Old Buddy!

Seeing the blood spraying from the guy's mouth, then watching him struggle to crawl up from the ground despite clearly lacking the strength, Jiang Lin secretly marveled. He really wanted to go over and sing him Actor. This was definitely something he had practiced!

Looking more closely, he was surprised to find that he actually knew both of them.

The man pretending to be injured was named Fang Chaoqun, and he was from the Sun Moon Sect.

He had been caught by Jiang Lin stealing undergarments from the Sun Moon Sect's Women's Bathhouse. Afterward, the two had split the profits fifty-fifty. The original-scent undergarments had sold for quite a bit of money, making them business partners.

The other was Qin Xiao, an Inner Disciple of the Dragon Gate Sect. He was in the Sea Gazing Realm of the Middle Five Realm and knew a little about pharmacology. He secretly loved a junior sister from his sect, and that junior sister actually had feelings for him too.

But once, when the junior sister had a stomachache and wanted her senior brother to "diagnose" her, he had merely glanced at her and said, "Drink more hot water," before continuing to practice his sword. After that, the junior sister never sought out Qin Xiao again.

In the second month, that junior sister announced that she had a Dao Companion. Qin Xiao cried for a very, very long time and kept looking for Jiang Lin to drink with him...

Looking at the two of them, Jiang Lin's brow twitched. "Can things in this world really be this coincidental? I somehow ended up running into both of them."

Back at the scene, it wasn't just the street vendors who were dumbfounded. Even Qin Xiao, who had been walking along perfectly normally, hadn't recovered his senses and couldn't figure out what had happened.

He had been walking along just fine, yet you had somehow bumped into him, then sprayed blood and flown a great distance. What was going on?

"You... you... cough, cough, cough..." Fang Chaoqun finally managed to stand with difficulty and wiped the corner of his mouth.

Just as he was about to speak, Fang Chaoqun leaned forward, puffed out his cheeks, and with a "pffft," sprayed blood again before collapsing straight down.

"Brother! What happened to you, Brother!"

As Fang Chaoqun fell, a woman dressed in patched, tattered hemp clothes rushed forward and tightly embraced her brother. Tears dripped down one after another.

"You! Why! My brother has no grudge against any of you, so why did you lay such a vicious hand on him? Do you have no humanity? Is there no law in Black Tortoise City? Brother... what will Sister-in-law do? And what about the child you and Sister-in-law have? Houses are so expensive lately, and we haven't even finished paying off the bank loan. Brother..."

The woman's wailing echoed through the entire alley. Quite a few onlookers gathered around with melons in their arms, while Qin Xiao remained utterly baffled. He had even begun asking himself the three questions of life.

"In broad daylight! How dare you commit violence in the street!"

Watching the scene before him, Chen Jia suddenly couldn't stand by any longer. He stepped forward to seek justice for the blood-spitting man, but Jiang Lin caught him by the wrist.

"Brother Jiang, why are you stopping me?"

Jiang Lin looked helpless. "Brother Chen, we're people from the Demon Sect."

"So?" Chen Jia looked at Jiang Lin with an utterly innocent expression. That adorable look of We're from the Demon Sect, so what? made Jiang Lin wonder whether Chen Jia had joined the wrong sect...

"Brother Chen, don't worry. That man is perfectly fine, and he's in the same line of work as us. He's pretending to be injured to extort someone."

"Pretending to be injured? What does that mean?"

"Well... it's a little difficult to explain."

Jiang Lin looked toward Qin Xiao, who was surrounded by the crowd. Seeing his sect uniform, Jiang Lin recognized it immediately. It was the uniform of a Dragon Gate Sect Inner Disciple.

Since the Dragon Gate Sect had appeared here, that meant Lin Qingwan had already arrived in Black Tortoise City. This guy might be able to serve as his breakthrough point.

"Anyway, leave this matter to me. Brother Chen, take Xiao Man and stay here. Don't wander off. I'll go buy you a few oranges."

"Oranges? I don't like oranges."

Hearing Jiang Lin's inexplicable words, Chen Jia really wanted to ask what he meant, but Jiang Lin's back was already gradually moving away. Chen Jia even felt that his departing figure carried a certain steadfastness and resolve.

The street's murmurs grew louder and louder. Qin Xiao was about to examine Fang Chaoqun's injuries when, the instant his hand touched him, Fang Chaoqun "woke" as though returning to the light.

"Brother..." the woman cried out in delighted surprise.

The man pretending to be injured waved his hand and struggled to his feet, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. "Brother, you and I have no grudge against each other. Why did you attack me so viciously? You ruined the foundation of my path! You even tried to secretly kill me to silence me just now!"

Qin Xiao: "???"

"Forget it, forget it. In any case, I no longer hope to enter the Nascent Soul Realm in this life. I had already planned to live in seclusion. As long as you give me ninety-nine Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for medical treatment, I'll let bygones be bygones. What do you say, Brother? Cough... cough, cough..."

As he spoke, Fang Chaoqun began coughing again, spraying blood all over the ground...

"Brother..." The woman began crying again. "You won't even give us ninety-nine Mid-Grade Spirit Stones? Is this how the so-called Righteous Sect of the Dragon Gate Sect behaves?"

"You... you people..."

The swordsman was utterly desperate, both anxious and furious. He even wanted to throw a helpless tantrum.

Ninety-nine Mid-Grade Spirit Stones wasn't exactly a huge sum. As an Inner Disciple of the Dragon Gate Sect, he could afford it. He simply didn't want to pay.

Because from the moment they had asked for money, he had remembered how, back at the Mountain Gate, a junior brother had once explained this to him. He had called it "pretending to be injured to extort someone."

What he hadn't expected was that the junior brother had later betrayed the Dragon Gate Sect and died beneath Senior Sister Lin's sword. After that day, Senior Sister Lin had never said another word.

"This young woman has a pill that can cure every illness and heal every injury. Please, Brother, don't disdain it."

Just as the swordsman's face was flushed red with anger, a "woman" came forward with graceful steps. Her skirt hem drifted lightly, and her makeup was delicate. With just one glance, Qin Xiao's already small face turned even redder.

"Miss! They're pretending to be injured! I'm definitely taking them to the enforcement team. There's no need for you to waste your money. Oh, pretending to be injured means extorting someone." Seeing the "pretty young woman" walking forward, Qin Xiao hurriedly explained.

"The enforcement team? Heh! My brother is gravely injured, so of course we're going to the enforcement team to seek justice!" The next moment, the woman patted Fang Chaoqun on the back. Fang Chaoqun genuinely spat out a mouthful of old blood, and his face genuinely turned pale.

"You! You people! You actually fabricated injuries!" Qin Xiao's face turned blue, then white. He was so furious that he nearly drew his sword.

However, the "young woman" gently pressed her large palm against the back of Qin Xiao's hand and shook her head. She continued forward and took out a pill.

"You think one pill will send me away? I'm telling you, I'd rather jump from here, and even if I starved to death, I still—"

"This pill is called the Leg-Stretching Eye-Staring Pill."

Before Fang Chaoqun could finish, the woman interrupted him with a smile.

"Leg-Stretching... Eye-Staring... You're..."

Looking at the pretty young woman, Fang Chaoqun was filled with astonishment!

Old buddy!