Chapter 156: Little Love Words Said to Senior Sister

Inside the shop.

Su Qingling was sitting behind the counter, looking cold and detached, her hands propping up her chin as she stared blankly.

Su Dafang, meanwhile, was lying on a chair, snoring; he was clearly already asleep.

After Luo Zijun entered, he walked straight to the counter and said, "Senior Sister, call me a good brother, and I'll give you two fun things."

Su Qingling narrowed her eyes and reached out to pick up the thick Rolling Pin from under the counter.

Luo Zijun hurriedly said, "Senior Sister, I'm just joking with you. But I really do have fun things here; let's go to the backyard, and I'll show you."

He then whispered, "Don't let Master know."

After saying this, he immediately headed to the backyard.

A moment later.

Su Qingling, holding the Rolling Pin, arrived in the backyard and looked at him coldly, saying, "What fun things? If they aren't fun, hmph..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Luo Zijun poured the carcass of a hulking Demon Beast deer out of his Storage Bag.

"Iron-Hoof Demon Deer; the meat is firm and tastes delicious. The fur on its body is soft and smooth, and it's very expensive. If made into clothes or shoes, it's very comfortable to wear, and it can also block wind and water."

"I'll eat the meat, and I'll give the fur to you, Senior Sister. Whether you want to keep it to make clothes or take it to sell for silver, it's all up to you."

Luo Zijun looked full of pride.

Su Qingling took a few looks and said, "I want to eat meat too."

Luo Zijun said, "Of course you can, I'm just afraid the energy in this deer meat is too great and you won't digest it well, Senior Sister. But eating a small piece for a meal should be fine."

Su Qingling looked at him coldly and said, "What about the fun things?"

Luo Zijun flicked the Storage Bag in his hand, and suddenly a massive Demon Beast leopard appeared on the ground.

"Eh? Cloud-Stepping Leopard! Good stuff!"

Before Luo Zijun could start his introduction, Su Dafang suddenly walked out from the doorway, his face full of astonishment and pleasant surprise.

Luo Zijun said, "Master recognizes this Demon Beast too?"

Su Dafang walked quickly to the front of the leopard, circled the carcass, and while observing it, clicked his tongue and said, "Good stuff, really good stuff."

He then explained, "I have read in books that this Cloud-Stepping Leopard is a treasure from the outside in. Its fur, bones, meat, and even its blood and internal organs can be used to refine medicine and pills. That leopard bone powder you used for your Medicine Bath was ground from the bones of a Cloud-Stepping Leopard."

Upon hearing this, Luo Zijun was immediately full of surprise: "So that leopard bone powder actually came from a Cloud-Stepping Leopard; no wonder it was so expensive."

Su Dafang squatted down in front of the leopard's carcass and stroked its smooth, soft fur, saying, "This fur is also good stuff. Besides being able to be used for refining medicine, it can also be made into fireproof and windproof clothing. I've heard it can even be refined into treasure garments that increase speed."

Luo Zijun said in astonishment, "That powerful?"

He then pondered and said, "But these leopard-print clothes should only look good on women, right?"

Su Qingling, who was to the side, suddenly looked at him coldly and said, "Why would they only look good on women?"

Luo Zijun came back to his senses, took a look at her tall and slender figure, and said, "I was just saying it casually."

He then hurriedly changed the subject: "Master, who can refine such treasure garments?"

Su Dafang said, "Naturally, a master artifact refiner. I hear that in our entire Daliang, there are only two such masters. As for this Lin'an City, there isn't a single one."

Upon hearing this, Luo Zijun was immediately full of disappointment.

Su Dafang clicked his tongue again while stroking the leopard's fur, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Zijun, how do you plan to handle this Cloud-Stepping Leopard? If you take it to sell, although it would indeed fetch a good price, it feels like such a pity."

Luo Zijun thought for a moment and said, "Doesn't Master know a master alchemist? Last time he helped me refine the demon core of that weasel spirit. It was thanks to that demon core that I was able to advance two levels this time and hunt this Cloud-Stepping Leopard. So I've decided to give this Cloud-Stepping Leopard to that master for free to show my gratitude."

Upon hearing this, Su Dafang suddenly stood up, widened his eyes, and looked at him, saying, "Zijun, you've already advanced? And you advanced two levels in a row?"

Luo Zijun said, "Yes, I just broke through to the fourth level of the Martial Artist realm today."

Su Dafang was suddenly full of disbelief and looked dumbfounded. He remained sluggish for a while, then turned his head to look at his own granddaughter.

