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Chapter 56 Wang Ke's First Apprentice, Tiezi

Xu Jingkai was heavily smashed onto the ground and the trace of fear on his face did not diminish in the slightest. He felt like all of the bones in his body were fractured for the fall, and his internal organs were shaken with burning pain.

"Ahem..."

Sharply coughing, Xu Jingkai took a deep breath of fresh air, feeling as though he had come back from hell. After a little while, his originally saucy purple face slowly returned to its original color and he looked at Wang Ke cautiously in silence. It seemed as if he had encountered a ghost in broad daylight.

Wang Ke had obviously noticed Xu Jingkai's fear. After realizing this in his heart, he stood up calmly and walked beside Li Ruoxi and said, "Let's go! It's not worth wasting time on these b*st*rds."

Li Ruoxi nodded with a smile. Wang Ke had fought fiercely, but it was normal in her view. The sturdy young men rolling around on the ground in pain had previously been smashing watermelon knives and iron bars onto Wang Ke's head. If they had hit, Wang Ke would have either died or badly injured.

Li Ruoxi slowly took out ten yuan from her wallet and walked to Xu Jingkai. She said indifferently, "Since you are so pitiful, you can take this money. See this as your medical expense."

Then she threw the ten yuan bill at Xu Jingkai's side and turned around and walked towards her residence without ever sparing him another look.

On a branch of a large tree about twenty or thirty meters away from the fighting scene, a boy of around eleven or twelve years old sat lazily with his legs crossed. The boy looked very ordinary with dark skin, blank eyes, and closely cropped hair. The only part that could be counted as good-looking was the cherry-like mouth, which should have been on a girl's face.

His name was Tiezi, an orphan.

His blank eyes gradually brightened up as a group of sturdy young men swarmed out of two vans.

Half a minute later, his lazy look had disappeared without a trace and was replaced by a deep shock. He had never dreamed that there were actually martial arts masters in this world as powerful as those in TV shows and movies.

Tiezi quickly slid down from the tree as he saw Wang Ke beginning to walk away in the distance. He hastily chased toward Wang Ke.

Pop.

With his dexterous figure, Tiezi quickly caught up on Wang Ke. Without saying anything, he knelt in front of Wang Ke.

What was this?

Wang Ke was dumbfounded and stopped instantly.

Confusion appeared in his eyes. Wang Ke was puzzled by the boy who came after him from behind and suddenly knelt in front of him.

Wang Ke turned back and saw that Li Ruoxi was looking at him with confused glances, so he just smiled awkwardly and showed that he didn't know what had happened at all by shaking his head.

"Boy, what are you doing?" Wang Ke asked in confusion, with his gaze falling on the body of Tiezi who was kneeling in front of him.

Tiezi kowtowed heavily onto the ground three times to Wang Ke. Then he looked up at Wang Ke and said, "I want to be your apprentice and learn martial arts from you. I saw what you did fighting just now, and that was awesome. Can you teach me martial arts?"

Wang Ke was dumbstruck and smiled. Even Li Ruoxi couldn't help but laugh. The two of them didn't expect that the young boy in front of them would ask Wang Ke to be his master.

Wang Ke shook his head with his lips curled. He was now in the critical stage of learning antiques, magic weapons, and Fengshui, so how could he have time to teach someone? Moreover, his cultivation had only reached the early third stage of Dragon's Momentum. He was not even a real expert, so how could he teach others?

"Get up! I will not be your master, and I don't have time to teach you martial arts." Wang Ke said calmly.

Tiezi shook his head stubbornly with persistent light flashing in his dark, bright eyes.

Wang Ke glanced at Li Ruoxi and said faintly, "Let's go!"

Li Ruoxi nodded silently. She was merely amused by the little boy's sudden appearance and was even more amused by his sudden action of kneeling down directly in front of Wang Ke and begging him to teach him.

The two of them walked away for a dozen steps before Tiezi quickly stood up and chased after them to kneel in front of Wang Ke again. It seemed like he would not rest until his goal was fulfilled.

A bitter smile appeared on Wang Ke's face as he gave Tiezi a deep look and once again walked around him toward the gate of Emerald Court neighborhood in the distance.

Tiezi's face was tinted with loss. This time he didn't chase after Wang Ke to kneel down in front of him, but followed behind Wang Ke and Li Ruoxi quietly.

Only when they reached the gates of Emerald Court did Li Ruoxi, who had been following beside Wang Ke, turn her head back to look at the boy. She then whispered to Wang Ke, "That kid is still following us! Are you really reluctant to teach him martial arts?"

Wang Ke was a little hesitant. That kid's eyes were very pure, but also very persistent. His first impression of him was very good. Yet he did not have much time. If he were to teach that kid martial arts, it would be inevitable to teach him the Disciplines of Internal Strength of Dragon's Momentum. After all, all of the martial arts moves he mastered were corroborated with Dragon's Momentum. If he did not teach him how to cultivate the Disciplines of Internal Strength, even if he taught him the martial arts moves, the power would be more than ten times smaller.

Wang Ke took a few steps forward in thought before he came up with an idea. He halted and turned to wave at Tiezi, gesturing him to come over.

"Master, are you willing to accept me?" With an apprehensive look on his face, Tiezi once again knelt down in front of Wang Ke.

