Chapter 288: Conflict

Lingyun and Chen Jing walked down the street together, occasionally looking over the surrounding stalls.

The market was not very large, and news traveled fast; the fact that Lingyun had Supreme Blood Coagulation Pills for sale was known to almost everyone present. People doing business here usually would not sell everything at once, choosing instead to keep a portion to exchange for items they had their eyes on. Seeing Lingyun and his companion, they naturally set their sights on them, and their hawking grew a bit more enthusiastic.

"Lingyun, you have to be careful. None of the guys here are simple. Don't let their enthusiastic shouting fool you; who knows what methods they are thinking of to swindle you!" Chen Jing said in Lingyun's ear.

Judging by the tone of her voice, she had likely taken a tumble at the hands of these people before.

"Don't worry, in this market, no one can swindle me!" Lingyun replied with a smile.

Suddenly, Lingyun heard a noisy commotion coming from ahead; it seemed some kind of conflict had broken out. Lingyun's brow furrowed slightly, as he thought he heard the voice of Luo Yexi.

After pushing through the crowd, Lingyun saw Luo Yexi and Esdeath standing in front of a stall, arguing with a woman over the ownership of an item. On the ground lay a broken bottle and pills scattered everywhere. Beside them, Esdeath's face was as cold as frost; if Lingyun hadn't told her earlier not to easily resort to violence here, this woman would likely already be a pile of ice shards.

Lingyun frowned slightly, walked up, and said to Luo Yexi, "Ye Xi, what's wrong?"

"Master." Seeing Lingyun, Luo Yexi's eyes lit up, and she hurried to his side. "This woman said my Pill was fake, and she threw all the pills onto the ground."

"If you hadn't said we couldn't take action, I would have already crippled this woman!" Esdeath said indifferently with her arms crossed, the coldness radiating from her making everyone present shiver.

"You say this Pill is real, so it's real?" the woman sneered. "Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill—is something like that even fit for bumpkins like you?"

"You say this Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill is fake?" Lingyun's gaze landed on the woman.

"I am an Elder of Medicine King Valley. Even I cannot guarantee I can refine a pill like the Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill. How could ignorant people like you possibly possess such a thing? And a whole bottle at that—it's a huge joke!" the woman sneered.

"Heh, Medicine King Valley—what a big mouth you have; aren't you afraid the wind will flash your tongue?" Chen Jing glanced at the woman. "Senior Yao Fengzi, you've been watching the show for so long, shouldn't you come out and reason with us?"

"Hehehe, little girl, when did you discover I was here?" Yao Fengzi chuckled as he squeezed out from the crowd.

"Yao Fengzi?" The woman's expression changed slightly; it was clear she had heard of Yao Fengzi's reputation.

"Senior Yao Fengzi, you tell us: is this bottle of pills spilled on the ground a Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill?" Chen Jing looked at the shards on the ground and gave Yao Fengzi an inexplicable smile.

Yao Fengzi looked at the broken porcelain and the pills rolling on the ground, his eyes full of heartache: "Zhou Ruofang, have you gone mad? This is a Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill! You actually threw such a rare treasure onto the ground!"

Hearing Yao Fengzi's words, the crowd was in an uproar. Although they had already guessed the value of the spilled pills after hearing how Luo Yexi addressed Lingyun, hearing it from Yao Fengzi himself made them truly understand that the pills on the ground were indeed Supreme Blood Coagulation Pills. After all, Yao Fengzi had always been very cautious regarding pills.

"Supreme Blood Coagulation Pill? Just because you say so, it is?" A flash of panic crossed Zhou Ruofang's eyes, but she refused to soften her tone. "Who knows what kind of relationship you have with this group of people!"

"Are you implying that I am colluding with them to swindle you?" Anger was already faintly rising in Yao Fengzi's eyes. "Do you know what the consequences will be for saying such things?"

"Don't forget, I am from Medicine King Valley!" Zhou Ruofang's expression also darkened. "Besides, they are just mere mortals from the secular world. You wouldn't be trying to rob the cradle and have taken a fancy to one of these women, would you?"

"Medicine King Valley, heh, what a big mouth. It's just a sect that has long since declined; you can only act like a big shot here!" Just as Yao Fengzi was about to say more, a clear, beautiful female voice rang out from the crowd. "Medicine King Valley is truly finished!"

"Who is it that dares to smear my Medicine King Valley!" Zhou Ruofang's expression turned even gloomier, and she instantly released the aura of an Innate Expert, pressing it toward the direction the voice came from.

"Xiao Xuan, why are you here?" Chen Jing asked, looking at the person who had walked out of the crowd, feeling somewhat surprised.

"My master is watching over there, so there won't be any accidents!" Liu Xuan ignored Zhou Ruofang's aura and hurried to Chen Jing's side.

"To think that Medicine King Valley has fallen to the point of needing to bully secular people to satisfy its own vanity. It really is a sect that will soon be expelled by the Medicine Alliance, isn't it!" Liu Xuan looked at Zhou Ruofang and said coldly.

Liu Xuan had always had very few friends, and Chen Jing was one of her few close confidantes. Now that Zhou Ruofang had aimed her guns at Chen Jing, she was naturally furious.

"You, you're courting death!" Stung in a sore spot, Zhou Ruofang flew into a rage, a terrifying killing intent radiating from her body as she pressed it toward Liu Xuan. Although it was forbidden to take action in the Dark World Market, one could still strike from the shadows. Zhou Ruofang's current plan was to use her killing intent to destroy Liu Xuan's state of mind, turning her into a cripple from that day on.

"Zhou Ruofang, how dare you!" Seeing this, Yao Fengzi's pupils constricted, and he shouted loudly, but it was already too late to intervene.

Seemingly not expecting that Zhou Ruofang would disregard her status as an elder to attack her, Liu Xuan was stunned for a moment and failed to react. She could only watch helplessly as the terrifying killing intent bore down on her.

"The one who should die is you!" Luo Yexi and Esdeath had appeared in front of Liu Xuan before anyone knew it, their two even more terrifying auras transforming into two great hammers that smashed toward Zhou Ruofang's killing intent.

With a "Boom," the three auras collided, and countless cracks instantly appeared on the solid ground. Luo Yexi and Esdeath stood motionless, the surroundings calm as if Zhou Ruofang's killing intent had never existed.

Zhou Ruofang's expression changed drastically; she only felt two extremely terrifying auras simultaneously slamming into the killing intent she had honed through countless life-and-death battles. One of these auras was cold to the extreme, wrapped in earth-shattering killing intent, while the other was scorching hot, as if it were the sun in the sky. Her killing intent was no different from paper before these two auras, and it was torn to shreds instantly.

With her killing intent broken, Zhou Ruofang turned pale and stumbled back several steps, leaving a deep footprint with every step. After steadying herself, she looked at Luo Yexi and the other woman with fear in her eyes, then turned and fled without looking back.

"Tch, a coward, yet she dares to be arrogant in front of us!" Esdeath flicked her hair in disdain.

"In, Innate, and there are two of them!"

The surrounding crowd stared at the two women, completely stunned. Although there was no shortage of Innate Experts among them, they had truly never seen such young Innate Experts. As for Liu Xuan, who was being protected behind them, she looked at their backs with stars in her eyes.

Seeing that the people around them were tending to crowd in, Lingyun gave Chen Jing a look. Chen Jing nodded, then pulled Liu Xuan out of the crowd. Lingyun and his companion exchanged a glance, then also flashed away from the scene.