Chapter 88: The Patrol Office, Huh

The place Lin Yuchu was wandering through was none other than Kunlun City’s famous East Market.

The East Market was a large trading district. Countless cultivators gathered here to set up stalls and sell goods, trading for what they needed.

Places like this were always a mixed bag, full of all sorts, with real and fake goods jumbled together. What mattered was one’s eye for quality. It was not as if there were no people with poor judgment who had been cheated until tears of blood streamed down their faces. Of course, there were also those who managed to pick up bargains.

As Lin Yuchu strolled around, he thought absentmindedly, Wasn’t this just the cultivation world version of Taobao?

Of course, one was a large online treasure-hunting paradise, and the other was offline.

But there was no difference. Anyway...

In a place like this, it all came down to three words: buy, buy, buy.

Lin Yuchu had never known he was actually a shopaholic. He had always thought he had few desires. So it turned out he had been careless!

After wandering through the East Market without being able to stop, Lin Yuchu, who had bought a whole pile of useful and useless things, looked at his gradually flattening money pouch and felt his heart twist in grief.

This would not do!

Lin Yuchu thought with a stern expression. If this went on, he would be emptied out very soon.

He had to do something!

And then—

Then he found an empty spot in the East Market, spread a piece of cloth on the ground, borrowed a small stool from the pretty young man at the neighboring stall, and sat down. Just like that, he went from buyer to seller.

You must be wondering why the pretty young man next door was so beautiful and kindhearted that he would even lend Lin Yuchu a little stool.

That was because...

That was of course because Lin Yuchu had just bought out that young man’s entire stall!

The young man, who got to close early, was delighted. Heh heh!

In a moment of good cheer, when Lin Yuchu asked to borrow the little stool from him, he simply waved his hand grandly and said with great generosity, “It’s yours. No need to return it.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

He silently lowered his head and looked at the small stool in his hand. For some reason, a wave of sorrow and desolation welled up in his heart.

The young man next door closed early that morning, and Lin Yuchu took over his shift.

Lin Yuchu rummaged through his inventory, dug out some useless things and things he had no use for, and placed them outside. Then he took out several bottles of pills and solemnly set them on the stall.

These pills had all been refined by him personally. They were the best-looking batch among the finished pills he had refined. If not for that, he would not have dared take them out to sell.

At any rate, he was still the young master of the Lin family. He could not disgrace the Lin family’s reputation and face.

The quality of the pills he displayed was no worse than those sold at the Lin family medicine firm, so Lin Yuchu also set the price according to the Lin family medicine firm’s prices.

The prices at the Lin family medicine firm were a little higher than those outside, after all, the quality was there. As a result, this batch of pills Lin Yuchu had brought out to sell at his stall was priced higher than the pills in Kunlun City.

Among those who could browse the East Market, aside from a few individual fools, most people still had some sense. When they saw that Lin Yuchu was so young and that the pills he sold were so expensive, they were unwilling to buy them.

And so, Lin Yuchu set up a stall in the East Market to sell medicine. He sold for the entire morning, and in the end, not a single pill sold.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Lin Yuchu, who had squatted there for an entire morning for nothing and basked in the sun for an entire morning for nothing, felt a little stifled inside.

Anyway, they would not sell. Selling the pills was impossible. It simply did not exist.

Lin Yuchu began to ponder whether he should cut his losses in time, withdraw early, close the stall, and stop selling.

In the end, just as he was preparing to pack up and leave, a young sword cultivator stood before his stall.

This was a tall, upright young man. The aura on his body was very strong. Just by standing in front of Lin Yuchu like that, he blocked most of the sunlight.

He kept the sunlight outside, casting a large patch of shadow.

A cold, sharp aura rushed toward Lin Yuchu head-on.

This was sword qi.

Sword qi leaking outward.

Lin Yuchu was inwardly startled. Such powerful sword qi. He had not expected that he could casually set up a stall and still encounter such an extraordinary and formidable sword cultivator.

As expected of the Kunlun Sword Sect’s territory?

