Chapter 165. Are You Still Going to Keep Putting on an Act...
“It is not that I refuse to give you a face. He is the one courting death!”
Bai Lu shouted at Shangyang Qingyu, then drew her longsword. Like soone gone mad, she flicked her wrist, and sword flowers dense as raindrops descended toward Xu Yuan.
Shangyang Qingyu did not move in the slightest. She rely watched Xu Yuan with interest and thought to herself, This man is not bad at all. He acts with enough decisiveness.
On the other side, Xu Yuan felt no fear whatsoever and only continued exchanging blows with her in a frenzy.
Under the effect of Rebound Shock, heavy blows taken would have twenty percent of their damage reduced, while converting that impact into a ten percent increase in his own power!
Rip.
A tiny burst of blood exploded from Xu Yuan’s shoulder, but the force invading his body suddenly weakened, and a faint sense of replenished vigor rose within him.
“Triple Wave Striking the Reef!”
Xu Yuan shifted from fist to palm. The force surging from him was like raging waves crashing against the shore, stacking layer upon layer as it bombarded Bai Lu.
‘How can this be? His strength suddenly increased?’
Bai Lu was both shocked and furious. She cried out loudly. After fighting to this point, she could already feel stinging pain in her palms and the sensation of her arm bones nearly splitting apart.
How was that possible?
Ever since entering the Extraordinary ridians realm, and with the powerful cultivation thods and martial arts of the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion added on top of that, she had not encountered such a brutal fight in a very long ti.
Yet this boy, who had co from nowhere, was actually pressing her down and beating her back?!
Bang!
At the instant her attention wavered, Xu Yuan’s palm slamd into her face. She imdiately let out a shrill scream as blood poured out, and even her nose was knocked crooked.
Stars burst before Bai Lu’s eyes, her head roared, and her body staggered, almost toppling backward.
Xu Yuan showed her no rcy at all. He grabbed her by the hair with one hand, while his other large hand swung at her face again and again like a fan.
Smack! Smack! Smack!
“Ahhhhhh—”
Bai Lu instantly let out a series of miserable screams.
“What protection of the Dao? Acting so full of yourself in front of , I will send you flying! Are you still going to act? Still acting? Still acting...”
Xu Yuan cursed nonstop as he struck her.
“You sinner, you are finished. Your whole life is finished!”
Bai Lu’s cheeks were covered in blood, and she stared at him with venomous eyes.
“You still dare act insane!” Xu Yuan snapped, then slapped her several more tis. “Go on, keep acting! Keep acting...”
“Give up... We sword cultivators... have always only taken the straight path... never the crooked one...”
Bai Lu’s body trembled. She looked like a torn sack. Teeth flew from her mouth, her cheeks were grotesquely swollen, and blood splattered everywhere. Even her speech leaked air and sounded ghastly.
Yet even in that state, she still tried to raise the sword in her hand and stab Xu Yuan.
“You are still trying to put on an act in front of ?”
Xu Yuan knocked the sword away with one hand, glanced around, then suddenly yanked her by the hair and rushed toward a corner.
“Good heavens, is that a disciple of the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion?”
“It really is. Th-this... who is that savage warrior?”
“That man is finished. If he provokes that pack of lunatics from the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion, they will hunt him down to the ends of the earth.”
So of the onlookers were completely dumbfounded at the brutal scene before them.
The people inside the inn were not much better off. Each of them stood there with mouths hanging open in shock.
Good lord, no one had ever said Xu Yuan had such a ferocious side to him!
Shangyang Qingyu drew in a slight breath. This man looked refined and scholarly, so why did he fight like a beast unleashed?
This was simply too...
Too satisfying!
At that thought, delight flashed across Shangyang Qingyu’s face, and her body instantly darted out of the inn.
Yan Wuguan and the others hurried after her.
Under the stunned gazes of the spectators, Xu Yuan dragged Bai Lu along like a dead dog until he reached a corner where several wild dogs had gathered. He was just about to press Bai Lu’s head into that pile of filth.
“No! Big Brother, I was wrong! I was only joking with you just now!”
Bai Lu’s face instantly filled with terror, and at last she began begging for rcy.
“No? What happened to your Dao? What happened to your courage to cut down all the sins beneath heaven?” Xu Yuan sneered and shook his head. Then he said in a heavy voice,
“You do not know you were wrong. You only know that you are about to be humiliated.”
When he loosened his grip, Bai Lu shut her mouth, and her mind completely collapsed.
“It is not over yet. I am still furious.”
At that mont, Cai Kun also walked over.
He was clearly soone unafraid of trouble as well. He intended to kick Bai Lu away, but his foot slipped, and instead he drove her head straight down.
