"This young master! From how you look, you must be here for some good weapons. Please take a look at our merchandise! Everything is brand new and specially manufactured, I can assure you the price is very reasonable." one of the peddlers introduced his wares when he saw Qian Long walk past his stall.
His appearance carries the display of a wealthy young master, especially with a Warrior Tier Wild Beast as his pet. Except for professional Beast Tamer, only those from wealthy families possess the strength to tame, grow and allow these level of Wild Beast to follow its master.
"Such an average weapon, how dare you bring it out to show this young master? Get lost!" Qian Long's act is on the top level. As the former body of a debauchee that troubled the whole Li Jiang Town, how can he not know how did the previous Zhang Wu Ji act? By borrowing this kind of persona, he can reveal all the grudge he held deep inside by giving all these people a lesson.
Instead of dismissing the peddler using his words, Qian Long sent him back and crashed his booth with a kick. The action is outrageous, but he did hold back. If a person with low cultivation smashed on a stall filled with weaponry, won't he end up seriously injured?
The peddler stands up and starts keeping his wares before trying to escape from this young master's pursuit, but who knows that his movement skills are this amazing to appeared before him in a flash. Qian Long took the sword in his basket and played with it for a moment.
Put in such a situation, the peddler shivers. The threat he received from this youth that can kill him in a flash almost made him urinated in the middle of the street. For the sake of preserving his worthless life, the peddler started to talk.
"Young... Young Master, this lowly peddler know his mistakes. I will not lie about my merchandise any longer. Please let me go..." the peddler kneeled in front of Qian Ling and begged. The weapon in his basket drops down on the street as he kowtowed at Qian Long.
"Uncle peddler, why are you doing such thing at me? I'm helping you, do you know?"
"If I bought the weapon from you and went to hunting, and get injured because of this lousy weapon, what will happen? I will get wounded, but uncle peddler, you, as the seller, don't you think that my men will come to give you a proper lesson for selling me this trash? If my bear felt unhappy, won't he come to maul you to death?"
"I'm doing good for you, uncle peddler..." Qian Long hold the peddler to stand up. Instead of picking up the weapon, the peddler kicked them away instead. His mind is filled with anger after hearing all the words mentioned by Qian Long.
But in fact, his expression is overreacted. As a cultivator with this weaponry, how can they say its trash? Unless one forcefully fight with Silver Tier weapon using these Iron tier, then the story will be different. Although Qian Long's word is logic, it was a twisted logic.
"Uncle peddler, this weaponry you're selling comes from the Jie's Forging Factory, am I correct?" Qian Long begins his trick to start digging for pieces of information. By using these kinds of small trick, he's confident to con the peddler easily to make him expose most of the information related to the Jie's Clan and their Forging Factory.
"Hai... Young Master, you have no idea about this because you're a visitor, but most of the item is monopolized by the Jie's Forging Factory. All we can do is purchase them from the Jie's Forging Factory before selling them as a third party to the consumer." another peddler with his stall just beside the stall he destroyed earlier join their conversation.
"Oh, Uncle Peddler (2), can you share about this matter with this youth? If I found out that the people from Jie's Clan tried to make the life of the townsfolk here difficult, I, Qian Long, will not forgive them!" he cups his hand together after standing up facing the other peddler. And by stating his righteousness loudly, he's trying to gain a good impression from the public in this town.
"How dare you come here to mess with us!" two middle-aged people approached the three of them and warned them. It was a quick and decisive action to destroy the intention to retaliates by quickly putting off the fire. As the approached Qian Long and standing one step before the youth, this member of the Jie's Forging Factory stares at him with the intention to suppressing him.
"Guess I'll have to use my other book to give this two a lesson?" Zhang Wu Ji's mind entered the Onyx-Class Spatial Ring to take a peek on his eight other manuals. Although only two seconds have passed, he already finishes selecting what he will use.
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Long Mu Educating and Blessing Stance Manual + 10 (Phase-Less)
-Ability Acquired (1): The Educating Stance. This stance allowed the user to execute three different Long Mu Education stance by applying a different quantity of Fighter Qi to activates them. [Stance 1: Mother's Slap (70) | Stance 2: Mother's Kick (140) | Mother's Punch (210)]
-Ability Acquired (2): The Blessing Stance. By activating this stance, it allows the user to add healing properties into his Fighter Qi. This ability allows the user to heal injuries / recover Blood Lost/ and Curing Poison by 0.5% through every strand of Fighter Qi.
-Limitation: The application on healing is limited to people below the user's level. The application limit is based on the user's number of Fighter Qi available. Completely exhaustion of Fighter Qi will result in Dragon Hibernation.
-Durability: 22/22
-Special (+0): Increase the ability to caused an opponent to cry after struck by the Long Mu Education Stance by 15%
-Special (+5): Dragon Hibernation time is reduced to 400 hours.
-Special (+10): Increase 1% good impression to people healed by the Blessing Stance. The effect can be applied continuously.
