Chapter 52 - Warring Dragon Punches Someone in the Hall of Supreme (2/2)
You silly child, you aren’t even a prince. And you didn’t learn from your father’s lesson back in those days. Who should they beat if not you?
Hence, a storm that was originally targeted at Ren Jie ended just like that because of Li Yan being beaten up by a group of civil and military officials as a result of him shooting off his mouth. At least, it was so for now.
Although nothing came out from the morning court assembly, this incident was spread through the Jade Capital soon afterward. Under someone’s intentional drive, this also became the most popular topic in Jade Capital, and there were all sorts of sayings.
And the Ren family, having such a dandy family head, became a joke and a worry.
If pestering doesn’t work in wooing a pretty lady, poison her. Then, when threatening to use the yin yang mediation doesn’t work, make use of the Fang family to seize other people’s property. What was worse was, he was also extremely ruthless towards his own family clan member, viciously beating up a servant at the gates…
And with the interpretations of people with motives, the Ren family members led by Zhan Tianlong did not utter a word when the current Ren family was accused and attacked and instead, exploded when their old family head Ren Tianxing was spoken badly of and recklessly beat up Li Yan, the son of Prince Anyang, in the Great Hall of Supreme Harmony. This was seen as an utter disappointment of the Ren family people towards the Ren family head.
All sorts of interpretations, all sorts of rumors, all sorts of gossips pushed the Ren family, Ren Jie, who was already known for being a dandy, to become the focus of Jade Capital once again. At the same time, it also worsened the Ren family’s already soiled reputation.
And Ren Jie himself was standing in the pavilion in his courtyard, watching a thin and small figure working hard in cultivation in the courtyard. It wasn’t just Ren Jie, at present, even other members of the personal guards who had been cultivating had all stopped.
Tong Qiang, Tie Ta and others hadn’t paid too much attention to this small child at first. They wondered from where the family head had brought such a delicate, pretty little boy. They had thought he was here to play.
No one expected that he would actually participate in the training with the personal guards, and the more they didn’t expect him to already be at the eighth level of Body Refinement Realm at his young age. However, it seemed like he had never underwent such strict, scary cultivation before, as these were some training exercises that Ren Jie had renewed by combining some memories from his previous life, not to mention that the personal guards were all really crazy with their cultivation now.
Even if those old veterans in the military at the ninth level or at the perfected Body Refinement Realm were to come, they definitely wouldn’t be able to handle more than two hours of it, let alone a child as young as him.
In the end, this kiddo that appeared thin and weak to them actually trained all the way with them. He never stopped even when they took a break. Finally, he stunned Tong Qiang, Tie Ta, Mouse, and all the personal guards.
Was this still a child that wasn’t even ten years old?
Everyone looked towards Ren Jie, thinking to themselves, Never mind if the family head has harsh and scary demands for the personal guards and himself, why did he bring such an adorable child and made him undergo such a terrifying training. This is way too… inhumane.
At this point, Ren Jie was really helpless too. After bringing Sun Rui back, Ren Jie had given orders to find a few sets of pretty clothes suitable for her age. Given the size of the Ren family, the family clan had everything.
However, this little Sun Rui simply refused to wear them. As she wouldn’t speak, Ren Jie had spent a good half a day’s effort, guessing and questioning before he understood her. She’d heard the sounds of the personal guards training outside and wanted to wear a child’s clothes to go join their training. Whether it was her refusal to speak or present abnormality, Ren Jie was unable to understand it all. After all, she’d just experienced such an incident, it was rather lucky that she did not breakdown or go mad.
As for her unwillingness to talk and her other reactions, Ren Jie had originally planned to take it slow. Now, seeing how insistent she was, Ren Jie went along and had someone find some boy clothes for her. Although she looked very delicate, once she put on a boy’s clothing, she looked like an extremely handsome little boy. At first, Ren Jie had wanted to let her rest and even return the jade essence pearl to the bag by her chest that was embroidered with beautiful flowers.
However, her reaction once she saw the jade essence pearl was very odd. Hence, Ren Jie could only put it away and allow her to come out to train with the personal guards. He had thought she wouldn’t be able to keep up with the high-intensity training or would give up once she was tired. In the end, in the past several hours, even the personal guards were starting to take breaks but she was still training.
She really wanted to become strong, but that Yan Zhenfei had already been killed by him. Could it be that that massacre gave her such an idea, or was she using a training method that was close to self-mutilation to suppress the fear that the bloody exterminating massacre brought?
All of a sudden, Ren Jie was reminded of Sun Rui’s reaction when he’d brought out the jade essence pearl and she saw the mark that the smiley old man had said belonged to the Broken Souls organization. He sat up abruptly. It couldn’t be that in her young heart, she wanted to take revenge, revenge on the entire Broken Souls organization?
F*ck!
Ren Jie felt even more troubled now. When faced with Sun Rui, this odd child who had become closed off after suffering a blow, Ren Jie felt that it gave him more of a headache than facing the Fang family, Gao family and those elders of the Ren family. The Broken Souls organization was something that even the smiley old man was troubled by, it was clearly uncommon. Never mind, regardless of what this little girl was thinking, he’d have her recovered before thinking of anything else.
Just then, Fatty returned from outside and also brought news of what was happening outside.
“F*ck, Meal Ticket Big Brother, are you abusing a child!” Upon seeing Sun Rui training, Fatty was shocked. He looked towards Ren Jie fearfully. That gaze, how could you bring yourself to act on such an adorable child.
“I really would’ve forgotten if you didn’t mention it. Several times in the past, you were told to start training, but in the end, you got away. It seems like you’ve gotten fatter and fatter recently. Look, you aren’t even as strong as a child, isn’t it embarrassing? Do you want really to advance in the examination a month later? It’s just nice that you’re back, you can train with her.”
Ren Jie ignored Fatty’s howls and called Tong Qiang over, really getting him to have someone make sure Fatty participate in the training. At the same time, he got Tong Qiang to send out several invitations for the Fang family head, Fang Tianen, Wen family head, Wen Yong, Gao family head, Gao Zhanyuan, respectively, and one of them was even for the emperor.
The contents of the invitations were all the same: The Ren Family Head is going to take in disciples tonight, you are invited to come over to be a witness.