Translator: Misty Cloud Editor: Misty Cloud
âYouâre injured by someone?â Nangong Lie seemed as if heâs heard some fairy tale and his entire body perked up to look at Baili Jia Jueâs direction with disbelief.
When had the person known as Ghost Palaceâs Third Prince ever been hit?
Even if heâd lost martial qi.
Nobody dared to even make noise in front of him.
Itâs not because of any other reason except that this personâs methods were too cruel!
So ruthless that even those people from the four great clans didnât dare to act without thinking.
Moreover, he knew how to hold a grudge!
He didnât like to immediately put things in order, but would later slowly make up for it knife by knife!
Those shadow secret guards who tried to assassinate him were a specific example.
Donât be deceived by how calm and unhurried he seemed when he was at Armament City.
After he returned, heâd visited the palace, merely a visit like that had alarmed the four great clans and eight influential families.
He didnât say who sent out those secret guards and only said that heâd find the evidence among these people. This made those people totally dumbstruck, but could only look on helplessly as he investigated them one by one.
Each time a family was investigated, a little something would always be revealed.
The leaders of the four great clans had no choice but to spend more money to take care of matters. What they wanted was face, especially for their offsprings. There were some things which, if people in the capitol knew, itâd undoubtedly become the common peopleâs laughingstock. That would be more unbearable than to suffer a beating.
Right now, none of them dared to visit the brothels, precisely because they feared that Third Prince might be unhappy and directly send people to those beds!
Forget thinking that the Third Prince was as aloof as a god and wouldnât interfere with these matters!
By this time, thereâd already been two elders who were investigated in this way, investigations which traumatized them so much, they could no longer get a hard on no matter who their partner was!
Think about it. Fundamentally, in the midst of happily performing the act was when a man felt ecstasy, also when his guard was down, yet at exactly that moment, a sword suddenly appeared at his head, also with countless numbers of shadow guards motionlessly floating in the air. Even though they havenât touched a single hair, and they only watched with lingering gazes, merely thinking of this scene was enough. Nangong Lieâs body filled with goosebumps.
Thatâs why he couldnât believe that this kind of man would take a beating.
You could kill him and heâd still feel itâs impossible!
There must be something going on!
Based on his understanding of Ah Jue, the guy must be up to something!
Nangong Lie watched his friendâs calm appearance, and was just about to open his mouth, when he was interrupted by Baili Jia Jue. âThere were four of them and only one of me, is it strange that Iâm injured?â
âOf course...:
Nangong Lie originally was going to say âitâs too strangeâ, but after he saw the look, his adamâs apple couldnât help but shake as he stiffly changed his words. âNot strange.â
God d*mn it, what the heck was this tempo!
Thinking back to that time, this person took a rod and beat back over a hundred big guys.
After he finished beating them up, he even said not to bother him with these matters in the future, not to waste his sleep time, and so on.
And now, four people, and he couldnât beat them?
Whoâd believe those words!
Whatâs more, his martial qi had already been recovered.
Of course, he didnât feel like filling himself up with qi, otherwise, heâd only needed to move a finger and those people would be on the ground in a flash, you know? !
What the heckâs he playing at?
Even getting himself injured?
From what Nangong Lie could see, that so-called âinjuryâ, was intentional, no matter how he thought about it!
He waited until Wei Wei was in the middle of fetching something, but actually also could no longer hold it in, and asked his friend sitting next to him. âThe wound on your face shouldnât be self inflicted, right?â Playing at hurting himself in order to gain Miss Helianâs sympathy was very much what this kind of two faced guy would do!
âNo.â Baili Jia Jue put down the porcelain teacup that was in his hand, looking up behind him in an emotionless way. âThe fist belonged to someone else.â
Nangong Lie deserved to be someone whoâd been with Third Prince for a long time and was able to decipher his intent within those few words. The corners of Nangong Lieâs mouth twitched quite a few times. So in other words, he indeed didnât hit himself, but instead depended on another personâs fist bumping into his face.
âThose people shouldnât have exposed what youâve done, right?â Nangong Lie smiled. âAnd when you fought them, they mustâve felt that they had eyes, but could not see. However, relatively speaking, you can no longer play make belief much longer. When the time comes, youâll still need to move to the Superior Compound. Based on the Inferior Compoundâs quality, it wonât be possible to hold off those assassins who incessantly aim for your life.â
Yet Baili Jia Jue only smiled a bone piercingly cold smile. âThey wonât dare.â
Not âthey wonât succeedâ, itâs âthey wonât dareâ!
Apparently, Ah Jue mustâve given his enemies an unforgettable lesson.
Sigh, those pitiful young men. Clearly, there were two targets.
They shouldâve chosen anyone else to target, yet they targeted Ah Jue.
Instead of choosing Ah Jue, they wouldâve been better off choosing him.
At least, his methods were comparatively milder, and wouldnât traumatize them!
He reckoned that those young lads must be crying on each otherâs shoulders right about now.
Nangong Lieâs guess wasnât wrong. Those four pampered sons of wealthy families were indeed in so much pain their tears were flowing, yet they didnât dare to tell Yuan Ling Xuan the truth.
Theyâre afraid that Yuan Ling Xuan would decide that theyâre useless.
Also, they couldnât tell the truth, because they couldnât tell Yuan Ling Xuan that the student from the Inferior Compound was awfully strong, so strong he could be as strong as him!
They reckoned that not only would Young Master Yuan be unhappy about this truth, he might even kick them out himself!
Moreover, up until now, they still couldnât forget that guyâs look.
The kind that came from a cold demon from hell.
They only needed to experience it once to know they had enough, and really didnât want to provoke that King of Hell again!
Thatâs why, when they were summoned by Young Master Yuan, most of what they reported were lies!
âOriginally, the four of us couldâve knocked him down, but we donât know how Helian Wei Wei got there. Weâre afraid that things would get out of hand and the principal will find out. That would affect Young Master Yuan unfavorably, so we quickly brought everything to an end and returned.â
Yuan Ling Xuan coldly scanned the injuries on their faces. âThese were all inflicted by him?â
âYes.....â The four of them looked at each other. âSome were inflicted by Helian Wei Wei.â
Yuan Ling Xuanâs brows furrowed. âThat good-for-nothing actually has been somewhat surprising lately. However, based on her strength, only people from the Good Compound, like you guys, will lose to her.â
âYoung Master Yuanâs right.â When those four guysâ heads hung down, the muscles in their arms immediately ached. Besides being scared of that guy, they also hid resentment in their hearts. âYoung Master Yuan, during the competition, you must make them taste a bit of suffering! They even dared to move against us, clearly they donât have any respect for Young Master Yuan!â
Yuan Ling Xuan wasnât someone who could be stirred up into anger with merely a few words. However, he already viewed those people from the Inferior Compound unfavorably, such that even his face expressed mockery and disdain. âIf they want to compete with me, then they will have to be able to face students from the Superior Compound.â Speaking to this point, he turned around and coldly laughed. âHowever, theyâre merely a few clowns, what do you guys think, do they have the ability?â