The Heretic Young Master Apothecary
Chapter 31

I'm Very Free Right Now

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"I didn't say it's a broken martial skill. This martial skill is awesome. If you really want to call it Battle Eight Directions Annihilation, that's fine, really." Being objective, Ren Jie did think the name was trash, but this set of martial skills was truly awesome.

Because even in a large family like the Ren Family, Supreme-Grade Martial Skills were incredibly precious. Ordinary disciples had to earn merit to learn them. Each set of Supreme-Grade Martial Skills was the result of several generations' hard work, or obtained by expending great effort from other places. For this old man to be able to create such a martial skill himself, he was definitely quite awesome.

"Don't leave yet, let's discuss it together. Calling it Smiling Face is also fine, but this smiling face really doesn't match the aura on your body. You didn't put on this mask specifically to avoid scaring me, did you? Thinking about it now, a name is just a code name, so let's just call it Battle Eight Directions Annihilation." Ren Jie's sleepiness had completely vanished at this moment. While the Smiling Old Man was with him in that hazy state, he actually felt more comfortable than resting for several days.

Before, in order to break through, he had frantically mobilized his power all night, activating the Jade Emperor Art, and finally accelerated his adaptation to the gravity and pressure of the third layer of the Body Refining Chapter, ultimately breaking through. This had originally put a considerable burden on his body. But in just that short time, his fatigue had completely disappeared.

At this moment, Ren Jie jumped off the bed and chased to the door, only to find that the sky outside was already completely bright.

"Go to hell!" Although the old man had disappeared, his voice still echoed in Ren Jie's ears the next moment. Clearly, he had been extremely unhappy that night.

And he finally understood that Ren Jie wasn't bothered by the name, but just wanted to talk to him more.

After hearing that sound, Ren Jie deliberately said a few more words, and finding no sound, he knew that the Smiling Old Man had finally left. Because from his personality, he knew that if he hadn't left, he definitely wouldn't have been able to resist responding to his later words.

"Battle Eight Directions Annihilation, it's not bad..." Ren Jie muttered to himself. This night was truly magical. It seemed the Ren Family really hid too many secrets. Those who were currently causing him trouble and desperately trying to control the power of the Council of Elders, as well as Sixth Uncle who had always only sent one person and never spoke, and Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi who truly controlled the military power of the Ren Family but never showed their faces, and the many affiliated forces of the Ren Family...

Now, another super expert who was at least in the Yin Yang Realm had appeared, an old man who could independently create a martial skill close to Supreme-Grade, and he even came to force him to learn it...

Since the sky was completely bright, Ren Jie didn't feel sleepy at all at this moment. Thinking in his heart, he stepped out of his residence. He quickly arrived at the Martial Arts Arena outside. At this time, the Guard Squad had already started training. After Ren Jie's individual conversations, the entire Guard Squad had entered a state of frenzy.

Firstly, Ren Jie had stimulated them. Secondly, Ren Jie led by example, cultivating in a terrifying way that they silently felt. Thirdly, Ren Jie also helped them find the correct direction and answered the doubts in their hearts. They were the elites among elites selected by Ren Tianxing. The potential they had accumulated over the years was also gradually released by Ren Jie in various ways. In just these two days, people had broken through one after another, pushing their self-training and cultivation to a crazy peak.

Ren Jie believed that in the near future, with a certain amount of resource support, if his realm could improve further and he could help them point out a farther path, they would become a powerful team that everyone would find hard to imagine. Although the number of people was not large, if each of them reached the True Qi Realm or the Divine Power Realm, how terrifying would such a team be?

Those Elders didn't care that he had the Guard Squad because their numbers were too small. In the eyes of the Elders, they couldn't play any role and weren't considered true military force. One must know that the Ren Family alone had nearly ten thousand guards within the family, not including the people each Elder kept outside, and even less the group of people who served in the Imperial Court and controlled military power.

For example, the Second Elder's son was currently the North Camp General of Jade Capital City, not to mention other affiliated and collateral branches and the Great Generals like Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi who held millions of troops.

Quantity and quality were two paths, and high-quality development was more difficult. If one day all of them reached the Divine Power Realm, their combat power would definitely be no less than that of a million-strong army.

Although he had a hundred kinds of unwillingness in his heart, since he had already come to this world, the road still had to move forward.

Although he had been brilliant for twenty consecutive years, and many people even believed that the Ren Family's true strength had surpassed the Royal Family during Ren Tianxing's most prosperous period of control, he was now in a dangerous situation. Fortunately, he still had this identity, and this time learning Battle Eight Directions Annihilation, as well as helping the Guard Squad modify their Cultivation Methods and formulate training plans, and the potions he had previously prepared, made Ren Jie realize that his overall realm had improved significantly in that video, which was of great help to him.

