Chapter 49: Chapter 40: Life Reviving Flower
’We’re the Law Enforcent Team! We’re always the ones giving people trouble, and others don’t even dare to talk back. But now...’
Looking at their Captain and Deputy Captain lying on the ground, every mber of the Law Enforcent Team felt a spasm of fear in their hearts. A single thought surfaced in all their minds.
’This guy isn’t human!’
"What? Nothing to say? Does your silence an you admit you deserve a beating? Fine, I’ll grant your wish!"
Seeing his branch family’s courtyard smashed to this state, there was no way Nie Yun, burning with fury, would let them go. With a cold snort, he pushed off the ground and charged at the group.
"Ah... Lord Yun, we don’t deserve a beating..."
"Grandpa Nie Yun, we were wrong! We should have never co..."
They never imagined that staying silent out of fear would still get them beaten. All the Law Enforcent Disciples started to cry. For a mont, miserable wails rose and fell, echoing to the heavens.
"Is this really Yun’er..." Seeing the Law Enforcent Team, who had been so aggressive just monts ago, now all lying on the ground—so crippled, others like dead dogs—his mother, Nie Ling, felt a sudden sense of satisfaction.
Ever since she had married into the family, the Nie Tian Branch had suffered endless ostracism and cold shoulders. These Law Enforcent Disciples, in particular, had co to harass them plenty of tis. To be honest, if not for her own lack of strength, she would have lost her patience long ago!
She had thought this situation would continue forever. But unexpectedly, after being knocked out by Nie Chao, her son had woken up a changed person. He acted ruthlessly and without rcy, instantly releasing all the resentnt that had been bottled up inside her for years. The feeling was indescribably refreshing!
’Good, good! Now this is my son!’ she muttered to herself again.
The two phrases might not sound very different, but their true anings were worlds apart!
If Nie Yun knew what his mother was thinking, he would probably faint on the spot.
’Anyone else who caused this much trouble would be thinking about how to deal with the aftermath, but my mother is cheering
on. No wonder I was called the Blood Prison Demon Venerable in my past life. It turns out I inherited my warlike nature from her...’
In truth, how could Nie Yun know? In her youth, his mother, Nie Ling, had been quite a prominent figure. Hailed as the number one dicine-Gathering Master in Luoshui City, her dicine-Gathering Skill was nearly unmatched. The suitors pursuing her were so nurous they wore down her doorstep, coming and going like the tide. If not for this, how could she have married the top genius of that ti?
Anyone who could be called number one in their field was bound to be proud and ambitious. Later, when the branch fell into decline and his father beca an alcoholic, she had to support the family all by herself as a single woman. The pressure she was under was imnse!
After being suppressed for so long, her son had suddenly made a powerful coback, even beating the clan’s veteran expert, the Law Enforcent Team Captain, into a pulp with a single blow. She barely had ti to feel vindicated, so how could she possibly bla him?
Just because she didn’t bla him didn’t an others in the branch weren’t anxious. The old steward, Nie Chong, saw the mother and son—one busy fighting, the other so excited she almost cheered aloud—both seemingly unaware of the gravity of the situation. He was so worried he was scratching his head and ears. "Madam, they are the Law Enforcent Team! If they die here, the clan will certainly annihilate our branch to save face. We’ll be dood..."
"Oh, right! I’d forgotten..." Hearing the steward, his mother, Nie Ling, scratched her head and gave an embarrassed smile. Then, she shouted to Nie Yun, who was in the middle of teaching the Law Enforcent Team a lesson, "Yun’er, hit them hard! Just make sure they don’t die!"
"Er..." Hearing his mother’s shout, both the steward and Nie Yun staggered. The steward, in particular, almost burst into tears. ’Just make sure they don’t die... Damn it, why did I have to open my big mouth...’
"I’m tired of hitting you. You’ve made a ss of our branch’s courtyard. Each of you will hand over ten thousand taels of silver as compensation, and then you can get lost. If you can’t pay up, then whichever hand you used to smash things in our courtyard will be crippled, and whichever leg you used to trample on things will be crippled!"
