Chapter 61: Too Many Scammers These Days, Clearly Not Enough Fools to Go Around

Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Too Many Scammers These Days, Clearly Not Enough Fools to Go Around

"So..."

Su Han looked at Xia Nan, his expression carrying a hint of confusion.

"I’m very curious. How did you find out?"

Xia Nan met his gaze. She smiled beautifully, showing no fear whatsoever.

"To be honest, at first... I really did believe it."

Su Han didn’t speak. He just looked at her, knowing there would be a "but."

Sure enough.

"But then, I found one thing very strange."

"What is it?"

Su Han remained expressionless. Xia Nan smiled carelessly and gently raised her right hand.

"I was very curious. Why would a senior whose strength far exceeds the Divine Sea Realm fail to notice my little trick?"

Xia Nan gently opened her raised right hand. Seeing the two halves of a jade talisman in her palm, Su Han’s gaze chilled slightly.

"A Help Jade Talisman."

Xia Nan retreated. As she backed away, she didn’t forget to answer Su Han and resolve his doubts.

"That’s right. The ancestor of my family once said that in front of a Celestial Human Ancestor, I wouldn’t even have the chance to crush this jade talisman.

"And yet... up until now, if I hadn’t reminded you, Senior wouldn’t have noticed the existence of this jade talisman at all.

"So... I feel that Senior’s threat isn’t quite as great as I imagined."

Looking at Xia Nan’s fox-like smile, Su Han chuckled, neither ashamed nor angry.

"Then... have you ever thought about one question?"

"What question?"

"The question is... even if I’m not as powerful as you imagined, do you think... you could block even a single move from me?"

A longsword instantly appeared in his hand. A cold light flashed in Su Han’s eyes, and he activated the Moon Shadow Step, appearing in front of Xia Nan in the blink of an eye.

"What I hate most in my life is when others ruin my persona.

"So, for the sake of maintaining my image as an unfathomable senior, please take a trip on the path of reincarnation!"

Silencing her by murder!

It seemed to carry an element of humiliation turning into anger. However, unexpectedly...

Facing Su Han’s fatal sword strike, Xia Nan—knowing she was powerless to resist—didn’t dodge or evade. She even stopped backing away.

"Senior... has flown into a rage out of humiliation.

"Silencing me? It is indeed a good idea, but unfortunately... it’s a bit too late."

Watching the blade approach her face, Xia Nan still had the mind to blink mischievously. "Why don’t you guess, Senior? Why did I make up such a long, illogical, and heavily flawed story for you?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Xia Nan saw the corners of Su Han’s lips twitching upward at close range, as well as... that profound smile on his face.

"Then why don’t you guess why I listened to you tell such a long, illogical, and heavily flawed story?"

When he said the word "Then," Su Han’s voice was still right next to her ear.

By the time he said "story," the source of his voice had shifted to beneath the large banyan tree by the courtyard wall.

BANG!

The sound of a wooden stick striking something reached Xia Nan’s ears alongside the word "story." Seeing the figure emerging from the darkness beneath the banyan tree, Xia Nan’s expression instantly changed drastically.

"Mid-Celestial Human Realm, huh? Is this your confidence in provoking me?"

Throwing the broken iron rod aside, longsword in hand, Su Han instantly slashed out dozens of sword flourishes.

After the sword light faded, the uninvited guest—who had been stunned by Su Han’s combo attack—finally revealed their true appearance.

Only...

Their Daoist robes were in tatters, completely devoid of the demeanor of a Daoist expert.

Over a hundred wounds across their body bled simultaneously, dyeing their torn robes red in the blink of an eye. From a distance, this ordinary-looking Daoist Nun, who subtly exuded a bit of an ’immortal’ aura, now truly looked more like a beggar than a beggar.

"Now, can we sit down and have a proper talk?"

Looking at the Daoist Nun, whose body was covered in wounds—none of which were fatal, and whose bleeding had even stopped in the blink of an eye—Su Han’s expression was calm, but he couldn’t help but sigh softly in his heart.

"Suiyuan Swordsmanship... whether it could hack a person to death or not really is up to fate!" he thought.

"You..."

Having been forcibly dressed up as a beggar in an instant before she could even make a cool entrance, the Daoist Nun subconsciously wanted to fight Su Han to the death.

However, she was an ancestor-level existence who had cultivated to the Mid-Celestial Human Realm, after all. She had lived long enough and cultivated a Daoist Qi Cultivation Technique.

In barely half a breath’s time, the Daoist Nun suppressed the anger in her heart and looked at Su Han calmly.

"Senior lured me here. May I know what the matter is?"

Su Han cast her an appreciative glance and nodded in satisfaction. "Very good. I like talking to smart people."

"Senior praises me too much. With Senior’s methods, naturally you wouldn’t fail to notice Nan crushing the Help Jade Talisman.

