Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

Chapter 33 Master Comes to Join_1

What Shen Yi regretted the most was that he hadn't been able to wave the banner of someone else to slay a few more Demonic Beasts.

Of course, he couldn't say that outright.

He removed the sheath and pressed his sword back under his arm. Although it was somewhat uncomfortable, it was far better than losing his head and not knowing it.

Seeing his cautious demeanor, Lin Baiwei pursed her red lips.

If she had also been more careful at first, how could she have ended up in her current predicament?

She went to the cabinet to fetch some paper and ink, sat down at the table, and added some oil to the lamp.

In the flickering light, she closed her eyes and ground the inkstick as she reminisced.

After a moment, Lin Baiwei began to copy carefully. Under the movement of her slender fingers, delicate characters danced onto the page.

"What are you doing? Aren't you going to sleep?" Shen Yi turned his head back.

"Can you sleep if you don't get what you need?" Lin Baiwei muttered.

We're all ordinary people with our necks on the line; why put on an act of calm?

She still remembered the first time a Demon had grabbed her by the throat, nearly choking the life out of her. Even though her colleagues had quickly decapitated it, she was still shaken the whole night.

If someone had been by her side back then, she might not have woken up crying from a nightmare in the middle of the night.

"..."

Shen Yi remained silent for a long time, then closed his eyes.

When the cock crowed, he slowly stood up and glanced at the yawning woman next to the table.

Indeed, it still didn't feel right... Even though he knew she was from the Demon-suppression Bureau, Shen Yi still wasn't used to having a dressed, living person beside him when he slept.

"Hmm, I've copied half of it," she said.

Lin Baiwei rubbed her wrist and carefully reviewed her work. "Don't complain about the pace; even a small mistake with this thing can lead to serious problems."

Shen Yi changed into clean clothes and nodded: "Thank you for the hard work."

"Tch." Lin Baiwei feigned surprise: "So, you can actually speak nicely."

"After all, I'm counting on taking you to the Lin Family to exchange for some silver. You know, I'm really short on money."

Shen Yi adjusted his cuffs and, taking his sword, left the house.

Baiyun County wasn't big, and many things could spread throughout the town in just one night.

It was still early, but a crowd had already gathered outside the yard of the office, bustling and packing the entrance so tightly that water couldn't seep through.

Someone shouted, "The arrest officer Shen Yi is here!"

A wide path opened up in front of Shen Yi. He looked ahead curiously, only to see Chen Ji and a few others with faces red from urgency.

"I'll say it again, we only deal with Demonic Beasts here, not lechers, and certainly not responsible for finding your lost purses!"

"Nonsense! The wife of Old Yang's family brought a man home, and it was those two tall guys who caught them! I saw it with my own eyes!"

The crowd instantly erupted into a clamor: "Maybe my purse was also taken by a Demon. Officer Shen, you must redress this injustice for me."

"..."

Shen Yi entered the yard in silence and waved: "Close the door."

A few people pushed hard against the wooden door, finally managing to latch it with great effort, leaving them exhausted and sitting on the ground, looking at each other.

Zhang Dahua trembled with fear: "Damn it, they used to avoid me, but now they have the audacity to storm my office!"

No sooner had he finished speaking, he realized his mistake and quickly turned to Shen Yi with a forced smile: "You're the boss, you're my true boss."

Chen Ji got up smiling, then his expression subtly changed as he looked behind toward the wooden door.

The next moment, the door was being pounded loudly.

"They're really pushing their luck."

The Niu brothers rolled up their sleeves and opened the door, meaning to scold whoever was outside, but they suddenly trembled and looked up in astonishment.

Although they were considered tall and strong men, the newcomer was not only a head taller than either of them but also immensely broad-shouldered, especially with a stomach so round and greasy it was almost frightening to look at.

With his physique alone, he could easily topple several men without even practicing martial arts.

The Niu brothers had never encountered such a fierce person before and took two trembling steps back, "Boss, someone... someone is picking a fight."

Chen Ji stood still with a solemn expression and did not dare to act rashly.

He could not understand why a master from Vajra Gate would come to such a small bureau office. If there was a problem even he couldn't handle, then there likely wasn't a second person in Baiyun County who could step forward.

"Closing the doors in broad daylight, I thought I had come to the wrong place."

Zhang the Butcher, with a blade of grass in his mouth, smiled at the other side: "You're actually here."

Shen Yi did not see the slim monk behind him and cupped his hands in greeting, "What brings you here, senior?"

"What senior, bullshit."

Zhang the Butcher squeezed into the courtyard, responding indifferently, "I came from Qingzhou by invitation, but now I am disdained by them for being too foolish. Likewise, I find their cleverness distasteful. After much thought, you seem just as foolish as me, so I thought of coming here to scrounge for a meal."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ji almost lost his balance.

A master of the Initial Realm with a lineage lacking food is utterly ridiculous.

Putting aside other considerations, just naming a price, given Baiyun County's current situation, many wealthy merchants would be willing to spend silver to enshrine him like an ancestor.

The combined salary of hundreds of arrest officers from the bureau would not be enough to afford him for half a month.

"First of all, I'm not foolish,"

Shen Yi replied helplessly, looking up and then spreading his hands, "and I'm very poor."

"Well, I'm not foolish either," Zhang the Butcher laughed dryly and walked straight inside, "I'm also as poor as can be. A simple meal of coarse tea and plain rice is enough for me."

Shen Yi was just about to explain that he might not even be able to afford coarse tea and plain rice, especially given the other man's significant appetite.

Chen Ji was already stomping his feet in frustration.

What the hell was going through their minds—one turning away real silver, the other looking at a master showing up at his door and still thinking of excuses to turn him away!

He pulled a silver ingot from his belt and stuffed it forcefully into Shen Yi's hand, his eyes nearly popping out of his head.

Shen Yi glanced at Chen Ji and pushed it back, "Go play with your eggs over there."

Did he really look that stingy?

"Who is this guy?"

The Niu brothers might not understand, but Zhang Dahua knew Chen Ji's character well; Chen Ji was so frugal with his monthly salary that he wouldn't frivolously spend a cent, saving it all for his younger sister. Why was he suddenly so generous?

"He's the younger brother of someone from the County Magistrate's office."

As this statement came out, their minds went blank for a moment.

To them, the slim monk was just a character from rumors; one had to be at the level of Eunuch Clerk Liu Dianli to have a chance of seeing his true face, and that was just seeing.

Now a master of similar stature had actually appeared in their own bureau office, even showing interest in lifting the stone weights that hadn't been moved for many years.

The purely decorative stone weights, weighing at least three to four hundred pounds, were being flipped and played with in the palm of his hand...

"Do you usually train your strength with this?"

Zhang the Butcher asked curiously.

"No, I usually practice my martial arts before I go to sleep,"

Shen Yi replied with a straight face.

Indeed, he was telling the truth as he usually practiced his martial arts in the streets, which could easily make onlookers think he was a fool.

"In the practice of martial arts, the worst thing to do is to study in isolation. I've been bored and restless staying alone in Baiyun County; do you have time to spar with me sometime?" Zhang the Butcher put down the stone weight.

"No problem," Shen Yi nodded, as it so happened that he too urgently needed someone to help him cram some relevant knowledge.

At these words, a smile suddenly appeared on Zhang the Butcher's face, "I'm free right now."

Shen Yi: "..."

"Dammit, he really did come to start trouble," the Niu brothers shook their astute heads, nearly fooled by the big-bearded man.