Novel Bin Chapter 1053 - A Small Slap on the Face
Chapter 1053: A Small Slap on the Face
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Hong Dali!” The Big Elder angrily asked, “Don’t be too overboard! You think you can take out 20 billion just because you said so? Where’s the money?”
“The money is with Great-grandmother.” Hong Dali raised his eyebrows. “Great-grandmother knows about this.”
“It’s indeed with me.” Hua Yueling laughed and said, “The High Nobles of Dimu Star Sector compensated my little darling 30 billion Shenglong Dollars, it’s more than enough to buy these elixirs. I think my identity is still enough as a guarantee.”
What the heck, what did this Hong Dali do to make the High Nobles compensate him 30 billion Shenglong Dollars!? Even the High Nobles would suffer the impact of losing such a big sum of money, right!?
But no matter what the case was, if this matter was resolved just by using money, it would be too easy on Hong Dali.
The Big Elder thought for a while, and then said, “Chief Hong, Old Madam, even if Hong Dali has the money, but if someone can do this just because they have to money to pay for it, how are we supposed to uphold the dignity and rules of our Hong Family?”
“Hong Haoyuan.” Hong Xingyu’s expression changed, and anger instantly rose from his heart. It looked like the Elders came prepared today and had made up their minds to make trouble for this child Dali. Hong Xingyu pondered for a while, then gradually said, “Very good. Since you said it this way, then, tell me, what do you plan to do?”
The Hong Family was a very big family, and Hong Xingyu’s power was the strongest, the Chief of the family. As for these Elders, although they were considered to be from his branch of the family too, they were a few generations apart. Many a time, the fights and issues within a family were for seizing authority and wealth.
With Hong Dali’s arrival, they instantly felt threatened, and therefore disregarded everything else and tried to chase away as many people as they could, Hong Dali being one of them.
However, since Hong Dali already said that he would compensate 20 billion for the elixirs, it wasn’t possible to kick him out of the family now. Therefore, the Elders could only take a step back and teach him a lesson, so that Hong Dali would not dare to go against them next time.
The Big Elder smiled and respectfully said, “Chief Hong’s words are too serious. My intention is that since Dali barged into the elixir room, this crime cannot go unpunished. However, we can’t ask for the impossible too. Just make him give enough compensation to prevent the other members from not being convinced of his punishment.”
His words were quite logical. They couldn’t just let the matter of Hong Dali barging into the elixir room without permission pass like this, right? If they didn’t punish him for this, how were they supposed to discipline the other members of the family next time?
At this moment, the Second Elder cooperated with him and said, “That’s right, Chief Hong. Last time, Haoyuan’s son Shengqi needed elixirs to level up, but you weren’t around, so he entered the elixir room himself and ate some elixirs. In the end, he was grounded as punishment. This time, we can’t just let Hong Dali off too easily.”
Third Elder didn’t say anything and only just nodded in agreement.
“Yup.” Since everyone said so now, Hong Xingyu didn’t have a solution at the moment. He wanted to help Hong Dali secretly, but the problem was that the reasons the Elders gave were very sufficient, especially that they mentioned the matter regarding the Big Elder’s son. This caused Hong Xingyu to be unable to reject punishing Hong Dali. If not, wouldn’t that be going against his own actions in the past? He then frowned and said, “Dali, since they Elders have already said so, do you still have anything else of value? We shall treat it as compensation for you barging into the elixir room this time, how about it?”
If it was someone else, Hong Xingyu would probably have given the person a slap on the face long ago. He was using this kind of tone because it was Hong Dali, Hong Xingyu had really given Hong Dali enough respect.
“Hehe. Great-grandfather, I’m a prodigal, after all.” Hong Dali grinned and wasn’t in the least nervous. “Since this Elder wants me to take out something as compensation, I shall just do so then.” Saying so, he took out a book and tossed it into the Big Elder’s hand. “I shall use this book as my compensation, I believe it’s enough.”
Then, Hong Dali added, “Actually, I should address you as Grandfather because you are already so old. However, you are a person of great authority, I don’t dare to address you so. You are powerful and is the Big Elder of the family now, and may even progress further next time. I am just but a prodigal, I definitely don’t dare to pull relations with you.”
Hong Dali’s usual way of conduct was to be quite respectful to his elders, and he would usually address them as uncle or grandpa.
However, this Big Elder was obviously here to seek his trouble today, so he naturally didn’t need to treat him respectfully. He didn’t deserve respectful treatment from Hong Dali.
“Humph.” Hearing Hong Dali’s words, the Big Elder’s face turned cold. Although everyone addressed him respectfully as Big Elder, who would not wish for others to address himself intimately as Grandfather? That was an address people would use when they respected the elder and wanted to be close to him.
Yet, this Hong Dali said in front of so many people that he wasn’t deserving enough to address him as Grandfather. From the manner he spoke, who couldn’t understand Hong Dali’s meaning? What he truly meant was that the Big Elder didn’t deserve to be his Grandfather!
“You can call me Big Elder.” Hong Haoyuan’s tone was indifferent. Then, he flipped through the book, and the other two Elders stretched over their heads curiously too. Yet, upon seeing the images on the book, anger instantly showed on his face and he loudly said, “How dare you! You actually used a pornography book to toy with us!”
Pornography book!
