Chapter Thirty-Seven: Utter Humiliation

  "Fatso, aren't you dead yet?"

  Qin Hao wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth and walked over to Pangzi's side.

  The fatty brushed off the dust on his body with a rather unsightly expression: "Luckily, it's really unfortunate to run into something like this out of nowhere."

  "Let's go first." Qin Hao said in a serious tone, "We'll talk after we leave the Blue Quiet Forest. Although this isn't the depths of the forest, there's clearly something wrong. And look at that iron python earlier, it was clearly injured. There might be an even more powerful demon beast, if we don't leave now and that beast appears, it'll be disastrous."

  As soon as he finished speaking, the chubby boy who had been weak just now suddenly jumped up like a shot of chicken blood and rushed back along the way they came.

  Qin Hao shook his head and followed with a limp left arm dangling at his side.

  Although the two were injured and their speed was much slower than before, the worry in their hearts made them dare not stop.

  Before long, the two of them had traversed the dense thicket and arrived at the entrance of Blue Quiet Forest.

  Walking over there, Qin Hao took a closer look and found Lin Bi and his guards still lying there, unconscious. It seemed that Fatso's strength was indeed considerable earlier.

  "It should be safe here now." The fat man walked to Qin Hao's side with a smile, his expression sincere as he said: "Thanks a lot today, I owe you one life."

  Qin Hao waved his hand and said, "No need, I just happened to be passing by."

  "My fat son may not be a good thing, but I don't like owing others." Fatzi's expression was more serious than ever before.

  It was just an instant later when Paozi's face suddenly became extremely arrogant again.

  "But you beat me so badly just now, I should get revenge back."

  As soon as he finished speaking, two fists flew towards Qin Hao's eye sockets.

  "Damn it, fatty, are you sick?" Qin Hao could only stretch out his right hand to block a punch, but was hit by another one, and the area around his eye socket instantly turned dark blue.

  Fatso charged forward with a gritted teeth expression: "Not losing out is also one of my principles."

  Bang bang, the two of them tangled together again. This time, both had consumed a lot of their Xuan Qi and didn't have the ability to use it, so they purely used their fists to fight each other. The way they fought wasn't much different from street thugs fighting.

  For a long time...

  "Hoo, hoo, hoo, you dare to come again, fatty?" Qin Hao's mouth corner, left eye socket, and right cheek were all bruised and swollen. When he saw the fatty in front of him, he couldn't help but crack a smile, which made his facial muscles twitch with pain once more.

  As for the fat man's face, there was almost no good flesh left. The eye sockets were completely blackened, and his face was swollen like a pig's head. Moreover, apart from the footprint kicked by Qin Hao at the beginning, another symmetrical footprint appeared on the other side of his face.

  "Not coming, huh? No good meat anywhere, and this handsome face doesn't know how many days it'll take to recover?" The fatty let out a cold breath.

  "I'm really not coming."

  "Seriously, you freak, even with one hand you're so powerful."

  The two of them locked eyes, suddenly bursting into a fit of laughter, followed by two synchronized gasps.

  Qin Hao and Paozi stretched out their hands, clasped them together, and pulled each other up.

  "Take it, an auxiliary first-class intermediate sealing array, the returning array, and compared to the Reiki recovery array you recently sold, its sealing effect is not high, nor does it have the effect of repairing meridian damage, but it's better than nothing. At least it can recover a bit of your body's true energy."

  Fat boy took out two green seals of Xuan array, then threw one to Qin Hao, and he himself absorbed the seal of Xuan array.

  Qin Hao took it over, pinched it with two fingers and crushed it, and slowly recovered the Xuan Qi in his body.

  After dozens of breaths, both mid-grade Sealing Arrays were fully absorbed. The amount of energy contained within the mid-grade Sealing Array was truly too little for them to absorb in such a short period of time.

  Pangzi's complexion improved a bit, he nodded towards the three unconscious people on the ground: "How are these three people going to be dealt with? I've been in this city for some time, and it's said that your two families have a deep-seated grudge. If he finds out about your identity, it'll be very troublesome."

  Qin Hao thought carefully and said calmly, "You find a way to deal with him. I'm not afraid of the others, he just knows that I'm the black-clothed person who sells the Feng Xuan Array, but he hasn't seen my true face."

  "Aren't you afraid he'll follow the Fengxuan Formation along this line and find out?" asked the fatty with great interest.

  "He can investigate if he wants, recently Tian Nan Fang has been selling them openly, it's not like I'm the only one who has them."

  Qin Hao said these words after careful consideration. He had indeed thought about settling the score with Lin here once and for all, as he knew from his past life experience that the hatred between the two families was difficult to quell and there was no possibility of reconciliation.

  But thinking carefully, Qin Hao still didn't want to kill Lin Bi here.

  The reason is simple, Lin Bi is just a spoiled son, and the threat he poses is so small that it's almost negligible. The only ones in the Lin family who can make him take them seriously are Lin Zhanbei, those old codgers, and Lin Yu, that seventeen-year-old genius who has already achieved spiritual enlightenment.

  What benefits would Lin Bi have here? Would it make Lin Zhanbei furious and exhaust all his clan's power to investigate him? Or would it make Lin Zhanbei vigilant and strengthen his guard?

  If he had the power of his past life at this moment, he wouldn't need to consider so much. But now he is just a small Condensing Mystery Realm cultivator of the tenth level, and can't afford to cause trouble too early. Thinking of this, Qin Hao's heart became even more determined: "How he disposes of him, it's up to you."

