Chapter 365 (1/2)
Justice let out an 'oh' sound and buried his head back in his noodles. Suddenly, he felt as though he could not swallow his food properly, as his heart started to feel uneasy. Something felt off somewhere, as though he had come close to figuring out the truth, but was covered by one final veil. A perplexed look surfaced on his face.
At that moment, he heard the old man Huo YuanJia speaking hurriedly, ”Enjoy your food, friend. This old man is going to bring my wife to see the physician, ah, I thank this younger brother for once again bestowing such a great gift upon me.”
Justice suppressed the frustration in his heart as he smiled, ”Go ahead, this matter shouldn't be delayed. I hope that this brother can successfully invite a famed physician and nurse your wife back to great health.”
”Your kind words are etched in my heart.” The old man smiled in a weird manner and walked outside.
Justice grabbed a piece of beef with his chopsticks and slowly chewed on it. He could not help but let out a sigh as he thought,
With so many people stricken with problems in the world, even if one is a saint, he or she cannot save everyone.
Seeing the waiter of the wine shop staring blankly at him, Justice could not help let out a laugh as he thought,
How could this country b.u.mpkin understand what I'm talking about?
As he thought about this, his enthusiasm waned, and he waved at him, asking, ”Friend, how far is it from here to the Immortal Gathering City?”
The waiter immediately rolled his eyes at him. ”It's really far, at least twenty to thirty kilometers. Customer, are you planning to go to the Immortal Gathering City? If you are, then you had better bring more food along. For that entire journey, there will not be a single person along the way, let alone a tavern!”
Justice smiled at that, about to reply, when suddenly his face contracted. ”n.o.body at all for the whole journey? Then where's the nearest village from here?”
The waiter sighed as he replied, ”Customer, I've already told you that there will be no one for the next twenty kilometers or so, so how would there be a village?” As he spoke, he looked at Justice in a different light.
No wonder this person was so generous, immediately taking out a large silver ingot. So he was actually a fool.
Justice was stunned on the spot, and he finally asked in a pained voice, ”That old man just now… have you seen him before?”
The waiter rolled his eyes once again. ”This master must be joking with me. Such aged people will never walk along this route, or at least they will not have escaped my eyes! But I've never seen this old man before! The number of people around these areas has always been few…”
”Peng!” A loud noise was heard as the entire table was pulverized into sawdust. The waiter only saw a blur before he realized that the green-robed man had vanished in front of him, just like a ghost and demon from the legends.
”F**k me!” The waiter immediately kneeled on the ground as he kowtowed in the direction, his entire body trembling.
No wonder the fortune teller told me that my eight character
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are weak and susceptible to evil influences. This sort of matter, if it's not a demonic encounter, then what else could it be?!
Before he could even climb back up on his feet, a whistling sound could be heard, and a huge ingot of silver flew from afar and landed before him. He exclaimed in surprise, and thought again,
Could it be that I did not have a demonic encounter, but rather met the fortune deity himself?!
Justice's face looked like a thunderstorm right now, and his eyes looked as though they could spit out flames at any time! He just realized that that Huo YuanJia was just a character that Ling Tian had made up! Having thought about this, he naturally understood why he had constantly felt uneasy. It was because his target was in front of him all the time! And he had even cheated an ingot of silver from him!
What a good Ling Tian, to actually disguise as an old man to fool me!
He had spent so much effort to chase down his target, but was unable to recognize Ling Tian even though that target was sitting in front of him! He had even allowed that little brat to call him 'little brother'. Justice now felt like pulling Ling Tian's tongue out! A small brat of only sixteen or seventeen years old, and Justice had even cheerfully called him 'old brother'...
A real scoundrel, this brat is asking for death!!!
Justice was apoplectic with rage! In his entire life, he had never been so angry, but right now, Justice felt as though he could swallow Ling Tian whole if he caught up to him! The advice he previously told himself, to calm down, had long been thrown out of the window!
With his superior movement techniques, and under the full urging of his internal energy, Justice's speed was shocking! In a blink of an eye, he had already pa.s.sed over five kilometers, and turning around another bend, he saw a primitive jungle as far as his eyes could see, which made him even more depressed! Coupled with the thought on how Ling Tian dressed up as an old man to cheat him, he could not hold in his anger anymore!
He caught sight of a tiny black dot far ahead from him, and Justice could see clearly that it was the old man Huo YuanJia... oh no, it should be Ling Tian! That sixty to seventy-year-old looking man was actually literally flying across the plains!