"Ten thousand taels?" Everyone jumped in fright upon hearing the amount.
The Law Enforcent Descendants used their "law enforcent" title to bully the various branches and were quite wealthy compared to other disciples. However, most of them only had a few thousand taels of silver on them at most. As for ten thousand taels, aside from a few leaders, almost no one could produce that much!
After so scrounging, Nie Yun only managed to scrape together a total of fifty thousand taels of silver from all the Law Enforcent Descendants, including their captain, Nie Yuanqing.
Fifty thousand taels would have been a considerable sum to the old Nie Yun. But now, while it wasn’t exactly a drop in the ocean, it really didn’t amount to much.
"Mother, this is the money they’re paying as compensation. See if it’s enough to cover the family’s losses..." After getting the silver notes, Nie Yun casually tossed the money to his mother.
"It’s enough! The things they broke don’t even add up to five thousand taels in total. Fifty thousand is plenty!" his mother said with a nod.
"Get lost, now! If I see any of you here again, I won’t be so polite. Watch your worthless hides!" Nie Yun knew that the people truly responsible for harming his branch were at the very core of the clan. Killing these small-fry would be useless, so he didn’t press the matter further. With a cold shout, he sent them scrambling.
"Yes!" Hearing the young man’s blunt words, the mbers of the Law Enforcent Team reacted as if they had received a grand pardon. They all nodded excitedly and retreated, each one scrambling to get out first, afraid that being too slow would bring another disaster upon them. In no ti at all, they had completely vanished from the branch.
"Mother, I need to go out for a bit. The house is a ss, so please start arranging things..."
The Law Enforcent Team had suffered such a huge loss and fled in disgrace. This would definitely shake the clan’s upper echelons. It was very likely an Elder would co personally next ti.
Nie Yun wasn’t particularly afraid of the threat from the clan. The key was the threat from the Demon Race!
Nie Yun knew firsthand how terrifying the Demon Race was. It was impossible for him to reach the Qi Sea Seventh or Eighth Layer in a short period. The only way was to refine a Heart Returning Pill, which could heal his father’s damaged Qi Sea and directly restore his combat power to its peak!
Therefore, he had to go find that one dicinal material he knew of for refining the Heart Returning Pill right now!
"Go on, then." Her son was more capable now, which ant he had more to do. Although he hadn’t spoken much with her since he woke up, aside from the matter of the Pengxin Snow Lotus, Nie Ling knew this wasn’t the ti for chatting. He certainly had his reasons for acting this way, so she didn’t stop him.
"Mhm!" Nie Yun nodded, pushed off the ground with his foot, and sped directly toward the back mountain.
The final dicinal material needed to refine the Heart Returning Pill was called the Life Reviving Flower. It was a top-tier dicinal material no less precious than Beardless Grass. Legend had it that no matter how severe the injury, as long as one was still breathing, consuming this herb could bring them back from the dead!
Of course, it didn’t actually have the power to bring people back from the dead. However, it had no problem allowing a heavily injured person to recover their strength in a short ti. Back then, when the Demon Race invaded, he had escaped the dilapidated Luoshui City with Nie Tong’s help and fled into the back mountain. He had been gravely injured and on the verge of death. If not for that Life Reviving Flower, he probably would have died right then and there.
Because of this, Nie Yun clearly rembered the location of that Life Reviving Flower. He had been waiting for his father to achieve the First Layer Great Success in the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and for his own strength to increase before coming to find it!
After all, according to his mories, this place was extrely dangerous. If his past self hadn’t been incredibly lucky, he probably would have been torn to shreds by the guardian Demon Beast before he even saw the Life Reviving Flower.
Keeping the exact location of the Life Reviving Flower in mind, Nie Yun used the faint starlight to glide swiftly forward, like an owl in the dead of night.
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