The sword cultivator standing before Lin Yuchu bent slightly, reached out, and picked up a bottle of Rejuvenation Pills from his stall. He opened the stopper, glanced at the pills inside, then raised his eyes. Looking at Lin Yuchu before him, he revealed a handsome young face with cool, aloof brows and eyes, and asked, “Are all the pills here of this quality?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu glanced at him, and his heart instantly lifted. A bit of excitement appeared in his eyes, and his expression turned gratified.

He thought, Someone who finally knows his goods has arrived!

“Yes,” Lin Yuchu said. “They are all top-grade pills. Every single one is like this.”

He looked at the young sword cultivator in front of him, thought for a moment, then said generously, “If you want to buy them, I can give you twenty percent off.”

Lin Yuchu thought that people who knew their goods were not common. He had squatted here the whole morning, and they had all been a bunch of blind bastards!

Infuriating.

Now that someone who knew his goods had finally come, Lin Yuchu, feeling greatly comforted, decided to give him a discount!

“No need.”

After hearing his words, the young man said in a faint voice, “Sell them according to the prices you wrote. I want all these pills.”

“!!!!!” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, he was instantly shocked.

W-w-w-wasn’t that what I said to the pretty young man next door just now?

Lin Yuchu had never imagined that in this lifetime, he would also be able to encounter such a grand, heroic line as “I’ll buy them all” being said to him.

He had to admit...

It felt good. Very good!

He somewhat understood the pretty young man next door who had gifted him the little stool. He also wanted to give this young sword cultivator flowers!

The young sword cultivator standing before Lin Yuchu swept his gaze over the stall. The expression on his face paused. Then he stretched out a finger and pointed at one bottle of pills on the stall, adding, “Not that one.”

Lin Yuchu followed his gaze and saw that what he was pointing at was a bottle of Red Beauty Pills.

He looked at that bottle of Red Beauty Pills, then raised his eyes and looked at the sword cultivator before him. He saw that the sword cultivator’s face was full of unconcealed disdain.

Lin Yuchu could not help twitching the corner of his mouth. He thought, This is definitely a straight man!

And the ten-thousand-year steel-straight-man kind, one who did not understand the goodness of Red Beauty Pills!

This was the Red Beauty Pill that could make countless female cultivators in the cultivation world go mad, capable of preserving youth forever and keeping beauty from aging!

One pill was worth a thousand gold, with demand but no supply.

Otherwise, Lin Yuchu would not have refined it.

Although the main purpose of refining Red Beauty Pills had been to break through to the next alchemist realm, among so many sixth-rank pills, the most important reason he had chosen Red Beauty Pills instead of anything else was because Red Beauty Pills were valuable and easy to sell!

In the future, if he ever lacked money, he could refine a bottle and not have to worry about food or drink.

This was Lin Yuchu’s proud work!

In the end, he had not expected it to be disliked so much.

Lin Yuchu felt somewhat depressed, but he comforted himself. This person was an unromantic steel-straight man who, just from the look of him, was destined to be alone, single from birth, and incapable of being liked by any girl in this lifetime.

Of course he would not understand the goodness of Red Beauty Pills!

On account of the fact that this was a big customer who knew his goods, Lin Yuchu kindly and generously said, “This one is free. You bought so much, so consider it a gift from me.”

“I don’t want it.”

The steel-straight-man sword cultivator refused without the slightest hesitation, his face overflowing with visible disgust.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

I’m giving it to you for free, and you’re still this disgusted!!

The young sword cultivator, who truly would not take it even as a gift, looked at Lin Yuchu’s expression, which had turned indescribable in an instant. The expression on his face paused, and a flash of struggle passed through his eyes.

That troubled expression, those tightly furrowed brows.

Every bit of him showed the intense, complicated battle taking place in his heart.

After a long while, the conflicted young sword cultivator raised his head, looked at Lin Yuchu in front of him, and said in a struggling tone, “If you insist on giving it to me, it is not as if I can’t...”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

What was with that troubled, pained expression of yours, as if I were forcing you to die, forcing a good person into prostitution!

It was as if I had committed some enormous crime, all right!

Seeing him like this, Lin Yuchu’s own expression also became indescribable. He looked with pity and sympathy at the Red Beauty Pills he had placed on the stall and thought, These are noble and precious Red Beauty Pills. They really aren’t poison that kills people!

