Chapter 401 - Chapter 401: Chapter 101: Jack of all trades (1/2)

chapter 401: chapter 101: jack of all trades

afterward, lin jing and the man in black had another conversation.

later, the two separated.

over the next two days.

lin jing was in bihai city, searching for lin jue’s traces while refining the shadow escape flying boat.

with the introduction of that jade slip, lin jing had come to understand all the functions of the shadow escape flying boat.

like other flying boats, the shadow escape flying boat also operated on spirit stones.

however, once the shadow escape flying boat was refined, its speed would increase, and it would become even easier to control.

this shadow escape flying boat, in fact, was much better than the one belonging to lu youjiu.

aside from these features, many formations had been inscribed on the shadow escape flying boat, making its defenses extremely strong.

and furthermore.

the most important feature, which sets it apart from other flying boats,

was its superb invisibility function.

once the shadow escape flying boat entered its flying state and activated the invisibility function, it could evade the probing of most cultivators.

it could even avoid the divine sense investigation of divinity transformation stage cultivators.

……

although refining the shadow escape flying boat went very smoothly, the process of searching for lin jue, was not.

in the past two days, lin jing had visited lin jue’s home vicinity twice, yet had not seen lin jue.

he had even asked lin jue’s former neighbors and the like, none of whom had seen him.

moreover, over these two days, lin jing also made a round of the fang market but did not encounter that dark-skinned boy.

apart from that dark-skinned boy, there were two other people who had also disappeared.

those were the two cultivators who earlier had falsely accused and bullied lin jue.

the simultaneous disappearance of these two people and lin jue gave lin jing an uneasy premonition.

but lin jing had no good solutions.

soon, the third day had already arrived.

early in the day, lin jing set out.

this time, he didn’t head to the ‘slums’ of bihai city first, but went to the fang market.

the day before, as lin jing had passed by a tavern, he had inadvertently heard that near the fang market, there was an ‘all-knowing’ who claimed to be aware of everything happening within bihai city.

for this reason, lin jing had specifically inquired further.

therefore, early today, lin jing came to the vicinity of the fang market, intending to meet this ‘all-knowing’.

upon reaching the entrance of the fang market again, lin jing did not enter.

instead, he bypassed the fang market and walked into a small alley next to the market.

after some inquiries, lin jing learned that the all-knowing resided in this alley.

proceeding inward all the way to the end of the alley, he finally saw a small courtyard with a door that was half-open.

lin jing then observed the small courtyard in front of him and muttered to himself:

“the door is half-open, painted red, with no signboard above; it should be this place.”

next.

lin jing approached the courtyard and knocked on the door.

a hoarse, elderly voice soon came from inside:

“please come in…”

lin jing then opened the door and walked in.

the courtyard was not large, containing only a single small house with its door also half-open.

that elderly voice came again from inside the house:

“i am inside, just come in directly…”

lin jing frowned slightly and walked in.

the lighting within the house was not good, a bit dim, but it did not affect lin jing at all.

lin jing then looked around.

the interior of the house was quite simple and plain, with only common household items and nothing superfluous.

inside the bedroom sat an old man at the foundation establishment stage.

the old man’s bedroom was different from others’.

inside his bedroom, there was no bed but a shallow pit where the old man sat cross-legged.

that pit was not only occupied by the old man; various snakes, rats, insects, and ants crawled all over the pit and on the man himself.

in this place, what were usually natural enemies like snakes and rats, including various insects, all meekly surrounded the old man.

there was no aggression among them.

it seemed this old man was likely some sort of beast taming master.

yet, he was different from other beast taming masters.

because other beast taming masters would command all sorts of powerful demonic beasts.

but he commanded creatures like snakes, rats, insects, ants, and small birds, these kinds of small animals and insects.

seeing lin jing arrive, the old man spoke up:

“forgive me, senior, i am in the midst of cultivating and cannot offer my respects…”

lin jing spoke directly:

“no matter…”

he then continued, “are you the all-knowing?”

the old man replied:

“yes…”

“i do not know, senior, what would you like to inquire about?”

“as long as it is anything that has happened within bihai city, feel free to ask, senior, but please forgive me if it’s about matters outside the city…”

“also, there is another matter i need to inform senior of ahead of time…”

lin jing looked at the all-knowing and asked, “what is it?”

the all-knowing responded:

“that would be that no matter what news senior wishes to inquire about, the cost is ten midium grade spirit stones.”

lin jing didn’t care about the charge; he directly took out ten spirit stones from his storage bag, tossed them over, and then spoke:

“what i wish to inquire about are indeed the matters that occurred within bihai city.”

the all-knowing took the spirit stones and put them away before asking lin jing: