Chapter 31: Making Things Difficult (Part 4)

  Liu Li lazily raised his head, looking at Ye Chen standing in front of him, and coldly smiled: "What are you doing here? Who told a disciple with such low cultivation like you to come?"

  Ye Chen's face turned cold as he looked at Liu Li, feeling a wave of disgust. Suppressing the disgust in his heart, he opened his mouth and said, "Yes, the sect leader summoned me!"

  " Sect Master?" Liu Li furrowed his brow, asking in puzzlement: "Why would the Sect Master see a waste like you? Why would he call you here?"

  Ye Chen took a step forward, his body slightly tilted, with some anger in his voice: "You don't believe me? Go ask others, many people have heard it!"

  "Hmph!" Liu Li looked at Ye Chen with a disdainful expression: "What? You have a problem? Did I say I didn't believe it? What did the sect leader send you here for? Spit it out and get lost!"

  Ye Chen's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at Liu Li's expressionless face, taking a deep breath: Can't get angry, must endure, now must endure!

  "Twenty 'Strong Body Pills'!"

  Ye Chen gritted his teeth and stared at Liu Li, saying indignantly.

  "What! Are you crazy? Twenty 'Strong Body Pills'?" Liu Li was slightly surprised, he couldn't believe that the sect leader would give Ye Chen twenty 'Strong Body Pills'. To think that in the outer sect, only when one becomes one of the top ten masters would they be rewarded with five 'Strong Body Pills', and even then, only when one becomes an inner sect disciple would they be rewarded with ten 'Strong Body Pills'! Now, Ye Chen was asking for twenty just like that, it made him unable to believe no matter what.

  "You can go ask others, this is what the master said himself!"

  Ye Chen sneered and looked at Liu Li, saying.

  Liu Li narrowed his eyes and said discontentedly, "You wait first, I'll confirm it before giving it to you!" Then, he turned around and walked away, leaving Ye Chen standing there alone.

  A moment later, Shen Xiang walked in and saw Ye Chen standing alone there. She hurriedly walked up to him: "Brother Chen, what's wrong? Why did I see Liu Zhanglao leave just now?"

  Ye Chen looked at Shen Xiang and smiled gently: "He didn't believe me, he went to verify the truth of what I said!"

  "Oh!" Shen Xiang furrowed her brow, then slightly shook her head and said to Ye Chen with a sigh: "Brother Chen, you've been deceived. I reckon he won't be coming back today!"

  Upon hearing this, Ye Chen furrowed his brow and looked at Shen Xin with a puzzled expression.

  "Hey, Brother Chen, don't you think about it? Who dares to use the title of Palm Gate to deceive Dan medicine? Liu Changlao will definitely not suspect you either, he just doesn't want to give it to you!" Shen Xian helplessly waved her hand at Ye Chen.

  "Hmph!" Ye Chen coldly snorted: "No matter, even if the monk runs away, he can't run away from the temple. Sooner or later, he'll be mine!"

  Just then, Hong Zhan walked in slowly and saw Ye Chen and Shen Xiang talking, with Ye Chen's face full of anger. He smiled slightly and walked up: "Ye Chen, what are you doing here?"

  Upon hearing this, Ye Chen turned his head around and saw that it was Hong Zhan. His face lit up with joy, and he hastily bowed respectfully: "Elder Hong!"

  Shen Xian, who was standing beside him, also nodded in agreement with Hong Zhan, which could be considered as a greeting.

  Hong Zhan first nodded in response to Shen Xiang, then looked at Ye Chen with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong? Do you have something on your mind?"

  Ye Chen helplessly shrugged his shoulders: "I'm here to find Liu Changlao!"

  "Liu Changlao?" Hong Zhan furrowed his brow, puzzled, and said: "What do you want to find him for? I just met him earlier, he said he's encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation and needs to go into seclusion to gain insight. You probably won't be able to find him for the time being!"

  "What?" Ye Chen was taken aback, originally he thought Liu Li would just make things difficult for him, but he didn't expect it to be this severe, directly going into seclusion. This way, he estimated that after a long time, he would have to rely on these twenty 'Strong Body Pills'.

  Although Ye Chen didn't care about these twenty 'Strong Body Pills', he had always been someone who insisted on getting what he recognized as his own. These 'Strong Body Pills' might not have any temptation for Ye Chen, but they were promised to him by the sect leader in front of everyone, so they already belonged to Ye Chen. How could he let them go to someone else, especially Liu Li?

  Immediately, Ye Chen frowned at Hong Zhan: "Hong Lao, I am here to receive the 20 'Strong Body Pills' according to the Sect Master's orders. Liu Lao doesn't believe me and told me to go out and ask around, isn't this clearly not planning to give them to me!"

  Listening to Ye Chen's words, Hong Zhan turned his head and looked at Shen Xiang with a puzzled expression. Seeing Shen Xiang nodding in agreement, indicating that she could prove what Ye Chen said was true.

  Then, Hong Zhan sank into thought for a moment, and after a brief pause, he nodded slightly at Ye Chen with a gentle smile: "The distribution of these elixirs is all managed by Liu Changlao. How about this, you come with me, I'll take you to find him, and then I'll vouch for you!"

  Upon hearing this, Ye Chen was overjoyed and glanced at Shen Xiang before respectfully bowing to Hong Zhan: "Thank you, Elder Hong!"

  "Hehe! Alright, come with me!"

  Hong Zhan immediately turned his head and walked towards the outer gate of the Long Lao Hall, Ye Chen and Shen Xiang also hurriedly followed up.

  Under Hong Zhan's lead, Ye Chen and Shen Xiang arrived at a separate courtyard in no time. This was exactly where Liu Li lived!

