Chapter 147: This is it
Jiang Ning’s clothes were burned in several places, and her originally pale face was now blackened by the smoke.
She was in a sorry state. Old Man Fan was more difficult to deal with than she had imagined, especially since he was getting stronger as the fight went on. It was simply outrageous!
“I just haven’t fully recovered!” she said to Xiong Ba.
Right now, she truly only had eighty to ninety percent of her usual strength.
“And you! You stupid bear, stop talking nonsense and kill him for me!” Jiang Ning raged.
Xiong Ba just looked at the ferocious Old Man Fan, sensing that the originally ordinary crooked-neck tree seemed to have transformed into a menacing, clawing demon tree. He said, “This old man is not simple!”
“Get out of the way! I have no quarrel with you!” Old Man Fan said, looking at Xiong Ba.
Xiong Ba indeed had no grudge against him, and he was also a person who was hard to dislike.
“I must protect my wife!” Xiong Ba spread his arms, and specks of white light appeared on his hands.
“Heh…” Old Man Fan sneered, the flames on his fist burning even more intensely.
Since you want to fight, I won’t hold back!
But a person appeared between the two of them, interrupting their confrontation.
“Let’s end today’s farce here!” Shi Feizhe said as he released a surge of sword Qi that flew into Jiang Ning’s body, locking her meridians.
Hua Xiaomei received the same treatment—the treatment of a captive.
“From now on, you’ll work with Xiong Ba to plaster and repair the damaged areas around the training ground and the lawn!” Shi Feizhe said to Jiang Ning.
The safest course of action would be to kill all three of them and then take the others to another province, find a new territory, and start over.
Firstly, Shi Feizhe felt that the conflict had not escalated to that point. It would be a shame to abandon the Qing Shan Martial Academy, which had been established with such difficulty, just to escape. Besides, was there any place in the Jianghu where True Realm martial artists didn’t interfere? The current situation was already considered a relatively good start.
Secondly, Shi Feizhe felt that killing Xiong Ba would be a pity.
Xiong Ba was one of the few people in the Jianghu whom Shi Feizhe found agreeable.
It was a pity that he belonged to the Demon Sect.
It was a pity that he had a wife from the Jiang Family.
“…” Jiang Ning glared at Shi Feizhe hatefully, remaining silent.
“Don’t try any more tricks. Unless your Demon Sect sends a True Realm expert, you definitely won’t be able to defeat us!” Shi Feizhe pointed at himself and Old Man Fan.
It was a pleasant surprise that Old Man Fan had broken through to the Zhoutian realm!
“Behave yourselves!” With that, Shi Feizhe and Old Man Fan left, along with Guan Shan and Huang Goudan, who had been watching the commotion.
Only the three of them were left behind.
“Xiong Ba! Jiang Ning!” Hua Xiaomei said angrily, “I came to help you two for the sake of the Demon Sect, and this is the result…”
“Shut up!” Jiang Ning, not indulging Hua Xiaomei, said, “You’re just here for the thirty percent profit from the manor!”
Back in the days of the Three Talents Manor, Hua Xiaomei had ceded profits to Jiang Ning, making her act as the enforcer.
Now, at the Qing Shan Martial Academy, Jiang Ning was giving up profits to have Hua Xiaomei take action.
The present situation was exactly like the past!
“Is he truly your Grand Medicine?” Jiang Ning pushed away Xiong Ba, who was trying to help her up, and said to Hua Xiaomei, “What kind of Grand Medicine did you cultivate? Three years ago, he had no cultivation, right?”
She needed to understand why Shi Feizhe was so strong!
As for getting angry with the useless Xiong Ba, wouldn’t that be asking for trouble?
She was filled with rage right now!
This was a complete humiliation!
“Of course…” Hua Xiaomei said, fanning himself, “Three years ago, he really had no cultivation. You saw it yourself.”