  "Really?" Fatso asked with burning eyes.

  Qin Hao nodded. He wondered if this sly fat man had thought of some clever trick with his sly eyes? Soon Qin Hao got the answer.

  He saw the fat man rush to the large hemp sack he was carrying, pull out a thick hemp rope as thick as an arm, and take out a crystal clear glass bottle with an unknown blue liquid inside.

  He quickly stripped the three of their clothes, took a rod-like object from Lin and pressed it against the back door of one of the guards, pouring out some blue glue to stick two people together, repeating this process three times, linking the three into a circle. Then he tied them up with extremely thick hemp ropes, tying thirty-six dead knots, ensuring they could not escape before standing up satisfactorily.

  He clapped his hands and said with a satisfied expression: "Alright, dragging them to the city square would be about it."

  Qin Hao covered his forehead with his hand and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

  Family, sometimes attaches great importance to reputation. Requires family members to be well-behaved, understand etiquette, and not lose face for the family. Even if mistakes are made, it's not as serious as losing face for the family.

  Qin Hao could predict that once these three people were seen in this state, Lin Zhanbei's face would be extremely ugly.

  Fatso took out a sharp long knife from the storage ring, cut down a large tree with a trunk as thick as a person's thigh, and then placed the three corpses on the trunk.

  "Qin Hao, help out, let's get through this together."

  Qin Hao, though helpless in his heart, did not decline and took the other end. He and Pangzi ran swiftly together. Along the way, Lin Bi was shaken awake once, only to be knocked out again by Pangzi's ruthless blows.

  **

  "Wow, it's quite spectacular. I wonder what kind of expression people will have if they see this tomorrow?"

  In the largest square in the city, which was also near where Qin Hao and Lin Bi had a fight recently, Fatso looked at the standing tree trunks and the three people tied together in a strange posture, making a hissing sound.

  Qin Hao decided not to bother with this despicable fatty anymore and walked out of the square first. But as soon as he thought of the scene where the three "Jade Pickers" would be surrounded by onlookers tomorrow, he couldn't help but let out a soft laugh.

  The fat man who followed walked to Qin Hao's side and asked with great interest, "Aren't you afraid that I will expose your identity to the Lin family?"

  "Please go ahead."

  In his past life, he had been with Fatso for so long that he still understood some things about him.

  Although this fat man is despicable, mean and petty, with almost all the shortcomings a person can have, there is one thing that makes Qin Hao always believe in him, which is that this fat man can truly distinguish between kindness and resentment. Just as he said earlier, he doesn't like to owe others, and in fact, he has paid back everything he owed others. Therefore, Qin Hao, who just saved the fat man's life, naturally didn't need to have such worries.

  Fatso looked at Qin Hao's expression and chuckled, "Next, your reward. The books inside are still somewhat valuable, although there aren't any martial skills or techniques, the recorded information is still useful. I owe you a favor this time, but I'll definitely return it in the future. I have something to do, I'll come find you after a few days."

  Qin Hao didn't pretend, took the ring and put it in his pocket.

  "Alright, I'll go first, see you later." The fatty said as he took a deep look and then ran wildly in the opposite direction.

  Qin Hao waved his hand and his eyes followed his back until he disappeared in the distance, then accelerated his pace.

  He didn't ask about Baozi's news, because he knew that since Baozi had said so, he would naturally come to find him again. Moreover, with Baozi's personality, it was likely that he had left a way for him to contact him in the storage ring.

  His pace quickened as he walked, and eventually he ran all the way back to the Qin's house.

  The reason is simple. With his current swollen face and nose, if he were to appear in front of everyone at dawn, he would inevitably be subjected to another round of interrogation.

  What's more important is that in the previous battle, he had almost exhausted the Xuanqi inside his body. If he could seize this opportunity to cultivate, the benefits to his cultivation would be unimaginably enormous.

  After running for about half a time, I finally saw the gate of Qin's mansion.

  Taking a deep breath, Qin Hao rushed past two guards outside the door and galloped towards the stone chamber behind the martial arts arena.

  "Did you see just now? There are some scars on Young Master's face."

  "I think I saw it too. It can't be that he got into a fight with someone else's kid, right?"

  "Hmph! With Qin Hao's abilities, even if he were to spar with someone from another family, it's absolutely impossible for him to end up injured like this."

  "Yes! Last time that arrogant Lin Bi was beaten like that, how could it be possible for another family's young master to be beaten like that. I must have misseen, the light at the entrance wasn't very good, maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me."

  The two guards' discussion Qin Hao didn't notice, he ran into the stone room and closed the big door tightly.

  He took out a meteorite spear and an xuan crystal, and began to set up the Xuan Sealing Array.

  With the blessing of the meteorite spear, plus this period of practice, his success rate has increased a lot, and the consumption of Xuan Qi is only about half of what it was before.

  Squeeze out the Bi Xin fruit juice, inject the Xuan Qi into the meteorite needle, draw an array diagram on the Xuan Jing outer shell with the Xuan Qi, use the meteorite needle to absorb the Bi Xin fruit juice, and seal its essence into the center of the Xuan Jing internal demon energy...

  The entire process was almost etched in the mind, done in one breath, with a smooth and practiced motion that exuded an otherworldly beauty...

  After going through all the steps, a crystal clear and introverted seal array finally appeared in Qin Hao's hand.