85: Chapter 85 The Mysterious Bird Birthmark

"You still know I've been working hard?"

"I know."

Mo Xiaochuan hugged her a little tighter.

"I came to find you to tell you something. I' rather planning to make a trip to Jiuzhou City to buy a few offensive spells for the family."

Chen Xiuyun turned around.

"When are you leaving?"

"Now."

"How many Spirit Stones are you planning to bring?"

"One thousand."

Chen Xiuyun thought for a moment.

"The accounts can afford it, but you must promise me that you'll come back as soon as you buy the spells, and not disappear without a trace like last time."

"Alright."

Chen Xiuyun glanced at him.

"You always agree so quickly."

She patted Mo Xiaochuan's hand wrapped around her waist.

"Let go first, I'll go get the Spirit Stones for you."

An incense stick's time later, Mo Xiaochuan put away the Storage Pouch containing one thousand Spirit Stones and left Mo Family Village.

The duanshui sword flew out from behind him, hovering in mid-air.

Mo Xiaochuan stepped onto the Flying Sword, quickly rising into the high sky and flying in the direction of Jiuzhou City.

Xianrengu Market, Executive Hall.

The plaque above the main gate was still there, but the markers belonging to the Xuanyang Sect and Baihe Sect in front of the door had been replaced by a wooden sign carved with the word "Mo".

Several people from Mo Family Village sat behind the counter, some registering caravans entering and leaving the market, others handling procedures for Cultivators coming to rent shops, with several thick account books placed nearby.

There were several rooms behind the Executive Hall.

In one of the quiet rooms, Nannan sat cross-legged on the bed with her eyes tightly closed, Cultivating.

Right at this moment, a commotion suddenly came from outside.

Mixed in were a few sounds of tables and chairs being knocked over.

Nannan opened her eyes, and just as she got off the bed, the room door was pushed open from the outside.

Chen Wanshan ran in holding half of his face.

His left face was already swollen, and the corner of his mouth still had a trace of blood.

"Nannan, someone is causing trouble outside."

Nannan asked:

"Uncle Chen, what's going on?"

Chen Wanshan held his swollen half-face and said:

"A man in his forties came from outside, looking tall and robust, with arms thicker than my legs."

"The clothes he wears are also very strange, not like people from our side. He speaks word by word, and I can't understand many things he says."

"He picked two beast cores in the shop, totaling fifteen Spirit Stones, but only placed ten on the counter and was about to leave with the beast cores."

"I told him the Spirit Stones weren't enough. I don't know if he understood, but he pointed at the ten Spirit Stones on the table and repeated it several times."

"Later I blocked him and wouldn't let him leave. He raised his hand and struck me once."

Speaking up to this point, Chen Wanshan touched his swollen face.

"I didn't even see clearly how he made his move before my body crashed into the counter."

After listening, Nannan stood up and walked outside.

Arriving at the entrance of the Executive Hall, she saw the man Chen Wanshan mentioned at a glance.

The man was in his forties, tall in stature, with shoulders as wide as a wall.

On his upper body, he only wore a short beast-skin garment, the hem of which reached just to his waist, and the two sleeves only covered his elbows, leaving his robust forearms completely exposed.

At this moment, more than a dozen people from Mo Family Village were surrounding him in the middle.

The man didn't make a move, but was muttering a few sentences that the crowd couldn't quite understand.

Seeing no one making way, he lowered his shoulder and bumped into the person blocking the front.

That person was bumped back several steps, and the man took the opportunity to rush out of the crowd, lifting his foot to walk out of Xianrengu Market.

At this time, Nannan also saw through his cultivation.

Spirit Platform Middle Stage, the same as her.

Nannan tapped her feet, leaped over the crowd in front, and landed in front of the man.

The man stopped in his tracks, looking at Nannan who was blocking his path.

Nannan first cupped her hands toward him.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for showing mercy and not attacking the ordinary people of my Mo family."

"However, this is Xianrengu Market, not a place for forced buying and selling."

