Chapter 43: Hei Mu Yue and Chi Feng Dan

  Su Dong taught a lesson to Ji Lianchun and Gu Chengzhuang's subordinates, preparing to return to Hansheng City. Jin Xiaobao, who had made the first move, quietly followed him, hanging his head and clenching his fists tightly.

  Jin Xiaobao is twenty-six years old this year, thirteen years ago his spiritual power had already reached six kilograms, and now it's still six kilograms. According to the rules, Jin Xiaobao's age has grown up, obviously having no hope of becoming a true warrior for life, so he changed jobs to become a spiritual farmer.

  It's also because Jin Xiaobao is still young, so in this group of Ling Nong, he has more momentum, and the nature of a warrior has not completely faded.

  Su Dong walked a few steps and stopped, looking at the ten mu of spiritual medicine and said: "Today's matter is not your fault, they are coming for Hei Mu Jue, even if you don't take action, they will still find trouble with us."

  What Su Dong said was that Hei Mu Jue was a spiritual medicine, ranked second-grade, and in these eighty mu of spiritual fields, seventy mu were spiritual valleys, ten mu were spiritual medicines, most of which were some primary medicinal materials commonly used by warriors. Hei Mu Jue was the only second-grade spiritual medicine, occupying one mu of spiritual field area.

  But this mu of black wood fern, however, was growing in a strange way. Other spiritual valleys and medicines were also growing strangely, but they were all growing more and more, becoming more and more lush, while the black wood fern was becoming sparser and sparser under the influence of Su Dongfeng's water system.

  Su Dong and Jin Xiaobao are now beside this mu of black tree ferns, Su Dong has been away for a month and a half, the black tree ferns have only one left, the rest are all gone.

  Jin Xiaobao's mood improved a bit, looking at the last black wood fern in the spiritual field and saying: "You've been away for this period of time, and this black wood fern has grown like crazy! It's now two meters tall and as thick as a tree trunk! You know that black wood fern is a herbaceous plant, growing to such a height is simply unbelievable!"

  Su Dong nodded, in the spiritual field that black plant was a big clump, on top of it were messy grey leaves, covering an entire mu of land, only this big fellow grew here, not even spiritual herbs or any grass grew around it, very strange indeed.

  "The spiritual medicine in the fields seems to have been devoured by something, we haven't returned home for a while now, trying to figure out what's causing the destruction, but unfortunately, we still can't find the reason. Now, an entire mu of spiritual medicine is left with only this last sprout." Jin Xiaobao said helplessly.

  Su Dong smiled slightly and said, "This is a very large one, how much did Ji Lianchun and the others quote?"

  Jin Xiaobao said, "Their offer is not low, they want to give us five thousand taels of silver, but you are the head of Lingnong Society, we can't secretly sell this black wood fern while you're away, can we?"

  Su Dongxin felt a little moved in his heart, looked at Jin Xiaobao and said in a low voice: "So the people of Chengkong Commercial House found Qi Lianchun to exert pressure, you didn't like it, so you took action?"

  Yes!

  "Even if we want to sell, it's got to be with your approval. We've already calculated that by August harvest time, we can at least get 40,000 catties of Lingguo! All these are thanks to your traditional farming methods! We can't forget our roots. If not for your traditional farming methods, us Ling farmers would still be starving!"

  Jin Xiaobao's eyes turned red as he looked at these Ling Nong, and it was clear that they were grateful to Su Dong.

  Su Dong's heart warmed up and he said in a low voice: "You've done very well, I'll take care of the rest."

  ……

  The castle lord's mansion, Tong Yufeng's study.

  In Hanshing City, Tong Yufeng's mansion was the most majestic. After all, Tong Yufeng was a member of the imperial family and the highest commander dispatched by the Sacred Star Empire to Hanshing City.

  At this moment, Tong Yufeng was looking gloomy, staring at Gu Chengdong and Ji Lianchun sitting opposite him.

  "I did say that I would present a thick gift to His Majesty the Emperor on his sixtieth birthday, but I didn't let you provoke Su Dong, did I?! Yang Taishi demoted him to Ling Nong, but who doesn't know? Yang Taishi was just acting impulsively and foolishly at the time, he regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth!"

  "Now you want to duel with Su Dong, whether you win or lose, it will make the situation even more embarrassing! If you win, it's a blow to the Tianxing Martial Arts Hall's reputation; if you lose, it's a blow to my own face!" Tong Yufeng shouted loudly.

  Gu Chengdong is indeed a qualified bootlicker, best at fawning over his brother-in-law.

  Now that the Holy Star Empire's Emperor is about to celebrate his birthday, Tong Yufeng, although far away from the imperial capital, is also a member of the royal family. If this matter is handled beautifully, it might be possible to return to the imperial capital; if not, he could at least move to a warmer place in the south and no longer have to guard the cold and bitter Star City.

  The master's promotion will naturally benefit Gu Chengdong, but this gift is hard to find, which worries him.

