26: Your medicinal herb grows on the iron gate?

The commotion at the main entrance attracted everyone's attention. Cao Chuan also walked out of the fruit orchard with his parents, looking at Lin Chen with a puzzled expression.

"Xiao Chen! What's going on?" Father Cao asked with a solemn face.

"It's nothing! Probably troublemakers, I'll go take a look!" Lin Chen said. He and Yun Mengyao had just come out of the vegetable patch and were about to go check.

"Hey! I'll go with you!" Father Cao was worried and wanted to follow Lin Chen, but Lin Chen stopped him.

"It's nothing, you all stay inside for now, I'll just go out and take a look!" Lin Chen said. He wasn't afraid, but he didn't want to involve Cao Chuan's family.

"No, you alone..." Father Cao wanted to say something more, but Lin Chen had already walked towards the main entrance with the Mountain Guard Dog that had come running.

To resist attacks from wild spirit beasts, the farm gates were made of very heavy iron frames. At this moment, three men and two women stood outside the gate, looking at Lin Chen and the others with mocking expressions.

"Oh! Isn't this the top student from Jiangcheng No. 3 High School? Why aren't you going to school, running back to farm?" The leading boy said with a sarcastic tone.

"Shorty Sun? Why are you here?" Lin Chen didn't rush to open the door, but instead frowned and asked through the iron bars.

He knew the person who came; it was Sun Lei, a member of the Sun Family, one of the Four Great Families of Jiangcheng. He wasn't a core descendant, and his family status was incomparable to that of Ye Fan or Yun Mengyao.

He attended Jiangcheng No. 1 High School and didn't interact much with Lin Chen and the others on a daily basis. However, they were still of the same generation, and No. 1 High School and No. 3 High School were rivals, often meeting during school exchange activities, making it inevitable to exchange a few sarcastic remarks.

"Lin Chen! Are you looking for death?" Sun Lei, who had been called by his nickname by Lin Chen, immediately roared in anger.

Although the Sun Family members had good looks, they were naturally short. A height of less than 1.7 meters was a disadvantage for men. Normally, no one dared to mock them directly due to the Sun Family's power, but Lin Chen today was openly provoking them.

"What? Could it be that I remembered this nickname incorrectly? It still seems to fit perfectly!" Lin Chen stroked his chin, not taking the other party's threat to heart at all. Instead, he looked at them as if he was genuinely appraising them.

After such a long time, Lin Chen had basically found out that the acquisition of the farm and the back mountain was led by the Sun Family, with other forces merely following to get a share.

Now that the acquisition had failed, the first to jump out was indeed the Sun Family. A few young people of the same generation came to cause trouble. It was impossible to reclaim the farm by doing this, but it could disgust him and prevent him from managing the farm in peace.

Especially if they fought and he was "accidentally" seriously injured, it might take more than half a year to recover. At that time, let alone managing the farm, it would be a question whether he could even participate in the College Entrance Examination.

"Lin Chen! I think you're really tired of living!" Sun Lei clung to the iron gate, roaring inside.

"What are you barking about? Everyone is civilized. Why are you barking through the iron gate? Are you going to put on a show of 'Iron Window Tears'?" Lin Chen dug his ear, saying with an indignant expression.

"Woof!"

"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said they were barking. It's really an insult to your canine race!"

The Mountain Guard Dog barked at the opportune moment, and Lin Chen "panicked" as he soothed it. Their back-and-forth completely darkened the faces of the Sun Family members.

"Lin Chen! I want you dead!" Sun Lei growled.

The spirit beast ring on his right hand flashed with light, and an earth-yellow rat, as tall as a man and with stone spines on its back, appeared beside him. Its hind legs stood upright, its half-meter-long front claws gleamed with sharp cold light, and a massive earth-elemental energy surged, making the ground tremble with its appearance.

"Mountain-Splitting Rat?" Lin Chen's expression darkened slightly. The Eye of True Foresight activated, but he could only see a level 47.

This was the second evolutionary form of the Earth Spirit Mouse, possessing the ability to split mountains and rocks. Its actual combat power was far stronger than that of the Mountain Guard Dog. This single Mountain-Splitting Rat could directly demolish the entire farm.

"Woof!" The Mountain Guard Dog immediately stood in front of Lin Chen, showing no fear whatsoever.

The Mountain-Splitting Rat on the opposite side, seeing this, felt a huge threat and immediately entered a battle state. With a howl, it lunged at the Mountain Guard Dog with its claws.

"Bang!" The steel iron gate still provided a slight resistance. Although this casual swipe had almost torn it apart, it still blocked the first round of attack.

"Sun Lei! Are you really going to trespass? What do your Sun Family consider the national laws to be?" Lin Chen sternly shouted, which made one of them tremble.

"Mountain-Splitting Rat! Wait!" A slightly older young man quickly stepped forward and stopped the Mountain-Splitting Rat, which was about to attack again.

"Eighth Brother, what are you doing?" Sun Lei hadn't recovered yet and questioned with dissatisfaction.

However, before he could explain, a stronger aura had already appeared in the farm, accompanied by Yun Mengyao's delicate shout.

"How dare your Sun Family be so bold? Do you really think Jiangcheng belongs to your Sun Family? You even commit acts like trespassing?" Yun Mengyao walked out with a frosty face, accompanied by a snow-white fox larger than the Mountain Guard Dog. It moved with elegant steps, and ethereal, enchanting sounds echoed in everyone's ears.

