Chapter 11: I'm Right (Part 2)

  "Shopkeeper, please show mercy." Zhang, the older brother, made another plea with his hands clasped together. From the moment Qin Yifan asked that question, he knew that this young shopkeeper who seemed simple and honest was not an ordinary person. Before he could come up with a plan, his impatient younger brother had already taken action.

  The senior brother was also a seasoned veteran, his eyes were much more venomous than ordinary people. As soon as he realized something was wrong, he didn't even have time to stop his junior brother's attack, and hastily apologized to Qin Yifan. Although this display was somewhat cowardly, it was worth it as long as he could save his junior brother's life. The fact also proved that if not for his timely intervention, the scene before him would be one of his junior brother being hacked to pieces, hanging between life and death.

  Qin Yifan's eyes carried a thick and intense killing intent, staring directly at his senior brother Old Zhang in front of him, without even giving a glance to his junior brother under the knife. This time, it was no longer necessary for Senior Brother to intervene, as Little Li had already been scared almost out of his wits by Qin Yifan's killing intent that seemed to pierce through his body.

  Staring intently at Master Zhang's eyes, until Master Zhang's gaze no longer dared to look this way, Qin Yifan slowly withdrew the kitchen knife from his junior brother's face and casually placed it on the table.

  "Shopkeeper, my junior brother doesn't understand the situation. Please be magnanimous and don't take offense." Seeing Qin Yifan release his junior brother, Old Zhang's tense face relaxed a little, and he bowed his hands to thank him again.

  "I'm still saying, what will happen if I drink this tea?" Qin Yifan instantly restored his simple and honest shopkeeper image, the killing intent that had just been as solid as a substance suddenly vanished without a trace.

  Now, his junior brother Xiao Li finally realized that the fatal threat to him had disappeared, and the transparent large tripod that appeared outside his body quickly disappeared. His body softened, sat on the ground, took a few rapid breaths, raised his head just about to say something, but his face changed suddenly, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

  Old Zhang was shocked and hastily reached out to take his junior brother's pulse, after a brief examination, he took out a small medicine bottle from his body, took out a dan medicine, and quickly gave it to his junior brother.

  "Alright." When his junior brother looked a bit better, Old Zhang sat down again across from Qin Yifan: "The tea only had a tiny bit of it in there. Ordinary people who drink it will just feel drowsy and have some minor hallucinations. If someone asks them something, they'll answer truthfully. It won't do much harm to their body; they'll be fine after a nap. We just want to know more about what's going on here." This explanation was still somewhat plausible, but the real reason couldn't be spoken out loud - that this medicine, combined with some minor manipulation, could put someone into a hypnotic trance without them realizing it, turning them into a puppet who would do as they were told.

  "Give it to him to drink." Qin Yifan listened, and there was no special change in his expression. He just gave a faint order, and did not investigate whether his words were true or false.

  Elder brother Old Zhang didn't dare to hesitate, directly picked up the tea bowl and gave it to his younger brother to drink. When under someone's roof, one has no choice but to lower their head. Qin Yifan easily broke through his younger brother's defenses, even if he himself was unharmed, he didn't dare say that he had such abilities, let alone that he had been seriously injured yesterday. Originally this medicine wasn't some kind of poison, letting his younger brother sleep for a while would actually be good for him.

  "What are you doing here?" After a while, seeing that his junior brother Xiao Li was getting sleepy, Qin Yifan finally asked. The senior brother was about to answer, but found that Qin Yifan's question was not directed at him, but at the junior brother who had drunk the medicine. He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, but didn't dare say anything. Originally, it was something prepared for Qin Yifan, but unexpectedly, his junior brother had drunk it himself.

  "Our master received a message that there should be a place of evil aura appearing here, and he sent us two brothers to investigate." Little Li's eyes were almost closed, but his words were very fluent.

  "What does the land of evil spirits have to do with your Dan Ding Gate? Why did you come here?" As soon as these words came out, Shixiong Lao Zhang was shocked and panicked. He didn't expect that his sect had already been known by others. In vain, he and his fellow disciple still wanted to know more things through this method.

  "Some special elixirs require yin energy to refine, we came to investigate if there's such a possibility." The junior brother replied very quickly, the senior brother wanted to interrupt but didn't dare say anything. Fortunately, this wasn't something important, and it wouldn't be a big deal even if Qin Yifan found out.

  "Why did you only send two of you with such poor skills?" As soon as the words came out, even Master Zhang's face turned red. However, under Qin Yifan's hands, they could hardly even show their faces, so saying they had poor skills wasn't an insult.

  "The gloomy atmosphere is not beneficial to our cultivation, and others are unwilling to come here. Only the two of us from the Qi Bao sect have to bear with it." As he spoke, his junior brother Li also had a look of resentment on his face, despite having taken those medicinal pills, still showing extreme dissatisfaction. Not only was his junior brother like this, even his senior brother looked somewhat flushed with anger.

  After asking these questions, Qin Yifan stopped pursuing the matter: "You can take him back to recover, but I don't want such things to happen again. Otherwise, next time it won't be that broken tripod that gets smashed, but his head." Elder Zhang hastily nodded in agreement.

  "I don't care what you're doing here, as long as you behave yourselves and don't affect the normal life of the villagers." Qin Yifan seemed to be setting rules for this place.

  "If you're not convinced, you can come and find me for revenge at any time. However, before you defeat me, everything here is decided by me." Although he was just sitting on a simple bench in the inn, with only an ordinary-looking kitchen knife on the table in front of him, his senior brother Zhang still looked at Qin Yifan with eyes full of reverence.

  "Alright, boss!" Master Zhang didn't have any objections. Someone who could shatter his brother's protective Ding with just a kitchen knife was worthy of his respect. The little trick he used earlier was really beneath him. He helped up his brother, who was almost asleep, and slowly returned to their room.

  "If you also think that the gloomy atmosphere here is not beneficial to your cultivation, then you can only be a scapegoat in the sect." Qin Yifan suddenly said behind him, and Zhang's figure, who was walking ahead, slightly paused, but then it seemed as if nothing had happened, and he continued to support his junior brother back to their room.

  Sorry, new book, not much essence, only enough for a half-essence building. Everyone replied, I added essence. However, the half-essence building can only be first-come-first-served and cannot guarantee all of them. Thank you everyone.