Chapter 17 Miss Long, Conflict

After leaving the small shop, Gu Ye looked around, identified the direction, and headed straight into the depths of the market selling card-making materials.

Unlike the chaos outside, this place was brightly lit, with clean and spacious streets. Magnificently decorated shops stood on both sides of the road, their signboards branded with large golden characters.

Some shops were even built in the air, exuding a strong sense of technology.

This was the bustling district of the Yunlin City market for card-making materials, the area where the true Noble Families clans operated their card trading businesses.

As for forced buying or selling in the bustling district, that was impossible. Everyone knew that leeks must be harvested one crop at a time; if you pulled them all out at once, how could they achieve sustainable development?

Entering the bustling district, the cards inside were not like those in the chaotic outer area, where nine out of ten cards were fake and the last one was practically a freebie. The materials in the bustling district were all strictly vetted by several major clans before they could enter, although no one knew exactly how they conducted that vetting.

Long Clan Card Shop, a four-story building in an ancient style.

Gu Ye looked up at the signboard. As the Long Clan was a famous seller of elemental card-making materials in Yunlin City, he had come here to collect the four great elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—needed for the world background of his bloodline card.

Gu Ye walked through the main entrance, and a scene of tension appeared in his field of vision.

"Long Yaqi, if you don't give me an explanation today, this matter won't be over!"

The speaker was a young boy, and opposite him, a young girl was continuously extending her leg, attempting to kick him, but she was being held back by two women and couldn't move.

"Xiao Qiu, Xiao Mei, let me go! Today, I must kick Zhao Wuneng, this shameless scoundrel, to death."

"Ah~ yayaya!"

Long Yaqi was like a pig about to be slaughtered for the New Year, and the two women had to struggle with all their might to barely hold her down.

"Is this how your Long Clan treats customers?"

"Also, my name is Zhao Wuxiao." Zhao Wuxiao corrected him with a darkened face.

"You sell inferior cards and won't even let people report them; who will buy cards from your shop in the future?" Zhao Wuxiao waved the unknown card in his hand. Long Yaqi saw that the back of the card indeed bore the mark of the Long Clan Card Shop.

Although only a few lackeys were echoing his words, as long as Zhao Wuxiao went out and added a bit of exaggeration, it would still cause some damage to the reputation of their Long Clan Card Shop.

Gu Ye saw that he hadn't come at a good time and was preparing to leave, but someone didn't want to grant his wish.

"Young man, since you're here, why don't you come in and take a look?"

Xiao Mei, who had been holding Long Yaqi, suddenly let go. Under Xiao Qiu's resentful gaze, she ran in front of Gu Ye, grabbed his hand, and dragged him inside.

Gu Ye wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't expect Xiao Mei to use her cultivation; he couldn't break free at all and could only be dragged inside with a speechless expression.

Because of the conflict between Long Yaqi and Zhao Wuxiao today, all the customers in the Long Clan Card Shop had run away. At first, there were a few Card Masters watching the fun, but after learning it was a group of Noble Families descendants, they didn't want to get involved and left one after another.

Now, the arriving Gu Ye was like a savior to both of them. They had daily performance quotas to meet; if they couldn't complete them, they would just have to wait for their wages to be deducted.

Seeing Gu Ye enter, Zhao Wuxiao was not happy.

"Kid, who the hell are you? Did I tell you to come in?"

Xiao Mei, who had brought him in, turned pale instantly, knowing she was in trouble. Although she was a server at the Long Clan business and commoner Card Masters might show them respect, these Noble Families descendants would not. It would be very easy for him to make her disappear.

Long Yaqi heard his words and instantly bristled:

"Zhao Wuneng, who do you think you are? He can come in if he wants to. This is my Long Clan Card Shop, not that crappy card building of your Zhao family. Also, are you a dog? You bite whoever you catch."

She saw Xiao Mei's fear and turned back to say to her: "Xiao Mei, don't be afraid. This young lady will protect you; let's see who dares to touch you."

Hearing Long Yaqi say this, a hint of color returned to Xiao Mei's face.

"Take this kid around."

But Zhao Wuxiao wouldn't let them have their way. Today, he was here to cause trouble, specifically to prevent the Long Clan Card Shop from selling its newly arrived animal-type card-making materials.

