Xiao Chen didn’t have as many thoughts as Cheng Mengying. What Xiao Chen thought of was, The Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist that tracked me today, what is his background?

Since this Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist already tracked him for a day, it showed that he shouldn’t have any malice towards him and should simply want to take a look at him. If it was like this, was this person from Xiao Clan……or someone dispatched by Cheng Clan?

Thinking of these two possibilities, Xiao Chen slightly calmed down in his heart.

If it was Xiao Clan dispatching someone to take a look at how his current situation was, then there had to be some reason. But if it was Cheng Clan, it was naturally to see whether or not he was currently very miserable!

“I’m done eating. I’ll first go to the room to take a look at whether or not the medicinal soup is ready or not. You don’t need to clean up after you’re done eating, I’ll come back after a while to tidy the tableware up.” As Xiao Chen was speaking, he stood up his body and began walking towards his own room.

“Okay……” Cheng Mengying is a lady; she eats very slowly. While Xiao Chen already wolfed down his food and finished, she was still eating slowly.

Xiao Chen returned to his room and looked at the electric earthenware pot. There was still some time before it would be appropriately boiled, thus he lied down on his bed and closed his eyes to rest for a while. These past few days, there were truly too many things happening, making Xiao Chen somewhat unable to digest.

He had transformed from a young master in dire straits into a mysterious as well as flamboyant Truth Cultivator. If this was spoke out, perhaps nobody would believe him. It was just that Xiao Chen’s currently only needed to be low key; even if nobody would believe him, he couldn’t speak irresponsibly.

After waiting a while, the electric earthenware pot automatic power-off beep sounded out, signifying that the boiling medicinal soup was complete. Xiao Chen took out the medicinal soup and directly drained it in one gulp, then began slowly refining the medicinal soup in his stomach using the Seizing Good Fortune War Mantra’s mental mnemonic chant……

Guessing that the time was just about right, that the young lady should have finished eating dinner, Xiao Chen temporarily stopped cultivating and pushed the door open to leave his room. As expected, the young lady already wasn’t inside the living room.

It goes without saying that Xiao Chen thought that Cheng Mengying had gone upstairs to rest in her room. However, when he turned his head to glance about, he unexpectedly discovered that the young lady was inside the kitchen standing before the sink, clumsily washing the tableware!

When had Cheng Mengying ever done these matters inside the house? However, today she was actually taking the initiative and giving it a try. At this very moment, she somewhat admired Xiao Chen; it was truly hard to fathom how he, a young master, changed his mentality and adapted to doing housework!

Of course, these could still be regarded as nothing; Xiao Chen could even go as far as to sell breakfast while she, Cheng Mengying, couldn’t even wash tableware. For a while, she thought that the good-for-nothing wasn’t Xiao Chen, but her.

“You……” Xiao Chen didn’t think that Cheng Mengying would go wash dishes. This made Xiao Chen not know what was good to say. After speaking the word ‘you’, he couldn’t continue on.

But, it would have been fine not to even say it. This word made the originally somewhat flustered young lady frightened and the hand holding the chinaware bowl trembled. The chinaware bowl in her hand slipped and dropped downwards.

‘Pling!’

The sound of the bowl breaking sounded from the floor and it immediately broke and split into many pieces. Yet what was extremely unfortunate was that a fragment directly shot towards her bright and clean foot; blood immediately started flowing out!

“Ya! My foot……” Cheng Mengying cried out in alarm. She looked at her own ‘bobo’ bleeding foot and became somewhat scared, then screeched: “Xiao Chen, you’re a ghost, scaring this Young Lady to death without any warning!”

“Uh……sorry.” Xiao Chen suddenly felt that his head would explode. He didn’t think that him opening his mouth would frighten the young lady, but since this matter had already happened, Xiao Chen could only brace himself and apologize, even though he thought he didn’t make any mistake.

“What use does a ‘sorry’ have? My foot is already injured!” It wasn’t that Cheng Mengying was weak; after all, she was an Ancient Martial Clan’s young lady, and had suffered hardships from childhood; but that she had been frightened into stillness by the blood on her foot! She didn’t fear pain, but felt sick when seeing blood!

“Sorry, I’ll help you get the medicine box……” After Xiao Chen finished speaking, he became slightly distracted. He and the Young Lady had just moved into the villa a few days ago and they hadn’t prepared a medicine box, so where would he go get a medicine box?

Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen had no solutions and had no alternative but to go upstairs and search for Ye Xiaoye, hoping that she had a hemostatic drug-type of thing!

The villa’s second floor.

To tell the truth, besides helping the Young Lady carry things up on the first day, Xiao Chen hadn’t gone up ever since. When he arrived at the second floor, he went up the Ye Xiaoye’s room door and knocked on it.

“Who is it?” Very quickly, Ye Xiaoye’s voice sounded out from inside of the room. Apparently, Ye Xiaoye was home, but just that she hadn’t gone downstairs.

“It’s me, Xiao Chen.” Xiao Chen replied.

‘Ka!’

The door was opened and when it opened, the strong scent of medicinal soup assaulted his senses. However, Xiao Chen was already used to it due to boiling medicine in his own room, so he was actually indifferent to it. Through the dense steam, Xiao Chen could see Ye Xiaoye in a full-body yoga suit, her small face red and filled with perspiration.

Frankly, this was Xiao Chen’s first time seeing such a youthful and agreeable Ye Xiaoye. The previous Ye Xiaoye had a cold face without any expressions, but the Ye Xiaoye at this moment truly resembled a girl at her age.

The yoga suit was very skimpy; besides covering the crucial places, it exposed a large part of her beautiful and white skin.

A girl that practiced martial arts was different. Even though the skin on her body was extremely fair, it was also very tight and didn’t have a bit of unwanted fat, very healthy and beautiful.

“Seen enough? What did you come to do?” Ye Xiaoye’s ice-cold voice pulled Xiao Chen from ** back to reality.

Xiao Chen let out a hollow laugh and asked somewhat embarrassedly: “That is……do you have a medicine box or hemostatic drug for wounds?”

“No.” Ye Xiaoye indifferently replied: “What’s wrong?”

“Cheng Mengying’s foot was lacerated.” Xiao Chen explained: “Since you don’t have, then I’ll go to the pharmacy. Thank you.”

“Wait.” Ye Xiaoye said: “Within the flowerbed downstairs, go to the medicinal herb by the lower left corner. Randomly pull up a strand, chew it, and promptly spread it on the wound. Its effect in stopping bleeding is very good and also won’t leave behind a scar.”

“Ah?” Xiao Chen didn’t expect Ye Xiaoye to plant this kind of herb. He looked slightly distracted for a moment, but immediately nodded and answered: “Okay, thanks a lot!”

Ye Xiaoye didn’t speak any further and closed the door with a ‘bang’.

Xiao Chen helplessly shrugged his shoulders and quickly ran down the stairs. Then he directly rushed out of the villa, went to Ye Xiaoye’s part of the flowerbed and found the medicinal herb that Ye Xiaoye was talking about.

“Hm? This is a Healing Spirit Grass, I didn’t expect that there would be someone growing this here!” Tian Lao’s voice sounded out from beside Xiao Chen’s ear, frightening Xiao Chen.

“What Healing Spirit Grass?” Xiao Chen asked in confusion.

“Nothing, it’s just an extremely low level healing medicinal herb in the Cultivating world.” Tian Lao explained.

“Why are you so surprised at an extremely low level……” Xiao Chen was somewhat speechless. You being this surprised made me terribly frightened.

“Low level goods of the Cultivating world doesn’t represent that it’s commonly seen in the Secular world. A Healing Spirit Grass is very difficult to grow in the Secular world’s kind of environment. Being able to unexpectedly grow here is truly strange!” Tian Lao said.

“Forget it, doesn’t matter if it’s strange or not.” Xiao Chen directly extended his hand and pulled out a strand, then returned to the villa’s kitchen, where the Young Lady was still bleeding!

“Mengying, chew this medicinal herb in your mouth, then apply it onto the location of your wound and it’ll be okay. This is Ye Xiaoye’s medicinal herb and it’s said that its effect is very good and won’t leave behind any scars.” Xiao Chen handed over the Healing Spirit Grass to Cheng Mengying and said.

“Chew? Such a dirty grass with dirt on it, you want me to put it in my mouth??!” Cheng Mengying was angered to the point of widely opening her eyes: “Won’t you help me mash it up?”

