Chapter 54: News of Yang Sheng

Facing my request, Lin Chen was first relieved. For him, nothing was important, only the opportunity to prove himself.

“Don’t worry, the lucky charm will satisfy you. I’ll take it back first. If I don’t nurture it, I’m afraid it will be scattered to the four winds.” Lin Chen was referring to the white-backed weasel. I nodded. In fact, these grudges have nothing to do with the white-backed weasel. It’s unfortunate to end up like this, but it’s still fortunate not to die.

While talking, Lin Chen had already begun to pinch his fingers and recited a spell, and the white-backed weasel was returned.

I should also take back my stupid tiger. My stupid tiger growled a few times at Lin Chen in dissatisfaction, probably cursing and threatening him, but it had not yet learned the human language鈥攁 foreign language, so it was just barking in vain. I also took back my stupid tiger with a pinch of the fingers.

The tiger spirit returned to my body, and I felt my energy suddenly surge. After a while, Lin Chen also finished collecting the white-backed weasel, and then collected the jiao bone. Of course, he couldn’t raise the white-backed weasel in front of everyone.

After finishing all these chores, Lin Chen said to me, “Chen Chengyi, let’s settle things today. I’ll give you your good luck now.”

While talking, Lin Chen called his servant and took off the pendant containing Irene’s remains. In addition, his servant also brought 20,000 yuan, which I accepted without hesitation.

Hahaha… Now I have money, you old ghosts from 300 years ago, wait for me.

I forcibly restrained the urge to count the money on the spot and said to Lin Chen, “Tell me about your current luck.”

Lin Chen said, “We both lost a lot of energy just now, and we’re not in our best condition. Let’s each take a break for an hour. For the next battle, we’ll be fighting directly with our skills, and we won’t be allowed to use any external objects or magical weapons. We can only use talismans at most. What do you think?”

The so-called “invitation” refers to a talisman that does not seal any power within it. It is just an introduction or prop for the spell. For example, the soul-sealing talisman itself does not help with the spell, but is only a prop for sealing the ghost after the spell is over.

I yawned and said, “Good luck, good luck…”

Lin Chen smiled and whispered two words to me: “Yang Sheng!”

My heart immediately lifted, Sheng Ge! I seemed to see the parting in the deserted village that year, the resolute, unreturning back… I want to say, I don’t care, I don’t care, but the distant years of the bamboo forest cottage, the laughter echoing in the corridor, the parting in the morning rain…

Some people can become very close friends in a short time, and that is fate.

Some people you get along with for ten years, and you may only be ‘acquaintances’!

My expression betrayed me. I couldn’t help but care about Shengge. Lin Chen obviously saw that I cared about him and had already quietly walked up to me and whispered in my ear, “You win. I’ll give you news about Yang Sheng, even news that is important to you. What do you say?”

Damn it, you think you can get me that easily? I turned around and said to Lin Chen seriously and solemnly, “I won’t agree to it for less than 20,000 yuan.”

“Uh…” Lin Chen was obviously stunned. Maybe money really didn’t mean much to their organization. He didn’t understand why I was so insistent on money, but he was only stunned for a moment before he said with a smile, “No problem.”

Then there’s nothing more to say. I turned and left. I had to take a good rest for an hour, but before that, I had one more very important thing to ask Brother Chengxin.

As soon as I got off the stage, I jumped in front of Brother Chengxin and said, “Did you bet on me to win?”

“Yes!”

“Quickly tell me, how much did you buy and how much did you make?”

“Well, I bought a lot. I bought 100 yuan and made 10 yuan. I was afraid of losing money, so I also bought 50 yuan for Lin Chen.” Cheng Xin Ge said to me seriously.

“Fuck!” I cursed, and the next moment my fist slammed into Chengxin’s stomach.

Then, the two of us laughed foolishly. Twenty thousand yuan! We have money to see the old ghost, and we have money to participate in the ghost market every day.

But at this time, Shen Xing came over and said to me, “Chen Chengyi, you remember to give me the money. I bought a few apples before I went into the mountains. I can’t go a day without eating fruit. I said that today I saw that one was missing, and it turned out that you stole it for me, and I saw you stealing it. The apple plus the crime of ‘arrogant theft’, you give 1000.”