“No need.”

Seeing how troubled he was, Lin Yuchu could not bear to force him. “If you don’t want them, then forget it.”

“It’s not like I’ll force you to take them,” Lin Yuchu said irritably.

When the young sword cultivator heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, looking as if he had relaxed.

Even his expression became a little lighter.

Then, very quickly, he realized whether his reaction had been too obvious, whether it was not very good.

He immediately withdrew the light, relaxed look from his face, put on a serious and proper expression, looked at the young man before him, and asked, “Were all these pills refined by you personally?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu glanced at him.

He thought, This is definitely a genius.

Why say that?

Because someone who was not a genius would not ask such a question.

Because in this world, the only ones who could understand geniuses were geniuses. Lin Yuchu thought this with shameless confidence.

Lin Yuchu knew very well that he was too young. When ordinary people saw him selling pills, they would only assume they had been refined by the adults in his family, not by him.

But this sword cultivator had asked whether these pills had been refined by him. That meant, in this sword cultivator’s view, or rather, he had seen a young genius like Lin Yuchu before. Not necessarily in the alchemy Dao, but in other fields.

“Yes.”

Since he had asked like this, Lin Yuchu did not conceal or hide it, and admitted openly, “I refined them.”

Hearing this, the expression on the sword cultivator’s face became a little more sincere.

He looked at Lin Yuchu and said, “If you have these pills again in the future, you can sell them to me.”

“I will buy all of them at thirty percent higher than this price,” the sword cultivator said.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu thought for a moment, then said, “All right, but there is no need to raise the price. This price is fine.”

He thought for a moment, then took a spiritual mirror from his storage bag and handed it to the young sword cultivator, saying, “When I have pills, I’ll contact you through the spiritual mirror.”

“Consider this a gift from me, an extra,” he added.

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on the sword cultivator’s face, and he did not refuse.

He reached out and accepted the spiritual mirror from Lin Yuchu’s hand, saying, “Many thanks.”

Then he seemed to remember something. He raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yuchu before him. A flash of struggle crossed his handsome young face, and in the end, he said, “If you insist on giving me that bottle of pills, it is not impossible.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

The moment Lin Yuchu heard this, the expression on his face froze.

His originally good mood immediately turned cloudy.

He looked at the young sword cultivator in front of him, whose face was full of reluctant compromise and a solemn expression as if sacrificing himself for righteousness, and thought, You really don’t have to force yourself like this.

My Red Beauty Pills really aren’t impossible to sell!

They’re expensive. Very expensive!

There will definitely be someone who knows their worth. People will definitely fight until their heads break over them. There is no need for you to feel wronged and settle for taking them in.

And so, Lin Yuchu, who also wanted face, coldly refused him. “No need to force yourself.”

Hearing this, the young sword cultivator, who seemed to have thought of something, or rather, had entirely misunderstood, looked at Lin Yuchu, who had rejected him. A few traces of moved gratitude appeared on his face. Even the gaze he turned toward Lin Yuchu became gentler as he said, “I understand.”

After the young sword cultivator left.

The expression on Lin Yuchu’s face instantly cooled. Without saying a word, he sat stubbornly before the stall.

Lin Yuchu, who had originally wanted to close the stall and leave to report to the Kunlun Sword Sect, no longer wanted to go.

He refused to believe it. He absolutely refused to believe it!

Lin Yuchu gnashed his teeth and said, “I refuse to believe that everyone in this world is blind!”

There would definitely be someone who discovered the preciousness and value of Red Beauty Pills, then cried and begged him to sell to them.

Lin Yuchu believed this firmly, and then sat motionless in front of the stall, stubbornly waiting.

He probably only waited a few minutes or so.

Almost right after the young sword cultivator had left, a handsome young nobleman wearing a flamboyant, luxurious deep-red brocade robe came forward from behind and stopped in front of Lin Yuchu’s stall.

He held a paper fan in his hand. Behind him, he had called his friends and summoned his companions, followed by a group of fair-weather friends who were similarly dressed in splendid brocade robes and were full of the aura of wastrel young masters.

