The cramped room had been left in disarray after a fierce struggle.
Li Xi lay powerless on the cold floor, his arms twisted at grotesque angles, his eyes fixed venomously on Ye Li's retreating back.
He was the legitimate son of the Li Family, yet this lowborn wretch he had regarded as less than grass had stepped on him and broken both his arms!
Under his glare, Ye Li stood with his back to him, reaching into the bedding and searching through it.
The neatly folded blankets were lifted layer by layer and tossed onto the floor, gathering dust.
"You... you lowborn wretch! How dare you touch my things?!"
Li Xi struggled to rise, but Ye Li did not even turn his head. His voice was cold as ice.
"If you do not want both your legs stepped on and broken too, then lie on the ground like a dog and wait obediently until Instructor Feng and the others arrive."
"The Li Family will never let you go!"
Li Xi gritted his teeth, trying to borrow the Lineage's prestige to recover a shred of courage. "You have not even entered the realm. My family could crush you as easily as crushing a chicken."
"What you should be thinking about is whether you can make it home alive. There is still a month until the next rest day," Ye Li said as he continued searching.
Thanks to the Azure Dragon Gang's closed management, these newly joined disciples had only been allowed to leave the gang for a single day yesterday.
If they missed that chance, these newcomers could either wait another month to leave or be carried out as corpses.
Thus, the Li Family's tentacles could not reach in during this period.
Ye Li had weighed the pros and cons long before making his move, which was why he had launched his assault so boldly.
"One month! What can you possibly do in one month?"
Li Xi lay on the floor and burst into wild laughter. "You do not actually think that after one month, you will be able to contend against my family, do you?!"
At this point, Li Xi had already seen through Ye Li's calculations and was certain that Ye Li did not dare kill him.
Not to mention that the gang rules forbade it!
Even if he died, the clan would certainly learn of it. When that time came, Ye Li's entire family would be unable to escape even if they grew wings!
Ye Li did not answer. After searching through the bedding, he took out a porcelain bottle from Li Xi's bed.
The instant it was taken out, Li Xi fell silent as though someone had seized him by the throat.
Pop—
Ye Li opened the porcelain bottle and looked inside. Four milky-white pills giving off a fragrant scent came into view.
Four Body-Tempering Pills!
This was the quota Li Xi had brought from the clan during yesterday's rest day.
There had originally been five, but he had used one during cultivation yesterday.
In a fantasy novel, how could one pass up the post-battle treasure-looting segment?
Besides, Ye Li had forgotten to turn off his auto-loot function!
Mortal (468/862) Azure Dragon Force (1425/100) ...
Ye Li looked at the experience values on the panel.
With the help of these Body Tempering Pills, he was confident he could enter the realm within twenty days.
By then, he could leave the gang ten days before Li Xi, and his status would also rise to that of a core gang disciple. His circumstances would be vastly different.
As a core disciple, so long as things did not reach the point of tearing all decorum apart, the Li Family would not dare act against him openly!
Whether it was relying on the Azure Dragon Gang to make the Li Family wary or arranging for his uncle and aunt's family to leave ten days early, both were entirely achievable.
And if that still did not work, Ye Li had other trump cards.
There was no need to worry about his family being implicated by this filthy piece of trash.
Ye Li split the Body Tempering Pills that belonged to him into two portions and tucked them into his clothes. He glanced at Li Xi, whose face had turned red from holding his breath, as though looking at a cripple.
One lay on the ground while the other stood waiting in place, and the atmosphere sank into dead silence.
"What happened here?" A familiar, steady voice entered the room.
Since this area was considered the gang's newcomer zone, it was all managed by Feng Yue, and it was far from the large communal sleeping quarters for twenty people!
Thus, after trouble broke out, he, as the newcomers' instructor, arrived before the other gang members.
Seeing the instructor enter, Ye Li's former indifference vanished. Relief appeared on his face, as though he had finally seen a pillar to lean on. He hurried forward before Li Xi could speak. "Instructor, thank heavens you came at last!"
"Li Xi was dissatisfied with his results and provoked me first. During the fight, I accidentally injured him!"
