Transcending Evolution Chapter 10: Hoodlum
Edited by JFantasyBooks.
Welp. Took some medication. Slept a whole night and a whole day. I’m just glad I woke up in time. Anyway, enjoy.
Qin Xue did not go back on her word. After the array was repaired, a credit of one million was direct deposited into Gu Yue’s account. The only reason as to why it was less by five hundred thousand was because it was a regulation; they had to wait until the array continued to work and confirm there weren’t any problems in the longer run before the transaction was fully completed.
After from this, Gu Yue looked at the small computer chip in his hand. Inside it was a member’s sequence of the Chu Han Martial School, and it was equivalent to an old member’s membership. As long as it was installed into his own identity microchip, from here on afterwards, Gu Yue can come and go in the member’s area as much as he wants and enjoy the treatment of an honorable guest.
It was Qin Yue’s gift as thanks; as a member of the martial building, the qualifications alone needed two hundred thousand credits. So, just this one member’s card is already more than ten years of what Gu Yue could make, salary wise, when he did odd-jobs.
“A pity! The Chu Han Martial School is really good, but for my safety, it’s best that I do not use it.” Gu Yue sighed. He knew that after repairing the array, he had inevitably got involved in opposition on the one who caused its ruin. So, before he has the strength to defend himself, he had to keep a certain distance from Chu Han Martial School.
Scholars would use words to cause disorder while knights would use power to commit a crime, even if it’s the Common Era, there are still plenty of criminals against the law, not to mention the current New Age where everyone is practicing martial arts. Ever since the catastrophe, where humanity faced the last of their days and society and order collapsed into confusion, human life really is like mustard.
[TL Note: Worthless]
Until the New Age was established and society once again settled down, the legal system and institutions on the surface appeared sound where everyone is equal. But Gu Yue knew, equality was always relative,but strength was absolute. Those who are strong with a profound cultivation, their life had already evolved and were completely different from ordinary people. So how could there be true equality?
With his mere second refinement, oh, no, he now completed his third refinement. Although he merely borrowed Qin Xue’s True Yuan, he had still entered that True Yuan during the process, even if it was a thread of it; it was still very enjoyable. As a matter of fact, Gu Yue who had been bitterly cultivating for two years but had stopped and been unable to make a breakthrough, and yet, he had just broken through like that.
A second refinement or a third refinement, there weren’t much of a difference; in the end, he was still a piece of trash who could not protect himself against the powers in this city. If news really did leak, then the one behind that event would want to kill him. If they wanted to kill, then they could kill him, easily. A fatherless and motherless orphan like him, who would help?
Before he had strength, even if he had a membership card, he did not dare to use it himself. And that was primarily because a member’s information was entered into the internet, if a poor broken loser suddenly became a member of a martial school, everyone would know there was something up.
“I have money now!” Although the membership card was useless, the account balance in his identity chip was real. When Gu Yue left the martial building, he felt like his whole person was as light as a feather.
One million! And he got it just like that? Thinking about before, his monthly expenditure was always kept at two hundred yuan or lower, so you would know how much of a huge sum this one million is.
If one had money, one must use it. Furthermore, Gu Yue knew his own body’s condition. To not be able to break through in two years wasn’t because he fell into a bottleneck, in the final analysis, it was merely because of inadequate nutrition. He urgently needed medicine that could help his cultivation and nourish his blood.
Now, there were many choices to be had; the simplest was naturally to buy some gene medicine; one bottle of swig of a high-level supplement, and his nutrition-deficient body would be able to return to proper state. But it was pity. Someone buying a bottle worth two hundred thousand credits was almost as loud of an a lert as someone owning a membership to a martial school. And again, that would be as if he were courting his death.
If he could not buy some expensive gene medicine, then he could only buy some medical ingredients. He went out of Chu Han martial building and went straight to the food market.
That’s right, the food market. In the New Age, along with the environmental change, in the omnipresent yuan energy, it allowed ginseng and other herbal plants to only need to be planted three to five years to have a very good efficacy, can be comparable to a century year old ginseng of the past.
Of course, the real panaceas are all due to radiation that caused an evolution variation in the herbs; their growth pace remained slow, but were still rare and precious. Though, the effects of these kinds of panacea were simply astonishing. It’s just like concentrated yuan energy, and it was not something anyone could just bear. Speaking of Gu Yue right now, that kind of panacea would be no different from poison to him, it is not something a person in poor health can take, it can also kill.
