The Matter Was Temporarily Resolved, but Favors Must Be Repaid (1/3)

Xu Changqing, Li Sancai, and Wang Xuan had been waiting outside.

A moment later, Lu Yuanyuan emerged with Xu Mingsheng, the two walking out one after the other.

Xu Mingsheng immediately apologized. "Fellow Daoist, I'm truly sorry!"

Seeing the shoeprint on the other man's face, Xu Changqing suddenly understood. "This man... wasn't he the one who, when I first went to Red Maple Valley Market, forced me and another female spirit farmer to sell our rice?"

"Ahem." Lu Yuanyuan gave a light cough.

Xu Mingsheng's body trembled. He immediately took out fifty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones from his storage pouch. "My greed clouded my heart. I hurt your business and caused your friend to suffer severe injuries. This is a small compensation."

Xu Changqing did not accept them immediately. Instead, he looked at Li Sancai beside him with an inquiring gaze. Only after seeing him give a slight nod did he take the fifty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Seeing this, Xu Mingsheng finally let out a sigh of relief.

In truth, he was extremely baffled. He had clearly investigated already—Hu Bugui and Zhao Ziyue had no great background or connections at all.

One was an official Foundation Establishment Realm disciple of the Water-Control Pavilion.

The other was an official Qi Refining Realm disciple of Beast Spirit Valley.

That was precisely why he had thought the two would be easy to bully. He had assumed that waving the Farmer's Heart Society's name around would be enough to snatch Foundry Peak's business away.

Yet he had never expected this rarely seen third person to actually bring in Li Lingbi's cousin, even alarming his own immediate superior, Lu Yuanyuan. It was truly unbelievable.

However, Xu Mingsheng had not recognized Xu Changqing. They had only met once, and Xu Changqing had used a fake name at