Fortune telling? How do you explain your hand-drawn lightning magic and sword flight?

After ending his WeChat chat with Wang Wenjing, Chen Xuan stepped into the raw stone shop.

The situation inside was indeed as the bald man had described; there were indeed monks and Taoist priests selecting raw stones.

Chen Xuan entered the shop and began selecting items on his own.

Soon, with his golden eyes, he selected several refining materials.

However, at that moment, someone inside the shop started shouting. Although the voice was soft, it was very angry. It seemed to be a regular customer of this shop.

"Hey, what's wrong with you, monk? I clearly saw this rough stone first!"

"So, whatever you see first is yours? Does that mean you saw the girl next to me too, which means she's yours as well?"

Such outrageous remarks made even Chen Xuan, who doesn't like to join in the fun, turn his head to take a look.

When Chen Xuan saw a monk with one arm around a girl's slender waist and arguing with a young man dressed as a Taoist priest at the shop entrance, he felt his worldview was shaken.

"You, you fake monk, you have utterly insulted the Buddhism that Longxia believes in!"

The young Taoist priest blushed as he was teased by the girl in the monk's arms. He quickly cursed a couple of times and hurriedly left.

"Hahaha, you little punk, you've never seen the world before. You think just because someone's bald you're a monk? I'm a martial monk!"

"Hehe, Senior Brother is awesome. I've been annoyed with these Taoist disciples for a long time. They can't make money themselves, but they act sarcastic and cynical when they see others making money."

"How about we go over there and beat him up to teach him a lesson?"

Three or five young novice monks surrounded their senior brother, flattering him.

The senior disciple waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's finish the task at hand first. In a few days, a big shot from Hong Kong and Taiwan will be coming to offer incense. The abbot said that we must have good materials, otherwise the big shot can tell the quality at a glance. If he doesn't donate, how can we go out and enjoy ourselves?"

"Yes, yes, the mission is the most important thing."

"By the way, Senior Brother, after we finish our mission, do you want to go out and have some fun tonight?"

"Yeah, senior brother, we haven't been out to play in ages, we've all got pimples on our faces from being cooped up."

"Haha, no problem. We'll have a big meal tonight. Your senior brother will take you out for some fun. Order whatever you want. Just remember, our family may not have much else, but we're rich!"

Chen Xuan was selecting raw stones from a relatively far back position, also dressed as a Taoist priest.

The monks showed no intention of avoiding the issue, and judging from the shop owner's feigned ignorance, they were clearly regular customers.

Chen Xuan ignored him, saying that there were many monks and Taoists before the gates of hell.

As long as he didn't use Taoist magic to harm people, Chen Xuancai didn't bother with these worldly unspoken rules.

"This one is good. If it's good, it should be able to help Linglong refine a magical artifact to conceal demonic energy."

Just as Chen Xuan picked up a rough stone he had his eye on, something unexpected happened.

The raw stone in his hand was snatched away by a monk next to him, who then held it in his hand and played with it.

"It is indeed a good material, you're welcome."

This monk, probably in his early twenties, was the lowest-ranking among the group, yet he was surprisingly arrogant towards a layman, not even glancing at Chen Xuan properly.

Chen Xuan looked at the man and said in a cold voice, "That's mine."

"Hey, why is your stuff in my hands? Did you pay for it?"

Seeing that Chen Xuan was thin and frail, the monk assumed he came from the nearby nameless Taoist temple and paid him no attention.

This kind of behavior clearly indicates a habit of acting arrogantly and domineeringly.

"Give me the item, and I can pretend this never happened." Chen Xuan didn't want to make a big fuss, because he had many places to visit that afternoon.

"Oh ho, so what if I don't give it to you? What are you going to do about it?"

The monk glared disdainfully at Chen Xuan, thrusting his bald head in front of him, as if to say, "I'm going to rob you, what can you do about it? Try touching me!"

Chen Xuan's face turned ashen. He snorted and raised his hand to strike the monk in the chest.

The monk's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and his body flew backward with a thud, crashing into the steps at the shop's entrance.

Immediately, a pitiful howl rang out.

Chen Xuan expressionlessly raised his hand and caught the raw stone. At this moment, there was a great commotion at the door, and several of the monks who were with him had arrived.

"Holy crap, what happened? Who hit you?!"

"Damn it, who the hell dares to hit someone from our Blue Jade Temple here? Step forward!"

At this moment, the monk who had been knocked down by a palm strike finally caught his breath. He pointed at Chen Xuan in the shop and shouted, "It was him! He was the one who snatched the rough stone I had my eye on first. When I refused to give it to him, he attacked me!"

Upon hearing this, the eldest brother and sister who were leading the group stopped hugging and rushed into the shop with fierce eyes. Their other brothers followed closely behind and surrounded Chen Xuan, who was about to pay.