Seeing his expression, Luo Zijun asked in confusion, "Master, wasn't it you who said that after eating that demon core, one could advance two levels in a row?"

Su Dafang's mouth twitched a few times, and he looked at him as if he were a monster, saying, "I did indeed say that, but there was more I didn't say. Those without extraordinary talent might have no effect. Even if one can advance, it takes at least a month to refine and advance, and that's for one level. For the second level, it takes three months. You've only been at this for a few days?"

Luo Zijun counted and said, "Four days?"

Su Dafang: "..."

Luo Zijun said, "Master, I feel like there is still some power left from that demon core. I reckon in another two days, I'll be advancing again."

Su Dafang: "..."

The backyard suddenly fell silent.

Su Dafang glanced at his granddaughter again, and seeing that she seemed to have no reaction, he couldn't help but ask, "Zijun, how did you refine that demon core?"

Luo Zijun said, "I swallowed it directly, then first used my Inner Cultivation Method to refine it, and then practiced boxing to refine it."

"Just that?"

Su Dafang's mouth twitched; he felt it was incredible.

What was contained in that demon core was extremely powerful demonic energy! And he refined it so casually and simply? And so quickly?

"Yes, just that."

Luo Zijun was suddenly a bit puzzled: "Master, why does it feel like you know a lot about cultivation? Are there other methods needed to refine it?"

Su Dafang stiffened for a moment and hurriedly said, "What do I know? It's all what I heard from that master alchemist. People say that refining this demon core requires some powerful techniques and supplements, and it takes a very long time. You suddenly said today that you refined it with ease; how could I not be surprised?"

Luo Zijun was suddenly a bit proud: "Perhaps your disciple is a martial arts genius."

Su Dafang rolled his eyes. He wanted to mock him a few times, but felt that what the kid said was true and there was nowhere to mock, so he could only retort: "Probably just had a stroke of blind luck."

Luo Zijun said, "If Master wanted to have a stroke of blind luck, you probably couldn't even if you tried."

Su Dafang raised his hand and slapped him on the head, shouting angrily, "You brat, you haven't even eaten the bear heart and leopard gallbladder yet, and you're already starting to bully your master and destroy your ancestors?"

Luo Zijun hurriedly said, "Master, calm your anger. Your disciple will offer this leopard's gallbladder to you as a sign of respect."

"What would I eat a leopard's gallbladder for?"

"To get more guts, so you can beat Senior Sister."

"You brat..."

While the master and disciple were bickering, a cold voice suddenly sounded from the side: "Where are the fun things?"

Luo Zijun immediately took out two more Storage Bags and said, "These are two Storage Bags I picked up in the mountain forest today. I haven't looked at what's inside yet, but there must be fun things in them, at least there's definitely silver."

Upon hearing this, Su Dafang hurriedly turned and left, heading to the front.

After a moment, he returned and said, "I have already locked the front door. Pour them out; I also want to see what kind of fun things are inside."

Luo Zijun immediately poured out the contents of the first Storage Bag.

"Whoosh..."

First, some daily necessities like pots, bowls, ladles, basins, and clothes scattered onto the ground, followed by some bottles and jars, and then, white, gleaming silver and silver banknotes.

Su Qingling immediately went to get a large basin and began picking up the silver and silver banknotes.

Seeing that she was still expressionless, Luo Zijun said, "Senior Sister, with so much silver, give us a smile."

Su Qingling ignored him; at this moment, her eyes seemed to hold only the silver.

After she finished picking it all up, Luo Zijun poured out the rest of the items in the Storage Bag together.

A few boxes and a large pile of books.

"Could they all be cultivation techniques?"

Seeing those books, Luo Zijun immediately dropped the Storage Bag and went over to check them.

At this time, Su Dafang also went over and picked up a book. After glancing at the title, he asked in confusion, "Jade Foot Illustration II? What kind of thing is this?"

As he spoke, he curiously flipped it open and looked at the first page.

The first book Luo Zijun picked up was actually a copy of "Jade Foot Illustration III".

His mouth twitched, and he hurriedly went to flip through the other books. Besides the Jade Foot Illustration series, there were actually things like "Selected Collection of Young Married Women", the "Jade Peak Illustration" series, and so on.

"Master, these are all indecent books, don't look at them!"

Luo Zijun immediately snatched the Jade Foot Illustration from his master's hand and then put them back into the Storage Bag.

Su Dafang looked at him suspiciously and said, "Zijun, why are you so nervous? Have you read them all?"

"No... no, where am I nervous?"

Luo Zijun put away the last one and said solemnly, "My friends at the Academy all love to read these kinds of books, but I have no interest in them at all. Tonight when I go back, I will burn them all."