The moment he saw this group of people, this familiar scent, the same old recipe.

Lin Yuchu instantly became energized and excited.

He raised his head and looked with an almost gratified expression at the rich young nobleman who had stopped in front of his stall, as well as his fair-weather friends.

His heart was deeply gratified. He thought to himself, They’re here. They’ve finally come!

A group of fools who knew their goods, and rich fools at that!

Unlike that steel-straight-man sword cultivator from just now, this kind of wastrel young master, foolish and rich, who spent his days eating, drinking, and playing, understood the value of Red Beauty Pills the best!

He would definitely throw down a thousand gold and buy this bottle of Red Beauty Pills.

Lin Yuchu thought this with utter certainty.

Without the slightest doubt!

There was simply no need to doubt!

And just as he expected, that flamboyant young nobleman in the lead bent slightly, extending a fair, slender, and beautiful hand that perfectly fit the saying “fingers like peeled scallion roots,” and picked up the one and only bottle of Red Beauty Pills on the stall.

He held it in his hand and played with it for a while. With interest at the corner of his mouth, he said in an amused tone, “Red Beauty Pills?”

He raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yuchu, who was sitting before the stall. Seeing that the one selling the Red Beauty Pills was such a young, handsome, spiritually vibrant youth, the expression in his eyes became even more playful. “These are Red Beauty Pills?”

He asked.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu replied, “Yes.”

After a pause, as if he knew the young nobleman’s doubts, he said in a certain tone, “Guaranteed genuine. Found only here, and once you miss them, there will be no more top-grade Red Beauty Pills!”

“Only one hundred thousand spiritual stones per pill!” Lin Yuchu said with a solemn voice, decisively and firmly. “One hundred thousand spiritual stones. You won’t be cheated, and you won’t be fooled.”

After hearing this, the young wastrel immediately gave a scoff. Looking at Lin Yuchu before him, he said, “Someone who didn’t know better would think you were talking about ten spiritual stones.”

“One hundred thousand spiritual stones per pill... tsk.” The wastrel let out a soft click of his tongue and said, “Damn expensive!”

Although he said this, the wastrel knew his goods and understood that Red Beauty Pills were expensive for a reason.

And so, without hesitation, he immediately said, “I’ll buy this bottle of Red Beauty Pills.”

Hearing this, a smile instantly appeared in Lin Yuchu’s eyes, and his heart was extremely gratified.

See? I knew there would definitely be someone who knew their goods!

Although this person who knew his goods was somewhat different from what he had imagined, it was not a major problem. As long as they sold, it was fine.

And so, Lin Yuchu was just about to nod and agree.

But before he could make a sound, he heard a voice descend from the sky. “Wait!”

At the sound, Lin Yuchu and that wastrel young nobleman both turned to look.

They saw ahead—

A young, handsome rich young master in a tender-yellow long robe standing there. In his hand, he carried an exquisite birdcage inlaid with gold and jade. Inside the cage stood a delicate, gorgeous spiritual bird of some unknown breed. In any case, it looked expensive. Very expensive. So expensive it could kill.

Behind the young master likewise stood a group of richly dressed fair-weather friends.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Looking at these two characters with the same style and clashing roles—the foolish, rich wastrel young nobleman and the landlord’s foolish young master who carried a cage and walked a bird—

A bad premonition instantly rose in Lin Yuchu’s heart.

A sentence surfaced in his mind: one mountain cannot hold two tigers; when two tigers meet, the earth shakes and the mountains tremble.

It felt...

As if he were doomed.

And very soon, Lin Yuchu knew that this was no illusion.

But—

Fact!

The moment he saw this rich landlord’s young master descend from the sky, the wealthy wastrel immediately gave a cold laugh, and even his eyes turned icy. “Liu Fan, it’s you again!”

“Why do I keep running into you? Tell me! Have you been secretly following behind my ass this whole time?” he said mockingly.

“Pah!” Liu Fan, the landlord’s foolish young master, immediately spat and said with a cold laugh, “Wu Xi, you really have no shame. Who the hell is following you? Maybe you’re the one following me!”

