Su Xianmei
"Oh my god!"
"How did Lin Bai kill so many monsters?"
"One, two, five... ninety, one hundred and fifty!"
"There are actually a full one hundred and fifty!"
"And every one of these monsters is between the fourth and eighth levels of the Martial Dao!"
"When did this good-for-nothing Lin Bai become so powerful?"
"How strange. Wasn't he a good-for-nothing?"
Lin Bai took out so many monster corpses that everyone nearby jumped in fright.
There were so many monsters that, let alone killing them, they had never even seen this many before.
"This, this, this..." Aileen's beautiful eyes were left wide with shock, and for a long while she could not recover.
Ye Rulong stared at the mountain of monster corpses as if he had seen a ghost. "Impossible! This is impossible! How could you possibly kill an eighth-level Martial Dao monster? You're a good-for-nothing! You're a good-for-nothing!"
"Don't worry about how I killed these monsters. The fact is, they're all right here." Lin Bai said.
"Aileen, name your price."
Lin Bai smiled calmly.
"There are so many monsters. I'll need to find a few people to help me count them before I can give you a price," Aileen said.
"All right, go ahead." Lin Bai nodded.
Indeed, with so many monsters, it was impossible for Aileen to count them all by herself.
"No need. There are one hundred and fifty monsters in total. The Treasure Pavilion will buy them for three thousand spirit stones."
Just as Aileen was about to find someone to help, a woman as beautiful as a fairy descended from the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion.
"Three thousand. How about it, young master?" The woman walked up to Lin Bai and asked with a light laugh.
Although there were many monsters, Lin Bai knew that they were absolutely not worth three thousand spirit stones.
Why had this woman offered such an exorbitant price the moment she appeared?
Before Lin Bai could answer, Ye Rulong roared, "What the hell do you think you're doing, throwing out random prices? Are these things worth three thousand spirit stones?"
"Hmph! How dare you make a scene in front of me? I'm telling you, you've caused a huge disaster today. I'm the eldest young master of the Ye Family!"
Hearing Ye Rulong say this, Lin Bai cursed him inwardly for being an idiot.
The fact that this woman could descend from the second floor meant that her status was absolutely extraordinary. Yet this idiot Ye Rulong actually dared to provoke her. Wasn't he courting death?
The moment Aileen heard this, she shouted angrily, "You're the damn fool! This is Su Xianmei, the manager of our Treasure Pavilion branch and one of the eighteen elders of the Treasure Pavilion!"
"Ye Rulong, how dare you speak like that? Forget you—even your entire Ye Family won't survive this."
Aileen's furious rebuke frightened Ye Rulong out of his wits. In a panic, he hurriedly knelt and begged for mercy. "Pavilion Master Su, spare my life! Pavilion Master Su, spare my life! I was spouting nonsense. I was blind and failed to recognize greatness. Please, Pavilion Master Su, forgive me."
Su Xianmei merely cast Ye Rulong a faint glance and ignored him.
"Young brother, what do you think? How about three thousand spirit stones?" Su Xianmei asked Lin Bai with another smile.
"All right, then. Three thousand it is." Lin Bai accepted.
Aileen glared at the kneeling Ye Rulong. "What are you waiting for? Get lost!"
"Yes, yes, yes! I'll leave right now, right now." Ye Rulong spoke as if he had received a great pardon.
"Wait. You haven't kowtowed yet." Lin Bai grinned.
"I've taken out three thousand spirit stones now. Ye Rulong, shouldn't you kowtow to me?"
Lin Bai stared at Ye Rulong.
The moment Ye Rulong heard this, he ground his teeth and said, "Lin Bai, don't push me too far!"
"You insisted on bullying me. Now it's my turn to bully you a little. Kowtow. Otherwise, you won't be leaving the Treasure Pavilion!" Lin Bai gave a cold laugh.
"You!"
Ye Rulong flew into a rage. He pointed at Lin Bai, trembling with fury.
Su Xianmei said, "Since there was an agreement, it should be carried out as agreed. Young Master Ye, you're not going to tell me you can't afford to lose, are you?"
"I!" Ye Rulong's face twisted with rage.
Whether he kowtowed or refused to kowtow, neither option was acceptable.
A great surge of anger clogged his chest, and Ye Rulong spat blood on the spot.
After spraying out a mouthful of blood, Ye Rulong knelt on the ground and lightning-fast, kowtowed to Lin Bai three times. "Lin Bai, remember this. I will definitely make you repay today's humiliation a hundredfold!"
"Heh heh, I'll be waiting." Lin Bai gave a cold laugh.
Lin Bai had no favorable impression of Ye Rulong whatsoever.
Ye Rulong was a second-generation heir through and through. He took his family's money, indulged in food and drink outside, and tyrannized the local people.
Ye Rulong left the Treasure Pavilion in a fury.
"Thank you for your generosity, Pavilion Master Su." Lin Bai clasped his fists toward Su Xianmei.
"It's nothing. I couldn't stand Ye Rulong's arrogance either, and I also wanted to make a friend of you." Su Xianmei smiled calmly.
"I'm just an unknown junior. What could possibly make me worth befriending?" Lin Bai shook his head with a smile.
"Although you're unknown in Spirit Rhino City, you've caused an earth-shaking commotion in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range." Su Xianmei smiled.
"Heh heh."
Lin Bai rubbed his nose and immediately understood.
When it came to the speed of gathering information, no one in Spirit Rhino City could probably compare with the Treasure Pavilion.
Generally, whenever anything stirred within a hundred thousand li of Spirit Rhino City, the Treasure Pavilion was always the first to learn of it.
Not to mention that the Soaring Heavens Alliance, a dominant power of the Azure Spirit Mountain Range, had been sent to the executioner's platform by a young man.
That news was a major sensation in Spirit Rhino City.
Naturally, the Treasure Pavilion had been the first to learn of it.
"Then let Pavilion Master Su give this embroidered sword to this young brother, and we'll be even," Lin Bai said.
The three thousand spirit stones from these monsters happened to be enough to buy this embroidered sword.
Su Xianmei gestured to Aileen, and the youth received the rusty sword.
After completing the transaction and exchanging a few polite words with Su Xianmei, Lin Bai and the youth left the Treasure Pavilion together.
"Thank you for your antidote this time." Lin Bai clasped his fists toward the youth in gratitude.
"Hehe, I didn't expect that the few antidotes I refined casually would be able to help you so much." The youth spoke with innocent cheer.
Refined casually?
Lin Bai remembered Lin Yue saying that the antidote to Serpent Heart Poison had already been destroyed by the Sect Leader when the Serpent God Sect fell.
Yet this youth claimed to have casually refined several antidotes?
Just what was this youth's background?
"Big brother, I have to go now. We'll meet again if fate brings us together." The youth waved at Lin Bai with a smile, hugged the rusty sword, and quickly vanished into the crowd.
"Just what is that youth's background? To possess such superb detoxification skills, could that youth be a Poison Master?" Lin Bai watched the youth's back in confusion.
"Forget it. I shouldn't worry about it. I'll go back and rest first. Tomorrow is the disciple-recruitment ceremony."
"Lin Zier, it's time we settled our score properly!"