[ED: Getting tired. Just tell us what would work!!]
In this era where everyone could cultivate, using some time to buy some herbs he could use was a very natural thing. Therefore, in a normal herb market, it is the same as a food market. Common herbs could all basically be bought here.
Of course, he didn’t have a deep understanding of herbs either; the average person would get some herbs for nutritional medicinal cuisines and so on, but the efficiency isn’t all that high actually. If it were before, the well-off Gu Yue would think and buy pills or gene medicine and etcetera, and would probably not choose to buy medical herbs.
However, since he obtained that disc which held the memories of an expert, he had found some very precious prescriptions in them; the efficacy was even comparable to a low level blood enriching pill, so naturally he would chose to select the herbs himself.
In regard with the food market, Gu Yue was not a stranger. Without a father or mother, everything had to be done by himself, so he would come here at least three times every week.
Traveling back and forth, he was very familiar as he went to each stop and picked herbs, it didn’t even take an hour of time before he had bought all the ingredients he needed. Three hundred year old blood ginseng, one hundred and fifty year old bone cleansing flower, and a hundred years old purple leaf orchid, all in great abundance; so even if it were just seven or eight types of plants in all, but it had costed him more than a credit of 100,000.
“And this was just me buying ingredients myself; if I were really to buy a refined gene medicine, I really wouldn’t know how expensive it would be! It looks like this one million also isn’t all that much.” He sighed and Gu Yue thought that he had apparently underestimated the expenses required to cultivate. It looked like his wealth would be shrinking very quickly, and he once again understood just how important it was….
Since he got some ingredients, then naturally he needed to buy some good meat, and walked around another half circle before arriving in front of a meat spread that he was familiar would: “Uncle Dao, what kind of special meat do you have today?”
“So it’s little Yue!” The owner of the butcher was as surprisingly lean man holding a thick copper knife which made vicious winds as it cleanly chopped and broke the bones of the cow. “What, you want to eat something special today?”
“Yes, I just got my wage, so I wanted to be a bit luxurious.” Gu Yue said, looking forward to it. He was familiar with the food market and knew that the owner was once a demon beast hunting group member, in the entire food market, the only place to buy evolved beast ingredients was here.
“You are pretty lucky today! There is still some ten pounds of one horned bull leg meat left. How much do you want?” The lean man asked without thinking much about it.
“One-horned bull? That’s a first class evolved beast?” Gu Yue forefinger moved and slightly hesitated and said: “Uncle Dao, help me cut it open, I’ll take it all.”
He voice dropped and immediately, the surrounding gazes all fell on Gu Yue at the same time, a strange atmosphere spread. Evolved beast meat wasn’t cheap, each pound was two hundred and eighty yuan at its fairest price. This ten pounds of one beef will need three thousand, it is not some small sum.
[TL Note: Jin is about the same as a pound, so I just converted to pound instead of using jins.]
“Oh! You really raked it in.” The lean man was shocked before laughing and replied:”Okay, I’ll cut it for you.”
Cutting the meat from the bone, separating the muscles, slicing the meat and packing it into smaller loads, everything was like moving clouds and flowing water, the so-called expert among people. Gu Yue know, that Uncle Doa’s skill in the sword could not be so resolute and accomplished without more than ten years of hard work.
Using his identity chip to complete the transfer, he quickly said his thanks and carried the more than ten pounds of beast meat. The whole time Gu Yue was simply drooling with desire.
Evolved beast meat come from ordinary animals that have evolved. The higher the grade of the evolved beast meat, the more yuan energy it contained, and the flavor was also more delicious. Ever since his parents went missing, he had very little chance to eat an evolved beast, thinking about the taste was already making himself hard to hold back.
Furthermore, evolved beast meat wasn’t something that could be obtained all the time. First class evolved beast may only have the strength equivalent to a (yang qi ji), but the nature of an evolved beast is valiant, without a first rate weapon, the normal (yang qi ji) simply cannot compete with them. Moreover, evolved beast were the cunning for the most part, in the case the situation is bad, they will immediately turn and run, it will not stupidly let itself be killed.
After buying everything he needed, Gu Yue walked home happily and full of expectations. His home was not far from the food market, it was only ten minutes on foot, when he walked down the alley, Gu Yue’s sight went dark; a silhouette blocked in front of him.
