Chapter 255: When One Man Achieves the Dao, Even His Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Heaven

Qin Haoxuan smiled. In these past two years, he had indeed been threatened by many cultivators, among them even the Spirit Tree Realm’s Master Chi Lian. But he never thought he would regress to the point of being threatened by a mortal slave while searching for his senior brother’s family.

He had no desire to act against these mortals himself and looked directly at Xing. “Young Master Hua, it is your time to bully the men and dominate the women, to be a tyrant in this village.”

While Qin Haoxuan had no interest in attacking mortals, Xing was very interested. After all, when the two of them chatted, Xing had expressed that his greatest dream was to be a young tyrant who bullied the men and dominated the women. Although he couldn’t truly be a young tyrant now, bullying a few people was still a small pleasure he could enjoy.

SWISH!

Xing took a large stride forward and slammed his fist into the vicious slave’s stomach. The slave’s body immediately bent into the shape of a shrimp, and he vomited the contents of his stomach, mixed with blood.

The young master was startled. He never thought that on his own turf, someone would dare to strike his men. This was no different from a rebellion. He retreated a step and pointed at Xing, about to let out some threats… but Xing gave him no chance to speak. A resounding slap landed on his face. The sound echoed through the entire street, and several of the young tyrant’s teeth flew out, flashing white in the sunlight.

The street fell deathly silent. Everyone looked at the three of them as if they were the plague, their faces filled with alarm, but their eyes held a hint of satisfaction. It seemed the power of this young tyrant’s family was not small, and these ordinary people did not dare to speak out against their tyranny.

“So satisfying! Hitting people is so satisfying! Old Qin, I suggest you learn from me and vent a little steam.” Xing slapped him a dozen more times, turning his already unattractive face into a pig’s head, then punched him in the stomach, making him foam at the mouth.

After he was done, he sauntered back to Qin Haoxuan’s side. “So satisfying. I really suggest you try it in the future…”

Looking at the so-called Young Master Wenru and his vicious slave, they were now lying on the ground, their faces bruised and swollen, foaming at the mouth and wailing in agony. Xing’s control of his strength was indeed not bad; a punch that was enough to kill a cultivator had not killed these two mortals. Qin Haoxuan could only shake his head with a wry smile. He really didn’t like to bully people.

The young tyrant looked at the three of them with terror in his eyes, but he did not forget to threaten, “You… you dare to hit me! Just you wait… to offend me is to offend the entire Puxian Town! You’re dead men…” As he spoke, he and his slave scrambled onto the carriage and fled.

When the conflict had broken out, the shop owner who had been standing next to him had hidden far away, for fear of being considered one of their group. Seeing the young tyrant leave, he hurried over and said, “You’ve caused a disaster, a great disaster! Hurry up and leave! You’ve offended someone you shouldn’t have. Their family has connections everywhere. You must go quickly!”

The other onlookers also looked at the three of them with sympathy.

How could Qin Haoxuan’s group possibly fear the power of these mortals? He gave the kind-hearted shop owner a friendly smile and then continued to ask, “Uncle, I am looking for the descendants of Pu Hanzhong. You seem to know of him. Could you please trouble yourself to tell me where they are?”

“The person you just hit is a descendant of the Immortal Pu…” the shop owner said, his mouth agape with astonishment.

Qin Haoxuan was also taken aback. According to what his senior brother had said, wasn’t his family very poor? And in a very poor village? If that young tyrant was his descendant, then wasn’t his family very wealthy?

“Uncle, are you mistaken? Isn’t Pu Hanzhong’s family very poor?”

The shopkeeper shook his head. “What you’re talking about is ancient history. Before, the Immortal Pu’s family was indeed very poor, and our Puxian Town was just a small village. But when he was young, he had a fortuitous encounter and was taken in by an immortal. Later, he went off to cultivate. After he left, his family’s situation was indeed not good. At that time, our entire village was often raided by bandits.”

“Later… after the Immortal Pu succeeded in his cultivation, he came home to visit his family and killed all those bandits, bringing peace to our region. To thank him, the local people even erected a living shrine for him, offering incense day and night. That Pu Temple is right at the east end of our town.”

As he spoke, a hint of adoration appeared in the shopkeeper’s eyes. “After he came back, he gave his family a lot of gold and silver. It’s said he even knew the art of turning stone into gold. At that time, his family became rich. But that’s not all. Our county magistrate at the time had a strange illness and could not be cured despite seeking doctors everywhere. Later, he found the Immortal Pu, who was visiting his family, and he wrote a prescription for him. The magistrate was cured with a single dose. Although the immortal left later, he left the recipe for the immortal medicine with his family. Many difficult and complicated diseases were cured with a single dose. Later, his descendants used this to cure many county magistrates and even provincial officials. What was originally a small village has now developed into this prosperous Puxian Town.”

