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All this had only been possible due to Long Chen’s support. Everyone was filled with gratitude toward him.
“Cheers!”
Long Chen laughed. No matter what, these people had all helped each other in troubled times. They were his good friends.
After a couple of drinks, everyone started to chat. Only Wilde was completely focused on eating.
Long Chen had intentionally asked Shi Feng to order some extra food. Luckily, Wilde had already eaten a lot before coming; otherwise, he might have scared fatty Yu and the others to death.
Everyone was talking about their current situations. Not only were they full of vigor, but now that they could cultivate, their fortunes within their families had also risen accordingly.
The most important thing was the news that Long Chen had become a Pill Apprentice had passed throughout practically the entire imperial capital. Long Chen’s relationship with fatty Yu and the others was something everyone knew about.
Therefore, each of their families had secretly told them to make some good relations with him. This relieved them of the constant pressure they were under.
Just as everyone was conversing, footsteps suddenly came from below. Shi Feng frowned. “I definitely told the owner to keep an eye out. I already reserved the entire restaurant, so how is there still someone coming up?”
“Whatever, having more people is also fun.” Fatty Yu had clearly become a bit tipsy and his tongue had become loose.
A voice rang out at this moment. “Everyone in here get out. I don’t want to have to eat with a bunch of lowly degenerates.”
Long Chen’s expression immediately turned cold, and the veins in his hands jumped out angrily.
Chapter 24 Revenge in Just a Day
Long Chen had originally just been drinking alcohol calmly. But now his face turned cold and blue veins popped out on his hands.
That voice was very familiar to Long Chen. The familiarity caused Long Chen’s killing intent to explode out, and this strangeness was noticed by everyone.
“Brother Long, what’s going on?” asked fatty Yu. Seeing him in his murderous state, he immediately awoke from his tipsy state.
“Don’t worry about it. When that person comes up, just act really annoying. Keep focus on celebrating with Shi Feng and put on a show of it,” said Long Chen.
Everyone realized that Long Chen was wanting to make a disturbance. Currently, they all had the support of their families and were told to form good relations with Long Chen as best as they could. How could they let such a good opportunity go?
“Brother Long, just watch.” Shou Hou patted his chest confidently.
The footsteps continued getting closer. A man in his twenties wearing a strange hat and long eyebrows entered the room.
Long Chen didn’t reveal his face and he also told Wilde not to either. The two of them had their backs facing that person.
After the person came up, a bitter-faced man also came up behind him. He appeared to be the restaurant’s shopkeeper.
“Get them all out. Otherwise, I’ll blame you.” That arrogant man didn’t even place Long Chen’s group within his arrogant eyes.
Obviously, he felt that personally shooing them would reduce his status so he had the shopkeeper do it.
“Oh my, have you guys noticed there’s a phallus growing out of his head?” Shou Hou said quietly to fatty Yu.
Although it was said quietly, it wasn’t a whisper. Anyone there could hear it completely clearly.
Long Chen smiled. The strange hat on that man’s head did have a long protuberance at the front. At first, he hadn’t noticed, but once Shou Hou said it, he realized that it really was similar.
“It’s nothing to make a fuss about. I bet his dad was too corrupt and other people cursed it there.” Fatty Yu looked somewhat disdainfully at Shou Hou.
“What?” asked Shou Hou confused.
“Wow, have you not heard about the curse before? They curse you to have a son with a penis growing on his head?”
“Oh, brother really is wise,” Shou Hou said admiringly.
When the shopkeeper saw everyone jeer and taunt this person, he turned pale with fright and quickly cast a meaningful look at Shi Feng.
Unfortunately, Shi Feng, who had a slight relationship with the shopkeeper, didn’t pay him any attention and acted as if he had never met him.
That long-eyebrowed man’s face became cold immediately, and he icily looked at fatty Yu. “Damn fatass pig, are you guys looking to die?”
Fatty Yu shook his head. “Brother, seeing your bitter face, I can easily tell that someone close to you must have died. Was it your father? Your mother? Either way, now’s not the time to eat and drink here.”
“Right, that’s too unfilial.”
“Such a son should be directly thrown into the streets.”
“Shh, stop. Don’t you see him trembling? If we keep talking, he might go crazy and start foaming at the mouth. Then how will we be able to drink and enjoy ourselves?”
The power of teamwork was definitely amazing. Everyone heard fatty Yu and Shou Hou’s taunts, so they all inserted their own ridicule. They definitely had to at least contribute their own jokes at such an opportunity.
“Die.” With a short cry, a long whip appeared in that person’s hand. The wind howled with biting cold killing intent. As it crashed down upon them, everyone realized that the whip had them all in range.
Shi Feng had long since been prepared for this. With just a touch on his belt, a blade slashed out.
The long blade and the flexible whip collided, emitting an explosive sound. Shi Feng felt a huge power hit him and was sent flying into the roof, shaking the entire restaurant.
His face turned slightly red due to an internal injury, a sign that his blood and qi were about to overflow out of his control. He had shockingly been beaten in just one attack.
“Go die you urchins.”