“Some people are just born different, they’re martial arts geniuses. Academy Head Shi is very strong!” said Xiong Ba, who was walking with them.
“I’m a martial arts genius too!” Jiang Ning said, her voice filled with anger, unwilling to admit defeat.
Xiong Ba didn’t speak, but his meaning was already clear!
“You…” Jiang Ning was furious, but seeing Xiong Ba’s naive and earnest expression, she felt that getting angry with this fool was truly not worth it!
Because fools don’t get angry!
“This person is strange, he…” Hua Xiaomei didn’t know what to say either.
How could there be such a person? Three years!
In just three years, he could beat them as easily as if they were children!
It was absurd!
“Academy Head Shi is a good person!” Xiong Ba said, “Let’s just finish plastering honestly. I’ll talk to him, and we can leave! We don’t need this manor anyway!”
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“How can we not need it!” Jiang Ning couldn’t accept it and said, “That’s our Jiang Family’s manor! It’s our Jiang Family’s face!”
“If you need a manor, I’ll give you one!” Xiong Ba said seriously, “Our Xiong Family also has two lumber mills. I can give you one!”
Seeing Xiong Ba’s serious expression, Jiang Ning knew he wasn’t joking. As long as she nodded, she would have a lumber mill.
The Xiong Family’s lumber mills were not ordinary. They had a monopoly on many types of wood.
“No! I’ll take back what I need with my own hands!” Jiang Ning refused.
“Wife! Then come to the Xiong Family and become the mistress of the Xiong Family. All of the Xiong Family’s resources will be at your disposal!” Xiong Ba said earnestly again.
“No! I want to become a True Realm martial artist!” Jiang Ning still refused.
Hua Xiaomei, who had just been fed a mouthful of dog food, suddenly stopped and said to Jiang Ning, “I have a way for you to break through to the True Realm.”
“Hmph! If you have a way, why haven’t you broken through yourself?” Jiang Ning sneered.
Hua Xiaomei didn’t mind Jiang Ning’s attitude and instead asked, “Is there a place where we can talk conveniently?”
“Follow me!” Xiong Ba said, “I know a place!”
Xiong Ba indeed knew a quiet place. It was in a side room at the back of the manor courtyard. Few people came here, so it was relatively quiet.
“You know my elder brother, right?” Hua Xiaomei casually sat on a dusty stool. Normally, he wouldn’t sit on such a stool.
But now he didn’t care about such things.
“Who doesn’t know that your elder brother defeated Old Demon Hua and became a renowned expert in the world!” Jiang Ning sat opposite him, not knowing why Hua Xiaomei was bringing up Hua Xiaocheng.
Could it be that he was going to ask Hua Xiaocheng to back them up?
“My elder brother has become increasingly distant since that battle.” Hua Xiaomei continued, “He often shuts himself in the Hua Family’s ancestral hall, sitting there for an entire day.”
“He always holds my hand and asks me if his second brother and the others wouldn’t have died if he hadn’t left the Hua Family.”
“He once said that Father wasn’t wrong, we were the ones who were wrong!”
“Another time, he said that Father was wrong, and we weren’t.”
“One moment he says Father wasn’t wrong, the next moment he says Father was!”
“I think my elder brother has become abnormal.”
Hua Xiaomei was revealing the Hua Family’s secrets, but that wasn’t the point. He continued, “I asked my elder brother for guidance on how to become a True Realm expert.”
“My elder brother simply said it was very difficult, very difficult. The True Realm is like a chasm, blocking the path of martial artists.”
“He was also blocked for a very long time.”
“I asked him, how did you break through?”
“He remained silent for a long time, and finally said that I should just practice martial arts diligently, and one day I would break through!”
“I didn’t believe him. He must be hiding something!”
“So I went to his study to search. His study is quite simple. I found a secret manual in a hidden compartment. This is the cultivation method he used to break through to the True Realm!”
He pulled out a nameless manual from his bosom and said, “This is it!”
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