“Boy, you’re living a pretty good life!” The one before him was a bald man, his age wasn’t much, his appearance being around twenty and his arm had two evil look spiders, he was extremely malevolent.
“You need something?: Gu Yue frowned, he wasn’t any stranger to this man. This ma was a well known hooligan in the area that would normally do shady businesses. What he liked the most was to stop and intercept passing students, extort them and blackmail them. The man would commit any crime imaginable. Especially toward orphans that did not have any power. A time ago, Gu Yue was also stopped by him before.
“Nothing really. I was just thinking it was about time for me to have my meal. And Oh, lookie. I see that you bought some ingredients. Why not we both enjoy a meal?” The bald man swept a glance at the package in Gu Yue’s hands, and laughed.
It was obvious what this guy was after. He had been seen buying beast meat. The price of such a delicacy was high, and so, this hooligan would not simply let him off. If he agreed, then needless to say, the ten pounds of one horned bull meat would certainly vanish from his grasp.
“Get out of my way.” Gu Yue growled.
“Huh?” The bald man expression changed; he did not think Gu Yue would dare to refuse him. You would need to know, although he was a middle school dropout, he had still cultivated for a few years, so he had already completed his fifth refinement. His strength was higher than Gu Yue’s. “Boy, this uncle letting you even have a taste, is me having you in my eyes. Tsk. To not even appreciate such a favor.”
“A good dog would not obstruct the way, beat it!” If it were before, perhaps Gu Yue could only submit to humiliation or try to escape. But things were different now, and against a fifth refinement warrior, he really wanted to fight.
“Boy, because I hadn’t dealt with you for a few days, your courage has certainly grown!” the bald man’s face looked gloomy. With a wave of his hand, aimed a slap at Gu Yue’s face.
The corner of Gu Yue’s mouth rose, revealing a touch of ridicule as his foot not quickly or slowly retreated one step. Just this one step of difference, the bald headed man swiped passed Gu Yue’s nose, but he came up empty.
“Oh ho! This little bastard still dares to dodge!” The strike failed and the bald headed man continued to snort and once again kicked at Gu Yue.
Transcending Evolution Chapter 10: Hoodlum
Edited by JFantasyBooks.
Welp. Took some medication. Slept a whole night and a whole day. I’m just glad I woke up in time. Anyway, enjoy.
Qin Xue did not go back on her word. After the array was repaired, a credit of one million was direct deposited into Gu Yue’s account. The only reason as to why it was less by five hundred thousand was because it was a regulation; they had to wait until the array continued to work and confirm there weren’t any problems in the longer run before the transaction was fully completed.
After from this, Gu Yue looked at the small computer chip in his hand. Inside it was a member’s sequence of the Chu Han Martial School, and it was equivalent to an old member’s membership. As long as it was installed into his own identity microchip, from here on afterwards, Gu Yue can come and go in the member’s area as much as he wants and enjoy the treatment of an honorable guest.
It was Qin Yue’s gift as thanks; as a member of the martial building, the qualifications alone needed two hundred thousand credits. So, just this one member’s card is already more than ten years of what Gu Yue could make, salary wise, when he did odd-jobs.
“A pity! The Chu Han Martial School is really good, but for my safety, it’s best that I do not use it.” Gu Yue sighed. He knew that after repairing the array, he had inevitably got involved in opposition on the one who caused its ruin. So, before he has the strength to defend himself, he had to keep a certain distance from Chu Han Martial School.
Scholars would use words to cause disorder while knights would use power to commit a crime, even if it’s the Common Era, there are still plenty of criminals against the law, not to mention the current New Age where everyone is practicing martial arts. Ever since the catastrophe, where humanity faced the last of their days and society and order collapsed into confusion, human life really is like mustard.
[TL Note: Worthless]
Until the New Age was established and society once again settled down, the legal system and institutions on the surface appeared sound where everyone is equal. But Gu Yue knew, equality was always relative,but strength was absolute. Those who are strong with a profound cultivation, their life had already evolved and were completely different from ordinary people. So how could there be true equality?
With his mere second refinement, oh, no, he now completed his third refinement. Although he merely borrowed Qin Xue’s True Yuan, he had still entered that True Yuan during the process, even if it was a thread of it; it was still very enjoyable. As a matter of fact, Gu Yue who had been bitterly cultivating for two years but had stopped and been unable to make a breakthrough, and yet, he had just broken through like that.