After that first attack, his whip became like a poisonous dragon, immediately turning rigid and becoming like a sword stabbing towards Shi Feng’s heart.
This shocked everyone; they hadn’t expected this person to be so ruthless. He was clearly intent on killing Shi Feng!
That whip was too fast, and Shi Feng was unable to dodge it. Just when he thought he was about to die…
A large hand tightly grabbed the whip. It was now completely unable to move.
“Brother Long!” Everyone cried out as Long Chen appeared beside Shi Feng. He appeared like a king amongst men as he coldly looked at that man.
“It’s you?” That man couldn’t help being startled when he saw that it was Long Chen.
“Good, you still remember me.” A cold smile appeared on Long Chen’s face. He suddenly tugged on the whip and the man was startled to feel a huge force involuntarily pull him flying towards Long Chen.
He was slightly startled, never expecting Long Chen’s strength to be so great. Even a first Heavenstage of Blood Condensation expert like him couldn’t resist.
He sneered, and borrowing the force from being pulled over by Long Chen, he raised his leg and aimed it at Long Chen’s stomach. His reactions were so quick that they dazzled and confused the others. This person was obviously a true expert.
Seeing him rushing over, Long Chen also sent a kick out. Its speed wasn’t that great, but it was perfectly timed such that it viciously landed on that person’s crotch right before his attack reached Long Chen’s stomach.
The sound of something exploding caused everyone else’s groins to turn cold. Goosebumps arose all along their backs.
“AHH!”
A miserable scream resounded through the restaurant. Everyone who heard that cry had their hair stand on end.
But even such a blood-curdling cry was unable to relieve his pain. He rolled on the ground fiercely; his face contorted in pain, screaming.
Due to these intense movements, his hat suddenly fell off, and fatty Yu and the others’ expressions all changed.
“Someone fr
om the Grand Xia Empire?”
When the hat came off, it revealed an extremely ancient hair bun like a stretched out thumb. It was no wonder his hat was so strange.
That hair bun was a mark of the Grand Xia. Only nobles with high status would style their hair like that.
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, realizing that they had caused a huge disaster here. The Grand Xia and Phoenix Cry had a good relationship, and this kind of disaster could even influence the relations between the two empires. The consequences would be severe.
Looking at the rolling man, the suppressed anger inside Long Chen loosened slightly. He handed the whip to Wilde and said, “He hit you. You can hit him back now.”
“Hit someone? I can’t.” Wilde hesitated.
Long Chen’s face darkened. “You won’t listen to me?”
“I… I’ll do it.” Seeing Long Chen’s face darken, Wilde quickly became frightened. He had only ever known how it felt to be beaten; this would be the first time he hit back. He held the whip in his hand for a long moment of hesitation, not daring to strike.
“Do it!” shouted Long Chen. He had to push Wilde to take this step; otherwise, he would only end up bullied for the rest of his life.
“Ok, ok!” Wilde took a deep breath and used the whip to attack him.
“Hey!”
But that scream wasn’t from the man with the long eyebrows. It had come from the person closest to Wilde.
“Brother Wilde, you have to aim better.” That person had to suppress his tears as he rubbed his thigh that Wilde had hit painfully.
Wilde’s face reddened. He had never used a whip. It was so light that he couldn’t use any real force. Missing the person in front of him, he ended up hitting his neighbor.
Long Chen sighed. This child needed to temper himself.
“Continue.” When Long Chen shouted this, everyone immediately ran at least ten meters away. Only at that distance did they feel safer.
Crack!
This time Wilde had picked up a bit about how to use a whip, but he still ended up missing his target by almost three meters.
The man with the long eyebrows was still tightly holding his groin, his face twisted in pain. He didn’t pay any attention to Wilde’s weak attacks.
“Brother Long, this time I’ll definitely get it right!” Seeing how unsightly Long Chen’s face had become, Wilde hastily reassured him and prepared to lash the whip again.
Just at this time, a figure appeared behind everyone. This person was in his thirties and had an exceptionally long blade scar on his face that made him appear extremely fierce.
“Stay your hand!” That man sternly shouted in fury when he saw the man lying on the floor with Wilde holding a whip in his raised hand.
“Just because you tell us to stop, we’re supposed to stop? Hit him,” ordered Long Chen coldly.
Hearing Long Chen, Wilde no longer hesitated and sent another lash towards the man.
“You’re asking for it!” Seeing Wilde actually attack, he furiously stepped forward, his figure turning into a violent tempest that charged towards Wilde.
“Get lost!”
Long Chen also stepped forward, getting between them and punching out.
Seeing Long Chen come forward to block him, he frowned and also sent out a punch.
BOOM!
The air exploded when the two fists met. But what shocked the scarred man was that his fist was actually completely unable to force back this frail and scholarly looking young man.
At this time, Wilde’s lash finally landed. Originally, he had been aiming for the man’s buttocks, but due to his poor aim, it actually landed on his face.
Furthermore, it ended up landing perfectly on the nose. Although Wilde didn’t know how to use a whip, he still had quite a bit of physical strength. The man’s nose immediately broke and blood spurted out.
