“You want me to visit your home?”
Lan Yue’s faintly cold voice rang through the silent apothecary.
Her faint voice was like an ice lotus blooming in a cold pool, elegant yet exuding a chill that kept people a thousand miles away.
“N-no, there’s no need!”
Huang Yuan answered without the slightest hesitation.
Each of these five guards possessed strength above the five-star martial master Realm, yet none could withstand even one of her moves.
Even if he invited her back, he could only worship her like an ancestor. He was not stupid.
“Can I leave now?” Lan Yue asked indifferently.
“Please, go right ahead!”
Huang Yuan immediately made an inviting gesture and spoke with a cautious expression. His change of attitude was truly faster than flipping through a book.
Lan Yue nodded slightly and walked straight toward the apothecary’s entrance.
However, as she left, she glanced at Lin Ye. Her gaze lingered on him for only an instant before shifting away, and she then walked out of the apothecary.
“Boss, are we really letting her leave just like that?”
Watching Lan Yue’s retreating figure, one of the guards surrounding them spoke unwillingly.
“Hmph, do you think your boss is the kind of person who gives up so easily?”
Huang Yuan snorted coldly, but an obscene grin soon spread across his face.
After speaking, Huang Yuan’s gaze fell on the shop assistant behind the counter. “Shop assistant, give me a bottle of Heavenly Fragrance Powder.”
“Young, young master, our apothecary no longer sells that kind of medicine.”
The guard swallowed hard and spoke cautiously. He truly did not want such a beautiful woman to be ruined by that swine Huang Yuan.
“Enough nonsense! Even if the apothecary no longer sells it, don’t you keep some in private?”
Huang Yuan’s expression turned cold.
“I-I’ll go ask the shopkeeper.”
The shop assistant spoke with an embarrassed expression, then scurried into the room.
A moment later, a middle-aged man emerged from the back room and respectfully addressed Huang Yuan. “Young master, you came without anyone informing me. That is truly my fault!”
“Why are you babbling? Where is the stuff?”
Huang Yuan spoke impatiently.
“Here, here!”
As he spoke, the shopkeeper handed a white medicine bottle to Huang Yuan.
“Hmph! Keep a close eye on that shop assistant. We’re leaving!”
As he spoke, Huang Yuan prepared to lead his men away.
“Wait!”
Just as Huang Yuan’s footsteps neared the entrance, he suddenly stopped. His bean-sized eyes stared straight at Lin Ye.
“That little gal was looking at you just now, wasn’t she?”
Huang Yuan asked Lin Ye with a gloomy expression.
However, he had no intention of letting Lin Ye answer. He directly waved at the guards behind him. “Bring him along!”
“Yes!”
Because Lan Yue had not used excessive force earlier, the five guards who had been sent flying had suffered only minor injuries and were already fine.
The ten guards slowly walked toward Lin Ye together, preparing to subdue him.
Lin Ye looked at the guards helplessly. He had still been hesitating over whether to stop them, but now he had no choice but to act.
With a thought, the tier two Light Spirit Card suddenly appeared in Lin Ye’s hand. Spiritual power surged into the Spirit Card, and dazzling white light immediately burst forth from it.
Everyone present, including the Huang Family Guards, instinctively closed their eyes.
Immediately afterward, another Dark Spirit Card appeared in Lin Ye’s hand. As spiritual power surged into it, eleven black Vortices suddenly formed before all the Huang Family Guards and Huang Yuan.
Caught completely off guard, all eleven were sucked into the Vortices and vanished without a trace in an instant.
“Ding!”
“The host has killed one one-star martial master, two three-star martial masters, three four-star martial masters, and five five-star martial masters, obtaining 14,400 spirit card essence. System Upgrade Progress: 39100/50000.”
When everyone disappeared into the Vortices, the system notification voice appeared in Lin Ye’s mind.
Hearing the notification in his mind, faint surprise flashed in their eyes. He had only wanted to test whether the spirit cards could be used this way, never expecting it to actually work.
At the same time, however, an intense wave of dizziness swept through his mind. This was the physical reaction caused by spiritual power overdraft.
Lin Ye gritted his teeth and desperately controlled the final thread of spiritual power within his body. He put away the two spirit cards in his hand, and with a flash of his figure, vanished from the apothecary.
After a while, Lin Ye appeared in a secluded corner.
He collapsed weakly onto the ground. Lin Ye’s face was deathly pale, and large beads of sweat slid from his head like beans. He seemed liable to faint at any moment.
After a while, Lin Ye finally overcame the intense dizziness and slowly let out a breath of relief.
Although that move was powerful, it consumed too much from the spirit cards. While killing ten people, the spiritual power within his body had already been completely exhausted.
He even suspected that if he had condensed a few more Vortices just now, he would already have died from spiritual power overdraft.
However, compared with what he had gained, this minor spiritual power overdraft was nothing.
“So the Dark Spirit Card really can be used this way…”
With a thought, the Light Spirit Card and Dark Spirit Card appeared in Lin Ye’s hands again, and he murmured softly.
Although he had obtained these two spirit cards earlier, he had not known how to use them. He had asked the System, but received only the answer that he had to figure it out himself.
He had originally only guessed that the light-dark spirit card could blind people. Just now, inspiration had suddenly struck him, and he had tried using the Dark Spirit Card to form Vortices, never expecting it to actually succeed.
Did this mean that the Fire Spirit Card was not limited to condensing fireballs, and the Water Spirit Card was not limited to condensing water spheres, but could instead unleash all kinds of techniques according to his own ideas?
A completely new door seemed to be opening before him.
“Ding!”
“System tip: The higher the spirit card quality, the greater its flexibility in use!”
“Ding!”
“Congratulations, host, on gaining a whole new insight into spirit cards. The host has been awarded 10,000 spirit card essence. System Upgrade Progress: 49100/50000.”
Hearing the System’s friendly reminder, Lin Ye finally understood why all the martial artists he had encountered used only waterballs and flames when attacking with water spirit cards and fire spirit cards.
Because the spirit cards they possessed were merely ordinary quality spirit cards, no matter how imaginative the user was, they could only produce water spheres and flames.
“No wonder Lan Yue’s Water Spirit Card produced a water stream instead of a water sphere just now…”
Lin Ye murmured softly.
It had to be said that the reason he had thought of using the Dark Spirit Card to create Vortices was largely thanks to the water stream Lan Yue had unleashed with her Water Spirit Card earlier.
Lin Ye carefully observed his surroundings. After confirming there was no danger, he sat down cross-legged and began recovering his spiritual power.
Nearly three hours later, the spiritual power within Lin Ye’s body had finally recovered completely.
“Recovering spiritual power once takes three hours. What will happen if I run out of spiritual power during combat?”