Chapter 472 Breaking a Butterfly on a Wheel

Mount Wudang had always been known as the holy mountain and had been a famous historical Taoist site. It was also a renowned place of ascension in the cultivation world. It was said that many practitioners in their trial period would choose Mount Wudang as their ideal trial spot, simply to absorb some of the holy energy of Mount Wudang, increasing the chances of passing the trial.

Of course, some practitioners made it while others failed. The ones who had succeeded could no longer be found because they had gone happily to the immortal realm. Those who failed had disintegrated into ashes, not even their skeleton was left behind and they were eventually forgotten by people. Thus, people only remembered those deities who survived their mortal trials. Zhang Sanfeng the Wudang Sect founder was one of them. He was also one of the few talents who had managed to reach the trial stage after the magic ancient age. Today, he was being venerated as a deity by many.

Legend had it that Zhang Sanfeng ascended when he went through a trial at the Ascension Cliff.

“Ascension Cliff… here!” Inside a hotel room in Shiyan City, Ruan Tianyin pointed at the map in her phone and said excitedly, “I found the Ascension Cliff.”

Zhang Qianshu, Man Zuli, and Wang Laoba gathered around Ruan Tianyin to look at her phone screen.

“There’s nothing. It’s just a hilltop,” Zhang Qianshu said, then continued, “Also many trees.”

Man Zuli stepped back, looking at Ning Tao who was on the couch. “Master, isn’t that elixir press conference only happening tomorrow? Since we still have time, how about we go shopping and see whether I can buy any books about hacking?”

Ning Tao said with a smile, “Do you have money with you?”

Man Zuli smiled sheepishly. “No… master, could you lend me some, I’ll return the money to you once I get my pay from the chief.”

Ning Tao opened the small medicine chest and took four stacks of cash out, placing them on the coffee table. “Each of you can take one stack, you’ll buy whatever you like later.”

Each stack was ten thousand dollars. As they had never seen so much money before, they were too stunned to take it.

Ning Tao smiled saying, “Why are you stunned there. Come take it. I’ll take you to go shopping later. You can’t possibly make me pay when we have a barbecue later, right?”

Only then did the four fish demons take the money.

Wang Laoba slowly replied, “Master, I… will return you the money when I get my pay from the village…”

The turtle spirit was not a stammerer. It was his nature to be naturally slow, which included his speech, so it sounded like he was stammering.

Ning Tao said, “Didn’t I already say that this is pocket money from me? You don’t have to return me money. Also, you better not expect Yang Sheng to give you pay. Bao Zhimei must have thought of ways to appropriate them. You won’t be getting the money.”

A gleam of anger flashed in Man Zuli’s eyes. Electricity spark jumped in his eyes. “How dare he! If he doesn’t give the money—”

Wang Laoba looked at him and uttered slowly, “Can… you beat him?”

Man Zuli calmed down instantly but his tone was still firm, “I’ll cut the village’s electricity!”

Ning Tao smiled saying, “Don’t look for him for money, you’ll come to me in the future. I’ll give you all money and elixirs.”

The four fish demons thanked Ning Tao happily, especially Ruan Tianyin. She was beaming brightly.

Who would still believe in personality and charisma these days? Whoever had money was the boss. Who would follow you if you had no money and no benefits?

Ning Tao left the hotel with the four fish demons and went to the mall to shop. The four fish demons had been poor for too long and were hesitant about spending the pocket money of ten thousand dollars. Ning Tao had to encourage them to slowly let go and buy the food and things they liked.

Half a day had passed and the sky had grown dark.

“I’m so hungry, master, let’s go back, I’ll cook for you all,” Ruan Tianyin said.

Ning Tao smiled saying, “How are you going to cook in the hotel? Have you seen any wok or pan?”

Ruan Tianyin shook her head. It was her first time staying at a hotel.

Ning Tao said, “Cooking is not allowed in the hotel. Let’s eat out. I’ll treat you all to a meal. What do you want to eat?”

Zhang Shuqian said wittily, “We’ll eat whatever master eats.”

Ning Tao scanned his surroundings and saw a Sichuan restaurant and said, “Then I’ll take you all for Sichuan cuisine. It’s a bit spicy and numbing but it’s very fragrant and delicious.”

Ruan Tianyin said with a sweet and delicate voice, “We’ll eat whatever master eats.”

At this moment, a few youths walked by Ning Tao and company. They might have been provoked by Ruan Tianyin’s sexiness and beauty, and their androgen levels exploded. They wanted to attract Ruan Tianyin’s attention. One of them was wearing glasses, appearing to be a cultured and learned youth, said, “Master? This brother, are you Liu Bei or Cao Cao?”

Ruan Tianyin was looking at Ning Tao as she called out ‘master’, and so did the cultured bespectacled youth.

