Chapter 127 - Going at Each Others Throats at the Onset of Conflict (1/2)

None in the crowd dared to say anything, and everyone was silent. It was then that they finally realized that the unassuming-looking young man was more than what he seemed to be.

Nobody present was stupid. Someone who dared to make Song Shijie look bad in front of everyone like that either had something up their sleeve or was just insane.

Lu Xuan took a chair from the side and sat down casually. He then crossed his legs and looked at Song Shijie. “Well then, you’ve gone the extra mile to force me out here, so what now?

“I really don’t know what has gotten into you. You come all the way here and throw your weight around just because Luo Ying provoked you? Didn’t you do any research before you came?”

Song Shijie’s expression changed drastically. He had no idea how Lu Xuan found out that Luo Ying, who was behind him, and he had indeed got to Min Province in a hurry due to what Luo Ying said.

There was no way he would not have realized from what Lu Xuan just said that Luo Ying had instigated him to do what he just did, so much so that she made him her tool just to get rid of Lu Xuan.

He was someone who thought he was clever, and that realization made him really frustrated.

He had no idea what happened between Luo Ying and Lu Xuan, or he would have looked into the case before coming.

He knew all too well of the powers backing Luo Ying, and she was every bit his equal in that regard. Yet, Luo Ying was still unable to do anything against Lu Xuan, so much so that she resorted to making use of him instead.

There was no doubt that Lu Xuan had just become a lot more dangerous than what he perceived from before.

He was even able to realize, after thinking on it for a bit, that Luo Ying was using more than just him. She was using the entire Holy Dragon Corporation.

If anything were to happen to him, the corporation would not have just let it slide, after all.

Song Shijie was indeed full of himself, yet he was not stupid. He connected the dots and realized the underlying problems right away.

Lin Miaoyi, who was right beside Lu Xuan, was able to come to such a conclusion as well. As someone from the Taichu Group, there was no way she would not have known who Luo Ying was.

Luo Ying was doing all this to get to Lu Xuan?

That was something that she had been oblivious about all the time.

She had been steeped in her training in isolation and paid little to no attention to what happened between Lu Xuan and the Luo Clan.

She initially thought that Luo Kun’s death marked the end of the feud between the Luo Clan and Lu Xuan.

The Luo Clan had even suspected that she had something to do with Luo Kun’s death, and that made things between the Lin Clan and the Luo Clan very tense for a time.

When she came to think about it, she realized that Luo Kun’s death most probably had something to do with Lu Xuan.

While she was still unaware, the Luo Clan had probably been able to find something and had clashed with Lu Xuan more than once.

However, from the looks of things, Lu Xuan was probably the one with an edge; otherwise, Luo Ying, according to what Lin Miaoyi knew of her, would not have had to resort to having others do her dirty work.

“My way of going about my business is none of your concern!”

Song Shijie’s face turned gloomy. The revelation of the fact that he was being manipulated into doing someone else’s dirty work was an insult like none other to him—someone who held great pride in himself.

“I don’t care how you go about your business, and I sure as hell don’t care if you were being used to do someone else’s dirty work or not. But, you got someone to cripple one of my followers yesterday. I’m a fair person. You’ve crippled my guy, and I’ll call us even just crippling you,” Lu Xuan said plainly.

Everyone became dead silent hearing that. There were many who thought that cultivators were indeed a lawless bunch.

A bunch who went about crippling and killing people at the onset of conflict.

All those rules that were established prior were probably of little to no meaning to the cultivators.

With the world of cultivators emerging as the dominant group, everyone else was forced to get used to their rules.