Chapter 9
“Both the east and the west courtyard are Jiang Mansion’s properties. Your east courtyard is declining and short-handed at the moment. Many industries have been affected by this situation and they are making much less revenue now. In the end it’s your Jiang Mansion that will be troubled. That’s why I am here. I am trying to help you take care of the business.”
Jiang Chen saw Li Hong’s cheeky face as soon as he passed through the crowd. Li Hong totally ignored Fan Tu’s angry stare.
“Shut up! Get out of here!” Fan Tu didn’t want to argue with him at all.
“You ungrateful wretch. You think the east courtyard is still the previous east courtyard? Your lord has been gone. How dare you be so arrogant?” Li Hong flew into anger as well and said something strong.
“I still can give you a good punch.”
“I don’t think so.”
The two fell silent. The onlookers read the situation and stepped back to leave them more space. Fan Tu had no intention to argue, but rather, was willing to fight. So was Li Hong.
The previous Jiang Chen, who already died, had practiced a method taught by his father. It was a great method that everyone in the Hundred Thousand Mountains would like to practice. Thanks to this method, he had been able to achieve Cloud Nine by sixteen years old. However, it was only okay for Jiang Chen.
He had some better options. Besides, practicing a method didn’t have so many requirements as practicing a secret method did. All methods aim to take in the spirits of the universe. There are only differences in characters. Those characters are obedience, willingness, pillage, and devouring.
The obedience is the most popular. Most of the methods will teach you how to communicate with the spirits of the universe, obey them and let the spirits in naturally.
The voluntary is more powerful. This character will attract the spirits of the universe to come to you voluntarily.
The pillage is easy to understand as well. It means whether the spirits are willing or not, you’ll take them in by pillage.
The devouring is the most powerful and the least popular. It’s quite similar to the pillage. But the pillage is such a bossy method that the spirits gotten from it are not pure enough. As a result, there will be risks as time passes.
But the devouring is different. No matter if the spirits are pure or not, the devouring will convert them to pure genuine Qi and store it in the body.
The character differences of these four methods are correspondent with four levels in the Nine Heavens Continent, which are sky, earth, black and yellow. The obedience is the yellow level and the devouring is the sky level.