This scene was witnessed by the young Taoist priest who had just been wronged and sought help from his master. Fearing that his fellow disciples would be bullied, he took out his phone and called the police.

Even surrounded by five or six fat, big-eared monks, Chen Xuan's expression changed. He took out a few rough stones he had selected and handed them to the shopkeeper, whose face was equally grim, saying, "I want all of these. What's the price?"

Upon hearing this, the shop owner's smile was more like a grimace. He dared not offend these martial monks from Lanyu Temple, but he couldn't refuse the Taoist priest's normal business dealings.

"This, all of these... a total of 19?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan frowned slightly, but compared to not having any refining materials, 19 was indeed not much.

Amidst the menacing stares of the people around him, Chen Xuan took out his phone and scanned the QR code to pay.

"Boss, the money has been transferred, please check."

"Alright, alright, no need to look anymore, Taoist priest. You should leave now, our little shop still needs to do business."

One is a Taoist and the other a Buddhist; he cannot afford to offend either of these two schools of thought.

Chen Xuan put the raw stone into his bag before leisurely looking at the bald senior brother blocking the middle of the road.

"Good dogs don't block the way. Disappear from my sight immediately, and I can pretend I didn't see you."

When the shop owner heard Chen Xuan's words, he exclaimed that the young Taoist priest was brainless. No matter what, one person is no match for a group of people. As the saying goes, a wise man doesn't fight a losing battle. Isn't this just asking for a beating?

"Damn it, beat them! Kill them or cripple them, I'll cover for you! Nobody in Tangwu City dares to be this arrogant with me!"

Upon hearing what the eldest disciple, a wealthy layman, had said, all the martial monk disciples immediately took action.

Chen Xuan coldly glanced at the group, "If you want to die, then go ahead and make your move!"

"Hold!"

Five or six burly men attacked Chen Xuan at the same time.

However, to everyone's surprise, the next second everyone's mouths dropped open.

The group of five, all fat and strong, were sent flying backward by an invisible force the instant their punches and kicks landed on Chen Xuan.

The sheer force was immense, like several people being hit by a car, causing rows of display shelves to tilt and even twisting their limbs and spitting blood after landing.

The so-called senior brother fared even worse. After being knocked away, his body crashed out of the shop and landed directly on the junior brother who had initially tried to steal Chen Xuan's raw stone.

In an instant, pitiful howls echoed from inside and outside the shop.

The young Taoist priest who called the police and his master were also speechless when they saw this scene. They had thought that Chen Xuan would suffer a great loss when facing the evil monk, but it seemed that they had worried too much.

What they didn't know was that such a large antique and jade market naturally had a police station.

"what happened?!"

"Don't move! Stay where you are!"

Five or six government officials squeezed through the crowd and ran over quickly.

Seeing this scene, the government officials also looked extremely solemn. How could a fight have resulted in such serious injuries?

Who are the people involved in the case?

The eldest disciple, who was still able to move, immediately pointed at Chen Xuan in the shop, "He's the one who hit us! You have to stand up for us!"

Chen Xuan said nothing and strolled out of the shop.

However, when the captain of the investigation team saw that the person who beat the monk was actually Master Chen Xuan, he immediately called several colleagues to press the monk on the ground and tie his arms behind his back.

Several monks were already injured, and when they were treated like this, they immediately let out screams of agony.

Seeing Chen Xuan's ashen face, the squad leader didn't dare to approach him. Instead, he took out his phone and dialed his superior, Li Jianguo, quickly recounting what had happened.

Li Jianguo immediately roared, a roar that even Chen Xuan could hear.

"You're talking nonsense! Daoist Chen Xuan would cause trouble and beat people up? You guys keep things under control, I'm on my way!"

"Also, make sure the people around don't leave. They must know what happened. If they don't, tell them to leave immediately!"

"Also, immediately retrieve the store's security camera footage and examine it frame by frame. Investigate thoroughly!"

After Li Jianguo hung up the phone, the squad leader who had made the call immediately became very excited.

The captain's words contained a lot of information; if one doesn't understand them deeply, their future may be ruined.

"Don't let the onlookers leave. Find out what happened, and if they don't know, tell them to leave immediately?"

"Actually, if it really is a Taoist priest causing trouble, they would quickly make him leave if they saw him."

"Investigate the CCTV footage, examine it frame by frame, thoroughly investigate it?"

"Hardly...?"

The squad leader frowned, then immediately understood. "The key is to check frame by frame. In other words, if the Taoist priest's trouble was indeed recorded... then the camera at this house must be broken."

"Yes, it can't be wrong."

Having figured it out, the squad leader immediately rushed into the shop, nodding kindly as he passed Chen Xuan, "Daoist, please find a comfortable place to rest. Our Captain Li will be there soon."