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This sudden turn of events brought the bustling stalls to an instant silence.
The people in line looked at each other, their faces showing doubt.
An older woman who was about to pay quietly withdrew her hand.
Lu Feng’s eyes turned cold.
He put down the clip in his hand, looked at the rogue, and calmly asked:
“Sir, are you saying there’s something wrong with my fish?”
“Nonsense!
It’s because I ate your fish that I’m in pain!
Pay me back!
At least ten silver soul coins for medical expenses!”
“Otherwise, I’ll smash your stall today!”
(TL: yeah ofc a normal person would do this shit in front of a soul master)
The rogue shouted, but his eyes flickered uncertainly.
Lu Feng didn’t argue.
Instead, he stepped forward, carefully examined the rogue’s face, and suddenly asked:
“You said your stomach hurts like it’s being stabbed?
What kind of pain is it?
Is it bloating, stabbing, or cramping?”
The rogue was taken aback, clearly not expecting him to ask that, and stammered:
“It’s…it’s a throbbing pain!”
“oh?”
A cold smile curled at the corner of Lu Feng’s lips.
“Cramping pain?
That must be intestinal spasm.
But your complexion is rosy and your voice is full of energy.”
He’d been howling for so long without a single drop of sweat on his forehead; he certainly didn’t seem like someone suffering from a sudden acute illness.
He paused, then raised his voice so that everyone around him could hear him:
“Besides, uncle, you keep saying my fish isn’t clean.”
“But the fish I, Lu Feng, use at my stall are live fish caught this morning from the Jade Belt River.
They’ve been washed several times to ensure they’re clean.”
The scoundrel stammered and couldn’t get a word out.
Lu Feng fixed his sharp gaze on the rogue and continued:
“On the contrary, you, uncle, have dirt under your fingernails and your collar is shiny with grease.
You probably haven’t taken a bath for three days, right?”
“You said there was something wrong with my fish, so why did you throw it away so quickly after only taking one bite instead of taking it to a veterinarian for examination?”
A series of questions, clearly organized and every sentence reasonable.
(TL: I don’t think taking a cooked fish to the vet is reasonable… I mean I get the idea hes trying to say but if it were truly that go to a fucking doctor why take the fish to a vet…)
Especially after pointing out the other person’s slovenly personal hygiene, the way people around looked at that scoundrel immediately changed.
“Yeah!
Look at how dirty he is, could he be trying to scam people because he got food poisoning?”
“The young boss is right.
We’ve already eaten the fish, so we’re fine!”
“That’s right, trying to extort a Soul Master, they’re asking for death!”
The rogue was rendered speechless by Lu Feng’s question.
Seeing the crowd pointing and whispering, his face turned pale and then red.
He shouted, his voice filled with bravado but his heart was filled with fear:
“You…you’re talking nonsense!
You just wait, kid!”
After saying that, he didn’t dare to argue any further and slunk away through the crowd.
A storm was averted without a trace.
Lu Feng turned around and cupped his hands in a respectful gesture to the crowd:
“I apologize for the commotion, everyone.
It was just a minor incident.
We’ll continue selling fish.
As an apology, today’s grilled fish will only cost seven copper soul coins each!”
“The young boss is so straightforward!”
“I want to buy two!”
“I want three!”
“…”
After this incident, people’s doubts were completely dispelled.
Long queues formed again in front of the stalls, making it even more lively than before.
In less than an hour, all fifty-odd grilled fish were sold out, leaving those who came later to only look on with envy.
Lu Feng counted the heavy money bag, which contained mostly copper soul coins and a few silver soul coins.
After deducting costs, the profit is quite considerable.
Time flies.
It has been almost a year since Lu Feng set up his grilled fish stall at the Di’ao City market.
During that year, “Soul Master Grilled Fish” became a unique feature of the South Market.
Every morning, without fail, the boy would appear, start a fire, and prepare ingredients, his precise soul power fire control skills becoming increasingly refined.
The aroma of grilled fish became the best advertisement, and the customers were honest and trustworthy.
Not only did ordinary people love to buy it, but even some low-level Soul Masters often patronized the restaurant.
“Boss Lu, the usual, two grilled fish!”