Because his realm was high enough, he could see through many problems. Whether it was helping the people around him or cultivating and learning Cultivation Methods himself, he was a hundred times more talented than a genius. Because his realm had improved, it was like standing at a high place, while even the most powerful genius needed to climb slowly. This was the difference between the two.

To improve his own strength, having a hard fist was the truth, so he had to find a way to open that video again.

"Splash..." Thinking in his heart, Ren Jie had unknowingly walked very far. Suddenly, Ren Jie's divine sense suddenly discovered an old servant thirty meters away, watering the ground. Thirty meters, Ren Jie suddenly realized that as his Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter broke through to the fourth layer, the range of his divine sense had also increased significantly, which had already exceeded the divine sense range of a normal True Qi Realm ninth layer.

However, Ren Jie didn't pay attention to these things at this moment, because he suddenly remembered something. If he guessed correctly, the Smiling Old Man from last night should be in the Ren Family.

Damn it, doesn't that mean there is a master in the Ren Family like the sweeping monk he saw in martial arts novels in his previous life, not a fake master like Fatty Gao Ren, but a true super expert. Thinking of this, Ren Jie walked out of this courtyard and quickly walked to the old servant who was watering.

"Old man, take a break first, let's chat for a couple of minutes." Ren Jie had a sudden impulse and went over to say.

"I haven't finished my work yet, I can't chat. Which room are you from... Ah... Family... Family Head, this old servant greets... greets the Family Head." The old servant was actually not very old. He was holding a water bucket in one hand and a ladle in the other, watering the ground. As he spoke, he suddenly looked up and saw Ren Jie, and was so scared that he quickly knelt down and bowed.

The appearance of the Family Head was something everyone in a large family had to remember, including the appearances of some important people. The old servant's heart was in a panic. Even Ren Qiancheng, who held a high position and was the Third Elder's nephew and one of the twelve Deputy Chief Stewards of the Ren Family, was almost beaten to death. Although he heard that the Elders were also angry afterwards and even indirectly punished the Family Head, those who were servants secretly spread the word that the Family Head was fighting with the Council of Elders, and they didn't want to be affected.

The old servant was surprised in his heart. How could the Family Head suddenly come to talk to him, such an ordinary handyman, and even call him old man? Did he make a mistake?

He wasn't in the Family Head's main courtyard, and he had been working here for decades, without making any mistakes.

"Family... Head, just now... I... I thought it was... other handymen, so... I didn't... disrespect the Family Head. I wasn't saying the Family Head is a handyman, it's just... I misunderstood... This old servant doesn't know how to speak... This old servant deserves to die..."

Sweat!!

Ren Jie was speechless. Looking at the old servant, it was as if he was about to punish him. In fact, Ren Jie had just thought of the Smiling Old Man from yesterday and the sweeping monk from his previous life, and wanted to chat with this old servant of the Ren Family for a few words. He didn't expect to scare him like this.

Seeing him getting more anxious the more he explained, Ren Jie lost all interest. He knew that with the Smiling Old Man's strength, he really couldn't detect him right now.

"Very good, you are very loyal. This Family Head rewards you." Seeing the old servant so anxious, Ren Jie really wanted to go up and help him up, but he knew that doing so would be counterproductive. It seemed that the previous events had spread throughout the family, and the rumors were far more terrifying than the facts. But this was also good; at least no one below would dare to jump out again.

As for now, Ren Jie directly took out more than a dozen Jade Coins and casually threw them to the old servant, then turned around and returned to his residence.

"Jade Coins... This must be over a hundred taels of gold..." The old servant quickly thanked him, then felt very fortunate that he had reacted quickly.

Through his divine sense, Ren Jie also discovered that the old servant was talking to another person who had just arrived, saying that the internal struggle within the family had become white-hot, and the Family Head would severely punish anyone who showed even a little disrespect. He said they must be careful in the future and not get involved.

Ren Jie was immediately speechless. Even if he really wanted to fight the Council of Elders, it wouldn't involve those below. If it had spread to this extent, then the Ren Family would be close to its end.

But from this, he could see the current situation of the entire Ren Family; the People's Hearts were unstable.

"Family Head..." Just as Ren Jie was walking back, he saw Tie Ta striding over quickly. Each step he took was more than two or three steps for others, and in a few steps, he was in front of Ren Jie.

