Life-Reviving Flower, Third Update

We were the Enforcement Team. We had always been the ones to go looking for trouble; others did not even dare say a word. But now...

Looking at the captain and vice-captain lying on the ground, every Enforcement Team member's heart twitched as the same thought arose.

This guy wasn't human!

"What? Nothing to say? If you don't speak, that means you admit you deserve a beating, right? Fine, I'll grant your wish!"

Seeing the branch smashed into such a state, the fury burning in Nie Yun's heart made it impossible for him to let them off. With a cold snort, he slid forward and charged at the crowd.

"Ah... Lord Nie Yun, we don't deserve a beating..."

"Grandpa Nie Yun, we were wrong! We never should have come..."

They had not expected that being too frightened to speak would earn them another beating. All the Enforcement Disciples wept as miserable cries rose one after another, echoing into the heavens.

"This really is Yun'er..." Seeing the once imposing Enforcement Team now sprawled across the ground—some crippled, some lying like dead dogs—his mother, Nie Ling, was suddenly filled with a sense of satisfaction.

Ever since she had married into the family, the Nie Tian Branch had suffered countless rebuffs and cold stares. These Enforcement Team disciples in particular had often come to harass them. To be honest, if her strength had not been lacking, she would have snapped long ago!

She had thought this situation would continue forever. Yet after her son had been knocked unconscious by Nie Chao and awakened, he seemed like a completely different person. He acted ruthlessly and without mercy, releasing all the resentment she had bottled up inside for years in an instant. The feeling was indescribably refreshing!

"Good, good! Now that's my good son!" she muttered to herself again.

The two remarks might have sounded almost identical, but their true meanings were worlds apart!

If Nie Yun had known his mother was thinking this, he probably would have fainted on the spot.

When others caused such a huge mess, they would all be thinking about how to clean it up afterward. Yet his mother was cheering him on. No wonder he had been called the Blood Prison Demon Venerable in his previous life—so the belligerent streak in his bones had been passed down from his mother...

What Nie Yun did not know was that his mother, Nie Ling, had been quite renowned in her youth. She had been known as Luoshui City's foremost master herb gatherer, with few who could rival her skill at gathering herbs. The men pursuing her had worn down her doorstep, coming and going like a tide. If not for that, how could she have married the greatest genius of that time?

No matter the profession, anyone who could be called the best was surely proud and arrogant. Later, when the branch declined and his father became addicted to drink, she had to support the family all by herself. The pressure she had endured was easy to imagine!

After being suppressed for so long, her son had suddenly risen to power and even turned the long-established expert captain of the Enforcement Team into a dead dog with one blow. She barely had time to hold her head high—how could she possibly blame him?

Her not blaming him did not mean the others in the branch were not worried. Seeing mother and son, one throwing punches while the other was so excited she nearly shouted aloud, both utterly unaware of the gravity of the situation, the old steward Nie Chong anxiously scratched his head and ears. "Madam, they're the Enforcement Team! If they die here, the family will certainly wipe out our branch to preserve its honor. Then we'll be finished..."

"That's right, I nearly forgot if you hadn't mentioned it..." Hearing the steward's words, Nie Ling scratched her head and smiled awkwardly. Then she shouted at Nie Yun, who was still teaching the Enforcement Team a lesson, "Yun'er, hit them hard! Just don't kill them!"

"Uh..." Hearing his mother's shout, both the steward and Nie Yun staggered. The steward in particular nearly burst into tears. Just don't kill them... Damn it, why was my mouth so cheap...

"I'm tired of beating you. You made our branch such a mess, so each of you hand over ten thousand taels of silver as compensation, then get lost. If you can't pay, whichever hand smashed things in our courtyard will be crippled, and whichever leg trampled things in our courtyard will be crippled!"

After beating them for a while, Nie Yun found it meaningless and stopped.

"Ten thousand taels?" Hearing that amount, everyone was shocked.

Enforcement disciples relied on the name of "enforcement" to bully countless branches and were much wealthier than ordinary disciples, but they carried at most a thousand taels of silver on them. Other than a few leaders, very few could produce ten thousand taels!

After a round of searching, Nie Yun only managed to extort a total of fifty thousand taels of silver from these Enforcement Disciples, including Captain Nie Yuanqing.

Fifty thousand taels would have been quite a sum to the old Nie Yun. Now, it was not even a hair from nine oxen—though perhaps it was not quite that little, it was no longer much.

"Mother, this is the compensation they paid us. See whether it's enough to cover the family's losses..." Having obtained the banknotes, Nie Yun casually tossed the money to his mother.

"It's enough! Everything they smashed wasn't even worth five thousand taels altogether. Fifty thousand taels is more than enough!" His mother nodded.

"Why aren't you gone yet? If I see you coming here again, I won't be so polite. Watch your dog lives!" Nie Yun knew that the people harming his branch were at the very core of the family. Even killing these lackeys would be useless, so he did not pursue the matter further and coldly ordered them to leave.

"Yes!" Though the youth's words were utterly merciless, the Enforcement Team members felt as if they had been granted a pardon. They nodded excitedly and retreated, each scrambling to be first, terrified that leaving too late would bring another calamity. Before long, everyone had completely disappeared from the branch.

"Mother, I need to go out for a while. The house is such a mess, so arrange things here first..."

The Enforcement Team had suffered such a huge loss and fled in disgrace this time. It would certainly alarm the upper ranks of the family. If things went badly, an elder might personally come next time!

Nie Yun was not particularly afraid of the family's threat. The crucial threat came from the Demon Race!

Nie Yun had experienced the Demon Race's terror firsthand. Reaching the seventh or eighth level of the Qi Sea Realm in a short time was impossible. The only way was to refine a Heart-Returning Pill, restore his father's damaged qi sea, and directly return him to his peak combat strength!

Therefore, he had to go search for that medicinal herb needed to refine the Heart-Returning Pill immediately!

"Go!" Now that her son was capable, he naturally had more matters to attend to. Although since awakening, aside from the matter of the Pengxin Snow Lotus, he had hardly spoken with her, Nie Ling knew this was not the time for chatting. He must have had his own purpose for doing this, so she did not stop him.

"Mm!" Nie Yun nodded, pushed off the ground, and sped straight toward the back mountain.

The final medicinal herb needed to refine the Heart-Returning Pill was called the Life-Reviving Flower. It was a supreme medicinal herb no less precious than Beardless Grass. Legend had it that no matter how grievous one's injuries were, as long as one had not drawn their last breath, consuming this herb could bring them back from the dead!

Bringing the dead back to life was naturally beyond its power, but allowing a severely injured person to quickly recover their strength was no problem at all. When the Demon Race invaded, he had escaped the ruined Luoshui City with Nie Tong's help and entered the back mountain. At that time, he had been grievously wounded and on his last breath. If not for this Life-Reviving Flower, he would likely have died then and there!

Because of that, Nie Yun remembered the exact location of this Life-Reviving Flower. He had only been waiting until his father mastered the first level of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and his own strength increased before coming to seek it!

After all, according to his memories, that place was extremely dangerous. If his previous-life self had not been extraordinarily lucky, he would likely have been torn into bloody chunks by the guarding demon beast before even setting eyes on the Life-Reviving Flower!

With the Life-Reviving Flower's exact location firmly in mind, Nie Yun used the starlight filling the sky and streaked forward like a night owl in the darkness.

P.S. The fourth update will be out at exactly midnight. For four updates, everyone, bring out all your recommendation votes and bookmarks... (Background: Lao Ya held a broken bowl, shivering in the cold wind. Old friends, after midnight, be sure to cast your recommendation votes. I want to climb the rankings...)