Splash.
The filth instantly sared across her face and poured into her nose and mouth. Bai Lu completely broke down and let out a piercing scream.
“You humiliate like this... I do not want to live anymore!”
“I am impressed. You really dared to do it?” Xu Yuan said with surprise.
“What do you an? Were you not about to do the sa thing?” Cai Kun frowned, suddenly feeling that sothing was wrong.
“Co on, she is from the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion. Doing that is just asking to die.” Xu Yuan quickly waved his hand.
“Ah? Then what about what I just...”
The mont Cai Kun heard that, he panicked. He had only followed the lead and charged in with the group. How had he sohow beco the one who went the farthest?
Below them, Bai Lu hurriedly raised her head and retreated several steps to the side. She looked as though she were about to burst into tears.
Ever since joining the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion, had she not always been the center of attention wherever she went? Had she not always been treated with awe and respect?
On the path of martial arts, she could even be considered a genius.
At only twenty-one years old, she had already reached the Extraordinary ridians realm, and in the future she could advance straight toward Grandmaster.
She had originally thought this would only be a very ordinary Dao-protection mission, but instead she had run into the fiendish star that was Xu Yuan and suffered such humiliation. She truly no longer wanted to live.
Seeing this scene, the surroundings fell into silence.
What had they just witnessed?
A disciple of the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion had been beaten senseless and humiliated...
Was this really still Jiuyang Commandery City?
“That is enough!”
At that mont, Shangyang Qingyu walked over and said expressionlessly, “The two of you have gone a little too far in this matter. If the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion learns of this, they will definitely place you on their highest-priority wanted list.”
“My apologies. I was a little carried away for a mont.” Xu Yuan touched his nose.
“Eldest Miss... do you think I still have a chance?”
At this point, Cai Kun looked as though he were about to cry too.
Shangyang Qingyu shot the two of them an annoyed glance, then looked at Bai Lu’s wretched state on the ground. After a brief mont of thought, she took out a token from her sleeve and tossed it over.
“This matter ends here. Go back and tell your master that this person belongs to my Fangcun Sect. If he has any dissatisfaction, let him co to .”
Bai Lu caught the token, trembling all over, whether from rage or fear no one could tell.
She glared viciously at Xu Yuan and Cai Kun, covered her swollen face, and staggered away.
After she had gone far enough, Shangyang Qingyu finally turned back around and sized Xu Yuan up from top to bottom, a trace of scrutiny in her gaze.
“You really are... quite unexpected.”
Xu Yuan cupped his fist. “I have caused trouble for the Eldest Miss.”
“It is not really trouble.”
Shangyang Qingyu waved her hand. “That pack from the Sword-Nurturing Pavilion may be troubleso, but they are not so unreasonable that they would turn against my Fangcun Sect for the sake of one Extraordinary ridians disciple. It is just that...”
She paused, and a aningful smile curled at the corner of her lips. “Your temper really is explosive.”
Xu Yuan felt sowhat embarrassed and did not continue the subject.
He truly had been sowhat triggered just now.
Shangyang Qingyu did not say any more. She swept her gaze across the surroundings, saw that the inn was already in complete ruin, and said to the ashen-faced owner,
“Put the losses on my account. Send soone later to collect the silver.”
The owner nodded repeatedly after hearing that, as though he had just been pardoned from death.
Shangyang Qingyu then instructed everyone to return to their rooms and rest. They would depart early the next morning.
Only then did the group disperse, each lost in their own thoughts.
Xu Yuan returned to his room and sat cross-legged on the bed. Recalling the battle just now, he pondered silently.
Bai Lu might only have been at the Extraordinary ridians level, but her strength truly was formidable.
If not for the multiple attributes augnting him, defeating her would never have been easy.
Especially that razor-sharp force attached to her sword. It had actually been able to pierce the defense of the Golden Bell Shield and make him feel pain, sothing that had never happened in his previous battles.
‘It seems the martial arts of this commandery city truly are a whole level above those of Yuquan Prefecture City.’
He opened the panel and glanced over the data.
【Skills: Jade Platform Stance Art (Perfect 100%) Thunderclap Fist (Perfect 100%) Golden Bell Shield (Major Mastery 8%) Layered Wave Palm (Minor Mastery 27%)】
【Aptitude: 45 (One in Ten Thousand)】
【Martial Seed (0): Berserk, Paralysis, Rebound Shock】
The progress of both the Golden Bell Shield and the Layered Wave Palm had increased, but they were still so distance away from perfection.
‘I need to cultivate harder. Once I reach the Fangcun Sect, I will have to focus mainly on cultivation thods.’
With that thought, Xu Yuan closed his eyes and sank into cultivation.
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