Chapter 9

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

It was obvious that Su Yu was finding trouble for Ren Jie when he stopped him in his tracks just now. Many people came to watch the commotion immediately.

These instances were very popular within the Jade Imperial Academy. After all, those watching from the sidelines would not be worried if the issue blew out of hand. Moreover, most of the students in the Jade Imperial Academy were good-for-nothings.

However, everyone was stunned then. That was because everything happened too fast. No one could have imagined that Ren Jie would not hide. He avoided talking to Su Yu and simply ordered the spiritual beast carriage to knock them over. There was not even a chance for them to counter-attack.

In the worst-case scenario, that crash could even have caused some deaths. If a spiritual beast really escaped bondage and went crazy, even ordinary cultivators in the Divine Power Realm could not tame it. Thus, people would usually avoid those who were using spiritual beast carriages.

They were unguarded when they stood near that carriage only because it belonged to Ren Jie. No one expected him to be so… ferocious today.

What was even more shocking was that Ren Jie simply threw some gold checks and left after he knocked people into the air.

Left… He left…

That was simply too… too unbelievable. That rascal actually…

That demeanor and attitude were way more arrogant than if he had come out and beaten someone or if he had ordered his servants to engage in a fight. When did Ren Jie actually… actually become that cool?

Those watching from the sidelines were stunned. One of Su Yu’s sidekicks who was not severely injured did not think through his actions properly. He happily chose to pick the gold checks up instead of helping Su Yu up as others did.

“Young Master, this is…”

“F*ck! You f*cking son of a b*tch. Did you just pick up the money? Is the Su family short of that little money? How dare you pick it up. Splat…” Su Yu was hurting profusely from the impact. At that moment, his sidekick actually did such a thing. Su Yu was burning with anger. In that split second, he vented all his anger on that guy. The pain caused tears to well up in his eyes. As he stood up with the support of his sidekicks, he kicked that guy into the air and berated him furiously.

In the end, his moment of anger implicated the injury on his chest causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood. That frightened his sidekicks and they carried him away to heal his wounds immediately.

Concurrently, Ren Jie was lying on his carriage. His mood turned for the better. It looked like having an outburst was indeed an effective way to de-stress, just like his outburst in front of the elders when he first arrived at that universe.

Now that he had become Ren Jie and was a member of the pampered children circle, he was definitely not going to allow himself to be bullied, and neither would he allow himself to become a failure.

If he did want to be bullied or become a failure, that meant that he had to be even more pampered than the other pampered kids. He had the capacity to do so. The previous Ren Jie did not know how to take advantage of that, but he was definitely not going to be like him.

“That’s sick, Uncle Beast.” As Ren Jie recalled what had happened earlier, he felt relieved and satisfied, and he was also thankful for how supportive Uncle Beast was.

He followed his orders without any hesitation and had done an excellent job handling the matter appropriately.

Ren Jie had no recollections of previous interactions with Uncle Beast. He used to his father Ren Tianxing’s chauffeur. The spiritual beast carriage was hard to control. Because of this unique characteristic, Uncle Beast had a special status within the family clan.

Ren Tianxing had made it clear in the past that Uncle Beast was merely responsible for controlling spiritual beast carriages and was only accountable to the family head. Therefore, he did not need to bother about anyone else in the Ren family other than the family head.

Moreover, Uncle Beast never spoke. He wore a gigantic hat and was always resting by the spiritual beast carriage when he had nothing to do. The previous Ren Jie had tried communicating with Uncle Beast, but there was no success. He never responded even if he tried to invite him to a meal, gave him anything or tried speaking to him.

Sick? The spiritual beast carriage was gradually approaching Ren Jie’s accommodation. As he maneuvered the carriage, Uncle Beast thought to himself, What is ‘sick’?

He still did not speak. However, as he recalled the scene earlier, a surprised yet slightly happy smile crept up his face under the large straw hat. That should be the way the Ren family head behaves, he thought.

