Li Changfeng felt depressed as he struggled to drag his body to the room he once called his own.
He had already lost a lot of face by being subjected to a one-sided beatdown from a woman. That deeply hurt his masculine pride and severed his arrogance.
Li Changfeng was a person with a story and his hands were stained with blood while the corpses of those he had killed weighed him down both day and night yet he stood firm.
He had learned to be ruthless ever since he was born into the Li Clan. His clan treated women as inferior existences and patriarchal rule was the strongest; verging on the extreme. Women were just toys and breeding machines to be impregnated and give rise to the talents of the clan.
Born in such a controversial environment, Li Changfeng developed a misogynistic attitude towards women. To him, women were weak but that didn't mean he favored his fellow men, his arrogance just didn't allow it.
Li Changfeng knew that he was better than many since he ranked Tenth among the young Sky Guards. He also understood that those who ranked above him were slightly stronger than him. The problem that was currently eating away at his heart and superiority was what bothered him.
A beautiful woman had 'bullied' him and he looked like a total loser.
"Fuck." Li Changfeng grunted deeply when he felt the painful throb in his ribs. And when he grazed his fingers against his left side, he felt as if the injury had a heartbeat of its own.
It was just a few broken ribs. Nothing that couldn't be healed, and it was a good thing that the Guanjun Corps had medical doctors to accelerate healing.
'It's truly humiliating for a man like me to lose his teeth.' Li Changfeng cursed his bad luck. He got what he deserved.
Li Changfeng then begrudgingly took all of his belongings from the room and went outside.
He then cast a complicated gaze toward Zhao Yufei. His face portrayed anger, fear, embarrassment, self-pity, disbelief, hate and so much more.
"What?" Zhao Yufei tilted her head to the side but that gesture alone caused Li Changfeng to instinctively flinch.
'Fuck, I am being looked down upon like the piece of shit I am.' Li Changfeng felt heavily mortified but why…
What was this feeling of slight enjoyment he was experiencing inside his heart?
There was no way he enjoyed being humiliated or stared down by a creature known as a woman.
That feeling must be misplaced or mistaken to manifest in him all of a sudden.
"I-I have removed all of my things." Li Changfeng stammered without knowing it as he looked away from those sharp feminine eyes.
"Oh. Good." Zhao Yufei nodded her head in satisfaction and didn't have any thoughts about Li Changfeng's peculiar behavior.
She then slowly walked past Li Changfeng and before she closed the door behind her, she left him with a few words.
"Thanks for the room. I didn't know that you were so obedient." Zhao Yufei then shut the door.
Li Changfeng almost lost his balance when he heard her ruthless words.
"This woman…" He cursed under his breath and then directed a reminiscent gaze toward his old room for a few seconds.
A self-deprecating smile made its way to his lips when he turned his gaze away.
'I will need to recuperate and heal my mental scars as well. I didn't expect that a woman could be this strong.'
Li Changfeng then remembered that there was someone together with that fierce woman named Zhao Yufei.
Li Changfeng looked at the ordinary-looking youth who was currently standing like a statue in front of the Fifth wooden room.
He didn't look like he was in the same reality as him. The ordinary-looking youth seemed to be in his own world of making.
Compared to Zhao Yufei, he didn't look anything special except for his enviable physique which was either due to practicing a superb body cultivation technique or he was just blessed with good genes.
What was he doing in front of Lu Xiaoyun's room? Li Changfeng wondered.
Lu Xiaoyun was another bully that many avoided in the Sky Guards Battalion and he liked to pick on those that were possibly weaker than him.
Well, he had the qualifications to do so and the higher ups didn't have any issue with such behavior. Within the Sky Guards Battalion, if you were an outstanding Sky Guard you would receive preferential treatment over all others.
'Well, I don't care if he's courting death.' Li Changfeng shook his head and decided it was better to just ignore him altogether.
He believed Lu Xiaoyun was going to teach him a good lesson for trying to bite more than he could chew.
Li Changfeng then hobbled his way past the spectators who silently gave him way after all he was once the number ten. His defeat didn't mean that he was now weak. In a few moments, Li Changfeng disappeared among the throngs of people.
