Watching Xiang Yong leave, Yang Kai let out a sigh of relief. He hadn’t expected this guy to be so easily fooled.
However, after just two days of leisure, Xiang Yong came again. Seeing him, Yang Kai felt a headache and couldn’t avoid him, so he could only greet him, “Brother Xiang is here?”
Xiang Yong rushed to the front, looked around, and whispered, “How is it?”
“What do you mean?” Yang Kai was confused.
“Did Xiao Die ask about me? Did she miss me? Did she cry and ask to see me?”
“Uh…” Seeing the look of anticipation on his face, Yang Kai couldn’t bear to tell him the truth, so he could only say, “I’m not sure, I haven’t seen Lady Die You for the past two days, I just arrived here and was busy tending to the fruit garden.”
“Trash!” Xiang Yong glared at Yang Kai, “Why don’t you go ask around? If you’re so useless, what use do you have?”
Yang Kai’s mouth twitched, not knowing what to say.
Xiang Yong’s arms shook, “This old master will ask her himself.”
Sweeping past Yang Kai, he headed straight for Die You’s fruit garden. A short while later, the familiar sounds of chaos and Xiang Yong screaming in pain could be heard…
A moment later, the bruised and battered Xiang Yong limped back, his nose and mouth covered in blood, causing Yang Kai to tremble in fear.
Walking up to Yang Kai, Xiang Yong angrily said, “What kind of bullshit idea did you come up with? It didn’t have any effect at all. Xiao Die is hitting me even harder now.”
Yang Kai sighed, “Brother Xiang, there’s something I don’t know if I should say!”
“If you have something to say, just say it!” Xiang Yong coldly snorted and wiped the blood from his nose.
“There are plenty of fish in the sea…”
Xiang Yong laughed loudly, “Although there are many women in this world, this old master has set his eyes on Xiao Die for the rest of his life. Besides Xiao Die, even if the most beautiful woman in this world were to stand in front of me, this old master wouldn’t even spare her a glance. This point has been determined since she saved me that year. She is also destined to be this old master’s woman. If anyone dares to have any ideas about her, this old master will eat their flesh and drink their blood!”
Hearing this, Yang Kai couldn’t help feeling a deep sense of respect. He really couldn’t tell that Xiang Yong was actually so infatuated. It was just that this method of courting women was a bit too annoying, and his intelligence was also quite poor.
But then again, although Xiang Yong was a bit despicable, he had nothing to say to Die You. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been beaten up so miserably.
“Do you have any ideas about Xiao Die?” Xiang Yong suddenly turned his head and glared fiercely at Yang Kai, his eyes filled with a fierce light, as if if if Yang Kai dared to utter a single word, he would immediately kill him.
“I’ve only known Lady Die You for a little more than two months, I’m not worthy of such a beauty like her.”
“That’s for the best!” Xiang Yong snorted, “If you dare have any ideas about her, this old master will tear you to pieces.”
“Of course not!”
“I’ll give you a task!” Xiang Yong’s expression became serious, not caring if Yang Kai was willing or not, he ordered, “Keep an eye on Xiao Die. If anyone dares to bother her, tell me immediately, this old master will deal with them, do you hear me?”
Yang Kai nodded speechlessly.
Only then did Xiang Yong show a satisfied look on his face. Stretching out his hand to touch the wound on his face, he felt a sharp pain and let out a hiss before walking back towards the road.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly turned around and said, “Right, there’s one more thing, remember what you said last time.”
Yang Kai was confused, “What do you mean?”
Xiang Yong said, “Last time, you said that the income of this piece of land and your piece of land belonged to this old man, your piece of broken land doesn’t have much income. Forget it, this old man’s piece of land can earn twenty Open Heaven Pills a year, remember to give it to me later.”
Twenty pills? Yang Kai couldn’t help staring. This was obviously nonsense. Although this piece of land wasn’t small, Xiang Yong didn’t take care of it on a daily basis. His entire focus was on Die You, so how could he have any extra income other than the annual salary of a servant?
Twenty was absolutely impossible, this was obviously extortion.
Just now, Yang Kai had felt some admiration for this man’s devotion, but now it seemed that this hateful man really had something to hate.
He couldn’t be bothered to argue with him. With his current wealth, twenty Open Heaven Pills was nothing.
As soon as Xiang Yong left, Die You appeared and looked at Yang Kai apologetically, “Sorry, Little Brother Yang Kai, I caused you trouble.”
“It’s nothing,” Yang Kai waved his hand. The current situation was all caused by Zhou Zheng, so if he wanted to blame someone, he could only blame Zhou Zheng.
Curious, he turned around and asked, “Xiang Yong said you saved his life?”
Die You smiled bitterly, “It’s not that exaggerated, it’s just a small matter. When he first came to the Fire Spiritual Land to be a servant, he made some mistakes and was punished, almost dying. I just casually fed him a healing pill and the only reason he survived was because he had a good foundation and had nothing to do with me. Since then, he has become like this. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have meddled in his affairs.”
Yang Kai nodded in understanding and said, “Xiao Die, you’ve done a good deed.”
“Actually, his nature isn’t bad, it’s just that his personality is a bit overbearing,” Die You sighed, “He’s also quite stubborn.”
Yang Kai smiled, “Xiao Die, have you never considered it?”
Die You glanced at him, “Stop teasing me!” Turning around, she walked towards her own fruit garden, not bothering to speak to Yang Kai.