Uncle Beast did not respond to him. Ren Jie did not pester Uncle Beast with his words. When he alighted from the carriage, he urged Uncle Beast to have a rest in a polite manner. Meanwhile, he stepped into his accommodation that took four months to complete construction.

He had chosen a plot of land and built his own accommodation within the academy. That was unconventional and notorious even within the Jade Imperial Academy, where the students were known for being pampered. Ren Jie remembered that the original Ren Jie was reprimanded by the elders for eight hours because of that incident.

Of course, he remembered clearly that the person who encouraged him to build a house in such a remote area was his companion, “Master” Gao Ren. He had a silver tongue and had talked him into doing so.

“Big Brother, you’re finally back. You’ve broken the record this time around. Those elders are way too tenacious. It’s been two days and one night. Did they really cut your expenses again this time? That sucks. If it’s cut again, what am I supposed to do for my research? Will we have to starve if this continues?” That fatty had approached him just when he was thinking of him.

Seeing that there were no responses from Ren Jie, Gao Ren thought that he was criticized and had his expenses cut again back at home.

Ren Jie looked at Gao Ren and smiled. “Looks like you shouldn’t call me Big Brother, but instead a meal ticket. Just look at how agonized you look when talking about my expenses getting cut.”

“Um…” Gao Ren was stunned momentarily. Afterward, he clasped his hands together and said while giggling, “Meal ticket sounds good. Big Brother, if you’d like me to call you Meal Ticket Big Brother, I can do so too. I think that the meal ticket shows my deepest respect for people. If you think about it, if I were to depend on you for even my meals, that means that you control my life and death. That’s why you are the most admirable, Big Brother. The meal ticket represents an attitude. It implies that I know who feeds me. Shall I call you Meal Ticket Big Brother from now on?”

Ren Jie pointed out the fatty’s concern about money and food. However, after he heard the fatty’s meal ticket theory, he was so impressed that he nearly gave him a thumb’s up.

Look at that. That was the epitome and the pinnacle of licking one’s boots. He spent no effort in defending himself but instead took the meal ticket issue to new heights.

Looking at how agonized he looked when speaking about the expenses cut, Ren Jie wanted to tease him intentionally. He pointed that out explicitly to observe his reactions. It never occurred to him that the fatty could make up such incredible excuses. Such talent!

“I’m pleased with the way you’re sucking up to me. I shall not quibble about how you value money more than me. Nevertheless, you do not need to worry. They did not cut my expenses this time around.”

After hearing that, the fatty sprang up from the ground for half a meter and exclaimed, “Wow! That’s great! I thought there was no hope this time. In that case, I can pre-order some things. Meal Ticket Big Brother, you’re awesome!”

Sweat! Meal Ticket Big Brother… Ren Jie was speechless. He merely wanted to tease him, yet his reaction made him dumbstruck.

He lifted his head and looked at the house which Gao Ren had come out from. There was a pungent medicinal smell drifting from inside. It was obvious that that was an apothecary room.

“Ah… My medicines…” Gao Ren followed Ren Jie’s gaze and saw the apothecary room. It suddenly occurred to him that his medicines were still inside and he darted inside.

Ren Jie followed him into the room. There were absolutely no recollections of that room in the previous Ren Jie’s memory. He was there for half a year, yet he had never stepped foot into the room. That room was enormous and was about a hundred and fifty square meters. Apart from the few cauldrons in the middle which were used to brew medicines, there was a variety of medicinal ingredients at the further end of the room.

At that moment, Gao Ren was busy with his medicines. Ren Jie glanced around the room and his gaze stopped at the medicinal ingredients picked out and placed on the Chinese medicine cabinet.

There were about a dozen medicinal ingredients placed there. A quick glance left Ren Jie momentarily stunned. That feeling was similar to the first time he read. Everything came to him naturally. Looking at those medicinal ingredients, Ren Jie could conjure the effects when those medicinal ingredients were concocted. The elixir was an incredibly strong laxative that was lethal to ordinary people. Even those at the eighth or ninth level of the Body Refinement Realm would be enfeebled by its effects and the only cure was excessive diarrhea.

