Chapter 90: The Giant

"This Yu family must be crazy with poverty. If one could learn artifact refining just by having an inheritance, artifact refiners wouldn't be so rare. At the very least, our Four Symbols Sect doesn't lack first-rank inheritances, but there are still very few artifact refiners in the sect." Wang Yu was speechless upon hearing the price of two thousand spirit stones.

"Wang Wang Shidi is right, but the Yu family didn't intend to sell this inheritance to sect disciples but to those suckers among families and rogue cultivators.

Tsk tsk, if one wants to get started in artifact refining, one definitely needs an artifact refiner to point things out hand-in-hand; otherwise, if one encounters even a slight problem, an outsider would be at a loss." Wan Shan said with a tsk.

"Li Li Shixiong Wan, please tell me the last piece of news." After successive disappointments, Wang Yu didn't have much confidence in the last piece of news, but he still urged the other party to speak.

"The last piece of news was received just today. Master Sun of the Artifact Refining Hall is recently going to refine a fire-attribute magic artifact and needs several disciples who cultivate fire-attribute techniques to help.

But this kind of help is only temporary. Master Sun will pay some spirit stones and point out some artifact refining techniques along the way, but how much one can learn depends on one's own fortune, so disciples with some foundation in artifact refining are best." Wan Shan explained slowly.

"No need to spend spirit stones, and he will pay spirit stones? This is not bad; let's go with this one." Wang Yu's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he said without hesitation.

"Wang Wang Shidi, didn't you hear clearly? This Master Sun is only looking for temporary helpers and won't systematically teach artifact refining. He will only point out things to disciples he finds pleasing when he's in the mood. You have never learned artifact refining; going there is just a waste of time." Wan Shan was a bit surprised and hurriedly tried to persuade him.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's Master Sun who is paying the spirit stones, and there's no need to pay tuition. I'll go to the Scripture Pavilion in these few days to exchange for some artifact refining books and study them overnight." Wang Yu replied indifferently.

"Alright, since Wang Wang Shidi has decided, I will report your name.

This Master Sun only said he needed disciples who cultivate fire-attribute techniques, and no other conditions were mentioned. Wang Wang Shidi naturally meets the conditions. Below, Wang Wang Shidi, please hand over the other half of the fee." Wan Shan heard this, no longer said anything, and instead stretched out his palm toward Wang Yu.

Wang Yu's face twitched, but he still took out ten spirit stones from his bosom and placed them on the other party's palm.

"Very good, Wang Wang Shidi is clearly a straightforward person. If Master Sun's side confirms it, you will naturally be notified by a transmission talisman in a few days." Seeing this, Wan Shan happily collected the spirit stones.

"Then I will wait quietly for the news."

After Wang Yu said this faintly, his figure flickered, and he left the stone house.

After he walked to an open space outside the house, he shook his sleeve and released the mechanical bird, but he didn't jump on it immediately. Instead, he frowned and turned to say to the person behind him:

"You two, why have you been following me?"

It could be seen that a few zhang behind him, two slender figures were standing there prettily. They were exactly the pair of young women with similar appearances from when he bought spirit rice earlier.

"May I ask Young Master Wang, are you a Li Li Shixiong from the inner sect? My name is Feng Xue, and this is my cousin Feng Rui. We are both outer sect disciples who just joined this year." The slightly older woman pulled her cousin beside her from afar, bowed to Wang Yu, and then said respectfully.

"I am an inner sect disciple. What exactly do you want to say?" Wang Yu asked with his arms crossed, in a 'strangers keep away' manner.

"Senior Wang Wang Shidi, we sisters come from ordinary rogue cultivator backgrounds. After joining the sect, we deeply feel that survival in the outer sect is not easy. We hope Senior Wang Wang Shidi can provide some guidance, and we sisters are willing to follow Li Li Shixiong." Feng Xue said to Wang Yu generously. Beside her, Feng Rui, seeing her cousin say this, shrank back, her face full of shyness.

"I don't need anyone to follow me. You should find someone else." Wang Yu refused expressionlessly, then jumped onto the mechanical bird and flew away directly.

"This bastard, how dare he look down on us like this? Isn't it just that his cultivation aptitude is a bit better, allowing him to enter the inner sect a bit earlier!

If we had enough resources, our cultivation speed would definitely not be slower than his, and we could also enter the inner sect." Feng Xue's expression changed several times. After the mechanical bird flew far away, she clenched her fists and said fiercely to the air.

"Cousin, it's fine that he didn't agree. We can slowly save up resources ourselves and also enter the inner sect." Feng Rui, beside her, said in a low voice.

"What do you know? Just relying on the meager benefits issued by the sect and the small tasks we take on daily, when will we ever save enough resources to cultivate to the late stage?

Since this Wang guy won't do, we'll find other inner sect disciples who need helpers. With the two of us beauties, are we afraid we won't find a reliable backing?" Feng Xue said to her cousin indignantly.

Seeing this, Feng Rui could only pout and say nothing more.

Her cousin has always been strong-willed, and since they joined the sect, they have naturally always followed her lead.

After a while, Wang Yu flew back to the cliff. When he jumped off the mechanical bird and walked toward the stone house, his expression turned gloomy again.

It could be seen that in the pitch-black night, a giant who was a head taller than him was sitting motionless in front of the house door. As soon as he approached, he stood up and said in a buzzing voice:

"Little guy, I heard you have Fire Cloud Pills. Take them all out and give them to me. If you don't, I'll smash your head."

The giant had small eyes, a flat nose, upturned nose hair, and a mouth full of uneven yellow teeth—extremely ugly—but as soon as he spoke, he was overbearing and unreasonable.

"Who are you? Who told you I have Fire Cloud Pills?" Wang Yu pondered for a moment and asked slowly.

"This master is a Dharma Protector of White Tiger Mountain. The Fire Cloud Pills were naturally told to me by a good brother. So you really do have Fire Cloud Pills? Give them to me; my big brother needs them for cultivation." The giant stretched out a hand like a palm-leaf fan and said in a buzzing voice.

"And who is your big brother?" Wang Yu vaguely heard something, his eyes flickered, and he asked again.

"You little guy, so much nonsense. It looks like you don't want to give them." Upon hearing Wang Yu ask again, the giant suddenly became impatient. A fierce light flashed in his small eyes, and the hand he had stretched out suddenly grabbed back, his five fingers pressing down on Wang Yu's head like a small mountain.

This movement was extremely fast.

But Wang Yu just flickered his shoulder, and his body slid backward like a loach, just dodging the giant's grab.

The giant was stunned for a moment, but immediately the fierce light in his eyes grew stronger. After taking a deep breath, the arm he grabbed with suddenly became a circle thicker, and he took another step forward, punching toward where Wang Yu was.

Before the fist hit Wang Yu, a terrifying wind pressure arrived first with a whistle.

Seeing this, Wang Yu also took a breath, his upper body suddenly became a circle larger, and he also threw a punch.

"Boom!" A loud noise.

Wang Yu only felt his arm heat up, his fist feeling as if it had hit a steel plate, aching faintly. At the same time, a terrifying giant force roared out from the opposite side. After his body shook, he couldn't help but fly backward. ===== CHAPTER 91 =====