Chan Chi Yuet looked at Wun Fan spiritedly, sparks practically flying out of her eyes. Her intention was simple. She wanted to recruit Wun Fan to her side. It had only been a day since she met Wun Fan, but he saw through the design and purpose behind the Hundred Treasures Hall and provided a unique and incisive analysis. He was only eleven years old, but he could match her blow-for-blow in their social and intellectual exchanges. He was a prodigy unlike anyone else.
Moreover, just as she professed, Chan Chi Yuet did not have any talented subordinates she could rely on. The results of the Hundred Treasures Hall in Green Sea Town were exceptional, but it was not outstanding enough for her to be promoted to management in a larger city. That was why she needed Wun Fan’s help. More accurately, she needed the person behind Wun Fan to give her a hand.
She would be able to achieve sufficient profits if the auction house continued to auction Grade Six pills for the next few months. If Wun Fan was willing to help her, she would be more than willing to let him interfere in the Hundred Treasures Hall’s affairs. In fact, she wouldn’t even mind offering up her virginity as well. She was a true prodigy. Her lover had to be a true prodigy as well.
Chan Chi Yuet wasn’t being arrogant. She had seen plenty of princes and royals in the capital and none of them were as smart as her or Wun Fan.
“All you have to do is nod and both I and the capital will be yours,” Chan Chi Yuet’s eyes glazed over with uncontrollable desire. Her gaze was burning hot. Even Chan Chi Yuet wouldn’t believe that she would one day say such things to an eleven-year-old boy.
So what if he was seven years younger than herself? Trading her own body for a chance to be promoted to management in a city was well worth it.
Everything and everything she did wasn’t just for her faction, but for her own dream. She wished to be the most powerful tycoon in the capital, causing storms and wind with but a wave of her hand! That was why Chan Chi Yuet was staring at Wun Fan with so much hope in her eyes, as a maiden in love looks upon her lover, hoping he would open his mouth to say, “I do.”
Wun Fan was sitting beside her. He looked at Chan Chi Yuet and couldn’t help but smile. He shrugged and said, “I’m sorry.”
Wun Fan did not doubt Chan Chi Yuet’s capabilities as a businesswoman. He had seen the layout of the Hundred Treasures Hall, as well as the organization of the Thousand Relics Auctions personally. These were all her own ideas. He knew that she was far more than just an ordinary prodigy.
Heaven’s Martial World was different from Earth. It was a more conservative world and society. Clan pedigree was incredibly important, and the people upheld many other conservative values, making it hard for them to accept anything new and novel. The fact that Chan Chi Yuet was able to come up with such an ingenious business layout made her a pioneer in the sales industry of this world. Wun Fan was only able to see further than Chan Chi Yuet because he was standing on the shoulders of giants.
There was no doubt that Wun Fan was attracted by Chan Chi Yuet’s offer. The thought of becoming a wealthy magnate in the capital with access to countless resources for his martial training was very enticing. It would make his martial journey much easier compared to the average person.
However, this was not Wun Fan’s ambition.
What he wanted was power! In the eleven years he had lived in Heaven’s Martial World, he had come to understand that the only unassailable truth was raw power. It didn’t matter how rich he was, how influential he was or how much authority he had. In the end, he would still have to bow down to the will of martial artists more powerful than him. Wun Fan wanted to protect his family with his own two hands.
Moreover, the two of them had only known each other for a single day. Wun Fan could already sense Chan Chi Yuet’s obsessive pursuit of wealth and power. It wasn’t necessarily a bad or good thing to be obsessed. In, it was similar to Wun Fan’s own persistence in reaching higher martial realms.
However, Wun Fan didn’t believe that someone like her, who saw everything in gains and losses, would continue cooperating with him once she thought he was no longer useful.
Just as Wun Fan thought earlier, a relationship born of mutual benefit ends at mutual benefit. Chan Chi Yuet only saw Wun Fan as a stepping stone and likewise, he saw her as no more than a stepping stone.
The only difference was that this particular stepping stone was incredibly beautiful and intelligent. However, a stepping stone was still a stepping stone. It did not need to be anything more than that.
“Why?” Chan Chi Yuet grabbed Wun Fan’s left arm tightly. She had a nervous expression on her face as if she was clinging onto a lifebuoy as she said, “Don’t you want to reign over the capital, atop a mountain of countless wealth? No one will dare to look down on you again and you will have the power to protect the people around you!”
Chan Chi Yuet had always been proud of her own appearance. She didn’t believe that any man would be able to say no to her beauty and air of elegance. However, the little boy in front of her had rejected her decisively without any hesitation.
“My goal is simple: to become stronger. I don’t care for anything else,” Wun Fan replied coolly. He looked at Chan Chi Yuet with clear eyes and a calm expression. There were no lies in his words.
