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The man in black’s shoulder had been completely penetrated as it bled incessantly. After giving Xu ZiYan a ferocious glare, he gritted his teeth before fleeing.
On the other hand, Xu ZiYan didn’t continue chasing him to finish their fight. The people waiting to ambush them in the forest only wanted to wound them. Since they didn’t have any intention to kill, it wouldn’t be very good if Xu ZiYan insist on taking the other’s life. In addition, he did not believe that there weren’t any people from Liu Guang Sect here. If things escalated to the point where a life may be lost, those people would inevitably appear to take control of the situation.
Leisurely placing his silver long bow back into his interspatial bag, Xu ZiYan continued to walk forward in a very good mood. The people lurking in the forest hadn’t consisted of only that man in black. However, that man’s strength had been the strongest. If he wanted to kill a chicken to warn the monkey while also showing his strength, then there was no doubt that the man in black had been his best target.
“Big brother is so amazing,” Xu ZiRong praised with a face full of smiles.
“Ha ha,” Xu ZiYan laughed a bit, feeling a bit embarrassed. Although having a little brother who always praised him felt nice, he was still very clear about how without Xu ZiRong’s help, he wouldn’t have so easily wounded their opponent. In a forest like this, the Wood Element martial arts was capable of bringing out the full extent of its power. In the past three years, other than cultivating the martial art techniques Silent Running Rain and Tempering Wood Secrets, he only learned one more, which was called ‘Forest Speech’. This martial arts technique didn’t really have any attacking power. However, if one was in a forest, they could communicate with plants to a certain degree.
Of course, chatting or gossiping with the plants was absolutely impossible. At most, one would only be able to obtain some hazy warnings, like tips about where dangerous things may be hiding. But even so, there may be times where the martial arts technique was ineffective. At the very least, the other children of the Xu family who learned this technique practically never managed to communicate with the plants before. Thus, for some time, people considered this martial arts book rubbish.
However, what was strange was how this martial arts technique worked numerous times when Xu ZiRong used it. Back then, when they were training in the forest behind the Xu family mountains, Xu ZiRong was able to frequently help Xu ZiYan find some spiritual beasts suited to his level. Xu ZiYan had always remained puzzled about this mystery despite pondering over it many times. In the end, he could only conclude that Xu ZiRong was just naturally suited to Wood Element martial arts.
In reality——
It was of course impossible for that damn Forest Speech technique to have such an obvious effect. The reason why Xu ZiRong was able to so keenly sense the ambush in their surroundings was because the Blood Demon Lord possessed an innate sensitivity to blood.
Within a certain range, Xu ZiRong was capable of distinguishing between blood by how energy-rich they were. In this forest that was near the city, high-level spiritual beasts were already long taken care of. Thus, the people who were hiding to ambush them looked the same as a bunch of flashing lanterns in the darkness. Even pretending not to see them was a difficult task for Xu ZiRong.
After taking care of that man hiding far away, the other lurking ambushers who saw this scene all sucked in a breath of cold air. Although they had previously known that Xu ZiYan was a popular candidate for the top position of the inner-sect disciple exam, this kind of strength still made people feel shocked.
Silently, at least two of the hidden people retreated. Xu ZiYan’s strength had far surpassed their expectations. If they did something now, their ending probably wouldn’t be that good. In addition, there was a high chance they would end up offending this popular candidate for the top position. Their gains wouldn’t make up for such losses!
Xu ZiYan’s predicted that some people would retreat. Nobody was foolish. Perhaps some of those ambushers here today were only here because they were forced by other people. However, after they saw his strength, the people who would actually do anything lessened.
“There’s still one more,” Xu ZiRong said in a low voice.
The smile on Xu ZiYan’s face gradually faded away. Since they have not even officially entered the exam, he hadn’t wanted to offend too many people. Killing that chicken was precisely in order to create an intimidating effect. However, if someone still had the idea of fighting him, then Xu ZiYan didn’t mind giving the other a profound lesson.