A second refinement or a third refinement, there weren’t much of a difference; in the end, he was still a piece of trash who could not protect himself against the powers in this city. If news really did leak, then the one behind that event would want to kill him. If they wanted to kill, then they could kill him, easily. A fatherless and motherless orphan like him, who would help?
Before he had strength, even if he had a membership card, he did not dare to use it himself. And that was primarily because a member’s information was entered into the internet, if a poor broken loser suddenly became a member of a martial school, everyone would know there was something up.
“I have money now!” Although the membership card was useless, the account balance in his identity chip was real. When Gu Yue left the martial building, he felt like his whole person was as light as a feather.
One million! And he got it just like that? Thinking about before, his monthly expenditure was always kept at two hundred yuan or lower, so you would know how much of a huge sum this one million is.
If one had money, one must use it. Furthermore, Gu Yue knew his own body’s condition. To not be able to break through in two years wasn’t because he fell into a bottleneck, in the final analysis, it was merely because of inadequate nutrition. He urgently needed medicine that could help his cultivation and nourish his blood.
Now, there were many choices to be had; the simplest was naturally to buy some gene medicine; one bottle of swig of a high-level supplement, and his nutrition-deficient body would be able to return to proper state. But it was pity. Someone buying a bottle worth two hundred thousand credits was almost as loud of an a lert as someone owning a membership to a martial school. And again, that would be as if he were courting his death.
If he could not buy some expensive gene medicine, then he could only buy some medical ingredients. He went out of Chu Han martial building and went straight to the food market.
That’s right, the food market. In the New Age, along with the environmental change, in the omnipresent yuan energy, it allowed ginseng and other herbal plants to only need to be planted three to five years to have a very good efficacy, can be comparable to a century year old ginseng of the past.
Of course, the real panaceas are all due to radiation that caused an evolution variation in the herbs; their growth pace remained slow, but were still rare and precious. Though, the effects of these kinds of panacea were simply astonishing. It’s just like concentrated yuan energy, and it was not something anyone could just bear. Speaking of Gu Yue right now, that kind of panacea would be no different from poison to him, it is not something a person in poor health can take, it can also kill.
[ED: Getting tired. Just tell us what would work!!]
In this era where everyone could cultivate, using some time to buy some herbs he could use was a very natural thing. Therefore, in a normal herb market, it is the same as a food market. Common herbs could all basically be bought here.
Of course, he didn’t have a deep understanding of herbs either; the average person would get some herbs for nutritional medicinal cuisines and so on, but the efficiency isn’t all that high actually. If it were before, the well-off Gu Yue would think and buy pills or gene medicine and etcetera, and would probably not choose to buy medical herbs.
However, since he obtained that disc which held the memories of an expert, he had found some very precious prescriptions in them; the efficacy was even comparable to a low level blood enriching pill, so naturally he would chose to select the herbs himself.
In regard with the food market, Gu Yue was not a stranger. Without a father or mother, everything had to be done by himself, so he would come here at least three times every week.
Traveling back and forth, he was very familiar as he went to each stop and picked herbs, it didn’t even take an hour of time before he had bought all the ingredients he needed. Three hundred year old blood ginseng, one hundred and fifty year old bone cleansing flower, and a hundred years old purple leaf orchid, all in great abundance; so even if it were just seven or eight types of plants in all, but it had costed him more than a credit of 100,000.
“And this was just me buying ingredients myself; if I were really to buy a refined gene medicine, I really wouldn’t know how expensive it would be! It looks like this one million also isn’t all that much.” He sighed and Gu Yue thought that he had apparently underestimated the expenses required to cultivate. It looked like his wealth would be shrinking very quickly, and he once again understood just how important it was….
Since he got some ingredients, then naturally he needed to buy some good meat, and walked around another half circle before arriving in front of a meat spread that he was familiar would: “Uncle Dao, what kind of special meat do you have today?”
“So it’s little Yue!” The owner of the butcher was as surprisingly lean man holding a thick copper knife which made vicious winds as it cleanly chopped and broke the bones of the cow. “What, you want to eat something special today?”