When the old shopkeeper spoke of the Immortal Pu, reverence also showed in his eyes. But when he mentioned his descendants, the reverence instantly vanished, and he just shook his head and sighed helplessly. He said to Qin Haoxuan, “You outsiders don’t know the situation. To hit a descendant of the Immortal Pu, you’ve gotten into big trouble. You should run quickly, preferably out of this county. Otherwise, the county magistrate himself might send troops to arrest you.”

The onlookers who were listening also chimed in. “Young men, you should leave quickly. The descendants of the Immortal Pu are capable of anything. You beat that Pu Wenru so badly; the Pu family will definitely not let you go.”

“Run quickly! There’s still time now. Once the county magistrate issues an arrest warrant, you’ll have nowhere to run.”

After a few words of persuasion, and seeing that the three of them were not moving and were still standing there foolishly, the onlookers could only sigh and leave. In their eyes, these outsiders still didn’t know how terrifying the Pu family’s descendants were. But they, the locals, did not dare to speak ill of them and could only shake their heads and disperse.

The three of them were stunned. Qin Haoxuan had originally thought that his senior brother’s descendants were living a miserable life. He never expected that his casual actions when he returned home had turned them into local tyrants who ran rampant, bullying the men and dominating the women. Although the shopkeeper did not dare to speak ill of them, from the occasional look of disgust in his eyes, one could guess that they were indeed very detestable.

After thanking the kind-hearted shopkeeper, Qin Haoxuan was silent for a long time. They walked a few steps, and he finally let out a long sigh. “I never thought that such a good person as Senior Brother Pu would have descendants who turned out like this, bullying the men and dominating the women, running rampant in the countryside…”

For a moment, he felt a tightness in his chest. If his senior brother knew all of this, he would surely be heartbroken.

Xing and Lan Yan had never met him, but from the respect and sadness on Qin Haoxuan’s face when he occasionally spoke of him, they could guess that he held a very high position in his heart.

“Since his descendants are doing well, let’s go. They don’t need our help anyway,” Xing said after thinking for a long time, not wanting to stay here any longer.

But Qin Haoxuan decisively shook his head and refused. “No, we can’t go yet. They need our help now more than ever. If they continue to be so arrogant and domineering, they will be finished sooner or later. Those who use their power to tyrannize the countryside and bully the men and women often do not come to a good end. If I let them continue to inflate like this, I’m afraid they will anger someone and be completely wiped out…”

Hearing this, Xing also realized the seriousness of the problem. If it were anyone else, Qin Haoxuan could have turned a blind eye. But these were his senior brother’s descendants. He could not just watch them fall into depravity and ultimately head for destruction.

The news of the three of them beating the Pu family’s Young Master Pu Wenru quickly spread throughout the quiet little town. For Puxian Town, the Pu family was like an untouchable taboo. With an immortal backing them, they could do whatever they wanted without consequence. But for a few outsiders to have actually hit a descendant of the Immortal Pu, this was like poking a hornet’s nest.

When the people of the town saw the three of them again, they all kept their distance, as if they were the plague.

He had originally wanted to ask someone where Pu Hanzhong’s home was, but the moment the mortals saw him, they ran away. With a wry smile, he had no choice but to turn back, hoping that the kind-hearted shopkeeper could point the way. When they went back, the shopkeeper was packing his things, preparing to close up. Seeing them return, he was greatly alarmed. “Why are you three still here?”

“Uncle, what are you packing for? It’s not closing time yet, is it?” Qin Haoxuan asked with a frown. “We came back because we wanted to ask you where Pu Hanzhong’s home is.”

The shopkeeper sighed softly, walked to the street, which had been bustling but was now sparsely populated, and pointed in one direction. “You go this way, and you’ll soon see a grand mansion. That’s the Immortal Pu’s home. But I advise you to run quickly. The Pu family’s power is great; you are no match for them. To go to their door is like courting death… Aigh, you hit someone in front of my shop. I’m afraid I can’t keep this shop open anymore. I’ll have to close up for a while and lie low.”

Qin Haoxuan was taken aback, and his face darkened. Even Xing and Lan Yan could clearly feel his anger. They couldn’t understand why he, a cultivator, would be angry for the sake of a few unrelated mortals. They couldn’t imagine that he was angry on behalf of his Senior Brother Pu Hanzhong. If his senior brother knew that his descendants were using his name to bully the market and tyrannize the countryside, he would probably be just as angry.