Chapter 284: Trouble Comes Knocking (2/2)

Leaving the training grounds, Xue Wei and his friends began chatting with one another. “So you just left little Luoluo to me? What kind of adult are you to just drop that responsibility on me?” Lin Xiao grumbled, making Luoluo look back at Lin Xiao with a cheeky smile on her face.

“Luoluo can’t marry big brother, so Luoluo will marry Uncle Lin Xiao instead,” she said with a grin and a giggle, her words stunning Lin Xiao and making his eyes wide.

“I say, little girl, can you not say such a terrifying thing?!” he exclaimed in shock, but Luoluo just pursed her lips and snorted.

“I am marrying Uncle Lin Xiao since I cannot marry Big Brother. The black doggie is annoying, and the kid is scary.”

All four people were surprised hearing Luoluo’s proclamation, but after a moment, Xue Wei began laughing.

Luoluo’s reasoning was flawless; it could not be argued against. She had picked Lin Xiao only because she could not marry Xue Wei, and the two others were quickly dismissed because of her first-hand impressions of them.

Suddenly, as they were walking on the streets, Xue Wei saw a group of experts moving towards them—one containing experts from the Baili family.

“Are you Xue Wei?” the person who was walking in front of the group asked with obvious malice in his voice.

He was not even trying to hide his displeasure and the fact that he was here to cause problems.

Xue Wei glanced at him and his followers. They were eleven people, and amongst these eleven people, all of them were spiritual energy cultivators at the Earth Knight level.

It was obvious that they had investigated Xue Wei and his friends’ current strength, and knowing that all of them were Earth Knights, they felt no need to dispatch a Sky Knight to deal with them.

They had the benefit of being superior in numbers, and they also held the arrogance of the Baili family. Being a family of noble blood, they were all able to confront experts of higher rank than themselves anyway, so dealing with Xue Wei and his friends should be a simple task.

Unfortunately, these experts knew too little about Xue Wei and his friends. They were like butterflies raised in a greenhouse, never before had they seen challenges or experienced true hardship. These people had never even killed someone before, as Yan Dalu was an incredibly peaceful area.

When fighting with your life on the line, these experts had no experience whatsoever, and in the end, it would show when the fight was unfolding.

Xue Wei and his friends, on the other hand, had fought many battles; they had been chased across an entire continent, been the subject of hatred and envy, and had killed multiple people.

They would show no remorse killing even more, should they be threatened, and considering their current relationship with the Baili family, they felt no need to show mercy if this encounter ended in a battle. It was hard to say who would be in the toughest position considering how Xue Wei and the others were bloodthirsty mass murderers, and they were naive and spoiled young masters.

“Hey! I am talking to you!” the man who had asked if he was Xue Wei called out, unhappy with how Xue Wei was ignoring him, and looking at him as if he was an idiot.

“Well, you talk to me and then I have to answer?” Xue Wei asked mockingly. “What kind of world is this, are you my master? Am I your servant? Why must I follow your orders?”

Hearing what Xue Wei said, the man’s face turned pale and livid in anger. He had never experienced anyone this disrespectful before, and he was unsure of what exactly he should say now.

His imposing demeanor was completely deflated after Xue Wei’s taunts. He had expected much more from their arrival. They would use their numbers to intimidate Xue Wei; they would make it possible for their group to break their spirits before bringing them back to the Baili family.

In fact, it never occurred to this group of experts that they would actually have to fight and risk the chance their targets might kill them instead of being captured.

Xue Wei just snickered when he saw the expression on their faces, and he shook his head.

Suddenly he felt excited. He had just been in a battle with Hei Gou, and although he enjoyed the thrill of battle, it had not been possible to let go of his bloodlust—to release his urge to kill completely.

Seeing that these small lambs had served themselves up for slaughter, Xue Wei felt the blood in his body boil. After he had become one with the Azure Dragon blood, he had felt more and more ruthless. He had also started to enjoy the feeling of killing someone, and if he was not careful, he would surely succumb to such feelings of pleasure and become addicted to killing.

But Xue Wei retained a semblance of humanity and knew that some things could not be allowed. If he truly became a cold-blooded killer who killed for pleasure, then he would no longer be himself.

Still, if anyone threw themselves at him, he was not going to be mindlessly polite.

The group of friends was generally rather ruthless. Bai Tianyi had given up his humanity for the sake of immortality and became a sword spirit; this meant that humans and beasts were nothing more than walking bags of soul power to him.

If not for Xue Wei’s serious warnings to him, he would have run around killing people to harvest their soul power with no qualms.

Hei Gou was also rather disinterested in human and beastly lives. All that mattered to him was his friends, and anyone else was completely ignored. Killing them would even be a waste of time unless they troubled him.

Amongst all of them, the one who had the most pity and empathy towards other creatures was Lin Xiao, and even he was somewhat the same; he too, had hands soaked in blood.