Chapter 200: Avoiding Cause and Effect

Guan Ying was surprised.

She didn’t expect the bumpkin to stand up to her.

However, she was the eldest daughter of the Guan family.

How dare a mere bumpkin contradict her words?

She couldn’t help but be angry when she thought of this and subconsciously drew her sword.

“Kneel down and I will let you keep your life.” She ordered and Shen Xu snorted in disgust.

’What an unreasonable woman.’ He thought.

“Are you qualified to let my partner kneel?” He asked and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Shen Xu was naturally angry when Guan Ying looked down on him because he was a double.

However, he was angrier when the woman asked Zhen Yuan to kneel.

“How dare a bumpkin speak to me like this.” Guan Ying said, looking at Tan Cheng with an aggrieved face.

“Fourth young master Tan has interesting friends.” Shen Xu said, his eyes narrowed into slits and his lips curled in a smile.

At the same time, Zhen Yuan looked at the woman with a mocking face.

“I will accompany the young lady if she wants to fight.” He said.

Hearing this, Tan Cheng gritted his teeth in anger.

’This Guan Ying doesn’t have a brain.’ He thought.

He didn’t know what she was thinking.

Even if she wanted to accuse the two people, couldn’t she have thought of a reasonable thing?

Most importantly, how dare she draw her sword?

Guan Ying was at the early stage of the nascent soul realm while Yuan Shen and Xu Zhen were in the mid-stage.

Although they likely wouldn’t dare to attack the eldest miss of the Guan family, this was just an assumption and not a hard truth.

’Fortunately, I did not choose this brainless troublemaker as my future wife.’ He thought and helplessly sighed.

“Alchemist Yuan, formation master Xu, I apologise for miss Guan. Don’t mind her.” Tan Cheng said with an apologetic face.

“Brother Tan…” Guan Ying looked at Tan Cheng with an incredulous face.

Other than because she didn’t like country bumpkins, the other reason she attacked Yuan Shen and Xu Zhen was because she could tell that Tan Cheng didn’t like them.

Unexpectedly, things didn’t go as planned and her brother Tan was forced to apologise.

Guan Ying couldn’t accept this and she glared at the two.

’What’s so special about this country bumpkins? Why does brother Tan have to apologise to them?’ She wondered and unconsciously clenched her hands.

’Just wait until we leave the hall of stones. I will find people to teach them a lesson.’ She decided, looking at the two with a gloating expression.

’Who is afraid of who? If you dare to come, we dare to kill you and grab all your treasures.’ Shen Xu snorted and ignored Guan Ying.

“Brother Xu, let’s look at the stones.”

After saying that, Shen Xu ignored the others and pulled Zhen Yuan to walk around the fifth floor.

As usual, the two were not particular.

They didn’t take too much time studying the stones and directly picked the ones they liked.

In the end, they picked five.

“Is there any other stone that you like?” Zhen Yuan asked but Shen Xu shook his head before speaking.

“Let’s pay and see if we can go to the sixth floor.”

“Good.”

After that, the two walked to the south side of the room and prepared to pay.

However, before they could pay, Tan Cheng and two women appeared behind them.

“Alchemist Yuan is my Tan family’s benefactor. Please accept the stones as a token of our gratitude.” Tan Cheng said.

Several people were shocked when they heard this.

After all, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan had forty stones in their shopping basket.

At a glance, the cost of these stones was more than fifty million spirit stones.

What kind of gratitude was that?

What did the so-called alchemist Yuan do to earn so much gratitude?

Looking at the double, the surrounding people could not help but feel envious.

However, Shen Xu was not flattered.

Although he didn’t know what was in the stones, he knew the treasures were beneficial to his and Zhen Yuan’s cultivation.

Because of this, accepting such a gift would create a cause and effect between themselves and the Tan family.

Considering that, Shen Xu didn’t see the stones as a gift but as an albatross.

’Fifty million spirit stones will almost wipe out our savings but it’s better to spend these spirit stones than accept the favour. If we accept the favour, brother Yuan and I may end up paying a heavier price to eliminate the cause and effect.’ Shen Xu thought.

“My wife has already accepted the Tan family’s gratitude. It’s not necessary to give us the stones.” Zhen Yuan directly refused.

For him, cause and effect didn’t matter.

However, the same could not be said for Shen Xu.

If the double accepted the gift, he must find a way to repay the favour otherwise his future path would be affected.

“How can the previous gifts be enough to express our gratitude? Please accept the stones.”

Shen Xu frowned when he heard this.

“Young master Tan, gambling on stones is a matter of luck.” He started and quickly continued.

“We will get something good if we are lucky and get worthless things if we are unlucky. If the things are worthless, the gift won’t matter but if the things are valuable, my partner and I will have to owe cause and effect. This kind of cause and effect is not good for us or the Tan family.” Shen Xu said and without waiting for Tan Cheng’s reaction, he glanced at Zhen Yuan.

Seeing the look, Zhen Yuan nodded and went to pay for the stones.

“Aren’t they thinking too much?” Someone asked, his voice filled with disdain.

“Although we came here for the new stones, we all know that the best stones have already been selected and taken away. What are the chances of getting a treasure worthy of provoking cause and effect?”

“These two are indeed thinking too much.”

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