Chapter 14: Is This Reasonable?
When he came back to his senses, the elite monster corpse had already been collected by that person, and along the way, he had also picked up quite a few insectoid race remains.
“Oh my god, so strong!”
“What an amazing big rooster, he took down that elite monster so easily.”
“Young Master, is that handsome young man also a student from the art studio?”
But the young man remained silent, his eyes flashing with sharp light, his gaze fixed intently on the departing figure of the rooster knight.
“Chase!”
With that, he floored the accelerator to pursue the rooster knight.
What he cared about wasn’t the set of materials from that elite monster, but the rooster knight himself, and the powerful scroll painting in his hands.
“Which university training team’s? Truly a fierce general!”
“There are quite a few schools coming to Yaoyang City for training this year, not sure which university’s freshman it is?”
Beep beep beep—
He kept honking the horn to signal that rooster knight to stop.
Little did he know, the rooster knight at this moment was cursing under his breath as he sped away rapidly.
“Tch~ If you don’t have the skills yourself, you can’t let others take it?”
“Chicken King, go that way!”
The Chicken King’s speed naturally couldn’t match the armored combat vehicle, but the Chicken King could adapt to various rugged and treacherous terrains.
While the vehicle behind had to detour around complex terrain.
Successfully shaking off the vehicle, Wu Xian secretly felt smug; this trip could be called a bountiful harvest.
Unfortunately, he didn’t stay happy for long before the sound of engine roaring came from behind again.
“…”
He thought the vehicle had caught up again, but upon looking closely, his expression instantly became strange.
He saw a familiar rundown motorcycle dragging thick smoke coming over; wasn’t it that Old Brother Mo from before?
The motorcycle quickly caught up to the Chicken King. Upon seeing it was Wu Xian, Old Brother Mo was also stunned for a moment, “Yo~ You’re still alive, little ghost?”
“…”
Wu Xian was rendered speechless by Old Brother Mo’s words.
“Riding a big rooster to travel, pretty unique style, little ghost.” The brother glanced at Wu Xian’s Chicken King and teased, “Want a ride? Flat rate thirty bucks.”
“Fifteen.”
“Deal, hop on!” Old Brother Mo cheerfully accepted the fare.
This left Wu Xian secretly speechless; looks like next time he needed to haggle straight down to ten bucks.
He paid and got on, and Old Brother Mo switched back to speed and passion mode.
The two had just left not long ago when the rumbling armored combat vehicle also arrived here; the young man in the vehicle, having completely lost the trail, was furious.
“Isn’t it~ Why did that brother run? Does this Young Master look that scary?” The young man expressed his confusion.
The beautiful girl beside him whispered a guess, “Maybe he thought the Young Master wanted to rob that elite monster’s materials?”
“What’s there to rob about a Tier 2 elite monster?” The young man was speechless.
“To you, it’s naturally nothing, but for ordinary families like us, it’s a not insignificant income.”
“Fine.”
The young man pouted reluctantly, still not quite understanding; what could that bit of money even do?
At this moment, a power skateboard with flames spraying from the tail hovered above the armored combat vehicle, making the four beautiful girls’ eyes light up.
“Senior Student Zhou, you’re here too?”
The rich brother young man immediately recognized Zhou Qi on the power skateboard and sized up the power skateboard under Zhou Qi’s feet with a tsk tsk.
It was a pretty nice vehicle, just couldn’t carry a cheer squad; getting one later to show off wouldn’t be bad.
“I was wondering who was driving an armored combat vehicle into the beginner instance; turns out it’s little Wang, junior brother,” Zhou Qi chuckled in amusement, “By the way, have you seen a guy with a big rooster scroll painting?”
On the way back to the fortress just now, he vaguely heard a few familiar rooster crows, so he chased over in the direction of the sound.
“Big rooster?” Little Wang junior brother was slightly taken aback, “Senior Student knows that brother?”
“What, you’ve seen him?” Zhou Qi’s eyes lit up slightly.
“We’re chasing him right now, unfortunately lost him,” Little Wang junior brother said excitedly, “Speaking of which, which path is that brother from? Pretty fierce! And that big rooster, Senior Student, do you know which master’s work it is?”
Zhou Qi shook his head with a smile, “These are the questions I want to ask you too.”
Then, the two couldn’t help but talk about their respective experiences.