Xiao Chen was just about to agree, but at this time, Tian Lao’s voice sounded from beside his ear: “Little Chenzi, you don’t need to waste any effort; mashing it is useless. Healing Spirit Grass requires saliva in order for it to be effective.”

“Eh……Mengying, this medicinal herb requires chewing. It will only have an effect if there’s saliva.” Xiao Chen explained.

“Ah?” Cheng Mengying stared blankly for a moment. She didn’t expect that there would be this kind of view, how come she had never heard of this? Is Xiao Chen deliberately swindling me? But, what advantage would swindling me give him? Cheng Mengying was somewhat unable to understand.

“I say Young Lady, quickly make a decision, your foot……” When Xiao Chen saw Cheng Mengying foolishly staring blankly, he bitterly smiled and reminded her.

“Then you help me chew and apply it, don’t you know that I feel sick at the sight of blood!” Cheng Mengying found an excuse for herself. Although making Xiao Chen chew and apply it on her foot made Cheng Mengying feel strange, she couldn’t pay attention to so many things at this time. Along with actually feeling sick at the sight of blood, she unexpectedly also didn’t want to help herself.

“Feel sick when seeing blood?” This was Xiao Chen’s first time knowing that Cheng Mengying felt sick at the sight of blood. Before, when he was beating up Ma Gangmen in the gym, how come she didn’t look sick at the sight of blood? In reality, what Xiao Chen didn’t know was that when he was hitting Ma Gangmen, the young lady didn’t feel dizzy, but if Ma Gangmen was hitting him, the young lady would immediately feel dizzy!

But, Xiao Chen didn’t ask any further and put the Healing Spirit Grass in his mouth to chew. Then, he applied it over the young lady’s foot. When Xiao Chen’s finger touched the young lady’s foot, her body trembled slightly.

In the olden times, a woman’s feet was the most secretive place and absolutely couldn’t be touched by another other man than her husband. If a man wasn’t careful and touched a woman’s chest or buttocks, it wasn’t too important, but her feet were absolutely something that couldn’t be touched.

In the ancient times, there were many spring-palace paintings where all places of a woman’s body could be naked and revealed except for the feet. Actually, there was never before a painting where a woman was bare-naked; this was sufficient enough to explain how important and secretive this place was.

Although this wasn’t paid attention to in the modern times, Cheng Mengying is an Ancient Martial Clan’s young lady, so she more or less retained the mannerisms of the ancient times. Although she could reveal her bare feet, she still felt very uncomfortable for a man to be touching it.

However, she also knew that Xiao Chen was applying medicine on her, so she endured it……

“Done.” Actually, the wound on the young lady’s foot wasn’t large. It was just that the blood flowing out was quite a lot, causing one to feel frightened. After Xiao Chen cleaned it up and applied the medicine, it wasn’t so scary.

Cheng Mengying looked at her own foot and became somewhat shy. She didn’t express her thanks and quickly dodged to the slide and went upstairs, clearly wanting to hide from Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen thought little of it and tidied up the fragments on the kitchen floor, then continued to finish the work the young lady hadn’t finished.

“Venerable sir, I am not concerned about who you are. I have already given you face. I am a person from an Ancient Martial Aristocratic Clan, Cheng Clan!” Cheng Zhongfan and Cheng Zhongming were unalike. Cheng Zhongming did business, so he had money in his hands. Although he could take out this 100,000 RMB, his hand wasn’t ample. Spending 100,000 RMB to bring back a pile of waste medicine for no reason, what use would he have for it?

“Yanyan, write out a receipt for this guest!” Grandpa Chen actually paid no attention to Cheng Zhongfan and directly instructed Hong Yan.

“Okay, grandfather.” Hong Yan naturally could hear the difference in grandpa’s mouth when he said “customer” and “guest”. This referred to two different clientele, so the receipt books were also different.

Hong Yan took out a slightly yellowing book that somewhat looked like those trading company’s detailed list from the past. The top didn’t have a lattice, there was only the four big characters “Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce” written on the side.

“It can’t be that you’re forcing us to buy this? Do you not want to mix in Songning City?” The sunglasses male was in a bad mood. We’ve given your small pharmacy a lot of face, yet you truly believe you’re some extraordinary character?

Also, not asking how big of an influence Cheng Clan is in Songning City? If you want to do business here, then offending Cheng Clan means you’ll be in an extremely precarious situation!