Hearing this, Wu Xi’s expression turned even colder. “I don’t care whether you’re following me or not. If you don’t want a beating, then get lost!”

“Oh? You think I’m afraid of you?”

Liu Fan’s face was full of disdain, and he did not take his words seriously in the slightest. He turned his head, his gaze falling on Lin Yuchu, who was squatting before the stall with a wooden expression and a strange look in his eyes.

Once he saw Lin Yuchu’s face clearly, his eyes instantly brightened, and he exclaimed in admiration, “What a beautiful youth, blessed by nature and shaped by the fortune of heaven and earth!”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, the expression on his face became even stranger.

His gaze at Liu Fan grew increasingly odd.

Wu Xi, standing in front of the stall, heard those words and immediately gave a cold laugh. He was not at all surprised that Liu Fan would say such a thing.

Because he had thought the same thing!

Just as Lin Yuchu had thought, Wu Xi and Liu Fan were two people with clashing character settings. From their family backgrounds to their life experiences, to their personalities, to their entire style, they were the same type crashing into each other at full speed.

Generally speaking, when two people with clashing character settings and the same style met, they would start fighting over the center position.

How did that saying go again? There only needs to be one person of my type!

And so, Wu Xi and Liu Fan had disliked each other since they were young, fighting and competing over everything.

Whatever you set your eyes on, I have to fight you for it.

This time was the same.

Wu Xi had taken a fancy to Lin Yuchu’s Red Beauty Pills, or rather, he had also taken a fancy to Lin Yuchu’s face....

So Liu Fan likewise took a fancy to Lin Yuchu’s face, and also wanted to snatch the Red Beauty Pills that Wu Xi had set his sights on.

Thus, Liu Fan walked over and also stood in front of Lin Yuchu. He gave him what he believed to be an amiable, kindly smile and said, “I’ll offer double the price. Sell the Red Beauty Pills to me.”

Hearing this, Wu Xi, who stood to the side, gave a cold snort.

He knew it!

From the moment that bastard Liu Fan appeared, Wu Xi had already predicted this outcome!

That bastard would definitely fight him for them.

And so, without even blinking, Wu Xi said coldly, “Triple.”

Then his gaze fixed on Lin Yuchu before him, and he said in a low voice, “I think you understand the words ‘first come, first served.’”

Those four words, “first come, first served,” were spoken with murderous menace.

Every word carried killing intent.

The killing intent rushed toward him head-on.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

So, was I just threatened?

“You really have no shame.”

Hearing this, Liu Fan immediately turned his head and smiled at Wu Xi, who stood beside him with a face full of cold killing intent. “Threatening a child.”

“Don’t listen to him,” Liu Fan said to Lin Yuchu with a beaming smile. “With me here, he won’t dare touch you.”

“Four times the price. Sell them to me,” Liu Fan said.

“Five times!” Wu Xi, his face brimming with murderous fury.

“Six hundred!” Liu Fan, smiling brightly.

“Seven times!”

“Eight times!”

“Nine times!”

“Ten times!”

“...”

“...”

Lin Yuchu: “...”

Listening to the voices raising the price higher and higher, the corner of Lin Yuchu’s mouth twitched. He thought, Are these two idiots?

Lin Yuchu had already started calculating inwardly. Ten times one hundred thousand spiritual stones was one million spiritual stones.

This bottle of Red Beauty Pills had ten pills in total, which meant... ten million spiritual stones!

Lin Yuchu’s eyes lit up in an instant.

Holy crap, ten million spiritual stones!

And at that moment.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan, who had originally been bickering and raising the price, noticed Lin Yuchu’s instantly brightened eyes.

The two paused at the same time, and also quickly began calculating in their hearts. Ten million spiritual stones!!

Holy crap, ten million spiritual stones!!

It was all that idiot Liu Fan’s Wu Xi’s fault!

Even though one was a rich, foolish wastrel young nobleman, and the other was a landlord’s foolish young master, ten million spiritual stones was not a small sum.

Asking them to spend such an enormous amount of money to buy some not-all-that-useful Red Beauty Pills—honestly...

Whether it was Wu Xi or Liu Fan, neither of them was very willing.

