Buying Up the Jia Lie Family Market

Xiao Zhan smiled at the two of them.

"I'm not here to hold you responsible. I'm here to bring you some perks."

As he spoke, he pushed the sheets of paper toward them.

"These are for you two. I'm sure you'll like this gift."

Xiao Mo hesitantly reached for the papers and unfolded them to see what was inside.

Once he made out the words on the pages, he froze.

"You want to buy up the Jia Lie Family Market?"

Xiao Zhan nodded firmly.

"Of course. Thanks to your Rejuvenation Powder, their healing pills-their greatest pride and biggest sellers-aren't selling at all anymore."

"The Jia Lie Family Market is practically on the brink of bankruptcy now. I was already planning to seize this opportunity to expand the Xiao Family Market!"

"As it happens, I've been rather busy lately and really don't have time to handle the acquisitions, so I decided to leave them to you two lads."

Then his smile suddenly vanished, and he reached out to snatch the stack of papers off the table.

"Of course, if you two aren't willing, you can give these back. I'll send some other disciples."

Xiao Mo's eyes had already lit up.

He stared at the stack of papers on the table, unable to tear his gaze away.

Hearing that Xiao Zhan was going to take them back, he immediately snatched up all the papers and stuffed them into his pocket.

"No, no, no! We have plenty of time. I'll take Xiao Yan there right now. I can buy up every one of these shops for you today."

Then he hurriedly added another question.

"Xiao Clan Leader, what price do you want us to pay?"

He couldn't just buy them up blindly, could he?

His eagerness made Xiao Zhan laugh.

He placed another list in their hands.

"This lists each shop's location, its advantages, and my proposed purchase price. You can use it as a reference."

With something like this delivered right into his hands, he would be an utter fool not to put it to good use.

Now he could take these documents straight to the Jia Lie Family Market, buy up the shops, and complete his face-slapping mission along the way.

He immediately thanked Xiao Zhan, then grabbed a thoroughly bewildered Xiao Yan and dashed off toward the Jia Lie Family Market.

The two soon arrived at the market.

Putting on the air of a spoiled young master, he slapped one of the papers in his hand onto a table in the Jia Lie Family Market.

"I'm here to buy you out!"

The Jia Lie Family Market was so deserted that birds could have nested at its gates, with barely a customer in sight.

Most of their business had already been snatched away, and some shops were practically half-closed.

So when the shopkeepers heard that they had come to buy them out, they immediately perked up.

They recognized the two Xiao Clan disciples at a glance. These two were riding high now; perhaps they really had enough money to buy them all out.

The two spent the entire afternoon running through the market, buying up shops in the Jia Lie Family Market one after another.

Whenever they successfully negotiated a deal and signed the transaction documents,

Xiao Mo would tirelessly take those documents straight to the largest shop in the Jia Lie Family Market and slap them down in front of the shopkeeper who had schemed to frame them that day.

The shopkeeper's face went from deathly pale to green, then finally as black as charcoal.

He was so furious that smoke seemed to pour from all seven openings of his head, but there was nothing he could do. He could only let the two lads parade before him over and over.

As each acquisition document was slapped onto his table, the sight hurt so much that he had to pinch his own arm hard to keep himself from exploding.

After all, he knew perfectly well that he was no match for these two young pups. Taking them on would only earn him a beating.

Right now, he merely had to swallow his anger. If he actually fought them, he would get the full treatment, inside and out-anger bottled up within and a beating on the outside.

That afternoon, just when customers were plentiful, the shopkeeper chose to close up.

He simply couldn't stand this damned humiliation anymore.

Watching the shopkeeper close his doors practically in tears, his steps unsteady with fury, the two finally felt the resentment knotted in their hearts dissolve completely.

Looking at the stack of acquisition documents in his hands, Xiao Mo grinned like a villain.

Just moments ago, he had heard the system notification confirming that he had completed the side mission.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the side mission.]

[Congratulations, host, on bringing Xiao Yan to the Jia Lie Family Market and completing ten face-slapping actions. Reward: 40,000 Shop Points. Total points earned: 50,000. Current mission progress: 10/10.]

Seeing his points skyrocket, he grinned almost from ear to ear.

He now had eighty thousand points.

That meant he could redeem a Wood-Type Spiritual Root Pill.

But they were in the market, surrounded by crowds and noise. He had no intention of redeeming it here.

Once I'm back on the Back Mountain, I'll find somewhere quiet to redeem the pill and see whether I can cultivate a wood-type spiritual root.

If I succeed, I'll be able to help Xiao Yan refine pills even more effectively. This might just be a road to riches.

He was already imagining their close collaboration in the future.

However, just as the two gathered their things and prepared to return to report to Xiao Zhan,

Three people suddenly rushed toward them from ahead, charging straight into them.

Immersed in the joy of earning his points, Xiao Mo had opened the system panel as he walked and was browsing the goods in the System Shop.

With one hand tugging Xiao Yan along beside him, he paid no attention whatsoever to the three people suddenly rushing toward them.

Xiao Yan did see them.

But Yao Lao had tasked him with buying medicinal herbs on this outing, and they also needed supplies for their own pill refining.

He was therefore carrying a thick bundle of herbs in his arms, which partly blocked his view.

Although he saw the three people appear ahead, it was already too late to dodge.

The three crashed straight into them.

Caught completely off guard, Xiao Mo was knocked to the ground.

Xiao Yan had braced himself beforehand, and his body stood firm as a mountain, but the herbs in his arms were still knocked to the ground.

The herbs fluttered through the air and scattered all over the ground.

Yet after colliding with them, the three did not stop at all.

As though they hadn't even noticed, they turned and continued charging ahead.

Only then did Xiao Mo recover from his shock. Watching their retreating figures, he felt a blaze of anger surge in his heart.

"Are you blind? What are you running for? Stop right there!"