Provoking Liu Shuixian (2)

Foundation Pills.

Just as the name suggests, they're a type of cultivable product created from the Spirit of Mountain by absorbing the natural Spiritual Energy produced by the world around them. Creating these Elemental Foundation Pills was not a challenging task. Even a person that recently awakened his Spiritual Soul is capable of producing them as long they concentrate.

And because of this, the Foundation Pill is treated as a form of baseline currency between the people.

"Ten Water Foundation Pills if I can get ten words correctly from this book? Why do I feel like you're trying to scam me? Furthermore, almost half of us here are illiterate. It would be unprofitable for me if you decided to not honor the bet you made."

"It's not a good deal. Go mess with the others, please." Yanglin speak what was in his mind out aloud before he returned to the bookshelves to search for another book for his leisure reading.

While at the same time, the corner of his lips curved upward as he calculates how many steps he had taken.

'It's been three steps... Are you not going to take the bait?' Yanglin was curious if what he had learned from hundreds of completed novels and over ten thousand chapters would work in this world.

"Stop right there! Who says that I will not honor the bet if you get them correctly? Look at this!" If anger can manifest, there will be a black cloud gathering on top of her head right now.

Her hands were shaking from all the anger generated by Yanglin using words alone. As a mere sixteen years old maiden, how smart was she to be against someone like Yanglin? Ignoring the age of this body, he's still someone with a mentality of 32 years old!

"Fine... I am not the one insisting, but you. It will make me looked petty if I continue to ignore you any further." Yanglin acted reluctantly in his reply. With one hand holding his other wrist on his back, Yanglin stands straight before the others.

He even calculated the direction he should go to get everyone's attention at a change of his mind.

"Since the book is in your hand, what about choosing a random page to test me? Go ahead if you're ready, and don't waste my time," said Yanglin. His words were like sharp daggers that keep finding their way to stab into Liu Shuixian's existing wounds.

"Grr..." if it was not because the maidservant was holding her hand right now, Liu Shuixian would be running amok by now. Although she doesn't look like one, she was actually the oldest amongst everyone here.

Recently had her seventeenth birthday, she was one of the few younger generations of this village that activated her Spiritual Soul. It was a generic Water-based Spiritual Soul, just like her father. This explained why she had the Water Foundation Pills in her hand.

(Young miss... Just go along with the flow and choose a random page in the middle. He might be pushing his luck and using this method to escape from your control...)

The young maidservant whispered gently beside Liu Shuixian's ear.

"Fine... Let's do this." Liu Shuixian flipped the book and stopped at a random page. Running the tip of her fingers across a few rows of words, she eventually decided on which one she'll use to test Yanglin.

"This sentence explained the Fist King's experience while he was younger. I'm sure you can read and interpreted it since you looked so confident." Liu Shuixian turned the book around for Yanglin's attention.

"Haih..." Yanglin sighed.

"Starting my cultivation exactly when I was seventeen, I've activated a Fire-Elemental Base Spiritual Soul." Yanglin read the entire row of words without missing one or making a mistake.

"The sentence clearly hinting that the Fist King was a cultivator with a fire element," he added a few more words to complete what the sentence truly meant.

"Ah!" Liu Shuixian, Xia Xuan-Xuan, and a few others gasped for air when Yanglin get each of the words correctly. As there are more than ten words in the sentence, he can be counted as winning the bet.

"Y-You!" Liu Shuixian pointed her index finger at Yanglin.

"You've cheated!" she said.

"Young lady Liu, on what basis you're accusing me of cheating? Weren't you the one that chooses which row of sentences to read, which page, and which book?" Yanglin smoothly placed the book back to where it belonged and stares at Liu Shuixian with an intense and fierce gaze.

'What - What's wrong with this guy? How can he changed so much in a single day?' Xia Xuan-Xuan's heart fluttered after looking at Yanglin's gaze. It was like a piercing eye of truth that's capable of reading through people's hearts.

"Y-You! How dare you question me back!" Liu Shuixian was at a loss for words when Yanglin retaliated against her words. As the one people adores and afraid to provoke, this was the first time someone dares to go against her will.

"Haih... It eventually came to this conclusion. Now you know why I am reluctant about taking the bet with you? Let just count it as my loss. I am not interested in that ten mere Water Foundation Pills anyway." Yanglin said.

He stretched his hand to a book nearby but hesitates when there's still an inch of gap between his hand and the book. Shaking his head like he was disappointed with what happened, he sighed and walked solemnly out of the library.

"Did... Did he just walked out of the library without taking a look at that bag of ten Water Foundation Pills?" some of them asked. Their gaze was focused on the ownerless bag Yanglin left behind.

"Hehehe... Young lady, since that idiot was not interested in the bag of Water Foundation Pills, we shouldn't waste them, correct? What about we divide it amongst everyone here?" one of the youngsters in the library said with a smile.

"Divide it amongst you people? Do you take me as a fool? Get lost! All of you, get the hell out of here! The study session for today is over!" Liu Shuixian yelled.