Therefore, if it was a competition on battle prowess, then Ling Han would basically be first place. However, according to the usual areas of assessment by the Scarlet Heaven Academy, entering the top ten would be extremely difficult for Ling Han, what more getting first place.
“I am willing to give it a try,” Ling Han said.
He had full of confidence in himself.
Minister Li nodded. Given his cultivation level and status, having made time to see Ling Han was really already giving a lot of face to the latter. It was mainly because Ling Han had come by splitting open the sky, which was very rare, so he wanted to meet him once.
Since he had met Ling Han, he then gave him a few words of encouragement as the latter would be his subordinate, after all.
“In these ten days, you will live here first. When you have entered the Scarlet Heaven Academy, then you may move there.”
Ling Han nodded, and said, “I appreciate your hospitality.”
For Chengyun, there was no need for Minister Li to speak out at all, and he had already gestured Ling Han to take his leave, saying, “Lord Left Minister needs to rest now, so I shall bring you to settle down in a side courtyard.”
The two went out.
Stroking his beard, Minister Li murmured, “Even though his talent may not be the best, seeing that he could come here by splitting open the sky, there must be something extraordinary about him! If there are any skills that shine during the enrollment, it would be worthwhile for me to nurture him. After all, that time is coming soon.”
Chapter 887 - Luo Lie
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Xiang Chengyun guided Ling Han to a different courtyard.
The Left Minister’s residence was indeed vast. There was more than a hundred guest rooms. Each one was well-proportioned and beautifully decorated, just like a delicate piece of artwork, causing observers to have a kind of irresistible urge to go in and disrupt the aesthetic perception.
The Left Minister was a very busy man, and this popular figure serving under the Left Minister did not seem to be very free, either—after making arrangements for Ling Han’s stay, he politely informed Ling Han that the latter might seek him out should any matter come up, then turned around and left.
Ling Han certainly knew that Xiang Chengyun was merely being courteous towards him. What was his own identity? In fact, he was no different from the sovereign of a defeated country. Moreover, he hadn’t even stepped into the Immortal level, so how could he make others hold him in high regard?
One’s status ought to be earned through strength, not by crying or begging for it.
Was the Left Minister given a high status when he was young? Was the empress of Chaotic Stars declared the sovereign of an empire when she was young?
They all had to start from scratch!
Ling Han’s attitude was quite placid. His current concern was entering the Scarlet Heaven Academy and learning alchemical and martial arts, advancing greatly in both areas. As for the art of battle formations, he would learn it if he had excess energy. Should he be too busy, then he could only give up on that subject.
Biting off more than one could chew wasn’t a good thing. When he was in the lower realm, it was because he had experienced two lifetimes as a mortal that he could afford learning all three, but now that he had used up all the insider information that he possessed, everything had to start from scratch.
The first step was to improve his strength up to twenty Stars of Shattering Void Tier!
Within the Immortal level, those who could cross over a minor layer in battle were known as One-star Genius. Following this logic, there were also Two-star Genius, Three-star Genius, and Four-star Genius. According to Yi Shuang Shuang, she had come across ancient scriptures which mentioned that there was once a Five-star Genius.
In the Immortal realm, such geniuses were as rare as the feathers of a phoenix!
However, just because Yi Shuang Shuang hadn’t heard of it did not mean that there was none here. After all, the distance between the two realms was far beyond description. Ling Han did not want to consider so much—as long as he perfected his cultivation at each layer, why should he be afraid when he was to battle with another at the same cultivation level?
Peng, peng, peng, peng!
He had wanted to cultivate and raise the strength of his spirit, but didn’t expect the courtyard door to be pounded upon loudly, and so anxiously as if someone was going to die.
The person knocking on the door had to be a very impatient man.
Ling Han walked over and opened the courtyard door. He saw a young man and woman standing at the door. The woman was someone whom he had just met earlier—she was precisely the youngest daughter of the Left Minister, Miss Li Weiwei. The man looked about twenty years old, but there was some fine facial hair at the corner of his mouth, indicating that he was really young.
“Luo Lie, go! Beat him up!” Li Weiwei pointed at Ling Han as if she was ordering a dog.
The young man was naturally Luo Lie. He was a descendant of a high-ranking official in the Imperial Capital and also a genius. He had ambitions to marry Li Weiwei, the beloved daughter of the Left Minister, so he would come by the Left Minister’s Residence when he had the time.
He also had an older brother named Luo Ba, who was only two years older than him. He had also reached the ninth layer of the Shattering Void Tier. Moreover, Luo Ba was much more of a genius, his battle prowess almost reaching nineteen Stars. He was one of the three elites of the younger generation in the Imperial Capital.
Of course, this young man had yet to reach the Immortal level. Otherwise, no matter how monstrous a Shattering Void Tier cultivator was, he wouldn’t be able to withstand the pressure from a single gaze of a cultivator of the Mountain River Tier. This was the crushing pressure inflicted by Immortals upon the mortals.
Although Luo Lie wasn’t as good as his older brother, he had also attained battle prowess of seventeen Stars, and was full of himself. Therefore, when he was incited by Li Weiwei earlier, he quickly ran over and wanted to give Ling Han a good beating in order to please Li Weiwei.