Nonsense! It’s not like I’m actually stupid. Nonsense! It’s not like I’m actually stupid.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan both said this in their hearts at the same time.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Wu Xi and Liu Fan looked at each other and confirmed it with their eyes. Let’s do this!

The two quickly looked away at the same time.

Wu Xi stared at Liu Fan before him, his handsome, cold face darkening as he said coldly, “Beat them up!”

“Beat them up!”

Liu Fan likewise said to the group of followers behind him.

Then the two groups attacked at the same time.

They scuffled into a chaotic brawl.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Crack, snap, pop!

Thud, thud, thud, thud!

The two groups of wastrel young masters, meeting on a narrow road, gathered to fight in public, scuffling and brawling together.

The fight was fierce, exciting, and lively!

“...” Lin Yuchu.

He stood to the side with a stunned expression.

His eyes were a little blank.

Wait...

Weren’t they just raising the price to bid for my Red Beauty Pills? How did they suddenly start fighting?

Don’t just focus on fighting! Hurry up and buy my Red Beauty Pills! Hurry up and pay!

What happened to buying my Red Beauty Pills for ten million?

Lin Yuchu looked at these two groups of people who had suddenly started fighting at the slightest disagreement, while inwardly still thinking about his ten million spiritual stones.

As for Wu Xi and Liu Fan, this pair of old rivals exchanged fierce words as they fought, while secretly making eye contact.

“Once the fighting looks about right, we’ll withdraw,” Wu Xi said.

“Is that really all right? If we just run like this, won’t that kid be a little too pitiful?” Liu Fan said hypocritically.

“If we don’t run, are you actually planning to spend ten million on his Red Beauty Pills?” Wu Xi sneered.

“...Then let’s run quickly!” Liu Fan said.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan, those two old foxes, had already begun fighting while retreating, preparing to flee.

What kind of clever person was Lin Yuchu?

The more he watched, the more he felt that something was wrong. His brows furrowed, and he realized something was off. These two wanted to run!

They wanted to repudiate the debt!

Once he discovered this, Lin Yuchu immediately gave a cold laugh. You think I’ll let you run?

What a joke!

That was ten million!

Ten million spiritual stones!

Ten million spiritual stones was enough to make people take risks and sell their conscience.

So Lin Yuchu made a prompt decision. He drew the sword from his back and shouted, “Stop fighting!”

“Isn’t it just Red Beauty Pills? You’re willing to buy them at ten times the price. Such sincerity moves heaven and earth!” Lin Yuchu shouted. “How could I bear to reject you? I’ll sell them! I’ll sell them! I’ll sell them to both of you!”

“Not good!”

“Not good!”

At the sound, Wu Xi and Liu Fan both inwardly cried, Not good. They had not expected this kid to also be so shameless and thick-skinned!

They had misjudged him today!

They had originally thought he was a shy, innocent little beauty. In the end, he was a little wolf cub.

After Lin Yuchu finished shouting, he did not pause for even a moment, nor delay in the slightest. Brandishing his sword, he charged into the crowd and, holding the flat of the blade, began indiscriminately beating everyone with it, friend and foe alike.

“Ow!”

“Oww!”

“Hey, that hurts!”

Cries of pain immediately rang out from the chaotic crowd. “You little brat, you ambushed me! You’re asking for a beating!”

“You’re the one who hit my head, aren’t you? Ruthless enough! Just see if I let you off!”

“You dare ambush me? You don’t want to live, do you?”

The crowd, which had already been brawling, immediately fought even more fiercely.

If they had only been putting on a show at first, slacking off and paddling along while casually throwing a few blows, now they had truly gotten angry and become serious.

The fighting grew more and more intense. Their eyes reddened from anger.

The situation went out of control.

Not good! Not good!

Wu Xi and Liu Fan inwardly cried out that things were bad. This group of people had gone red-eyed from fighting and would not listen anymore. They wanted to run, but now they could not.

As the two people who had caused this chaotic brawl, Wu Xi and Liu Fan were surrounded in the crowd. They could neither advance nor retreat. If they wanted to run, they could not.

Impossible.