“Is that so…” Chan Chi Yuet was disappointed, but she wasn’t stubbornly persistent when faced with rejection. It took all of her courage to say the words she did earlier. If Wun Fan wasn’t so incredibly important to her right now, it would have been impossible for a proud swan like herself to off her prideful mask. The rejected Chan Chi Yuet put on a forced smile and said, “That was inappropriate of me. Let’s get back to proper business.”
“Siu Ji.”
A figure slowly walked out from backstage. It was her maid, Siu Ji. Chan Chi Yuet handed her the jade bottle and ordered her to give it to the auction house’s appraiser to determine if it was indeed the Pill of Meridian Fortification. The atmosphere between the two of them quickly turned cold. They sat across each other in silence, saying nothing as they sipped their tea.
After a long while, Siu Jiu returned to the stage once again. She reported back to Chan Chi Yuet respectfully, “Miss, Mr. Guo said that this pill is indeed the Pill of Meridian Fortification. Moreover, the purity of the pill is rated as superior.”
A superior Grade Six pill! Pills are ordinarily divided into six levels of quality: defective, inferior, mediocre, superior, supreme, and flawless. This quality level typically depended on the purity of the pill. Only pills with a purity of over eighty percent can be considered to be superior.
Chan Chi Yuet showed no surprise at this. She only sighed, before looking up at Wun Fan and asking, “When do you intend to put these four pills on auction?”
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Only Chan Chi Yuet and Siu Ji were left on the auction stage. The two of them sat in the empty Auction Hall Mortal, the bright lights pouring over them. The atmosphere was a little odd.
“Miss, he wants the auction to be tomorrow. Is he crazy? He’s only giving you one day to prepare,” Siu Ji was upset. She didn’t understand why Wun Fan was so foolish and why he would reject the olive branch that her mistress had extended him.
“Never mind. Let’s get to preparing the auction. We still have a whole evening to prepare for it. Let’s make the best out of it,” Chan Chi Yuet pulled herself together. This was only a small obstacle in her path. She was only missing out on collaborating with Wun Fan.
However, she couldn’t help but become more curious about Wun Fan. Just a young boy and yet he had a mature and multi-faceted approach to life, not to mention his exceptional knowledge and experience. Even stranger was the fact that she, a fully-grown adult, would pout and behave like a little girl with him…
Chan Chi Yuet suddenly looked at Siu Ji and asked, “Siu Ji, you mentioned yesterday that Wun Fan bought a set of armor in the market?”
“Yes, miss.”
“Hmph! Lucky brat,” Chan Chi Yuet clenched her teeth as she said, “To think he managed to pick up a set of mutesoul metal armor for chump change. I wonder how much money he made from that.”
“Mutesoul metal armor?” Siu Ji gasped in surprise. She had been by Chan Chi Yuet’s side for a very long time and had learned a lot from just exposure to her mistress’ business dealings. She knew very well what mutesoul metal was.
Chan Chi Yuet looked at her jade-white hands and thought about the handguard that Wun Fan had in his left hand. She remembered that he didn’t have a handguard when they met yesterday and that he had bought a suit of armor right before he came to the Hundred Treasures Hall.
“This kid has quite a sharp eye…Wun Fan, I am only becoming more and more interested in you.”
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Wun Fan walked towards the sparring grounds when he reached the Wun Mansion. He watched the disciples train. After the fight with the Enforcer’s Hall disciples a few days ago, all the Wun disciples and servants knew that Wun Fan was no longer a cripple. They knew Wun Fan had broken free of his sixth level Martial Disciple curse, even without a proper test.
That was why all the disciples Wun Fan met along the way were incredibly respectful to him. They made sure to address him as ‘young master’ withe very sentence. They were definitely showing him more respect. They might have only respected him because of his status as a lineage disciple, but now they respected him for his power. It was two completely different feelings. When people respected you for your power, there is a hint of fear mixed in with their gaze!
Wun Fan did not put on any airs. He was still the polite and amiable Wun Fan who nodded and greeted everyone he saw. He sat down at the observation platform at the side of the sparring grounds. All the muscles in his body ached unbearably and he was constantly in a state of extreme fatigue. He silently circulated aether throughout his body. His meridians stung when the aether travelled through them. However, the cool sensation of the aether reaching his sore muscles was so relieving that Wun Fan couldn’t help but moan in bliss. The pain was relieved greatly.
When the human body is overexerted, the muscles of the body will produce large amounts of lactic acid due to a lack of oxygen in the body. This restricts the movements of the muscles. In addition, overexertion of the body will also cause the muscles to tear, which is what causes the sensation of pain. However, when the aether reaches the muscles, it can subtly accelerate the speed at which the muscles repair themselves while making up for the lack of oxygen in the body.
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