Wang Ke's expression slightly changed. He was now standing outside the gate of Emerald Court, and there were many pedestrians around. Tiezi's kneeling in front of him had already made many people look around with surprise.

Quickly pulling Tiezi up from the ground, Wang Ke whispered, "Don't kneel down this easily. By the way, I still don't know your name? Where do you live?"

Tiezi answered quickly, "My name is Tiezi. I do not know what my last name is, but everybody calls me Tiezi. I am an orphan and I live by the antique trading market."

Wang Ke looked at Tiezi's dirty and tattered clothes and sighed in his heart before speaking, "Since you live near the antique trading market, you should know what quiet places are around there, right? Places like parks, woods and other areas?"

Tiezi gestured toward the southwest of the Emerald Court and said, "There is a people's park over there. I know that in the northwest corner of the park there is a small forest, where there are usually very few people. In the past two years people double suicide by jumping into the lake, so the people who have often been there for dates do not often go there anymore."

Wang Ke nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well. From now on, you wait for me there every night from seven to eight. I can teach you some martial arts moves."

With a look of surprise on his face, Tiezi broke away from Wang Ke's hands and once again knelt in front of Wang Ke. He heavily hit his head several times before getting up, and said with a smile, "I understand, Master. I will be there on time in the future."

A few moments later, Wang Ke smiled after he watched Tiezi excitedly run away in a hurry.

Li Ruoxi's beautiful eyes shone with a strange color. She asked with slight amazement, "Why did you agree to teach him?"

Wang Ke retracted his gaze and looked at Li Ruoxi, "A child of his age should be interested in learning. Since he is willing to learn, I can refuse him once or twice. If he is still insisting, it proves that he has a good mentality, and I can't discourage him. Moreover, although I promised to teach him martial arts, I still need to examine his personality and perseverance. If he can really satisfy me, I will teach him the cultivation method to internal strengths. If I am not satisfied, I will just teach him some martial arts moves."

Li Ruoxi smiled, "I did not expect you to think quite this much."

Wang Ke touched his nose and did not continue this conversation further.

Back at the residence, Li Ruoxi made a cup of tea and called Wang Ke to the living room before sitting on the sofa and asking, "Wang Ke, can you tell me about antiques? Also, tell me about the kind of magic weapons you mentioned. By the way, that precious inkstone you said you bought earlier seems to be a magic weapon."

Wang Ke took a sip of the clear tea before telling Li Ruoxi about the common knowledge of antiques and magic weapons.

"So according to you, this business of antiques and magic weapons has a really high profit but also a very high risk. If you don't have enough knowledge and a lot of money, it is impossible to enter this business." Li Ruoxi thoughtfully stared at the clear tea in front of her and said quietly.

Wang Ke suddenly realized something. At this moment he quickly captured the leaping impulse in Li Ruoxi's eyes. It seemed that she was actually interested in the antique and magic weapon business!

After a moment of silence, he smiled, "You're right. If you want to operate a business of antiques and magic weapons, the main point is to understand antiques and magic weapons. Otherwise, even if you have a lot of money, you can't earn any profit. Of course, the huge capital is also essential, or else there is no way to purchase large numbers of goods. Unless you reach the master level of identifying antiques and magic weapons, only then can you cost little money to buy undervalued treasures to earn much money. However, such thing also depends on luck more than anything, and it is too difficult to make a big fortune by luck."

There was a sentence he did not say, "Unless you can be like me to not only possess this unbelievable cheating method of the extraordinary vision but also be able to observe the energy to detect the presence of magic weapons around."

Li Ruoxi nodded seriously. Suddenly she raised her head to look at Wang Ke curiously and asked, "That precious inkstone you found today was sold for five hundred yuan, right? I heard you say before that if you sell it, how much can it sell for? You have found an undervalued treasure, right? Can you sell it for five or ten thousand yuan?"

Wang Ke cracked a smile. He held out two fingers with a hint of smugness, and said with a proud smile, "If I sell it, it should be at least this much."

"Twenty thousand? That much?" Li Ruoxi said as she looked at Wang Ke in surprise.

Wang Ke smiled and shook his head, "Two hundred thousand."

"Wow!"

Li Ruoxi stood up with disbelief on her beautiful face. She stared hard at Wang Ke and she exclaimed, "Two hundred thousand? How is this possible? How can you sell something that you bought for five hundred yuan for two hundred thousand? This profit margin is horrifying, isn't it? That owner who sold you the magic weapon inkstone can't really be this ignorant, can he?"

Wang Ke waved his hands and gestured Li Ruoxi to sit down.

"Don't make such a fuss. If that seller knew all about his goods, would he still have sold me the magic weapon? You know, every magic weapon is considered an antique, and you should know the price of antiques. Let's say, for example, there are two items in front of you. One is a real magic weapon and one is an artifact. They are similar in shape. Can you be completely sure which one is the real magic weapon and which one is an imitation fake?"

Li Ruoxi shook her head and said, "I don't know about antiques and magic weapons, so naturally I can't tell which one is real and which one is fake."

Wang Ke laughed, "That's the point! To find undervalued treasures is to use one's own ability to find the kind of treasure that others can't recognize and buy it at a super low price. I used five hundred yuan to buy a magic weapon that is worth at least two hundred thousand yuan. This is what is called finding undervalued treasures, and this is what often happens in the antique and magic weapon world."