Xuanwu Kingdom's Bitter Sea Town, Chen Changsheng's Booming Business

Faced with Chen Changsheng's calm attitude, Yixiu rolled his eyes dramatically and said,

"I really can't stand you, you heartless bastard. I'm leaving first. In another eight hundred or thousand years, I'll come back to collect your corpse."

With that, Yixiu turned and left. Wanyan Yue gave Chen Changsheng a long, deep look, then followed in Yixiu's footsteps.

Watching Yixiu's retreating back, Chen Changsheng merely smiled but said nothing.

Though the little monk lost every verbal spar with him, he was actually very clever.

He had only met Yixiu when Nian Sheng began to make a name for herself in the Linglong Sect.

By then, Nian Sheng was already over sixty years old. Adding the years he had spent lingering in Lingling Town, more than eighty years had passed.

Given that Nian Sheng had known him since long ago, a little deduction would reveal roughly how long he had lived.

Back then, he had merely been a minor Qi Refinement cultivator. Living that long simply defied all reason.

Yet Yixiu had never once asked him about it.

At that thought, Chen Changsheng stretched, turned to look at the country behind him, and muttered,

"I heard this country is called the Xuanwu Kingdom. I wonder what fun things it has."

As he spoke, Chen Changsheng leisurely made his way down the mountain.

Bitter Sea Town, Xuanwu Kingdom.

"Sir, you have to help me this time!"

A burly man over two meters tall shoved aside the crowd surrounding the shop and dropped to his knees before Chen Changsheng.

Seeing the burly man before him, Chen Changsheng hurriedly helped him up and said,

"Da Zhuang, just tell me what happened. If I can help, I definitely will."

Hearing that, the burly man wiped away the tears on his face, then pulled several bloodstained spirit stones from his robes and said,

"Sir, this is everything I own. I'll definitely gather the rest of the spirit stones for you."

"I only beg you to help my younger brother regain a complete body."

Looking at the wooden board covered by a white cloth not far away, Chen Changsheng shook his head and sighed.

"Business is business. There has never been such a thing as payment on credit."

"I know you two brothers make your living gathering herbs."

"I happen to be short on Medicinal Herbs lately. I can buy yours. What do you think?"

Hearing Chen Changsheng's words, Da Zhuang suppressed his grief and brought over the basket beside him.

Chen Changsheng gave it a casual glance and roughly estimated the value of the herbs.

They were all low-grade Medicinal Herbs, and their quality was poor. Even bought at a premium, they were worth no more than three low-grade spirit stones.

"Not bad. They're all top-quality Medicinal Herbs I need. I'll buy them for one hundred spirit stones."

As he spoke, Chen Changsheng took the basket, then pulled out a Beast Hide Pouch and handed it to Da Zhuang.

"For hiring me to handle the funeral, the minimum fee is one hundred spirit stones. The shop is running a promotion lately. How about I throw in a fine coffin as well?"

"Many thanks, sir. I will never forget your great kindness and virtue."

The hundred spirit stones went through the motions and returned to Chen Changsheng's hands, while Chen Changsheng walked toward the wooden board nearby.

Slowly lifting the white cloth, Chen Changsheng was met with a bloody, mangled corpse.

At the sight, the stomachs of the surrounding onlookers instantly churned like storm-tossed seas.

"How did this happen?"

"A few days ago, we found a century-old spirit herb, but there was a guardian Magic Beast beside it."

"I knew then that the Magic Beast was formidable, so I had no intention of picking the spirit herb."

"But who could have imagined that Er Zhuang would secretly go pick it behind my back? By the time I arrived, only his corpse remained."

"It's all my fault. He wanted to exchange that spirit herb for resources for me!"

As he spoke, Da Zhuang, still kneeling on the ground, was already sobbing so hard he could barely speak.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng shook his head and took out a complete set of professional tools.

The sound of flesh rubbing against flesh reached everyone's ears. Some with weaker stomachs had long since run aside to vomit.

Chen Changsheng, however, remained calm and muttered softly,

"First align the tendons, then piece together the bones. Limbs before trunk. The five organs and six bowels must not be mixed up..."

As Chen Changsheng's hands continued moving, the horribly shattered corpse gradually began to take shape.

After working for a full hour, Chen Changsheng finally finished piecing the corpse together.

The missing parts had also been filled in by Chen Changsheng using other materials.

Once everything was done, Chen Changsheng took out a fine coffin and gently placed the corpse inside.

"Whew!"

Letting out a long breath, Chen Changsheng wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and said,

"The funeral preparations are complete. Go see your brother one last time, then let him rest in the earth as soon as possible."

Having said that, Chen Changsheng ignored Da Zhuang and walked straight to a table nearby, where he began treating people's bruises and fractures.

Seeing how busy Chen Changsheng was, a burly man with a broken arm grinned and said,

"Sir, you've really got your fingers in too many pies."

"It would be one thing if you handled the entire Funeral Service Package, but you also refine pills and treat illnesses. A couple of days ago, I even saw you inscribing formations on coffins."

"Don't tell me you're opening another line of business?"

Hearing this, Chen Changsheng rolled his eyes at the man and said,

"Wasn't it you people who forced me into this?"

"I originally sold coffins, but someone actually carried a half-dead man over here to buy one."

"When I saw that man could still be saved, could I just stand by and watch him die?"

"But what happened in the end? Forget gratitude—they repaid kindness with enmity and ran around everywhere proclaiming that my Medical Skills were unmatched."

"As more and more people came, I had no choice but to open a medical clinic!"

"Opening a medical clinic would have been one thing, but you people even started craving my medicine and wanted to spend money to buy it."

"Those people pestered me for a whole month, so I had no choice but to fire up the furnace and refine pills."

As he spoke, Chen Changsheng suddenly exerted force with his hand, and the burly man immediately let out a pig-slaughtering scream.

Slap!

The instant the hand bones snapped back into place, Chen Changsheng slapped a medicinal plaster over the fracture.

"There, your hand will be able to move again after a month of rest."

"Try not to fight people so much in the future. You're only at the third layer of Body Refinement, while the person who fought you was at least at the Body Refinement Fifth Layer."

"If he hadn't shown restraint, your right hand would probably have been crippled."

Faced with Chen Changsheng's nagging, the burly man grinned and said,

"Sir, I was careless this time. Next time, I definitely won't lose to him."

"The Three Yang Body Forging Method I cultivate is a Profound Rank technique. His is only a high-grade Yellow Rank technique."

"The only reason he won was because his realm was a little higher than mine."

"Once I reach the fourth layer of Body Refinement, just watch me defeat him across realms."

Listening to the burly man's lofty boasts, Chen Changsheng curled his lip and did not continue trying to persuade him.

The Xuanwu Kingdom's warlike nature had already been carved into their bones.

Trying to persuade them not to compete for superiority was harder than trying to persuade them not to breathe.