Unexpectedly, that hidden person didn’t start attacking, and instead walked out from their hiding spot.
Xu ZiYan pulled back his gaze the moment he laid his eyes on the tall teenager. He recognized this person! Or perhaps it was better to say, the original Xu ZiYan knew him.
This person was called Lei Hu, a member of a barbarian clan from the Northwest. All year round, they lived in a barren desert in the western lands. There, many different types of spiritual beasts also called that place their home. Among them, there wasn’t a lack of spiritual beasts with the same cultivation level as a Nascent Soul cultivator.
In the Xuan Yu region, the battle between spiritual beasts and human cultivators never ceased. In addition, this Northwest barbarian clan was the first line of defense at the battle taking place in the Northwestern lands.
The people of this barbarian clan possessed a very strong physical body. Even without a spiritual vein, their physical strength could be compared to Qi Condensation Stage cultivators. Moreover, because they have to fight in close combat with spiritual beasts all year round, practically everyone in their clan has a murderous aura surrounding them. Even the barbarian clan’s most average soldier was at least as strong as a regular Xuan Yu region cultivator at the fifth or sixth layer of Qi Condensation Stage.
The Northwestern battle fortress wasn’t defended by only this barbarian clan. Influential and large sects or cultivation families must send members to join the fight periodically. It could be said that the Northwestern battle fortress was the place to refine and temper someone. Practically everyone who returned from there becomes an elite cultivator, the cream of the crop.
Of course, the prerequisite for this was to return home, alive.
The battle against the spiritual beasts were full of dangers. Be a bit careless, and even a Golden Core cultivator might have to give up their life. With Xu ZiYan’s current cultivation level, if he went there now, he would just be cannon fodder. Although, in order to improve, Xu ZiYan had long made plans to go there in the future.
This boy called Lei Hu was a candidate who had been recommended by the Northwestern barbarian clan to join Liu Guang Sect’s inner-sect disciple exam. For the members of the barbarian clan, all of them joined the battle against the spiritual beasts when they were very young. Xu ZiYan wasn’t sure about other people, but this Lei Hu in front of him made him feel inexplicably nervous——even though the other was only at the seventh layer of Qi Condensation Stage.
However, Lei Hu gave Xu ZiYan the feeling that, should they fight, it would be hard to predict the end result.
“Is something the matter?” Xu ZiYan didn’t want to suddenly become hostile without any reason. After all, this Lei Hu took the initiative to come out of his hiding spot. That itself was already a sign for truce.
Lei Hu was tall and buff, and he only wore a piece of tiger skin cloth. With gleaming, shiny skin that showed off his sinewy and sturdy muscles, Xu ZiYan would have never believed the person in front of him was only sixteen years old had he not possessed the original Xu ZiYan’s memories.
“What is……that?” When Lei Hu walked out, his expression was very serious and his thick eyebrows were scrunched into a lump. His expression made it seem like he had very tangled thoughts. However, the moment he opened his mouth to speak, Xu ZiYan’s metaphorical eyeglasses fell. What was this guy talking about? Don’t tell him he was asking about the attack Xu ZiYan just used?
Lei Hu seemed to have mistaken Xu ZiYan’s silence as reluctance to answer. His eyebrows tightened even more, and he seemed to feel extremely embarrassed. After hesitating for a long time, he took out a small bead from his pocket before giving it to Xu ZiYan. “You people from the central lands always like exchanging things. I’ll give you this, in return, you teach me the skill you just did?”
As Xu ZiYan stared at that bead, a Foundation Establishment spiritual beast’s demon core, he felt his eyelid twitch. His heart really wanted to roar out: this f*cking can’t be right!!! According to the original Xu ZiYan’s impression, where was your berserk fury? Where was the aggressiveness leaking out of your every move? Where was your completely unreasonable and boorish rudeness?!!! Had they all been eaten by you???
F*ck ah! The original Xu ZiYan’s memory could actually be unreliable at times too! This happening was practically an inconceivable event alright!!!
