Zhang Lin was panicking!
He sensed that something was off. It seemed he had once again been targeted by something!
"Could it be that I really am Tang Monk's flesh?"
He was beginning to doubt himself!
In his previous world, he had been the kind of existence that even dogs would shake their heads at. Yet after coming to this world for barely half a year, he had become a prized delicacy!
Forcing down the unease in his heart, he hurried back to the east side of the city.
He stopped by Carpenter Wu's Household on the way and arranged for him to come repair the teahouse windows that afternoon.
"Leave the things by the door first!"
The moment he returned to the back courtyard, Shopkeeper Li's cold voice came from inside.
"Alright!"
Zhang Lin set the brocade box by the door, then returned to his room first.
There was still a while before mealtime, so he planned to look through the books he had just picked up.
Not long after Zhang You left, Shopkeeper Li opened the door and brought the brocade box inside.
He sent out a stream of spiritual power from his hand. Something around the brocade box seemed to crack, and it instantly opened by itself.
Inside were a book, a small bottle, several talismans, and a somewhat damaged dagger.
He directly picked up the small bottle and poured out a medicinal pill.
He stared at it for a long while before swallowing it in one gulp.
Then an immense aura erupted from within him, only for him to forcibly suppress it again.
After Zhang Lin returned and shut the door, he lined up the three books on the table.
He picked up Four Symbols Tyrant Body first. After spending half an hour on it, he had memorized the entire book.
Ever since coming to this world, he had discovered that his memory was gradually growing stronger as well.
As he had expected, Four Symbols Tyrant Body was indeed a Martial Dao cultivation method.
And it was a visualization-type cultivation method.
One first had to construct the illusory forms of the Four Symbols within one's mind, then begin visualizing them to obtain divine abilities from them.
This book had four levels in total.
The first level involved visualizing the White Tiger.
He did not know whether he could succeed, but he had to give it a try.
What he desperately needed now was strength!
Zhang Lin quickly emptied his mind and began shaping the White Tiger within his mind, over and over again!
But saying it was easy; doing it was hard.
It was not until mealtime that he finally constructed the White Tiger's outer outline.
"Little Zhang, your meal has been delivered!"
The courtyard gate was suddenly knocked on.
Zhang Lin stopped his visualization, put away his things, and walked into the courtyard.
Their daily meals were delivered from the Delicious Restaurant next door.
It seemed Boss Ren of the Delicious Restaurant had some connection with Shopkeeper Li. Every month, Shopkeeper Li paid Boss Ren a certain amount of money, and at mealtime, the Delicious Restaurant would deliver food over.
Ever since Auspicious Cloud Teahouse stopped operating as a restaurant, it had dismissed all its staff. Only Zhang Lin and Shopkeeper Li remained in the shop.
Clearly, this was deliberate on Shopkeeper Li's part!
Ever since learning two days ago that Shopkeeper Li had drugged him, he had begun to feel sick at the sight of these delicious dishes.
He guessed that Boss Ren of the Delicious Restaurant was probably also one of the diners who wanted to eat him.
Perhaps there had been more than just those five diners that day!
"Damn it, there's only this much of me. I'll probably get sliced into pieces when the time comes!"
Zhang Lin took the food.
Yesterday, Shopkeeper Li had not been around, so he had secretly dumped the meal and later filled his stomach with some coarse grains.
But today, it seemed he could not avoid it!
The person delivering food from the Delicious Restaurant was an old man named Ren Da.
Whenever Ren Da came before, he would set down the food and leave. But today, he acted completely out of character. Rather than leaving at once, he stared at Zhang Lin with flickering eyes.
"Creak!"
Just as Zhang Lin was feeling baffled and about to speak, Shopkeeper Li opened his door.
"Why haven't you left? Planning to stay for dinner?"
There was a trace of warning in Shopkeeper Li's voice.
"I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare! I'm leaving, I'm leaving!"
Ren Da lowered his head and withdrew from the courtyard.
Zhang Lin obediently set the dishes out in another room.
"Eat!"
Shopkeeper Li picked up his bowl and chopsticks and began eating first.
Though the food looked appetizing, Zhang You seemed to be looking at floodwaters and savage beasts. He gripped his chopsticks but did not dare take a bite for a long time.
"What? Not to your taste?"
Shopkeeper Li picked up a fish eye and swallowed it without a second thought.
"No!"
Zhang You forced himself to start picking up food and eating.
Although it tasted good, he had no mood to savor it carefully.
He was a little panicked!
Fortunately, the meal was over quickly enough.
After finishing his meal, Shopkeeper Li returned to his room.
Zhang You cleared away the bowls and chopsticks, then left the courtyard and took them to the Delicious Restaurant.
"Soon, soon!"
Through a narrow crack in the window, Shopkeeper Li stared fixedly at Zhang You's departing back.
Boss Ren of the Delicious Restaurant was also someone elusive and unpredictable. Zhang You had only seen him a few times. Judging by his appearance, he was a stern old man who rarely smiled.
But like Shopkeeper Li, he had provided Zhang You with blue-white energy several times.
Seeing that it was still early, Zhang You prepared to return to his room and rest for a while.
Unexpectedly, the moment he left the restaurant, he saw Shopkeeper Li heading toward the west side of the city.
Not bothering with it any further, Zhang You prepared to go back and continue constructing the White Tiger, striving to finish before nightfall.
"Tap, tap, tap!"
He had just shut the courtyard gate when he suddenly felt the surrounding temperature plummet. At the same time, a sound came from behind him.
He hurriedly turned around, only to find nothing there!
"Fuck!"
But a string of bloody footprints on the ground caught his attention!
And those footprints were walking straight toward him!
He tried to open the courtyard gate, but a layer of ice rapidly formed over it.
"Damn!"
He hurriedly dodged to one side.
But no matter where he went, those bloody footprints followed him.
It was clearly coming for him!
Since he could not dodge it, he could only face it head-on!
Blood energy instantly wrapped around his entire body as he threw a punch toward the bloody footprints.
Thud!
A direct hit!
A tremendous force suddenly came from his wrist, and a bloody handprint quickly appeared there.
Zhang You immediately sensed trouble. He hastily mobilized a large amount of blood energy into his arm, broke free in an instant, and retreated several steps.
At that moment, the surrounding temperature dropped again. Soon, a bloody, translucent human figure appeared before him.
Two bloody hands shot toward him with lightning speed.
A powerful suppressive force came with them.
Zhang You did not dare hold back any longer. Going all out, his blood energy surged to a higher level as he lunged forward.
With one slap, he scattered the bloody arms, then followed up with a kick from the sole of his shoe.
The blood shadow immediately threw a punch in response, but its blood hand directly exploded.
Zhang You's eyes lit up. Seeing this, he rushed forward and began punching and kicking it, fighting like a street thug and a rogue.
The blood shadow was suppressed by the blood energy and could not move.
There was no helping it. He had never learned any Martial Skills, nor did he possess much combat experience. He could only rely on his reckless brute force.
"I'll fucking pound you to death!"
He did not dare withdraw his blood energy and kept pouring it out. Only when he was utterly exhausted did he gasp for breath and look beneath him.
A streak of crimson blood light suddenly burrowed into his body.
The blood shadow also turned into a wisp of white smoke and dissipated.
"Have I been marked?"
Zhang You was greatly alarmed and immediately backed away.
At that moment, a familiar wisp of blue-white energy entered his body.
"A blood shadow has been killed!"
Inside Laifu Inn in the south of the city, an old woman coughed twice and opened her eyes, two flashes of killing intent passing through them.
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