The young lady looked at him without any reaction but her gaze flickered for a moment.
The old man didn't outright kill him, instead, he released his aura and spoke in a cold and imperious tone while pointing with his finger at the corpses" Give me a reason that I shouldn't kill you just like these trash."
Ling Chen felt his heart shuddering. But he tried to remain calm and without showing any hint of intimidation, He brought his fists together and spoke respectfully " Venerable old man, I am not an accomplice of this trash. I was just going home but saw them surrounding you guys so I came to see what was happening. I wasn't stalking you or anything like that."
The old man squinted his eyes seeing that ling Chen showed no signs of intimidation and could speak without nervousness and remain calm under the influence of his aura with only his 5th layer body tempering realm cultivation.
The old man was about to speak when an indifferent voice sounded.
" What is your name? " Old man was stunned on the spot because the owner of the voice was none other than the young lady who would not even bother to spare a glance to someone from big clans. But now she was asking for a nobody's name, why wouldn't he be surprised.
Ling Chen looked into the eyes of the young lady then said " Ling Chen "
" Ling Chen " she mumbled then turned around and spoke " Let's go. uncle Wang. "
The old man took a last glance at Ling Chen and also turned around.
Ling Chen who was looking at the departing figure of the girl, hesitated for a moment then quickly asked " Young lady, may I also know your name?"
The young lady paused for a moment and spoke without turning around " Yu Yan "
" Yu Yan " Ling Chen mumbled while looking at her departing figure. Meanwhile, the Old man was even more confused ' why would young miss ask for a nobody's name and then also told him her name. '
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After disappearing from ling Chen's sight, the old man glanced at the young lady and asked " Princess, may I ask something?"
Yu Yan smiled and spoke, " Uncle wang you want to know, why I asked for his name right? "
" Yes, I'm just curious princess." Uncle wang nodded.
Yu Yan thought for a second then spoke " It's just that he felt somewhat special. My intuition tells me that we will meet him again in future."
The old man was surprised. How can someone from a low-class place like cloud view town be anything 'special' and they might meet him in future?. It should be known that not even Xiantian realm martial artists can't easily hope to meet them, because the princess clan was the Royal clan of this 'Country of Yu'.
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After Yu Yan an old man vanished in the deeper region of the mountain, Ling Chen stood there for some time and replayed the slaughter he just witnessed, in his mind.
' That old man was most likely a Xiantian realm expert. If so, then Xiantian realm martial artists are way too powerful, He is also very skilled in killing people, he was able to kill them in a single strike. There was not any unnecessary action and he moved like the wind.'
After witnessing a high levelled battle, you can also benefit in some ways and it is also very exciting to watch, that's why many people love to watch battles between experts. Now, Ling Chen was also benefitting from it, this might help him improve his skills a little.
After contemplating for a while, he sighed " I still can't fathom the depth of a really strong expert's strength." He then glanced at the dead bodies.
"I should check them, I'm almost broke now. I don't have enough money to buy some more body tempering pills. They should have some pills right? although that old man made them look weak that is only true in front of him, any one of them could kill me as easily as swatting a fly."
He then searched their bodies, he found 15 jars of body tempering pills each had 20 pills. there was also a total of 450 gold and some weapons.
" Wow! They had 300 body tempering pills and this much gold. there is also their leader's body remaining, let's see what he got."
He then searched his body and found a fist-size pouch. " What is this, he doesn't have anything valuable despite being this gang's leader. Only this little pouch, what kind of leader was he, not having a single pill or gold coins. Forget it!..... let's see what is in this pouch."
" What! This is a spatial storage bag." after checking the bag he exclaimed in shock.
" Hahaha.....worthy of being a leader! " His previous disappointment disappeared in a puff.
A spatial storage bag is different from a normal storage bag. because these spatial bags are engraved with spatial runes, a small fist size pouch can store a lot of things and unlike normal bags, once you put something inside no matter how heavy it was, you won't feel any weight. This makes carrying your stuff around easier and more comfortable, that's why spatial bags are in high demand but they aren't easy to make. Only the 'Rune masters' who can use engrave spatial runes can make them but runemasters are very few and far between. which makes the production of these spatial bags very low. This is why these spatial bags are worth an astronomical amount of money which a normal body tempering realm cultivation can't hope to earn and buy one for themselves.
But now he got one without doing anything which made him very happy. He quickly collected his thoughts and started taking out the items from the bag. in a short while, there was a small mountain of gold and around 100 jars of body tempering pills, a few parchments made of beast hide and 2 jars of Houtian pills.