However, when Cheng Zhongfan saw those folded banknotes in Hong Yan’s hands, his eyes immediately jumped. He turned around, swung his arm, and gave the sunglasses male a sudden ‘pa!’ slap to his face, causing the sunglasses on his face to be fly off: “Shut up!”

The sunglasses male was slapped stupid by Cheng Zhongfan. He amazedly covered the inflamed half of his face, foolishly standing in spot, not knowing what would be good to say.

But Cheng Zhongfan didn’t pay attention to him. Rather, he politely said to Grandpa Chen: “Sorry for inconveniencing Venerable sir, this subordinate doesn’t understand rules. What you said is right; the medicinal herbs have already been grabbed, if I don’t buy it, then there will be no one buying it.”

“En……” Grandpa Chen naturally knew why Cheng Zhongfan’s about-face change was so big. However, he wasn’t alarmed at strange sights, only snorting to indicate that he knew.

“Still not hurriedly taking out your money? This batch of medicine just happens to be taken back to mend your brain, you eyeless thing!” Cheng Zhongfan berated the sunglasses male.

“Yes, yes……” The sunglasses male hurriedly took out his bank card and carefully handed it over to Hong Yan.

Hong Yan swiped the card and the sunglasses male input his password. Then Cheng Zhongfan took that package of medicine towards the sunglasses male’s chest and gloomily left the pharmacy.

Hong Yan was behind them, covering her mouth trying not to laugh, but Cheng Zhongfan didn’t dare to have the slightest degree of dissatisfaction.

After walking out the door, only then did the sunglasses man very carefully ask: “Brother Fan, what organization is that Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce?”

“Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask.” Cheng Zhongfan wrinkled his brows, clearly not wanting to speak more. He simply said: “Walk, let’s return.”

In Old Master Cheng’s practice room inside Cheng Clan’s mansion, Cheng Tianqiu was sitting upright on a taishi chair¹. After Cheng Zhongfan returned back to Cheng Clan, the first thing he did was arrive here.

“How’s the investigation? Did Zhongming really turn Xiao Chen into a servant and not secretly give him material assistance?” Cheng Tianqiu faintly asked when he saw Cheng Zhongfan come in.

Cheng Tianqiu wasn’t an idiot; the older one got, the more experienced one was. Although Cheng Zhongming had previously said that he would make Xiao Chen degenerate into a servant and ruin Xiao Chen’s self-esteem, after calming down, Cheng Tianqiu feared that Cheng Zhongming was taking advantage of this justification to secretly aid Xiao Chen!

After all, Cheng Zhongming and Xiao Feng were sworn brothers and there was extremely sincere sentiments between the two². Cheng Zhongming was a person who attached importance to loyalty, so he had Cheng Zhongfan secretly go investigate.

“Father, according to my investigation, Xiao Chen currently is indeed quite miserable. There hasn’t been an indication of big brother helping him in secret.” Although Cheng Zhongfan did want to destroy his big brother’s image in their father’s heart so that he could replace him, he wasn’t an idiot. He knew that if he talked rubbish, father would definitely be skeptical. Thus, no matter whatever he³ did, he would give an impartial point of view to explain the issue in order to give father a just impression.

“Oh? Truly quite miserable?” Cheng Tianqiu was slightly dazed, thinking in his heart ‘Did I think a little too much? Cheng Zhongming is Cheng Clan’s person in the end, representing Cheng Clan’s interest! Even if Xiao Feng is his sworn brother, that’s only swearing brotherhood. What is missing is his own blood younger brother!’

“Yes, it seems like Mengying hasn’t even given Xiao Chen a cent in wages. Xiao Chen is currently impoverished and defeated. He has to wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning every day to go to the morning market street to make a living by selling breakfast……” This was what Cheng Zhongfan had seen with his own eyes and couldn’t speak falsely about it.

“Him? Going to the morning market to sell breakfast?” Cheng Tianqiu was very astonished. A former young master from the Xiao Clan, who didn’t need to worry about clothes or food, unexpectedly went to the morning market to sell breakfast? Who would believe it if told that?

“That’s right. In addition, he is selling breakfast together with Tang Clan’s Tang Tang.” Cheng Zhongfan replied: “It seems like the two people’s relationship is pretty good.”