“What’s wrong? It’s not enough?” Lei Hu cocked his head to the side. “You people from the Central lands all seem to know these strange things. If you refuse to teach me, I can still learn from other people. However……I still think your techniques are the most powerful!”
At this moment, Xu ZiYan only wanted to laugh ‘hehe’. Should he praise Lei Hu’s sight to be pretty good? He could even tell his Nine Changes of Violet Heaven was a good thing.
He rubbed his face hard before giving Lei Hu a smile. “My attacks are part of a martial arts that cannot be passed on. Forgive me, but I cannot teach you them.”
Lei Hu looked a bit disappointed. The only reason he came to Liu Guang Sect was to learn even more powerful techniques. Although everyone from his clan had extremely strong physical bodies, there weren’t a lot of people with spiritual veins. He was already considered an inconceivable genius with his dual spiritual veins. If it wasn’t for that, he wouldn’t have been sent here by the Head Chief to learn different types of martial arts.
Xu ZiRong stood beside Xu ZiYan. His small, indifferent face looked extremely dissatisfied toward Lei Hu. This rude, unreasonable guy who couldn’t even wear clothes properly actually made his brother reveal that kind of expression. It was truly too hateful!
Xu ZiRong coldly stared at Lei Hu. In his heart, he was wondering how to silently teach him a lesson. After so many years, although his personality was just as bloodthirsty as before, Xu ZiRong finally stopped killing people for light reasons. This was because he knew that Xu ZiYan’s tolerance levels for things like that was extremely low. This was also something he had learned from experience, after he suffered through a ‘profound’ lesson from Xu ZiYan.
That time, he almost killed a Xu family disciple. Although on the surface, it didn’t seem like he had done it intentionally, Xu ZiRong was indeed the one who got the other caught in a trap in the forest.
The poor girl from back then had suffered grievous wounds and almost died. When Xu ZiYan found out about this matter, for the first time, he rushed toward Xu ZiRong in anger and then gave him a heavy beating.
Before, whenever Xu ZiYan spanked him, it had more of a symbolic meaning and less emphasis on the actual spanking. However, this time, Xu ZiYan actually used some strength. Thus, his behind even became swollen.
After he spanked Xu ZiRong, Xu ZiYan became regretful and got some ointment for him. As he helped him spread it on the swollen area, he would scold him about how, no matter how angry he was, he couldn’t take it out and harm innocent people.
As he felt the large hand helping him put on the medicine, Xu ZiRong didn’t take Xu ZiYan’s words to heart. He already knew from his previous life that strong people were the ones who represented justice and truth. When he had enough strength, regardless of whether he was innocent or guilty, wouldn’t what he say become the truth?
It had the same concept as the incident in his last life. The blood-sucking demonic insects obviously didn’t have any relationship to him. However, hadn’t those people relied on their strength to forcefully push this matter onto his body?!
The only thing Xu ZiRong learned that day was that if he wanted to do something similar in the future, he must avoid Xu ZiYan and keep him in the dark. If possible, it would be even better to not take his target’s life. This way, if the mastermind behind the incidents was revealed in the future, Xu ZiYan wouldn’t be too angry.
As for why Xu ZiRong didn’t want to make Xu ZiYan too angry, Xu ZiRong never pondered about that matter. He just instinctively thought that, should he make his big brother too angry, there would probably be some very terrible consequences.
Although Lei Hu felt disappointed, he did not forcibly demand anything. He only gave Xu ZiRong a light glance before telling Xu ZiYan a single sentence: “Be careful of your little brother.”
Xu ZiYan: ???
Be careful of what? Be careful he would be in danger?
Xu ZiYan had just wanted to drag Lei Hu over and ask what exactly he should be careful of when Xu ZiRong grabbed his hand first. “Big brother, I think the meet-up time is almost here.”
Xu ZiYan took a look. Sure enough, they wasted a lot of time. There wasn’t any time left to ponder anything, so he pulled Xu ZiRong’s hand and quickly ran toward the gathering site.
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Lin Xue Ya says:
Sweet dreams.