" I'm rich! I'm rich! " He almost jumped in excitement. Although it's normal for Houtian realm cultivators to have this much wealth for Ling Chen, it wasn't any less than a treasure trove. After all, he was only 14 years old now and never had this much wealth, so it was normal for him to be this excited.He quickly went through his loot and stored it in his spatial bag. He now had over 3000 gold, 2300 body tempering pills, two jars of Houtian pills which had 40 pills in total. There were also some weapons, but they were very common; only a sword caught his eyes which he found in the spatial bag. It was a three feet long blue sword. It was quite light and had some runes engraved on its blade. He swung the sword around and could feel it cutting through the air without any resistance. It was like a part of his body." I should learn some sword skills, it would increase my combat power exponentially." after swinging the sword around he stored it in the bag. Lastly, h
"Now get out of my way." saying this, Ling then went away." Hehe...now that you agreed to participate in the competition, I'm going to cripple you. If Even after that, Feng Jiayi didn't come to her senses and agree to be my woman, I won't mind killing you outright and have her become my sex toy with force." Tie mu grinned....Ling Chen came home, took a nice bath and slept for some time.' Now that I think about it, after grandfather's death, there is no one to look after this house if I'm out on training or something. I should hire a housekeeper and maids.' Previously they didn't have any servants to take care of their residence because of lack of money but now that started his cultivation journey, there wouldn't be any lack of funds anymore. This confidence wasn't only because of his powerful cultivation of art but also because of his confidence in himself.He then put out a recruitment notice at the front gate of his residence and set the appo
" I only have about two days. Is it possible to learn both human ranked skills in only two days? " Ling Chen wondered.' I shouldn't take the risk and learn only one which is more helpful to raise my combat power. In that case which one should I choose?' Ling Chen had two martial skills; one was a 'Wind sword' skill, and another was an a' Flowing water' skill which was a movement type martial skill. " If I want to beat Tie mu and rank higher than him, I should use this chance to raise my attack power. For that, this 'wind sword' skill is a perfect choice. As for the movement type skill, although it will increase my agility and speed, it won't make much difference where all geniuses compete if I don't have enough firepower to eliminate them."Thinking this, he chose the 'wind sword' skill and started reading its introduction and details.' Wind sword skill is channelling type skill. using this skill, one can manipulate and channel one's Qi into their sword in a complex manner to gath
Ling Chen hugged and softly said, "Jiayi, don't worry about that. Your big brother Chen will win today, and make him stop bothering you from now onwards." Feng Jiayi was stunned for a moment then her whole face turned red from embarrassment. She struggled for a moment, but Ling Chen didn't let go of her. She then buried her face in his chest and spoke " If Big brother Chen didn't win against him, how would i...live without...seeing...you." She hesitantly finished her sentence." Ohh! You like your big brother this much, eh! I didn't know...hehe," Ling Chen teased and let go of his hold.Feng Jiayi held her head down because she couldn't look into his eyes and spoke, " Big brother Chen you have to win, okay!" " Don't worry. I'll win." Ling Chen spoke. He then thought of something and grinned " If I defeat him, what will I get in return?"Feng Jiayi reddened. She understood what he was hinting at."If Big brother wins, then I...I will give you...a...ki...kiss." Ling Chen was startl
"Tie mu of Tie clan greets elder." Tie mu came forward and greeted him, but there wasn't much respect shown on his face.Elder nodded his head. Tie mu then glanced at Feng Jiayi and then focused on Ling Chen and spoke in a loud voice, " Ling Chen, open your dog eyes and see my grade of talent and accept your defeat if you don't want to be humiliated even more.Saying this puffed out his chest and put his hand on the stone.After a few seconds, talent crystal glowed with green light. Seeing this, Tie mu burst out laughing " Did you see this, Ling Chen? How are you going to win the bet now? Accept your defeat, give me three kowtows and admit that you are trash compared to me. Hahaha"Ling Chen frowned but didn't retort. Although Green's unique Qi grade was impressive, it wasn't impossible to have. He was pretty sure himself that his talent wasn't any lower than a green grade.Although Ling Chen remained calm, it wasn't the same for Feng Jiayi. She immediately got angry and shouted at ti
Outskirts of Cloud View town, Cloud view Mountain... A boy, around 13 years old, with handsome features, in ragged clothes was fighting with a tigertoothed boar barehanded. Boy was injured and panting heavily but a determined and excited glint was flashing in his eyes. He was here to get the rare herb it was guarding, a stalk of vitality grass. he needed this grass for his ill grandfather who has lost almost all his vitality and was on the verge of dying. This boy's name is Ling Chen. In the cloud view town he is the weakest in his age group, and always gets bullied because of it. but he doesn't fear anything when it comes to his grandfather, Ling xiao. Ling Xiao is his only family member alive and Ling Chen loves him very much because Ling xiao is the one who brought him up since he was just an infant. His parents died in a beast tide and Ling xiao got seriously injured but despite that, he took care of Ling Chen. Now Ling xiao is almost on his last br
"There you are." he quickly picked the vitality grass up and put it in his bag. but he was now feeling a little giddy because he lost a lot of blood when the boar's claw ran through his flesh. his back was badly mutilated. " Let's get out of here quickly. Now that I have found this grass, Grandpa can get better." He felt excited thinking about this. He quickly got down the mountain and went towards his home. His home was in the central part of cloud view town where mostly wealthy people live but they were the only exception now when Ling Chen's parents were alive they were the top family in the cloud view town. Ling Chen arrived at the main gate of the town and entered. But now his consciousness was fading due to loss of blood. Just when he was about to class, A gorgeous little lady quickly got hold of him. " Big brother Chen!!" "Big brother Chen, what happened to you. How are you so injured." This little lady was none other
When it was finally morning, Ling Chen felt a hand on his shoulder. He stopped crying and turn around to see who it was. it was Feng Jiayi who was standing behind him until now with her tiny hand on his shoulder. She said " B..big brother Chen, please stop crying now. Grandpa Ling wouldn't want you to keep crying like this, he will always be watching over you, you wouldn't make him sad...would you?" Ling Chen nodded his head when he saw she also had two lines of tear marks on her cheeks. He said " Jiayi, you are right, I won't make him sad anymore. He was always worried because I didn't have any interest in cultivation and learning martial arts and would always be weak because of it, from now on I'm going to give my all to become stronger so that grandpa won't worry about me." He then put his grandfather's body that he had in his arms, carefully onto the bed and said " grandpa you don't have to worry about me anymore, I'll become strong and live my life happily