Chapter 13:Don´t Lie, Don´t Steal

Nie walks towards the wall and begins to search for the Herb Area. While searching for it he finds the Weapon list, Pill list, Monster list, Technique List and so on. Only a few minutes later does he find the Herb List and begins to search through it from the bottom. // Bone Veins: 3 Merit Points per gram, Spirit Leaf: 4 Merit Points per leaf, Tranquility Flower: 4 Merit Points per gram. Interesting names but none of them are the eclipse Mushroom//

He then looks towards the middle area of the List //Little Qi Pedestal Flower: 10 Merit Points per gram, Grand Wolf Heart Herb: 15 Merit Points per gram, Blood wisp Stalk: 18 Merit Points per stalk. Again, interesting names but none of them are the ones I need. I hope the eclipse mushroom is here even if it is a Herb on the top//

Again his eyes move upwards and he looks at some of the top list Herbs //Icy Rose: 47 Merit points per Rose, Sunbearing Stalk: 55 Merit Points per Stalk, Eclipse Mushroom: 78 Merit Points per Mushroom. Yes, they have it but it is so expensive and I don't even know if I am allowed to buy it.// He looks around to find out if there is an explanation for what he can buy and what not and luckily there was one.

Low level Herbs of the Mortal Rank: can be bought by Servants and Higher

Mid Level Herbs of the Mortal Rank: can be bought by Non-Cultivator Members

High Level Herbs of the Mortal Rank: Can be bought by Strength Period Cultivator

//Wuhu my luck is not that bad. I can buy it// shortly after he goes to the waiting area and gets a number, when this number is called out he can go to one of the elders and exchange his merit points.

// In the moment I have 327 Merit points, that means I can buy 4 Mushrooms of the eclipse mushroom, is that enough for you Senior Azure ?// //Yes young Nie with this amount of materials, it should be able to create at least 2 cauldrons full of 100 wolf Tempering pills// Azure says towards Nie with a happy voice that causes a smile on Nie's lips. // Good Senior Azure then let me get them quickly//

Only a short while later after his conversation with Senior Azure ended did his number get called out. Shortly after Nie stands in front of one of the Elders and Nie already somewhat knows who this is because he looked at him it is one of the Elders that mostly look down on the weaker people// I think the saying Good and Bad luck come in hand is true// he sighs internally and looks towards the Elder.

The Elder has a gray beard which is quite long but still looks clean and you can see that he is someone that takes care of it on a daily basis, like Láng Shufen his face is full of wrinkles and he has blueish eyes. He is wearing a Gray Kimono with a moon on his left and right shoulder, on the sleeves there are wolves that are running towards the moons. in the chest area is a third moon which has the crest of the clan on it.

"What do you want ? say it and if I think you are worth of it you can get it, if not you will have to give me the double amount of the merit points and then leave from here so I can calm down my mood that was destroyed by you" He says in an arrogant and annoyed tone but the worst thing is that he isn't even looking at Nie but has his eyes close as if Nie doesn't even exist.

This naturally angers Nie but he calms himself down because he doesn't want to create a ruckus. " Elder, I would like to exchange all my Merit Points for 4 Eclipse mushrooms. My name is Nie and I have a cultivated level of the Strength period Elder can check it if he want to"

He then places his token on the desk and then lays his wrist on the desk. Nie naturally hopes that he knows get his Eclipse mushroom but something happens that he never expected would happen.

The Elder suddenly cried out" Eeeeh take away you dirty hands, you are not a Descendant of my Family so how come you dare to move your hand towards me" He then takes Nie's token and and light appears after that he throws it towards nie with this much might that he even get pushed away.

"Go away, as Punishment for trying to touch me I took away all your points" He says in an arrogant tone. " What you can't do that Elder '' Nie cried out while getting angry " I only gave you my wrist so you can check that I am truly a Strength period Cultivator and now you say I tried to touch you Elder…."

The Elder chuckles " What you say and I say are two different things but naturally your statement is a lie now go before I throw you into a cell and take away your status as a Member of the Láng Clan"

// He is actually trying to steal my Merit Points.. How Shameless // does Nie think in his head and not only him some of the people that were close to him and saw what happened are thinking that too.