“Tang Tang……oh, I understand.” Cheng Tianqiu also knew about Tang Clan and Yue Clan’s matters. Now that he heard that Tang Tang and Xiao Chen walked quite closely, his heart relaxed. It seems like Xiao Chen is self-aware that he isn’t fit for Cheng Mengying and went to Tang Tang, who has similar life experiences as him. Actually, Cheng Tianqiu was most afraid that Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying would become friendlier over time. But now, this possibility was practically none.

“Xiao Chen isn’t a Martialist and was previously a dandy young master, so it is estimated that he is unable to handle standing upright selling for two days. As a matter of fact, he went to a family pharmacy this evening and wanted to get some medicinal supplements to make up for his health.” As Cheng Zhongfan was speaking, he also spoke about the matter of Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce to Cheng Tianqiu.

“This boy’s luck is actually good, to have Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce gift him a batch of medicine for free.” After Cheng Tianqiu finished listening, he shook his head. What this Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce was doing, wasn’t something Cheng Clan could meddle with. Regarding the Martialist circles, there were two big mystical secret organizations that an individual clan could mess with.

One was the Martialist Guild, which was in charge of distributing some Martialist aspect information and smelting trial missions. The other was Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce, which specialized in selling spiritual medicines or treasures and so on to Martialists.

“Yes, that old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲ isn’t any nice person. He scammed me of 100,000 RMB!” Cheng Zhongfan helplessly said.

“The way they work has always been subjected to their moods and cannot rashly be discussed!” Cheng Tianqiu’s expression was solemn as he repeatedly warning Cheng Zhongfan: “Since we know that pharmacy is a subsidiary to Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce, don’t go provoking it in the future.”

“Yes, I understand!” Cheng Zhongfan promptly answered.

“All right, don’t focus attention on Xiao Chen, this junior’s, body, just pay attention to news of changes.” Cheng Tianqiu only made Cheng Zhongfan to ask around. Since there were no problems, then it would be fine for Xiao Chen to run his own course.

Xiao Chen was in the front walking to return to the villa, while Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei car was in the back stopped at the villa’s entrance. However, Jin Beibei couldn’t reside here today; she still had to go home. It was fine for her to occasionally stay the night outside, but if she wanted to live outside, Old Master Jin wouldn’t agreed because he treated this granddaughter like a treasure.

Cheng Mengying got off the car and took a glance at Xiao Chen. Then, she said: “Why did you go buy medicine? What problem does your body have?”

Xiao Chen knew that he couldn’t constantly conceal the truth from Cheng Mengying⁴, but he still couldn’t say the entire truth. He merely said: “I actually have no problems. It’s just a auxiliary medicine to strengthen and invigorate one’s body. Formerly, my father would regularly get some for me to drink, saying that after I drank it, I would be able to cultivate Inner Strength.”

“So it was like this……” After Cheng Mengying listened to Xiao Chen’s words, she immediately became silent.

Actually, Xiao Chen not being able to cultivate Inner Strength wasn’t merely just Xiao Chen’s sore point, not so long ago, it was also Cheng Mengying’s sore point. When Cheng Mengying found out that she had a good-for-nothing fiancé, how could she be happy in her heart? She would definitely secretly be very bitter.

But at that time, Cheng Mengying didn’t understand what she did now. Now that she had been in contact with Xiao Chen for some time, Cheng Mengying discovered that Xiao Chen was suffering even more than her. From what she had seen, Xiao Chen thirsted for obtaining strength more than anyone else, to cultivate Inner Strength, but the Heavens didn’t care for him.

Of course, what Cheng Mengying didn’t know was that even though the Heavens⁵ didn’t care for him, Tian Lao quite cared for Xiao Chen……

“I’m going to brew medicine.” Xiao Chen smiled towards Cheng Mengying: “After that, I’ll go fix up some dinner for you to eat.”

“It’s not urgent, go brew medicine first.” Cheng Mengying shook her head. It was very unexpected that she didn’t stop Xiao Chen from brewing medicine with her young lady temperament today: “Xiao Chen, not having Inner Strength doesn’t mean anything. I previously……hadn’t avoided you……”

As for whether or not she had avoided him, only Cheng Mengying herself was clear about it in her heart. Because Cheng Mengying’s current impression of Xiao Chen had changed a lot, she naturally wouldn’t avoid him now. But previously, to be honest, she truly despised Xiao Chen.