Seeing this, the scarred man turned ashen with anger. With a draconian shout, he unleashed his full power to force Long Chen back.
Long Chen saw the situation and decided not to wait any longer. The FengFu Star on the bottom of his left foot shook and terrifying spiritual energy flooded out. He now used his full strength.
The two of their fists offset each other, but the powerful energy was something the tiles on the floor were unable to bear and spiderweb cracks spread out.
The scarred man’s expression changed when he found out that Long Chen could still continue to block him when he used all his strength. Killing intent exploded out from him.
His aura erupted from his body and a faint blood-colored qi could even be seen filling the air. His frightening energy caused even the atmosphere to become heavy. The others all had some trouble breathing.
“Mid Blood Condensation realm?”
Everyone was astonished, as that level of Blood Qi was something that only mid Blood Condensation experts were capable of.
Each major level of martial cultivation had nine minor levels that were split from the first Heavenstage to the ninth Heavenstage.
First to third Heavenstages were early stage, fourth to sixth were mid stage, and seventh to ninth were late stage. As for the scarred man in front of them, now that all his strength had exploded out, everyone realized that he was a shocking mid Blood Condensation expert.
BOOM! Long Chen felt his blood and qi billow, and he was forced back over three meters; his stomach started to ache.
He had finally discovered his limit. This person in front of him was someone he was currently not a match for. Fear and shock filled him inside.
As for that scarred man, he sent a fist flying towards Long Chen without hesitation.
“You dare attack my brother Long!”
A thunderous roar shook everyone’s ears suddenly, and a fist covered in blood-colored light smashed towards the scarred man with an immense power.
Chapter 25 Grand Xia's Prince
“You dare hit my brother Long!”
That man suddenly felt a chill as if a giant monster was staring at him.
Without even thinking about it, the punch that was aimed at Long Chen immediately changed direction, colliding with a fist that was even larger than his own.
BANG!
The entire restaurant rocked and everyone was shocked to see that the huge figure that was protecting Long Chen was actually Wilde.
Wilde was like a war god, his eyes practically spitting flames as a strange red layer appeared over his skin. He actually managed to firmly stop the scarred man’s punch.
But although he blocked it, Wilde was still forced back several steps, and he would have fallen to the ground if Long Chen hadn’t come to support him.
The scarred man was surprised yet again. Both Long Chen and Wilde didn’t have any obvious cultivation base, yet they were actually able to consecutively block him, a Blood Condensation expert. His shock quickly led to killing intent.
Long Chen saw he had provoked the man’s killing intent. His FengFu Star had yet to reach the level of complete condensation and so he was unable to handle him.
The most important point was that although the scarred man had released his full strength, he had yet to consider them true opponents. From the beginning until now, he had yet to use any Battle Skills. He had clearly not unleashed his full attack potential on them.
Long Chen didn’t know what was happening with Wilde for him to suddenly become several times stronger, but even if the two of them joined hands, they would definitely not be able to block the scarred man’s killer attacks.
Long Chen stealthily rubbed his spatial ring. A fiery red medicinal pill appeared in his hand as he coldly looked at the scarred man.
“Everyone stop!”
Just as the scarred man was preparing to attack again, a cold shout rang out and a group of people appeared at the top floor of the restaurant.
There were at least a dozen people, most wearing protective armor, but the two men at the front were wearing yellow imperial robes.
“Greetings to hi
s highness the crown prince.”
Everyone was shocked and hastily knelt down when they saw that person.
That person was the crown prince Chu Yang. He appeared to be twenty-seven years old, and with his square nose, he had a rather dignified and imposing air.
The man beside him was slightly younger. He was pale and very handsome. However, he also gave people a very soft and gentle feeling.
“Brother Chu Yang, does your Phoenix Cry Empire treat its guest this way?” gloomily asked that man.
At this moment, Chu Yang’s expression was slightly unsightly. Looking at the man with long eyebrows lying on the ground, he angrily demanded, “What is going on here? Have you all gone blind? Do you not realize these are guests from the Grand Xia?”
Chu Yang’s gaze swept over all of them. Fatty Yu and the others’ hearts were all pounding nervously, and sweat ran down their foreheads.
They could tell that for that person to talk to the crown prince in such a way, in addition to his hair bun, he was most likely a prince of the Grand Xia.
The Grand Xia was once mortal enemies with the Phoenix Cry Empire, but in the past few decades, their relations had mellowed and they had become allies.
But the Grand Xia only had two princes, and they didn’t know whether this person was the crown prince or the second prince.
“My eyes haven’t gone blind. This guy has blind dog eyes, so I just took the place of his master and taught him a little lesson.” Long Chen walked forward indifferently.
“Who are you?” The crown prince Chu Yang was irritated that a youth would dare speak to him in such a manner, but he was still calm and didn’t immediately order his subordinates to capture him.
“Long Chen.”
If he hadn’t known Long Chen’s name a month ago, he definitely knew it by now. There were few members in the upper class who had yet to hear of him.
He was originally a trash cripple, but had now defeated a Qi Condensation expert on the martial arena twice in a row, and then somehow became a Pill Apprentice. There was a veil of mystery around him.