Thanks for this chapter (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻.
maryam amirah says:
hoho thank you the update
Sanny says:
Thank you so much for the new chapter! ❤❤❤
justbored2017 says:
There isn’t an advise which can work on that biased brother 😀 thank you for the chapter. I can’t believe you found time to share it with us among all exams. I feel so grateful… I hope and believe you will get high scores!! You go girl!! There is whole community cheering for you!!
Moth says:
Ohoo… this new guys seem like a good guy..
Vannie says:
Good job, Rong! Diverting your brother’s thoughts is the right thing to do, but I think that it is unwaranted for.
*mumbles: even if Yan knows how dangerous you are he will still try to pull you in to the right path lovingly, so it doesn’t matter*
Evra says:
Hmm.. Why i think that i like this Lei Hu character…
It’s kinda charming…
corensi says:
Hmm, I remember there being a spin-off of this novel where ZiYan’s brother in his original world, ZiYu, gets transmigrated too…and that ZiYu there is a seme while his uke is bara… Could this person possibly be…??? Hmm…
Anyways, good luck with your exams! You can do this~
Yawe says:
What? ZiYu and ZiRong shouldn’t ever be in the same plane of existance! Fuck, I’ve got goosebumps just thinking about it.
corensi says:
And to think both ZiYu and ZiRong are black-bellied. I personally would like to see them face each other off
『vuio』 says:
WOT?! I WANT READ THIS T-T
Sakhyu says:
I’m planning to translate it either after I finish Villain Astray or another shorter project! It’s pretty short (only ~80+ chapters) and apparently uh. Filled with some smut–//coughs
Vannie says:
Yup there is such thing XD
I MTL’d it a few days ago, and it is fun fun fun….
fufufu
*remembering the funny and sexy scene*
Don’t mind me!
*runs away*
Puilin Isol says:
ohmygod such a thing exists???!?!? where can I find it???!? x’D
Love is blind, even brotherly love is blind…. or Lei Hu is accustomed to facing murderous beasts and got the vibe from Zirong pffft
thank you for the chapter Sakhyu!! good luck in your exams <3
Sakhyu says:
Yeah it does! I’m hoping to translate it after I finish Villain Astray or (more probably) after I finish my 80 chapter project on Ainushi or Promotion Princess!
Thanks for the luck! I’ll need it. ;;;
ChrisRedfield_00 says:
What’s the title of that story? I mean, I really want to read that even if I have to use Machine translations.
Speaking of, is the bara uke that Zi Yu has is Lei Hu or in any way related to him and his tribe? If so, please say.
Sakhyu says:
http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=1963638 It’s this one!
I don’t think Lei Hu is related to him, to be honest they’re almost two completely different stories. Except Xu ZiYan gets mentioned like 2-3 times.
Rinth says:
Lei Hu, you poor, ignorant person. You just garnered hostility from the little gong…
Thank you very much for the chapter~!!!
S says:
Thank you for the chapter!!!
CoriGray333 says:
The wild guy has Google instincts.
Great chapter, thank you!
Vannie says:
What’s “Google Instinct”?
Psyx says:
That felt so short!! XD Thanks for the update~!
nevi says:
Ziyan nii, the original probably aint wrong,
It’s just that your standards are very very different….
And wild guy doesnt need to warn our uke, the only part of him in danger from his little Rong is his cr[bleeeeeep] (-_-) and his vir
Yawe says:
…yes Xu ZiYan, that’s exactly what loincloth guy means.
Xu ZiRong’s a tender and delicate young beauty that can speak with plants… it’s obvious he’s a Disney Princess! A Disney Princess who you’ve to stop from killing innocents when he’s a bad day, but that’s probably a totally normal thing all childs do.
Nothing wrong here.
So Xu ZiYan, go and protect that delicate flower!
Kleepart says:
Annnnd in a couple minutes this guy perceived the truth. I like him. Poor guy though, someone give the cute muscle boy a technique!!!
