Chapter 44: Can't Bear It Anymore

  Business is booming, and there's a reason for it. In just a moment, the four dishes and a jug of fine wine were all on the table. The aroma of either mellow or refreshing scents pierced their hearts, making the two people who were already hungry suddenly have a big increase in appetite.

  "Brother Liu, please!" As he spoke, Lin Feng's chopsticks had already reached for the hundred-year-old ginseng stewed chicken worth over thirty spirit stones. The hundred-year-old ginseng was a second-grade spiritual medicine and was the most valuable among all the dishes on the table. Liu Kai didn't stand on ceremony either, quickly picking up a section of ginseng as thick as his little finger, smelling it and then slowly savoring it in his mouth, clearly understanding the value of the hundred-year-old ginseng.

  "Hmm...!" As soon as the Xuan Shen entered his mouth, a light and agile spiritual energy burst out of his nostrils. He quickly closed his breath and savored it, and the spiritual energy surged up to his Tian Ling and down to his abdomen, making him feel refreshed and clear-headed. After holding his breath and suppressing the spiritual energy, he finally opened his mouth and let out a long sigh, as if he had done a week's worth of breathing exercises. The second-grade spiritual medicine was indeed full of spiritual energy!

  "Haha, delicious! Come on, Brother Liu, have another sip of the divine wine, it must be great!" Lin Feng said with a smile, raising his cup. He had never drunk alcohol before in his life, but when he entered and saw that almost every table had one or two jugs of wine, he thought it should be pretty good too, so he also ordered a jug.

  "Lin brothers, please!" Liu Kai raised his wine cup and took a sip, then tilted his head back and swallowed the whole cup in one gulp. He closed his eyes as if savoring the taste, and after two breaths, let out a satisfied sigh: "Good, indeed it's a divine wine, even more refreshing than ordinary people's watered-down wine! Lin brothers, please help yourself too!"

  Lin Feng had never drunk wine before, but as a mortal, he had heard of the taste of wine. So when he held the wine, he hesitated for a moment, but seeing Liu Kai drink it down with relish, he also decided to take a sip. Holding the wine, he first smelled the aroma, which was cool and refreshing with a hint of floral scent, but he didn't know what it was brewed with. The wine's fragrance entered his nostrils and rushed straight to his forehead, apparently containing a large amount of spiritual energy.

  A sip of the liquor slipped in, bringing a refreshing sensation with a hint of chill that made him feel like he was suddenly awakened from a daze. Just as he was about to savor this feeling, the coolness transformed into a warm current flowing through his intestines and into his abdomen, instantly invigorating every cell in his body. As his entire being felt relaxed and comfortable, like basking in the warmth of a spring sun, a rich aroma of wine shot up to his brain, making Lin Feng feel slightly dizzy. However, this feeling came and went quickly, disappearing without a trace.

  "Good wine, indeed good wine." Lin Feng fell in love with this drink at first sip.

  "It's obvious that Lin brothers are drinking for the first time, haha, come on, eat some dishes quickly." Anyone who has drunk before can tell at a glance that Lin Feng is drinking for the first time. Although the liquor disperses quickly, it's still liquor after all, and drinking too much will make you dizzy, especially for someone like Lin Feng who is drinking for the first time.

  "Liu Kezi, you poor devil, you've owed me spirit stones for so long and still refuse to pay back, yet you have the money to drink and eat meat here!"

  Lin Feng was enjoying his food and drink when he suddenly heard a loud, coarse voice of a male duck shouting beside him. He immediately turned black with anger, and when he turned around, two burly men were already standing at the table, their faces showing that they were not good people.

  "Money brother, Zhao brother, what a coincidence! Today is a friend's treat, and I just happened to be in time." Lin Feng had not yet spoken, but saw Liu Kai already standing up, bowing and nodding his head, responding with a cautious attitude.

  Since things have come to this, Lin Feng didn't want to get angry either, he could only observe the situation first. After reacting, Lin Feng hastily threw out two sensing techniques and only then did he realize that these two burly men who looked like martial artists were actually Qi Refining stage cultivators, one at level six and the other at level seven, not very high, but each of them could still take on himself and Liu Kai alone without a problem.

  "Haha, can't tell at all, a Qi Refining Fourth Level guy is so rich? Liu Kezi, won't you two be partners in some shady business?" The Qian surname cultivator had a cultivation base of Seven Layers of Qi Refining Period and was obviously the leader among the two. He glanced at Lin Feng before turning to Liu Ke again.

  Lin Feng saw that he immediately made the two of them out to be murderous demons, and was about to stand up to clarify. However, Liu Kai had rich experience in the jianghu, and quickly spoke before him: "Qian Shixiong is truly giving us too much credit, thinking that with our cultivation, even if we wanted to, we wouldn't have the ability! This Lin Shixiong has just come out of his family to train, and we've only just met."

  These two men, one named Qian Dele, with a cultivation base of seven layers in the Refining Qi stage, and the other named Zhao You, with a cultivation base of six layers in the Refining Qi stage. Neither of them were good people, they joined a small gang in Yangguang City. The gang made a living by collecting protection fees from the loose cultivators market in the south of the city, and also did some usury on the side. The two men served as thugs within the gang, and when they encountered cultivators with lower cultivation bases outside, they would often commit murder and robbery, their methods were ruthless and experienced.

