NOVPUB76: Chapter 75: Teach the Bully a Lesson!
(Revised Chapter)
76: Chapter 75: Teach the Bully a Lesson!
(Revised Chapter)
After returning home, Ye Chuxue needed to do her homework and review questions.
Li Chen felt a bit bored, so he took advantage of the early sky to prepare for a trip to Cloud Mist Mountain to have a look at the villa gifted to him by the Moo Family.
The villa is located halfway up Cloud Mist Mountain and shrouded in mist all around.
From a distance, it looked like a hazy, veiled, ethereal fairy.
The Moo Family really didn’t skimp, just this villa alone, it’s market value would be at least thirty or forty million, right?
Moreover, this place has relatively dense spiritual energy.
If he sets up a Spirit Gathering Array here, the results would be extraordinary.
However, this Spirit Gathering Array requires a large number of jade stones.
The Formation Eye needs spirit stones that are even more pure in spiritual power.
The entire project will cost at least several billion.
Li Chen touched his pocket that was cleaner than his face, and habitually pulled a wry face.
It seems he needs to find a way to make money.
Seeing the abundance of medicinal herbs around Cloud Mist Mountain, an idea struck him.
Medicinal materials were everywhere here, and he could refine some pills to sell.
He carefully thought it over and decided to prepare two types of pills.
The first type would be for the general public, such as the Youthful Appearance Pill and Spiritual Wisdom Pill!
Which girl doesn’t love beauty or wish for everlasting youth?
Which family wouldn’t want their child to be extraordinarily intelligent?
And besides, his are absolutely non-toxic and free of side effects.
Once the market is established, silver will stream into his wallet.
The second type would be specifically for martial artists, such as the Marrow Cleansing Pill, Body Tempering Pill, Essence Building Pill, and the like.
Compared to the first type, pills such as Marrow Cleansing Pill are a bit more troublesome.
However, their value is certainly not comparable to common pills like the Youthful Appearance Pill or Erectile Liquid.
A high-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill could transform an External Strength Martial Artist, allowing them to advance to Inner Strength or even transformation power.
An Essence Building Pill could also save an individual years, or even decades, of hard cultivation.
This has a tremendous appeal to aristocratic families and members of Ancient Martial Sects.
Just as Li Chen was busy calculating his money-making schemes in his mind, his ears suddenly twitched slightly.
Rustling noises, carried by the wind, came drifting from the foot of the mountain.
There was someone below the mountain!
…
Night had fallen, and the vicinity of Cloud Mist Mountain was deathly still.
Moonlight filtering through the branches cast overlapping, fragmented light and shadows on the ground, creating a slightly disordered effect.
A slender figure was cautiously standing in front of the blooming flowers, bending her lithe waist slightly and gently inhaling the fragrance.
In the prime of youth, tall and graceful, she was light and elegant, her conduct dignified and refined.
Her hair cascaded like a waterfall, her skin was like jade, and her eyes, lively and sparkling, revealed an indescribable allure with every frown and smile.
She was like a peony: beautiful without ostentation, radiant without vulgarity, charming and peerless.
If Li Chen were here, he would undoubtedly recognize the name of this girl.
Lan Huanxi!
She had come to gather a few medicinal herbs for her mother, who had been bedridden with a prolonged illness.
However, this place was a high-end villa area, a gathering place for the social elite. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
Feeling extremely inferior, she naturally didn’t dare come during the day.
So, she had to wait until nightfall to stealthily make her way here using the moonlight.
Lan Huanxi stretched her slightly numb waist and with her bright eyes wide open, she gazed unwaveringly at the villa halfway up the mountain.
The elders in the village said that this was the most high-end villa in all of Donghua, each one costing tens of millions.
Tens of millions?
What kind of concept was that?
Lan Huanxi muttered “tens of millions” to herself silently, a touch of sadness crossing her clear and bright eyes.
How wealthy must one be to afford such a luxurious and extravagant villa?
If only she could live in there, how wonderful would that be?