Upon hearing this, the others were all astonished too. This Hong Dali was really too daring, wasn’t he? He considered this pornography book a treasure and planned to use this as compensation for the crime he committed!?
“It’s not like that.” Hua Xiangyu hurriedly explained on Hong Dali’s behalf. “On the surface, this is a... a pornography book. But in actual fact, it is a secret manual. As long as it’s covered with water, the hidden words will appear.”
There’s such a thing?
A secret manual? What kind of secret manual can a prodigal possibly possess?
Even Hong Xingyu softly asked Hua Yueling, “Granny, Dali didn’t seem to mention that he had trained in anything, right?”
Hua Yueling shook her head too and said, “I don’t think so. During his fight with the Man-made God, he relied on his transformation. If he had really trained before, he wouldn’t have such a hard time fighting the Man-made God, right?”
“That’s true.” Hong Xingyu was a bit worried and said, “Secret manuals are split into different levels too. If this one’s level is too low, he might end up being a laughingstock. What do you think this secret manual’s level is?”
“Probably Stellar-level.” Hua Yueling frowned and softly said, “Stellar-level secret manuals are not good enough, normal people wouldn’t be able to easily get hold of this too. If it’s really not enough, we can only just force them to accept this with our identity. At most, ask Dali to compensate for some more money since he doesn’t lack it. After the money enters our hands, we can just pass it back to Dali secretly. Wouldn’t that settle it?”
“Yup, good idea.” Hong Xingyu’s heart was finally calm, and he just waited to see what level the secret manual was.
Very quickly, a guard brought water. Instantly, everyone stretched their necks to see what kind of secret manual was hidden in a pornography book.
After letting the water slowly seep into the pages, the wordings instantly appeared.
“This is... This is...” The more the Big Elder read on, the more his head went numb. Upon reaching the end, he didn’t dare to read on anymore and handed the book to Hong Xingyu. His voice shaking, he said, “Chief Hong, this secret manual, it’s possibly, very possibly...”
“What is it?” Hong Xingyu took a glance, then his eyes instantly opened wide, then he gradually read out the name of the secret manual. “Consumption of the Sky Dominates the World Mediation Painting!? Such a long name? Let me see...” Very quickly, he found the original name. “Original name is ‘Three Realms Sword Record’!? This is... This is a secret manual from the Cultivator’s universe!” After taking a few more looks at the secret manual, he finally gave out a long breath and said, “A secret manual from the Cultivator’s universe, a person with the level of Refining Spirit Into Emptiness can practice this. Corresponding that to our level, that’s...”
The three Elders looked at each other, then their body trembled and said in shock, “Star Sector-level?”
A Star Sector-level secret manual!
Towards the Shenglong Royal Family, especially the royal family within the royal families, Planet-level and Stellar-level secret manuals weren’t valuable, they wouldn’t even bother to gather more of such secret manuals. After all, the secret manuals they practiced were all high-level secret manuals. They didn’t have time to waste on low-level secret manuals. The low-level ones were normally for the children to practice for fun in order to build their foundation.
But Star Sector-level secret manuals were totally different!
The power of Star Sector-level secret manuals was extremely powerful—the weaker ones can amplify their power by thirty to fifty times, while the stronger ones can amplify their power by more than a hundred times!
For example, the Hong Family’s strongest secret manual, “Realm King Fist”, could amplify their power by 120 times at maximum level! What kind of concept was that? Star Sector-level humans at maximum power could even go up against the King Zergs with the power of their bodies alone! If their power was further amplified, even the Man-made God wasn’t a match for those higher-level Star Sector-level humans. This was also why Hong Xingyu was able to kill the Man-made God so easily.
And now, Hong Dali actually just took out a Star Sector-level secret manual so casually. What’s more, it was from the Cultivator’s universe...
Although it was on the same level as Star Sector-level, Star Sector-level plus Star Sector-level and Star Sector-level plus Cultivator’s Star Sector-level were two different concepts.
Because for the first pair, they could only be practiced individually and not able to be mixed together. But for the second pair, they could be used to improve each other. If they were successfully fused together, it might even cause the level of amplitude to increase!
For example, if the Hong Family’s “Realm King Fist” was able to be fused with this “Three Realms Sword Record”, it might even be possible to amplify their power by 150 times!
A treasure! This secret manual was definitely a true treasure!
At this moment, everyone’s eyes as they looked towards Hong Dali was different from before. The beards of the three Elders were even shaking now. While they were feeling surprised at how Hong Dali was so lucky as to obtain such a treasure, at the same time, they secretly made-up their mind that they definitely must get rid of him!
This fellow had only just arrived and already bought over Hong Xingyu, obtained a Star-sector level secret manual, and even compensated 20 plus billion. If he stayed on any longer, Hong Xingyu might even be so excited that he would one day pass the position of Chief of the family to Hong Dali. That would definitely be very troublesome!
But no matter what might happen next time, they had to say some good words now. Big Elder instantly changed into a smiling expression and said, “Since Dali has used such a precious secret manual as compensation, then this time’s matter...”
He wanted to say that this time’s matter shall just past like this, but before he finished saying, a guard outside suddenly loudly reported. “Bei Family’s Chief, Bei Mingxuan, Zhu Family’s Chief, Zhu Yunzhou, plus Bei Yuanqing and Zhu Ningyu have come together to visit.”
The people from the Bei and Zhu families were actually here?