Chapter 2: Exploitation (Part 2)

  Yi Bai was watching the commotion with a smirk, but upon hearing that, he cursed under his breath: "You're the one who's losing face!" He walked up with a fierce expression and said: "Who's losing?"

  Xiao Si thought for a moment and said: "First pick up the most expensive ones, and leave the cheaper ones to throw away slowly."

  Yi Bo dragged Wang Renzhen towards the side of the boat with a smile and said, "This one throw is worth 100,000 taels, it's really damn refreshing!"

  Wang Ren knew that the other party was just trying to intimidate him, but seeing Yi Bo's ferocious and sinister face, and being dragged around on the deck, he was already in agony from the poison, and now his buttocks were bleeding even more painfully. He involuntarily let out a terrified scream like a slaughtered pig: "Two million, this young master is willing to pay two million!"

  "This is what they mean by 'worth'!"

  "Chief Diao, can you give me an antidote first?"

  "When did I ever agree to give you an antidote? The 100,000 taels is the cost of pulling you out of the river. If you want the antidote, that's extra."

  "How much more do you want?"

  "Price tag, price tag..."

  "Another 100,000 taels? You might as well kill me!"

  "Is it too expensive? Otherwise I can help you split it up and it will be much cheaper."

  "Disassemble, how to disassemble?"

  "Simple. For example, if I cut off this arm and save the rest of you, 850,000 is enough. What if both arms are removed? I'll give you a 50% discount, how about that?"

  "How dare you!"

  "That's right, both arms are gone, isn't that a human club? I'll just make one more cut here, and it still counts as 50,000, with hands and feet complete, guaranteed exchange and refund."

  Wang Renze only felt a chill in his crotch, and something cold and hard was inserted, scaring him to the point of screaming "Don't -"

  "This knife can save 50,000 taels, it's well worth it!"

  "I, I promise, I promise! Quickly put away your knife!"

  Geng Shaohua, Mrs. Geng and Wan'er stood behind Xiao Si, looking stunned and amused.

  Yi Bai remembered bitter thoughts and sweet tears filled his eyes, unable to help but feel a sense of regret that he had not met Xiang Si earlier in life.

  Wang Renze stammered: "I only have 70 or 80 thousand taels of silver on me, can I write an IOU for the rest?"

  "Don't worry, you can use other things to pay off the debt. For example, those things you bought last night should be worth at least 30,000 or 50,000 taels of silver, right?"

  Wang Renze spent over 300,000 taels of silver to buy the Xianbing Magic Treasure last night, but it was directly reduced to zero in Xiao Si's mouth.

  He swallowed his saliva and said: "I only brought two pieces with me, the rest are all left in Jin Yang."

  Xiao Si reached into Wang Ren's bosom and scooped out a handful of silver notes and deeds.

  As expected, this guy is indeed honest. Last night at the Duan Yun Xuan auction, he only brought with him a 3,000-year-old South Sea Lingyao Golden Elixir and a thin-as-a-cicada-wing's Cloud-Soft Armor, but there were also many other treasures.

  "1.5 million, 1.8 million, 2.4 million, plus that broken sword of yours, which is worth about 200,000...hmm, you still owe me 400,000, what do you plan to do?"

  Wang Renze completely lost his temper, and also because he personally witnessed this kid tearing up the calligraphy of Jin Ding Sheng Seng in public last night. It's really impossible to be so reckless and arrogant. A real man can yield and stretch, for now, let's just get through this ghostly gate, and there will be a way to make him spit out everything with interest later on.

  He glanced at a group of silent subordinates and gritted his teeth, saying: "If there's anything here that catches the eye of the leader of the escort, just take it."

  Xiao Si laughed and picked up the broken umbrella from the deck: "I'll lose a little, one broken umbrella is worth 40,000 to you, let's settle the account clearly."

  "That's my umbrella!" cried an old man in a blue robe.

  Xiao Si said with a smile, "No big deal, I'll have Xiao Wang write you an IOU later. Xiao Wang, we've finished discussing business, now there's only one last thing left."

  "What's up? What's going on?"

  "Your boat is quite big and good, I'd like to make a deal with you, let's swap."

  "No way, that's my dad's boat, can't trade! Besides, I have no reason to trade with you!"

  "So you're a filial son and need a reason to switch boats, huh?"

  "Otherwise, wouldn't this be a lawless land?"

  "But if your boat crashes into mine, shouldn't you compensate me?"

  "Of course it should be compensated for, but—"

  "Understood! Old Yi, set sail!"

  Yi Bo took over the helm and steered the ship towards a distant building in the distance.

  Just as they were about to collide head-on, Yi Bo suddenly turned the rudder, and the small boat lightly swerved around on the surface of the river.

  A group of unknown shrimp soldiers and crabs on the building boat shouted in unison: "Hit, hit it to pieces!"

  With a loud crash, the bow of the Lou Chuan heavily struck the side of the cargo ship.

  "Crack!" The hull burst open and river water rushed in.

  "Ship collision! Escape for your life!" Xiang Xiao Si loudly shouted, grabbing Wang Ren and jumping onto the cabin of the boat.

  The guards on the imperial boat saw someone trying to board by force, and with swords drawn, they were about to rush forward to cut them down. But when they saw Wang Ren being held up by Xiao Si with his neck pinched, their faces turned pale as they exclaimed: "Young Master!"

  Wang Renze was used to being arrogant and domineering, but he had never been so humiliated in front of his subordinates before. He was extremely angry and ashamed, his face purpling with rage as he shouted: "Do you all want to rebel? Get back!

