It was just that…

Right now Long Wuxian’s cultivation was too low, so of course they didn’t take him seriously. But deep down they knew: if Long Wuxian were on the same level as them, they wouldn’t even dare to stand against him. That’d be asking to be humiliated.

“Hey, look, isn’t that Feiyu and Feihe and the others who got beaten up this morning? How’re their injuries recovering so fast?”

“Huh? Yeah. With wounds like that, they’re completely healed in half a day?”

“Yeah, they look like nothing even happened… Tch, these scummy men really don’t have a care in the world, huh!”

“Quit joking. How could someone recover that fast?”

Quite a few people noticed Feiyu and the others following beside Long Wuxian. When they saw their injuries were already completely healed, the shock in their hearts was beyond words.

The most stunned, of course, was Bei Luoyu. Her little face was still swollen right now, yet Feiyu and the rest, who had been hurt even worse than her, were back to normal. It was unbelievable.

Healing at that speed overturned everything they knew. Even with supreme pills, it shouldn’t be this fast, right?

But surprise was surprise; the focus wasn’t on Feiyu and the others anymore. Everyone’s attention was on Long Wuxian and Bei Luoyu.

Very soon, Long Wuxian walked to the edge of the Mixed Yuan Chi Square and stopped directly across from Bei Luoyu.

“Hehe, so you’re that Long Wuxian who challenged Yu Tianlong?”

Bei Luoyu’s gaze swept over Long Wuxian, sizing him up. Her tone was icy as she spoke.

“That’s right. And you must be Senior Sister Bei Luoyu? I don’t know what business you have with me?”

Long Wuxian just casually glanced at her, his expression saying she wasn’t worth his time.

“What’s with your attitude? My big sis is right in front of you, you better—”

“Don’t be rude, Yuxin! Get back!”

Bei Yuxin almost lost her temper on the spot, but Bei Luoyu raised a hand to stop her.

Long Wuxian’s attitude stabbed straight into Bei Luoyu’s pride. But unlike Bei Yuxin’s hotheadedness, she wasn’t that impulsive. She was the ambitious type.

Who was Bei Luoyu? Forget the outer sect— even in the inner sect, inner disciples with higher cultivation than her would still treat her with respect.

Yet this Long Wuxian acted like she didn’t exist. That actually piqued her interest.

“Long Wuxian, you dared hit my own little sister, and you even demanded she apologize to you within three days. Today I just want to see who gave you that kind of courage!”

Bei Luoyu didn’t hesitate and went straight to the point.

“Looks like Senior Sister Bei Luoyu hasn’t figured out what really happened. It was your dear sister who hit Feiyu and the others first. Since that’s the case, me hitting back and asking for compensation seems totally reasonable, right? I even gave them three days. I didn’t expect Senior Sister to show up so impatiently. Looks like you plan to apologize on their behalf ahead of time. If that’s so, then please, Senior Sister, bow to my friends and offer your apologies. Then take out ten immortal-grade spirit stones, and I’ll let this matter drop. How about it?”

Long Wuxian’s tone was mild, as if he was completely in the right.

The whole crowd let out a wave of gasps.

The instant those words fell, anger roared out of Bei Luoyu like a shockwave. The entire square fell silent in an instant— this Long Wuxian was insane.

“You looking to die, brat? How dare you disrespect Big Sis!”

A late-stage Immortal Emperor realm disciple beside Bei Luoyu was the first to explode. She glared daggers at Long Wuxian, looking like she’d attack any second.

Not only that, a faint flush of anger climbed onto Bei Luoyu’s face. With her status in the School of Chi, and as the young miss of Snowwind City, no one had ever dared speak to her like this. But this Long Wuxian didn’t give her even a shred of face.

In her heart, Bei Luoyu decided she had to teach this arrogant junior a lesson today.

“Long Wuxian, I’ll give you one last chance. Stand right there and let my sister personally break one of your legs and one of your arms, and I’ll consider this over. Otherwise, the consequences won’t be something you can handle.”

Bei Luoyu’s voice was cold.

At those words, Long Wuxian actually snorted out a laugh. This Bei Luoyu really was as overbearing as they came— opening her mouth and asking for an arm and a leg.

But in this world, someone who could take Long Wuxian’s limbs… hadn’t been born yet.

In an instant, the mood on the square tightened to the breaking point.

Everyone had expected a sharp standoff. They hadn’t expected the gunpowder smell to be this thick. This time Long Wuxian really was going all out, treating Bei Luoyu like air.

Now Bei Luoyu wanted to cripple one of Long Wuxian’s arms and legs. Knowing his temperament, there was no way he’d agree.

More importantly, everyone was asking: what did Long Wuxian have that could let him fight Senior Sister Bei Luoyu? No matter how talented he was, his actual cultivation had only just stepped into the Immortal Emperor realm. The fact that he’d easily beaten someone like Bei Yuxin, who was mid–late Immortal Emperor, was already a miracle. No one believed he could stand against a late-stage Immortal Emperor powerhouse.

After all, if you split the Immortal Emperor realm into early, middle, and late stages, then going from early to middle was like a tenfold gap. From middle to late, the gap was another ninefold.

