"By the way, young man, may I ask where you got these two Jade Pendants? Do you have any more like them?"
Lin Anguo suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked.
Hearing this, Ning Wangshu couldn't help smiling to himself. He knew exactly why Lin Anguo was asking: he wanted to get his hands on more Spirit Jade.
However, after selling the two Jade Pendants, he already had enough money. Naturally, he had no interest in bringing out any more Spirit Jade to sell.
So Ning Wangshu shook his head. "These two Jade Pendants have been passed down through my family for generations. They're the only ones we have. If I hadn't happened to need money urgently, I wouldn't have sold them."
Lin Anguo looked a little disappointed. "I see..."
Still, he added, "All right. Young man, if you have any more Jade Pendants or things like that to sell, you can ask Qingzhu to let me know anytime."
"We can discuss the price..."
Although Ning Wangshu had said these were the only two Jade Pendants he had, Lin Anguo didn't necessarily disbelieve him. He had just made the offer out of habit.
Just in case.
Ning Wangshu could only smile without answering.
Then Lin Anguo said, "Young man, we'll be going now..."
Lin Anguo was already eager to hurry home, go into seclusion for a while, and get himself into the right condition to use the Spiritual Qi contained in the two Jade Pendants to make a bid for the Golden Core Great Path.
He didn't want to stay another moment.
"All right! Take care, Old Master Lin..."
Ning Wangshu replied with a smile.
Lin Qingzhu, standing nearby, waved to Ning Wangshu and said goodbye too. "Um, Ning Wangshu, bye!"
"Yeah, bye."
Ning Wangshu waved back.
While Ning Wangshu was talking with Lin Anguo and the others, the old woman and the middle-aged woman hadn't left.
They whispered together furtively, glancing now and then at Ning Wangshu, as if they were "plotting" something...
After watching Lin Anguo and Lin Qingzhu leave, Ning Wangshu finally packed up his stall and prepared to go.
But just then, the middle-aged woman suddenly rushed over and blocked his way. "Wait! You can't leave! You hurt my aunt just now. You have to pay compensation!"
"If you don't pay up, you're not leaving today!"
As soon as the middle-aged woman finished speaking, the old woman immediately joined in, wailing, "Ow, ow, it hurts so much! My head hurts terribly, and my chest feels so tight I can hardly breathe."
"That damned bastard! Not only did he hit an old woman like me, now he wants to just walk away! Everyone, you have to stand up for me! Ow..."
Watching the old woman pretend to be dying, crying out loudly on purpose, the people nearby who knew what had really happened were speechless.
They looked at Ning Wangshu with sympathy once again.
Anyone could see that the old woman was clearly trying to extort money from Ning Wangshu.
But the others didn't want to get involved. With the old woman acting like a shameless nuisance, who would dare provoke her? If she set her sights on you, it wouldn't be easy to get away.
Since it had nothing to do with them, the others simply watched.
Ning Wangshu was genuinely amused by the middle-aged woman and the old woman's antics. He glanced sideways at them and sneered. "Oh, compensation? How much do you want me to pay?"
The middle-aged woman and the old woman exchanged a glance. Then the middle-aged woman immediately shouted, "One million! You just sold those two Jade Pendants for two million!"
"We're only asking you to pay one million. That's not unreasonable, is it?"
She looked entirely self-righteous, as though she were perfectly justified!
The old woman hurriedly chimed in, "That's right! If you don't pay one million today, you're not leaving!"
The people around them shook their heads, exclaiming that the old woman and the middle-aged woman were unbelievably vicious to demand a full one million from him without batting an eye!
Ning Wangshu was so angry he laughed. "One million, and you think that's not unreasonable? Heh..."
"So I'm supposed to thank you, then? But isn't one million too little? How about I pay you a hundred trillion? I'll burn it for you later."
Ning Wangshu sneered sarcastically.
"You... What do you mean? Are you cursing me to die? You damned bastard! How can you be so vicious? Not only did you hurt an old woman like me, now you're cursing me to die!"
"Heavens above, is there any justice left? So an old woman like me deserves to be bullied, is that it?"
"I don't want to live anymore! I might as well smash my head against the ground and die right here..."
The old woman kept wailing and making a scene, beating her chest and stamping her feet.
But the onlookers around her watched her "performance" without reacting...
Ning Wangshu took a deep breath. If they hadn't been in public, he really would have wanted to slap the old woman to death!
He'd seen plenty of shameless people, but never anyone this shameless!
Even his patience was wearing thin. Irritation and anger flared inside him.
He couldn't just kill her, but he did want to teach her and the middle-aged woman a lesson.
Ning Wangshu glared at them. A Strange Light flashed through his eyes. To everyone else, he hadn't done anything—he had merely glanced at the old woman.
But the moment the old woman met Ning Wangshu's gaze, she jolted!
The next instant, sheer terror filled her eyes. Her face turned deathly pale, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably like a leaf in the wind...
The moment she met Ning Wangshu's eyes, she had fallen straight into the illusion he had created for her.
In the illusion, Ning Wangshu became a demon, his whole body radiating a chilling aura. With a sinister grin, he gripped her by the throat and lifted her into the air, then slapped her back and forth across the face with all his strength!
He snarled, "One million, is it? Don't worry. Once I've slapped you to death, you old beast, I'll burn a hundred trillion in hell notes for you. You'll never be able to spend it all down there, heh..."
All around them, countless Malevolent Ghosts seemed to snarl and bare their claws, surrounding the old woman as they laughed menacingly...
Though it was only an illusion, everything felt utterly real to the old woman. She truly believed she was about to die. The "Malevolent Ghosts" especially terrified her, leaving her paralyzed with fear!
Her face twisted with desperation as she shook her head frantically and begged, "No, I don't want it anymore! Please, spare me! I was wrong..."
Ning Wangshu used his Spiritual Qi to screen off the area around the old woman.
As a result, the others could only just make out her lips moving; they couldn't hear what she was saying.
Seeing the old woman scared out of her wits, Ning Wangshu immediately felt as though he had finally vented his anger.
"Bet you're scared now, you old hag. Hmph!"
Ning Wangshu snorted and finally withdrew the illusion.
Even after the illusion vanished, the old woman remained trapped in the terrifying scene she had just experienced. She was still shaking and trembling, terror filling her eyes.
She continued mumbling dazedly, "I don't want it anymore. I don't want your money. Don't kill me. I was wrong..."
Seeing this, Ning Wangshu nodded in satisfaction and turned his gaze to the middle-aged woman.
He did exactly the same thing to her.
The moment the middle-aged woman met Ning Wangshu's gaze, she was so frightened that she dropped to the ground with a smack, her reaction almost exactly like the old woman's.
After teaching the two shrews a lesson, Ning Wangshu gave a soft snort and turned to leave...
Meanwhile, the other people nearby were completely baffled.
They couldn't understand why the old woman and the middle-aged woman had suddenly become so terrified, their faces pale and their eyes vacant, after Ning Wangshu had merely looked at them.
Still, even though they couldn't make sense of it, the people nearby didn't pay much attention.
Seeing that Ning Wangshu had already left and there was no more show to watch, the onlookers gradually dispersed...