At the very least, she could be worthy of him.
At this thought, Li Chen’s image immediately surfaced in Lan Huanxi’s mind.
A sweet smile then spread across her lips.
She wondered if she would ever see him again?
As Lan Huanxi fell into deep thought, a voice that sent chills down her spine suddenly came from behind.
“Huanxi, little sister, so you were hiding here.
You’ve made me search so hard for you!”
The speaker was named Huang Mingquan, the son of Cloud Mist Village’s chief.
He leveraged his father’s power to behave arrogantly and overbearingly in the village.
With all vices of drinking, prostitution, gambling, and drug addiction, he was a notorious village bully known for miles around.
Huang Mingquan had always coveted Lan Huanxi’s beauty but had never found the opportunity to act on it.
In the evening, seeing Lan Huanxi go out with a basket, he had wicked ideas and secretly followed her.
Lan Huanxi steadied her mind and asked with a trembling voice, “Huang Mingquan, what do you want to do?”
“Huanxi, from the first moment I saw you, I fell for you.
As long as you submit to me, I’ll take care of your family’s social welfare, your mother’s medical treatment, and your brother’s schooling.
How about it?”
As he spoke, he was like a starving wolf that suddenly saw a plump lamb, baring his claws and lunging forward.
Lan Huanxi was terrified, retreating in a panic.
But due to being overly frantic, she didn’t see the stone on the ground, tripped over it, and fell heavily to the ground.
“Don’t come any closer, don’t come any closer, or I’ll shout for help…”
Lan Huanxi supported herself on the grass with one hand, shouting in fear and panic.
Seeing Lan Huanxi fall, Huang Mingquan squeezed out a smug and cruel smirk between his teeth.
“Go ahead, shout.
Here in the middle of nowhere, even if you scream your lungs out, no one will come to rescue you!”
Lan Huanxi looked around desperately; except for some scattered lights on the mountainside, everything was shrouded in darkness.
Moreover, her ankle was now twisted, leaving her completely unable to move.
Was she really going to fall prey to this beast?
Lan Huanxi looked up to the sky, and two streams of tears rolled down from her eyes.
Heaven, haven’t you put enough suffering on me?
Why must you treat me like this?
Why, why, why?
Lan Huanxi’s blood and tears were her plea, but the cold and piercing wind was the only response.
Desperate, she closed her eyes, letting the hot tears slide down her cheeks.
Just as Huang Mingquan couldn’t wait to pounce and take Lan Huanxi down right there, a fierce palm wind blasted at him head-on.
“Pfft!”
Huang Mingquan’s whole body was sent flying and crashed heavily onto the ground.
He didn’t care to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth and shouted in shock and fear, “Who, who is it?”
A gentle breeze blew, and a tall figure stepped down from the mountainside, walking as if on the moon.
Seeing the newcomer, Lan Huanxi felt as if she had come back to life and, unable to believe her eyes, she called out with a trembling voice, “Brother Li Chen?”
Li Chen glanced at her, said nothing, and walked straight toward Huang Mingquan.
Huang Mingquan, seeing Li Chen approaching him, shivered in terror.
“You, you, what do you want to do?
My dad is the village chief!”
When he heard the title “village chief,” Li Chen’s head became somewhat muddled.
Village chief?
Is that an important official?
Huang Mingquan mistook Li Chen’s pause as fear and felt secretly triumphant.
But just as he indulged in his self-satisfaction, Li Chen’s eyes suddenly turned cold.
“Kneel down!”
Huang Mingquan, a mere mortal, could not withstand the oppressive aura of Li Chen, a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and immediately “thud”, he knelt straight down to the ground.
Li Chen stepped forward, gave him a cold smile, and said, “You’re lucky today; I’m in a good mood and don’t want to see blood.
But there won’t be a next time, otherwise, it won’t be as simple as today!”
Hearing Li Chen’s words, Huang Mingquan felt a weight lifted and involuntarily shuddered, scrambling toward the bottom of the mountain…
