The Enforcement Team Again

"Ah..."

The girl covered her lips lightly, her face flushing even redder as she waved her hands repeatedly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to call you trash. I meant that Nie Xiaotian's son..."

That only made things more awkward. Wasn't the legendary trash the very person standing before her?

If he was truly trash, then what did that make her?

"Heh!" Knowing that the girl did not seem particularly skilled at dealing with people, Nie Yun did not mind. He asked, "Where did these demon people come from? Why were they following you?"

According to his memories from his previous life, the Demon Race invasion was supposed to happen a year later. Could it be that even the date of the Demon Race's invasion had been brought forward because of his rebirth?

If that was true, it would be troublesome. His strength was still far from sufficient, and nothing had been prepared. If the Demon Race invaded now, Luoshui City would certainly be utterly destroyed, just as it had been in his previous life!

"I don't know either. I... I had been training with my master and only returned today. The moment I arrived at the docks, these people surrounded and attacked me. I don't know why they were following me either!"

Seeing that the youth was no longer pressing the matter, the flush on the girl's face gradually faded. After thinking for a moment, she answered.

"Your master? The Hundred Flowers Sect of the Shenfeng Empire?"

Remembering something, Nie Yun asked.

"Y-you... how did you know?" Luo Qingcheng was stunned.

"Heh, among sects made entirely of women, the Hundred Flowers Sect was the only one in the Shenfeng Empire I could think of that could nurture a genius like you..."

Nie Yun could hardly say that she had told him in his previous life, so he could only give an awkward smile and casually make up an excuse.

"I never said that my sect was entirely made up of women..." Luo Qingcheng seemed exceptionally sharp when it came to asking questions, and she immediately pursued the matter.

"Uh... You rise from the mud unstained, as pure as a blank sheet of paper, so I guessed!" Nie Yun's old face reddened.

I've lived for hundreds of years, yet a girl barely in her teens has questioned me until I don't know what to say. How embarrassing!

"Heehee, you guessed right. I'm from the Hundred Flowers Sect!" Luo Qingcheng's smile was like a hundred flowers blooming.

After chatting for a while longer, Nie Yun discovered that although this Luo Qingcheng differed greatly in personality from the one in his memories, there was not the slightest change in her bones. She was neither arrogant nor impetuous, unafraid of hardship or exhaustion. For the princess of a great household, that was already quite remarkable!

It was precisely because of these virtues that, though only seventeen this year, she had already reached the fifth level of the Qi Sea Realm and possessed strength far beyond those of her age!

"I'm going back to the City Lord's Mansion to see my parents. Why don't you come with me?" After they had talked for a while, Luo Qingcheng invited him.

"See your parents? No, I have something to do. I need to leave now!"

Nie Yun waved his hand.

What kind of sense would it make for me to go to your house with you in the middle of the night? You're a girl—you should be a little more mindful too...

Though he thought this, Nie Yun could understand her. Luo Qingcheng had been sent to the Hundred Flowers Sect to cultivate from childhood. Since that sect was entirely female, her nature was naturally somewhat more innocent. Perhaps she had invited him to meet her parents purely out of friendship, without realizing how much gossip a girl would invite by bringing a boy her own age home in the middle of the night.

"You have something to do? All right, then. I'll come find you to play another day!"

Hearing the youth refuse, a trace of disappointment appeared on the girl's face. But then she seemed to think of something and hurriedly said this.

"All right, I'll wait for you at home!" Nie Yun casually replied.

A branch like his was already considered among the lowest in Luoshui City. He had no desire to build any connection with the City Lord's Mansion, and his casual reply was not because he believed that the City Lord would let Luo Qingcheng come out after she returned home!

"By the way, where exactly is your home? Tell me!" Seeing that the youth had agreed, Luo Qingcheng hurriedly asked.

"My home... Heh, when the time comes, just look for the Nie Tian Branch of the Nie Family!" Nie Yun had not expected the girl to take it seriously, so he repeated himself.

"The Nie Tian Branch? I'll remember it. Goodbye, Nie Yun!"

Luo Qingcheng memorized the name Nie Tian Branch and smiled again. Her body was as light as a butterfly as she swiftly darted toward the City Lord's Mansion.

"This member of the Demon Race could undergo Demonization, so his status among the Demon Race must have been high. Now that I've killed him, the day of the Demon Race invasion will probably be brought forward! Father's injury must be healed as quickly as possible!"

Watching the girl depart, Nie Yun's gaze immediately fell upon the Demon Race corpses scattered across the ground.

Before his father had been injured, he had been a seventh-level Qi Sea Realm expert in the Weapon Armor Realm. If Nie Yun could repair his father's Qi Sea and restore his strength, their branch would gain another measure of capital to preserve their lives amid the turmoil of the Demon Race invasion!

"Once I dispose of these bodies, I'll return immediately and find the final medicinal ingredient so I can refine a Heart-Returning Pill for Father!"

Besides a stalk of Beardless Grass, refining a Heart-Returning Pill required another primary medicinal ingredient. This medicine was also extremely precious, but Nie Yun knew where it was from the memories of his previous life, so he had not been in too much of a hurry.

He had originally planned to go after his father had mastered the first level of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and after his own strength had reached the peak of the fifth level of the Qi Sea Realm or the sixth level. But now, it seemed he did not have that much time to wait!

After fighting the Demon Race for more than two hundred years, Nie Yun understood them extremely well. Once these people decided to make a move, they would never give you a chance to catch your breath!

These demon people might merely have been passing through, and perhaps he was overthinking things. But being prepared was always better than being unprepared. Nearly everyone he had cared about in his previous life had died in the Demon Race invasion. In this life, he did not want history to repeat itself!

Very quickly, Nie Yun cleaned up the Demon Race corpses scattered all over the ground. The Luoshui River was right beside them, after all. He casually tied the bodies together with clothing, fastened stones to them, and tossed them into the river.

After cleaning away the bloodstains on the ground as well, Nie Yun headed toward the branch.

He soon arrived at the branch, but before entering the courtyard, Nie Yun sensed that something was wrong.

"Why has the branch's main gate collapsed?"

The gate to the branch's residence lay flat on the ground. Outside it was a complete mess, as though the place had just been ransacked.

Leaping over the gate, he looked inside, and Nie Yun's fury instantly surged out through the crown of his head.

The courtyard was even more chaotic. All the vegetation had been chopped down, while furniture and the like had been smashed into powder. The entire branch was in even worse disarray than it had been during the Demon Race invasion!

"What happened?"

Suppressing his fury, Yang Chen hurried toward the reception hall in the courtyard.

The reception hall was filled with clamoring voices and brightly lit. It seemed he had not arrived too late—the culprits responsible for throwing the branch into such chaos apparently had not yet left!

"Heh heh, I'll tell you one more time. Hand over that trash Nie Yun at once. Otherwise, your branch will be struck from the family register today, with no need for it to exist any longer!"

Before he even entered the reception hall, Nie Yun heard a cold sneer coming from within. He took two strides into the room and saw more than a dozen figures in the hall, every one of them dressed in the uniforms of the family's Enforcement Team!

He had never expected that the ones causing havoc in the branch would not be anyone else—it was the family's Enforcement Team again!