Meanwhile,
"Hmm, okay." Zhao Wei rubbed his chin absent-mindedly as he looked at the hut in front of him.
The evening breeze blew past his face and Zhao Wei could help but look at the gradually darkening sky.
"Night is about to fall and I can't just sleep outside, now can't I?"
Zhao Wei didn't knock or call out to the one staying in the room, he invited himself in by smoothly disabling the lock on the door.
"What the heck is he doing?!"
"Does he have a few screws loose inside his head?"
"This is just blatant provocation toward Lu Xiaoyun!"
"He's dead!"
"Should we summon those guys who like carrying a huge coffin, just in case?"
"Will Lu Xiaoyun really off him?"
"Let's watch the show and we will know."
From inside the fifth room, a shout of overwhelming rage and hate reverberated immediately after Zhao Wei brazenly disabled the lock.
"Who is there? Who is it? Who dares to mess with me, Lu Xiaoyun?!"
"It is I, your granddaddy, Zhao Wei." Zhao Wei replied in amusement as he faced a completely riled-up fairly handsome youth. (A/N: I cringed)
"Lu Xiaoyun, why are you doing immoral things by yourself in the dark? Don't you know that such actions are completely unacceptable?!" Zhao Wei loudly scolded Lu Xiaoyun like a parent to his child.
The crowd was roused by Zhao Wei's harsh words.
"What?"
"What could Lu Xiaoyun be doing?"
"You have just heard that he is doing immoral things. What do you think a man would do alone in the dark that could be termed as immoral?"
"You mean 'that'?"
"Yeah 'that'."
"But 'that' needs light or you would risk dirtying everything!"
"Hehe, you guys who have trained your vision to see in the dark, is that really a problem?"
"Though I find myself embarrassed, I have to agree with you on that. Adaptation and evolution are an integral part of living."
"You guys are rotten to the core. Instead of cultivating, you only know of wantonly wasting your vitality through unholy acts."
"Shut your trap up!"
"Who said 'that' was rotten? Fudge, are you saying my palm technique "One in a hole" is trash?!"
"It is that guy with an unusual forehead."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter if what that new recruit said is true or false. Lu Xiaoyun's reputation has just been utterly ruined."
Zhao Wei smiled after accomplishing what he wanted and then closed the door.
His actions immediately caught everyone by surprise.
Inside the room, Lu Xiaoyun's mind failed to function for a few seconds at the sudden turn of events.
"Hey, let's talk." Zhao Wei took a wooden chair that was close to him and sat.
Lu Xiaoyun didn't answer him, his mind taking longer intervals to process whatever was happening.
"Er, you are now deaf and dumb. Alright. It seems we can't talk." Zhao Wei sighed helplessly.
"YOU DESPICABLE A-!!" Lu Xiaoyun was about to release a lot of profanities but a seemingly harmless chop connected with his collarbone and soon, the world around him turned blurry before going dark.
"Oh, I thought you couldn't talk." Zhao Wei looked down at the foaming unconscious youth.
Then, a celestial golden inner energy started extending like tendrils from his hand to all the things that belonged to Lu Xiaoyun. Under his deliberate control, Zhao Wei carefully placed them outside.
He didn't need to throw them. It would be pointless.
Zhao Wei also did the same with Lu Xiaoyun's unconscious self.
"Now to erase his scent from this room since it's going to be temporarily mine…"
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"I-Is that Lu Xiaoyun?" Someone shouted from the crowd.
"Did you hear any fighting?"
"No."
"No."
"Then this leaves us with only one possibility."
"Lu Xiaoyun was cleanly and silently one-shotted."
"He was at the Peak of the Sixth Rank but still got silenced in an instant."
"That's too terrifying and chilling!"
"It's downright disturbing!"
"We have a monster…"
"...Among us."
"Hey guys, doesn't that make him even more terrifying than the likes of number three and two?"
"I don't believe it. He most likely used a forbidden technique or poisonous powder to sneak attack Lu Xiaoyun."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"We never miss this kind of guy, right?"
Then, a stifling silence reigned.
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