Ning Tao frowned slightly, having detected the sense sarcasm in his words.

“My friend is talking to you, did you not hear it?” another youth butted in. His gaze was somewhat aggressive.

Ning Tao said calmly, “What’s it got to do with you?”

The cultured bespectacled youth tilted his head and glanced at Ning Tao, sneering, “You few idiots are probably from other regions, right? What right do you have to be so audacious here?”

Ruan Tianyin said angrily, “What do you want? We did not even bother you, can you all not be like this?”

There was not a bit of imposing manner in the non-combatant demon.

A fashionably-dressed youth had his eyes on Ruan Tianyin’s chest and giggled as he said, “This lady, you’re so pretty, I can’t bear to see you being conned. There are many terrible men in this world who love deceiving pretty girls like you. Look at these four beside you, they can’t even afford a single down jacket in winter. What good is it to be with them? Especially that man whom you called master. Other people carry LV bags but he is carrying a small wooden box? What master? More like a hog, right?”

The cultured bespectacled youth added, “Pretty, I think you better not follow them. Come with us, we’ll take you to karaoke, we have good food for you.”

These words were downright sleazy.

The few youths started laughing.

Ning Tao also laughed. These people were definitely no good for bothering strangers, teasing women, and bullying the poor and the weak. Even though they were dressed appropriately, they were not good people. He did not even have to activate his state of seeing to see whether they had any evil energy to see so.

“I don’t care about good food! Go away, I don’t want to talk to you!” Ruan Tianyin was as pure as a pearl, she would not have understood such dirty words. Even so, she was very much angered.

Ning Tao pulled Ruan Tianyin behind him. “Tianyin, don’t talk to them. These people are dirty, let me handle it.”

“Ok,” Ruan Tianyin responded then kept quiet.

“Damn it, who did you call dirty?” The cultured bespectacled youth reached out to shove Ning Tao.

Ning Tao suddenly waved his hand over and slapped across his face. It was a loud slap. A few teeth were smacked out of the bespectacled youth, and he collapsed to the ground.

“You dare—” The stylish youth was charging towards Ning Tao’s face with a fist.

Man Zuli reached out and immediately stopped his punch and instantly, the stylish youth’s body was trembling. His initially neatly styled hair was standing up, smoking and sizzling.

Even spookier was, with Man Zuli’s one move, a few street lights in the vicinity started flickering and then were all turned off. There was no moon in the sky so the place instantly fell into darkness.

Man Zuli released his hand and the fashionable youth collapsed to the ground like sludge. He was foaming at his mouth and his body was convulsing.

The other two had run away when they saw that things were not right.

Zhang Qianshu’s arms waved and they suddenly extended. Two punches forcefully landed on the two escaping youths. With two loud thuds, the two youths spat blood and fell heavily to the ground.

In that instant, Ning Tao was reminded of an anime character, Monkey D. Luffy. Zhang Qianshu’s arms were not as exaggerated as Luffy’s but they had certainly extended by twice in length, hitting the targets very swiftly, like a type of rubber band.

To be honest, if it were not because he wanted to see for himself the ability of these new members, Ning Tao would have beaten these few rascals with his Cat Claw Punch. These few hormonal rascals searching for trouble had allowed these new members to showcase themselves. Currently, apart from Wang Laoba, Zhang Qianshu and Man Zuli had already struck with their own special skills.

“You’ve… hit the two of them, who… do I hit? Un… fair!” Wang Laoba was always a step behind. He had actually wanted to hit one of them but before he did, Zhang Qianshu had taken out two at once.

Zhang Qianshu shrugged. “Is it my fault that you’re always this slow?”

I still want to… hit someone.” Wang Laoba spoke slowly and also reacted slowly, but he was not slow at all when he struck. Before he even finished speaking, he suddenly sped forward and punched the back of the bespectacled youth.

Ning Tao seemed to have realized something then hurriedly stomped on the bespectacled youth’s abdomen.

Bam!

The bespectacled youth flew from the ground and had gone unconscious when he was still in the air.

Bam!

Wang Laoba’s punch landed on the asphalt road and the land shook. A pit appeared in the asphalt road and a certain area around the pit had caved in.

This was why Ning Tao had kicked the bespectacled youth. It was not that these few youths did not deserve to die or that he was pitying them, but this was out in the open, Wang Laoba would have definitely killed him with this punch and it would then be troublesome.

The street lights suddenly lit up again.

“Look, there are people fighting there!” someone suddenly shouted.

More people started crowding around.

Ning Tao said, “Let’s go back and get food delivery.” He immediately ran away after speaking.

Now that the master had escaped, the fish demons were also bound to follow. They disappeared into the night behind Ning Tao.

In a residential building, an emaciated wild cat was standing by a balcony, staring intently in the direction of where Ning Tao and the fish demons had run to.

“Meow…”