Chapter 6: Aint That The Damn Truth! (1/2)
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“Oh? So looking at cute girls is wrong? Is this part of Martial Hall Palace’s rules?” Xiang Shaoyun sarcastically remarked as he glanced at the youth beside him.
“Looking at people isn’t against the rules at all. However, if you look at somebody who you shouldn’t be looking at, it’ll be very easy to offend others. Wouldn’t this then be a sin?” the youth proudly said, a know-it-all expression filling his face.
Xiang Shaoyun pondered a while before laughing, “Haha, you have a point there. How should I address you, brother?”
“Looks like you’re very wise indeed. My name is Xia Liuhui,” the youth replied.
“Obscene? A distinguished name indeed,” Xiang Shaoyun applauded as he raised his thumb to show his approval.
“NO! It’s the ‘Xia’ character of ‘summer’, the ‘Liu’ character of ‘flowing water’ and the ‘Hui’ character of ‘waving Swords’,” the youth unhappily emphasized.
“I understand, yes I do. There’s not much difference there though; one glance at you and I see that you exemplify the word ‘obscene’! You truly live up to your name!” Xiang Shaoyun exclaimed as he patted the youth’s shoulder like they were the best of friends[1].
“I can’t be bothered to argue with you. I’m heading to the canteen for food now. Otherwise, all those wild beasts will have eaten it all,” the youth replied as he dashed in a particular direction.
Xiang Shaoyun was not slow either and quickly caught up to him. “Will the canteen really not have food for us to eat?”
“There will be, but there’s limited food! We have about a hundred people here. If half of us are able to fill our stomachs, then it’s already considered good!” Xia Liuhui answered as he continued to pick up the pace. Just then, Xiang Shaoyun also noticed cultivating youths from all directions sprinting like locusts towards the canteen.
“What on earth is this? Are these hungry ghosts incarnate or something?” Xiang Shaoyun incredulously asked.
“Hehe, you’ll become one of those hungry ghosts soon enough,” Xia Liuhui, who was already far from Xiang Shaoyun, laughed and replied.
Xiang Shaoyun began feeling a little uneasy and likewise increased his pace. When he arrived at the canteen, he immediately understood everything that Xia Liuhui had told him. One could only see mountains upon rivers of cultivators madly fighting for food. Everybody was pus.h.i.+ng up on each other, and some had even started fighting with one another—all this in order to be able to line up right at the front to get the food that the attendants were giving out.
“This spot is mine, quickly get lost.”
“Screw your mother, you dare to s.n.a.t.c.h my spot? Come, let’s fight!”
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d, which motherf*cker wants to fight for my spot? I swear I will not let him off today!”
“I haven’t had my fill in a very long time. Please give me a portion of pity food!”
The place was filled with a cacophony of noise as if it were a battlefield. It did not give one the impression that this was a canteen within Martial Hall Palace at all. The attendants who were distributing food apathetically watched the whole scene unfold before them. They did not mind it at all; rather, they were already used to the scene of carnage before them.
Xiang Shaoyun was thoroughly astounded. A split second later, he regained his senses and charged straight into the sea of people.
Peng Peng!
“Ouch!”
Just as he had entered into the ma.s.sive crowd, fists came flying at him from all sorts of directions. Helpless to resist, he was thrown out of the crowd almost at once. Both his eyes were swollen, and from his nose flowed fresh blood. Touching his face, the initially delicate and smooth skin had turned coa.r.s.e and hideous.
“Go to h.e.l.l! You guys dare touch my handsome face? All of you deserve to die!” After he finished speaking, he rushed into the crowd, looking for revenge on those who had hit him. Alas, what happened next was a repeat of the previous scene: being thrown out of the crowd. His fifth-stage Basic Realm cultivation was the lowest of the low here. Frankly speaking, it was impossible for him to get a queueing spot.