary Fu, he'll directly approve it."

The young man who spoke earlier smiled: "My parents are old, I was born to them late in life. They have a sense of belonging to Hanjing, can't move them."

"Your suggestion does tempt me, but my parents are too stubborn. They'd rather rent in Hanjing than agree to let me spend money to buy a house in Hanjing's outer ring."

Although Lu Ding was flying ahead.

He could still hear these colleagues' discussions.

Although the investigators behind him were mostly Fourth Restriction and Fifth Restriction, seeming quite formidable, they were ultimately human, and humans cannot escape life.

Humans must stay close to life.

Actually, looking beyond cultivation, they are just ordinary people at heart, not that lofty.

If we compare cultivation level to ordinary people's salary and benefits.

Right now, they are like civil servants in a state-owned enterprise with full benefits, monthly income over ten thousand, over ten salaries a year, plus year-end bonuses—civil servants plus.

Although they surpass many people, Great Han never lacks people.

Life has no upper limit, most people want to get better and better.

The current new city is like a reformed state-owned enterprise, new and old transitioning, cutting out those occupying positions without doing work, vacating positions for newcomers.

This is the rolling tide of the times, also an opportunity for rebirth and changing fate.

Lu Ding is a pig standing at the forefront of the trend, and so are they.

As they gradually approached the Scripture-Knocking Pagoda at Lady's Temple.

The situation there was different from the earlier guesthouse.

There was a very key issue.

Lu Ding spoke up to discuss with Fu Xinghe: "Xinghe, tell me, are the people of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda colluding with the people of Wuliang Temple, or not?"

Although it was just his word—if he said there was collusion, there was; if he said there wasn't, there wasn't.

But in doing things, one must act according to conscience.

If the people of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda weren't colluding, suffering collateral disaster for no reason would be so unjust.

Lu Ding also rose from the bottom.

Holding high the executioner's blade against aristocratic families and powerful clans is because the people within them enjoyed the benefits brought by their evil deeds.

Scripture-Knocking Pagoda, a tiny place, not enough to compare with the top, but better than the bottom, ordinary, its true nature truly hard to judge.

This question really stumped Fu Xinghe.

"It's hard to say. Scripture-Knocking Pagoda, not seriously bad, not obviously good. They engage in gang fights over incense offerings that lead to deaths, but they also provide porridge to the poor on the first and fifteenth of the month."

"Embezzling incense money is their daily routine, but using incense money to donate for disaster relief, treating the poor who can't afford medical care, saving lives separated by poverty is also their daily routine."

"Logically, Scripture-Knocking Pagoda doesn't even dare oppose Lady's Temple's 749, Fierce Pursuit Hall can scare them into stumbling, let alone oppose you, sheltering Wuliang Temple coming to carry out conspiracies."

"But these Buddhists are also very stubborn and biased..."

Lu Ding also had a headache.

With such a situation before him.

It had similarities with the Guanyin Temple in the 86 version of Journey to the West.

But Lu Ding wasn't the Monkey King.

He couldn't do things like unintentional acts of showing off, stirring up others' desires, similar to entrapment, to Scripture-Knocking Pagoda.

The Monkey King didn't understand, didn't have many thoughts, just wanted to compare whose kasaya was prettier, but how could Lu Ding not understand?

Humans just can't resist temptation.

Thinking and thinking, until the towering Scripture-Knocking Pagoda appeared ahead.

Lu Ding's gaze fell, directly staring at a dark spot below, the transverse membrane in his eyes pulling open.

[Direct Gaze Eye] leaked its fierce aura, silently, the lookout figure from Wuliang Temple exploded and dissolved into the darkness.

The entire force pressed forward.

Lu Ding waved his hand: "Surround it."

The investigators behind him swarmed forward.

Although the numbers weren't sufficient, the quality was enough. Dividing and surrounding, they sealed Scripture-Knocking Pagoda completely.

Then taking out the Heaven-Sealing Net, casting it over.

This was a good item Lu Ding brought back from Hanjing, with no attack power, but functionality maxed out.

Blocking technique communication outward, intercepting signals, tough inside, fragile outside.

Most suitable for capturing people and eliminating factions.

Such commotion instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the pagoda.

Figures continuously flew out from the pagoda.

When they saw Lu Ding's face, already spread throughout the new city.

The Wuliang Temple Spirit Refinement old monk, holding a Seven-Star Monk's Staff, performing a Buddhist salute with one hand: "Amitabha, why has Grand Duke Lu come here?"

Lu Ding looked at this kind of person who pretended not to understand, with the situation like this, still acting innocent.

Only four words.

"Stop pretending!"

"You can't escape today, I said so. The difference is, all die or some can live."

Saying this, he looked at the green-headed monk of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda who looked bewildered, not daring to speak.

Don't look at his young age, he was already the pagoda master of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda.

Had some cultivation.

The gang fights with other incense-seeking forces were also done by him leading the other monks of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda.

Lu Ding directly said:

"Hey, little monk, are you colluding with them?"

The Qing Shan monk was completely dumbfounded.

"Colluding with what?"

If the people of Scripture-Knocking Pagoda weren't colluding, suffering from an unjustly implicated disaster would be so unfair.

"I don't know?"

Completely confused, what was all this?

Weren't they here to spread Buddhist teachings and debate, rest and recuperate?

He even wanted to cling to Wuliang Temple's coattails.

Why was 749 at his door?

Scripture-Knocking Pagoda, a tiny place, not enough to compare with the top, but better than the bottom, ordinary—its true nature is genuinely hard to judge.

Not to mention the very genuine expression, seeing he wasn't even wearing his kasaya, Lu Ding could basically judge eighty percent, this was genuine urgency.

Otherwise, he would have had time to put on his kasaya. After all, as a pagoda master, if he had awareness of the situation, he should be neat and proper like this Wuliang Temple old monk.

Since that was the case, Lu Ding pointed at him: "Scripture-Knocking Pagoda, can temporarily live, come over."