CHAPTER 107 (3): YE YUN

"Are you done?" Ye Yun asked in a cold voice.

"Not quite yet," Fang Che replied as he stowed away the belongings of Li Mengyun and her entourage. "I still have to trouble you to do one more thing for me, Senior."

"What is it?"

Ye Yun's patience was really running thin at this point.

He had never been ordered around like this, even in the Chen Clan!

"As you're leaving the White Cloud Prefecture, please hang these four heads up on the city wall, then write up a banner that reads: 'Scourge of the demonic church, Li Mengyun...'"

What little remained of Ye Yun's patience finally ran dry, and he snapped, "I don't have time to write up banners for you!"

"In that case, hanging their heads up will suffice. Thank you, Senior!"

He knew that Ye Yun was running out of patience, so he had stated two requests. By refusing only one, Ye Yun had essentially agreed to the other!

Ye Yun glowered at Night Demon for a moment, then suddenly smiled as he asked, "Do you know who I am, Night Demon?"

"I will be sure to remember your name, Senior," Fang Che replied in a respectful manner.

"Once you truly come to understand the weight that my name holds, you'll come to realize the severity of your actions today. This is the first time I've ever been used like this, and the same applies to Young Master Chen as well. I hope you can grow to display far more value than you do now in the future. Otherwise, you'll come to sorely regret your actions today."

"But if I didn't use you and Young Master Chen tonight, I would've eventually perished to those people, so I had no choice. As for what happens in the future, my first priority is to ensure that there exists a future for me at all. I'll readily admit that I used you and Young Master Chen, and I know that I owe the two of you a massive favor from now on."

"You're not going to deny it?" Ye Yun asked.

"Would there be any point in doing that?"

"No."

"In that case, why would I bother to deny?"

Ye Yun gave a cold harrumph.

Night Demon's candor had done nothing to assuage his displeasure.

"Young Master Chen told me to tell you that he's very impressed with what you did tonight."

"Young Master Chen's wisdom and magnanimity truly set a glowing example for his contemporaries to follow," Fang Che praised.

"Here's the stuff Young Master Chen sent to you."

Ye Yun removed the cloth pouch from his back as he spoke, then pulled out the items inside one by one before introducing them to Fang Che.

"These two vials contain Cloud Spirit Pills, the same ones that you received as a reward from the Parasite Ascension Project."

Just this first item alone was already very pleased with just this first item alone. He had been using up his supply of Cloud Spirit Pills very quickly, so these two vials had come in a very timely fashion.

Where can I get more friends like Young Master Chen? Give me a dozen!

"This is two hundred grams of Spirit Raising Tea. Consumption of the tea will make it much easier for you to comprehend cultivation arts and weapon auras."

"Does it work for all weapons?"

"Yes!"

"So I drink the tea first, then train or cultivate?"

"Yes!"

"Does it matter if I drink the tea hot or cold?" "It has to be hot!"

At this point, Ye Yun was really approaching his wit's end.

"The third item is a protective undershirt."

"What does it protect against? Weapons or spirit power attacks?"

"Both!"

"That's fantastic! What level of attacks can it protect me against? Will its protective properties improve as I go up in cultivation base?"

"Test it out yourself!"

Ye Yun's patience had been completely exhausted.

"Alright. Is there anything else?"

Ye Yun took a deep breath, then pulled out another vial from the cloth pouch.

"This contains one Spirit Nourishment Pill."

Fang Che waited patiently for the explanation, but no explanation came.

"So does it nourish the soul or the spirit sense?"

"The spirit sense!"

"At what cultivation base should I take it?"

"You can take it after you reach the Warlord tier."

"Is there anything I should do before or after taking the pill?"

"Don't use your spirit sense within a day after taking the pill."

"Anything else?"

"There's nothing else!"

"I'm asking if you have anything else for me."

"No!"

Ye Yun was barely able to suppress his rage as he tipped the cloth pouch upside-down before giving it a furious shake to show Fang Che that there was nothing left inside.

"I'll be going back after you send a message to Young Master Chen to inform him that you've received the items."

"Thank you, Senior Ye."

A wide smile appeared on Fang Che's face as he stowed everything away, then pulled out his communication jade.

***

Shortly thereafter.

"So that's what happened!" Yan Beihan exclaimed with an enlightened expression.

"I already explained everything to you, but you refused to listen! Don't you know what kind of person Night Demon is?"

There was a wry smile on Chen Yin's face, and not only was his robe riddled with holes from Yan Beihan's sword, even a length of his hair had been shorn off.

She had been truly striking to kill, and if he hadn't ducked in time, the top of his head would've been removed along with that length of hair.

Chen Yin had never felt so speechless before.

He had explained the same thing to her over thirty times, yet she refused to listen to reason at all!

It was only after he received a message from Night Demon and displayed it to Yan Beihan that she finally believed him.

"I don't know what type of person Night Demon is, but I know exactly what type of person you are!" Yan Beihan harrumphed coldly. "Night Demon still hasn't replied to my message yet, so I still can't be sure if you were telling the truth or not. What if this is all an act from you and Ye Yun?"