The Divine Sound Heart-Soothing Fox, the second evolutionary form of the White Sound Fox, with at least Six-Star strength, was also the guardian spirit beast arranged by the Yun Family to protect Yun Mengyao.

Bodyguards were not popular these days. Direct descendants of Noble Families like Yun Mengyao would generally be accompanied by an elder's contracted spirit beast, similar to a Dao Protector, to ensure the safety of the younger generation.

"Yun Mengyao? Why are you here?" Seeing the newcomers, Sun Lei and the others' pupils constricted slightly. The ability to recognize people was a mandatory course for these Noble Families' children, to avoid offending people they shouldn't when out and about.

"Hmph! Where I go? Do I need to report to your Sun Family?" Yun Mengyao walked to Lin Chen's side and said coldly to the group.

With a cold tone and a frosty beautiful face, Yun Mengyao at this moment was completely unlike her shy demeanor when facing Lin Chen before. She was even colder than the high-and-mighty flower she was at school. This was also the first time she displayed the aura of a direct descendant of a Noble Family in front of Lin Chen.

"Absolutely not!" Sun Lei was a little flustered. It was the same person called Eighth Brother who stepped forward, looking at Yun Mengyao nervously.

"I am Sun Ming of the Sun Family. I came here today because I heard that the commoner top student from No. 3 High School contracted an initial spirit beast, so I specifically brought my younger brother to learn from him. As for this door, Sun Lei was impulsive just now. We will compensate according to the price and have no intention of violating the law."

Although laws were tools of the powerful, at least on the surface, they could not be violated at will, especially in front of another powerful person, let alone when the other party's status was even higher than their own.

But thinking of the task assigned by his family, Sun Ming could only bite the bullet and say, anyway, they just wanted to spar with Lin Chen, which was reasonable and legitimate.

"Right! I came today to challenge you! I just contracted an initial spirit beast and officially challenge you!" Hearing Sun Ming's words, Sun Lei finally reacted and shouted at Lin Chen.

"Pfft~~~ A challenge? Does an initial spirit beast that just contracted have combat power? Is this a children's fight?" Hearing this, Lin Chen immediately scoffed. Let alone the Fragrant Flower Rabbit, even Yun Mengyao's White Sound Fox had no combat power at this time.

It was more important for young spirit beasts to Absorb energy and grow up properly. Why fight for no reason? If they had too much energy, they should go farm the fields!

"Sun Ming, don't you think what you said is ridiculous?" Yun Mengyao sneered, her eyes full of mockery as she looked at the group.

"Um, Miss Yun, please don't misunderstand. Although Sun Lei is the one challenging, he will be using my newly contracted one-star spirit beast, and Lin Chen can also choose a one-star spirit beast from the farm to respond to the challenge." Sun Ming quickly explained. Being slightly older, he was presumably more composed than Sun Lei and the others.

"That's right! Lin Chen, your farm wouldn't even have a one-star spirit beast, would it? If so, you might as well close down early!" Sun Lei said, holding his head high.

Although they feared Yun Mengyao, they were, after all, here on a mission from the Sun Family. As long as they didn't provoke Yun Mengyao, the Yun Family couldn't say anything when they returned.

"A carefully cultivated combat spirit beast challenging an auxiliary spirit beast from a farm, your Sun Family truly has no shame!" Yun Mengyao said in a deep voice.

"Miss Yun, don't forget, the Four Great Families are of the same breath and branch. It would be better for the Yun Family's matters to be discussed with the Yun Family Head first!" Having overcome their initial fear, Sun Ming and the others gradually calmed down and looked at Yun Mengyao as they spoke.

Although the words were polite, the implication was self-evident: this matter is an order from our Sun Family, and it's not your place, Yun Mengyao, to make decisions for your Yun Family.

"You!" Yun Mengyao was furious and wanted to have the Divine Sound Heart-Soothing Fox teach them a lesson, but Lin Chen, who was beside her, grabbed her arm.

"Alright! A one-star spirit beast battle, that's somewhat interesting. But you came here, hitting and smashing, and damaged quite a few spirit plants in the field." Lin Chen said, bending down and pulling out a wild grass from the ground.

"Like this resurrection grass, I spent a lot of effort to transplant it. Your Sun Family isn't short of money anyway, so if you lose, how about buying it back for a million? A resurrection grass! A million is cheap enough, isn't it?"

Hearing Lin Chen's words, Sun Ming and the others' mouths twitched slightly. We just hit the gate, and it wasn't even broken, so how did it destroy your spirit plants in the field?

And this grass, you just pulled it out of the ground! What the hell is a resurrection grass? Who in their right mind would plant resurrection grass on an iron gate?

Yun Mengyao watched Lin Chen's outrageous claims with amusement, not only not exposing him but even helping to corroborate him.

"That's right, this is indeed resurrection grass. It's normal for you to buy it since you damaged someone's property. One million isn't expensive!" Yun Mengyao said seriously.

Sun Family and the others exchanged glances, and seeing this, they could only bite the bullet and accept.

"Alright! If I lose, I'll just give you a million!"

"Hey! No! It's buying the resurrection grass with money! I, Lin Chen, never extort money from people!"