Chapter 151: Youth, Conquer the World With Me!
Chapter 151: Youth, Conquer the World With Me!
Two hours later, Tang Jinbiao had already exchanged most of the Spirit Stones on his person for Merit Points at the dormitory management office. His Token now displayed seven to eight thousand Merit Points, which he estimated would last him quite some time. Accompanied by Jia Longwu, he arrived at the front of his courtyard.
Seventeenth Unit, Sixth Courtyard in the West District!
It was an ordinary small courtyard. From the outside, it appeared to be about a hundred square meters in size. However, a faint Restriction/Barrier currently enveloped the courtyard, obscuring its interior conditions.
Opposite this courtyard stood two others of similar layout. The three courtyards roughly formed a triangular shape, each facing the others.
“Hmm, Tang Jinbiao, please consider what I told you earlier. After all, this matter is beneficial for you too. Although there are some risks, if successful, the rewards are tremendous!”
After arriving at the front of the courtyard, Jia Longwu stopped and spoke.
As she spoke, her eyes brimmed with expectation, revealing a gentleness distinctly feminine. The previous air of handsome heroism vanished without a trace, transforming her clearly into a stunning beauty.
Thud!
Though gazed upon by a stunning beauty with those expectant eyes, Tang Jinbiao had never experienced such treatment before. He instinctively took two steps back, slightly unnerved, his heart pounding like a deer inside his chest.
“Tang Jinbiao, I beg you! You must agree! Otherwise, I truly can’t find anyone else who can help!”
The expectation in Jia Longwu’s eyes intensified. Her thin lips, resembling a fish’s, were pressed tightly together, her delicate fists clenched, and a faint blush even coloured her cheeks, whether from excitement or shyness was unclear.
“That… that… this… this…”
Tang Jinbiao grew increasingly nervous. This was the first time he’d been so close to a beauty, and to have her beg him with such a look – this feeling of happiness was arriving far too suddenly.
“Please! Please, I’m begging you!”
Jia Longwu became even more impassioned. Lightly shifting her feet, she closed the distance towards Tang Jinbiao, tilting her face upwards until it was almost beneath his chin, her eyes filled with entreaty and hope.
“No, no, no…”
Tang Jinbiao felt Jia Longwu’s warm breath carrying a fragrant aroma and could faintly smell the scent on her. Startled, he hastily retreated two steps, clumsily waving his hands to fend off Jia Longwu’s forceful advance and block her pleading words.
“Ahem!”
Seeing Tang Jinbiao remain unmoved, a flicker of disappointment surfaced in Jia Longwu’s eyes. She sighed sorrowfully, then said with profound dejection, “Very well. Since you refuse, let’s forget this matter. Goodbye, Tang Jinbiao!”
Jia Longwu finished speaking, turned around, and began to walk away slowly, her expression radiating palpable disappointment and resentment.
“Th… this… this…”
Tang Jinbiao snapped back to his senses, immediately recalling the matter Jia Longwu had raised earlier.
It wasn’t actually anything major. Jia Longwu had discovered a millennium-old spirit medicine within a valley three thousand miles away. However, a fifth-level Demon Beast guarded the spirit medicine. She alone simply couldn’t obtain it. Furthermore, due to that specific Demon Beast’s peculiar nature, only a Body Refiner could effectively deal with it, hence why she had sought out Tang Jinbiao.
Of course, Jia Longwu also clarified that she too was a Body Refiner, specifically a Third-stage Initial Tier Body Refiner.
This certainly surprised Tang Jinbiao. Although he had glanced at Jia Longwu’s physique with his Spirit Eyes, he hadn’t paid much attention, deeming such scrutiny far too brazen and unfit for someone as upright and noble as himself.
She sought Tang Jinbiao’s help naturally hoping he would join her in slaying the Demon Beast and harvesting the spirit medicine. And even if they couldn’t kill it, one of them could lure the beast away while the other seized the chance to pluck the spirit medicine – though it involved some danger, of course.
Tap, tap, tap!
Watching Jia Longwu’s back recede into the distance, seeing the lonely and forlorn quality in her retreating figure, Tang Jinbiao’s masculine pride swelled uncontrollably. An involuntary call escaped his lips.
“Wait! Wait for me!”
Tang Jinbiao couldn’t help but shout out urgently.
Wait!
Jia Longwu, who had been bending over ready to leave, seemed to hear gospel as if from Matthew. She suddenly halted, turned back, sniffled, and tears uncontrollably streamed down her cheeks. In an instant, she became a weeping mess.
“What did you just say?”
Sniffling, Jia Long wiped her tears away. Her eyes were red as she asked softly.
“No way? Already crying? And crying this desperately?”
Watching the once-handsome beauty before him dissolve into tears in a blink, Tang Jinbiao froze momentarily, sensing something amiss.
For in that instant, unpleasant memories flooded back—memories of offering sincere feelings only to receive a knife stabbed into his heart.
“That… that…”
For some reason, Tang Jinbiao felt an inexplicable unease.
“You had something to say, didn’t you?”
Noticing Tang Jinbiao stammering again, Jia Longwu inquired with swollen eyes.
“I… I…”
Tang Jinbiao suddenly realized he truly lacked emotional intelligence, tongue-tied whenever facing beauty.
“If you won’t speak, I’m leaving!”
Disappointment reappeared on Jia Longwu’s face. Lowering her head, she turned to depart once more.
Tap… tap… tap…
After turning, Jia Longwu walked out weeping softly, shoulders trembling. Her steps remained slow, gentle, and desolate.
