Chapter 12: Qin Tianhai's Revenge

Even after being condensed, the audio recording Yun Zhi sent contained a significant amount of information, and Qin Tianhai naturally needed some time to process and digest it.

Once the message was sent, Yun Zhi put the matter aside for the time being. She continued to wander around N City, exploring streets and alleys, buying anything that caught her eye or seemed potentially useful—after all, it might come in handy for future trades. Having a super-sized personal spatial storage meant she never had to worry about running out of space, which was an incredibly satisfying feeling. However, Yun Zhi was very cautious when storing items; she would always bring them back to her hotel room and ensure there was no surveillance before tucking them away into her storage space.

Soon, an afternoon passed. After a simple dinner of beef ramen, Yun Zhi was taking a walk in a park near her hotel to aid her digestion when a message arrived from Qin Tianhai.

Qin Tianhai got straight to the point: "I've already had the pharmacist begin refining the body-strengthening potion. It will be ready by tomorrow morning at the latest. I've used two stalks of vitality grass to refine four bottles. I wanted to discuss the payment for the task before deciding whether to refine the rest now."

Yun Zhi replied: "Sounds good!"

Previously, Qin Tianhai had promised at least one bottle of the body-strengthening potion as payment, but that was only for delivering the medicine and persuading his parents to let little Hu take it. It did not include the tasks of investigating whether Qin Nannan was his biological daughter or comforting and counseling Zhang Shuying.

Fortunately, having lived to his thirties in his past life and serving as the deputy director of a pig farm for over a decade, Qin Tianhai had dealt with plenty of people and understood the ways of the world. He knew that to get someone to work wholeheartedly and handle matters beautifully, one had to attend to their urgent needs.

Qin Tianhai asked: "Sister Yun, if you don't mind me asking, how many people are in your family? What is your demand for the body-strengthening potion?"

Yun Zhi’s eyes lit up—here it was! She briefly explained her situation. Upon learning about the state of her parents and the heavy debts she was carrying, Qin Tianhai felt a deep sense of sympathy for the young girl. Especially since, despite her own difficult circumstances, she had gone out of her way to gain his parents' trust—gifting little Hu a gold longevity lock, renting a luxury car, accompanying Zhang Shuying shopping, and even buying new clothes for his parents. These were things he hadn't even done himself when he was alive.

Qin Tianhai offered: "Do you need me to collect some gold and jewelry here for you? Martial arts families focus more on strength than these external items, but if I look around, I can find quite a bit." After all, in this high-martial arts world, while there were many experts, most of the lower-class population were ordinary people who remained at the martial apprentice level their entire lives.

Yun Zhi quickly said: "No, no, that’s not necessary. I’ve already made trades with Panpan and Xiaofei. In ten days, after I attend the auction and sell the high-quality items they gave me, I’ll be able to clear my debts and still have twenty or thirty million left over. My financial crisis will be resolved soon."

The implication was clear: what she needed was the body-strengthening potion!

Qin Tianhai suggested: "How about this? I’d like to ask you to help deliver three bottles of the body-strengthening potion to my parents and little Hu, and persuade them all to take it. The payment will be three bottles of the potion. Additionally, I’d like to entrust you with two other tasks, for which I will pay another two bottles as a reward. However, this will require the help of another group member, Mu Xue. I’ve already discussed it with her in the group, and you can check the chat history."

Each group member only had one opportunity for a commission-style task per month, but a single commission could include multiple requests.

Yun Zhi hadn't seen the name Mu Xue for a long time and was momentarily stunned. What did this have to do with her? With so much going on lately, Yun Zhi had been planning to wait until after the Hai City auction to private message Mu Xue and ask if she had any tasks for her. Yun Zhi had set her messages to "Do Not Disturb," so unless someone tagged her, the group messages didn't pop up. Opening the [Transmigrator Chat Group] now and scrolling up, she quickly understood what was happening.

Qin Tianhai: "@Mu Xue, I recall you mentioning that your world has a kind of curse charm called the 'Foul Odor Charm.' As long as you write the person's name and birth date on it, and the charm is within a hundred meters of them, it will spontaneously ignite without wind, merging into the target's body. It causes them to emit a stench like a rotting corpse, making everyone within a ten-meter radius unwilling to approach them, lasting until they die. Do you have any of these on hand?"

Although the members of the Transmigrator Chat Group couldn't trade with each other directly, they were all compatriots from Earth and would often talk about the novelties of their respective worlds when bored. Mu Xue had shared her background before. She was a Curse-Master and Artifact-Crafter, skilled in drawing curse charms and creating various magical artifacts. Even more magically, the "Dream-Curse Charms" she drew could have a slight effect across different worlds, provided she knew the person's real name and had even a slight connection through the group chat. This effect allowed her to make them have nightmares for an entire night, with the general direction of the dream dictated by Mu Xue.

The dream imagery wouldn't be very clear due to the vast distances of time and space. To test the effectiveness of the Dream-Curse Charm, Mu Xue had originally tested it on Qin Tianhai, Tang Panpan, and Cen Junfei after obtaining their consent. Qin Tianhai had dreamed of countless beautiful female ghosts chasing him, and when they caught him, they devoured him alive in 108 different ways... This resulted in Qin Tianhai becoming somewhat gynophobic in reality, with no desire to find a partner in the future.

However, that couldn't be blamed on Mu Xue; it was Qin Tianhai who had requested: "Give me a dream that will make me cut off all romance and desire, lose interest in women, and focus solely on martial arts!" At the time, Qin Tianhai’s outstanding martial talent had attracted many beautiful girls. Being in the body of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, how could he resist the temptations of various types of beautiful girls? But with his thirty-something-year-old soul and the memory of his wife’s betrayal in his past life, he had lost faith in romance. He was constantly struggling between "women only slow down my martial arts progress" and "the girl at the next desk is so pure / the neighbor girl is so cute / the d-cup school beauty in the JK uniform is so pretty." Rationally, he knew his top priority was to focus on his studies and get into a top martial arts university!

The Dream-Curse Charm worked like a charm. Since then, whenever beautiful women showed interest in him, he would always remember the nightmare of being eaten by those beautiful female ghosts! *Instant wilt.*

Tang Panpan and Cen Junfei also tried the charms. Tang Panpan got exactly what she wanted: a dream about a super-handsome Ghost King and their unfinished love... the consequence was that Tang Panpan didn't dare go to the bathroom alone at night for a whole month. Cen Junfei, being thick