Hog says:
thanks for the chapter!! this new guy is so cute!! XD
good luck with your exams im sure you will do well!!
Hihi says:
Haha, I like this new guy, I hope ml doesn’t punish him to much out of jealously.
Thank you for the chapter! ♥️
jhime85 says:
He can probably sense xi rong’s bloodlust. He spends his days on a battlefield after all he has to be quite sensitive to these kinds of things
Pk says:
Hehe thank you for the translation 😘
I like the new guy and I like how zi Rong is changing gradually in the influence of his big bro… though not exactly on big bro’s intended path😛 and I love the images that you put in between…it adds to the comicality of their already comical situation 😆
LK says:
I like the new guy (^-^)
Lorettelala says:
New character is so interesting! Thank you for the new chapter!!!
Cookies n' Cream says:
Wow, LH already knew there’s something wrong with little bro 😂😂😂😂 Sorry LH but you’re warnings are useless, LXY’s already caught in the trap called LXR and on top of that his brocon personality completely regards LXR as his cute little brother, R.I.P LXY’s future and chrysanthemum 😂😂😂😂
Cookies n' Cream says:
Thank you for the chapter!
Ima says:
Lei Hu sounds…kinda adorable 😁 I hope he can become good friend with Xu ZiYan, but I’m sure ZiRong won’t let that happen 😂. But who know, ZiYan did want to start his own group, maybe Lei Hu would eventually join 😙
Thank you so much for this!!
Vannie says:
3P?
Just joking!
Well adding lei He in their fighting force would be great!
OHtheNovelty says:
Lmao, those are some amazing instincts………….damn, I wish I had some…… orz
Ann says:
Thanks for the chapter. Good luck on your midterms!
Beshiiiie says:
ZiYan, heed his warning! hahaha oh but maybe it’s better if you don’t mind him. 😋
ლ(╹◡╹ლ)
Littlelier says:
Thank you so much for the chapter, almost clicked the next button. Love the novel so much, thank you so much for the translation Sakhyulation.
Sakhyu says:
Feel free to just call me Sak or Sakhyu! Super glad you liked it, thanks for reading!! <33
otakukelly says:
Thank you very much! 💙
Han Nwe Nyein says:
Wow new guy! Love Rival? That would be interesting but our little gong would not let that happen. What a shame.
Anonymous Otaku says:
Thanks so much for this new chapter, especially knowing that you managed to do it with exams and studies surrounding you.
Good luck with them. I hope they all go well.
akumakawa says:
The warning is two fold: be careful because little bro is murderous and dangerous as well he needs to be careful because little bro is after his ass.
Cass says:
Thank you very much for translating!! I can’t wait to see more of the new guy ヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ I wonder if his personality will change closer to the memories as time goes on… also another eager reader here for the au/spin-off story (///▽///) it sounds great.
Duelo Literário G.N. says:
Tarzan – I mean – Lei Hu is very wise… MC should be careful, but it’s already too late since ML won’t let him escape hahaha
I hope more chapters come out soon! Thank you so much for translating this novel!
XiaoMango says:
Thanks for this chapter! I like this new guy! Hopefully we see more of this new character
kayue says:
Aww. I’ve caught up with the translations. 😓
But thank you for all your hard work. I’ll be waiting more or less patiently for more.
I really love this story.
chrysanthemum says:
Thank you so much for your translations, we really appreciate the work you put in to share this story with us! Everyone in the comments seem to like Lei Hu and so do I. Looking forward to how this story progresses.
chrysanthemum00 says:
Thank you so much for your translations, we really appreciate the work you put in to share this story with us! Everyone in the comments seem to like Lei Hu and so do I. Looking forward to how this story progresses.
Rororawrrr says:
Thanks for the update!! 😍 just waiting for their love to deepen
library rocker says:
Lei Hu my type ♡
Let’s age you up a couple of years though~~♡
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME! ! ! !
Kailyria says:
Lol so he got more spanks, i wonder if he intends to get back for those spanks later.
Kawaii Panda says:
+1 to this Lui gege