“Hehe……” Xiao Chen laughed. He clearly knew that the Young Lady was being a little hypocritical, but it was still very unexpected to him. Cheng Mengying could unexpectedly say these kind of words; was this her true opinion?

Shaking his head, Xiao Chen returned to his room. Even if what the Young Lady said was true, Xiao Chen wouldn’t naively think that he could now have any results⁶ with Cheng Mengying. Some matters, when they occur, it’s impossible to go back.

After setting the electric earthenware pot to the correct temperature, he went to the kitchen to fix up something to eat at once. The staple food was naturally still instant noodles, but the dishes were some foods that were placed in the refrigerator yesterday. Xiao Chen took them out and used the microwave to heat it up, then arranged it on the table.

Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying sat side by side on the dining table eating things. Without Jin Beibei, Cheng Mengying suddenly felt that it was somewhat unbearable! Initially, she and Xiao Chen would also eat stuff like this, but she didn’t think too much about it. Cheng Mengying didn’t know why, but today she felt that she and Xiao Chen were like a newlywed couple, sitting at the dining table and eating a meal at home.

If there weren’t any accidents between Xiao Clan and Cheng Clan, after how much time would this scene still happen? At that time……she should be Xiao Chen’s wife!

Formerly, Cheng Mengying would absolutely reject this matter. However, thinking of these today, she didn’t know why, but she felt especially warm. As if, there was a faint trace of expectation.

How is this possible? Cheng Mengying shook her head and got rid of these chaotic thoughts, peacefully eating the food……

“I understand.” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled somewhat helplessly. Bitter Relief Fruit. His house actually had a lot of this, but it wasn’t his, it was Ye Xiaoye’s! Xiao Chen didn’t count on Ye Xiaoye to hand over the Bitter Relief Fruits in her hand and also didn’t plan on going to steal.

Although Ye Xiaoye, this **’s, disposition was indifferent, she was a good person. Xiao Chen also owed her a new earthenware pot due to borrowing one from her!

After handing over the money, Xiao Chen carefully received the packaged medicinal herbs and left the pharmacy.

“Grandpa Chen, this person is quite eccentric!” Hong Yan said as she looked at Xiao Chen’s back.

“Yes, I also feel that it’s somewhat strange. A person that needs Bitter Relief Fruits shouldn’t be over here.” Grandpa Chen shook his head, then said: “Forget it. Young Lady Yan, you must remember, we speak business in a business. As for the things other people buy or do, that isn’t something we need to know.”

“Yes, Grandpa Chen.” Hong Yan hurriedly nodded.

Cheng Mengying watched Xiao Chen walk out from the pharmacy. She wasn’t clear on what he had bought, but it was estimated that it should have some relationship with the medicinal herbs that he had bought before. It should be similar stuff.

Xiao Chen was walking in the front with Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei following closely behind him. After walking not too far, Tian Lao’s voice echoed from beside Xiao Chen’s ears: “Little Chenzi, this time you are really being watched!”

“What?!” Xiao Chen’s heart suddenly went cold. He was really being watched? But, how come he didn’t sense it?

However, Xiao Chen didn’t think Tian Lao would deceive him in this kind of matter. Although Tian Lao, this master¹, sometimes didn’t act like a senior and played some jokes, it was absolutely impossible for him to make irresponsible remarks on this kind of important matter.

“It’s a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, you not sensing it is normal.” Tian Lao’s following words made Xiao Chen almost stagger and fall onto the ground!

Seventh Layer? Xiao Chen was already at a loss coping and escaping yesterday’s Fourth Layer Martialist. Now that a Seventh Layer Martialist was sent out, was this letting him live or not?

“From this person’s body, I can’t feel any killing intent and is different from other people.” Tian Lao’s voice continued to echo by Xiao Chen’s ear: “As a matter of fact, I saw this person today morning; he had gone to your vendor stall to buy deep-fried breadsticks. At the time, I thought it was a coincidence. After all, a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist is also a person and requires things to eat, but now it seems that it isn’t a coincidence. This person truly is following you.”

