9 The legendary bullying (1/2)

In his past life during the Grand War he met many people. For Bai Yun who was brought up in a sheltered environment, the stories that they said of their lives were very interesting. From them he had heard of many things that he never experienced, like competitions and tests.

One of the common things that he heard from them was the so called bullying. This was completely new to Bai Yun. He had never seen this before.

He was the son of the strongest god and one of the eight supreme titled gods. His teacher was the only person who reached the titled god using the dao of a weapon, the God of Swords. He was held in high regard and well liked by the most powerful of the titled gods, the God of Death. Even if one was brain dead, one would not bully Bai Yun.

More importantly the only people he saw before he reached the god step were the maids, his parents or his teacher's close disciples or friends. None of them had any desire to bully him. Even after he heard about this, Bai Yun did not want to harm someone just to understand what bullying was. Thus he had never even seen bullying, much less experience it himself. Also even if someone was bullying someone near him, they would stop as he neared in fear of offending him.

So Bai Yun watched with interest at the person in front of him. The kid in front of him seemed a few younger than him. He was standing there as if he owned the entire place. This seemed weird to Bai Yun as he could sense many people in the first and second step around, while this kid was only in the fifth stage of qi condensation.

Qi condensation was divided into nine stages. During qi condensation the objective is to create a qi condensation whirlpool in the dantian. Initially the whirlpool would only be a spiral. As one progressed in cultivation the number of arms of the qi whirlpool would increase. The higher the number of arms the whirlpool had, the higher the cultivation state. A higher cultivation state meant that one would have more and purer qi. But this was possible with a higher grade of cultivation technique also . Besides the qi whirlpool of the qi cultivation state was so simple that there was not much difference between a technique created by a god or an dao step cultivator.

”Of course he couldn't understand. He is an idiot. How could an idiot understand what geniuses like us are talking about.” One of the posse following the leader said. Then they all started to laugh.

”Hey idiot I heard that you are no longer an idiot. Is it true?” The leader asked.

”Yeah.” Bai Yun said.

”An idiot thinking that he is not an idiot. What a joke.” One of them said. The entire group started laughing.

Bai Yun just watched them as if they were idiots. Suddenly the one who seemed to be the leader asked again. ”What are you doing in the clan library.”

”I went to pick up cultivation techniques.” Bai Yun was quite interested in seeing where this was going. It was not often that a thirty thousand year old like him could get to experience new things.

”What are you doing that for? Aren't you already fourteen years old? A person who hasn't even started to cultivate by fourteen, how much can you do.” The kid sneered at him.

For a moment Bai Yun wondered what was the point of saying all this. Then realization dawned. 'This must be the so called trash talk.'

”Who are you?” Bai Yun asked.

”Are you telling me you don't know who I am?” The young man asked incredulously

”Have we met? I only remember the important people from before I was healed.” Bai Yun replied honestly.

For a moment the entire group seemed to be shocked. Just as Bai Yun started to wonder what he had said wrong, the leader's face started to change color. In an instant it became red in rage.

”How dare you.” He roared, before lunging at him. His fifth stage qi condensation cultivation started rotating. In his fist a yellow glow could be seen. It could be seen that he was starting to use a battle technique.

In that instant the world slowed down for Bai Yun. His thirty millennium of battle instincts kicked in in a moment. His three tendrils of soul quietly started to move. He quickly stepped to the his right side, getting out of the way. Since he had no cultivation, he was much slower than the guy who was lunging at him. So he had to use two tendrils of soul to steep himself up. As he did so, the third tendril reached the sole of the kid's shoe.

They were currently standing in the clan grounds. Due to the high number of people who walked by the street everyday, there were quite a bit of dirt on the ground. His soul reached the dirt onthe ground beneath the kid's feet. And just as the kid was about to apply force to the ground to take the final step before punching him, Bai Yun quietly made the dirt roll beneath his feet.

As the dirt rolled, the kid lost his footing, and fell face first into the ground. The force of his step was so much that he hit the ground face first and his nose started to bleed.

For a moment silence reigned the field. No one spoke. Even the people who were simply watching it all was stunned.

Bai Yun quickly brought his sword out from the storage ring. It quickly stopped near the kid. As everyone watched him, his back broke out in cold sweat. There were quite a few people around that noticed it. They all thought that it was because he was scared by the sudden attack and had acted without thought and by accident. But the truth was much scarier.

He broke out in cold sweat because it took all of his will power not to cut off the head of the kid in front of him.