  Xiang Linfeng, a newcomer like this, can't withstand the three or five irrelevant words of these two people, and can clearly explain his identity and origin. If Linfeng has some background, the two people won't dare to provoke him, but if he doesn't have any background, he will naturally become the target of their extortion and blackmail, and it's possible that one day they'll do something to him, so he hurriedly interrupted Linfeng's words.

  "Liu Kezi is quite good, just a few words and he's completely pushed to the ground. And still bringing up family matters, trying to intimidate me?" Qian Dele saw that he couldn't get anything out of him, and suddenly revealed a fierce expression.

  "What family is this, listen to them, are they not afraid of being scolded?" Zhao You immediately chimed in from the side, isn't following the example just right? However, his tone was a bit too much, a family established by a cultivator, even if it's small, would have at least three to five foundation-building cultivators, not something that their kind of Qi-refining cultivators can afford to provoke.

  Qian Dele apparently understood the reason, and upon hearing this, his eyebrows furrowed. Liu Kai naturally knew that if he reported Lin Feng's family background accurately, it would imply a threat to both of them. Later on, Lin Feng might be fine, but he himself wouldn't be able to stay in Yaoguang City anymore. Moreover, he didn't know Lin Feng's true identity, so he chose to ignore Zhao You's question very bluntly: "How dare I speak nonsense in front of Master Qian? If it weren't for Master Lin inviting me, I wouldn't have dared to come to Zuike Xiang."

  Lin Feng looked at Liu Kai's appearance and also knew the cultivation of the two evil men. At this time, he didn't dare to provoke them easily, so he quickly stood up and paid his respects. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Qian Dele glance at him and turn his head, ignoring him completely, not giving him any face at all. Lin Feng was furious, almost going mad.

  Fortunately, after so many years of wearing the hat of a waste material in training with miscellaneous spiritual roots, Lin Feng's endurance had become quite powerful, and he was able to hold back his anger at this slap in the face. There was no way around it - circumstances were stronger than people, and although on the surface he was a member of a family, the help that the family could provide him was actually very limited, and now that he was so far away from the family, it was even less possible to get assistance, everything had to rely on himself, in a certain sense, he was also a loose cultivator.

  It's no wonder that by this time, there was not a shred of enthusiasm left. Many other diners around us were either watching with amusement or eating and drinking while chatting to themselves, clearly having seen such scenes before, and it didn't spark the slightest interest in them.

  "When are you going to return the borrowed Spirit Stone? It's almost been a month, you know the rules. If you don't return it on time, don't blame us for being ruthless." Qian Dele glanced at Lin Feng with the corner of his eye, and seeing him sit down awkwardly, he was convinced that Lin Feng was just an unremarkable disciple from a small family, so he didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore. He turned his head and shouted even more loudly at Liu Kai.

  Shouting is fine, yelling is fine, it's understandable for debt collectors to be loud. Although Lin Feng felt humiliated being spat at in front of everyone at the dinner table, he was in the wrong and couldn't say much. But if you're here to collect debts, then just do that, what's with putting your hand into my soup bowl?

  "Bang!" A crisp knocking sound rang out, the voice was not loud, but very piercing, and it was extremely clear in the ears of many cultivators. It turned out that Qian Dele saw Lin Feng softened, his arrogance became even more rampant, seeing the stewed chicken on the table was not bad, so he habitually stretched out his hand to grab it, but was knocked by Lin Feng with a chopstick on the back of his hand.

  "My friend owes you money, that's between you two. This meal is on me for my friends, but I didn't invite you."

  Lin Feng couldn't help but lose his temper. He had thought that Liu Kai owed people money, and others would come to demand it back, although their behavior was rough, he didn't want to get involved himself. Moreover, as a newcomer to Yangguang City, he wasn't familiar with the local situation, so provoking two rogue cultivators who were two or three levels higher than him wasn't a good idea, so he had been enduring it all along. But this Money Dele was really too much, twice or thrice slapping his face, it was truly unbearable, if he didn't give him some color to see, he would really think that Lin Feng was easy to bully.

  His opponent's cultivation was two to three layers higher than his own, although it made him feel a lot of pressure, Lin Feng, who had a mid-grade spiritual weapon, the Fish Dragon Sword, wasn't entirely without the possibility of killing his opponent. It should be known that Qi Refining stage cultivators have very little spiritual energy in their bodies, so their fighting style is actually more similar to that of martial artists, with close-range combat being the norm, making weapons extremely important.

  Generally, cultivators in the Refining Qi stage use fine steel swords, which vary in quality. However, no matter how good a fine steel sword is, it can't compare to a spiritual artifact forged from spirit stones with an array of laws. Even the worst low-grade spiritual artifact would be superior. When the two collide, the only outcome is that the spiritual artifact will shatter the fine steel sword.

  It's not absolute, of course. If the person wielding the fine steel sword has a cultivation base that far surpasses the person using the magic artifact, then under the protection of their spiritual energy, the magic artifact may not be effective after all. However, it's difficult for this situation to arise between Lin Feng and Zhao You, who have such a large gap in their cultivation bases. As for going head-to-head with Qian Delei, Lin Feng didn't feel confident, but he also had about half a chance of not losing.

  Moreover, Lin Feng understood that with such a big business, the Drunken Guest Fragrance would definitely have guards, and no matter what, they wouldn't want to stage a martial arts performance in their own store. This fight might not even happen, and the most likely outcome was just a quarrel. But today's feud was settled nonetheless.

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