“Following me without killing intent? Then why is he following me?” Xiao Chen was faintly surprised and somewhat bewildered. If it was according to Tian Lao’s statement, during early morning, this person had many opportunities to move against him. Regardless of running to the grocery store during the wee hours of the morning or collecting the vendor stall with Tang Tang and going to school, all of this required him to pass through many uninhabited alleyways. Moving against him at those times were optimal opportunities and he didn’t need to wait until now.

“How can I know? You think Truth Cultivating is so amazing that one can see through another person’s thoughts?” Tian Lao unhappily said: “Let alone, I simply can’t display my strength.”

“Okay.” Xiao Chen could only brace himself to nod and continue walking in the direction of the villa area.

“He entered the pharmacy.” Tian Lao’s following words made Xiao Chen’s heart go cold again. This person went to the pharmacy? What was he doing at the pharmacy?

However, Xiao Chen knew that even if that person went into the pharmacy, asking Tian Lao was of no use because he had already walked very far now. By means of Tian Lao’s perceptivity, he wouldn’t necessarily be able to hear the dialog inside the pharmacy and could only go back tomorrow to ask Hong Yan or the old grandfather.

The number of people entering the pharmacy was actually two and not one person. Only, on that Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist’s side was a sunglasses male. This guy was merely a First Layer Inner Strength Martialist, so it could be assumed that this guy’s strength was meager and was automatically neglected by Tian Lao!

This kind of First Layer Inner Strength Martialist simply didn’t have any fighting power before Xiao Chen.

“Brother Fan, please go in.” The sunglasses male helped that Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist open the door and made an ‘invitation’ hand gesture.

The Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist called ‘Brother Fan’ nodded his head and entered the pharmacy. This ‘Brother Fan’ was Cheng Clan’s Cheng Zhongfan, Cheng Zhongming’s second brother and Cheng Mengying’s second uncle!

“These two gentlemen, what medicine would you like to buy?” When Hong Yan saw customers come in, she put down the book in her hand and courteously asked.

“Young girl, I would like to inquire a matter.” Cheng Zhongfan looked towards Hong Yan and was scared by this girl’s temperament. He was somewhat baffled at heart; inside this kind of street pharmacy, how could there be such a elegant and refined female?

But Cheng Zhongfan pursued the Clan Head’s authority and not beauty. Towards these things that had an influencing his body and cultivation, Cheng Zhongfan was very temperate and didn’t want to develop a step further with this girl.

“Oh? What matter?” Hong Yan nodded and asked.

“There was a young man that came to buy medicine just a moment ago, right? Help me obtain one set of the exact same.” Cheng Zhongfan said.

Hong Yan was slightly startled in her heart. It was unknown what background Cheng Zhongfan had, but she remained calm on the surface and said: “Please wait a moment, I’ll go call my grandfather over. It was my grandfather that grabbed the medicine before.”

“Okay.” Cheng Zhongfan politely nodded.

Hong Yan entered the inner room and didn’t speak many words. She only said to Grandpa Chen that some people came and wanted a batch of the exactly same medicinal herbs that Xiao Chen bought. This pharmacy’s inner room’s distance wasn’t far from the outer room, so if Cheng Zhongfan’s ears were good, he should be able to hear. Therefore, Hong Yan didn’t add her own subjective opinion. Although, she could also feel that the two people who came were bad and it seemed that they would be harmful to Xiao Chen.

“Oh, I understand.” Grandpa Chen nodded and also didn’t say much, immediately leaving the inner room.

“Venerable sir, troubled you!” Cheng Zhongfan was a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist in any case. Although his eyes and ears couldn’t be compared to a Truth Cultivator, if he wanted to say that he hadn’t heard what Hong Yan and Grandpa Chen had said at such a close distance, then it would be impossible.

As a result, he heard Hong Yan’s words and knew that Grandpa Chen already knew his goal, so that was why he said ‘troubled you’ just now.

Grandpa Chen skillfully grabbed some medicinal herbs, put them into a package, then placed it in front of Cheng Zhongfan and said: “100,000 RMB.”

“Geh？！” Cheng Zhongfan stared blankly. What was this thing? A heavenly treasure material? A batch of broken medicine unexpectedly cost 100,000 RMB? Moreover, Cheng Zhongfan and Cheng Zhongming were different. Cheng Zhongming studied business while Cheng Zhongfan like to research heavenly treasure materials from childhood. Regarding some medicinal herbs, he understood their uses. He reached out with his hand to flip over the several medicinal herbs before his eyes. This was undoubtedly a batch of medicinal herbs for body strengthening tonic, simply not worth 100,000 RMB. It was worth 20,000 RMB at max.