Lin Yuchu, who had stirred the muddy water into an even muddier mess, looked at the fierce and increasingly exciting brawl with satisfaction.

He gave a cold snort inwardly. Want to run? Want to repudiate a debt?

Let’s see whether your grandfather here agrees.

This chaotic brawl in the East Market district shook the earth and startled everyone around.

And Liao Lingyun, the young sword cultivator who had just bought every pill from Lin Yuchu’s stall except the Red Beauty Pills, happened to be not far ahead of Lin Yuchu’s stall at this moment.

He also heard the disturbance from up ahead.

Liao Lingyun turned his head and looked back. He saw a group of wastrel young masters dressed in splendid brocade robes fighting in front of Lin Yuchu’s stall, and Lin Yuchu had also been drawn into it. He immediately furrowed his brows.

Liao Lingyun had heard somewhat about this group of idle, troublemaking wastrel young masters in Kunlun City.

Kunlun City had been built by relying on the Kunlun Sword Sect. It was a city under the Kunlun Sword Sect’s jurisdiction. In the beginning, it had been built to make life convenient for the sect’s disciples and to house their families. After tens of thousands of years of development, it had already become a vast and famous city in the cultivation world.

Many families in the city were descendants of the elders, Origin Lords, and Sword Venerables of the Kunlun Sword Sect. Relying on the protection of their ancestors, these wastrel young masters ran rampant without restraint. Although they did not dare cause any major disasters, minor troubles and petty wrongs were endless.

Sword cultivators like Liao Lingyun, who were upright, naturally strict, and could not tolerate the slightest grain of sand in their eyes, found these useless wastrel young masters who relied on their elders’ favor and authority to stir up trouble everywhere extremely displeasing.

And this group of wastrel young masters also knew that the sword cultivators of the Kunlun Sword Sect looked down on them, so when there was nothing to do, they did not gather around them. The two sides kept their own waters separate.

Because Liao Lingyun had always been either bitterly cultivating within the sect or traveling outside to temper himself, he had not really had any contact with these wastrel young masters. This was the first time he had run into this group fighting and brawling outside.

If it were only their internal fight, even if they beat one another to death, Liao Lingyun would not look twice.

But an innocent person had been involved...

Liao Lingyun furrowed his brows. He could not sit by and ignore it.

And so, standing there, Liao Lingyun thought for a moment and decisively made a decision.

With a dark face, he turned and left.

Up ahead, whether it was Wu Xi’s group or Liu Fan’s group, who were immersed in the group brawl, or even Lin Yuchu, none of them noticed this small episode.

And what did Liao Lingyun go to do?

He went to find the patrol squad.

Learn about the patrol squad.

Precisely because Kunlun City’s public order was difficult to manage, the flow of people was large, and there were many outsiders, in order to prevent anyone from causing trouble, the Kunlun Sword Sect had specially dispatched elite sword cultivators from the sect to establish a Patrol Office in Kunlun City.

Every day, patrol squads patrolled through the city.

They specialized in handling people like Wu Xi and Liu Fan, who caused trouble in the streets.

—

The patrol squad’s reaction and speed were very fast after receiving a report from a passerby, Liao Lingyun.

Very soon, members of the patrol squad arrived.

“What are you doing?”

The patrol squad captain looked at the group of wastrel young masters scuffling and brawling together in the East Market, and immediately said in a cold voice with a cold face, “None of you move!”

At the sound.

Wu Xi, Liu Fan, and their groups instantly changed expressions. “The patrol squad is here!”

“Run!”

“Run!”

The crowd, who had just been fighting as if they wanted each other dead, their eyes red from rage, immediately scattered. They pulled up their legs and ran in every direction.

Lin Yuchu, seeing this scene for the first time, was instantly a little dumbfounded. Holy crap?

What the hell was this?

Why did he have such a strong sense of déjà vu, like someone had shouted, “The cops are here”?

Wu Xi looked at Lin Yuchu standing there foolishly without moving, wearing an expression as if he had been scared stupid, and immediately reached out and pulled him, saying, “What are you standing there for?”

“Run already!”

Then Lin Yuchu was pulled along by him.

