Chapter 127: Black Shop! (Seeking Fresh Flowers!)

  Lin Tian stood up straight and said to Ye Feng and the others, "Your injuries have been treated, so you can return now. Go find Gari, the owner of that jewelry store near Hans Magic Academy in Leiyun City, and get some gold coins from him. Then, start secretly buying magic cores. Keep a low profile and don't drive up the price of magic cores. Also, be careful with your safety, as magic cores are something that can attract unwanted attention!" "Sir, aren't you leaving?" Ye Feng asked. Lin Tian shook his head and looked deeper into the Magic Beast Forest, saying, "You guys go ahead, I'll take a walk around here. Put the magic cores you collect in Gari's place, he runs a jewelry store, so he must have some way to keep things safe!"

  "Yes, sir!" Ye Feng and the others bowed and quickly disappeared into the forest. Lin Tian took a deep breath and rapidly flew towards the deeper part of the Magic Beast Forest. The magic beasts at the outer edge were not enough to give Lin Tian any significant combat experience!

  In three days, many five to seven-level magical beasts in the Magical Beast Forest fell victim to misfortune. To enhance Lin Tian's combat experience, they sacrificed their precious lives. Their spirits are truly valuable, and the party and people will remember them... In these three days, Lin Tian did not return to the Star Ring space, so don't be surprised that the person wearing a holey suit walking towards the Magical Beast City is our protagonist Lin Tian! Although he's wearing a holey suit, Lin Tian still looks delighted. In three days, he killed over ten five-level magical beasts, twenty-odd six-level magical beasts, and three seven-level magical beasts. By absorbing their magical core energy, he obtained 10,000 units of boundary power. Adding the 5,000 or so units from the wolf's magical core leaves that Ye Feng didn't take, he gained a total of over 15,000 units of boundary power. After deducting the 5,000 units used for his big move, he still had over 1,000 units to enhance the strength of his giant axe mercenary. He purely earned 9,000 units! Lin Tian's current boundary power has already broken through 100,000 units and reached 104,000 units!

  So much boundary power, it's something Lin Tian didn't even dare to think about before. With so much boundary power in hand, even if his current strength has weakened a bit, it's still entirely possible for him to take down one or two Sword Saints or Law Saints. If he really dares to use the boundary power and exhausts tens of thousands of dimensions at once, then even the likes of Law Gods and Sword Gods would be reduced to nothingness in the face of that destructive energy pillar!

  Apart from his increased strength, Lin Tian's combat experience had also risen greatly. The high-level magical beasts were cunning and deadly, and fighting them had a strong impact on increasing his combat experience! Over the past three days, Lin Tian had also suffered some minor injuries, but those wounds didn't require Little Spirit's treatment. With his recovery ability being dozens of times stronger than that of an ordinary person, his wounds would automatically heal in no time, without even leaving any scars!

  "Xiao Ling, how much longer until I can increase my strength?" Lin Tian asked in his mind as he walked. "Master, it will take twenty more days. If we were in the Xing Jie world, it would only take five days of outside time!" Xiao Ling said. "Five days, that's tolerable. Next time I'll reach the Heavenly level of Da Yuan Man then?"

  "Yes, master. The energy level has reached the Tianji Daxuan, but it needs to be adapted for a while before the combat power can truly reach that level. However, if the boundary is activated, the actual combat power will be higher than the Tianji Daxuan!" said Xiaoling.

  "Tianji Daxuan, Shi Xuanxuan's master, seems to be Tianji Daxuan too... It looks like we can go to Ci Hang Jing Zhai to take a look around. Shi Xuanxuan's charm is too strong, I estimate that there are many men surrounding her, if not careful, she will be taken away by others!" said Lin Tian.

  Thinking of Zhou Yao, Lin Tian felt it was unfair to her, but although he had only spent one night with Shi Xuanxuan, her image had never disappeared from his mind!

  "Master, isn't it normal for a strong man to have many women? If someone with absolute power only has one woman by his side, that's what's truly rare!" Xiao Ling said in Lin Tian's mind. "Although the old master only deeply loved one person back then, the number of women he had is definitely not something you can imagine!"

  "Tell me, how many?" Lin Tian wasn't interested in ordinary gossip, but Xiao Ling's gossip about the old master was extremely interesting.

