bookpower Chapter 576
Chapter 576
Chapter 576
‘Why does it always end up like this...’
“You shitty moon lily bastards are always like this!”
“What are you talking about, it’s your smelly sun lily that is always looking for trouble!”
“We haven’t even started trouble but it seems that you bastards need to be reminded again of your place!”
Zhang Dong was taking in the sights while looking over the restaurant. He wasn’t even able to sample the eastern empire cuisine before people started arguing with each other. It all started with the usual appearance of a young master. From that point, it spiraled out of control and now the group he was with had started fighting.
It was funny how they forgot that he was with them and started mouthing off with the other group. The robes they wore were similar with one thing, in particular, being different. The ones the people he was with had a silver lily pattern close to the heart while the other had a golden one. This was supposedly some kind of distinction between the factions and perhaps it went further than that.
What happened was that the boisterous young master started making moves on Sun Ling. However her bodyguards didn’t take this lightly, some of them were quite young and probably fostered feelings for this beautiful young missus. She had the usual looks that these cultivator types liked to go for. Pale jade skin and jet black hair, coupled with quite the large rear and also front end made the young men do silly things.
Soon enough they were arguing with the young master’s entourage which was composed of cultivators from the sect. As he understood it, they were lone warriors brought up by the sect and then taken in by each faction. Even though they had some personal power as core formation masters they were considered lesser without a proper nascent soul elder backing them. Only by aligning themselves to a side faction of a sect did they stand a chance of progressing in this dog-eat-dog world.
‘Well... not like it’s not fun to watch... but this is troublesome, I don’t think my side can actually win if a brawl breaks out...’
Zhang Dong was able to remain calm and assess the situation. Thanks to his spirit sense and also the system that presented him with everyone’s power level, he was sure that they would lose. Sun Ling was just an early-stage core formation cultivator and her guards were composed of late stage experts and a few in the great circle stage.
Some of the stronger combatants had left the group to carry out some orders given by Sun Shi which diminished their numbers. On the other hand, the group that he was looking at was purely composed of great circle core formation experts with the young master being in the middle stage of it.
‘But someone will surely come out and stop them before that happens, right?’
“Look at me when I’m talking to y.....ughhhhhhhhh”
Suddenly a loud smack echoed through the entire restaurant. People were already looking at the entire commotion so it was easy for them to notice the man flying through the air. It was truly a bizarre sight to behold, they had never seen someone twirling through the air like a propeller blade. The man’s body made a nice arch as he flew for more than a hundred meters and dive bombed into one of the water canals. This caused the water to splash some of the new arrivals as well as some of the restaurant staff.
‘Shit, I made a scene...’
Zhang Dong remained poker-faced throughout the whole incident. At first, he intended to just wait and perhaps push the man away gently. If he mimicked the realm of a great circle core formation expert perhaps the man would have backed away. Before he could do this however the man’s ugly face was before him. He could work with the yanking of his robe but when he got a whiff of the guy’s breath he lost it.
Luckily he had enough restraint in him to not do any long-lasting damage to the man. The smack to the face would leave a red handprint but the man’s neck would still be on his head. If he actually performed a smack with his whole strength behind it then the guard’s head would have exploded instantly.
“Oh my, he went really far... he must have been injured or something, he shouldn’t have been shouting in my ear if he was this tired don’t you think?”
“T-that’s right...”
Sun Ling clearly didn’t know what to say but she along with the guards used this chance to move toward Zhang Dong’s location. That is that they tried but before they could huddle around him and protect others from another smack they heard a booming sound.
“How dare you hit my younger brother, who do you think that you are?”
A strong aura hit the whole place and out of nowhere another person appeared. He looked to be a bit older than the man that Zhang Dong smacked away but somewhat similar looking. By the words that he said he seemed to be the elder brother of this person and he had been sitting in the back watching the entire thing happen.
‘Somewhere around a half-step nascent soul master? Did he fail at ascending?’
Normally being at a half-step realm level wasn’t possible, this mostly was reached by having better-graded cultivation techniques and being a prodigy. The other way of attaining this power was by failing through the transition. They didn’t fully achieve a breakthrough but also didn’t fully fail, it was a realm between realms. The uniqueness of this state was that a person could not progress any further unless they found some kind of miracle medicine their cultivation journey was over.
‘Is it this trope? Did I really walk into something as cliche as this?’
His poker face was almost torn down as he wanted to reveal his true power level. If the scenario continued then after he smacked this person away another hidden expert would show himself. There were some nascent soul masters watching from afar so this was a possibility...
‘Is this some kind of law of this world... whenever I try to disguise myself things tend to go wrong...’
Zhang Dong gave out a sigh which was of course mistaken for an insult by the man there. It seemed that he needed to either continue taking out the small fries or stand his ground but perhaps there was also another way to diffuse this situation.