Chapter 120: The Sorrow of the Fat Boy

Frowning slightly, Wang Luo glanced at the group that had crowded behind him and was rendered speechless. What was this supposed to mean? Still, seeing how highly they thought of him—and considering that the few youngsters opposite him were not particularly strong—he decided to accept the task.

For some inexplicable reason, a long-lost feeling returned to his body. It was as if he had gone back to his old organization, taking on one mission after another and working desperately to earn enough to keep himself alive. Looking back now, that hectic, bustling life had actually been rather pleasant. Perhaps this was what people meant when they said that one never learned to cherish something until it was gone.

“Ahem. Senior students, are you robbing us?”

After clearing his throat twice, Wang Luo asked the question aloud. A mischievous thought rose in his heart, and the lethargy and indulgence of the past month vanished at once. His mood improved considerably.

Oink, oink…

Chitter, chitter…

The pig and monkey, which had wandered off to who knew where, came running over when they saw the crowd gathered there. They stopped beside Wang Luo and watched the spectacle with great interest.

“Hahahaha, Boss, look! His magical pet is a pig! Hahahaha…”

When the fat pig rubbed up against Wang Luo, one of the youths opposite him could not help bursting into laughter. Several others immediately joined in.

Oink, oink…

The fat pig seemed to realize that they were laughing at him. He snorted furiously, his large snout nudging Wang Luo insistently, urging him to teach those mockers a lesson. Pigs had dignity too.

“Shut up! We’re leaving!”

The youth leading the group shot an irritated glance at his ignorant companions, snorted coldly, and cast Wang Luo a dark look before turning away. Inwardly, he cursed the others for being idiots. Had they never heard that among the students who had recently entered the inner academy were several monstrous talents? And that the most monstrous of them all traveled with a pig?

“Oh, so you don’t dare bully us anymore, do you? Wang Luo is a false seventh-level expert!”

“Exactly! A bunch of cowards who only pick on the weak. I wonder how they ever managed to reach the sixth level!”

…

The moment the older students left, the few people behind Wang Luo began shouting triumphantly, apparently forgetting who had been cowering just moments earlier. When faced with sixth-level opponents, they had only dared to yell a few insults and had not dared resist to the death.

(⊙o⊙) Uh…

Resisting to the death might have been taking things a little too far. It was not too late for a gentleman to take his revenge after ten years, after all. Still, they should at least have been symbolically beaten once before handing over their protection money; otherwise, it would be far too spineless. In any case, no one would lose his life. As long as they stayed alive, that was enough. That was Wang Luo’s opinion.

“How boring.”

Wang Luo glanced at the people behind him, muttered under his breath, and walked toward the Earthfire Chamber. Deep down, he was beginning to worry about the education at Heavenly Profound Academy. The cultivation environment and other facilities were excellent, but the students’ morality and cultural refinement were sorely lacking. In the past, his organization had…

All right, that was a thing of the past. In the future, he would establish an organization of his own.

In an instant, Wang Luo had gained another goal. Even he did not understand what was happening to him today or why he had suddenly begun thinking about so many things. Could it be that, now that he had gone so deep, he no longer cared? That he would no longer be troubled by matters concerning the same sex?

“Ah!”

“Ah, it hurts…”

Wang Luo had taken only a few steps while lost in his chaotic thoughts when several cries of agony suddenly came from nearby. He turned around and could not help being stunned. Then his eyes shifted toward the wildly excited fat pig.

“Another false seventh-level expert! This batch of students is truly monstrous!”

“Indeed… sigh…”

Several older students who had spent years in the inner academy and whose strength was already considered formidable in the outside world—undeniably geniuses—could not help sighing when yet another monstrous talent appeared. Then they all hurried into the Earthfire Chamber and resumed their cultivation.

The new students, however, felt quite differently. Seeing Stefan knock the older students flat one after another, they cheered from the sidelines as if they had done it themselves. Stefan was clearly enjoying the attention.

Oink, oink…

But when the sound of a pig reached Stefan’s ears, his expression instantly collapsed. As he saw the fat pig charging at him with green light gleaming in its eyes, scene after scene from the Trial Forest uncontrollably flashed through his mind.

“Die!”

At that moment, the crowd’s praise seemed to transform into unparalleled ridicule. Stefan, humiliated and enraged, spat out the word “Die!” Blue battle aura suddenly erupted from his entire body. A deep-blue sword radiance, carrying boundless fury, shot mercilessly toward the charging fat pig.

The fat pig had been grinning from ear to ear, but when he saw the deep-blue sword radiance and sensed the boundless rage and undisguised killing intent behind it, he suddenly went cold. An incredulous expression appeared in his eyes, but more than that, there was a sorrow and desolation that no human could understand—just as he himself could never understand the hearts of humans.

Chitter, chitter…

“Fatty!”

Stefan’s sudden outburst caught Wang Luo off guard. Seeing that the fat pig was about to collide with the blue sword radiance, Wang Luo no longer concealed his strength. Shadowy Phantom was unleashed to its utmost limit, and he instantly transformed into a streak of ghostly light, rushing toward the fat pig at incredible speed.

“Ah! So fast!”

“But it’s still too late!”

“Ah, it’s going to pierce him!”

The deep-blue sword radiance, carrying fury and killing intent, stabbed viciously toward the fat pig’s eyes of utter desolation. In the next instant, everything would be over. With that thought, a trace of relief appeared in Stefan’s eyes, and he slowly closed them. The outcome had already been decided.

Bang!

The imagined spray of blood never appeared. The treasured sword in Stefan’s hand seemed to have plunged into a swamp, unable to advance even an inch. Sensing that something was wrong, Stefan instantly opened his eyes and discovered that strands of gray spiritual power had somehow wrapped around his sword, blocking his attack.

“Ah!”

Suddenly, Stefan felt a sharp pain in his head, as if he had been stabbed by a needle. Just as he tried to break free of the gray strands of spiritual power, his movements faltered. In that brief pause, a dense scent of blood entered his nostrils.

Bang!

The two swords collided, red and blue radiance illuminating each other. In the next moment, Stefan, who had only just regained consciousness, felt an overwhelming force strike him. His body was sent flying backward into the air.

“Danger!”

Before he could land, Stefan sensed danger approaching. While still airborne, he forcibly shifted half a step to the side, bringing the blue sword radiance up to meet the blood-red bone sword that was following close behind.

The two swords collided again. Almost by instinct, Stefan borrowed the force of the impact and flew to one side. The instant he landed, the blue sword radiance struck once more without the slightest pause, hitting the incoming blood-red bone sword with perfect accuracy.

Crack!

For no apparent reason, Stefan seemed to hear a faint snap from within his own body. A few indistinct memories flashed past. His mind was somewhat confused, yet the blue sword radiance in his hand did not slacken in the slightest. Even Stefan himself found it unbelievable. With his former level of skill, he should never have been capable of such a thing.

“What’s going on?”

Stefan was utterly bewildered. It was as though he were an outsider watching himself wield his sword, repeatedly clashing with Wang Luo’s blood-red bone sword. Every move was so exquisite that Stefan could scarcely believe it. When had he acquired such formidable combat ability?

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