  The Wangfu guards hastily retreated and vacated a large area on the deck. Geng Shaohua and others, carrying their captives, boarded the ship one after another.

  Xiao Si threw Wang Ren to the deck, just about to speak when a loud and melodious whistling sound came from afar on the river surface, shaking the earth and echoing through the clouds.

  Xiao Si heard the sound and looked far away, only to see Jian Yong and the monk standing on a small wooden board, riding the waves and heading in this direction.

  He hummed in a low voice: "You think that shaving your head makes you the ancestor of Damo, and you can learn from others to cross the river with a single reed?!"

  Geng Shaohua exclaimed: "This is bad! This monk has come to pick a fight!"

  The words had barely fallen when Jian Yonghe's boat had already sailed into the Beidou Dragon Gate Formation, but he heard a Buddhist chant saying: "My Buddha's Wisdom Eye can break through all obstacles!" His eyes suddenly burst out with two clusters of golden light, piercing through the layers of array methods and confusion, his feet stepped on the boat, and he was not affected by the Beidou Dragon Gate Formation at all.

  Wang Renze was like grasping a life-saving straw and shouted loudly: "Master, save me quickly!"

  Xiao Si ignored him and ordered: "Lao Yi, withdraw the North Dipper Dragon Gate Formation!"

  He spoke as he stood up from the punt, like a yellow crane soaring through the clouds and floating down to the top floor of the building boat.

  He looked down from his high vantage point and clasped his hands together, saying: "Amitabha, the little donor actually dares to commit murder and robbery in broad daylight, isn't that too arrogant!"

  "You bald donkey who's been beaten by knives!"

  "Don't tell Laozi that you just arrived and didn't see Wang Renzhen commanding a group of thugs to chase and kill us. And don't tell Laozi that you came late and missed Wang Renzhen shitting and pissing while crying for his father and mother to save him."

  He sneered, "Monk, you want to borrow a knife to kill someone, but unfortunately this good-for-nothing is too useless, and it's lucky for me that he came to my door. You've endured until now before showing your face, no doubt wanting to set up a heroic banner of assisting the good and punishing evil. Unfortunately, even with a heroic banner, a prostitute is still a prostitute, she just teaches her clients to pay a few more silver coins to play more smoothly!"

  Jian Yong and Shang were stunned, and everyone on the entire ship was also stunned.

  With his extraordinary and transcendent status over the past few decades, if he were willing to leave Emei, any of the ancient famous temples in the world would be eager to invite him as their abbot, not to mention those royal nobles who treat him with reverence.

  In his eyes, Xiao Si was just a small hoodlum who mixed with the third-rate escort agency to make a living, had never seen a great virtue and high monk, and didn't know what the great Buddhist righteousness was. As long as he found an opportunity to show off his skills, talk about scriptures and say Buddha's teachings, he would be afraid that Xiao Si wouldn't kneel down and worship him. But now this little hoodlum not only openly disdained his high monk status but also burst out with foul language at him!

  Jian Yong's monk sleeves couldn't help but tremble with rage, and he suppressed his anger to say: "You're so young yet your mouth is full of filthy words, insulting the Buddhist door is a sin that cannot be forgiven!"

  Xiao Si sneered: "Monk, have you lost your temper? Isn't a monk supposed to abstain from anger and hatred?"

  He pulled out three copper coins from his sleeve and tossed them at Jian Yong and Shang Dao: "Come, give me a smile!"

  Everyone's gaze followed the copper coin's flight path in mid-air, and for a moment, their minds went blank.

  You dare to laugh at me? I am a direct disciple of the Golden Cauldron Saint Monk, Grandmaster Jian Yong!

  "Bang!" Jian Yong and Shang's body didn't move a single thread, the three copper coins exploded in front of him, turning into a puff of powder that scattered with the wind.

  The anger in his eyes had disappeared, replaced by a deep and peaceful look. He clasped his palms together in the "Mahavairocana Buddha Mudra" and slowly said: "May the Buddha's compassion protect my disciple and ward off evil to safeguard the righteous path!"

  "Hsss——" A magnificent golden mist rose from his body, like a raging flame that slowly rose and enveloped his entire body in an instant, as if he had transformed into a supreme Rulai with infinite compassion.

  Geng Shaohua cried out in a loud voice: "This is Emei's 'Mahāpraj?āpāramitā'!"

  Xiao Si Leng coldly smiled and said: "Bullshit Arhat, don't think that only monks can pretend to be gods, I can do it too!"

  He also pinched some sort of messy hand seal with his left hand, and muttered to himself: "Beautiful woman come quickly, beautiful woman come quickly..."

  Suddenly, two women with gray clothes and bamboo hats appeared, their swords merged as one, driving in unison. With a glance, the sword energy soared into the sky, white waves rolled up, and they turned out to be top-notch masters of the Tongyuan boundary.

  Jian Yong and Shang's eyes widened, their voices low and menacing as they shouted: "You abominable creature, you will die!" Suddenly, they took the initiative to launch a surprise attack, their bodies moving swiftly like the Yellow River bursting its banks, rushing down from the top of the building. Their palms formed a seal, unleashing a dazzling golden light.

  Geng Shaohua and Yi Bo rushed forward together, one wielding a divine whip and the other operating an immortal sword, using all their strength to meet the attack head-on.

  "Bang bang" explosions, whips and swords flying, Geng and Yi each let out a muffled hum as they stumbled backward.

  Jian Yong and Shang Zai Shi Da Yuan Li Fo Yin, the front and back two groups of golden light merged into one, condensed in mid-air to form a single golden brilliant light seal, like Mount Tai pressing down on Xiao Si's head.

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