Just as Fang Ruotang sat down, a young man came up. He greedily scanned Da Mei with his eyes, then looked at Fang Ruotang with an arrogant expression.
"Is this your spirit beast?"
Fang Ruotang looked up helplessly, somewhat regretting that she hadn't gone to the base first, but instead came straight to the teahouse.
Huo Zhige had a bad temper and warned, "Get out!"
The young man's malice was almost tangible, impossible to conceal, so Huo Zhige naturally wouldn't give him any face.
"Hey! How can you be so rude!" the male cultivator said, displeased.
He turned around and saw that the young men and women at the other table all had indignant expressions on their faces, and one of the female cultivators encouraged him to speak up.
"My senior brother was just trying to be nice to you, how could you talk to him like that? You're really looking down on him!"
The male cultivator, who was already angry, became even more so upon hearing the female cultivator's words, looking as if he had lost all face.
"I just thought this spirit beast was cute and wanted to ask where you caught it. Why are you being so fierce?"
"The Beast Taming Sect, their sect leader gave it to me, now you know! Can I leave now?" Fang Ruotang didn't want to talk to this big idiot.
She answered with a forced smile, appearing polite but insincere.
The male cultivator was speechless, but the men and women at their table came over and surrounded Fang Ruotang, her two companions, and the phoenix.
"You're talking nonsense! This is a Blazing Phoenix, isn't it? I heard the Beast Taming Sect has one, but it's their sect's most prized treasure. How could they possibly give it to you? You didn't steal it, did you?"
"It was definitely stolen!"
"Alright, since we've run into each other, let's do a good deed. Give us the Blazing Phoenix, and we'll help you send it back to the Beast Taming Sect. I have some connections with the Beast Taming Sect, so we can make sure they don't hold you responsible for stealing the Blazing Phoenix."
Fang Ruotang opened her third eye and looked at the men and women in front of her with an expression as if they were idiots.
Honestly, in all her years, this is the first time she has ever met such a shameless person.
They could have just robbed them outright, but they came up with such a lame excuse. It's really embarrassing for them. They don't even feel ashamed to say it.
"No, who are you! With such a big face, you don't think I'm young and that I won't kill anyone, do you?" Fang Ruotang was truly disgusted by the shameless behavior of the people in front of her.
He looks young, but he's quite cunning.
Where did all these random cats and dogs come from?
Fang Ruotang could tell at a glance that the group of people were all at the Golden Core stage. They probably thought that she had no cultivation and that it was no big deal to bully an ordinary person like her.
Therefore, what he said sounded like something a mentally challenged person would say.
"Little sister, shall I buy it from you? I have a low-grade spirit stone here," a female cultivator said gently.
Fang Ruotang remained seated in her chair, her back slightly bent, looking like the Big Bad Wolf, her face brimming with scheming, yet she still managed to feign kindness and friendliness.
Fang Ruotang was so impatient that she raised her hand and slapped him.
The female cultivator spun around in the air like a top, turning 360 degrees several times before finally landing on the group of people.
They tried to hold the person back, but they couldn't withstand the impact of Fang Ruotang's spiritual power, and a group of them collapsed.
The woman who was hit, feeling dizzy and disoriented, crashed onto her companion, her ears ringing and her mind seemingly deaf.
"A bunch of clueless idiots, get out of here!"
Fang Ruotang threw a water glass at the male cultivator who had spoken first, hitting him squarely in the dantian. Although it didn't shatter his dantian or destroy his cultivation, it still caused him considerable suffering.
"Ah! My golden elixir!"
The male cultivator glanced inward and cried out in pain.
"My golden core has shattered, I'm going to kill you..."
The male cultivator, his anger overriding his reason, was probably a disciple of a talisman cultivator. He had just taken out a talisman, preparing to cast a spell, when Fang Ruotang raised an eyebrow and tossed the clean water cup she had just picked up into the air.
She raised her eyes and smiled faintly, saying, "It seems I shouldn't have held back! Oh well..."
As soon as Fang Ruotang made her gesture, the male cultivator immediately pulled the person next to him over and placed them in front of him.
Fang Ruotang scoffed, "Pathetic."
The fellow disciple, who had been pulled out by the male cultivator to shield him from harm, turned back with a look of utter disbelief, "Senior brother, you..."
A hint of shame flashed across the male cultivator's face. His lips moved, but he didn't offer any explanation at this moment. Perhaps it was because too many people were watching, and it was inconvenient for him to say his shameful lie now, as it would be easily exposed.
"Senior brother, let's go! This person's cultivation level must be quite high; he's pretending to be weak to take advantage of others!" Another male cultivator, who was hiding in the back, spoke in a low voice.
The others had already taken a few steps back, poised to retreat at any moment.
Not only him, but the other two disciples were the same.
Once someone spoke up, it was as if a way out had been found, and the group slunk away like defeated rats.
"Tsk!"
Fang Ruotang pursed her lips and indifferently glanced around.
Don't think she doesn't know that the group just now was just the first to stick their neck out. If she had shown even the slightest fear, she would have been devoured by the people hiding in this teahouse, leaving not even bones behind.
Of course, those who stand out won't get any credit either.
With their meager cultivation levels, how dare they covet the Blazing Phoenix? They don't even know what the situation is like in Gudong County right now.
From what she sensed, there were powerful figures at the Nascent Soul stage everywhere, and there were also old monsters at the Tribulation Transcending stage. Basically, all the powerful figures from various sects had come.
This time, with such a massive display, the Tiangang Sect is doomed. It's almost as if, with the fall of a whale, all things come to life.
"Next time you encounter someone as blind as this, don't hold back. Just kill them and that will be the end of it." Huo Zhige looked at Fang Ruotang with affection.
"They only said a few stupid things, it's not like they're going to kill anyone!" Fang Ruotang replied casually, even though she knew that many people could hear their conversation.
Those people, aside from being a bit stupid and trying to deceive her, didn't swear at her or threaten to kill her; they simply regarded her as an idiot.
Although it made her very unhappy, it wasn't enough to warrant killing someone.
"Then I'll kill them?" Huo Zhige stared at Fang Ruotang, watching her expression.
Fang Ruotang glanced at Huo Zhige, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
Her methods were somewhat lenient in the Cloud Deep Continent, but she didn't like to kill people easily, always feeling that a few words of quarrel were not enough.
But if someone crosses her bottom line and hurts her, she won't be merciful or foolish. She has killed people who were extremely malicious towards her before.
Fang Ruotang immediately put Da Mei into her spirit beast pouch.
The reason they went straight to the teahouse was because they noticed that there were quite a few Nascent Soul stage experts there, and they guessed that they were going to have a small meeting.
Moreover, it's a small meeting specifically targeting the Tiangang Sect; they might just be discussing how to divide up the Tiangang Sect!
That's why she came to join in the fun, but she didn't expect to cause such a commotion as soon as she sat down, and now she's the one they're targeting.
The positions of the two sides were immediately reversed.
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