Chapter 103: What's Wrong with You
After the fierce fight with Qiong Qi.
Chen Xia was also seriously injured. The qi apertures in his right hand that held the sword were completely shattered, and the spiritual energy couldn't flow through it. He couldn't use it again in a short time.
He wrapped his entire right hand with bandages, supplemented it with some medicinal herbs that could help grow new flesh and nourish the meridians. Coupled with the qi and blood replenishing pills given by Zhang Daoming, he would be able to recover before long.
Zhang Daoming estimated for him that if he wanted to recover completely, it would probably take about half a year. It wasn't too long, but he had to rest quietly and couldn't do without the pills.
Fortunately, Chen Xia's left hand could still be used. There was no problem with his daily activities at all. It was just a bit inconvenient when drinking tea, after all, he was used to holding the teacup with his right hand.
For this reason, Chen Xia cut a piece of wood and made a straw. Usually, he would hold the straw in his mouth and drink tea when he had nothing to do. It was really stylish.
Apart from resting quietly, Chen Xia was now borrowing money everywhere. Basically, he had borrowed from almost everyone he knew. He took his flying sword and went around on credit.
For amounts below five thousand spirit stones, he used his spirit sword as collateral for credit. For amounts above that, he used his dao sword.
Now Chen Xia had only pawned one dao sword on credit, which was the Fire-element Dao Sword given to Zhang Daoming.
He had pawned three spirit swords on credit and borrowed one thousand and eight hundred spirit stones.
"When will this borrowing come to an end?" Chen Xia muttered as he lay on the rocking chair with a straw in his mouth.
His hand was injured now, and he couldn't refine pills either. He could only rely on borrowing money to gather three hundred thousand spirit stones.
However, the speed of borrowing was a bit slow. After several days, he had only borrowed eleven thousand and eight hundred spirit stones.
Maybe he should go and borrow from the wealthy people, Chen Xia thought, and immediately took action.
There weren't many wealthy people among the preparatory disciples, but those two potential Great Emperor disciples were definitely rich. They came from noble families to begin with, and the cultivation techniques and medicinal herbs they used were all top-notch. They surely didn't lack money.
Chen Xia knocked on the door of the cave dwelling in the Imperial Capital and waited quietly.
There was no response from inside the cave dwelling. Only a wisp of divine sense swept over.
Then the door opened immediately. The disciple from the Imperial Capital stood at the entrance with a warm smile on his face and greeted Chen Xia.
"Brother Chen, why did you think of coming to my place today? You didn't even inform me in advance. I was just sleeping and didn't hear you."
Chen Xia's bandaged hand couldn't move, so he directly stretched out his left hand and said with a smile, "I've come to borrow some money from you."
"No problem." The disciple from the Imperial Capital laughed heartily. Although he didn't know why Chen Xia wanted to borrow money from him, he didn't lack money anyway. Then he asked.
"How much do you want to borrow?"
"How much do you have?" As soon as Chen Xia asked this question, the atmosphere at the scene became a bit strange.
Hearing this meaning, the disciple from the Imperial Capital realized that Chen Xia wanted to borrow all his spirit stones.
"Just twenty or thirty thousand spirit stones," the disciple from the Imperial Capital gave a vague answer.
"Alright, then I'll borrow twenty-five thousand," Chen Xia nodded in agreement.
The disciple from the Imperial Capital frowned slightly. Twenty-five thousand spirit stones wasn't a large amount for him, but it was definitely not a small amount either. Chen Xia asked to borrow such a large sum at once, which made him hesitate a bit. So he asked one more question.
"What do you need so many spirit stones for?"
Chen Xia pointed at his bandaged right hand and said casually, "I'm injured and need money to heal my wounds."
This reason sounded fine. After all, if a cultivator wanted to recover completely from injuries, he really needed a lot of spirit stones as a foundation.
But the key point was that Chen Xia had only injured one hand.
What kind of hand needed twenty-five thousand spirit stones for treatment?
Even if you added an extra hand to your body, it wouldn't cost twenty-five thousand spirit stones.
