They All Deeply Regretted It After I Became Indifferent

Tang and his men clearly didn’t expect anyone to interfere with their rent collection.

They were just ordinary people with some martial arts training, no match for Lin Mo and his junior sisters.

After all, even though they had only started their training a year ago,

they had already been practicing at home.

Xia He was at the peak of her qi training prowess.

In just a few moves, she had the Tang surnamed brute and his men crying for their mothers.

“Boy, do you dare to reveal your names?” the Tang surnamed brute demanded, clutching his still-bleeding forehead, eyes fixed on Xia He.

“Qingling Sect’s Xia He!” she declared, pointing to Lin Mo behind her: “That’s my senior brother, Lin Mo.”

“Very well, you’ve got guts!” the brute glared at Lin Mo deeply before leaving.

Hey, hey, hey, why look at me?

I wasn’t the one who hit you!

You’re looking for those who did!

Lin Mo was speechless, not expecting Xia He to drag him into this mess.

But strangely, this Tang surnamed brute was just an ordinary man.

After hearing Xia He reveal her Qingling Sect affiliation, he didn’t seem scared at all?

Daliang City wasn’t too far from Qingling Sect; he couldn’t possibly be unaware that Qingling Sect was a second-grade immortal sect.

The more Lin Mo thought about it, the more he felt something was off.

Granted, he hadn’t much experience since his transmigration.

But he had read plenty of novels!

When things are abnormal, there must be demons at play. In such a world of cultivation, one must never underestimate anyone.

Who knows what kind of power he has behind him?

Even if he’s just an ordinary man, it’s hard to say whether he’s a descendant of some ancient immortal sect, or if he has some powerful elder by his side.

With that thought, Lin Mo vanished from the spot, following the direction of the Tang surnamed brute.

Seeing Lin Mo disappearing into the distance, Xia He couldn’t help but mock: “A Qi Foundation stage cultivator, scared of a bunch of ordinary people, what a coward.”

Qu Ruyan suggested, “Maybe Senior Brother Lin has other matters to attend to?”

Xia He scoffed: “The facts are before us. It’s our first time in Daliang City, what else could he possibly have to do?”

With that, she turned to the old man buying vegetables at the stall: “Old man, are you alright?”

The old man, still unsettled from the recent scuffle, burst into tears upon hearing Xia He’s words.

“What am I to do now!”

“I have a sick wife at home, why is my life so miserable!”

Xia He was puzzled; hadn’t she helped the old man by driving away the bad guys?

Why then was the old man so upset?

The old man shooed them away: “Just go, consider this old man unlucky!”

Xia He was displeased: “Old man, what kind of attitude is that? We helped you, and you’re not even grateful, and now you’re chasing away your benefactors?”

It wasn’t just Xia He, Qu Ruyan, Xie Zhian, and Zhi Xiequ who thought the same.

“You all know that the man surnamed Tang is a notorious ruffian in this area, backed by a celestial patron.”

“Moreover, the fault lies with my old man. To pay for my wife’s medical bills, I indeed missed the rent. Normally, after Tang’s temper tantrum, he wouldn’t have done much to an old man like me. But you suddenly appeared and gave them a beating. Naturally, they assumed it was I who hired you. Once you’re gone, they’ll only take their anger out on me.”

“Even if they don’t beat me half to death, I doubt they’ll let me continue my stall here. Poor my wife, still bedridden, and I, with no place to earn money, isn’t this just driving us to our deaths?”

After hearing the old man’s story, Xia He and the others felt a heavy weight in their hearts.

They never imagined that their good intentions could lead to such trouble.

When Lin Mo returned, Xia He looked at him with disdain.

“Coward, you knew to come back?”

Lin Mo didn’t care about Xia He’s mockery and asked, “What about the old vendor?”

During his brief absence, of course, he went to find Tang’s group.

He understood the principle of cutting off future troubles.

After all, they said they’d remember you. Would Lin Mo foolishly wait for their revenge, for them to trip him up?

However, the outcome was somewhat unsuccessful.

Unexpectedly, that ordinary man surnamed Tang had an escape talisman on him.

And the quality of the talisman was not low; he couldn’t catch up.

“We’ve already settled things properly. You didn’t help during the fight, and now you’re meddling?”

“Fine, then tell me, how did you settle things properly?” Lin Mo asked.

Xia He recounted the old man’s situation.

The final solution was to give him a sum of money, allowing the old man to live out his remaining years in peace with his family.

“Do you know how grateful that old gentleman was to me?” Xia He boasted proudly: “I never thought that being a chivalrous hero could be such a joyful thing.”

The other junior sisters all agreed with Xia He’s approach this time.

Even Qu Ruyan felt that Lin Mo’s method was problematic.

Lin Mo squinted and asked, “Then tell me, how did you give the money to the old man?”

“How else?” Xia He looked at him as if he were an idiot: “Of course, I handed it over directly!”

“So you gave the old man the money in full view of everyone?”

“What’s wrong with that?”

Xia He wasn’t one to do good deeds anonymously; she had already announced her name.

Helping the old man in front of everyone also increased her reputation, spreading the word of her good deeds.

Isn’t that killing two birds with one stone?

“Heh heh!”

Lin Mo sneered coldly, no longer paying attention to the ‘young lady’ with zero experience in handling affairs.

Channeling his spiritual power, he dashed in the direction the old man had left.

The others didn’t know what their senior brother was up to, but they followed suit.

At this moment, the old man who had intended to gather herbs was cornered in an alley by two middle-aged men.

“Old man, at your age, this much money isn’t something you can handle.”

“Hurry up and hand it over, to avoid suffering that’s not suitable for your age.”

“I can’t give this to you…” The old man clutched the money tightly.

“Fine, then don’t blame us for being ruthless.”

By the time Lin Mo arrived, the old man was lying in a pool of blood, barely clinging to life.

The junior sister following behind had not expected the old man to be attacked.

With the situation critical, Lin Mo channeled his spiritual power and performed the ‘Rejuvenation Technique’ on the old man.

The Rejuvenation Technique was a healing method cultivated by the original master.

Although it didn’t have the miraculous effects of bringing the dead back to life and mending bones, it was more than capable of treating the old man before them.

Half an hour later, the old man’s consciousness gradually became clear.

He recounted the cause and consequences of his injury.

“I’ll go and kill those beasts!” Xia He was furious and wanted to seek revenge.

“Go where?” Lin Mo interrupted her coldly.

He was genuinely angry.

“Haven’t you realized what you did wrong?”

“If it weren’t for your initial presumptuousness, none of this trouble would have arisen.”

“And even if you wanted to solve this with money, is this how you give it directly?”

“If we had been a step later, what do you think would have happened to this old man?”

The junior sisters were not foolish; enlightened by Lin Mo’s words, they immediately understood the entire sequence of events.

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