He stepped forward and slapped Gu Ye on the shoulder, threatening him arrogantly: "Kid, if you're smart, get out of here quickly, or I'll make sure you don't see tomorrow's sun."

To his surprise, Gu Ye pulled his phone out of his pocket, turned around, pointed the phone at him, grinned, revealing his white teeth, and smiled: "It seems Young Master Zhao has checked tomorrow's weather forecast; there really is no sun tomorrow."

Looking at the weather forecast displayed on the phone in front of him, the veins on Zhao Wuxiao's forehead bulged. He felt the naked provocation from Gu Ye.

"You lowly commoner, how dare you!" After saying this.

Zhao Wuxiao ruthlessly attacked him. Gu Ye felt a gust of wind blow past, and his fist was caught by a soft little hand.

Long Yaqi, who was a head shorter than Gu Ye, stood in front of him, the corners of her mouth curling up, and she mocked with undisguised tone:

"Zhao Wuneng, you're just a Bronze fourth-rank Card Master, and you want to hurt someone in front of me? Forget it! Unless your brother comes."

"You!!"

Zhao Wuxiao stared at Gu Ye standing behind her:

"Is it comfortable standing behind a woman?"

Gu Ye shrugged indifferently and then nodded with a smile. Zhao Wuxiao became furious upon seeing his smile.

"Kid, I've remembered you. What's your name?"

Gu Ye looked at him with the eyes one would use for an idiot. Zhao Wuxiao clenched his fists and wanted to attack again, but after seeing Long Yaqi's gaze, he knew that if he attacked again, he really wouldn't be able to avoid this beating.

"I do not change my name while walking, nor do I change my surname while sitting. It is Li Jie."

Upon hearing Gu Ye state his name, both Long Yaqi and Zhao Wuxiao looked at him with strange expressions.

Gu Ye saw their expressions were off, and Long Yaqi secretly told him:

"The Li Jie you mentioned is the son of the Head of the Li Family, which, like my Long Clan, belongs to the four minor Noble Families of Yunlin City. Most of the families in Yunlin City know that we all know each other."

"Uh~" Gu Ye was also a little embarrassed for a moment.

"Forget it, forget it, you're not even worthy of knowing my name."

After speaking, he turned his head and said to Xiao Mei on the side:

"Let's go! I'm here to buy pure elemental card-making materials."

Long Yaqi also signaled to her, and Xiao Mei then led Gu Ye away.

Zhao Wuxiao could only stand there, watching helplessly as Gu Ye left his line of sight, perhaps because his brain had been clouded by anger.

He led his few lackeys and wanted to leave the card shop indignantly. Long Yaqi was also confused by his actions, after all, the matter hadn't been resolved yet.

"Zhao Wuneng, you stop right there! Put down the card in your hand. I want to see if it's actually card-making material sold by my Long Clan Card Shop."

After speaking, before Zhao Wuxiao could react, Long Yaqi quickly approached him, reached out to grab his back collar, and threw him back into the card shop.

Zhao Wuxiao looked at her in horror: "Long Yaqi, how dare you make a move."

"I think a sentence my sister said makes a lot of sense."

"Since words cannot solve the problem, then use fists to open it."

Long Yaqi walked up to him, and Zhao Wuxiao hurriedly shouted: "You guys, why aren't you coming to stop her?"

His few lackeys saw Long Yaqi being so violent; although they were very afraid, they had no choice but to go up.

"Ah~ go on!"

"Bang~"

"Bang bang~"

The few of them were only Bronze first-rank and were not a match for Long Yaqi in a single exchange. She looked at Zhao Wuxiao lying on the ground and punched him directly in the eye; his right eye turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Ow~"

Long Yaqi picked up the card from his hand and flipped it to the front. A "3" with a plum blossom pattern was written on the card. The card was clearly just an ordinary playing card.

Long Yaqi's forehead was covered with dark lines, her brows lowered, and then she smiled and mocked:

"So it's just a little punk!"

Zhao Wuxiao covered his eye and wanted to say something else, but Long Yaqi scolded him with a "Get out!" and his lackeys hurriedly carried him out of the card shop.

"Investigate who that kid is for me. Don't think that just because he used a disguise mask, I can't find out!"