The disciple from the Imperial Capital hesitated for a moment and didn't plan to ask any more questions. His expression became serious. "I can lend it to you, but you have to write an IOU. Let's consider it as an agreement between us two."
Chen Xia nodded. Since he was the one borrowing money, there was no problem for him.
Moreover, an IOU really relied on the other person's morality to be binding. If Chen Xia didn't want to pay back the money, the IOU couldn't do anything to him.
Among cultivators, things with binding force were things like Heavenly Dao Contracts.
However, it could be seen that the disciple from the Imperial Capital was quite magnanimous and only required an IOU.
He rummaged around in his storage magic weapon for a while and took out a crystal jade bottle and handed it to Chen Xia.
"There should be twenty-six thousand spirit stones in it. You don't need to return the extra ones. Consider it as a meeting gift for you."
Chen Xia nodded, thinking that the disciple from the Imperial Capital was really magnanimous when it came to borrowing money.
After borrowing the money, the disciple from the Imperial Capital crossed his arms and suddenly mentioned, "I remember Qiu Li is also quite wealthy. Why don't you go and borrow from him too?"
The two of them were really good brothers. They didn't even forget to mention Qiu Li when borrowing money.
Chen Xia accepted the crystal jade bottle and nodded in agreement. "I'll go there later."
"I'll go with you." The disciple from the Imperial Capital rubbed his hands, looking eager to try, with an excited expression.
This made Chen Xia feel that the disciple from the Imperial Capital didn't seem to be planning to go with him to borrow money.
It was more like he was going to rob money.
However, when he thought about it being Qiu Li, Chen Xia didn't refuse and took the disciple from the Imperial Capital with him.
At noon.
The sky was a bit gloomy. The dark clouds weren't thick, but there were many of them. This indicated that today's fortune might not be very good.
Qiu Li withdrew his gaze from the sky, looked at the disciple from the Imperial Capital and Chen Xia in front of him, had a calm expression, shook his head, and smiled indifferently.
"Even if we're going to fight, it should be one-on-one. What's the meaning of you two coming together?"
Qiu Li saw the malicious smile on the face of the disciple from the Imperial Capital and knew that there might be a fierce battle today.
He just didn't expect that the disciple from the Imperial Capital had even brought Chen Xia over. This really made Qiu Li feel uncertain.
Even though he was extremely reluctant to admit it, Chen Xia was the undisputed number one among the preparatory disciples. Especially after the fight with Qiong Qi, his position became even more稳固.
No one could shake it, and no one dared to shake it.
Unless you wanted to taste the滋味of three million flying swords.
Qiu Li didn't expect that Chen Xia would come to him so soon after the big battle with Qiong Qi. And looking at Chen Xia's right hand wrapped in bandages, his injury was far from healed.
What did this mean? Did he think he could defeat him with just one hand?
Hmph!
Qiu Li was secretly angry in his heart, but he had to admit that Chen Xia could indeed suppress him with just one hand, or even without using a whole hand.
"Although both of you have come, I can only fight with one person. Given that Chen Xia is injured, I won't take advantage of others' difficulties."
"Prepare to die, disciple from the Imperial Capital!"
Qiu Li suddenly shouted loudly. He stretched out two fingers, and spiritual energy gushed out from his head, blowing his hair away.
He had already thought it through. As long as he fought with the disciple from the Imperial Capital and stopped halfway through the fight, then his and the disciple from the Imperial Capital's reputations would still be the same.
And after that, he would have an additional title.
That was that Chen Xia had主动上门challenged him!
For preparatory disciples, this was a great honor. Even for正式弟子, it was something that could be boasted about.
With this title, he would surely be able to suppress the disciple from the Imperial Capital later!
"What on earth are you crazy about? We're here to borrow money," the disciple from the Imperial Capital frowned and cursed.
"Huh?" Qiu Li was stunned. The spiritual energy all over his body dissipated, and his eyes were a bit confused. He looked back and forth between the two of them. After a long while, he asked.
"How much do you want to borrow?"
Chen Xia and Qiu Li asked in unison.
"How much do you have?"
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