Fion halted at a good distance from the entrance of the Village.

“It seems there are still guards here.. nothing less from this village ” Fion acknowledged. Then, he saw various people crowded near the entrance.

His present body was completely different from his previous self. So, basically he’s a nobody and it has it’s own advantages and disadvantages.

“Their inspection this time is very strict , .. well it is only reasonable considering the dangerous situation outside of the village and huge inflow of people who were arriving all the time” Fion thought for a moment.

He walked towards the entrance like a noble who was walking to his own palace. He bypassed the line and went straight for the entrance. The people who were standing on the line fumed with anger. Many complained to the guards of the village.

When a guard saw fion, he immediately stood in front and blocked his way.

“Can’t you see the line where everyone was being checked. Who are you to completely dispel the rules and can straight away enter the village. Go and stand at the side, For your punishment, i will only verify you after checking all of them at the end of the day” the guard snorted. Ever since, he became a guard, he was respected very much by his circle of friends. Since then he became a little head weighted and will rush through things without thinking one bit.

When Fion saw the guard blocked his path, rage erupted in him as his eyes slightly turned red.

“You, a puny guard dares to block my path” his voice thundered as the crowd diverted their full attention towards the scene.

Fion raised his palm and slapped the guard on his left cheek. Since a guard will only be a late or peak plaudit stage, this strike from fion crushed his teeth and the whole jaw which eventually changed the shape of his face. Even though this time fion only used a minuscule amount of strength, it’s power equals a cultivator, who was one step away from becoming a mitogene expert.

When the other guards saw this, they became alarmed and was about to take action. At that time, Fion took the robe from his space ring and wore it. He casually walked into the village as if he walked into his own house.

When the guards saw the robe, they stopped in their tracks. All of them started sweating and immediately greeted in unison.

“Greetings Young master ” they bowed their heads, waiting for a reply from Fion. But, fion acted as if he did’t hear the greeting, walked further and disappeared into the streets.

They continued bowing without moving an inch and only when they saw Fion, went into the village, did they stood up. One of the guard looked pitifully at the person who was so unlucky to offend a member of Yu Clan main branch.

Since, there were many members among the main clan branch, the guards naturally doesn’t know all of them, they will only identify them by the robes they were wearing. Since fion was not wearing any robes, the guard took his liberty and got thrashed instead.

The Guard was still stunned and didn’t come to his senses until after his buddy woke him up. He cursed his luck and fion for not wearing any robes, since members of the Yu clan will always wear robes when they are out. He touched the jaw and felt that it was completely broken as excruciating pain overwhelmed him. The other guards breathed an air of relief and felt glad on evading the disaster.

Fion walked through the many streets like he knows the place beforehand. It’s because he came with his personal maid to this village a few times and was some what familiar with the village.

Fion stored the robes in his ring as soon as he entered the village. It was precisely so because if he came across any main clan member, he will easily be exposed. As he walked through the streets, he can see the tense and gloomy atmosphere among the residents.

“Naturally , they must have heard about fate of towns like vinlev and would be terrified since their village could encounter an ambush at anytime” Fion thought of the reason.

His mind was filled with various thoughts as he walked towards a large building. When he came near the structure, strong smell of medicine invaded his nose. He stopped and looked at the building. It was a two storey small mansion with many of it’s internal structures had the shape of various medicinal plants.

“This Xie clan’s alchemy shop is as glorious as ever” Fion amazed. Even though, there was danger prevailing around the village, he can see lots of people buying pills and other things.

Xie clan is actually a sub branch of imperial clan and it’s a clan famous for it’s alchemists. They have the single large amount of alchemists group in the entire kingdom. They even have their own alchemy school, teaching various kinds of refining techniques.

They had installed various shops across the country to help it’s citizens, grow in power. Only large clans have their own alchemists and even they will have only a few of them. So, these alchemists will refine pills for only important members of the clan. For others, the clan would buy from the Xie clan’s shop in large amounts and distribute among them.

Xie clan will install shops only in important cities of the province. The sole reason a village such as this had a shop installed was that it was one of the two villages that was near the Amber mountains. Whether the various experts of the Yu Clan or the solitary cultivators, they will train and hone their skills in the Amber mountains. Since, it has mostly vile beasts, it is the best place for getting vile nuclei.

The experts after honing and developing their skills, will come to increase their cultivation.Since they would already have nuclei, they would only need red autumn pills. So, Yu clan requested the imperial clan to set up one of their alchemy shops here.

When fion entered the alchemy shop, he saw a old aged man glaring at him. Fion startled a bit regarding the man’s behaviour. He had utmost confidence that no one will find any abnormality about him. So he didn’t care much about the old man and proceeded to the counter.

A cute teen, who seems like she was not much younger than fion, was in charge of the counter. When she saw Fion and his normal looking face, she nonchalantly asked “ How may i help you ?”

Fion’s face twitched. His previous self was very attractive with a handsome face. Whenever he talks to a girl ,she will fawn over him. Getting this indifferent attitude from a girl for the first time, fion was slightly sad in his heart.

“Can i buy some red autumn pills ?” Fion asked.The cute teen’s eyes widened a bit

“Sure, how many do you want ? ” the cute teen asked, while adjusting her hair. Clearly, she was showing off his beauty to Fion. she can only brandish in front of ordinary looking experts like Fion. Also, she can infer that fion must be a mitogene expert while being so young. So, she is trying her best to make fion attracted to her. In this world, where strength is respected, women will always be enchanted by those who have strength. Looks are only secondary.