"An act? Really? You think Ye Yun and I would put on an act just for Night Demon? How bored do you think we are?!"

Chen Yin had never felt so exasperated in his life.

What's taking so long over there? Can't they hurry up and just be done with it? I'm about to die over here!

If it were anyone else in Yan Beihan's place, Chen Yin wouldn't have been so agitated.

There weren't many people in the entire main church that he wouldn't dare to oppose, but he was completely powerless when it came to Yan Beihan.

Deputy Pope Yan Nan was renowned for his overprotectiveness of his precious granddaughter, and if she were to go to Yan Nan and complain about him, then he would be in for much more than just a beating!

In the past, this had been a very common occurrence. However, recently, Yan Beihan had begun to grow into her own, and she was beginning to sort out her problems herself, so she was making fewer reports to Yan Nan.

However, this made Yan Nan very disgruntled, and he often approached Yan Beihan to ask her: "Has anyone been picking on you? Tell me and I'll straighten them out!"

This eventually became: "Do you want to pick on anyone? Tell me and I'll go after them myself!"

With Yan Nan constantly looming, no one dared to get on Yan Beihan's bad side!

There was a period of time during which Yan Beihan trained under Duan Xiyang, but the latter concluded that she was lacking in aptitude and wasn't cut out for using the spear.

Just for that alone, he was ordered by Yan Nan to go into seclusion and repent for two years!

Even though this was all a misunderstanding, Chen Yin knew that Yan Nan would definitely come and visit to ask about the incident.

Why did my precious granddaughter smash your front gate? Did you pick on her? No? Then why didn't she smash someone else's front gate?

Simply envisioning the scenario was already giving Chen Yin a headache.

Finally, the long-awaited message arrived.

"My apologies, Brother Obsidian. It was all a misunderstanding."

Chen Yin almost burst into tears at the sight of the message.

"Here! See for yourself!"

Yan Beihan took a suspicious glance at Chen Yin's communication jade, then pulled out her own, and her expression instantly darkened.

Night Demon hadn't messaged her.

She immediately typed out a furious message: "What happened just now, Night Demon?"

Still, there was no response.

Meanwhile, Chen Yin was also typing up a message.

"I'm very impressed with your little maneuver, Night Demon."

"How very gracious of you, Brother Obsidian. You have my thanks."

"I look forward to meeting you someday."

"Likewise."

"Are we done here?" Chen Yin asked as he turned his gaze to Yan Beihan. "Have I been vindicated?"

Yan Beihan gritted her teeth in fury and indignation as she harrumphed, "That's what you get for always plotting against everyone all the time! Even if this didn't happen, you were due for a beating anyway!"

"Yes, yes, you're right," Chen Yin sighed in a submissive manner. "Can I go now?"

"Get out of my sight!"

Chen Yin flew to a hundred feet away, then suddenly turned back with a grin and asked, "Has Night Demon still not replied to your messages?"

With that, he erupted into laughter and raced away into the distance.

"Chen Yin! I'm going to kill you!"

Yan Beihan drew her sword with a furious expression, but Chen Yin was already gone.

Yan Beihan began making her way home while holding her communication jade, pausing to look at it almost every few seconds.

There was still no response from Night Demon, and she was livid!

You use me, then toss me aside, is that it?! You better pray we never meet again! I'll...

Right at this moment, a message from Night Demon finally arrived.

"Thank you, Mistress Yan. It was all a misunderstanding just now. Please forgive me for my belated response, I was delayed because I was explaining things to Obsidian just now."

The fury in Yan Beihan's heart quickly faded away at the sight of the message.

"What happened?"

"I'm the one to blame. There were four formidable enemies here to kill me, and I had nowhere to run, so I used Master Chen's subordinate to kill them for me. It was a very urgent situation, so I had to keep you in the dark as well."

Fang Che knew that Chen Yin would eventually reveal the truth to Yan Beihan, so he made no attempt at deception.

Sure enough, Yan Beihan was very pleased that Fang Che had been so candid with her.

"Make sure to look after yourself. The waters down where you are aren't as deep as they are in the main church, but it's still far from safe."

"I will. Thank you, Mistress Yan."

Yan Beihan was very pleased with Night Demon's polite demeanor, and she asked, "What did Chen Yin send you?"

"Six vials of Cloud Spirit Pills, a kilogram of Spirit Raising Tea, three Spirit Nourishment Pills, and an entire set of protective garments from head to toe. Honestly, I was a little stunned by Master Chen's generosity."

Yan Beihan's eyes instantly widened in shock.

This was far more than she had anticipated!

She wanted to verify this list with Chen Yin, but she felt a little embarrassed, having just thrown such a fierce tantrum at him over a misunderstanding.

"That's nothing! Knowing how wealthy Chen Yin is, all of that stuff is probably bottom-of-the-barrel trash that he was going to toss out anyway! Only a hillbilly like you would be so happy to receive someone else's trash!"