When Yang Zhai heard Lie Yi, he turned around. His expression was serious. He moved closer to Lie Yi again and closed his right hand into a fist and punched Lie Yi's left cheek.
Then he closed his left hand into a fist as well and punched Lie Yi's right cheek. He did not stop at that, Yang Zhai began to beat Lie Yi. And this time he didn't say anything, he only kept on beating Lie Yi. It was as if he was taking revenge or cleansing Lie Yi's demon. He then threw Lie Yi into the wall of his house. Then he threw him back again and began to beat him.
After a while, Yang Zhai stopped. His hands were bloody, and his clothes also had blood stains on them.
On the other hand, Lie Yi's face was completely swollen, and his clothes were also bloody.
"Do you want to say something?" Yang Zhai asked Lie Yi again.
Lie Yi who was injured badly and was lying injured on the ground could hardly say something, but he mustered his courage and said slowly, whilst stuttering,
"You…, brother Yang, I have learned my lesson and will not be foolish anymore." Lie Yi was going to say something again, but managed to remember what he had experienced right now and stopped just at the right moment and changed his words. He could still feel the lingering fear about what would have happened if he had completed what he was going to say.
Yang Zhai —who was standing in front of the lying Lie Yi— turned his head to look at Hyun Hae and said,
"Hyun Hae,"
"Yes, brother Yang," Hyun Hae hurriedly answered.
"Keep this foolish brother of yours away from his friends. If I see him or hear that he is still meeting with his friends, you will pay the price." Yang Zhai said casually.
"Yes, brother Yang. I will try my best, except I can't guarantee if he meets his friends behind my back." Hyun Hae replied.
Yang Zhai nodded and entered the house and went to his room. Yang Zhai could not say more, he knew how deranged Hyun Hae's personality was. She was a lunatic. Even though she was acting obedient toward Yang Zhai, he knew what her personality was.
If a moment comes, when Yang Zhai and she engages in a battle, she will not show any mercy toward him and will try her best to kill him. In his previous life, Yang Zhai remembered that she would not show mercy to anyone, especially in a battle, except her brother she would not show mercy to anyone, even Yang Zhai. It was already fortunate that she listened to Yang Zhai every other time, except for the battle, she even obeyed Yang Zhai more than her brother. But in a battle, she would only show mercy to her brother, the exact opposite of the other situations.
And the other people were nothing more than ants in her eyes. Forget about battle, she didn't even show mercy to the other people in her everyday life. This was the reason, Yang Zhai thought that Hyun Hae's personality was completely deranged. But it was enough, she would definitely keep Lie Yi from meeting his friends.
When Yang Zhai went into the house, Lie Yi came to Hyun Hae's side with difficulty and asked,
"Why didn't you help me? You could have helped me back there."
"Are you crazy? He would have beaten me as well. You know his personality, right? You deserved it. I kept on telling you on the way back home to not be so proud as to go against brother Yang. You are really a fool." Hyun Hae said casually. She knew that this was going to happen.
"But, you have a water physique. You are a lot stronger than me. You could have at least been able to match him, right?" Lie Yi could not believe Hyun Hae's words. She just kept on looking whilst her brother was being taught a lesson.
"Let's go in. I will bandage your wounds. After all, we don't have a healing Ka, medicine, or a pill."
In the room,
Yang Zhai was cultivating and two essence stones were in his left and right hands. Yang Zhai didn't care about his two cousins and wanted to become stronger. Just like in his previous life, he knew that he would have to face both of them someday, but they were nothing to worry about for now.
He had even killed his lover in his previous life, what were his cousins to him? He would not show any mercy to them. He had completely changed. He had even freed himself from fate. Nothing could bind him now.
Yang Zhai was making his aperture wall consume the essence water in his aperture, and he himself was consuming the spiritual energy from the essence stones and converting it into the essence water.
A person with a physique usually takes around a week at maximum to advance from the Rank one early stage to Rank one mid-stage, and a strong physique can even help a person advance in just two days. And a person with 90 percent essence water takes around three weeks and with Yang Zhai's essence water, talent and Aurora, it would have taken him more than a month. But with the help of the essence stones, it would take him three weeks. And that was that Yang Zhai was only cultivating a few hours a day. As his body couldn't take more.
So Yang Zhai had to make his body stronger first so that he could cultivate more in a day. And he knew a Ka that could help him. He wanted to refine this Ka, but he needed a few materials first. However, he would not be able to find all the materials in this village or on this mountain. Thus, he had to substitute the materials. And for that, he had to become the leader of his class first.
Even though Yang Zhai could refine the Ka without becoming the class leader, he did not. He was being cautious. It would be better if he could become the leader.
Yang Zhai already knew the Rank 1 earth technique from his previous life. He didn't need to study. But to be cautious, he still practiced it two to three times.
Three days later,
Yang Zhai and the other kids were standing in a field. Around the field were beautiful wooden fences that were covered in red vines. This field was half a mile wide in width and length.
"So, three days have passed and the day to choose the leader has come. What you need to do is show me what you have learned about the earth path Rank 1 technique." Elder Wang was standing in front of the kids and was explaining the rules.
"You will all be given three chances. On the first chance, you need to try to hit me. On the second chance, I will throw a target in the air, and you need to hit the target before it falls to the ground. And on the third try, you will have to hit the target and me at the same time. Not just that, on the third try I will be running. But don't worry, I will be running in the straight direction at the same speed, so you just need to adjust your aim. However, remember that you need to use the Rank 1 earth path technique that I taught you on all three chances."
"The one who performs better than everyone will be selected as the leader. And the one who doesn't listen to the leader will be punished severely. You will all need to obey the leader's every order, except for the order of killing yourself or the ones that harm the clan." Elder Wang explained everything in detail and warned everyone again to obey the leader to give them even more motivation to perform well.
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