Bei Feng's words left Liu Jie and the rest with their mouths twitching. The gazes with which they looked at Jin Rong were filled with pity.
"That was a savage slap... I think half of his face is disfigured now?"
"Ha! What a well-deserved slap! He's not even the captain yet, but he's so annoyingly cocky!"
"Exactly! This fellow's walking around with the airs of 'Heaven is number 1, Earth is number 2 and I am number 3'. If not him, who is more worthy of being slapped?"
"This is called 'a wicked person will naturally be tormented by another wicked person'. He's a sick fellow, but that youngster is even more harsh! But why do I feel so glad, like my anger is being vented for me?"
The other team members had already formed a small circle around Jin Rong, pointing at and rebuking him in gleeful soft voices. They had long been dissatisfied with Jin Rong's antics. If not for the fact that he had a good father, how could someone like him become a vice captain as soon as he joined the team?
"Captain, what's the situation now?"
Nantian turned around and looked at Liu Jie.
"Serves him right! That guy is still so young, but he's already at the level of Evolved Jing. Even if Jin Rong's dad came over personally, he would still have to treat that young man as an equal! This idiot really thought that everyone has to give him face because he has a good father!"
"This is good as well. Receiving a slap today is still better than being killed by some crazy bastard one day because he pissed that expert off. Hopefully, Jin Rong will be able to keep this lesson in his heart."
Liu Jie sighed with emotion. Although Dark Jing was only a single level away from becoming an Evolved Jing master, it was not an exaggeration to say that the difference between the two was like the difference between the heavens and the earth!
A martial practitioner's cultivation path begins with Light Jing. After successfully cultivating past that stage, one will enter the level of Dark Jing. Then, if one could merge the two together perfectly and form a personal, original understanding, he would step into the Evolved Jing realm!
An Evolved Jing master can live without any worries at all, for a single Evolved Jing master could easily match a hundred men! Even if tens of Dark Jing experts came at him--it didn't matter even if they were Peak Dark Jing experts--as long as they did not bring guns and other weapons into the equation, those experts would only have the fate of being thrashed by the Evolved Jing master!
But based on the cultivation system which Liu Jie understood, Bei Feng was actually more similar to a martial practitioner who was training within the Light Jing realm the entire time!
He had simply trained on a single path all the way. As the saying went, all roads lead to Rome. Light Jing was a realm which allowed a person to spend his entire life training on the same path!
Bei Feng did not know any so-called Dark Jing and Evolved Jing. He only knew to train a single path to its extreme!
His entire body's blood and qi was as boisterous as a raging furnace, and his muscles, flesh and bones were immeasurably stronger than those of ordinary people!
The thin layer of membrane under his skin was already as tough as the hide of an old cow!
As they watched Bei Feng and the rest disappear into the distance, Nantian kept opening and closing his mouth, as though he was unsure of what to say.
"I know what you want to say. But did you think that such a young Evolved Jing master had just appeared out of thin air? Without the support of a powerful master and a shocking amount of resources, it's impossible to groom such a terrifying monster!"
Liu Jie looked at Nantian and shook his head solemnly, indicating that this matter was to be concluded.
"Then... what about Jin Rong?"
"There's no need to care about him. If he still cannot understand after that slap and instead sets his mind on revenge, we'll let him be. A fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat! Neither sides are people that can be offended. Let's not involve ourselves in their quarrels." [1]
Liu Jie was rather pleased with Nantian. Although he could be a little stupid at times, he was a young man capable of assuming heavy responsibilities. Thus, he took the time to advise him a little.
"En, I understand."
Nantian nodded. Following that, the team worked together and quickly cleaned up the scene. Carrying Mahmud's corpse and the unconscious Jin Rong with them, the group soon disappeared from the mountain.
***
Bei Feng was in an extremely foul mood. He had just donned his new training robes for the first time and was forced to discard it after only wearing it once.
When Bei Feng and the rest returned to the old mansion, a mouth-watering fragrance was already floating out of the kitchen.
'This Bai Xiang actually woke up so early today?'
Bei Feng was slightly surprised. Bai Xiang normally did not get up until 8 or 9 am. In fact, he seemed more like a young master instead of a servant.
But he was only a little surprised and paid no further attention to it as he went to take a shower. By the time he was done, Bai Xiang had also finished preparing a pot of porridge.
The tender Variant Giant Salamander meat was chopped into finely minced meat and added into the porridge to stew. Right before the porridge was done, a few pieces of vegetables were added in for a fresher taste, with just a bit of salt to complete the dish.
When eaten together with Bei Feng's homemade pickled vegetables, the porridge was both delicious and appetizing.
Although it didn't taste as good as when it was cooked in the medicine cauldron, the dish still retained a flavor unique to it.
After breakfast, with his mood greatly improved, Bei Feng resumed his role as an arm-flinging shopkeeper, walking about casually and assigning Mystic Two and Mystic Three to do the dishes.
"Ah, the weather today is really not bad. It's a good day!"
Bei Feng muttered to himself as he lay on his deck chair, looking up at the cloudless blue sky.
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