Chapter 34 Use offense as defense
The owner of the noodle shop is also an outer disciple of Wan Dao Sect. He has never seen such a person before. You said you came to the shop to eat noodles, so just eat noodles, but you insisted on buying a whole live cow that they needed urgently!
What was this little sister thinking when she came to the beef noodle restaurant to buy a live cow?
"We have beef, and it won't affect business, so we can sell it?" Zhou Li thought it was a good idea, and before anyone could react, he suddenly took out half a cow that had just been slaughtered from his storage bag.
This was what she had carefully selected earlier. She had originally planned to make beef bone soup or steak for her daughter when she got home, but it was not a loss to be able to exchange it for a big beef now.
The mother and daughter have been working together for many years, and they can understand each other's meaning just by exchanging glances.
Seeing her mother winking at her, Zhou Ling reacted and quickly took out five medium-grade spirit stones from her storage bracelet.
"Brother! Considering that we are from the same sect, and considering that we have ready-made spiritual beef now and it won't affect our business, can you sell me this live cow for five middle-grade spiritual stones?"
Be sincere in attitude and generous in giving.
The shopkeeper weighed the five heavy middle-grade spirit stones in his hand and felt that if there weren't so many people present, the corners of his mouth would have been grinning from ear to ear.
I met a fool today.
Is it worth it for a spirit cow? He spent four times more to buy it. How could an outer disciple have so much money? These five middle-grade spirit stones might be all the wealth of this little girl.
And looking at the expression of this little girl, it seemed as if she deliberately gave him more spirit stones so that he could put the extra part into his own pocket.
Although he is young, he is sensible and knows how to behave.
Who can go against money? The shopkeeper nodded slightly, which was considered a nod.
However, considering that we are from the same school, I couldn't help but give him a few more words of advice.
"Junior sister, don't you understand the principle of not showing off your wealth? In the teahouse to the southwest, two people with unfriendly faces seem to be staring at you. Be careful when you go out, don't go to places with few people, return to the sect as soon as possible, and don't hang out outside."
The shopkeeper transmitted a message to her through his spiritual consciousness. After all, for a young girl to spend five middle-grade spirit stones to buy a cow, it was hard not to wonder how much wealth she had.
This market was a mixed crowd, and he was often in the shop, and he noticed robbers lurking outside almost every day.
The cultivation levels of these robbery cultivators are not low, and they still have to look after the store, so they can't help this little girl. They can only let her pay more attention to it herself.
"Thank you." Zhou Ling didn't know how to transmit sound through his spiritual sense, so he could only nod slightly to express his gratitude.
In fact, there were more than two people targeting her, and Zhou Ling noticed it early on.
Her master once told her that the Sword-Bearing Peak, which was protected by a large formation, was the safest place. Once she left the formation gate of Sword-Bearing Peak, even within the sect, the enemy might plant hidden chess pieces.
Last time at the sect's disciple-recruiting ceremony, someone heard the rumor that Heng Yue had found a successor, and mixed in with the outer sect's accompanying disciples, preparing to kill Zhou Ling.
Since the world-destroying war ten thousand years ago, too many senior masters have passed away in the world of immortal cultivation, and many sects have been disbanded as a result.
It has been five thousand years since that world-destroying war, but the chaos at that time affected too many people, and now the order of the immortal world has not yet fully recovered.
There are dangers everywhere outside, and murder and robbery are too common, especially for a short and immature girl like Zhou Ling, who is a typical soft persimmon that can be easily pinched, making her the easiest target.
So Zhou Ling was equipped almost entirely with defensive magic weapons from head to toe.
The products of the master must be top-notch. Every instrument is made by the master himself, and both the appearance and practicality are impeccable.
What her master taught her was that she was too much of a soft persimmon. If she had nothing to do, she could go out more often. If she encountered a robbery cultivator, she could kill one if there was one, or kill two if there were two.
Zhou Ling, who is equipped with defensive magic weapons, can defeat the enemy without getting hurt. As long as she encounters the enemy a few more times outside and kills a few more times, her notoriety will gradually spread in the circle of robbery cultivators, and no one will dare to touch her easily in the future.
Using offense as defense is what my master taught me.
Fortunately, those old men who wanted to find her were tripped up by the master.
If she wants to gain a reputation as a villain today, she has to reveal her true face.
So after walking out of the noodle shop, Zhou Ling took off the veil on her head.
"Ling'er, go home and follow closely."
Zhou Li also noticed something was wrong. After looking around vigilantly, he took his daughter's hand and pulled her towards him.
"Mom, it's still early, there's no rush to go back, let's go shopping. We just found the big cow and we haven't prepared anything for it yet. And the guy at the noodle shop said that our big cow is not an ordinary cow, but a spiritual cow. Although it's just a low-level spiritual beast, if we take good care of it, it will advance. When it reaches the second level, its life span will be even longer. So I want to buy some spiritual beast pills for it, as well as spiritual herbs and spiritual dew, to keep for it."
The big bull following behind them seemed to understand what she said. It dug the ground with its claws, shook its head left and right, pulled the rope, and mooed twice.
"Haha, Mom, look, even Daniu agreed."
"Silly, it won't let you go."
Zhou Li felt a little helpless. He didn't know what his daughter was going to do next. This child has been smart since she was young. She was being targeted by someone. It was impossible for her not to notice such an obvious thing.
But even though he knew there was danger, he didn't try to avoid it. Instead, he seemed to want to face it actively. Why is that?
Her palm suddenly felt warm. Zhou Li lowered her head and saw her daughter holding her hand and quietly putting something into her palm.
A jade pendant in the shape of an egg. She was familiar with it. Ling'er's master carved this thing whenever he had time. He gave a bunch of them to the mother and daughter, saying that they were defensive magic weapons.
My daughter means that since they are carrying defensive magic weapons, they are not afraid of being targeted, but instead they are going to confront those people?
That's right, if you go out to the market, you will be targeted and robbed. It's because they see Ling'er is young and they think she and her mother are easy to bully, so they dare to do so.
She and Ling'er now have Master Long as their backer, so how could they let these little brats bully them? Just go ahead and fight them, how could they be afraid of them?
She led her daughter, and her daughter led the cow, and the two of them and the beast strolled around the market in a swaggering manner. They spent money without hesitation. Many people stared at her in amazement, wondering where this little girl from the outer sect disciple got so much money.
Of course, many people recognized Zhou Ling's face.
Uncle Long has only accepted her as his disciple for now, and almost all the good things and resources are piled on her. It would be abnormal for this girl to have no money.
But most of those who made a living in the outer markets of the sect had never been to the inner sect, and did not know Zhou Ling. More and more unfriendly eyes were fixed on her and the storage bags of spirit stones in the hands of her and her daughter.
"Mom, we have finished shopping, but the original route back is a bit long, why don't we take a shortcut back to the sect?"
At this moment, if half of these people had a clear mind, they would have realized that Zhou Ling was deliberately luring the enemy.
(End of this chapter)