“Old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲, you dare to blackmail us?” The sunglasses male was frightened and subconsciously went to pull on Grandpa Chen’s collar.

Cheng Zhongfan actually waved his hand to stop the sunglasses male’s actions, then creased his brows and said: “Venerable sir, this is a batch for body strengthening tonic, are you certain you just sold this batch of medicine?”

What Cheng Zhongfan was currently confused about was not how much money the medicine was worth, but rather how Xiao Chen could buy anything! Because in his opinion, it was impossible for Xiao Chen to buy this kind of tonic! Was Xiao Chen ill? Since he was already forced into destitution and had to wake up first thing in the morning to work himself to death, how could he spend 100,000 RMB on a tonic?

“That’s right.” Grandpa Chen indifferently said.

“He spent 100,000 RMB?” Cheng Zhongfan already felt like cursing.

“No.” Grandpa Chen shook his head.

“Ah? Then how much money did he spend?” Cheng Zhongfan slightly looked distracted.

“No money.” Grandpa Chen replied.

“Pff……then for what reason are you selling it to me for 100,000 and selling it to him for free?” Cheng Zhongfan was thoroughly played insane by this old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲ in front of him: “Are you playing with me?”

“Hmph, old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲, do you know who my boss is?” The sunglasses male also felt that this old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲ was playing with them.

“A Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, this old man doesn’t have any interest in knowing who you are.” Grandpa Chen’s tone was still extremely indifferent.

“Geh！” Cheng Zhongfan once again stayed in place looking distracted. He looked at the old man before his eyes in disbelief. He simply hadn’t revealed his strength, yet this old man before his eyes unexpectedly exposed his strength rank. How was this possible?

Even if it was him, if another Martialist didn’t expose their strength, then he wouldn’t be able to accurately judge the other party’s strength. So what did the old man in front of him depend on?

But no matter what, cold sweat already started to cover Cheng Zhongfan’s forehead. This old man in front of him simply didn’t resemble what he had imagined, that is, an ordinary street doctor.

“Venerable sir, pardon me, I offended you just now. I hope you can forgive me, I just wanted to ask, why did you give that young man a batch of medicine for free? Do you know him?” Cheng Zhongfan had no other option but to bear his temper and ask. He hadn’t heard that Xiao Chen had such an awesome patron at all. If this old man truly was a ruthless person, then it wouldn’t be good for Cheng Clan to offend Xiao Chen in the future.

“Don’t know.” Grandpa Chen shook his head: “Because he didn’t have money and you have money. I saw that he was pitiful, so I gave him a batch and was content.”

“Pff……” Cheng Zhongfan was somewhat speechless. It turns out that you old-timer consider me as a stupid idiot? But hearing that this old man and Xiao Chen neither knew each other nor had any relationship, Cheng Zhongfan’s heart was pacified! He thought in his heart that this old man’s temperament was really eccentric enough, but selling a batch to Xiao Chen for free could actually be understood. Xiao Chen had recently been expelled from his clan, and now this young master was going to bed late and waking up early to sell breakfast. Xiao Chen wasn’t a Martialist, so he was probably tired and it could be estimated that he wanted to buy some body strengthening medicine. The outcome was that this old man saw how pitiful Xiao Chen was and decided to present him a batch of medicine because he didn’t have any money. Naturally, Xiao Chen also didn’t know the value of the medicinal herbs².

Speculating like this was very reasonable, thus Cheng Zhongfan no longer pestered this old man because how this old man saw through him was queer. He prepared to come back after he looked up this old man’s background!

“Venerable sir, then I won’t bother you anymore, goodbye.” Cheng Zhongfan thought for a while and said.

“Your medicine.” Grandpa Chen pointed at the medicine on the counter and reminded.

“This medicine, I already don’t want, many thanks.” If Cheng Zhongfan bought this medicine and went back, he wouldn’t even have a farts use for it. He was already a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, so his body was very robust. Why would he need a nonsense supplement?

“I already picked it. If you don’t want it, then who do I sell it to? Could it be that you want to renege on a debt?” Grandpa Chen’s complexion became slightly cold.