She spoke very slowly and extended five fingers.

"If you want to take away the two beast cores in your hands, you must take out another five Spirit Stones."

Nannan raised another finger.

"Additionally, compensate with one more Spirit Stone to treat the person you injured."

"If you are unwilling, then I can only make Fellow Daoist stay."

The man looked at Nannan's extended fingers and listened to her words, seemingly still not figuring out what she wanted him to do.

He muttered something and reached out to push Nannan away.

Nannan sidestepped to dodge.

The man didn't stop and continued walking towards the outside of the market.

"What an unreasonable savage."

Nannan turned around and chased after him.

"You beat someone and took things in my Mo family's place, and you still want to just leave like this?"

When facing the Baihe Sect back then, she didn't know any offensive spells and could only rely on cultivation to fight others head-on.

Now she had already learned the Ningyuan Finger.

Nannan raised her right hand, and the spiritual power in her body quickly converged onto her index finger.

A stream of finger force shot out from her fingertips, heading straight for the man's right shoulder.

The man didn't dodge, letting that finger force strike his right shoulder.

The short beast-skin garment was instantly pierced with a small hole, but only a shallow white mark was left on his shoulder, not even breaking the skin.

Before Nannan had time to strike again, the man had already arrived in front of her.

Spiritual power surged on his right hand, and with a single palm strike, he pressed down on Nannan's shoulder.

Nannan only felt a great force rushing towards her face, her feet retreating more than ten steps backward in succession before she barely managed to stand firm.

She looked up at the man, feeling somewhat startled in her heart.

The two of them clearly had the same cultivation level, yet this man's strength was frighteningly large.

After standing firm, Nannan quickly discovered that the man didn't mean to hurt her just now.

That palm strike looked very forceful, but the spiritual power that actually landed on her body was very little, wanting only to push her away.

Otherwise, given the spiritual power the man displayed earlier, even if she didn't suffer heavy injuries, it would be impossible for her to stand firm so quickly.

When Nannan unleashed the Ningyuan Finger earlier, she likewise didn't use her full strength.

Although this person was unreasonable, he didn't deal heavy blows to the ordinary people surrounding him, nor did he look like he came to Xianren Valley to intentionally cause trouble.

However, he injured Chen Wanshan and was leaving with beast cores whose Spirit Stones weren't fully paid, so naturally Nannan couldn't just let him leave like this.

"I refuse to believe I can't keep you here."

Nannan raised her right hand again, this time no longer holding back the spiritual power within her body.

Fully unleashing the Ningyuan Finger, a stream of finger force even more solid than before shot out from her hand.

That finger force struck the back of the knee of the man's right leg.

Although this time it still failed to pierce his skin, it left an obvious red mark.

The man swayed his body in pain, wailed twice, and turned around to charge at Nannan.

Nannan had already suffered a loss once just now, so naturally she wouldn't let him get close again.

Just as the man reached out to grab her, she pivoted her feet and nimbly dodged to the side.

The man rushed forward several steps, and after steadying his body, immediately turned around to grab Nannan.

Nannan sidestepped to dodge, but her left sleeve was caught in his hand.

She struggled backward with force, and with a "rip" sound, the left sleeve split open from the upper arm, revealing her fair and slender left arm.

On the inner side of her upper arm, there was a pale cyan birthmark the size of a copper coin.

The shape of the birthmark was like a Xuan Niao, with its wings folded, its beak biting its own tail feathers, and there were several extremely faint, strange patterns around it.

The surrounding people were already watching the two fight, and at this moment all their gazes fell on Nannan's exposed left arm.

Nannan was both embarrassed and annoyed, quickly grabbing the torn sleeve with her left hand and raising her right hand once more.

"Today I must teach you a good lesson!"

Just as she was about to unleash the Ningyuan Finger, she saw the man standing in place without moving.

The man opened his eyes wide, staring dead at the Xuan Niao birthmark on the inner side of her upper arm, and even uttered a sentence that Nannan couldn't understand.