Back home.
Jiang Feng first checked the changes in his panel information.
Name: Jiang Feng
Fortune: 1273
Cultivation Technique: Prison Guard Health Care Skill (Minor Achievement)
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient+) Divine Arrow (Proficient+)
Realm: Sixth Grade (Refining Organs)
Divine Power: Immortality
"My Fortune Point actually increased by more than eight hundred. Luckily I didn't rush to loot the money and managed to shoot over a dozen more arrows."
Seeing the change in Fortune Point, Jiang Feng was both overjoyed and his scalp tingled.
He understood well that such a big change in Fortune Point must be because the thin tall guy's Thunder Burst Bead failed to explode on him. Otherwise, at such close range and with no defense, even with Sixth Grade Realm cultivation, he'd be seriously injured if not dead.
To gain so much Fortune Point, it was all thanks to him dodging that risk.
Jiang Feng then took out that sheet of White Paper.
He carefully studied the Monkey Escape Technique.
After finishing his reading, the panel successfully recorded Monkey Escape.
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient+) Divine Arrow (Proficient+) Monkey Escape (+)
Jiang Feng began to think.
After finally accumulating over a thousand Fortune Points, should he save it and wait for Prison Guard Health Care Skill to show a plus sign before using it?
Or should he upgrade Prison Guard Long Fist, Divine Arrow, or Monkey Escape now?
After serious thought.
Jiang Feng felt body martial arts were still extremely important.
Whether in combat or on the run, they are key to survival.
This time he went to the Black Market precisely to buy a bow and a body technique.
Now that he had gotten a body martial art skill for free, Jiang Feng had no reason not to use it.
He immediately tried adding one hundred Fortune Points to the Monkey Escape Technique.
Fortune: 1173
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient+) Divine Arrow (Proficient) Monkey Escape (Beginner+)
Jiang Feng's expression lit up and added another two hundred Fortune Points to Monkey Escape.
Fortune: 973
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient+) Divine Arrow (Proficient) Monkey Escape (Proficient+)
Body martial arts are survival skills—the stronger the better.
Jiang Feng instantly added another five hundred Fortune Points to it.
Fortune: 473
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient) Divine Arrow (Proficient) Monkey Escape (Proficient+)
Jiang Feng was a bit dumbfounded. Five hundred Fortune Points hadn't increased Monkey Escape's level, but seeing the plus sign still there, he knew his remaining Fortune Points would be enough to advance its rank.
He didn't put all of it in at once.
Instead, he added it twenty by twenty.
After five rounds of this.
The panel showed brand new changes.
Name: Jiang Feng
Fortune: 373
Cultivation Technique: Prison Guard Health Care Skill (Minor Achievement)
Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Proficient) Divine Arrow (Proficient) Monkey Escape (Mastery)
Realm: Sixth Grade (Refining Organs)
Divine Power: Immortality
"Whoosh!"
Jiang Feng darted out of the room.
He couldn't wait to test out the effect of Monkey Escape.
He flashed through the yard.
In Chaoyang Alley, he pushed Monkey Escape Technique to the limit.
He'd assumed he'd bounce around like a monkey.
But unexpectedly.
Having cultivated it to Mastery Level.
When using the technique, he showed no sign of a monkey's posture.
His running didn't look awkward or out of place.
Instead, it had a bit of grace.
If there was any monkey characteristic, it was agility.
Apparently, when the thin tall guy used it earlier and seemed comically monkey-like, it was because he hadn't mastered the martial art.
Once skilled to Mastery Level—
It was like a Spiritual Monkey leaping among treetops.
You could only hear its cry; you couldn't see its shadow.
Once Jiang Feng flashed back indoors—
He found his Qi Blood Power barely depleted.
At his current Realm, he could likely keep up full-speed movement for an entire hour.
If he faced a Divine Archer like Li Wei, Jiang Feng was confident that with this body technique, he could easily dodge Li Wei's arrows and strike back afterward.
Combining body technique with Divine Arrow could also have unexpected effects.
In flight, using body techniques to shoot cold arrows back could effectively block the enemy and quickly open up distance.
All in all, Jiang Feng felt that spending nine hundred Fortune Points to upgrade Monkey Escape to Mastery Level was totally worth it.
If circumstances permitted, his first choice for further martial art upgrades would still be Monkey Escape.
Night fell.
Jiang Feng headed for Zhenbei Prison.
Small Prison Guards like him worked rotating shifts, and sometimes had night duty.
Compared to daytime, when they distributed food to cells, night shifts were much easier. But they did have to clean the torture room and would often see bloody scenes.
Whenever those above imposed severe punishment, it was usually at night, sometimes even in the dead of night.
That's when the prisoners' minds are most relaxed.
Guarded least.
After a few rounds of torture with the whip, most prisoners would spill everything they knew.
Of course, for tougher ones, the higher-ups would alternate between day and night shifts, tormenting until collapse or death in the torture room.
On arrival at Zhenbei Prison.
Jiang Feng suppressed his presence, changed into Prison Guard Uniform, and picked up a broom to clean the torture room.
Upon entering, Jiang Feng smelled a nauseating stench of blood.
Lately the Little Prison Guards had been whispering that the Dragon Capital Government Office had captured a Steward Elder of the Red Lotus Sect and nearly thirty followers.
All were being held at Zhenbei Prison.
On the first floor.
Fortunately, they were housed in cells number forty and above.
When Jiang Feng came in to clean the cells—
There were already two Little Prison Guards busy inside.
Jiang Feng glanced at the two and the three kept silent, focused on their own tasks.
Here, not only Jiang Feng knew how to keep quiet and cautious.
Several clever Little Prison Guards practiced Silent Meditation, too.
Usually they just did their work and never talked about the affairs of big shots.
Jiang Feng fetched two buckets of water, dumped them on the floor, and swept away the bloody water.
He saw a serrated edge under the wooden horse bench with some bits of flesh still stuck between some of its teeth. He picked it up, wiped it clean, and returned it where it belonged.
"Bang!"
But before Jiang Feng and the others could finish cleaning the torture room—
The Dragon Capital Government Office's Chief Huang—or rather, the Chief of Dragon Capital, Huang Ting—
Threw five Red Lotus Sect followers into the torture room together.
Jiang Feng and his fellow Little Prison Guards saw this—
Knew to put their tools aside and were about to leave.
They all understood that when prisoners are being tortured, the last thing you want is to overhear any confessions you shouldn't—could get yourself killed. This is basic knowledge for every Little Prison Guard.
"You three don't leave. I'll need you all to help clean out the bloody flesh on the ground later, piece by piece."
Unexpectedly, because of the Minister Yang case, the newly promoted Chief of Dragon Capital, Huang Ting, called Jiang Feng and the other two back.