Seeing this group of wastrel young masters, who had just been gathered together brawling, now scatter like a flock of startled birds, everyone in the patrol squad immediately gave a cold laugh. “How could we let you run?”

“Capture them all and bring them back! Not a single one can be missing.”

Then the patrol squad swiftly set out. Like hawks catching chicks, they captured all these troublemaking wastrel young masters in one sweep!

Meanwhile, Lin Yuchu was being dragged by the hand by Wu Xi, running swiftly through the streets of the East Market.

Only after running for a while did Lin Yuchu react. Why am I running with him?

I... I’m actually the victim, right?

So why exactly am I running?

Having figured this out, Lin Yuchu immediately stopped and refused to move.

Wu Xi noticed his movement, turned his head to look at him, and said with a gloomy face, “What are you doing!?”

“This isn’t the time for you to throw a tantrum,” he said.

Lin Yuchu looked at him with a completely baffled expression and said, “Who’s throwing a tantrum? I didn’t do anything bad. Why should I run?”

“...” Wu Xi.

His words immediately blocked Wu Xi speechless.

After a long while, Wu Xi said hatefully, “You think anyone will believe you if you say that now?”

“If you don’t run, are you waiting to be caught?” Wu Xi said. He deliberately tried to frighten Lin Yuchu. “Do you know who those people are?”

“They’re from the Patrol Office. Do you know what kind of place the Patrol Office is?” Wu Xi said.

His tone was sinister. “That’s a man-eating place where people only go in and never come out. Their favorite kind is a tender-skinned kid like you!”

“For kids like you, they eat one in a single bite!”

“...” The Patrol Office, whose reputation had been victimized.

Lin Yuchu looked at Wu Xi in front of him as if he were looking at an idiot, and said speechlessly, “Do you think I’m stupid?”

“How could I possibly believe something like that?” Lin Yuchu said. “Even if you tried tricking a child, the child wouldn’t believe you.”

“Tch!”

Hearing this, Wu Xi immediately clicked his tongue. “Couldn’t trick you.”

“But there is one point I wasn’t lying about.” Wu Xi looked at him with a serious face and said, “If the Patrol Office catches you, it will be very troublesome.”

“You don’t want to eat prison food either, do you?” he said.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu sighed and said, “I’ve said this many times. You people fighting is your business. It has nothing to do with me.”

“I’m innocent. Or rather, I’m the victim!” Lin Yuchu said. “So what do I have to be afraid of?”

What he did not say was, I can understand if you want to run, but why did you have to drag me along?

Hearing this, Wu Xi was immediately left tongue-tied.

He looked at the child before him and thought, Wasn’t I afraid of dragging you down with me?

But these words, he would never say aloud.

He would only...

Dangerously pressure and threaten the child before him. “Are you running or not? If you don’t run, I’ll beat you!”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

The corner of his mouth twitched. He raised his head and looked at Wu Xi, who was threatening a minor in the middle of the street, as if he were looking at an idiot. Kindly, he said, “There’s something I’ve wanted to say since just now.”

“This place,” Lin Yuchu said, “was locked onto by a sword array from the very beginning.”

“What do you mean?”

Hearing this, Wu Xi furrowed his brows and looked at him.

“It means you can’t run!” A young man wearing the black uniform of the Patrol Office, with a longsword hanging at his waist, walked out from the street corner. His lazy upturned eyes swept over Lin Yuchu ahead, then his gaze landed on Wu Xi beside him. In a slightly hoarse voice, he said, “The kid beside you is right. You can’t run.”

“You couldn’t escape even if you grew wings!”

“...” Wu Xi.

His face turned pale with fright.

The man walked closer, reached out, and grabbed Wu Xi by the collar, dragging his whole body forward. As he walked, he said, “Not only did you gather a crowd to fight in the street, you also threatened and intimidated a child and slandered the Patrol Office. That’s an additional offense!”

His expression twisted as he said, “If we don’t lock you up for ten or eight years this time, we’d be letting down our Patrol Office’s slandered reputation!”

“...” Wu Xi.

Seriously.

Does your Patrol Office still have any reputation to speak of!!!

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