"Since you noticed it but didn’t stop it, I cannot think of any other answer than you wanting to lure me here."

Su Han remained silent.

He thought, "You might not believe it if I tell you, but at first, I really didn’t notice her little trick of crushing the jade talisman. I only noticed the anomaly when she was telling that bizarre story."

Looking at Xia Nan, and then thinking of Zhao Yang from the Celestial Demon Sect, who was fooled by ’Guo Jing’ with just a few words last night, Su Han couldn’t help but sigh.

"There are too many scammers these days, and clearly not enough fools!" he mused.

Of course, he naturally wouldn’t say these words out loud.

Nodding calmly, Su Han pointed to the stone table in the courtyard. "Sit down and talk."

The Daoist Nun sat across from Su Han, watching him with slightly cautious behavior.

Su Han didn’t get straight to the point, however. Turning his head to look at the dumbfounded Xia Nan standing in the distance, Su Han waved at her. "Don’t just stand there like an idiot. Come over and sit."

Xia Nan had long lost the confidence and astuteness she had when she exposed Su Han earlier. With stiff movements, she walked to the stone table and sat down, staring at Su Han with a somewhat sluggish gaze.

"Little girl, do you still think that Protective Talisman on you could block my sword?"

Xia Nan remained silent.

She blinked, looking at Su Han. Her eyes were still a bit dazed.

Su Han was speechless.

"What’s the situation?" he wondered. "Could it be that I accidentally broke this little girl’s mind?"

"Ahem."

He coughed lightly. Seeing that Xia Nan was still looking absent-minded, Su Han turned his gaze to the middle-aged Daoist Nun.

"If this little girl hadn’t used the Life-Saving Jade Talisman, I wouldn’t have expected a Celestial Being to arrive in this small Lingzhou City so early.

"It seems that the Supreme Dao is determined to win this opportunity."

The Daoist Nun smiled apologetically. "Senior must be joking. Didn’t the Beggar Gang also send you early to hold the fort in Lingzhou City?"

Su Han smiled but didn’t answer.

"Spit it out," he said.

The Daoist Nun paused, not understanding Su Han’s meaning. "What?"

Su Han pointed to the dazed Xia Nan and the other Major Disciples who were still lying unconscious on the ground.

"First it was the Celestial Demon Sect, and now it’s this bunch of little guys. Sneaking into my Beggar Gang Lingzhou Sub-Branch night after night... if you tell me this little girl didn’t know anything about it, I wouldn’t believe it."

The middle-aged Daoist Nun looked somewhat embarrassed.

This kind of thing—you know it, I know it, everyone understood it in their hearts. But it really wasn’t suitable to be spoken out in the open.

"I... am willing to compensate."

Su Han gave the middle-aged Daoist Nun a half-smile and turned to look at Xia Nan, who still hadn’t completely recovered her senses.

"This child... seems to really have been broken. She’s somewhat traumatized," he thought.

With a swipe of his hand over his Storage Ring, two jade bottles appeared in his grasp.

"A Nourishing Spirit Pill and a Soul Nourishing Pill. Take one of each."

Even though she was a bit traumatized, perhaps because the sudden twist had left a deep shadow in Xia Nan’s heart regarding Su Han, she subconsciously obeyed his words.

Taking the two jade bottles, Xia Nan absentmindedly poured out one Elixir from each and put them in her mouth.

The moment Xia Nan poured out the Elixirs, the middle-aged Daoist Nun’s expression changed slightly. When Su Han tossed the two jade bottles directly to Xia Nan, the expression on the middle-aged Daoist Nun’s face became incredibly colorful.

"You just said... you can compensate?" Su Han asked.

The Daoist Nun was speechless.

"Son of a bitch!" she cursed internally. "Didn’t they say it’s the Beggar Gang? Where’s the promised gang of beggars? Giving away two bottles of three-star, four-Pill Pattern Elixirs so casually? Are beggars this rich nowadays?"

Looking at the two jade bottles in Xia Nan’s hands, and then at Su Han with his mischievous smile, two involuntary blushes of red crept onto the middle-aged Daoist Nun’s cheeks.

She was completely humiliated by her own previous words.

"I... I..."

Despite saying "I" twice, the middle-aged Daoist Nun couldn’t come up with a plan.

Su Han thought for a moment and held up two fingers.

"Two choices. You pick one."

The Daoist Nun looked at Su Han, waiting for him to continue.

Su Han curled his middle finger down, leaving his index finger pointing up.

"First, I’ll give you a chance to attack me with all your strength. If you can injure me or manage to keep your life under my hands, I will let you all leave."

The Daoist Nun fell silent.

"Does this... count as a choice?" she thought. "Well, I guess there’s nothing wrong with it. Death... is indeed a choice. But among those who can live, how many would willingly choose to die?"

So...

"What about the second choice?"

Su Han extended his second finger. "Two, tell me everything you know about that opportunity. I’ll likewise let you all leave."