  "It's more than the population of Hai Tian City!" Xiao Ling's words shocked Lin Tian!

  The city of Haitian has a population of over 10 million, and the exact number is unknown to Lin Tian. However, it's absolutely over 10 million women, which leaves Lin Tian speechless.

  "Master, isn't this unbelievable? But you should know that the old master has lived for tens of billions of years. Ten million women are just equivalent to a few hundred years!" said Xiao Ling.

  "What about those women?" Lin Tian asked.

  "The vast majority have already died, and only two are still alive - one in the Immortal Realm and one in the Divine Realm!" replied Xiao Ling.

  Lin Tianqi said, "Your old master's strength is so powerful, how could his woman possibly die?"

  "Old Master didn't enhance their strength, so they naturally couldn't live that long!" Xiao Ling said.

  Lin Tian sighed and shook his head, "Not even enhancing the strength of your own women, your old master's way of thinking is truly unimaginable for ordinary people! What kind of people are those in the Immortal Realm and Divine Realm? Won't they harbor resentment towards your old master and hunt me down someday?"

  "This... Master, Xiao Ling doesn't know, human hearts are hard to fathom, let alone the hearts of immortals and gods!"

  Lin Tian's good mood was suddenly dampened upon hearing the news, and it took him a long time to comfort himself by muttering: "What am I worried about? First of all, even if they resent Little Ling's old master, it doesn't mean they know that I've benefited from Little Ling's old master. Besides, I don't even have the cultivation of a Heavenly Great Circle, let alone becoming an immortal or a god, who knows when that will happen!"

  Thinking of this, Lin Tian's mood improved a lot. He raised his head to take a look and found that he had already arrived at the gate of the Magic Beast City! His outfit didn't attract any strange glances from others; in fact, there were many people who wore even more tattered clothes than him. Some guys got lost in the Magic Beast Forest for a month before they came out, and their bodies didn't have a single piece of intact cloth as big as a palm!

  "Hmph, the mastermind is targeting me, unaware of their own mortality!" With Lin Tian's perception, he easily discovered that since entering the city, two people had been staring at him. "These guys are even more despicable than those who hunt humans in the Beast Forest for profit! They don't even dare to enter the Beast Forest, yet they often use underhanded means to get their hands on others' achievements!" Xiao Ling said in Lin Tian's mind.

  Lin Tian casually found an inn and got a room, not that he wanted to sleep, it was still early for sleep, but just wanted to take a good hot bath to relax! His hearing, which was many times stronger than ordinary people's, allowed him to clearly hear the whispers between one of the two men following him and the shop owner downstairs. "Good guy, I actually stayed in a black shop!" Lin Tian muttered.

  Hot water was quickly sent into the room, and the shopkeeper's gaze at him was filled with a hint of pity. "Guest, if you need to reheat the water, please pull the rope on the side!" The shopkeeper said, closing the door and leaving the room. Lin Tian looked at the steaming hot water, but in his heart, he sneered coldly, saying lightly: "Adding a large amount of anesthetic to the water is quite ingenious, I suppose they thought it up. People who have been dirty for a long time would probably be eager to take off their clothes and jump in when they see this big wooden bucket of hot water!" "Xiao Ling, can my cellular vitality withstand that anesthetic?" Lin Tian asked in his mind.

  "Master, apart from some extremely potent drugs, ordinary medicine has no effect on you. The anesthetic will be forcibly cleared by the energy in your cells as soon as it enters!" Xiao Ling said. Lin Tian nodded and took off his clothes, then lightly jumped into the large wooden barrel!

  "Ah, refreshing!" The hot water kissed his skin, making all the pores on Lin Tian's body relax and open up. "This water with the anesthetic seems to feel even better when washed in, maybe I'll add some medicine next time too?" Lin Tian thought randomly in his mind! Twenty minutes later, Lin Tian finished bathing, took out a set of clean clothes from the Star Ring space and put them on, then sat there facing the door waiting for those two guys who were sneaking up quietly from downstairs!

  "Lei Ge, you think that guy has goods on him?" A low voice came from the staircase. "I'm not wrong, I've been judging people for a long time, when have you seen me make a mistake? That guy left Monster City three days ago, in three days' time, his clothes are a bit tattered but he's not seriously injured, what does that mean? It means the opponent is quite capable, and capable people, do you think they can gain nothing in three days? Be careful later, strong people have resistance to anesthetics!"

