Chapter 24: Beating People Is Tiring  

“Who are you? Have we met before?”  

Those words left the Third Prince utterly stunned.  

He stared at Lin Guiming, mouth agape, unable to process for a long while.  

“You, I…”  

“You what?” Lin Guiming cut him off.  

“Look at your face, beaten up like that, and you still have the nerve to come cause trouble for the He family?”  

“Ah—! You’re driving me mad!  

You beat me into this state and still dare to talk like that?  

Today, I’ll flatten your He family!”  

“I beat you?”  

Lin Guiming paused, racking his brain for a moment before it clicked.  

“Oh, so you’re that bandit?”  

“You’re the bandit! Your whole family’s bandits!”  

The Third Prince was practically hopping with rage, pointing at Lin Guiming and cursing loudly.  

“So, what’s your deal this time?  

What do you want?”  

Lin Guiming raised an eyebrow, his tone casual.  

“What do I want?  

Didn’t I just say?  

I’m here to raze the He family!”  

“Just… you lot?”  

Lin Guiming scanned the group, noting that the strongest among them was the City Lord, who was only at the Great Achievement stage of Tendon Tempering.  

“Just us?  

Kid, do you even know who I am?”  

The Third Prince laughed in anger.  

“I’m the Third Prince of the Great Qian Dynasty!  

If I wanted, I could have your entire nine clans tracked down and sent to hell with you!”  

“Track down my nine clans?”  

Lin Guiming could barely hold back his laughter.  

Would that mean investigating Bixiao Palace?  

A mere secular prince daring to threaten to exterminate the nine clans of a true disciple of Bixiao Palace?  

“You really don’t know how to spell ‘death,’ do you…”  

Lin Guiming shook his head, looking at the Third Prince with pity.  

“But I can’t blame you.  

Weakness… limits your imagination.”  

“Arrogant nonsense!”  

The Third Prince finally snapped, no longer caring if he was Lin Guiming’s match.  

Despite his injuries, he charged at Lin Guiming, throwing a punch.  

Lin Guiming glanced at him and, with a casual flick, sent him flying.  

“Third Prince… you insolent brat!”  

Seeing the Third Prince knocked away, the Yuzhou City Lord panicked and rushed at Lin Guiming.  

“Sigh—”  

Lin Guiming let out a helpless sigh, shaking his head.  

“Why bother?”  

“Bang—!”  

A few seconds later, the group that had stormed into the He family was thrown out one by one by Lin Guiming.  

The City Lord fared the worst, with his teeth knocked out and his mouth full of blood.  

“Don’t come back.  

Beating people up is exhausting.”  

With that, Lin Guiming slammed the door shut.  

***

“Mother, Sen… Senior Brother, what just happened?”  

At this point, He Wanying had finished dealing with her stomach issues and emerged from the outhouse.  

She looked at the two, puzzled, and asked, “What’s going on?”  

She had definitely heard some commotion, as if someone had come looking for trouble, but now there was no one in sight.  

“Nothing much, just a few pesky bugs.  

They’ve been chased off,” Lin Guiming said nonchalantly.  

“Oh…”  

He Wanying didn’t press further and obediently sat back at the dining table.  

But now, looking at the array of dishes, she had no appetite.  

“Eat this and get ready to continue training.”  

Lin Guiming handed her a pill.  

“Huh? Another one…”  

He Wanying instinctively recoiled, staring at the pill in Lin Guiming’s hand with fear.  

“…”  

Lin Guiming’s mouth twitched.  

“Relax, this isn’t the same kind as before.  

This is an energy-replenishing fasting pill.  

It’ll give you more strength to train longer.” 

“Oh.”  

He Wanying nodded, taking the pill from Lin Guiming’s hand.  

She sniffed it cautiously, then, with a nervous expression, popped it into her mouth.  

Lin Guiming watched, torn between laughter and exasperation.  

This pill was something countless people in the secular world would kill to have.  

Yet this girl acted like she was reluctant to eat it…