  The royal family is not short of gold and silver treasures, but they need something special, something that no one has ever seen before. The rare item happens to be a peculiarly large second-grade spiritual herb, Black Wood Fern, which is growing in Su Dong's spiritual field. As a result, it caught the attention of Gu Chengdong.

  Tong Yufeng's other dog leg, Ji Lianchun, was also pondering this matter. The two big dog legs merged and ran to the city master's mansion under the name of Su Dong's spiritual field to forcibly buy black wood ferns.

  It just so happened that among the honest and kind-hearted Ling Nong, there was a gold Xiaobao who didn't know how to behave. Gold Xiaobao offended Ji Lianchun and was punched by Ji Lianchun, but unfortunately, he was seen by Su Dong, who was notorious for being ruthless. Without saying a word, he killed a group of Gu Chengdong's subordinates and humiliated Ji Lianchun, a high-ranking strongman in the Ling War.

  A series of coincidences led to this stalemate, Su Dong wanted to get rid of Ji Lianchun as well, and as a warrior, if he didn't fight back, he would be finished. If he fought back, Su Dong was from the Tianxing Martial Arts Academy, which was one of the top powers in the Imperial City.

  Ji Lianchun returned to the city master's mansion with a sullen face, and after discussing with Gu Chengtang, he found that the situation was not easy to handle, so he gritted his teeth and came to find Tong Yufeng.

  Whoosh!

  Tong Yufeng's face turned iron-green as he stood up and paced back and forth in the study. In fact, he had also set his sights on Su Dong's large black tree fern. He had planned to wait for Su Dong to return and ask him for it, but if Su Dong didn't come back, he would look for Yang Taishi instead. Anyway, there was still a month before the harvest season, so Tong Yufeng didn't want to rush things.

  As a result, he was not in a hurry, but his underlings were in a hurry. They ran early to grab Su Dong's black wood ferns and offended Su Dong.

  Gu Chengdong was indeed a well-trained dog leg, biting his teeth and directly kneeling on the ground, with both hands slapping himself in the face.

  "It's all my fault! I was wrong, and I offended Su Dong. Now it has led to Season Brother wanting to duel with Su Dong, and it has put my brother-in-law in a difficult position! You might as well kill me now! But please, you must take good care of my poor sister in the future!"

  Having said that, Gu Chengdong burst into loud wailing, acting as if it were real.

  Tong Yufeng felt a pang of anxiety in his heart, but after all, Gu Chengdong was his younger brother-in-law. He and his wife treated each other with respect and affection, and they didn't even have any concubines, which showed how loving the couple was. If something really happened to Gu Chengdong, he wouldn't know how to explain it to his wife.

  "What are you crying about! Su Dong is not some kind of precious treasure, who says he can't be provoked? I scolded you because you didn't discuss it with me and acted on your own! This kind of behavior won't do!" Tong Yufeng said loudly.

  Gu Chengdong wiped away his tears and looked at his brother-in-law with a pleading expression, asking: "What should we do about that matter now?"

  Tong Yufeng looked at Gu Chengdong, then looked at Ji Lianchun, turned around and took down a sandalwood box from the bookshelf, carefully opened it, and handed something to Ji Lianchun.

  Ji Lianchun was taken aback, and when he opened the silk package, he saw that it was a black medicinal pill, about the size of a fingernail, emitting a strong fragrance.

  "Lord of the castle, this is a dan medicine!" Ji Lianchun's face changed greatly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he spoke.

  The elixir was a super medicine made from several, or even dozens of spiritual medicines, extremely expensive. Tóng Yù Fēng took out an elixir for himself, which shocked Jì Lián Chūn greatly.

  "Not bad, this is indeed a Scarlet Wind Pill. Put it away, in any case, your duel with Su Dong this time, only winning is allowed, not losing!" Tong Yufeng said in a deep voice.

  Ji Lianchun furrowed his brow, saying disapprovingly: "City Master, Su Dong is only a third-stage Spirit Warrior, I am four levels higher than him, there's no way I'll lose. You'd best put away this precious elixir."

  "Have you forgotten how Ma Jin died?" Tong Yufeng asked sternly.

  Ji Lianchun smiled and said: "Ma Jin died from Su Dong's sneak attack, a duel is a head-on battle, Su Dong can't sneak up on me."

  Tong Yufeng's eyes widened in anger as he bellowed, "You'd better put it away since you said so! What if I lose? My face will be utterly lost!"

  Ji Lianchun was taken aback for a moment, then immediately rewrapped the Chi Feng Dan and put it back in his bosom. He and Gu Chengdong exited Tong Yufeng's study together.

  As they walked in the backyard, Gu Chengdong smiled and said: "I told you a long time ago, my brother-in-law is most concerned about his face, he won't let us suffer a loss, this is a great opportunity."

  "What good opportunity?"

  Gu Chengdong looked around and saw no one, then made a throat-slitting gesture!

  "It's not enough to just win or lose, I want Su Dong's life!" Gu Chengdong gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

  P.S: My insomnia is acting up again, my head hurts a lot, chapter 2 will be out later, sorry.