After that, Shen Xing walked away with her book. I was speechless and stood there. In fact, eating that terrible lunch made me very hungry, and I did “steal” an apple from Shen Xing.

See, cause and effect, cause and effect, and the effect is here?

This duel brought in revenue for both organizations. After all, not to mention the tickets, they were the ones who set up the betting tables. From the way they looked, they knew they had made a lot of money, so they turned on the loudspeakers and bragged about the next duel and the betting tables.

This made me very unhappy. Seeing how they made money, I knew that fewer people would buy mine.

On the way back, people looked at me with a kind of look that said, “Move over, A-fucking-hole.” After all, the temptation of the symbiotic tiger soul was too great for the cultivator. I ignored these looks, but I also heard endless discussions, all about the tiger soul. I even saw a couple of people fighting, and from the way they were cursing each other, I could tell they were arguing about whether I was really capable.

This is normal. After all, the victory in this battle is the credit of the tiger soul. Do I have to go and snatch the megaphone from the person who is promoting it and yell at everyone, “Half of my spiritual power is in the tiger soul?”

The master said, fame and fortune are like floating clouds, so stay calm. I was really angry, so I went back and stole another apple from Shen Xing.

An hour is precious, and the most affordable and accessible way for humans to replenish and nourish their spirits is to sleep. I returned to the dormitory, stuffed a few dry biscuits into my mouth like I was stuffing a pig, and then fell asleep.

An hour later, Lin Chen and I went to sign a contract for a battle again, and we met again in the afternoon at the battle field.

This time, Feng Wei and the old man were still there to supervise the match, but this time, a black-clad man came up and announced the rules: we could only use magic that used our own power, and we couldn’t use anything else, let alone magic tools or external objects. The only thing we could use was the talisman.

That means that the art of borrowing power is also not allowed, such as the art of summoning gods, or the art of the three mausoleum.

In fact, speaking of powerful spells, the only ones that can be used against people are the five elements, curses, ghost control, and so on. Only these involve the source of power.

In the middle of the field, Lin Chen looked at me and said, “Chen Chengyi, I just said my luck, and you haven’t promised your luck yet.”

“What do you want?” I looked at Lin Chen and asked simply. After all, he and I are fair in this regard.

“I don’t want anything. This time I won, I want to get Irene back. Do you agree?” Lin Chen said.

I frowned slightly. I didn’t want to give up on Irene, and I didn’t want to give up on the news about Shengge. It seemed that I couldn’t lose this round. In fact, I couldn’t afford to lose. Maybe I would give Lin Chen a chance, but he wouldn’t necessarily give me a chance.

Sure enough, before I could answer, Lin Chen said loudly, “Chen Chengyi, the Great Art is not easy to control, and it is incredibly powerful! When the time comes, life and death are in the hands of fate. Don’t blame me for not reminding you. Do you want to answer?”

Lin Chen was forcing me. If I didn’t agree to the matter of Irene’s remnant soul, others would understand that I was afraid. He would at least be considered a victory without fighting. In the eyes of others, I was a person who relied on the inheritance of sharpness.

I may not care about the reputation of winning or losing, but my heart is indeed hanging on the news that Shengge is very important to me. So I replied in a deep voice, “Then let’s get started. What else is there to talk about?”

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard the old shoe-sniffing man laugh and say, “I’m going to see what kind of mule this disciple of the old Li school is.”

I was completely confused. The so-called mule is a horse that is led out for a walk. You can say I am a horse!

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to talk nonsense with him. On the other side, Lin Chen looked at me with a strange look and smiled, then began to step on the step. Although the step was slightly different from the step of our lineage, I recognized it at a glance. It was a great technique I used to love the most鈥攖he Thunder-Invoking Technique!

Lin Chen can really do it! He can use the Thunder Technique without using the Taoist magic!

This shocked me, and I had to admit that Lin Chen was a genius in some ways.

It seems that he has accurately calculated everything about me, wanting to have a thunderclap battle with me to see who will hold out first. But I once said, you are improving, don’t I have to improve as well? Thunderclap Art, that’s what my brother left behind.

Although I thought so easily in my heart, in the next moment, I also stepped on the step-shaped energy, fighting against the magic. Fighting is not only about power, but also about familiarity and understanding of various magic!