Chapter 35 (1/2)
Chapter 35: Act Not The Hidden Dragon
He’s asking me to stop now?
Suddenly, everyone present were completely dumbfounded. Ye Jinning almost tripped on himself. What kind of person would stop just because somebody else said so at such a crucial moment?
Though, it wasn’t like he could just attack like that either. Hong Wenqing came straight up and took Ye Jinning’s strike and split up the two of them. “My son, say what you need to say. Today, your father emperor will not let you take the short end of the stick.”
The emperor was right. Who was Ye Jinning? Even if he was a genius who could only be found once every hundred years, he had only trained for a decade or two at most while Hong Xiaobao only just started his path of cultivation. The duel was unfair the moment it began, so it wasn’t an overstatement to say that the situation was rather unfavorable to Hong Xiaobao.
“Alright. I’ll see what kind of trick you dare to pull next!” Seeing that he couldn’t continue attacking even if he wanted to, Ye Jinning sheathed his sword and glared at Hong Xiaobao, desperately suppressing his desire to cut him into a thousand pieces.
“Hoho, just you wait!” Hong Xiaobao ran to a corner of the Xuan Yang Pavillion while he said, “Let me try out a move for a bit. I’m pretty confident that it’ll take your puny life!”
Trying out a move that will defeat Ye Jinning? Was he spouting nonsense?
Now that it has come to this point, Ye Jinning was no longer anxious and said cooly, “Sure. I’ll see what kind of move you use to take me down!”
Quickly, Hong Xiaobao entered a room. The moment he closed the door behind him, Meng Xianji’s consciousness appeared from within the bracelet and laughed. “Hahaha, I really didn’t expect that you would act like this. When he attacked you, you dodged and ran nonstop but when you couldn’t dodge, you called him to stop! You’re really good at running away!”
“Can you say something I don’t know? I just started training and don’t even know any techniques yet! What could I do other than run?” Hong Xiaobao asked urgently. “Quick, teach me something fast that I can use to flatten that fella!”
“That goes without saying,” said Meng Xianji with a savage tone. “That b.a.s.t.a.r.d is really overstepping his bounds! You definitely need to teach him his place! It’s a shame that there are so many people witnessing the duel. With his father there, he definitely wouldn’t let you kill him so easily!”
It was true that the old fellow really had a move that could easily take Ye Jinning’s life and wasn’t just bragging.
“There’s no need to kill him just yet. Surely you have something that I can use to just incapacitate him?” asked Hong Xiaobao. “Since I can’t kill him in front of this crowd, I might as well teach him a lesson and make him start over a new leaf as a better person!”
This wasn’t just some arrogant bragging. Given that Hong Xiaobao couldn’t practice martial arts in the past, he researched and studied many other methods that he could use to protect himself which he could use to settle Ye Jinning if it were a crucial moment.
But with his father, Ye Feihong over here, he would definitely complain if Hong Xiaobao used such methods. While Hong Xiaobao wouldn’t really care about what he had to say, he was afraid that Ye Feihong would attack his father in a fit of rage.
“I only know of killing techniques,” said Meng Xianji. “Any random move out of my a.r.s.enal could easily take his puny life — that’s why I won’t be able to teach you anything useful for today. However, Xi Hong has always liked to research some other peculiar methods. Why don’t you ask him and see?”
Xi Hong? That always smiling small fatty?”
“Master Xi Hong,” said Hong Xiaobao with his eyes wide open as he called out towards his bracelet, “Please teach me one or two moves that I can use to handle that b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”
Silence.
In about the time of three breaths, a smiling fatty’s apparition materialized from within the bracelet. “You want to learn some techniques?”
Hong Xiaobao: (⊙o⊙)
That fatty looked really cute with his round little head floating about…