Chapter 128 - Who Agrees and Who Objects (1/2)

Things looked like two elephants fighting; any stomp from either one of them was like squashing an ant.

That was how brutal reality was.

All the power and money they held was worth nothing in the face of real combat prowess.

It was only then that they came to truly realize why even governments were wary of the cultivators.

That was because common people still had a certain measure of control over cultivators when cultivators were willing to comply with the rules of common people. Yet, when things got ugly, the rules were quickly cast aside.

Or rather, they would simply resort to doing it in the way of the world of cultivators—the rules stating that might made right, and that true prowess reigned over all.

“You dare to kill someone right here?” Song Shijie was stunned right away.

It was not that he had not seen anyone killed before. He had his fair share of killing others himself.

As the few direct descendants of the Holy Dragon Corporation that the conglomerate invested in heavily, there was no way Song Shijie had lived a sheltered life.

However, killing people as soon as things did not go his way and getting killed because things did not go the other party’s way were still two completely different concepts, after all.

Lu Xuan had just killed Wen Ziteng—the best fighter he had working under him—without care. Fear struck his mind right away.

Song Shijie was able to just go about killing people without a care, because he looked down on the common folk, while Lu Xuan’s killing was even simpler than that.

Song Shijie’s emotional state changed when he killed people, yet Lu Xuan no longer had such emotional changes, to begin with. He reigned supreme back in his past life, and he killed countless powerful enemies to achieve that. The likes of Wen Ziteng were far too insignificant to move him emotionally.

Lin Miaoyi, who was witnessing these events from the side, kept shaking her head. It was only then that she finally believed that Lu Xuan was truly that legendary Mr. Lu everyone spoke of.

The Mr. Lu that she heard about when she was training in isolation was about just as forceful with his approaches. It was not a simple feat to earn recognition from the many forces in Min Province and to be acknowledged by all to be the number one in Min Province, after all.

There was no such thing as number one in the literary scene, and there was no such thing as being second place in the martial arts scene. Nobody without absolute power would be able to make all yield to them, and no one doubted what Lu Xuan was capable of.

Be it the Special Task Force managing the world of cultivators in the province, the Southern Shaolin Temple, which was the supreme cultivation force of the province, or even the Chen Clan and the Seven Invincible Sect that reigned supreme all over the province, none thought anything was wrong with acknowledging Lu Xuan as number one in all of the province.

It was not that the cultivators of the province were averse to conflict or that they had so little desire for fame and wealth that they did what they did.

She turned around to look at Song Shijie, whose head was shaking in an even more pronounced manner.

That man had been the center of attention before Lu Xuan showed up, and he could have even been considered the sun that dimmed all stars around it.

However, all that thunder was stolen right beneath his feet when Lu Xuan showed up.

It was as if the nature of him being a paper tiger was revealed for all to see right there and then.

But then again, Lin Miaoyi, nonetheless, knew something about Song Shijie that was oblivious to many, so she knew that it had nothing to do with Song Shijie’s apparent ineptitude.

Song Shijie contributed considerably to the Song Clan, and he had played extremely important roles in furthering the Holy Dragon Corporation’s expansion overseas.

He would not have been the one sent to consolidate the cultivation forces all over Min Province otherwise.

Such endeavors were considered of supremely high importance to groups and conglomerates of such sizes, and no common man would have been allowed to undertake such endeavors.

Anyone found within such circles was definitely an elite instead of someone common.

Yet, such elites were nothing before Lu Xuan all the same.