“You have offended our Fourth Young Miss. Why aren’t you kneeling down to apologize?” Luo Lie said proudly. He was self-absorbed with his own status. According to Li Weiwei, the other party had come from a small world. He naturally wasn’t willing to exchange blows with Ling Han, considering this to be an insult to himself.
‘Is he worthy?
‘A lowly commoner from a small world!’
Li Weiwei immediately became dissatisfied. What she wanted wasn’t for Ling Han to kneel down and apologize to her, but for Ling Han to be defeated. These two were completely different notions altogether—could Luo Lie compare to her when it came to powerful influence? In this case, she wouldn’t have to pull the other party all the way here.
Ling Han gave a faint smile, thinking to himself, ‘Whether it is a small world or the Immortal Realm, people are actually all the same, the only difference being that people of the Immortal Realm are a little bit more powerful. However, the juniors of influential officials will inevitably be full of arrogance and order other people around.’
This was a disease which should be treated!
“I don’t have a habit of kneeling down to others, why don’t you give me a demonstration?” Ling Han replied, not giving any face to the other party or Li Weiwei.
He had already seen through it. This kind of crafty and unruly young lady couldn’t be spoiled. The more she was spoiled, the more she would become stubborn and unreasonable.
Luo Lie’s expression immediately darkened. He said, “A lowly commoner of the small world actually dares to talk back to me? Do you know what my Luo Clan represents?”
It was a title of nobility granted by the empress herself, inherited from generation to generation!
Ling Han’s expression immediately turned dark as he said, “You keep on saying ‘lowly commoner’, but that won’t high
light your nobility! Apologize to me, otherwise I will beat you up until you beg for mercy!”
“Hahahaha!” Luo Li roared with laughter as he held his belly, saying, “I could laugh myself to death. You, a lowly commoner of a small world, actually dared to ask me to apologize to you? Are you worthy? Are you worthy? Are you worthy?”
He repeated thrice ‘are you worthy’, an assertion of his contempt towards Ling Han.
Ling Han said coldly, “This is the Left Minister’s Residence. I live here as a guest of the Left Minister. You came here to the Left Minister’s Residence to humiliate his guest—you are disrespecting the Left Minister!”
F***!
Luo Lie was stunned, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. ‘You really know how to pin the blame on someone else. I’ve only just called you a “lowly commoner”, and this is a fact. How did this relate to disrespecting the Left Minister?’
These words couldn’t be taken to be true. Otherwise, he would be punished even if he was a descendant of the Luo Clan!
Contempt against the Left Minister was a serious crime!
“You, you are talking rubbish!” He gasped.
“In this case, then you had better kneel down!” Ling Han suddenly raised his voice.
Luo Lie was genuinely stunned by Ling Han’s roar, and almost went down on his knees. Fortunately, he abruptly recovered and stopped himself in time.
‘F*ck him. Aren’t these two different matters altogether? Why should I kneel?’
Luo Lie came to his own realization—why should he go along with Ling Han’s reasoning? His breathing quickened, and his eyes were about to spit fire. The young master of the Luo Clan was actually led around by the nose by a lowly commoner from a small world!
He took out a sword from a Spatial Spirit Tool, puffed up his chest, and said, “Congratulations, you have successfully irritated me. I will teach you a good lesson and let you know that this is not a small world. With just your little bit of strength, you only deserve to be a bastard with your tail tucked in between your legs!”
Li Weiwei was also quite annoyed. ‘I asked you to come and fight. What are you rambling on about?’ However, the two were finally getting into a fight, so she cast aside her annoyance.
She did not tell Luo Lie that Ling Han came by splitting open the sky. She merely played down the details, and just mentioned that Ling Han came from a small world. Otherwise, she was certain that Luo Lie wouldn’t dare to fight with Ling Han.
In her eyes, she had hoped that the one who would come to fight wasn’t Luo Lie, but his older brother Luo Ba, one of the three elites of the younger generation in the Imperial Capital!
It didn’t matter. Once Luo Li was defeated, the Luo Clan would be humiliated. Could Luo Ba sit still and do nothing?
Based on this, it could be seen that Li Weiwei was actually quite adherent to customs. Otherwise, it would have been very easy for her to mess with someone of the Shattering Void Tier—there was an abundance of masters in the Left Minister’s Residence, after all. However, it could also be seen that she was an extremely proud person, and disdained the use of status to suppress Ling Han.
One had to rise from where one had fallen.
However, Luo Lie naturally had been deceived by her.
Chapter 888 - Convince Through Virtue
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Ling Han did not intend to let Luo Lie off.
He was an emperor, after all, the supreme leader of a small world. After entering the Immortal Realm, he had been oppressed on the left and suppressed on the right. Even though he’d been psychologically prepared, it didn’t mean that he had no temper.
Now that Luo Lie had provoked him, he would just use him as a punching bag to vent his frustration.
Give him a beating, no big deal!
