C9 Show Me You Have the Goods to Beat Me to Death

“The Spiritual Energy in this world is too weak. Although the Idea of Flint Monastery is a very powerful technique, here on earth its benefits to me are too limited…”

And just like that, it was midnight. Ye Tian cut short his cultivating and shook his head side-to-side.

After six long hours of cultivation, his cultivation still wavered at the first level of the Cavern Stage. He had made no progress, not even reaching the complete realm yet. With such a slow advancement, if he was still in the Square Inch Spirit Domain, he would have been mocked for his efforts.

Even more unlucky was that even after such a long period of time, no one had brought an amulet with not one person even bothering to ask any questions about it.

“How much are the amulets?”

At that time, a girl, dressed in a white one-piece dress, who was just about to enter the hospital stopped before him. She half-squatted before the stall and reached out with a delicate hand, which was as smooth as white jade, and took a closer look at the amulets. Then she turned to look at Ye Tian, inquiring after the amulets.

Ye Tian could not help but stare. The woman appeared to be in her twenties, was tall, and had delicate features. A pair of thick eyebrows and an elegant temperament gave her a heroic air.

Even Hsu Qing, who was considered the campus belle, was no match to her beauty.

“Ten thousand and the amulet is yours and no bargaining.” Ye Tian only gave her a glance before turning away and saying faintly, “This amulet can exorcise evil and prevent disasters. As long as you are alive, if you wear this on your body, all illness will reverse itself and you will get better.”

The girl reacted by frowning. Clearly, it would take more than just Ye Tian’s words to make her a believer.

“Ning Xue, don’t for one minute believe what these people have to say. They are all liars. Don’t bother wasting your time here. Let’s go now and see your grandfather.”

At this moment, a tall and handsome man behind the girl turned to look at Ye Tian and outrightly sneered. He urgently pushed Ning Xue to hurry to leave.

“Lin Faang, if you are in a rush, then go right on ahead. I don’t need you ordering me around.”

Ning Xue turned around to look at the tall man while saying this in a cold tone. Clearly, she was not fond of him.

“Can you lower the price of this amulet?”

Right afterwards, Ning Xue looked at Ye Tian and wanted to know.

“Your surname just happens to be Ning?”

Ye Tian’s eyes stared at Ning Xue while saying this in a faint voice.

“Is there anything wrong?” Ning Xue was frowning slightly, not able to comprehend right then why Ye Tian bothered to ask about this matter.

“Nothing. Just that it's a good surname.” Ye Tian shook his head while smiling faintly. Then he said, “You can take it for five thousand.”

She’d be lucky to get his amulet for ten thousand.

But since her surname was the same as Ning Yao, he thought he would give her a 50% discount.

“Do you think you can lower the price a little further?”

After a moment of silence, Ning Xue said this.

“If you don’t have the intention of buying it, then don't buy it.”

After shaking his head, Ye Tian said this.

“Liar, you’re selling something carved out of peach wood for 5,000 yuan. That’s too much!”

When Lin Faang heard that Ye Tian was charging Ning Xue 5,000 yuan for an amulet, he was immediately angered by the exorbitant prices. He decided to take matters into his own hands. While lifting a foot, he was about to stomp down heavily onto Ye Tian’s amulets.

Ye Tian turned away, his expression all the while not changing at all.

“Lin Faang!”

Ning Xue saw what Lin Faang was about to do and immediately turned around to chastise him. Though she wanted to, she wasn’t able to stop him in time.

Totally immersed in his rage, Lin Faang continued to stomp his foot down onto the amulets. When his foot was only five centimeters away from the Peach Wood Amulets, the amulet directly under his feet suddenly flashed wildly with a throbbing light.

The light flashed quickly, however, this light was very faint, so no one took any notice of it.

Bang!

At this very time, Lin Faang’s body suddenly shot backwards as if he had been electrocuted, and he fell with a thud over a meter away from where they were standing.

“If you don’t want to buy it, then just leave. I won’t force you to do anything…”

Ye Tian remained unmoved and said this with a calm expression on his face.

The amulet had many magical components including eliminating calamities and avoiding accidents. Lin Faang’s attempt to step on the amulet was akin to landing on a hot iron plate.

Ning Xue gave Ye Tian a careful look, the light in her eyes shifting constantly.

She did not see Ye Tian budge just now. How was it possible for Lin Faang to not step on the amulet?

“I’m sorry, I don’t know him. And yes, I want to buy the amulet.”

After a good moment, Ning Xue picked an amulet from the selections on display and handed over a sum of money to Ye Tian.

“Have the patient wear the amulet on his person. The amulet can be used more than one time. After the patient fully recovers, it doesn’t hurt to wear this often.”

