Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Chapter 9: The Rewards For The Mission Were Disappointing!

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

Ye Weiming rode the horse carriage with March and went back to Bian Liang City. Along the way, he brought the Four Treasures of the Study, a bottle of starch paste, and a pair of scissors. After sending March into the Divine Constable Bureau, he went back to his own room.

Actually, the treatment at the Divine Constable Bureau was not bad. Besides the fact that their working attire was free, they even gave him an apartment. The room wasn’t big. It could only fit one table, one chair, and one bed. However, it was an individual room. When he felt tired after completing his missions, he could come back anytime to take a rest.

He entered his room and opened the windows. Then, he took out ‘The Study of Internal Energy’ that Chou Ba dropped and used it. His expiration exercise increased by one level.

After that, Ye Weiming took out the beginner lightness kungfu, ‘Eight Step Chasing Toad. After using it, the scripture disappeared in a flash of white light. A new skill was added to Ye Weiming’s skills section.

Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner)

Level: 1

Proficiency: 0/250

This is a widely known lightness kungfu of the Earth Hall Lightness Scripture. It can increase a player’s speed exponentially.

Movement +20

Without any hesitation, Ye Weiming used the cultivation he was rewarded with after killing Chou Ba and raised the level of his ‘Eight Step Chasing Toad’ to level 3.

Cultivation was a good thing. It was able to change into the proficiency of any martial arts. It was like a universal proficiency. The only flaw was that it was hard to obtain. Ye Weiming over-fulfilled the quota in his past mission and killed a level 25 boss, but he only managed to get 800 proficiency.

After a series of actions, Ye Weiming’s stats went through a huge change.

Ye Weiming

Level: 13

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Blood: 680/680

Internal energy: 530/530

Physique: 66

Arm strength: 66

Movement: 131

Reaction: 66

Intelligence: 25

Enlightenment: 28

Expiration exercise (lacking)

Level: 6

Proficiency: 32/3200

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Blood +300, Internal energy +300

Physique +30, Arm strength +30, Movement +30, Reaction +30

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Sword of the Yue Maiden (lacking)

Level: 6

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Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner)

Level: 3

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Proficiency: 0/1000

Movement +60

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A beginner level kungfu was really awesome. Now, Ye Weiming finally had an attribute that went above 100.

After converting his rewards for the day into his stats, Ye Weiming took out his biggest reward, the weird block of wood.

No matter how he looked at it, the structure of this thing looked like a Rubik’s cube. But, the Rubik’s cube had different colors for each side of the cube. As for this weird piece of wood, there were no colors on it at all. It only had some carved drawings that no one could understand.

But, this wasn’t enough to beat Ye Weiming.

He took out the Four Treasures of the Study he bought and copied all the drawings on the six sides of the Rubik’s cube. Then, he cut every drawing out individually and pieced them together on a single piece of paper as if he was playing with a puzzle. This was when he realized that the carvings on the block of wood were actually the drawings of five sceneries and the writings of a poem.

The five sceneries carved on the block were: The four wonders of Mount Tai which included the dawn of Mount Tai, the sea of clouds, the sunset glow, and the golden yellow sea. The last drawing was the landscape of the Eighteen Bends.

The last surface was carved with a poem written by the poet sage Du Fu. It was called ‘Gazing on the Peak’:

And what then is Daizong like?

Over Qi and Lu, green unending.

Creation compacted spirit splendors here,

Dark and Light, riving dusk and dawn.

Exhilarating the breast, it produces layers of cloud;

splitting eye-pupils, it has homing birds entering.

Someday may I climb up to its highest summit,

with one sweeping view see how small all other mountains are.

From the drawings and the poem, it wasn’t hard to guess that the secret of this Rubik’s cube must have been related to Mount Tai.

Ye Weiming continued working hard and labeled the 54 small squares based on the poems and the drawings he pieced together.

All this preparation work took him an entire hour.

Looking at the result of his one hour of hard work, Ye Weiming finally revealed a satisfactory smile on his face. Then, he casually observed the construction of the Rubik’s cube with the labels he made and started turning the Rubik’s cube furiously.

When Ye Weiming was still studying, there would always be interesting things that were popular for a period of time. Besides learning useless skills like turning pencils and books, he also played intellectual games like the Rubik’s cube and the nine ring puzzle.

Click, click, click…

After a series of clear and crisp sounds, the six faces of the Rubik’s cube started coming together.

Approximately 30 seconds later…

Clang!

As Ye Weiming turned the last section of the Rubik’s cube and the six faces were all in position, the Rubik’s cube immediately gave off a different sound. Following that, the side of the cube where the poem was carved sprung out, revealing the extremely small hidden compartment inside the cube. A small paper ball the size of a pearl rolled out.

If this person used such a method to hide an item, would other people be able to get it if they smashed the Rubik’s cube?

Ye Weiming shook his head. He felt that this thought was dangerous. Since Old Man Li dared to use the cube to hide his secret, there must have been something behind it. If he really smashed the Rubik’s cube, the ball of paper would most likely be destroyed along with the cube.

He picked up the piece of paper from the table and opened it carefully. There were a few lines of small words written in cursive script. Old Man Li was indeed a martial arts master and an elder of the pugilistic world. His words were beautiful but Ye Weiming could only recognize a few words.

The words were too cursive!

Just as Ye Weiming was considering whether he should have looked for Zhan Zhao to help him translate, a notification suddenly popped up on the system section.

Ding! You have solved the secret of the ‘Weird Block of Wood’. You have received a hint for a treasure: I received the most powerful sword skill of the Mount Tai Sect but after practicing it diligently for 10 years, there were still no results. After living in seclusion, I couldn’t bear to give the sword skill up, so I hid it in the underground palace below the Leifeng Pagoda. The details of the location of the treasure and the points to take note is as follows: …

Ye Weiming turned the paper over. There was a simple map at the back. The exact location of the sword skill scripture was marked.

Leifeng Pagoda?

So Old Man Li entered the Mount Tai Sect and learned his martial arts there. Then, he lived a secluded life in Dukang Village and continued practicing the sword skill. When he didn’t succeed, he went to Hangzhou and hid the sword skill scripture.

As expected from a person who practiced martial arts. He really knew how to make things difficult for other people!

Ye Weiming looked down on Old Man Li’s way of doing things but under the temptation of the martial arts scripture, Ye Weiming still decided to make a journey there. However, before this, he needed to visit Zhan Zhao to take a few missions near Hangzhou.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao wasn’t on shift today. The NPC distributing missions changed into the iron mask man, You Jin.

“If you want to go to Hangzhou, I do have a mission to recommend to you.” After understanding Ye Weiming’s intention, You Jin voluntarily recommended him a mission.

Dragon Gate Escort

Mission level: Five-star

The Dragon Gate Express at Hangzhou is in danger of getting annihilated. As a legal agency of the pugilistic world that pays taxes to the imperial court, the Divine Constable Bureau has the responsibility to protect it. Head to the Dragon Gate Escort to investigate the truth and report your findings to the Divine Constable Bureau using pigeons. Protect the people in the Dragon Gate Express.

Mission rewards: EXP 5,000, Cultivation 500, 100 Gold.

After looking at the mission, Ye Weiming expressed tactfully, “I will not take it!”

You Jin remained silent for a few moments. No one was able to see the change in his expression under the iron mask. A few seconds later, he asked, “Why not?”

“My ability is not strong enough. I’m worried that I might delay the official business. Sir You, please find someone else.” Ye Weiming explained that he rejected the mission because his ability wasn’t strong enough but the real reason was…

The rewards for the mission were disappointing!