Chapter 246: Practicing in the Next Level (1/2)

Face grim, Shi Qing frowned and didn’t know what to say.

After all, Nie Tian had used the room for twelve hours and hadn’t broken any rules.

However, in only twelve hours, he managed to cost them 300 spirit stones, while he only paid 100.

That meant that not only did the Blood Skull not make a profit from him, but they even suffered a great loss from their deal with him.

Technically, Nie Tian was entitled to use the room for another eight hours, but if they let Nie Tian to do so, they would probably lose 200 more spirit stones.

As the administrator, Shi Qing would have to make up for the loss himself if he couldn’t come up with a better way to recover it.

While searching his mind for a plan, Shi Qing got a thorough measure of Nie Tian.

Shi Qing was a Greater Heaven stage Qi warrior, far stronger than Nie Tian. Hence, he could easily see through Nie Tian’s cultivation base.

After a thorough examination, he concluded that Nie Tian was indeed in the Lesser Heaven stage, and he still had a long way to go to enter the Heaven stage.

Therefore, Nie Tian hadn’t broken any rule that Cai Lan, the head of the Blood Skull, had set.

Because of that, Shi Qing had quite a headache.

“So you’re the guy,” Cai Yue said angrily. She, who was unhappy with Nie Tian, never expected that he would blame the lack of spiritual Qi on the Blood Skull’s facility the moment he stepped out of the room.

Nie Tian was surprised and asked, “You are?”

Only then did he take note of Cai Yue. With a single glance at her, he realized that the fine-looking girl, who was dressed like a boy, must be the daughter of the Blood Skull’s head that Li Ye had warned him about.

According to Li Ye, this girl was spoiled and had a bad temper. He should avoid offending her.

“I was in the room next to yours!” Cai Yue gave a cold harrumph. “Because you overconsumed the spiritual Qi in your room, a hidden spell formation was triggered, which channeled the spiritual Qi from my room to yours! You undermined my cultivation. What do you have to say about it?”

Nie Tian was quite confused, since he had no idea about the spell formation Cai Yue was referring to. He shot a confused glance towards Shi Qing.

With a stern face, Shi Qing explained to Nie Tian, “What she said is true. I don’t know what cultivating method you used, but you drained the spiritual Qi in both rooms surprisingly quickly. In merely twelve hours, you cost us 300 spirit stones. As you probably already know, the Blood Skull doesn’t do business without a profit. So what do you suggest we do?”

Cai Yue glared at Nie Tian as if she was demanding that he provide a proper solution.

Nie Tian forced a smile as he touched his head, knowing that it was the secret magic that he had used to created spiritual energy balls that had caused all this.

Although he was glad that he had made great progress with his cultivation, he didn’t want to offend the Blood Skull and Cai Yue because of it.

After all, whoever Li Ye tried his best to avoid offending must be a huge pain in the neck.

Therefore, after a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian said, “How about this: I’ll compensate you for your loss.”

Shi Qing smiled and said, “You’re a smart man. No wonder Li Ye attached such importance to you.”

Nie Tian’s proposition was acceptable to him, since as long as the loss was recovered, there wouldn’t be a problem for him when he reported to his superior.

Without any delay, Nie Tian took 300 spirit stones from his bracelet of holding and handed them to Shi Qing. “Here.” Then, he asked, “Oh, right, what’s the rate for a Heaven stage cultivation room?”

After receiving the spirit stones from Nie Tian, Shi Qing assumed a much better attitude. Smiling, he replied, “A Heaven stage cultivation room? 25 spirit stones for an hour. The spiritual Qi in those rooms is much richer. If you think that a Lesser Heaven stage cultivation room didn’t satisfy your needs, you’re welcome to rent a Heaven stage cultivation room.”

After pausing for a moment, he continued, “Also, it’s been a long time since someone rented the rooms on the second floor. You can rent one of them for a long term if you like. Of course, that’s assuming that you have the spirit stones to do so.”

“That’s not a problem.” Having a substantial amount of spirit stones in his possession, Nie Tian became a generous consumer. He took out 500 spirit stones and handed them to Shi Qing while saying, “Put me down for twenty hours, starting now.”

“No problem!” A broad smile could be seen on Shi Qing’s face as he trotted to his desk and registered Nie Tian.

At that moment, two cultivators walked in through the main gate of the establishment and one powerful expert came down the stairs after his cultivation.

The three of them overheard Nie Tian and Shi Qing’s conversation, and with surprised expressions, they began to look Nie Tian up and down with measuring gazes.

They obviously found it strange that a Lesser Heaven stage cultivator would waste his money on a Heaven stage cultivation room.

Since the three of them didn’t know what had happened early on, they all considered Nie Tian to be a spendthrift, who was parading his wealth by spending five times more than he should on a cultivation room he wouldn’t need.

The two people who had just entered the building exchanged a subtle look after getting their measure of Nie Tian.

“He’s a friend of Li Ye’s.”

“It’s like what people say, he who has wealth speaks louder than others.”

“But his cultivation base doesn’t seem very impressive.”

The two of them had been living in Shatter City for a long time, and they had extensive connections with the outlaws outside the city.

Nie Tian, who had an unimpressive cultivation base and great fortune, had just become their next easy target.

They secretly memorized Nie Tian’s face, as they were determined to tail him and kill him the instant he walked out of Shatter City.

Seeing that Nie Tian was quite sensible and offered to compensate them for their loss, Cai Yue suppressed her anger. “What’s your name?”

“Hua Tian,” Nie Tian answered.

“What’s your relationship with that fatty, Li Ye?” She asked.

“Well, I do things for him, like cutting spiritual material and stuff,” Nie Tian said.

Cai Yue went blank for a moment before subconsciously looking at Shi Qing and asking, “Since when has it become so lucrative to work for Li Ye? Is Li Ye that generous with his helpers?”

Shi Qing shook his head. “Li Ye is a canny man.”