But you’ve already won, haven’t you?
Why be so aggressive?
What’s the harm in letting them go once?
However, no one on the scene dared to step forward and mediate.
Everyone knew this Chen Xuan was a bit... unhinged.
If you stepped up to take their side now, he would definitely come after you...
With the masters of the Grotto Heavens absent, they really weren’t willing to take the risk.
Besides, watching these guys get brought to their knees by a young man was quite the story...
Who doesn’t have enemies?
Many of the onlookers had feuds with these twelve veteran Inner Realm masters. Seeing their enemies beaten and forced to their knees was immensely satisfying.
Yan Guichen’s expression was one of shock. He suddenly snapped out of it, jumped forward, and said with a laugh, "Young Hero Chen, if they don’t want to choose, let me choose for them! Strip them all naked and hang them at the academy gate. It would be a beautiful sight!"
"Yeah, strip them naked!"
"That’s right, strip ’em!"
Some in the crowd started to jeer along.
"No! I’m willing to kneel!"
"I’ll kneel too..."
The seven or eight men who had tried to ambush Chen Xuan earlier cried out in terror.
"Very good! Kneel!"
Chen Xuan said.
The lips of the seven or eight Inner Realm masters trembled, their spirits broken. One by one, they staggered and collapsed before Chen Xuan, in front of all the students, teachers, and other masters. THUD! Their foreheads hit the ground.
"We’re sorry! Please forgive us!"
they cried out mournfully, almost in unison.
"Hm?"
Chen Xuan’s eyes turned cold. He took a step, moving with incredible speed, and brought his palm down in a vicious chop toward one man’s skull.
CRACK! The blow drove the man’s head straight into his own abdominal cavity, killing him instantly.
Then, his fist shot out like lightning, smashing toward another man.
As the man watched in horror, a sickening CRUNCH echoed as Chen Xuan pulverized his head.
"Still harboring hatred? You ambushed me, and I was merciful enough to only make you kneel. Yet you still dare to harbor malice? Did you really think I wouldn’t dare to kill?"
Chen Xuan’s tone was icy.
[You have killed two resentful Inner Realm masters. Retribution points +80,000!]
[Detected that other Inner Realm masters have had their spirits broken. Retribution points +400,000!]
Two consecutive lines of text appeared.
Everyone was horrified.
The kneeling Inner Realm masters, in particular, couldn’t believe it.
’Chen Xuan can sense their emotions?’
’He even knows when they’re feeling hateful?’
’What kind of fucking monster is this?’
"Kneel properly! No one gets up without my permission! If I sense any more hatred, don’t blame me for being merciless to all of you!"
Chen Xuan said coldly.
The faces of the remaining masters flushed red with utter humiliation.
If it were possible, they would have rather bashed their own brains out and died...
This was simply too humiliating.
They had never suffered such shame in their entire lives.
As for Huyan Bao and Li Rushan, the two who had been bullying Chai Yingxue, they were already trembling uncontrollably, utterly terrified, their minds completely shattered.
’Oh, heavens.’
’Even these Inner Realm masters were beaten to their knees by Chen Xuan, their confidence shattered. What chance did we have?’
Among those kneeling were elders from their own Huyan and Li families.
’Why did we have to provoke the Chai family?’
’Why did we have to provoke Chai Yingxue?’
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP...
Chai Yingxue, ecstatic, began furiously slapping them again. "How dare you corner me again? Go on, keep being arrogant! So arrogant! So smug! Weren’t you asking me to ’play’ with you? I’ll smash your ’tools of the trade’ so you can never use them again!"
Chen Xuan’s gaze swept over the crowd and landed on two teachers. "You’re teachers at Sky Martial Academy?"
The two men’s scalps tingled with fear. They quickly forced a smile and cupped their fists.
"I am Zhou Ziyang. It is an honor to meet Young Hero Chen!"
"And I am Xu Tai..."
Chen Xuan frowned slightly. "What kind of teachers are you? You do nothing when your students are being bullied?"
"That’s right! What the hell are you teachers even for?"
Chai Yuan shouted, "My sister was getting cornered every day! She came to you several times, and you did nothing! Every time, you told us to ’negotiate’ it ourselves. Negotiate my ass! We give in once, we have to give in every time. If my sister ends up killing them in the future, are you going to ask her to negotiate then too?"
With Chen Xuan backing him up, he was full of confidence and cursed freely.
"Exactly! I hate it when people bully the weak. If you’ve got the guts, why not go pick on a real master?"
Yan Guichen, holding his black saber, added in a chilly tone, "And you teachers... you hold the position but neglect the duty. All you know how to do is smooth things over. Would you only be happy once someone actually dies?"
"Not at all, not at all! It’s a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding!"
"Yes, it was just kids fooling around. Nothing serious..."
The two teachers hurriedly waved their hands in dismissal.
"Fooling around, my ass!"
Chai Yuan cursed again. "How is that ’fooling around’? Do you know how many times my sister has been robbed? She came back black and blue every time! She’s had her bones broken seven or eight times..."
Even though she was a martial artist and broken bones healed quickly,
who the hell could stand having their bones broken every other day?
She was beaten until she became withdrawn.
"We will immediately strengthen our disciplinary measures!"
"Yes, yes! We guarantee a similar incident will never happen again. Please rest assured!"
the two teachers hurriedly said.
"You’d better mean it,"
Chai Yuan said angrily.
"Gentlemen, I, Chen Xuan, am not an unreasonable person."
Chen Xuan’s expression was placid as he looked at the two teachers. "Since you’ve promised to improve discipline, I’ll trust that you’ll do a good job from now on. However, if any similar bullying incidents happen again... then I’m sorry, but I’ll have to assume you’re targeting me. And when that time comes, I hope you won’t blame me for what I do."