In any case, he was also a guest of the Left Minister and the sovereign of a small country. No matter how small the country was, it would still rank higher than the Luo Clan in terms of protocol. Therefore, even if he were to cripple or kill Luo Lie, the Luo Clan could only bitterly swallow this loss.
Even if they wanted to take revenge against him, they wouldn’t send out an elite of Immortal level, and could only send out someone of the Shattering Void Tier. After all, everyone had to be seen adhering to the rules of propriety in public.
However, if it was to be a battle between two Shattering Void Tier cultivators, then why should Ling Han be afraid of anyone? Or rather, who could actually rival Ling Han? Even if the other party could use the power of the nation, nothing would change.
“Within three moves, I will make you kneel down and concede defeat!” Ling Han said indifferently, but this actually exuded his domineering side.
Li Weiwei couldn’t help feeling somewhat baffled. It was something that she hadn’t been able to see before—this aloof man actually had such a spirited side. At that moment, she suddenly recalled that the person in question had come by splitting open the sky!
She still had no idea know that at the time when Ling Han was splitting open the sky, he had been attacked by Immortals. Otherwise, she would have been more shocked, and even come to idolize him.
I dare to ask the world, is there another who could do it?
Luo Lie was mad with anger. ‘You are just someone who came from a small world, yet you dare to be so arrogant? Do you really think this is a small world?’ He charged forward in one big stride, brandishing his long sword to stab at Ling Han’s left shoulder.
He wanted to pierce through Ling Han in a single strike.
Ling Han put one hand behind his back, then flicked his finger. With a ding , the sword immediately rebounded.
“Ah!” Luo Lie screamed loudly as the flesh between his thumb and index finger suddenly split open, and blood spurted from the wound.
Pa, pa, pa, pa , and the long sword actually broke apart into seven pieces and fell to the ground.
Li Weiwei became numb and speechless, her mouth wide agape.
‘What level of strength is this?’
Luo Lie’s battle prowess was seventeen Stars of Shattering Void Tier. The younger generation of the entire Imperial Capital knew about this. Even if he didn’t use his full strength, it ought to be at least sixteen Stars just now—Li Weiwei was naturally able to conclude this as she had the battle prowess of sixteen Stars herself.
The power of sixteen Stars was actually no match for Ling Han! What was even more frightening was the sword… That Level Ten Spirit Tool was broken apart before it could even unleash its might.
She slightly stuck out her tongue as she had just come to a realization that Ling Han had gone a lot easier on her when they were dueling.
Speaking of which, it was quite peculiar. If Ling Han was stronger than her by only one Star or just by a little bit, the stifling pain in her chest wouldn’t be easily relieved, but now that she had found out that his strength exceeded hers by so much more, she became convinced, and was even secretly a little grateful to Ling Han, who didn’t let her lose too badly.
It went without saying that a young woman’s heart changed unpredictably, and was impossible to fathom.
“You…” Luo Lie looked at Ling Han, aghast. His face was filled with shock. He even doubted if his older brother was capable of such strength.
Wasn’t Ling Han a lowly commoner of a small world? How could he be this strong?
“You still have two moves!” Ling Han said calmly as he extended his right hand and pressed gently.
Boom !
How powerful was his current strength? Sixteen Stars of Shattering Void Tier! It had completely reached the level of destroying 10,000 techniques with just one application of strength. When the strength pressed down, it was powerful like a tall mountain, immediately causing Luo Lie to be so shaken that he prostrated himself on the ground.
Luo Lie only felt that there was a towering mountain pressing onto his back; he couldn’t move a finger at all. Even the bones in his body were bei
ng broken with crackling ka, ka, ka , and cold sweat was streaming all over him.
Unfortunately, although he was the junior of a high-ranking official, he did not have any official position, and wasn’t engraved onto the totem. Therefore, he wasn’t able to call upon the power of the nation, and naturally had no possibility of turning the tables.
“A person must remain humble. Bear in mind that there will always be others who are better than yourself,” Ling Han said in a calm and composed manner. “I have always convinced others through my own strength. Do you admit defeat or not?”
Pu!
Li Weiwei suddenly burst into laughter. ‘You are pressing down on Luo Lie with one hand, and he almost spat out his tongue. Then you even said you convince others through your own strength. How shameless!’ Hey, how come the same shameless man actually made her feel amused now?
Luo Lie had only one thought, which was: a wise man knew not to fight when the odds were against him. He quickly said, “I admit defeat! I admit defeat!” His chest was about to be crushed.
Ling Han shook his head, and said, “You replied so quickly. It’s obvious that you didn’t properly reflect upon your mistakes, and lack sincerity.”
Li Weiwei finally couldn’t stop herself from laughing out loud. She was also a weird person. What she hated the most was following the rules. After seeing this side of Ling Han, she immediately developed a favorable impression of him, and became attracted to this fellow of similar mindset.
Luo Lie spat out a mouthful of blood. He had come to exact retribution for Li Weiwei, but now that he had fallen into such a pathetic state, Li Weiwei neither asked to stop nor lent him a helping hand, and was instead laughing happily on the sidelines.
What the f***!
“I really admit defeat!” He clenched his teeth. His tears came flowing down in disappointment.
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