Chapter 280: Weakness (1/2)

Xue Wei was aware that a fight was going to break out after declining the young master of the Baili family, but he was not too worried about it.

The worst case scenario was that he would have to transform, but he was no longer in Chang’an. Beasts were not frowned upon here. Although they were considered inferior to the multi-eyed experts, they were not hated.

At the same time, he had not heard anything about Sovereign Beasts while being here, so it was likely that they were unaware of their existence. Since they did not know about them, Xue Wei felt no fear about being captured; instead, he would just be categorized as a stronger Primordial Beast.

Sensing Xue Wei’s calmness, young master Baili felt uncomfortable, but after considering the amount of people he had on his side, he quickly regained his confidence again.

Sneering, young master Baili gestured for his men to surround Xue Wei, his face was menacing, and he was looking anything but pleased.

“Don’t refuse the toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!” he said, his voice remaining calm and collected despite its raised volume, while his eyes were filled with malice.

“Do you have what it takes to threaten me?” Xue Wei asked with a slight smile on his face as he looked at the young man, mockingly. He could not help but feel that the experts in Yan Dalu were rather confusing.

All of the people surrounding him were Earth or Sky Knights, but they were all spiritual energy cultivators, and thus their physical strength was severely lacking.

Still, they had spread out and prepared to attack him, the spiritual energy beginning to materialize in the air around them, but Xue Wei stayed as calm as before.

Within his body, both the golden and the azure dragon spirits were on alert. They were pouring spiritual energy and Qi through his meridians, getting ready to burst out at any moment.

Although his spiritual energy was only at the third layer of the Earth Knight rank, thus quite a bit beneath the Sky Knight rank, he was still not to be belittled. He had the golden dragon and the blood of the Azure Dragon flowing through his veins. He was more than capable of jumping across realms to fight those stronger than him.

Still, if he wanted to fight this group of experts, then he had to fight in his original form. It was simply the only way for him to confidently overpower the number of experts that were surrounding him.

Having reached this conclusion, Xue Wei quickly allowed for the azure dragon spirit within his core to spread the energy throughout his body. His figure started to expand, and azure scales erupted from his skin and claws appeared on his hands and feet.

Xue Wei was not hesitant at all and decided to fully take on the form of an azure dragon.

His body was so massive that it could hardly fit in the square anymore. His transformation happened in mere moments, and it shocked the spiritual energy users that had thought that beating Xue Wei would be as easy as taking a walk in the park.

Spiritual energy had some advantages in a fight where there was a distance between the two parties, but now that he was this massive, it was impossible for them to back away. And, since none of them had strengthened their bodies or focused on Qi, they would be squashed as easily as flies.

Xue Wei was not actually interested in the intrigues of the capital within Yan Dalu or the struggle between the three major families, but he hated being threatened.

“So tell me, were you planning on killing me or just beating me up?” Xue Wei asked with a mocking tone. His body coiled around itself, and he observed the ones who had previously surrounded him now turning pale from fear.

“W-we… we… we wanted to convince you to work… w-work with us… We did not… d-did not want to beat you…” one of them managed to splutter out, trembling with fear. The one who had finally spoken was one of the followers, but he was not dumb and understood that if he said that they wanted to beat him up or to kill him, they would be done for. They would get a beating if they were lucky, but if their luck ran out, their lives would be forfeited.

A gleam appeared in Xue Wei’s eyes. “Usually I would kill anyone who saw me in this shape,” he said with a drawl in his voice, dragging out the words and scaring the life out of the people present.

“But I am no longer in Chang’an, so I guess that things could change.” He seemed as if he was mulling over their fates, and the ones surrounding him quickly agreed to his words out of fear.

“Great dragon, please do not be insulted by our behavior.”

“Great dragon, this lowly one could not see how important your esteemed self was, please be magnanimous and let us off.”

“Great dragon, please be the bigger man… o-or dragon… and let us free, we have eyes, but failed to see Mount Tai.”

Just like this, all of them kept calling out, but the killing intent within Xue Wei was still growing. He did not believe for one second that they would leave him alone, but he had to take other things into consideration.

If he killed them, then the Baili family would come after him. However, the more he thought about it, the more he realized that beating them would also make the Baili family come after him, as thrashing them would invoke their ire and be a slap in their faces.

Since killing or beating them would make him at odds with the Baili family, then he had two options. One was to kill them and just get it over with, and the other was to just let them go.

Actually, there was only one option. Having been threatened, there was no way that he was just going to let them go, and thus he had already chosen to act.

Being in dragon form, he could still use the martial art skills that he had been given by Xiao Lei, a benefit of being a half-breed, and he did not hesitate at all.

Forbidden Rush!

Xue Wei activated the movement technique and coiled around the first person that he could.