"Elder Please, I worked hard for these Merit Points and now you try to take them away from me, because of a reason that isn't a real reason?." He says in an angry tone towards the Elder and even begins to form a fist

The Elder only could continue to laugh and smile towards Nie" Haha no real reason? I am the reason, stupid kid. Now leave this is my last warning" he says in a domineering tone and even begin to release some kind of Aura which creates pressure for Nie making him unable to even move, he is even barely standing.

Nie is staring angry at the Elder and tries to collect his Powers to somehow free himself. "No louse Fatty, you angered The Elder and now you get your punishment" Says a voice coming from the left in a Mocking tone. Nie tries to move his head which he does not accomplish but the owner of the voice was so "kind" to walk into Nie´s field of Vision it is Bai Wei.

//Wait Bai Wei is here… wait that can only mean// When Nie Began to realize what is happening here did he only become even more angry " Are you Really so Weak Bai Wei ?. That you need to run towards an Elder to get Revenge on me only because my friend made you piss your pants and run away ?" Nie says in a Loud voice, so loud that even the People in the Mission hall hear it.

" You couldn't get the Book that Elder Jian gave me and now you want to use your connections to stop me from exchanging my Merit Points for Materials. You are Shameless Bai Wei you are no Man" Nie cries out in an angry voice.

Everyone begins to look towards them and see how Nie has trouble standing because of the invisible Pressure and how Bai Wei and the Elder have a mocking smile on their face. Some of them began to enjoy this because they found it entertaining to see someone getting mocked when it is not them but mixed in there were some people that pitied Nie because he angered a Person with an Elder behind him, an Elder of The Merit hall, and now he probably will have difficulties to even get the simplest thing from the Merit hall.

But no matter how much they pitied him they didn't want to step in because if they would they would have to face the same problem and that is one thing they didn't want to have.

"You dare to lie in front of so many People, and even an Elder, fatty. If I am shameless, what are you then when you spread such lies that the Great Bai Wei Protector of Elder Jie´s Son has pissed in my own pants and ran away from you and your friends ?" he says in an angry tone while walking towards Nie

"And you even Dare to lie towards an elder that you already are in the Strength Period, I think I need to educate you for your lies. Only A Person that reached Minor Success in the Skin tempering Period is allowed to call himself a Strength Period Cultivator"

Bai Wei begins to form a fist" I hope you remember him. It is your little friend fist and he wants to meet your belly again" He says in a mocking tone and moves it towards Nie´s Belly. // NOOOO not again.// Nie cries internally and tries to collect all his strength and move his body. // I need to move I don´t want to be hit again in my stomach and be humiliated by him// "AAAAAAAHH"

Nie begins to yell and his skin begins to execute a small red light it begins to collect itself in his arm and then his fist. when all the light was together in his fist did it suddenly begin to move and block Bai Wei fist.

When both fist collided did a small explosion happen which created a wind torrent which pushed away some non cultivators. everyone was shocked at that moment even Bai wei because right after his fist collided with Nie he did feel great pain in his hand // Why does my Hand hurt, I am already at the Major Success stage of the Muscle Forging Period//

Bai Wei moves backwards and looks at his fist, it is somewhat red and some of his skin is open. This shocked him greatly but he it gave someone that wasn't even more shocked then Bai Wei it was Azure because he knew what that red light meant // Minor Succession Molten Flesh//

Nie didn´t realize what happened until the moment Bai Wei walked backwards then he looked at the Elder. "Elder look at what is happening all of this because you don't want to give me the items that I wanted to exchange for and even stole my points, if you don't want to give me the objects then we can continue but I am sure if we continue then there will be people come that you can't mess with"

He says in a confident tone but in truth is he shaken to the core he doesn't know what happened right now and he doesn't know how to repeat it, but right now the best move would be to give the elder somewhat of a pressure.

"Someone like me" Says a Female voice. The Elder and Nie look towards the origin of the voice and what they see makes the Elder frighten and Nie happy. It is Elder Shufen with some of the other elders of the Mission hall. " Elder Lim, why are you causing trouble for a Disciple again and are even Pressuring him with your Martial Qi Realm Cultivation ? Care to explain ?" She says in a calm voice and an ice cold stare.