  "Hey, Lei Ge, you can rest assured, the anesthetic is mine, I should know it best! Those anesthetics are enough to knock out a seventh-level rhino! Alas, unfortunately, we have to split each deal three ways!" "Fool, look at the big picture, there's no end to making money!" Lei Ge scolded in a low voice.

  Before long, the two of them had already arrived at Lin Tian's room door. "No sound of water, Lei Ge, the anesthetic should be effective, shall we use the old method to handle it?" "Don't talk nonsense, put him in a sack and immediately transport him out of the city to abandon him at the edge of the Demon Beast Forest. The Demon Beast Forest has no less than one million deaths per year, what's one more!"

  The door was pushed open, and Lin Tian sat there with a cold smile, looking at the two people who came in: "You two, thank you for adding some seasoning to my bath water, it's quite comfortable to wash!" The two men's faces changed drastically, and they wanted to escape immediately! "Hmph, you took care of me, I won't return the favor, is that not the way of being human?!" Lin Tian coldly snorted, and with a swift motion, he bound the two people up with his Wind Binding Magic. "Your strength is so weak, yet you dare to do such a thing, you're simply seeking death!"

  "You, didn't you take a bath? How come there's no anesthetic?" said one of the two men, who was shorter. Lin Tian suppressed his anger and said: "You'd better go down and ask Lord Ming Shen about it!" As he spoke, the wind element that had been swirling around him suddenly became as sharp as a knife, and with a light stroke on the necks of the two men, the two low-level Dou Qi practitioners were instantly killed!

  Lin Tian walked over and kicked the hand that was already reaching into his pocket, and the hand easily came out. However, in his hand, he had already grasped a fifth-level Fire Sea Scroll! "Although a fifth-level spell can't hurt me, it's still good to develop this habit. Many heroes have lost their lives due to carelessness when victory is within sight!" Lin Tian chuckled lightly and unfolded the Fire Sea Scroll. In an instant, flames filled the entire room, and since the house was made of wood, it ignited immediately! Lin Tian calmly walked down from the stairs and coincidentally met the shop owner who was rushing up towards him.

  When he saw Lin Tian, the shop owner was shocked: "You, you, you——"

  "It's strange that I'm still alive, isn't it? You're really stupid, aren't you, not running away but instead coming to see!" Lin Tian sneered, thinking to himself that sometimes not speaking a few words would make his heart feel unwell. The old boss said with a stern expression: "Don't try anything funny, my younger brother is the city guard of Magic Beast City, if you mess with me, you won't have a good ending!"

  "So that's how it is, no wonder he dared to be so arrogant and kill guests!" Lin Tian coldly hummed. He had always found it strange why a small inn owner would have the guts to collude with others to rob and murder his guests. It turned out that he had a younger brother who was a city guard!

  The Monster Castle is responsible for maintaining law and order, as well as defending against monster attacks from the nearby forest. There are also some city guards stationed here. The position of City Guard may not be a high-ranking official title, but it is a powerful position that holds partial control over troop movements. Of course, complete control over all troops lies in the hands of the Castle Lord!

  "You dare to threaten me with just a small city guard?! Lin Tian didn't even use magic, and kicked the boss's chin with one foot, sending him flying over 10 meters away, crashing onto the floor below, twitching a few times before lying still! Lin Tian let out a breath, muttering to himself: "I guess this counts as ridding the people of a scourge?! This black-hearted inn must have unknowingly killed countless guests!"

  The castle guard Solomon was drinking in a nearby hotel, when he suddenly saw a black smoke rising from his brother's inn, and soon the whole inn was engulfed in flames. Unable to sit still, he roared: "Stop drinking, follow me!" He rushed downstairs and ran towards the inn where Lin Tian was staying!

  When Solomon arrived, Lin Tian was already standing outside the store, watching the flames rise. Beside him were several people, including a few travelers who had run out of the store and some mercenaries who had gathered to watch the commotion. "Tell me, what happened here?" Solomon rushed over, his expression fierce, and saw Lin Tian standing at the front. He strode over and demanded, "I don't know, I came out to buy soy sauce!" Lin Tian replied with a light smile.