Chapter 20: The Extraordinary Behind the Ordinary.
The burly man surnamed Tang and his subordinates clearly didn’t expect anyone to interfere when they were collecting rent.
They were just ordinary people with some martial arts background, no match for Lin Mo’s junior sisters.
After all, although these few had only joined the sect for a year.
They had already cultivated in their own homes before.
Xia He, in particular, possessed the strength of Qi Refining Peak.
It only took them a few moves to beat the burly man surnamed Tang and his crew into wailing submission.
“Brat, dare you reveal your names?” The burly man surnamed Tang clutched his bleeding forehead, staring intently at Xia He.
“Azure Spirit Sect’s Xia He!” As she spoke, Xia He pointed behind her at Lin Mo: “That’s my senior brother, Lin Mo.”
“Good, good, good, you have guts!” Before leaving, the burly man surnamed Tang gave Lin Mo a deep look.
Hey, hey, hey, why are you looking at me?
It wasn’t me who did the beating!
You should be looking for the ones who beat you!
Lin Mo was speechless, he didn’t expect Xia He to drag him into it.
However, it was strange. The burly man surnamed Tang was just an ordinary person.
Hearing Xia He reveal she was from the Azure Spirit Sect, he wasn’t scared at all?
Daliang City wasn’t too far from the Azure Spirit Sect, so it was impossible he didn’t know the Azure Spirit Sect was a second-grade immortal sect.
The more Lin Mo thought about it, the more something felt wrong.
Although he had no experience since transmigrating.
He had read many novels!
When something seems off, there’s usually a reason. In this cultivation world, one must never underestimate anyone.
Who knew how powerful they were?
Even if they were just ordinary people, it was hard to guarantee they weren’t descendants of an ancient immortal sect, or that they didn’t have some kind of immortal elder following them.
With this thought, Lin Mo disappeared and followed the direction the burly man surnamed Tang had taken.
Seeing Lin Mo disappear in the distance, Xia He couldn’t help but scoff: “A Foundation Establishment cultivator is actually afraid of a group of ordinary people, what a coward.”
Ruoyan Qu, however, said: “Could Senior Brother Lin have something else to do?”
Xia He sneered: “The facts are right in front of us, it’s our first time in Daliang City, what else could he possibly be doing?”
Saying this, she turned to comfort the old man selling vegetables at the stall: “Grandpa, are you alright?”
The old man seemed still shaken by the recent fight. Hearing Xia He’s words, he started crying.
“What, what am I going to do!”
“I still have an old wife lying sick at home, why is my life so bitter!”
Xia He was confused, hadn’t she just helped the old man drive away the bad guys?
Why was the old man even more upset?
The old man waved them away: “You should leave, consider it my bad luck!”
Xia He was displeased: “Grandpa, what kind of attitude is that? We helped you. If you’re not grateful, you’re still chasing away your benefactors?”
Not only Xia He, but Ruoyan Qu, Zhi’an Xie, and Zhi Qu were of the same opinion.
“Do you know that the burly man surnamed Tang is a notorious local ruffian, and he has immortal backing?”
“Besides, this whole thing was my fault. I didn’t pay the rent because I wanted to spend money to treat my wife. If that burly man surnamed Tang had just gotten angry, he wouldn’t have done anything to me. But with you suddenly showing up and beating them, they naturally assumed I hired you. When you’re gone, they’ll just take it out on me.”
“Even if they don’t beat me half to death, they probably won’t let me continue selling here. My poor wife is still bedridden, and I have nowhere to earn money. Isn’t this forcing us to death?”
After hearing the old man’s story, Xia He and the others felt heavy-hearted.
None of them had expected that their good intentions could lead to bad consequences.
When Lin Mo returned, Xia He looked at him with disdain.
“Coward, you still know how to come back?”
Lin Mo ignored Xia He’s taunts and asked, “Where is the vendor, the old man?”
During the time he had disappeared, he had indeed gone after the group led by the man surnamed Tang.
He understood the principle of eliminating future trouble.
After all, they had already remembered him. Was Lin Mo really going to wait foolishly for them to return for revenge and cause him trouble?
However, the result was not entirely smooth.
He hadn’t expected that the ordinary man surnamed Tang would have a talismans for escaping.
And the quality of the talisman was not low. He certainly didn’t catch up.
“We have already made arrangements. You didn’t help during the fight, and now you’re interfering?”
“Fine, then tell me, how did you make your arrangements?” Lin Mo asked.
Xia He recounted the old man’s situation.
The ultimate solution was to give the old man a sum of money so that he and his family could live out their remaining years in peace.
“Do you know how grateful the old man was to me?” Xia He boasted, “I didn’t expect that acting righteously would be such a joyful thing.”
The other junior sisters strongly agreed with Xia He’s actions this time.
Even Ruoyan Qu felt Lin Mo’s approach was problematic this time.
Lin Mo narrowed his eyes and asked, “Then tell me, how did you give the money to the old man?”
“How else? Of course, I gave it with my bare hands!” Xia He said, looking at him like an idiot.
“So you gave the money to the old man in full view of everyone?”
“Is there a problem with that?”
Xia He wasn’t the type to do good deeds anonymously. She had already revealed her name earlier.
Helping the old man in full view of everyone could also increase her reputation and spread her good deeds.
Wasn’t this killing two birds with one stone?
“Heh!”
Lin Mo let out a cold laugh and stopped paying attention to this ‘young lady’ who had zero experience in handling affairs.
He circulated his Spiritual Energy and dashed towards the direction the old man had left.
The few of them didn’t know what their senior brother was up to again, but they all followed.
At this moment, the old man, who was on his way to get medicine, was cornered in an alley by two middle-aged men.
“Old man, you’re already so old, so much money isn’t something you can handle.”
“Hurry up and hand over the money, lest you suffer hardship that your age shouldn’t bear.”
“I can’t give this to you…” The old man tightly clutched the money, refusing to let go.
“Fine, then don’t blame us for being cruel.”
By the time Lin Mo arrived, the old man was lying in a pool of blood, on the verge of death.
The junior sister who followed behind didn’t expect the old man to be attacked either.
The situation was urgent, Lin Mo circulated his Spiritual Energy and cast the Spring Return Art on the old man.
The Spring Return Art was the original owner’s cultivation technique for healing.
Although it didn’t have miraculous effects like reviving the dead or regenerating bones, it was certainly enough to heal the old man before them.
Half an hour later, the old man’s consciousness gradually cleared.
He recounted the cause and effect of his injury.
“I’m going to kill those beasts!” Xia He said angrily, about to go seek revenge.
“Where are you going?” Lin Mo interrupted her coldly.
He was truly getting angry.
“Have you not realized your mistake yet?”
“If not for your initial arrogance, so much trouble wouldn’t have arisen.”
“And even if you wanted to solve this by giving money, would you give it in person like that?”
“If we had been a moment slower, what do you think the old man’s fate would have been?”
The few junior sisters were not foolish. Prompted by Lin Mo, they immediately understood the cause and effect of everything.
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