The First Legendary Demonic Scholar

Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Fighting Back?

"Thu!" Shen Yuan slowly stood up from the ground. He patted the dirt of his silk robes and spat bloody spit on the ground. "This kind of feels nostalgic."

"Are you remembering the times we beat you senseless and you never learned before?" Zhu Wei heard him whispering to himself and grinned. He stepped forward while cracking his knuckles.

"Something like that." Cleaning himself, Shen Yuan took the stance to protect himself while thinking. ’6th.. no 7thstage of body tempering realm. Can I take him on? No, the more important question is if I should take him on.’

Even if he were able to beat the man, it would expose the fact that he managed to grow stronger so much in such a short time, and that kind of attention was dangerous for him, especially from the people who had it in for him. freewebnøvel.coɱ

While he was thinking, Shen Yuan noticed the short-haired man walking up to him, preparing to strike again.

"To defeat you, I don’t even need to use battle arts." Zhu Wei declared as he increased his pace when he was three feet away from the boy.

Battle arts were like martial arts used by cultivators and mortals. just like the cultivation technique, they also had different grades.

Watching the punch slowly coming in his vision, Shen Yuan held himself from reacting. "This is the last time I will actively let myself ever be defeated by someone."

Smack!

Shen Yuan flew to the ground once more, his ears ringing from the impact of the attack. Tears filled his eyes, not because he was crying but because his body responded to pain in such a way.

"Gukh!" He did not even get to take a breath before a kick came flying into his stomach.

"How is it? Are you enjoying it?" Zhu Wei asked with a maniacal grin on his face as he continued to kick him. "You seem to love getting beaten so much as you never listen to me."

"Should I do you a favor and end your sufferings?"

Shen Yuan tried to speak, but the man did not even seem interested in listening; it seemed like he was lost in a world of his own.

If he wanted to, Shen Yuan could always take advantage of the situation and defeat the boy but just absorbed the attacks while protecting his vitals.

Seeing him huddled up in a fetal position, Zhu Wei stopped and spat on him. "That’s it. This is your place. Lying on the ground and taking a beating. Hahaha!!"

"You seem... awfully pleased with it." Shen Yuan asked with a cracked voice, "Did you get beaten up by your father like this?"

Seeing Zhu Wei freezing up, a bloody smirk surfaced on his face. "But you see, I am planning on getting used to it like you did. So you better count your days."

"How dare you!" Veins started to bulge on the short-haired young man’s face. His eyes turned bloodshot and his body tensed up. He was prepared to kill Shen Yuan right there and then.

"What? You gonna kill me?" Shen Yuan asked with the same grin on his face, "Did I hit a nerve? Did something like that really happen? I was just making fun of you. Now I pity you."

Zhu Wei could no longer hold back. Just as he raised his leg to kick Shen Yuan’s brain out of his skull, someone appeared.

"What’s going on here?" A cold gust of wind swept the area as a figure appeared behind the two young men.

"O-overseer Jiang!" Zhu Wei cried in shock. Indeed, the man who had appeared was none other than the cold-hearted and ruthless supervisor.

"I-I was just..." He tried to speak, but no word came out of his mouth. Seeing overseer Jiang staring at him blankly made his mind go blank.

Demonic sect was lawless, but only for those who held power and status.

If an elder wanted to kill a disciple, they could without batting an eye. Even a disciple can kill a servant, but one servant cannot kill another. At least not out in the open.

Their lives were no longer there, but they belonged to the sect. They had to live and die for the sect.

"Do you think I have all day to listen to your nonsense?" Overseer Jiang scoffed coldly, seeing the man fumble so badly. "You are not only obstructing the market business, but you also planned to take a life that’s not yours to take."

Overseer Jiang stepped before the trembling young man and slowly wrapped his fingers around his neck. With the lightest effort, he raised him into the air and asked, "should I just take the trash out of the sect before the deadline is over? I believe for a fact that you won’t be able to achieve the goal anyway."

"P-please... Spare me. I b-beg of you." Tears streamed down his face as Zhu Wei begged for his life while fighting for it. Despite being stronger than mortals, he was just as killable.

The commotion had grown so big that many people had gathered around the square. They were whispering to each other while watching the scene from afar. No one dared to go near them out of fear of being implicated.

Even Shi Jin was present in the crowd. "That idiot."

"It’s them again."

"Why doesn’t the boy just give in? They will stop once they are bored of him, so why prolong his sufferings?"

"What do you know, ignoring such people only fuels their arrogance. Look how he is flailing like a chicken on the chopping board."

Zhu Wei’s face flushed as he heard each and every word clearly from the distance, even though he did not want to hear them.

As the fear and embarrassment crawled up to him, he could no longer control himself...

Pssst!

"Hmph! Disgusting." Overseer Jiang saw a trail of yellow liquid dripping from Zhu Wei’s robes and threw him away like trash afraid of being touched by it. "You are to chop wood until tomorrow, without stopping. If you fail to do so, I will hang you by your tongue to clean the joint toilets of the servants and then chip it off to feed you. Sounds good, right?"

Zhu Wei nodded like a pecking chicken. "Thanks for showing me mercy, Overseer Jiang."

"Piss off." The supervisor waved his hands in disgust before looking at injured Shen Yuan. He merely glanced down at him for a second, but it felt like an hour for the boy.

"Thanks for saving me, overseer Jiang." Shen Yuan bowed his head, but the man did not even acknowledge his presence. One second he was there, and the next, he had vanished. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

The crowd slowly dispersed, leaving Shen Yuan alone in the spot.

"Ugh! No bones are broken... good." Shen Yuan flexed his full body after standing up and grinned. "I should get some food. I am starving now."

He did not even realize it himself, but while he was getting beaten up, he had forgotten about his hunger and everything else. "I should also buy some medicine too."