Elder Lim looks toward her " This Little shameless kid tried to touch me with his dirty hands and then even began to spread lies. What I did was a punishment within the Rules" He says in a scared voice. "Aha Elder Lim and care to explain why his hands are dirty and why his hands were close to touching you?"

Elder Lim locks shocked at her// We are both Elders, she may be from the Mission hall but that doesn't explain why she is acting like that.// " His hand are dirty because I could smell blood on him and I don't want to have the smell of blood on me when I am not fighting and he excused the act of almost touching me with the excuse that he wanted to let me check his wrist so that I can see that he is already a strength Period Cultivator "

Elder Shufen listens to his explanation and then looks towards Nie" Now Disciple explain me your side" Nie take a deep breath and begins to explain" I smell like blood probably because before I came here I went to the infirmary to check my wounds that I received today and yesterday."

"Then I didn't want to touch him but truly just let him check my cultivation level because I wanted to exchange my points for an object on the top area of the Herb list and I read that you need to be a cultivator of the Strength Period to be allowed to get something one that list." Nie ends his explanation like he began it with an honest tone while looking directly towards Elder Shufen eyes.

"mhm Elders Of the Mission hall you heard both Statements now I want to ask you which do you believe more and which is more likely the truth ?" Asks Elder Shufen the other elders and all of them begin to talk with each other. A few moment later steps one of them out.

"Elder Shufen we believe the young Nie says the truth not only because he looked the full time at you while talking in a honest tone and not a scared one like Elder Lim, but because I was today at the forest and saw how the Young Nie exit it and gave Elder Li crucial information about the chaos in the forest and then saw how he went to infamerty"

Then another Elder steps out." Not only that I asked some of the people that watched everything play out and all of them give the same answer as the young Nie" he says and Elder Lim´s face becomes darker and Darker.

Elder Shufen nods after she hears everything and suddenly an aura presses Elder Lim onto the ground" We heard everything and found out that you broke the rules Elder Lim now hear my judgment. You will give Young Nie his merit Points Back and even triple them and then you will give him twice the amount of the object he wanted UNDERSTAND!!?" She says in a Dark voice and Elder Lim could only nod.

Elder Lim then takes out his token and a light beam comes out of it which is flying towards Nie token. Right after this comes a Person from a door behind the Exchange post with a pouch. " In this Pouch are the items that you wanted, twice the amount of the original that you wanted to buy." he says in a defeated tone.

Nie smiles all over his face and takes the pouch and then looks towards Elder Shufen. " Thank you for bringing justice Se- Elder Shufen" She only smiles and then points towards the exit.

Nie understands it" I take my leave now, thank you Elders" He then quickly walks out of the merit hall then upstairs towards his room. Only when he closed his door and sat down did he calm down. // I think right now i can say Karma is a Bi** right Senior Azure// while taking out ever material that he needs for the Pill.

//Yes and who would have known that reacts this quickly and you even get more out of it then you originally had// He then leaves Nie's body and takes all the materials// All of them have a good quality even the eclipse mushrooms. Let us find a secluded place in the forest young Nie where I can create the pills. Don´t worry about the beast I will handle them and set up a barrier when we found the place //

Nie alreadly wanted to disagree with Senior Azure when he said they should find a place in the forest but directly afterward he already said a measurement against the Beast. // Okay Senior azure// He quickly stand up again and walks out of his room towards the Forest.

In a secret Chamber:

"Bai Wei you idiot you said he has no real backer and has no strength but look at this. He is a mere Skin Tempering Minor Success Stage Cultivator but this strange light gave him the ability to even injure you who is close to reach the perfection stage of the Muscle Forging Stage '' Says Elder Lim in an angry tone towards Bai Wei. " How do you plan to explain it towards our Master that we couldn't handle a little ant and that I even needed to give him items and merit Points "

" Don´t worry Elder Lim it was just a small step back but be sure of it we will soon recover our losses and even get them back 10 times over. Oh and don´t worry about that little fatty. I already sent someone to watch over him and find out how he has this strength and if he again causes trouble for us I will deal with him will using my full power" Bai wai says in a dark tone.

Back to Nie:

//This forest is really dangerous in the moment senior Azure, even this far away from the spot where the ruler died there are beast of the Peak level of the Strength period running amok and I even have the feeling that this is not the only dangerous thing here //