Since that day, Xiang Yong had come over almost every day and was beaten up every day, but he was always happy and Yang Kai had slowly gotten used to it.
Sometimes, after being beaten up, Xiang Yong would leave, and sometimes he would stay behind to chat with Yang Kai, asking if anyone had harassed Die You during his absence.
On this day, while Yang Kai was tending to the fruit trees, he heard the sound of something tearing through the air, followed by someone landing nearby.
He had thought that Xiang Yong had come again and was too lazy to turn around and pay attention to him, so he simply took care of the fruit trees, but who would have thought that the person who had come would not leave? Yang Kai turned around suspiciously and after a quick glance, he turned around and cupped his fists, “Greetings, Senior Du!”
This time, it wasn’t Xiang Yong but Du Rufeng.
Du Rufeng was no longer as cold and aloof as before, now wearing a smile that made one feel like they were bathing in a spring breeze. “I saw it from above and thought it looked like you, so I came down to take a look. It really is you.”
“Is Sir looking for me?” Yang Kai asked.
“I’m not looking for you, I just came here today to inspect the fruit garden. In a few days, the Chief Manager will come to inspect it, so I decided to inspect it in advance to avoid any mistakes,” Du Rufeng explained.
Yang Kai showed a look of understanding. He had been here for a few months now, so he knew almost all the information he needed to know about the Seven Skillful Land. Each of the seven gardens had a small manager like Zhou Zheng, each managing the garden of each Spiritual Land. Above these managers, there was also a Chief Manager who was in charge of the entire Seven Skillful Land’s gardens, a direct subordinate of the Heavenly Monarch. He was only responsible for Seven Skillful Heavenly Monarch, and his status was no less than that of the Protector Venerable.
“Then we really should be more careful,” Yang Kai replied casually. He wasn’t familiar with Du Rufeng, but when he had helped him collect the carlet Clouds Golden Flame last time, the other party had specifically come to talk to him, not knowing what he meant.
“Is this a new place?” When Du Rufeng asked this question, he intentionally or unintentionally sized up General Si Chen, who was lying on top of Yang Kai. The last time he saw him, he had thought that Yang Kai had offended General Si Chen and that the Great General was punishing him, but who would have thought that the Venerable would actually say that this was a performance the Great General does when he like someone.
Now that he was carefully observing Yang Kai, he found that this was indeed the case. The Great General was lying there with his eyes closed, his posture relaxed. He was both amused and curious, wondering just where Yang Kai had attracted the attention of the Great General.
“Yes!” Yang Kai nodded, “After last time, Manager Zhou brought me here and handed over this fruit garden to me, saying it was Senior Du’s idea.”
Du Rufeng said, “That’s right, it’s my idea. Since you’ve made great contributions, you should naturally be rewarded. It seems Zhou Zheng wasn’t careless and found you a good place.”
Yang Kai said, “Those five thousand Open Heaven Pills were already a great reward, and Sir even gave me such a piece of land. Junior is truly grateful.”
Du Rufeng waved his hand, “Since you’ve done so much, you should be rewarded. This is what you deserve.”
But I don’t want it! Now that this idiot Xiang Yong is involved, I’ve offended him for no reason. However, after a few words, Yang Kai was certain that the reward was indeed five thousand Open Heaven Pills, and Zhou Zheng hadn’t taken any of them.
“How about it?” Du Rufeng suddenly turned to Yang Kai, “Are you interested in coming to my side and helping me?”
Yang Kai was stunned, “What does Sir mean?”
Du Rufeng put his hands behind his back and said, “If you come to my side, you won’t be a servant anymore, but a disciple of the Seven Skillful Land.”
Yang Kai couldn’t help widening his eyes as he felt like a pie had fallen from the sky, smashing his head.
The status of the servants in the Fire Spiritual Land was the lowest, but they did the most things every day. Which servant didn’t want to get rid of this identity? However, only by breaking through to the Open Heaven Stage would they be able to do so, so for countless years, the servants had worked hard to accumulate Open Heaven Pills before going to the market to purchase the materials needed to Open Heaven. Who would have thought that such a good opportunity would fall upon Yang Kai today?
With Du Rufeng’s status in the Fire Spiritual Land, since he had made such a request, it was definitely not a lie. In other words, as long as Yang Kai agreed, he would immediately be able to rid himself of his identity as a servant and become a disciple of the Seven Skillful Land.
This was definitely a great convenience for him to obtain the Open Heaven Pill recipe.
But… it was too strange! Although he had also contributed greatly in the previous incident, he had already received five thousand Open HEaven Pills and a reward for exchanging land. Now that Du Rufeng had given him such a big gift, what was he trying to do?
Could it be that someone had seen through his Wood Element force? Yang Kai secretly became vigilant.
Seemingly seeing his hesitation, Du Rufeng smiled and said, “This isn’t what the Venerable wants, it’s my own idea. The Scarlet Clouds Golden Flame I collected last time was given to me by the Venerable, and in the next ten years, I will need this Fourth Grade material. With this Scarlet Clouds Golden Flame, I have taken a big step on my path to breaking through to the Fourth Order Open HEaven, so can you understand how important this Scarlet Clouds Golden Flame is to me?” After pausing for a moment, he continued, “But don’t worry, although the Venerable didn’t say anything, since I brought this up, I naturally have the confidence to convince the Venerable to remove your identity as a servant.”
TO BE CONTINUED...
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