The First Legendary Demonic Scholar

Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Loot

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Crack!

After an hour, the door of the female servant’s cottage opened and Zhu Wei stepped out with a satisfied look on his face. The house behind him was quiet; only the uneven breathing of the woman inside reached out.

Zhu Wei looked over his shoulder and spoke languidly, "You have gotten better at this, Shi Lui; be proud. You are finally able to please me. If you continue like this, I will tell you the secret to breaking through the qi condensation realm."

Even after a second, no reply came, but Zhu Wei’s smirk only widened. He knew it in his heart; even though he had told her the secret right then, there was no way she would be able to break through in the remaining time.

Shi Lui also realized this, but there was nothing she could do. No one would hear her cries in this cursed place. No one would save her, and she did not have the power to go against Zhu Wei.

"Well then, I will come back tomorrow. You better be prepared." Zhu Wei walked away, leaving the woman to her sorrows. He did not even realize that a predator was lurking in the shadows, watching his every move.

Shen Yuan followed Zhu Wei towards the lavatory area.

"Hiss, why do I always feel like peeing after a good workout?" Groaning in annoyance, Zhu Wei swayed towards a wall, walking like a drunk. It seemed like sex was not the only thing he had at Shi Lui’s house.

In his hazy state, Zhu Wei could not even distinguish the difference between the latrine and a wall. Right there, out in the open, he started to strip himself.

While he was relieving himself, Shen Yuan stepped out of the shadows. His white dress shone under the caress of the moonlight.

In his right hand, he was holding an axe he had picked from Shi Lui’s lawn.

"You know, it’s dangerous to walk around here alone in the middle of the night." The only sound he made came from his mouth.

A chill rang down Zhu Wei’s body as he felt the hand holding a sharp axe resting on his shoulder and the warm breath trickling his cheeks. He turned his head only to see Shen Yuan’s face only an inch away from his; the boy was looking ahead, staring at the wall with a blank look on his face and a faint smile that never left his lips.

"You—How dare you?!" It took him a second to realize who it was, and when he did, Zhu Wei clenched his hand and launched a punch straight at Shen Yuan’s face.

As the fist neared his face, Shen Yuan’s eyes moved towards it while his face kept stationary.

"Feels nostalgic. I won’t fall for the same thing twice." Shen Yuan shifted his head and let the fist brush against his cheeks before slamming his knee in Zhu Wei’s stomach.

"Kwachh!" The impact of the force came as an unexpected surprise to Zhu Wei. He looked at Shen Yuan with a terrified look in his eyes. "How?"

"What are you talking about?" Shen Yuan tilted his head, allowing the man to step away from him. "Oh, do you mean how I dodged your attack?"

Twirling the axe in his hand, he grinned, "You can already guess."

All the drowsiness drained from Zhu Wei’s face as the words hit him harder than the cold wind of the night.

"You found out?" He gasped in disbelief. "How? We made sure nothing like that happened... who helped you?!"

"Correct, It took some time, but I found it myself." Shen Yuan grinned and moved again. "But don’t you think it’s about time I sent you off?"

"Don’t get ahead of yourself!" Seeing Shen Yuan walking towards him slowly, Zhu Wei lost his senses and charged in anger.

"You know, it took some time." Shen Yuan spoke to Zhu Wei again, staring right into his eyes. "But I finally got hold of this power with the help of the duties of the servant."

Zhu Wei ignored his words and whipped his legs in the air, aiming for the head. "So What if you managed to break through in the body-tempering realm? Do you know who you are standing before?"

"I am Zhu Wei, and I have already reached the seventh realm of the body tempering realm. Someone like you, who is at best in the third level of the body tempering realm, cannot be my opponent." He was still living in the feeling he got when he beat the shit out of Shen Yuan earlier in the morning.

"Oh?" Shen Yuan replied dryly as he blocked the leg aimed for his head with his forearm. With ease he blocked his all-out attack; Zhu Wei’s face finally realized how wrong he was; the color drained from his face.

But Shen Yuan was not going to let the opportunity pass twice. He raised his other arm and swung down the sharp axe without holding back.

"You were one of the people who were watching me earlier, weren’t you? "With a single swing, Shen Yuan severed Zhu Wei’s right leg. Without it, the man lost his balance and fell to the ground. "Now you can finally see what I am capable of." freёwebnoѵel.com

Thud!

"Ar—" Just as he was about to scream, Shen Yuan’s arms flickered through the air and Zhu Wei’s head flew in the air.

"Can’t have you attracting attention now." Shen Yuan looked down at Zhu Wei or pieces of him and whispered. "Some things never change, no matter where I am."

Shen Yuan looked around to see if he had left any traces of him being there and removed every little thing he did unknowingly leave.

Once the cleanup was done, Shen Yuan walked back to the living quarters of the servants. Instead of going back to his place, he returned back to Shi Lui’s home and left the axe where he found it.

"I wonder if there is any fingerprint-reading tech in this world." Just to be sure, he wiped the handle and the blade of the axe with a waste cloth and threw that before the gate of another one of Young master Peng’s lackeys.

Once everything was done, he finally returned to his cottage with a bag of clothes he had looted from Zhu Wei’s corpse.