"You halt your tracks, Starfall!" Biyu Baoyi desperately called.
Was I going to listen? No! I'm wasn't a simp. She may be cute on the outside, but her heart and soul were that of a snake. a very venomous snake at that.
Besides that, what do I benefit from listening to her? Nothing! I'm 5 years old! She's 5 years old too! What do five year olds want? Personally, I would like some mint or sweet berries so I can make my pills more tasty. Then again, adding on additives to the pills might give me a new type of addiction. If I became a pill addict, I might get diabetes or die from pill overdose down the road too. So, you know what? Her words went in my left ear and went out my right ear as I continue to walk off.
"Xingluo! If you walk away now, I'll find your new family and murder them myself."
"Sure, but you better make sure you're potty trained before you go give it a shot." I snickered.
But before I could get very far, she actually retaliated back. "Fine then! I, Biyu Baoyi, the young mistress of the Great Biyu Clan places a bounty upon that young boy named Starfall! Everyone here is welcomed to join! Whoever manages to catch him can request a favor from my family! Fine or crippled is okay! All skills and tricks are allowed as well! The deadline of this bounty is today!"
'Bold!' I inwardly praised. She's gotten more bolder it seemed. Back then, all she did was use her looks to get anything she wanted. If that didn't work out, she would use her family's name to sort things out while she hid in the back. Heck, only I dared and managed to kill her! Her family ended up dead with her in the process.
Now that fate had brought us together again, it's either asking me to forgive her or for her to get revenge on me, and I'm starting to think that it was the latter.
"The Great Biyu Clan? Which clan is that?"
"You dolt, the Great Biyu Clan is one of the 10 Great Families of the Xingchen Empire!"
"Oooh, that Biyu Clan...Right, why are they here again?"
"You really are a dolt, aren't you? You do know that Winqu is a subsidiary town under the Severlance Family right? Well, the Great Biyu Clan does the most trade with Winqu so it'd be weird if they weren't here after finishing up some trade."
"Oooh, I see...That young girl said she was the young mistress of the Great Biyu Clan? And we'll get to ask them for a favor if we catch that boy? Count me in!"
As Biyu Baoyi finished her announcement, the shocked and curious eyes of the people here suddenly turned vicious and greedy when they looked at me.
"What a bunch of pedophiles...Scram if you don't want your schlong to be cut off!" I threatened as secretly condensed several Spiritual Energy Daggers behind me. There were at least a hundred of them gathered here, even with my powerful Spiritual Sense, the most I could do was use [Spirit Eyes] to constantly send bursts of Spiritual Energy at them. It may be effective since the highest level here was only 9th stage Body Tempering Realm but its not very cost effective. At the rate I was draining my Spiritual Energy in a short battle before this, I will need to defend myself while also make sure that I do not counterattack innocent people during the fight. Things do not look good.
"Biyu Baoyi you bitch! Just say if you want me dead! If I survive your ploy today, do remember that I will come and kill you before I extinguish your soul so that you'll never ever be reincarnated!"
"You're currently a kid just like me, what can you do against me when a hundred people are locked on to you? Besides, unless you catch your opponent off guard, there's no way you'll be able to escape! Now, let the hunt begin!"
As she swung her arm down, I immediately sent out several dozens of Spiritual Energy Daggers at the crowd while I back away quickly. The people charging at the front were indeed caught off guard by my sudden attack but they managed to shake off my daggers real quick. Needless to say, I was only at 1st stage Body Tempering realm, I don't have much arm strength nor do I have the leeway to freely expend Spiritual Energy since my Spiritual Sea was still very small.
As I continued to shower my pursuers in Spiritual Energy Daggers, they continued to not care about themselves and proceeded to chase me all over the town. Do note, me sending out multiple Spiritual Energy Daggers combined was more time saving and cost effective than me directly attacking my pursuers' Spiritual Seas with my Spiritual Sense. After a while, the number of hunters chasing me began to drop like flies. Ha! They actually looked down on my daggers! Serves them right!
For a simple explanation, my daggers were actually cutting and tearing their Spiritual Seas open before their souls burst from the excess foreign Spiritual Energy lingering within their souls.
By the 3rd hour, the number of hunters chasing me was already halved. 50 more people left, I can do this!
Evening, Winqu Square
I was panting hard after a long time. My Spiritual Sea had almost dried up and my own body's natural Qi had already dried up. I was hunted and chased by 100 people through out the city for 6, maybe 7 hours! The last few guys who remained till the end took me 30 minutes each to take down. Especially the remaining two 9th stage Body Tempering realm cultivators, even though they didn't have very strong Spiritual Seas, their fucking body actually tanked 200+ Spiritual Energy Daggers! And only a portion of that 200+ had actually damaged and killed them, the rest just failed to scratch and penetrate their really hard body....
Now that that's over, I proceeded to calm myself down using a breathing technique before I head over to a nearby inn. The inn I chose goes by the name of Winqu Holiday Inn, the guards at the gate told me that it was the best inn of Winqu. Upon entering the Inn, I walked over to the bartender and told him I needed a room. He only gave me a glance before he chuckled, "A room here is 3 silver, kid. You can't afford --?!"
Aah, he stopped halfway as I slowly took out the visitor pass I got from the Southern Gate's guard station. He then actually held his tongue and proceeded to sweat buckets? Damn, why didn't I use the visitor pass earlier? I could have showed it to that Old man Gong and gotten a super discount or might have even gotten the blue Sky Stone for free! Moreover, I could have just revealed this pass to the 100 people chasing me instead of tearing their souls and killing them off. I feel stupid now.
"Forgive me for my rude actions sir! Your room is the penthouse and its on the highest floor, sir! If you need anything, just call this lowly servant and I'll be right there!" The bartender immediately changed attitude and he tried to put on his best smile while also trying to hide his fear. He extended his hand and pointed to a corridor where a small array was placed. "Good sir, this is a teleportation array usually only accessible by the staff. Since Sir has the visitor pass, we will naturally let Sir use the array to go up and down whenever you want. The array is already activated so Sir just needs to step onto the array and it will teleport you to your room. Have a good evening, Sir."
"Neat!" I waved goodbye at the bartender before I stepped onto the teleportation array and disappeared. When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a big room filled with lavish designs. The penthouse was actually decent looking considering that this was the best Inn of Winqu. 'Damn, I could see the market from here!'
But before I even turned around, I spotted a familiar face walking into a dark alley alone. It was actually Biyu Baoyi that bitch! What was she doing there? I wanted to check it out a splitting headache suddenly hit me. 'Argh! Fuck it! I'll recuperate first before I think about anything else.'
I then went to my bedroom, closed the door, sat down with my legs crossed before I entered a meditative state and began recuperating.