"Family Head, Uncle Tong... no, that Captain Tong asked me to find the Family Head and said that someone from the Fang Family has come to request an audience. Also, a guy named Wan Hong just came over, but Captain Tong blocked him at the door. He also came to find the Family Head."

Tie Ta's father was called Tie Bi. Tong Qiang, Tie Bi, and the homophone Copper Walls Iron Walls. Although Ren Jie hadn't specifically asked Tong Qiang, he knew that the two of them had followed Ren Tianxing since childhood and were both orphans, so Ren Jie believed their names were no coincidence.

And the relationship between Tong Qiang and Tie Ta's father was obviously extraordinary.

"It's fine, you're not part of the Guard Squad yet. You're just following me individually. You'll still be studying at the Jade Emperor Academy in the future, so it's okay not to call them like the Guard Squad. Let's go." Ren Jie said to Tie Ta and had already sped up to return to his residence.

The people from the Fang Family had finally arrived. He had expected this early on. It seemed they couldn't hold on any longer, because even just temporarily maintaining Fang Qi's life without an antidote was an astonishing expense, and even the Fang Family would find it difficult to sustain for a long time.

What Ren Jie didn't expect was why Wan Hong was looking for him. He represented his Sixth Uncle, Ren Tianzong. In Ren Jie's impression, Ren Tianzong was very vague, as he seemed to have only met him a few times since childhood.

At Ren Jie's residence, besides the two Guard Squad members standing guard at the entrance, from a distance, one could see Tong Qiang, whose head reflected the sunlight, also standing at the Main Entrance, facing Wan Hong and blocking him outside.

Wan Hong wasn't annoyed or anxious, but at this moment, his heart wasn't as calm, peaceful, or still as he appeared. It wasn't because Tong Qiang and the others were blocking him from entering, but because of the changes in the Guard Squad over the past two days. In fact, he had already seen the situation inside Ren Jie's room through a unique water mirror divine ability at Sixth Master Ren Tianzong's place. He hadn't seen the situation inside Ren Jie's room, but the changes in those people before and after entering Ren Jie's room, as well as the rapid breakthroughs of many people over the past two days, had shocked him.

Is it true? What exactly did this Ren Jie say to these people, and what did he write for them?

How did each person change after going in and coming out, and how could they break through so quickly? This kind of thing was too unbelievable.

If it were Sixth Master, or the old Family Head, the legendary Ren Tianxing of the Ren Family, it would be normal for him to give a few words of guidance to others' cultivation and help them break through. But how could Ren Jie have this level? Could it be that Ren Tianxing had already left something behind? But Sixth Master had already confirmed that it wouldn't be. Even Sixth Master sighed, saying this kid had some tricks up his sleeve. Originally, after Sixth Master said that, he wasn't in a hurry, and Wan Hong wanted to wait two more days before coming to find Ren Jie. But seeing the changes in the Guard Squad members, he finally couldn't help but come over quickly to bring this Ren Jie to Sixth Master and see what Sixth Master could figure out.

These things were the real reasons why Wan Hong was restless and agitated. While thinking, Wan Hong suddenly discovered Ren Jie and the others returning in his divine sense.

"Wan Hong greets the Family Head. Sixth Master asked Wan Hong to come and invite the Family Head to visit when he has time. Fang Yan from the Fang Family has also been waiting outside for a long time. Family Head, please attend to your matters first. Wan Hong will take his leave." Just when Wan Hong arrived, someone came to report this matter. Wan Hong finished speaking neither humbly nor arrogantly, and after a slight bow, he was ready to leave.

Although he was still surprised and puzzled by Ren Jie's recent changes and the strange changes in the Guard Squad, Wan Hong had been with Sixth Master for so many years and had this much composure. In fact, whether in the past or now, Wan Hong had always maintained such a humble and neither arrogant nor servile attitude towards Ren Jie.

"Wait a moment, don't be in a hurry to leave. Sixth Uncle is looking for me, so I must go immediately."

Hearing Ren Jie's words, Wan Hong stopped. "Sixth Master is not in a hurry. He specifically said that if he couldn't move freely, he would come personally. The Family Head can go when he is free."

"Free? I'm very free right now!" Ren Jie said as he walked closer to Wan Hong, spreading his hands and smiling, "This Family Head is bored to death. The Fang Family's matter is nothing. They are here to beg us. Let them wait slowly. I'll see him when this Family Head has time and is in the mood. I told them long ago, and they only thought of this Family Head now, clearly looking down on this Family Head. What is this Family Head's status? Is he someone they can just see whenever they want? Let him wait slowly. Not only does he have to wait until this Family Head has time, but he also has to be in the mood to see him."

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