Upon learning that Wu Xian had easily dealt with a Tier 2 elite monster, Zhou Qi wasn’t surprised.
In contrast, Little Wang junior brother had an exaggerated reaction of shock after shock, “What the heck, single-handedly took down the hive? Senior Student sure you’re not joking? This… this… reasonable?”
“Not very reasonable,” Zhou Qi said with a serious face, “But I saw it with my own eyes.”
…
After taking a cab back to the North Street District, Wu Xian went straight to the materials shop he had cooperated with before.
“Boss, do you have…”
Before he could finish, the boss preempted, “Yes, this shop has everything you need.”
“Uh, I’m here to sell goods.”
The boss switched modes quickly, “Buying, this shop buys anything, fair and reasonable prices.”
Wu Xian looked at the boss leisurely sitting inside the counter and thought to himself that this boss was also an interesting fellow.
Moments later, looking at the mountain of piled-up insectoid race remains, the boss was slightly disappointed, “Insectoid race goods, you know the situation with insectoid race goods; afraid I can’t give a good price.”
“No problem, market price is fine.” Wu Xian expressed understanding, “Additionally, I have a special insectoid race corpse here; how much can you give for it?”
With that, he took out the Tier 2 elite insectoid monster corpse.
“Hmm~?!” The boss instantly perked up, “Tier 2 elite insectoid monster, not bad, young man!”
“Luck~ Picked up someone else’s bargain.”
“Damage is a bit severe, but it’s elite monster materials after all,” The boss inspected the condition and estimated a rough price, “If broken down and sold, probably around thirty thousand; flat rate thirty thousand, how’s that?”
“Deal.”
Then, the boss called over staff to count everything, including the other insectoid race materials, totaling 54382 spirit yuan.
“Right, do you have rare materials here?” Wu Xian casually asked.
“Yes, but only up to Tier 4,” The boss replied without thinking, “And not much in stock; if you have specific needs, I can help source them.”
“Uh, no need for now, just asking.” Wu Xian quickly waved his hand and took his leave.
“Welcome to come again~ Young man.”
He came out of the materials shop and went to a nearby potion shop.
Splurging eighteen thousand, he got a box of 【spirit gathering amplification fluid】, a spiritual potion used to improve spiritual power cultivation efficiency, something only rich people could afford.
Now that the scroll painting issue was resolved, his own spiritual power cultivation needed to keep up too.
After reaching Tier 2 in spiritual power cultivation, improving became noticeably much harder.
You know, the gap between rich people and ordinary people was all-encompassing.
To keep up with his peers, cultivation resources were also an essential investment.
Back to the shantytown.
The old master had become much more eccentric in behavior ever since recalling some memories.
Sure enough, he had somehow gotten some fitness equipment from who knows where and was pumping iron inside the house.
“Come~ Xian’er, join Grandfather!” The old master was curling a dumbbell with one hand and beckoned to Wu Xian, “A real man needs muscles; a strong physique is the foundation of all battles.”
“…”
Wu Xian was somewhat amused but didn’t dampen the mood and trained along with the old master.
“Hey~ Try not to use spiritual power, or it won’t be effective.” The old master corrected Wu Xian’s posture while reminding him, “These past two days, I’ve recalled some army combat techniques and physical training methods; I’ll teach them to you later, useful for fighting people in the future.”
Wu Xian nodded obediently, unwilling to reject Grandfather’s good intentions.
“Right, that little girl from the Tang Family came looking for you just now; give her a call back later.”
“Got it.”
After training a bit more with the old master, he returned to his own small room and called Tang Tiaotiao back.
“Sister Tiao came looking for me? What’s up?”
“Isn’t it our first instance sketching trip? Wanted to pull you into the sketching trip group?” Tang Tiaotiao said cheerfully, “Too bad you weren’t there today; you didn’t see my little Jade Rabbit’s prowess, super cool!”
Wu Xian was amused, “Next time remember to tell me in advance.”
Free ticket privilege ready-made; no reason not to take it.
“Right, what scroll painting did you buy? Good?” Tang Tiaotiao asked curiously, “I’m planning to get some other scroll paintings lately to boost my combat power.”
“You’ll find out when the time comes.” Wu Xian played mysterious.
“Tch~” Tang Tiaotiao didn’t take it seriously, “A scroll painting within two million, how amazing can it be?”
Wu Xian smiled without saying a word.