  Hong Zhan turned his head to look at Ye Chen and Shen Xian, saying softly: "You wait here for a moment, I'll go call the door!"

  Ye Chen and Shen Xian nodded respectfully to him.

  Hong Zhan looked at the two of them and smiled slightly, then walked to the outside of the courtyard and knocked on the door: "Liu Changlao, it's me, Hong Zhan!"

  A loud and clear voice came out of his mouth, with a full tone, not at all like an old man over fifty years old. This is the benefit brought by cultivation. For someone like Hong Zhan who has the cultivation of gathering gas twice, as long as there's no accident, living to 156 years old will absolutely be no problem.

  After a while, the door in the courtyard slowly opened, and Liu Li walked out of the house with slow steps, smiling slightly at Hong Zhan. Then, he saw Ye Chen and Shen Xiang standing outside the courtyard, frowned, and said to Hong Zhan: "Elder Hong, what can I do for you? Why are these two young people here?"

  Hong Zhan turned around with a smile and glanced at Ye Chen, then smiled slightly at Liu Li. Without beating around the bush, he said directly: "Liu Lao, I've already known about the reward of twenty 'Strong Body Pills' for Ye Chen. The management of pills has always been your responsibility, so isn't that why I brought them to find you?"

  "Oh, is that so!" Liu Li responded to Hong Zhan with a single sentence, and then smiled coldly, looking at Ye Chen said: "I'm afraid you'll have to wait a few more days, the elixir is not much now, I'm afraid it can't be given to you first!"

  Hong Zhan hadn't waited for Ye Chen to speak, and with a smile on his face, he looked at Liu Li and continued: "It's not that I'm saying you're lying, Elder Liu, but I remember that the elixir used by the outer sect was just distributed from the inner sect two days ago. How could it be gone in just two days? You wouldn't have embezzled it, would you?"

  Ye Chen listened to Hong Zhan's sarcastic words and couldn't help but smile softly with Shen Xiang.

  Liu Li's face turned red as he hastily said: "Elder Hong, you can't just talk nonsense! How could I possibly embezzle?"

  "Hehe, it's best if you don't embezzle, regarding the sect's management of dan medicine, you understand more than me, you should know that if you embezzle dan medicine, the consequences... Hehe!"

  Hong Zhan still had a smile on his face as he spoke to Liu Li, as if there was only a smiling expression on his face.

  Ye Chen's eyeballs rotated in their sockets, and he smiled slightly as he walked forward, saying with a hint of teasing: "That's right! If Old Man Liu doesn't even have twenty 'Strong Body Pills' here, then it's really possible that someone has embezzled them!"

  Liu Li glared at Ye Chen with a burst of anger and said coldly: "What business do you have when your elders are speaking!"

  Ye Chen held Shen Xiang's hand, not getting angry, but just smiled slightly: "It's nothing to do with me, I just have a habit of talking in my sleep. I'm afraid that one day if I'm not careful, I might say something about Liu Changlao possibly embezzling the elixir, which would be bad for him!"

  Listening to Ye Chen's words, Shen Xiang couldn't help but smile slightly and chimed in: "Yes, Brother Chen does have this habit. Sometimes when I pass by his door at night, I can still hear him talking in his sleep! It's really something, he even talks loudly in his sleep!"

  Liu Li listened to Ye Chen and Shen Xian singing together, then looked at Hong Zhan standing beside him with a smile on his face. He knew that this time he probably couldn't avoid it. Otherwise, if people really found out that he had secretly kept Ye Chen's elixir for himself, once they investigated thoroughly, they would discover that he had secretly kept so many before, which would be enough to get him killed ten times over.

  Liu Li was extremely angry and glared at Ye Chen, then took out twenty 'Strong Body Pills' wrapped in oil paper from his bosom and handed them directly to Ye Chen, saying discontentedly: "The things are given, nothing else, just leave! I still need to go into seclusion!"

  "Hmm!"

  Liu Li let out a cold snort and gave Ye Chen and the others a deep look before turning around and leaving, not even bothering to acknowledge Hong Zhan anymore.

  Ye Chen looked at the medicinal pill in his hand, his face lit up with joy, and hastily put it into his bosom. He turned around and bowed respectfully to Hong Zhan: "Elder Hong, thank you so much! If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have gotten these medicinal pills!"

  Hong Zhan smiled slightly at Ye Chen and patted his shoulder: "Ye Chen, I know you haven't given up on the inner sect disciple selection in half a year. I hope these medicinal pellets can help you. But I still want to advise you, if your cultivation hasn't reached the tenth level of Fragmented Body in half a year, it's best not to participate in the selection!"

  Hong Zhan's words were actually an indirect reminder to Ye Chen, telling him to give up on the selection half a year later. After all, he didn't believe that Ye Chen could start from scratch and reach the Shattered Body Tenth Realm in just six months.

  Ye Chen also understood Hong Zhan's meaning, but he had already made preparations and was very confident about breaking through to the tenth level of fragmentation in half a year. He pretended not to understand Hong Zhan's meaning and just smiled slightly: "Thank you, Elder Hong, for reminding me, Ye Chen understands!"

  Hong Zhan smiled and nodded: "Understood is good! Understood is good!" Then, he turned around and walked away in another direction.

  Shen Xiang looked at Hong Zhan who had already walked far away, then turned her head and looked at Ye Chen with a worried face, saying softly: "Chen Ge, are you really going to participate in the selection half a year later?"

  Ye Chen smiled slightly and didn't answer Shen Xiang, but instead pulled Shen Xiang's hand and walked towards the distance.

  Shen Xiang took a deep breath, and with her understanding of Ye Chen, his attitude meant that he would definitely attend.

  Ye Chen first sent Shen Xiang back to her residence, then quickly walked towards his own residence. He wanted to see what the things he found from the giant pit were.

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