Fion chuckled a bit on seeing her reaction. He immediately got closer to her and now their heads were only apart by a few centimetres apart.

“I want all of the red autumn pills that you have ” Fion said his demand. The teen who was blushing all the way suddenly changed her expression

“Eh ? you want all the pills ” the girl asked again to confirm fion’s order.

“Yes, i want all of the red autumn pills. So, how many do you have ? ”Fion questioned.

“It’s … we have around 200 pills, but i can’t sell all of them to you. Anyway, why do you need so many pills ?” the teen asked in confusion.

“”You see, my brothers were all in Amber mountains , hunting Vile beasts. So they have no time to come here and buy pills themselves. So i came here to buy all the pills on behalf of them” Fion told a reasonable lie.

Seeing the teen was still hesitating, fion stretched his body as he got close to the teen once again, This time, he was very near as both can feel each other’s breath.

“Consider this a favour from me, next time we met, i will listen to any one of your demands ” Fion slowly whispered in her ears.

Her face was slightly red, blushing from ear to ear. She distanced herself away from Fion and retreated into a distance.

“Geez, … ok , but i can only give 150 pills, since i need to have enough pills for other cultivators. And remember, next time you … hehe” she stopped midway. Then she swayed her hips cutely and went into a room inside a mansion.

Fion waited for another 5 minutes before the teen came, carrying a bag in her hands. Every actions of her were cute and were directly aimed at fion. Fion sighed when he saw this. It wasn’t that fion isn’t interested in women, rather he has no time to be in love.

“Hey, where are you looking .. here is the red autumn pills. Each pill cost five spark stones, so it’s 750 spark stones” she said the price.

Fion took out 8 vine stones from his ring and placed it in the table. The teen was taken aback, when she saw that Fion has space ring and that he can casually took out 8 vine stones.

In the world of bartlen, an object’s value depends on it’s usefulness in the path of cultivation. Therefore, currencies of bartlen were the natural stones occurring in the earth, which was used for alchemy.

A spark stone can be found in abundance when a spark mine has been discovered. This stone contains a very small amount of raw Yuan Qi and has it’s own uses in alchemy. So, this is the lowest value currency in the world of bartlen.

Above the spark stones is the vile stones. These stones can similarly be found in large quantities but it is somewhat difficult to find a mine. Similarly, it have larger amounts of raw Yuan Qi and it’s uses in alchemy was greater than spark stones. It’s value can be estimated to a 100 spark stones.

So, even if one vile stones equals 100 spark stones value, most mitogene cultivators won’t use their vile stones for trade. It’s because, they have large amounts of raw Yuan Qi and cultivators can directly use this stone to replenish their Qi. The people who will use vine stones for trade will be either a rich cultivator who have huge amounts of vile stones with powerful backing or an expert who’s above Mitogene realm. It was evident that Fion was still in mitogene realm, so she concluded that fion must be from a huge clan, may be even the Yu Clan.

Due to this reason, the teen was slightly shocked and her expression turned even more lovely. But she didn’t know the real reason that fion don’t need stones to recover his Qi was because he has a much much powerful replenishing medium, that is his bacteria.

“Dear, please wait while i get the change” the teen said and when she was about to leave

“No need, just keep the change. Thank you so much for listening to my demands” Fion obliged. The teen hearing this jumped in happiness.

Her one day salary is only 2 spark stones. Due to this deal, she suddenly earned one and a half month salary in a minute.

She then pulled Fion’s hand and pecked on his cheek “This time i had gotten through a great deal of trouble to sell that much amount, So you better remember the favour. Also visit me as soon as possible. i will be waiting for you” the teen exclaimed as he winked at fion.

Fion chuckled a bit and then walked towards the exit. Suddenly, he heard the sound of some one running towards him. He saw that it was the cute teen.

“Hey ! you … didn’t tell me your name … and even didn’t ask mine ” she asked while gaping for breath.

“Oh ! sorry . i am Fion Yu … Yu .. Yuusha ” he inadvertently nearly blurted out his original name. Even though , it won’t raise any flags of suspicion, he decided that he would be safe than sorry

“Yuusha .. is that your clan name, never heard of it in this province.. ..haha ..sounds strange.. bizarre, Hmm…anyway my name is Jener , you better imprint my name in your mind ” the teen chuckled a bit.

“Miss Jener, it’s very nice meeting you. Now if you excuse me, my martial brothers were waiting for me, so i have to leave ” Fion excused himself and hurriedly walked towards the exit.

Jener pouted on Fion’s behaviour. “Next time when you come, i will make you hang out with me the entire day” she smiled sweetly and went back to the counter.

Jener encountered many such young talented cultivators like Fion, but they won’t even show a lit bit of interest towards her. Girls like Jener were plentiful in their own clans and some would even disdain her.

For girls like Jener who don’t have any talent and much beauty, they will seek out powerful cultivators to have a better standing. Fion was young, talented and have a clan backing him. Even if he was extremely ugly, there will always be some girls wanting to become his wife or even mistress.

Bartlen was such a world where strength reigns above anything else. Adding to the increased danger of mutated beasts, normal girls like Jener were even more aggressive of their approach. Adding to the fact that Fion’s demeanour was very kind, Jener became instantly attracted to fion.

Fion felt a bit sour regarding the incident which happened earlier. “ I only flirted a little so as to buy some more pills, but i really didn’t expect events to turn out like this. Anyhow, If fate allows us to meet again, then i will really listen to any one of your wishes” he mumbled

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