As he spoke, he glanced at his Senior Sister. Su Qingling was currently bowing her head, earnestly counting the silver in the basin, and seemed not to have heard the conversation between the two.

Su Dafang said impatiently, "What about the second Storage Bag? Hurry up and pour it out to see."

Luo Zijun hesitated a bit, afraid of pouring out more indecent things. At this moment, Su Qingling's beautiful eyes looked at him, and she said coldly, "Pour."

This girl also seemed a bit impatient, as if she was prepared to continue picking up money.

Luo Zijun had no choice but to stand up, take a few steps back, and pour out everything in the second Storage Bag.

"Clatter..."

Daily necessities, a few swords and blades, a Dagger, bottles and jars, and some books.

Then, there was the white, gleaming silver.

Su Qingling immediately brought over another basin and lowered her head to pick up the silver.

After Luo Zijun finished pouring out the items, he deliberately reached out to grab a piece of silver, but before he could pull his hand back, his arm was pinched.

!

"Ah..."

He let out a miserable cry and dropped the silver.

Su Qingling hurriedly picked it up, put it into the basin, and then shifted her body, turning her backside toward him to block him out.

Luo Zijun rubbed his arm and said, "Senior Sister, this silver is all mine."

While picking up the silver, Su Qingling said coldly, "Mine."

Luo Zijun said, "At least give me a hundred taels?"

Su Qingling ignored him.

Su Dafang grinned foolishly on the side: "I'm rich! I've made a fortune! My coffin money has finally returned!"

Luo Zijun said, "Master, this silver is all mine."

Su Dafang chuckled and said, "Yours is your Senior Sister's, and your Senior Sister's is your master's. Zijun, you need to face the facts."

Luo Zijun said, "Then is Master's mine?"

Su Dafang smiled and said, "Look at you, daydreaming again, aren't you? Mine is also all your Senior Sister's; it has nothing to do with you."

Luo Zijun said, "Then whose is mine?"

Su Dafang thought for a moment and laughed, "Your sister's and brother-in-law's are yours. Also, those women you know outside, theirs are all yours."

Luo Zijun was speechless: "If Master says it like that, then wouldn't mine, my sister's and brother-in-law's, and those women I know outside, all be Senior Sister's?"

Su Dafang nodded with a smile, then his expression suddenly sank: "What did you just say? Those women you know outside? Tell me, which women? How much silver did they give to keep you?"

At this time, Su Qingling, who had finished picking up the silver, also turned her head and looked at him coldly with her beautiful eyes.

Luo Zijun: "... Master, I was just following your lead, where would I know any other women? Also, I am a dignified man, a master at the fourth realm of martial arts, how could I possibly be kept?"

Su Dafang snorted and said, "What following my lead, you let it slip, didn't you?"

Luo Zijun ignored him and went over to look through those books.

"Eh? 'Thirty-Six Styles of Heavenly Gang'! A cultivation technique?"

His heart was filled with joy, and he immediately picked up the book and flipped it open to check. The first thing that came into view was a pair of naked man and woman...

He flipped through a few more pages and discovered that it seemed to be an indecent book again.

However, he felt that the name didn't sound like an indecent book; could it be that the cultivation technique was in the back?

He continued to flip through it earnestly.

Just as he was staring intently at one of the pages, a cold voice suddenly came from the side: "Flip."

"Hmm?"

Luo Zijun turned his head to look; he did not know when his Senior Sister had started crouching beside him, holding a basin of silver, her cold eyes fixed on the book in his hands.

"Oh."

Luo Zijun continued to flip to the next page, but suddenly felt something was wrong. He immediately slammed the book shut with a "clatter," turned his head, and scolded, "Senior Sister, you are an unmarried girl; how can you read such an improper book with such relish? You are truly shameless!"

Having said that, he immediately stuffed the book in his hand into his chest.

Then he went to flip through another book.

Just at this moment, Su Dafang, who was crouching opposite him, suddenly looked at the book in his hands and said, "Zijun, come here. This one seems to be a cultivation technique; see if it suits you."

Upon hearing this, Luo Zijun immediately stood up and went over to crouch beside him.

"Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Fist?"

"Huh, it really seems to be a cultivation technique, and this cultivation technique..."

Luo Zijun immediately snatched it over, opened the first page, and checked the explanation above.

After he finished reading the explanation on the first page, he was overjoyed: "Great! All the searching was in vain, yet it was found without any effort! I was still worrying about my subsequent cultivation and preparing to find a Martial Arts Hall, but I didn't expect this set of techniques to be delivered to my doorstep!"