“Yes, I just got my wage, so I wanted to be a bit luxurious.” Gu Yue said, looking forward to it. He was familiar with the food market and knew that the owner was once a demon beast hunting group member, in the entire food market, the only place to buy evolved beast ingredients was here.
“You are pretty lucky today! There is still some ten pounds of one horned bull leg meat left. How much do you want?” The lean man asked without thinking much about it.
“One-horned bull? That’s a first class evolved beast?” Gu Yue forefinger moved and slightly hesitated and said: “Uncle Dao, help me cut it open, I’ll take it all.”
He voice dropped and immediately, the surrounding gazes all fell on Gu Yue at the same time, a strange atmosphere spread. Evolved beast meat wasn’t cheap, each pound was two hundred and eighty yuan at its fairest price. This ten pounds of one beef will need three thousand, it is not some small sum.
[TL Note: Jin is about the same as a pound, so I just converted to pound instead of using jins.]
“Oh! You really raked it in.” The lean man was shocked before laughing and replied:”Okay, I’ll cut it for you.”
Cutting the meat from the bone, separating the muscles, slicing the meat and packing it into smaller loads, everything was like moving clouds and flowing water, the so-called expert among people. Gu Yue know, that Uncle Doa’s skill in the sword could not be so resolute and accomplished without more than ten years of hard work.
Using his identity chip to complete the transfer, he quickly said his thanks and carried the more than ten pounds of beast meat. The whole time Gu Yue was simply drooling with desire.
Evolved beast meat come from ordinary animals that have evolved. The higher the grade of the evolved beast meat, the more yuan energy it contained, and the flavor was also more delicious. Ever since his parents went missing, he had very little chance to eat an evolved beast, thinking about the taste was already making himself hard to hold back.
Furthermore, evolved beast meat wasn’t something that could be obtained all the time. First class evolved beast may only have the strength equivalent to a (yang qi ji), but the nature of an evolved beast is valiant, without a first rate weapon, the normal (yang qi ji) simply cannot compete with them. Moreover, evolved beast were the cunning for the most part, in the case the situation is bad, they will immediately turn and run, it will not stupidly let itself be killed.
After buying everything he needed, Gu Yue walked home happily and full of expectations. His home was not far from the food market, it was only ten minutes on foot, when he walked down the alley, Gu Yue’s sight went dark; a silhouette blocked in front of him.
“Boy, you’re living a pretty good life!” The one before him was a bald man, his age wasn’t much, his appearance being around twenty and his arm had two evil look spiders, he was extremely malevolent.
“You need something?: Gu Yue frowned, he wasn’t any stranger to this man. This ma was a well known hooligan in the area that would normally do shady businesses. What he liked the most was to stop and intercept passing students, extort them and blackmail them. The man would commit any crime imaginable. Especially toward orphans that did not have any power. A time ago, Gu Yue was also stopped by him before.
“Nothing really. I was just thinking it was about time for me to have my meal. And Oh, lookie. I see that you bought some ingredients. Why not we both enjoy a meal?” The bald man swept a glance at the package in Gu Yue’s hands, and laughed.
It was obvious what this guy was after. He had been seen buying beast meat. The price of such a delicacy was high, and so, this hooligan would not simply let him off. If he agreed, then needless to say, the ten pounds of one horned bull meat would certainly vanish from his grasp.
“Get out of my way.” Gu Yue growled.
“Huh?” The bald man expression changed; he did not think Gu Yue would dare to refuse him. You would need to know, although he was a middle school dropout, he had still cultivated for a few years, so he had already completed his fifth refinement. His strength was higher than Gu Yue’s. “Boy, this uncle letting you even have a taste, is me having you in my eyes. Tsk. To not even appreciate such a favor.”
“A good dog would not obstruct the way, beat it!” If it were before, perhaps Gu Yue could only submit to humiliation or try to escape. But things were different now, and against a fifth refinement warrior, he really wanted to fight.
“Boy, because I hadn’t dealt with you for a few days, your courage has certainly grown!” the bald man’s face looked gloomy. With a wave of his hand, aimed a slap at Gu Yue’s face.
The corner of Gu Yue’s mouth rose, revealing a touch of ridicule as his foot not quickly or slowly retreated one step. Just this one step of difference, the bald headed man swiped passed Gu Yue’s nose, but he came up empty.
“Oh ho! This little bastard still dares to dodge!” The strike failed and the bald headed man continued to snort and once again kicked at Gu Yue.
