My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Li Chen paused, a hint of pressure flashing in his eyes.

"As the restaurant owner, you failed to protect the safety of your customers and provide a quiet dining environment."

"This has made my sister very upset."

"How do you plan to calculate the compensation for emotional distress, plus the cost of the dried meat?"

These words were spoken.

The shopkeeper, kneeling on the ground, felt a buzzing in his mind.

Compensation for emotional distress? Compensation for the dried meat?

They crippled dozens of Arhats and rendered the divine monk useless.

They ripped off half the roof of the restaurant.

In the end, you're asking me for compensation?!

What kind of unreasonable and ruthless bandit is this?!

But the shopkeeper dared not speak out against his anger.

Faced with absolute power, let alone compensation, even if it meant taking his life, he would have no choice but to obediently wash his neck clean.

"I'll pay! I'll pay everything!"

The shopkeeper was on the verge of tears, and reached into his robes to search for something.

He pulled out an exquisite storage bag and held it high with trembling hands.

"Immortal Master, this is all the income my shop has this month, a total of 20,000 mid-grade spirit stones, it's all here!"

"Consider this an apology to the little fairy; please accept it, Immortal Master!"

Li Chen didn't even glance at the storage bag.

"Spirit stones?"

Li Chen scoffed, "Do you think we're the kind of people who need a few broken stones?"

The Prince of Qin of the Tang Dynasty possessed the wealth of the entire world.

Let alone 20,000 mid-grade spirit stones, even 2 million top-grade spirit stones would be nothing more than a number in his eyes.

The shopkeeper was dumbfounded.

Don't want spirit stones? Then what do you want? Do you really want his life?

Just when the shopkeeper was in despair...

The little ox upstairs poked its head out and spoke in a clear, crisp voice.

"Sixteenth Brother, their kitchen smells so good!"

Although the little girl didn't get to eat the meat she wanted, her keen nose had already revealed the restaurant's secrets.

"Although those vegetables taste like radishes, the ingredients they use seem to be very high-end!"

Upon hearing this, Li Chen smiled.

He looked at the shopkeeper below and said calmly, "Did you hear that?"

"My sister has her eye on the ingredients in your storeroom."

"Go, pack up all the top-grade Ganoderma lucidum, century-old Bodhi seeds, and jade bamboo shoots that you have treasured in your restaurant. As long as they are edible and precious natural treasures, pack them all up for me."

"If you lose even one thing, I will uproot your restaurant."

The shopkeeper felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and dared not hesitate for even a moment.

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll go right away! I'll go right away!"

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

The shopkeeper, accompanied by several waiters, carried out more than a dozen heavy sandalwood chests, their brows slick with sweat.

It was filled with the finest ingredients that Baoxiang Vegetarian Restaurant used to entertain eminent monks and high-ranking officials.

Any one of these plants, if placed in an auction house, could fetch an astronomical price.

Li Chen waved his hand casually.

A gentle breeze rose from his sleeve, carrying all the dozen or so large boxes into his storage ring.

"Alright, this meal is on the house, and the compensation is settled."

Li Chen took Si Zi's little hand, carried Fatty Si, and slowly walked down the remaining wooden planks of the stairs to the first floor.

As Li Chen passed by the shopkeeper, he didn't even glance at him.

He walked straight out of the restaurant.

On the street outside the restaurant.

The severely wounded monks were still groaning on the ground.

The monk Kongxiang, who was smashed into the pit, remained unconscious.

The surrounding people hid far away at the street corner, watching the brother and sister with eyes full of awe and fear.

Li Chen, holding his younger sister's hand, strolled leisurely down the middle of the street, stepping on the broken bluestone slabs scattered on the ground.

"Sixteenth Brother, where are we going now?"

Sizi patted her round little belly, and her mood became cheerful again.

Although there were some minor hiccups, the fact that we managed to gather a lot of delicious ingredients made it quite worthwhile.

"Just wander around and see what this place full of gods and Buddhas is really like."

Li Chen spoke calmly, his gaze sweeping over the buildings on both sides of the street.

however.

They had just stepped out of the main street where Baoxiang Vegetarian Restaurant was located.

When we arrived at the entrance of a relatively secluded alley.

Li Chen suddenly stopped.

A faint cry, accompanied by violent coughing.

The sound came from deep within the alley.

"I beg you... I beg the high monk for mercy..."

"I sold the last few acres of our meager farmland; this is all the money I got for spiritual purposes..."

"Please sell me a bowl of 'merit water,' my poor child is dying..."

Li Chen frowned slightly.

Look in the direction of the sound.

All that could be seen was the shadow of the alley.

A woman who was dressed in rags and was very thin.

He was kneeling before a young monk in a gray robe, clutching a tattered cloth bag tightly in his hand, kowtowing repeatedly.

Blood had already been drawn from his forehead and was flowing down his cheeks.

Beside the woman lay a child of about four or five years old.

The child's face was sallow and his breathing was weak; he was clearly suffering from a severe cold and was on his deathbed.

The gray-robed monk looked down at the woman, his face devoid of any compassion expected of a monk.

He weighed the cloth bag in his hand and curled his lip in disdain.

"Just this little bit of loose spirit money?"

The monk sneered, his tone sarcastic.

"According to the temple's rules, a bowl of merit water costs ten low-grade spirit stones."

"You can't even scrape together a single spirit stone, yet you want to buy the divine water bestowed by Buddha? You're dreaming!"

"But...but the doctor said that ordinary medicine is useless; only the 'merit water' can save my life!"

The woman cried her heart out and clung tightly to the monk's leg.

"Please, monk, have mercy and grant me a bowl on credit! I will serve the temple like a beast of burden for the rest of my life to repay their kindness!"

"Get out of my way! You've dirtied my robes, are you going to pay for it with your life?!"

The gray-robed monk kicked the woman in the shoulder without any mercy.

He kicked the already weak woman to the ground.

The monk took out a small jade bottle from his sleeve and waved it in front of the woman.

A faint fluctuation of spiritual energy rippled within it.

"The merit water is right here. If you don't have the money, you can just watch your son die."

"If you have to blame someone, blame the sins you committed in your past life, which is why you suffer this poverty and illness in this life."

At the entrance of the alley.

Seeing this scene.

A chilling glint flashed in Li Chen's deep eyes.

And Sizi, who had been obediently following beside him.

The little girl's happy smile vanished completely.

She broke free from Li Chen's large hand.

With short legs, she strode angrily toward the dark alley.