“Alright, Uncle Li, just a moment, this one will be ready soon!”
“Xiao Feng, save me one, I’ll come pick it up after I finish grocery shopping!”
“Don’t worry, Aunt Zhang, I’ve saved it for you!”
The stalls are often filled with this simple, everyday atmosphere.
During breaks from his busy schedule, Lu Feng would chat with regular customers for a few minutes.
His face had lost its initial coldness and gained a youthful vibrancy.
He carefully counted the money he had earned, and exchanged most of it for Gold Soul Coins, which he then carefully hid.
The accumulation of nearly a thousand gold soul coins is quite a fortune in Di’ao City.
Lu Feng also never neglected his cultivation.
In the dead of night, the rented detached courtyard becomes his training ground.
During this period of cultivation, his soul power has steadily increased, reaching the peak of level nineteen, and he is only one step away from obtaining his second soul ring.
Over the past year, system tasks have been triggered occasionally.
It’s not always about fighting and killing; sometimes it’s about [selling 300 grilled fish in three days, shocking diners].
Sometimes it’s about [uncovering and thwarting a plot against your stall, shocking your competitors!].
Lu Feng carefully collected all the mission rewards from the past year:
Three Soul-Gathering Pills that shimmered with starlight, four Mystic Water Pills as blue as the sea, and two bottles of Tai Xuan Pills as white as jade.
But he never used his accumulated shock points to participate in the lottery.
Those 3,200 shock points were his trump card for the future.
Three days ago, Jim, a Grand Soul Master from the Blood Wolf Gang, led five Soul Masters to surround the grilled fish stall.
The white and yellow Soul Rings gleamed coldly under the scorching sun.
“Kid, you dare to mess with the Blood Wolf Gang?
Today we’ll make sure you can’t keep this business running!”
Lu Feng silently wiped the oil off his hands, and the Flame God Halberd suddenly came into his grasp.
As Jim’s wolf-shaped Martial Soul pounced, he spun around and swung his halberd, unleashing three crimson fire blades in a fan shape—
It is the first soul skill, Flaming Slash!
A heatwave swept through, Jim’s soul skill dissipated in the flames, and the six people collapsed to the ground, their clothes charred black, groaning in agony.
The market fell silent, except for the crackling of charcoal fires at the grilled fish stalls.
[bite!]
[Congratulations, host, on completing the mission: Destroy the Blood Wolf Gang and shock the entire city of Di’ao City.]
[700 valid shock points were collected on-site.]
[Quest Reward 1: Cultivation Technique “Primordial Chaos Technique”!]
[Second reward for completing the mission: Advance one realm in the “Primordial Chaos Technique”!]
A faint light flashed, and a warm, ancient-looking cyan jade slip appeared in Lu Feng’s palm.
He focused his mind and sensed the vast amount of profound information flooding into his sea of consciousness like a tidal wave—
This is actually a cultivation technique that points directly to the path of immortality!
Its path of refining essence into qi and tempering the body and condensing the soul is completely different from the system of Douluo Continent that relies on soul rings.
It places greater emphasis on cultivating inner spiritual power and the essential sublimation of one’s life level.
As the system reward took effect, the “Primordial Chaos Technique” technique automatically began to operate within Lu Feng’s body.
It was as if a clear spring was flowing through his meridians, and a wisp of pure and peaceful spiritual power quietly emerged beside the originally blazing soul power.
This spiritual energy, like spring rain nourishing all things, quietly nourishes every part of the body.
When the cultivation technique reached its first level of perfection and his cultivation level rose to the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining stage, Lu Feng clearly felt the difference:
Although his soul power level is still stuck at the bottleneck of level nineteen, his flesh and bones have become several times stronger under the tempering of spiritual power.
My five senses became exceptionally sharp, and I could even clearly discern the swirling trails of fallen leaves outside the window.
Within his dantian, crimson soul power and milky white spiritual power rotated slowly like yin and yang fish, each performing its own function—
Soul power governs conquest, while spiritual power governs nourishment.
Lu Feng clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking slightly.
Although there are no second or third soul rings to enhance it at this moment, the power contained in this body that has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining is already comparable to that of a peak Soul Ancestor!