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"What are you thinking? Do you think by keeping quiet we will not teach you a lesson?" one of the two members from Jie's Forging Factory shouted right before Qian Long's face. But he did not expect the youth to retaliate without warning.
"A slap will do, I think..." Qian Long used the first stance, Mother's Slap, on the one shouting at him and sent him ten steps away. Struggling to crawl from that pitiful position to a seating posture, the member cried. His tears are falling down out of his control.
"Hey, Hey... What are you? Why are you crying for heaven's sake?" the other member shouted at the crying guy, but another slap from Qian Long hit him directly on his temple. When this guy went up, he was crying as well.
"Look... That two tough guys cried from a slap. Do this means we're bullied by people without any strength at all?"
"Damn! To think I let this two crybabies threatened me every day in my business! This old man should just kick him directly when he was showing me his attitude!" another peddler from not too far stomp his feet on the ground out of anger.
"Oooh... Sheets... How... How... Come I'm crying... Hu... Hu... So much..." the struggling to try to complete his sentence is a challenging feat. By looking at how the two is struggling, Qian Long almost failed to control his laughter.
The duo struggled for a while before they escaped. Having no intention to bother with the two any longer, Qian Long ignore them. He turned his attention at the group of peddlers around him and advised them to retaliates. This kind of complete monopoly of resources and forcing people to went through them is over the limit one can accept.
But his intention did not stop at just advising them. By secretly making the peddlers and workers that busy working day to day for the sake of a family meal into an alliance, his group is getting stronger. It only took him three days to convince everyone to stop supporting the Jie's Forging Factory.
The complete three days of idling and gathering supporters period allow Zhang Wu Ji to finally entered the 10th Stage, becoming a half-step Inner Qi Warrior. For him now, this is the moment of truth. The moment his Fighter Qi inside reaching 1,000 strands, he will have to spend all his effort to try to weave a strand of Warrior Qi.
This will be the challenge for him to see if he's qualified to become a complete Inner Qi Warrior. Still, with this increase of his strength, he continues with his persona as Qian decided to went inside the Jie's Forging Factory to cause destruction.
But instead of proceeding quietly, Qian Long entered the building through their main entrance.
"Halt! Where is your trading token that allows you to go in?" the guards standing there stopped Qian Long from continuing further. To reply to the two guards, Qian Long delivered a series of Collapsing Fist on them to keep them silenced throughout his ordeal.
Each time he encountered a member of the Factory, he will send them into dreamland to dream for a while before waking up with many surprises. As there are no skillful cultivators taking guard across the Factory, Qian Long's intention is quickly completed. He locked all the employees of the factory into a side of the building before cleaning their factory and leave the building in flames.
Looking at the burning tongue of fire is trying to bring down the building, many people rejoice. They know, although the collapse of this business doesn't mean that their life will start to get better, at least there is no longer an establishment like the factory that controls everything in their daily life.
While the people in the Jie's Forging Factory is struggling to escape, Zhang Wu Ji continues to utilize the fame he built for Qian Long to start setting many orders for the town and elected a new townsman as the mayor. By this way, he completely crippled the continuous supply of weaponry and medicine for the bandits.
But, his task did not stop here. By forcing most of the people working inside the factory to a secluded location, Zhang Wu Ji slaughtered all of them without exception. The bloody sight was cleaned by his White Blood Jade where it provides him with another 60 strands of Inner Qi. Only after clearing all these variable matters he returned to his real identity and left the location.
Not long after, the news about Ma Hua Town's newly appointed Mayor and also the collapse of the Jie's Forging Factory in a single night shock everyone resides inside this county. With an establishment like Jie's Forging Factory to be eliminated in a single night, what can't the attacker do?
While the whole county's resident kept mentioning this matter wherever they go, the Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall accepted them differently.
It was like a norm for them now, especially with their Master Senior Ninth is gone from the Apprentice Hall. Inside the heart of every member inside this Apprentice Hall, they believe that except their Master Senior, nobody has the time and effort to do all this.
With the issue related to the Jie's Forging Factory is solved, Zhang Wu Ji crippled one of the limbs supporting his enemies of the county. With only three more supporting factions waiting for him to eliminate, Zhang Wu Ji is having difficulties to decide his next target.
The Wen Qing City Lord & his Golden Wolf Syndicate, the Upper South Merchant, or the bandits that likely comes from the Jie's Clan.
"Aargh! Never in my mind ever consider that I will have a headache to choose who to eliminate next!" Zhang Wu Ji complained, but as his Iron Kong-Que is soaring through the skies, another Iron Kong-Que is coming from the opposite direction!
"Another Iron Kong-Que! Is that Headmaster Windchaser or my eldest brother's teacher, Master Teacher Zhao Yun?"
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[Author's Note]
Oh my TAICHI! Let's see, three among the ten manuals is exposed, with seven to go. Among them, one has a word start with "Nine" but what is the other six?
And for those that missed out about this fact, did you noticed that he's fighting with his fist too much lately? I hope nobody forgets that he destroys his ruler when playing upgrade.