“Thousand feet solution, woolly ordure tree bark and lxeris chinensis plant, then some salamander blood and love root plant.” Looking at some dozen medicinal ingredients in front of him, their effects clearly flashed in his brain. Concurrently, he knew who Gao Ren wanted to use the medicine on.

After his rebirth, he initially did not want to care about that woman Fang Qi. The previous Ren Jie was head over heels for her, but the current Ren Jie detested her due to what he knew in his memory. If that woman no longer provoked him, he would not bother to care about what happened before. However, she did not want to let go of the matter. After killing the previous Ren Jie, she still wanted to create trouble for him.

If that was the case, Ren Jie was not letting her get away with it easily. Since she wanted to play, he was game for it.

“What?” Gao Ren was controlling the flame under the cauldrons that were brewing medicines. When he heard Ren Jie mention the names of the medicinal ingredients, he turned his head immediately to look at him.

“I said that you should add some thousand feet solution, woolly ordure tree bark and lxeris chinensis plant, then add some salamander blood and love root plant,” Ren Jie repeated.

Gao Ren’s pale and chubby face froze momentarily. He thought that he was hearing things. In the past, Ren Jie would never enter this room. Even if he wanted to find him, Ren Jie would send someone in to notify him. What was going on today?

Not only did he enter, but he also managed to identify the names of so many medicinal ingredients. Although these ingredients were pretty common but…

Gao Ren looked at the medicinal ingredients that he had picked out but had yet to concoct. The light in his eyes gradually changed.

F*ck. Are you kidding me? Coincidence. This must be a coincidence. But this probability is way too low for it to be a coincidence.

There was nothing special about those medicinal ingredients that Ren Jie mentioned, but they each reacted differently with the seventeen ingredients that he had picked. The thousand feet solution would become lethally poisonous after reacting with three ingredients that he picked. The woolly ordure tree bark would cause discomfort to people who consumed the medicine after reacting with five of the ingredients. The lxeris chinensis plant must not be included in the mix as the reaction would produce a poison that was deadly to even those in the True Qi Realm. Then, there was the salamander blood and the love root plant. Those two medicinal ingredients had adverse reactions with many of those seventeen ingredients. Those medicinal ingredients that Ren Jie listed sounded baffling. However, he actually listed ingredients that produced adverse reactions and conflicted with the ingredients that he picked. What he did was tougher than listing a middle-grade or even superior-grade medicinal prescription.

Gao Ren opened his mouth and wanted to say that Ren Jie was messing around with him. However, his expression gradually turned solemn. Although he was only a high-grade apothecary, he secretly knew that his knowledge and cognitive thinking abilities were better than ordinary alchemists.

If ordinary high-grade or even superior-grade apothecaries heard what Ren Jie said, they would be scornful or might even berate him. Those words were nonsensical and were insults to apothecary medicinal prescriptions. No one would add those ingredients to the prescription. That was akin to suggesting to someone to rub salt in his wounds, before adding some honey to invite ants over to play. Otherwise, its absurdity was also similar to finding a few mice to be the brides for cats so as to ensure their lineages.

However, Gao Ren had a vague feeling that if he were to do that, he could at most think of three medicinal ingredients that conflicted with those seventeen ingredients. It was hard for him to come up with five like Ren Jie did even if he aimed to do so.

“Three, seven… seventeen… five…” Gao Ren mumbled when thinking. Thereafter, he grabbed both of Ren Jie’s hands and looked at him in disbelief. “A hundred and seventy-five… There are actually a hundred and seventy-five poisonous reactions that are mutually influencing and changing. Even superior-grade apothecaries would not be able to do that. Oh my god. Meal Ticket Big Brother, how did you think of that? Don’t tell me you just said that absent-mindedly. I will not believe that no matter what you say.”