“No no no, how could I doubt her sincerity? What’s wrong with me? That was merely an accident! Captain Wang must’ve been possessed back then—and that talisman Brother Bi gave me was suspicious. Surely Captain Wang didn’t intend to assassinate me! Brother Bi too… where did he get such a thing?”
The tragic memory had extinguished Tang Jinbiao’s surging emotions in an instant.
Though the incident with Captain Wang devastated him, he still believed in human kindness—that not everyone repays kindness with betrayal. He remained convinced Captain Wang had his reasons.
Swiftly banishing these intrusive thoughts, Tang Jinbiao steadied himself and shouted, “Youth! Join me in conquering the world!”
Halt!
Hearing this, Jia Longwu stopped again, turning slightly. Tears overflowed her eyes.
“What… did you say just now?”
Her eyes brimming with tears, she asked hesitantly, as if disbelieving.
“Hmph. I said: Youth, join me in conquering the world!”
For some reason, Tang Jinbiao glimpsed shades of Tang Hu and others in Jia Longwu at that moment. Shaking his head resignedly, he spoke.
“Can… can you repeat it?”
Red-eyed and seemingly incredulous, she pressed cautiously.
“I said: Youth, join me in conquering the world!”
Tang Jinbiao’s face grew more exasperated, but his eyes smiled as he declared loudly.
“Please… say it once more?”
Jia Longwu took soft steps toward Tang Jinbiao, hoping to hear it again.
“Young man, come conquer the world with me!”
Tang Jinbiao nearly shouted the words this time.
“I want to hear more!”
Jia Longwu started jogging, rushing toward Tang Jinbiao.
“Young man, with me…”
Tang Jinbiao, equally stirred, yelled loudly.
Swish!
Just then, Tang Jinbiao heard a sharp whistle by his ear—something was attacking him.
“Trouble!”
Sensing the object hurtling through the air, Tang Jinbiao’s expression tightened slightly. Bad news, he thought, instantly sidestepping.
“Watch out!”
Jia Longwu seemed to notice something too, halting abruptly to warn him.
“Hmph!”
As a Third-stage Initial Tier Body Refiner, Tang Jinbiao’s strength mismatched his cultivation level, but he still had skills. With a cold snort, he spun around without hesitation—thwack—and snatched the flying object mid-air.
But as soon as he caught it, a cloud of yellow dust exploded outward, followed by a putrid stench wafting from his hand.
“Shut the hell up! What’s with the howling in broad daylight? Go howl at the Back Hill outdoor field! No one cares there—stop torturing my ears here!”
A hoarse voice, cursing loudly, rang out from the yard behind him the moment he caught the object.
“I…”
Hearing the insults, Tang Jinbiao felt utterly speechless.
“Blurgh!”
Just then, the rotten odor hit his nostrils, making him retch uncontrollably.
“Blurgh!”
Jia Longwu seemed to smell it too, pinching her nose as she staggered back several paces, face twisted in disgust.
“Tang Jinbiao, that’s vile!”
Jia Longwu retreated over ten meters away, voice muffled behind her pinched nose.
“Damn your ancestors!”
Tang Jinbiao finally saw what was in his hand—and swore furiously as he recognized it.
The object wasn’t a weapon, but a stinking shoe!
“Gah!”
Disgust overwhelmed him. He flung the shoe back toward the courtyard it flew from.
Thump!
Though a faint Barrier surrounded the nearby yard, Tang Jinbiao’s sheer force shattered it outright, sending the shoe crashing inside.
Whoosh!
As that shoe soared through the air, Tang Jinbiao faintly glimpsed a long plume of toxic smoke trailing behind it.
“Agh! Which god damned bastard? Who the hell’s stinking shoe!”
“Motherfucker! It’s definitely that bastard Wang Qinian!”
“I %￥&!”
“Throw it out! Throw it out!”
However, the moment Tang Jinbiao hurled the shoe into the neighboring courtyard, vile curses erupted instantly from within.
Plop!
A soft sound followed, and as everyone watched, the shoe sailed back out of the courtyard. Once again dragging a long stream of poisonous smoke, it flew towards the other courtyard in front of him.
“I’ll fuck your ancestors!”
“Mother %￥@&”
“Hurl it out! Hurl it out!”
Soon, another torrent of vicious profanity surged from that other adjacent yard.
Plop!
Then the shoe flew out once more. With a thud, it landed right in front of Tang Jinbiao.
“Blergh!”
Tang Jinbiao nearly vomited again. But reacting swiftly, he snatched it up and flung it right back into the courtyard before him.
“Oh, fuck %$%$%!”
“%￥%￥%￥”
“I %￥ your mother %￥%￥”
“Go out and butcher him!”
As soon as the shoe landed inside, fresh waves of venomous cursing echoed from the yard.
Whoosh!
Yet even as those voices raged, the shoe launched skyward once more, arcing into the next courtyard over.
“Savage him!”
“Chop him up!”
A fresh storm of curses erupted from the neighboring yard.
Chit-ter!
“Tang Jinbiao, we’ll meet again in a few days!”
Jia Longwu finally seemed unable to withstand it any longer. He trembled, his body shook violently as revulsion wracked him, and he turned and fled.
“My life’s such sorrow! Where can I even run to?”
Tang Jinbiao wanted to bolt too, but he had no idea where to go.
Bang! Bang!
At that very instant though, the gates of both yards confronting Tang Jinbiao suddenly crashed open. Three or four shirtless men stomped out from each courtyard. Each brawny figure gripped a huge cleaver gleaming with the Glimmer of Cold Steel…