Ye Tian counted the money he had just received and casually reminded Ning Xue.

“I hope what you’re saying is true. Also, with the money I gave you, you can now get something to eat.”

Ning Xue turned over the Peach Wood Amulet in her hand and looked it over carefully. When she found nothing extraordinary about it, she could not help but feel a trace of disappointment enter her heart. But the feeling was fleeting. Then with the amulet in her hand, she made her way into the hospital.

She bought the amulet because she felt that Ye Tian who was sitting there looking malnourished without a single customer all night long was too pitiful. Wanting to do a good deed to help her seriously ill grandfather, she hoped that by doing this it will help him accumulate merit, hopefully speeding up his recovery very soon.

“Bastard, I’ll come looking for revenge from you some other day!”

At this time, Lin Faang peeked open an eye and saw that Ning Xue was leaving. He struggled to pick himself off the ground. While pointing at Ye Tian and cursing underneath his breath, he hurried to give chase after Ning Xue.

“She must’ve felt pity for me. So she as kind as she is…”

Ye Tian stared at Ning Xue’s receding back as she left. Her back and the back that had left a mark in the depths of his soul seemed to co-exist in that instant. After a while, he tried to clear his head by shaking it and put away the items on his stall. He smiled to himself and said, “Continue to do more good things. Stop worrying about how the future will turn out.”

He did not know if the sorrowful words were for Ning Xue or himself.

After Ye Tian had finished gathering his things, he turned around and walked towards the entrance of an alley next to the hospital.

As he walked, he saw that there were some snacks being sold. Only at the first level of the Cavern Stage, it was imminent that he get something in his belly fast. If he waited out for too long, starvation would be a sure thing. If he didn’t replenish his strength soon, he would be too weak to do anything.

The original owner of his current body especially needed this. Ever since his parents left this world, hunger and weakness had been a constant thing in his life. Why else would he have been knocked out by a single punch earlier? Even Ning Xue felt pity for him.

“Grandson, never would I have thought a youth like you would cheat us like this. You just earned a ton of money! But according to the rules of this street, after everything you've earned you must give us a 50% cut! Be sure to pay us this money quickly. Otherwise, you’ll be beaten to death!”

Ye Tian had just made his way to the entrance of the alley when a few aggressive-looking thugs came out of hiding from the shadows. After they crowded around him, they watched him with unfriendly gazes.

“Do you really think you can beat me to death?” Ye Tian glanced over at the leader of the gangsters and said with an unaffected smile, “Then attack me quickly! Prove to me you can really kill me!”

“Such arrogance!”

The thug leader was startled. He couldn’t believe that this undernourished youth would have the audacity to speak up to him in such a manner.

“If you want to beat me, then just beat me. Don’t just stand there.”

Ye Tian said all this coldly.

According to the current him, the thing that he cannot afford to waste was time.

With just one more minute of cultivation, this could take him one step closer to finding Ning Yao. Why would he waste a precious second with these bad guys?”

“My fists will teach you who you are!”

Enraged, the gangster leader threw a punch at Ye Tian’s chest.

Ye Tian’s expression remained unmoved as he retaliated with another punch forward.

Bang!

The two fists collided, and instantly the face of the thug leader, which was originally filled with a fierce smile, turned into a grimace of pain.

The impact that met his fist seemed to be like that of a cannonball that had been fired. The force was so strong, it gave him the sensation that all the bones in his wrist had been broken.

How could this be possible?

The thug leader had always felt great pride for what was his outstanding strength. But now, what looked like to be a malnourished young man had toppled his original point of view.

Bang!

Consecutively, right after Ye Tian pushed his opponent’s fist away, his fist had already made contact with the thug leader’s chest.

“Ah!”

With an excruciating wail like a pig facing the slaughter, the leader of the thugs fell heavily to the ground. He clutched his chest and screamed wildly in pain. It appeared he was having difficulty breathing.

“What about now? Do you want to hit me now too?”

Ye Tian turned to look coldly at the other gangsters, giving them leeway to fight him back.

The gangsters exchanged a look and then hurried to drag their boss away.

Even the most powerful boss was no match for him. There was no one with the ability to defeat him!

“Boss, a bowl of beef noodle soup, double beef and chili!”

Ye Tian turned to look them each coldly in the eye before making his way to the noodle stall in the snack alley. He sat down in an empty seat in the noodle stall.

He was here to reward himself with meat in the belly after a hard day's work.

At the same time, in the special care ward in Nanhai City Hospital.

“Young Master Lin, greetings.” A middle-aged couple saw Lin Faang, immediately smiled, and welcomed him. Then they turned to Ning Xue to say, “Xue, hurry now and get some refreshments for Young Master Lin.”