Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

"Auntie, with your agility, it's a pity you're not competing in Olympic gymnastics."

Lu Jingyan leaned against the car door, one hand in his pocket, his tone carrying three parts indifference and seven parts mockery.

The old woman on the ground clearly hadn't expected this young man to act so unpredictably. According to the script, the driver shouldn't have panicked and gotten out of the car, wiping his sweat and asking, "Are you alright, ma'am?" before obediently paying to settle the matter privately.

She paused her piercing scream, squinted, and stole a glance at Lu Jingyan through her fingers.

"Ahem...Young man, what do you know?"

The old lady stopped pretending. Since her "movement technique" had been seen through, she decided not to bother with her dramatic wailing. With a swift, agile movement that even created a gust of wind, she stood steadily in front of Lu Jingyan.

This move stunned the several passersby who were about to gather around and point fingers.

His legs are even more agile than a twenty-year-old's?

"This humble Taoist priest... cough, I am not trying to scam you."

The old lady patted her dusty old cloth shirt, stood with her hands behind her back, and raised her chin slightly, revealing a master-like demeanor that was completely inconsistent with her appearance.

"I am Wang Cuihua, the thirty-sixth generation ancestor of the Wang family, who live in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain."

She stared intently at Lu Jingyan, as if he were a rare treasure. "Today I came down the mountain to temper my heart in the mortal world and happened to pass by this place. The fall just now was not an accident. Rather, I saw that you have extraordinary bones and a spiritual light that shines straight up from the top of your head. You are a martial arts prodigy, one in ten thousand. I deliberately used the 'Thousand-Pound Drop' technique to test your driving skills."

Lu Jingyan: "..."

He pushed up his sunglasses, and his lips twitched involuntarily.

A reclusive family? Wang Cuihua?

Is this script getting mixed up? We just said goodbye to the God of War and the Dragon King a couple of days ago, and now we have someone from the cultivation world?

"so what?"

Lu Jingyan pointed to the meter-wide distance between the two of them, and the flashing red light of the dashcam, "Your 'thousand-pound drop' was quite skillful, precisely hovering a meter away from the front of my car. If this were a football field, you would be the best goalkeeper."

"presumptuous!"

Wang Cuihua's eyebrows furrowed, and her entire demeanor suddenly changed.

The seemingly ordinary old woman who had been faking an accident to extort money now exuded a chilling aura of oppression. The surrounding air seemed to freeze, and even the noise of the morning rush hour seemed to fade away.

"Ignorant brat, how dare you question my skills?"

She sneered and suddenly swung her withered hand to the side.

"drink!"

A low shout.

There was no contact whatsoever, and we barely even heard the wind.

"Splash—!"

A street lamp five or six meters away from them suddenly exploded without warning!

The glass cover shattered, the light bulb exploded into fireworks, and fragments rained down like raindrops, scaring pedestrians who screamed and scattered in all directions.

The entire room fell silent.

Only Lu Jingyan's black Audi remained quietly parked in place, its engine emitting a slight idling sound.

Wang Cuihua withdrew her hand, slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, her face filled with the arrogance of "this is what strength is."

"Did you see that?"

She glanced sideways at Lu Jingyan, her tone chilling, "This is called 'hitting an ox from a distance,' releasing internal energy externally. Young man, if this old woman were to strike you with this palm, do you think you'd still be alive?"

That move of his definitely showed some skill.

If it were an ordinary person, or a male protagonist in a shonen novel, he would probably have already bowed down and shouted, "Senior, please accept me as your disciple!"

But who is Lu Jingyan?

He is a man with a government job.

He looked at the shattered glass on the ground, but did not show the fear or admiration that Wang Cuihua had expected. On the contrary, his brows furrowed even more, and his eyes revealed a kind of disgust as if he were looking at a sabotager.

"It's really impressive."

Lu Jingyan nodded, her tone as calm as if she were commenting on cabbages at a market, "But ma'am, wouldn't you call that displaying a dangerous skill in a public place?"

"What skill demonstration?!"

Wang Cuihua was a little annoyed. Why was this kid's reaction different from what netizens were saying?

She took a deep breath, and the true intentions were revealed.

"I believe we are destined to meet, and I intended to take you as my last disciple and pass on my unparalleled divine skills to you. However, your words just now were offensive and disturbed my resolve."

Wang Cuihua stretched out a withered hand, palm up, and waved it in front of him.

"Those who cultivate immortality are bound by cause and effect. You have disturbed me today. If you cannot resolve this karmic debt, I fear there will be bloodshed in the future."

To put it simply...

Her eyes changed, and her masterly demeanor instantly transformed into the greed of a street rogue. "Pay up. Not much, just compensation for emotional distress, plus the cost of my internal energy exertion just now, totaling... one hundred million."

"If you don't give it to me..."

Wang Cuihua narrowed her eyes, her clothes fluttering even without wind, her threat palpable. "This old woman's lying down is quite powerful. You saw that streetlight just now, didn't you? If you don't pay up, I'll make sure your family is ruined and you never have a moment's peace!"

This is a typical example of "extortion in the cultivation world".

They masquerade as experts while engaging in extortion. If a timid rich kid is caught off guard by their "remote bull-striking" technique, he might just obediently hand over money to avoid trouble.

Unfortunately, she encountered Lu Jingyan.

A man with absolute rationality and a thorough understanding of criminal law.

Lu Jingyan looked at her outstretched hand and suddenly smiled.

The smile was faint, yet it carried an indescribable chill.

He didn't reach for his checkbook, nor did his legs buckle in fear. He simply unbuttoned one button of his suit jacket and pulled out the little booklet that struck fear into the hearts of countless villains—his police ID.

"Smack."

The police officer's ID was opened and displayed in front of Wang Cuihua.

The silver police badge gleamed in the morning light.

"Ms. Wang Cuihua, first of all, let me correct one point. We live in a society governed by the rule of law. We don't talk about cause and effect, we talk about the law."

Lu Jingyan's voice was clear and powerful, penetrating the surrounding noise.

"Secondly, regarding that streetlight."

He pointed to the bare lamppost not far away and the broken glass scattered on the ground, his tone as serious as if he were reading a verdict.

"Municipal streetlights are public facilities. You just deliberately damaged public and private property in public, and the means you used were dangerous, which constitutes a violation of the law."

As he spoke, he took out a blank damage assessment form and a pen from the car.

"As for the one hundred million you just mentioned..."

As Lu Jingyan scribbled rapidly on the list, he looked up, his eyes, hidden behind his glasses, gleaming with the excited light of a hunter spotting his prey.

"Extortion, an exceptionally large sum, accompanied by threats of violence. Ma'am, this isn't cultivating immortality, it's cultivating 'torture'!"

"The punishment in criminal law."