Chapter 99: Passerby Affected by the Cultivation Novel (5)
One was the person who asked Jiang Yue what she did yesterday, and the other was interesting—it turned out to be Li Tai, the manager of Songhe Martial Arts School. Jiang Yue couldn't understand it. He was a Blood Realm expert, recruiting apprentices and managing logistics; he could make money from any of those things. Why was he only after her money?
In fact, Jiang Yue oversimplified the problem. The system of Songhe Martial Arts School meant that there was not much profit to be made from recruiting apprentices; only those in charge of logistics could make some money. However, she did not know how terrifying the resources required for three blood transfusions were. Each blood transfusion was a completely different level of difficulty, and each one was more difficult than the last.
As for Jiang Yue, she spends money without restraint and never misses a single day of access to resources. In less than a year, she has spent nearly a thousand taels of silver, and she does so without any pressure whatsoever. She is the only one in the entire martial arts school who does this. Everyone else either has a background or was sent in by someone with a background. It can be said that there is no one in Songhe Martial Arts School without a background. Under such circumstances, it is only natural that Jiang Yue would be targeted.
After resting for a while and feeding the horse some hay and water, Jiang Yue set off. She was really heading home. She couldn't be sure that Li Tai hadn't gone to her hometown to investigate, so she didn't dare to change her route arbitrarily.
When they reached a fork in the road and entered a sparsely populated path, the two men behind them stopped pretending and rode off to catch up, shouting, "Stop!" Jiang Yue pretended not to know anything, dismounted, and looked at them, saying, "Manager Li, are you going the same way as me? Do you live around here too?"
After Li Tai and Zhao Shuyan dismounted, seeing Jiang Yue's malicious expression, they stopped pretending and Zhao Shuyan said, "Jiang Yue, can you tell us where your money comes from? I've investigated you. You're an orphan, born in a rural area. Where do you get thousands of taels of silver a year? If you know what's good for you, just tell me!"
"Why waste words with her? Once I capture her, I'll torture her and see if she confesses!" Li Tai said fiercely. After speaking, he walked towards Jiang Yue. Jiang Yue saw him coming and didn't waste any words. Didn't she know that villains die from talking too much? She took out an AK from her spatial storage and started shooting.
Li Tai, as expected of a Blood Refining Realm expert, was only slowed down by the initial few shots. He managed to dodge them all afterward. When he saw Jiang Yue taking something out of her spatial storage, Li Tai exclaimed in horror, "Immortal's Technique, a Universe Within a Sleeve!?"
He then realized what was happening and rushed towards Jiang Yue with a look of wild joy: "Impossible! You can't be an immortal, you're a storage bag! Haha, today is my lucky day, Li Tai's day!"
Jiang Yue didn't expect that someone could survive being shot several times by an AK. She had no choice but to switch to a Barrett. Although Li Tai saw it, he thought it would do the same damage as the AK, so he didn't dodge and charged straight at her. Then Jiang Yue shot him in the upper body.
Zhao Shuqi, seeing that Li Tai's upper body was gone, screamed in terror. When she saw Jiang Yue turn to her, she cried out in horror, "It wasn't me, it was Rang's idea, he raped me..." Jiang Yue had no time to listen to her nonsense and shot her dead. After shooting, Jiang Yue put the gun away. The Barrett was good, but it was too bloody.
She then caught up with the three horses, killed the two men's horses and put them into her spatial storage. After that, she tied up her own horse. The bodies of the two men needed to be disposed of, otherwise, if they were found dead on Jiang Yue's way home, she would be implicated. Jiang Yue took out a box from her spatial storage, put the mutilated bodies into the box, and then poured in some water and a special solution. This solution was provided by the government and was said to have miraculous effects on disposing of corpses.
Jiang Yue collected the underground layer of soil, then disguised it again to prevent anyone from tracking it by scent. She also sprayed a lot of air freshener. After finishing, she rode her horse towards home. When she got to the river, she poured the melted blood from the box into the river and then disposed of the box. The scene was now cleaned up.
When she arrived in the village, she found that her house had been occupied. Since Jiang Yue had left without saying goodbye, the villagers thought she was dead. In the end, the family gave Jiang Yue some money and she returned to the city. Jiang Yue didn't care about the house; as long as someone could prove that she had come back, that was enough.
Back in her city home, Jiang Yue ran into her neighbors and complained about the incident. After entering the house, Jiang Yue felt very calm. She didn't feel disgusted or anything like that after killing someone. It felt like a normal thing. If you're lenient with others, they might not be lenient with you. In this world of cultivation, only those who are ruthless deserve to live.
In the following days, Jiang Yue maintained her normal life rhythm. After all, if a manager went missing, the martial arts school would surely make a big fuss about finding the culprit. But nothing came of it. On the day the disappearance was discovered, the school owner sent people to look for him, and then there was no follow-up. Li Tai's family did not cause any trouble and simply moved away from the county town overnight.
Jiang Yue was also extremely curious. One day after training, she secretly asked the instructor, but the instructor just smiled and said, "Li Tai is an unimportant person from a collateral branch of the Li family. He is so old and he is only at the Blood Refining Realm. He has no potential and no backing. Who would stand up for him? He might be dead already. Why would you offend someone for no reason?"
"So our martial arts school owner isn't going to do anything about it? Isn't that a slap in the face to the school? Aren't you afraid it will affect the school's business?"
"Haha, Xiao Jiang, you're too naive. The only true people in the martial arts school are the owner's family and some of his disciples. In short, Li Tai has no value in getting the owner or anyone else to avenge him."
"If Li Tai is 18 years old this year, at the Blood Refining Realm, and a disciple personally taught by the Master, then someone killing him would be a blatant slap in the face to the Master, and the Master would definitely take action."
"Would the master risk his life to avenge some ordinary managers and students? So as long as it doesn't affect the foundation of the martial arts school, or if someone is blind enough to offend the master, the master won't bother with it. He's just a manager; there are plenty of people waiting to take his place. Didn't you see that the manager was replaced the next day?"
Jiang Yue felt like she had a brain now, but something was still off. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Instructor, many people join martial arts schools seeking protection, right? If a disciple gets beaten to death and no one cares, then who would join a martial arts school?"
"The nature is different. Other martial arts schools are actually like small gangs. If a subordinate or the boss dies, there are benefits to avenging him. For example, if your boss is killed, you, as his subordinate, can rise to a higher position by avenging him. Or if you die, the boss can win people's hearts by avenging you. If a martial arts school doesn't take care of the deaths of too many disciples, it won't be able to recruit new disciples. So they have to take care of it."
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