This set of Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Fist was a complete set of upgradable fist techniques that could be practiced from the Martial Artist First Realm all the way to Martial Master; the entire process could continuously temper the body, and there was no need to practice other techniques.

Su Dafang suddenly asked, "Zijun, where did these two Storage Bags come from?"

Luo Zijun, while excitedly flipping through the technique in his hands, said casually, "Picked them up. Picked them up in the woods outside the city."

Su Dafang said, "In which woods? Tomorrow, this master will go and try my luck too."

Luo Zijun turned his head to look at him and asked, "Master, are you truly stupid, or are you pretending to be?"

Su Dafang slapped him on the head and said angrily, "Are you treating this master as stupid, or are you pretending to be? If you killed someone and seized their goods, then just say you killed someone and seized their goods. Who are you trying to fool? Are there any outsiders here?"

Luo Zijun rubbed his head and said, "Isn't this disciple afraid that you and Senior Sister would despise me?"

Su Dafang rolled his eyes and said, "Killing someone and seizing their goods is also a real skill; why would this master despise you? This master will just ask you one thing: who provoked whom first, and was the other party a good person or a bad person?"

Luo Zijun said candidly, "Naturally, they were bad people. This disciple was just passing by and saw something I shouldn't have, and those two people wanted to kill this disciple, so this disciple had no choice but to fight back and kill them."

Su Dafang asked curiously, "What did you see that you shouldn't have?"

Luo Zijun said, "Those two were chasing and killing a woman..."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Su Qingling, who was lowering her head to count the silver, suddenly raised her head and fixed her gaze on him.

Luo Zijun also looked at her and said, "Senior Sister, you count your silver; why are you looking at me? It was already impossible to count, and if you look at my handsome cheeks, wouldn't you be even less able to count it?"

Su Dafang said from the side, "Alright, stop blowing your own horn. Hurry up and tell us, what exactly happened?"

Luo Zijun recounted the sequence of events in an understated manner.

After listening, Su Dafang looked at him as if he were a freak and said, "You played the hero to save the beauty, killed those two bad guys, and saved that woman. Then, you took the opportunity to rob the woman you saved?"

Luo Zijun said, "Master, how can this be called robbing? Those three hundred taels of silver and this Cloud-Treading Leopard were given to me by her willingly. For the grace of saving her life, isn't it only right to give these things?"

Su Dafang's mouth twitched as he said, "Didn't you just say that she wasn't willing to give them to you, and you threatened her that you would punch her head until it exploded?"

Luo Zijun said, "I did say that, but if I hadn't saved her, not only would her life be in danger, but these things would also have been snatched away by those two bad guys. Therefore, I feel she should have voluntarily given these things to me. If she didn't give them to me, that would be ungrateful, and since she was ungrateful, I naturally had to punch her head until it exploded. Look, as soon as I intimidated her, she gave them to me willingly."

Su Dafang: "..."

This, damn it, is called willing?

Luo Zijun suddenly patted his shoulder again and taught him earnestly, "Master, it's not that this disciple is talking about you, but sometimes you are just too soft on those female patients. Some women just need a beating; you have to use your fists to reason with them, not your tongue."

Su Dafang suddenly frowned and said, "Zijun, why does this master feel that your words have an ulterior meaning? In the future, will you use your fists or your tongue on your Senior Sister?"

Luo Zijun glanced at the opposite side, met a pair of cold eyes, and hurriedly said, "What is Master saying? Naturally, I use my tongue with Senior Sister."

"Alright, I won't talk to you anymore; I have to go back and study this set of techniques properly. With this set of techniques, the next breakthrough is just around the corner!"

Luo Zijun put away the technique in his hand, stood up, and took his leave.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly turned his head again and looked at someone who was lowering her head and counting the silver seriously: "Senior Sister, is it very happy to count? Don't be happy for too long; there will be more happy things in the future. After I make a breakthrough in the future and go out of the city to pick up more silver, I will let you count it every day, be happy every day, and be happy to your heart's content."

After finishing, he waved his hand and left.

In the backyard, it became quiet.

After a long while, Su Dafang finally reacted and looked at his granddaughter: "Huh, were those last few sentences that brat said to you sweet nothings? Tsk tsk, the first time I've heard such tacky sweet nothings—picking up silver, counting silver, hehe..."

The words in his mouth suddenly stopped.

His granddaughter's gaze was looking at him coldly.

"Hehe... only a Literary Star and martial arts genius like that brat could say such things that sound tacky but are actually simple, honest, sincere, and full of affection. Well said! Well said indeed!"

(End of chapter)