Chapter 353

Xu Yang shook his head: "What's so disgusting about this? Your cultivation bases are still low, and the corpses are still relatively intact; it's just a bit of a bloody smell. Once you reach Qi Refining and Gang Qi Formation, your strength will be even more vigorous, and killing people then will be truly disgusting—it's always guts spilling out, bodies being torn apart, and internal organs scattered all over the ground."

The little girl shrieked: "Stop talking!"

She felt like she was going to vomit again.

Xu Yang shook his head inwardly. The little girl was not suited to be a true martial artist. The reason she practiced martial arts was mostly to be able to follow him. He would just continue to protect her in the future; in any case, he didn't expect her to achieve greatness through martial arts.

The two of them used their true qi to blast a large pit in the Green Snake Gang's courtyard, moved all the corpses over, and buried them entirely. Xu Yang then took the two of them to ransack the Green Snake Gang.

In the end, they found nearly seven hundred silver taels, a bottle of Qi Gathering Pills, and two martial arts manuals.

Seeing such a large harvest, the discomfort the two felt earlier vanished completely, and they stared at the two manuals with glowing eyes.

Xu Yang flipped through them and discovered they were both true qi martial arts, so he immediately lost interest and tossed one to Xu Qing and one to Qiu Wenjie.

"Many thanks, Senior Brother Xu!" Qiu Wenjie was trembling all over with excitement.

With a manual, his Qiu family now had its own secret martial arts. In a few decades, it was not impossible to develop into a noble family.

Why were these noble families in Qingyuan County able to remain prosperous and undying? Wasn't it because they had their own secret manuals?

"It's just a small matter. If you can reach the Dragon Ascension, you will find that these things are nothing," Xu Yang shook his head.

In the past, the Huang family only valued Lu Ren and wouldn't give him resources. It was Qiu Wenjie who told Qiu Yongqiang about his situation, and only then did the Qiu family provide him with funding. He had not forgotten this kindness.

A manual that was useless to him was a family heirloom that would benefit the Qiu family's descendants. Since the Qiu family wanted to develop in the direction of a noble family, he was happy to help them.

Qiu Wenjie thanked him profusely once more.

To Xu Yang, these were things that didn't count for much, but to the Qiu family, they were treasures that couldn't be bought even with a thousand gold.

Out of the seven hundred silver taels, Xu Yang took out one hundred: "Give this one hundred taels to your uncle as medical expenses. You two split the rest. Once you've learned the martial arts, you can also exchange them for practice."

"I have enough with this manual. Give the silver and the pills to Junior Sister Xu. If my father finds out I'm still splitting money with Junior Sister Xu, he'll probably whip me."

When it came to splitting the money and pills, Qiu Wenjie refused to take them even if it killed him, pushing everything onto Xu Qing.

Seeing this, Xu Yang didn't try to persuade him. The Qiu family wasn't exactly rich and powerful now, but they weren't short on money either; there was no need to waste breath over a bit of silver. He soon left with the two of them.

Qiu Wenjie went home, while the brother and sister went to Zhou Shunchang's house.

"How did the negotiation go?" the anxiously waiting Zhou Shunchang asked.

Xu Yang smiled: "Great Uncle, the Green Snake Gang people were very nice. After some negotiation with them, they compensated you with one hundred silver taels for medical expenses and guaranteed they wouldn't make things difficult for you in the future."

As he spoke, he handed the one hundred silver taels to Zhou Shunchang.

"They were that easy to talk to?" Zhou Shunchang widened his eyes.

Xu Yang said: "Your nephew here is, after all, a Dragon Ascension genius; they still have to give me some face."

Zhou Shunchang sighed: "A-Yang, you've made something of yourself. Even the Green Snake Gang has to sell you face."

The matter was glossed over by Xu Yang. After eating, he pulled Zhou Shunchang into a separate room and took out several manuals to give to him.

"A-Yang, this is..." Zhou Shunchang was puzzled.

Xu Yang said: "These are martial arts manuals. I'm giving them to you, Great Uncle, as family heirlooms. Keep them safe and don't reveal them to outsiders. When the cousins' children grow up, give them to them to practice. In a few decades, the Zhou family might be able to develop into a noble family."

These were the true qi martial arts he had seized from Qingfeng Stronghold. They were useless to him, but giving them to Zhou Shunchang was the key to the family's future prosperity.

The Zhou family now had a little money; what they lacked was heritage.

This great uncle had been completely open-hearted toward him, and his kindness was as heavy as a mountain. He was no ingrate.

"A noble family..."

The two words "noble family" exploded in Zhou Shunchang's mind, shaking his spirit. Xu Yang had actually given him such a grand gift.

This nephew—he hadn't doted on him in vain!

"A-Yang, this is too precious. Uncle cannot take advantage of you like this. You will need to marry and have children in the future; it's better to leave these for your own descendants."

After the shock passed, Zhou Shunchang began to decline, not wanting to take advantage of his nephew.

Xu Yang had already helped him a lot, and he was very content with his current life.

Xu Yang smiled: "Accept them, Great Uncle. The fact that I can give them to you proves that I still have such things. You don't think I'd give you the best things I have, do you? Your nephew isn't that stupid yet."

Zhou Shunchang was stunned, then burst into laughter: "Since you have better ones, Uncle won't stand on ceremony with you. In any case, from now on, you'll have a share in everything the Zhou family has.

When you have descendants in the future, I'll just copy a set for them; it's the same thing."

Xu Yang didn't care about that. If he had descendants, they would only practice even better things.

"Now that the family has some money, Great Uncle, you need to consider hiring martial artists, or if there are suitable people in the main Zhou family line, spend money to send them to the Weiyuan Hall for training..."

Xu Yang began to advise Zhou Shunchang on developing the family. With money, martial power was indispensable.

His killing spree this time could deter others for a few years, but what about after a few years?

He might not be able to come and kill again in a few years, and only by possessing martial power could the family continue to grow.

He had previously considered sending Blood Coagulation Pills back for Zhou Shunchang or the Qiu family to sell, but neither family had any influence and couldn't handle the elixir business at all.

Selling Blood Coagulation Pills for them would only turn into a death warrant.

He and Zhou Shunchang talked in detail in the room until dark, when Qiu Wenjie arrived with Qiu Yongqiang.

It turned out that upon hearing he had returned and even gifted such family heirlooms, Qiu Yongqiang had brought grand gifts to thank him in person.

At the same time, the news that the Green Snake Gang had been wiped out by Xu Yang, with Xu Qing and Qiu Wenjie in tow, began to ferment and spread in the city. Many people knew that Xu Yang had returned.

Those who were jealous of Qiu Yongqiang's medicinal herb business, seeing that even an expert like Yan Qingqiu, who had reached Gang Qi Formation, had been beheaded, immediately extinguished their thoughts.

They knew Xu Yang was establishing prestige for the Qiu family and his great uncle Zhou Shunchang; otherwise, he wouldn't have killed so many people in the Green Snake Gang.

"He was supposed to be the pillar of my Huang family." Huang Jin, hearing about the Green Snake Gang being wiped out by Xu Yang, slapped his thigh in regret.

"I am a sinner to the family!"

Huang Ping's guts turned green with regret. If he hadn't been so stingy back then and hadn't insisted on a marriage alliance before funding Xu Yang, it would be his Huang family that was glorious now.

Unfortunately, Xu Yang had not only failed to become the pride of the Huang family, but had also made the Huang family a laughingstock. The businesses of the Qiu family and Zhou Shunchang were almost catching up to the Huang family.

Once the medicinal herb business expanded, it was only a matter of time before these two families surpassed the Huang family.