As he spoke, Ye Li kept his back to Li Xi. Then, in Li Xi's blind spot, he clasped his hands in salute, revealing the corner of a porcelain bottle between his palms.
This was precisely the bottle he had taken from Li Xi's bedding. Inside were three fragrant Body Tempering Pills.
Having stated Li Xi's crimes in advance, Ye Li lowered his head. Before Feng Yue's astonished gaze, he secretly poured out a Body Tempering Pill with his back to Li Xi and stuffed it into his mouth.
Gulp—
With one swallow, the Body Tempering Pill entered his stomach.
Ye Li forcibly endured the surging blood and qi. After replacing the cap, he said in a tearful voice, "Instructor Feng, you have to uphold justice for me!"
As he spoke, both hands holding the porcelain bottle had already moved behind his back. He slipped it into Feng Yue's arms.
A hundred martial arts! This was [Harmonize with the Light and Dust]!!!
Thanks to Ye Li's quick hands, the entire process—from speaking to passing over the medicine—was completed in only two seconds.
Feng Yue merely felt his palm sink as a familiar, cold porcelain bottle dropped into it.
He subconsciously lowered his head and glanced through the gap at the bottle's mouth...
That milky-white, lustrous gleam flashed by, and the familiar medicinal fragrance could faintly be smelled.
At once, the anger on Feng Yue's tightly drawn face softened.
Feng Yue: There was even an unexpected gain???
Looking at Li Xi lying on the ground, whose view had been blocked by Ye Li's body the entire time, the two exchanged a knowing glance.
Quietly putting away the porcelain bottle, Feng Yue gave an awkward cough.
"Ahem... yes, I more or less understand the situation. Little Ye, step aside. Let me see how badly he is hurt."
As he spoke, he moved Ye Li aside and walked toward Li Xi.
Squatting down, Feng Yue ignored the other man's cries and complaints, then prodded at his dangling arms.
"Not bad. A minor injury, merely broken arms. Half a month of rest will be enough."
"But you will have to stop practicing martial arts this month. Little Ye, the same goes for you. You fellow disciples were merely fooling around, yet you had no sense of restraint!"
Feng Yue looked at his broken arms. "I can make the decision to exempt you from this month's assessment requirements."
Yes, an injury like broken arms was no more than a trivial wound in Feng Yue's eyes.
People in this world possessed countless traits that could be applied across all kinds of fields, causing the development of the technology tree to become exceedingly bizarre.
Even medical treatment was far beyond what the ancient world of Ye Li's previous life could compare to. External injuries like broken arms could be healed after a period of recovery with the gang's methods.
This was also why Li Xi felt only grief and indignation rather than complete collapse.
Otherwise, having his martial path broken beneath Ye Li's foot would have been no different from receiving a death sentence. He would likely have risked his life just to perish together with Ye Li!
As Feng Yue examined Li Xi's injuries, Ye Li was also nearly suffering internal injuries from holding back after swallowing the Body Tempering Pill.
Blood and qi surged madly through his body, but he could not circulate his technique to aid its digestion. He could only breathe heavily, continuously exhaling and inhaling to forcibly regulate his blood and qi.
During this time, the commotion attracted more and more people, and the noise also alerted the Law Enforcement Hall within the gang!
As a group from the Law Enforcement Hall, dressed in white with red patterns, arrived, the grave atmosphere immediately silenced the scene.
"What happened?"
The leader of the Law Enforcement Hall ignored everyone else and looked directly at Feng Yue, the highest-ranking person present!
"Young men are hot-blooded. They got a little heavy-handed while fooling around. His two hands were broken, but a few days of rest will heal him," Feng Yue said calmly, defining the matter as "fooling around"!
As Feng Yue spoke, he stepped forward and briefly explained what had happened.
But Li Xi did not wish to let the matter rest.
Seeing that Feng Yue was not taking his side, he wailed at the Law Enforcement Hall members as though clutching at a life-saving straw.
"Reporting to the law enforcement lord, Ye Li deliberately started trouble, stepped on my arms and broke them, and even stole the Body Tempering Pills my clan had allotted to me!"