Chương 141: Which Hell Is This
Inside the towering hall.
The old man sitting at the head seat was imposing even without showing anger. The golden robe he wore was a bit long and hung down around the seat.
He tightly grasped the golden dragon statue on the armrest of the seat, his eyebrows knitted tightly, and he shouted angrily.
"Could it be that so many of you can't do anything about a preparatory disciple?!"
The formal disciples standing below with their heads bowed didn't reply. No matter what was said, they just remained silent.
There were also some formal elders sitting around, not saying a word either. They slightly tilted their heads, each with their own thoughts.
"Useless trash!" The Fourth Law Elder squeezed the armrest of the seat until it creaked and then shouted angrily again.
"Damn it, you're all a bunch of useless trash. When it's time to share the money, none of you are missing, but when it's time to do something, none of you step up. Useless, truly useless!"
The Fourth Law Elder was more or less in a fit of rage. He started cursing in the hall and was even pointing at everyone's noses while scolding.
The formal disciples didn't dare to reply. They kept their eyes on their noses and their noses in line with their hearts.
The elders, who had a higher status, looked at each other, thought for a moment, and finally someone couldn't help but say something.
"Actually, Chen Xia is just a preparatory disciple. We don't really need to bother with him at all."
The Fourth Law Elder turned his head to look at him, with the corner of his mouth twitching and his beard standing on end, looking imposing even without showing anger. With a gloomy face, he roared and asked.
"He's snatched all of my business away, and you say we don't need to bother? Are we just going to keep giving in like this? Do I have to give my position as the Law Elder to him for you to be satisfied?!"
The formal elder who had spoken before took a sip of tea unhurriedly, with a calm expression and a faint smile on his face. He put down the teacup and replied slowly.
"If we can't deal with Chen Xia, we can just ignore him. We only need to control the other preparatory disciples. They all think that they'll be safe after giving money to Chen Xia. We just need to break this illusion of theirs."
The Fourth Law Elder furrowed his thick eyebrows and asked again loudly.
"What the hell do you mean? Be more straightforward!"
This elder smiled gently, placed one hand flat on the table and supported his thigh with the other hand. There was obvious confidence in his expression as he continued.
"We don't bother with Chen Xia, but we still collect spirit stones from the preparatory disciples as usual. If they don't give, we beat them up and then run away. When Chen Xia comes later, he'll only see the beaten preparatory disciples."
"In this way, we can still collect the spirit stones. As for what the beaten preparatory disciples should do, that's something Chen Xia should consider. After all, he said he was collecting protection fees."
The Fourth Law Elder first thought for a moment, then raised his eyes, grinned, and gave a thumbs-up to this elder.
"Piao Suan, you're really damn cunning, haha!"
The elder named Piao Suan raised the corner of his mouth, slightly lifted his head, and narrowed his eyes. "So it doesn't matter at all if we can't deal with Chen Xia. As long as the other preparatory disciples continue to give us spirit stones."
"Chen Xia is collecting protection fees, so naturally he should protect them. But does he have that ability? He can only protect himself."
"Finally, either Chen Xia stops collecting spirit stones, or we'll still collect them together with him. It's definitely the preparatory disciples who will be exploited. And if things get out of hand, Chen Xia will bear the biggest punishment for daring to collect so many spirit stones by himself!"
"Great!" The Fourth Law Elder clapped his hands heavily and stood up directly. He clapped his hands again and continued shouting.
"Truly wonderful!"
Piao Suan smiled slightly and said unhurriedly again, "If he really gets angry and dares to come to the formal disciple area to cause trouble, that would be even better. Then we elders can justifiably take action to teach him a lesson."
"If we accidentally use too much force and kill him, then we can just say it was an accident. Even the Protector Elder comes, he can't blame us."
This statement was indeed correct. The old fisherman really wouldn't blame them because he might directly kill them on the spot.
Piao Suan didn't know how dangerous his idea was.
The Fourth Law Elder sitting at the head seat was already extremely excited. He kept patting the tabletop and directly stretched out his hand towards the people below and shouted.
"Alright, you guys discuss it and go to collect spirit stones again right away. Deal with those who don't give as usual. Don't take too long. Collect them and run. I want to see what Chen Xia can do!"
Since it wasn't appropriate for the elders to take action, they wouldn't. They just let the formal disciples play guerrilla warfare.
It was still the same principle: if they don't give, beat them up and then run!
The meeting ended quickly, and the formal disciples and elders left one after another, getting ready to take action.
Chen Xia was still lying in his own cave. There were already four spiritual energy beads hanging on the top, which were worth twelve thousand spirit stones.
The colorful dazzling lights kept shining as the spiritual energy beads swayed.
The seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple successively flashed across Chen Xia's face.
He looked really cool.
The whole cave was even more dazzling. The dazzling lights intertwined and surrounded, and it would be perfect for a party if there was just a sound system.
However, Chen Xia thought it wasn't enough. He planned to add six more spiritual energy beads. By then, ten spiritual energy beads would be swaying together. It might not look cool in a normal sense, but it would definitely give an eerie feeling.
If someone came to visit Chen Xia's cave, those who knew would understand that it was ten expensive spiritual energy beads swaying.
Those who didn't know would think they had arrived in the underworld.
This was exactly the atmosphere he wanted.
Chen Xia stretched his body, flipped his body that was half-leaning against the wall, and recently he had been studying books on artifact forging.
The technique of artifact forging emphasized being fierce. Use fierce fire, add fierce materials, and apply fierce force!
Only in this way could powerful magic weapons be forged.
If any of these aspects was weak, the magic weapon forged would be somewhat unsatisfactory.
The whole process of artifact forging was quite fast, taking no more than sixty days at most, which was completely different from pill refining.
And those who were good at artifact forging usually wouldn't be weak in a fight because they were fierce people themselves.
There were many details about artifact forging in the book, such as tempering with fierce fire for three days and then knocking, and shaping the spirit first when forging the shape, and so on.
Chen Xia summed up the content of this book in about five words -
Great efforts bring miracles.
You just put in all your efforts, and leave the rest to miracles.
Chen Xia shook his head, thinking it was too simple because it was almost the same as pill refining.
If pill refining was like casually frying something, then this was like casually knocking something.
Chen Xia threw the book on artifact forging aside, thinking that he had already mastered it and didn't need to study it anymore. He just needed to practice.
He slightly got up, planning to make a pot of tea. Suddenly, his figure paused, and he looked towards the entrance of the cave.
Someone was coming.
The moment the knock on the door sounded, the door of the cave opened.
Chen Xia leaned against the threshold, holding a teacup in his hand with thick fog rising from it. He took a sip and asked.
"What's the matter?"
Pan Da Dao stood at the door. His anxious face froze, and he stared blankly at the fantasy-like cave inside.
After a long while, he gave himself a slap and muttered in confusion.
"Which hill is this?"
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