In other words, between someone below early Immortal Emperor and someone at peak Immortal Emperor, the difference was obvious.

So no one thought Long Wuxian could face late-stage or peak Immortal Emperor experts. In other words, he had zero chance of beating Bei Luoyu. In this situation, he should be backing down. But looking at him now— that clearly wasn’t happening.

Long Wuxian’s gaze cooled. He glanced at Bei Yuxin, who was grinding her teeth at him, then raised an eyebrow and said, “She wants to break my leg? Does she even dare?”

Dare?

Bei Yuxin knew all too well the gap between herself and Long Wuxian. If Long Wuxian really wanted to kill her, Bei Luoyu might not even have time to stop him.

So the answer was obvious— she didn’t dare.

Even though she understood that perfectly, Bei Yuxin still almost coughed up blood when she heard him. With those words, Long Wuxian was openly treating her like nothing. For a genius who had just taken second place in the outer sect, it was utter humiliation.

“Yuxin, hurry up and attack! If he dares fight back, your big sis will help you cripple him!”

Bei Luoyu glared at Bei Yuxin, her tone extremely harsh.

But hearing that, Bei Yuxin froze. When she met Long Wuxian’s icy eyes, her body actually shivered on its own.

He’d hit the nail on the head. Even with three late-stage Immortal Emperor experts beside her, even with her big sister promising to back her, even though she wanted to bite a chunk out of Long Wuxian’s shoulder… when actually facing him, Bei Yuxin backed down. It came from the depths of her heart.

She really didn’t have the courage to attack Long Wuxian. That fear and hesitation only scared her more.

Bei Yuxin started hating her own uselessness. She tried to force herself to act. After all, she had Bei Luoyu behind her.

But in the end she still didn’t dare move. Because in her heart, Long Wuxian had already etched an unerasable shadow. Bei Yuxin would never forget Yu Fengchen’s death, never forget Long Wuxian’s terror and brutality that morning.

She didn’t doubt that if she attacked now, the one losing a leg wouldn’t be Long Wuxian— it’d be her.

Bei Luoyu had no idea that she was facing someone lawless and vicious, someone who didn’t know the meaning of restraint.

Against an opponent like that, Bei Yuxin had no will to fight at all, even if people laughed at her for it.

“Sigh… I’ve spoiled you too much all these years. That’s why you’re this cowardly.”

Bei Luoyu couldn’t help scolding. She knew very well that her little sister had been scared witless by Long Wuxian.

If she were to attack him, it’d only be after Long Wuxian had already been beaten half-crippled.

“Big Sis, stop wasting time on this brat. Just teach him a lesson yourself. Let him know what it costs to offend you.”

The inner-sect girl at her side sneered. Her name was Yuxin, and she usually followed Bei Luoyu around. Reaching late-stage Immortal Emperor at such a young age was pretty impressive.

“Yuxin, make him kneel when he talks.”

Bei Luoyu gestured.

“Got it.”

Yuxin stepped forward in big strides and suddenly threw a punch at Long Wuxian. She’d already found this arrogant teenager an eyesore. Now that Bei Luoyu had spoken, she naturally had to teach him a lesson, and maybe show off a little in front of her.

Yuxin was incredibly fast. As a late-stage Immortal Emperor expert, she was on a completely different level from Bei Yuxin.

Bang, bang—

Even the air itself crackled from the impact. No one knew how much power that punch carried, but if it hit head-on, the result was easy to imagine.

Buzz!

Reality turned out very different. Yuxin’s fist was fast, but Long Wuxian was faster. His Swimming Dragon Step footwork was made to slip through danger. Her punch skimmed past his cheek, close enough to scrape it, but didn’t land a single hit.

“What incredible speed.”

Yuxin, who had completely dismissed Long Wuxian at first, went pale. She stared at him in shock, not expecting him to dodge her punch so easily.

“Not bad.”

Bei Luoyu was also slightly surprised.

“Tch. So what if your dodging’s fast?”

Missing several times in a row made Yuxin feel utterly humiliated. She snorted coldly, and her late-stage Immortal Emperor aura burst out, a massive pressure locking onto Long Wuxian completely.

From the look of her, she was about to go all out. She wanted to end Long Wuxian in one move and claw back an inner disciple’s dignity.

“You really shouldn’t attack me. You’re only a bit stronger than Yu Fengchen. You’re not my match.”

Long Wuxian patted Yuxin’s shoulder lightly and shook his head.

He’d seen through her completely. Yes, Yuxin was late-stage Immortal Emperor, but compared to Yu Fengchen she was only a touch stronger. With that level of strength, Long Wuxian barely spared her a thought.

He’d cultivated the Nine Jade Dragon Formula, and his soul level surpassed his realm by a whole stage. That let him kill enemies far above his level. Only true monsters could blunt that advantage.

But someone as average as Yuxin? If Long Wuxian went all out, he didn’t take her seriously at all. Only an Immortal Emperor at the bottleneck of the realm could suppress him.

Boom—

Fury exploded out of Yuxin like a storm. She was livid. She was a late-stage Immortal Emperor inner disciple, and in front of all these outer sect disciples, Long Wuxian was looking down on her like this. It was more than she could stand.