52: Or is it a contrast?

"Xiang Ning is fighting with someone!"

It was already boring on the stone platform, so the moment the three started fighting, it attracted the attention of the crowd.

Qi Ying looked over with a sneer on her lips. Fight, it would be best if you all killed each other!

But before the passersby could even enjoy the show, the battle had already ended...

Chu Yuan had one hand clamped around Xiang Ning's neck, and the long saber in Xiang Ning's hand had already snapped in two.

His other hand was holding the wind slasher, pressed against Mao Rui's chest!

The tip of the blade pierced three points into the flesh, and blood gushed out, soaking Mao Rui's clothes...

Xiang Ning gripped the broken blade, a trace of daze in his eyes.

Too fast! It was simply too fast!

He only saw a flash of cyan-gold light before his eyes, and the battle saber he had spent a large sum of money to purchase had already snapped in two!

Mao Rui, at this moment, didn't even dare to move. A sharp aura had penetrated his body, pressing firmly against his heart!

He understood that if he dared to move forward even a fraction, that aura would immediately explode...

"Your storage ring is not bad. Leave the item and get lost," Chu Yuan said indifferently.

With his original strength, he was already enough to crush the two of them, let alone after Cultivating the Geng Metal Primal Dao Art, his strength had skyrocketed again! He was about to step into the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment!

However, although Xiang Ning and Mao Rui could not pose any threat to him, hostility was hostility. The two of them had attacked him!

Even if he killed them, it would be their own fault.

Chu Yuan would not treat this as an ordinary farce just because he was strong enough...

Mao Rui didn't seem to fear death, looking at Chu Yuan: "He dares to give it, but I'm afraid you might not dare to take it..."

"Fatty! Stop talking!" Xiang Ning squeezed out from his throat: "I admit defeat, I'll give you the storage ring!"

...

"My god! He was defeated in seconds?"

"Who exactly is he?"

"I see he is wearing the uniform of Chenyang No. 1 Middle School. Where is Chenyang No. 1 Middle School?"

"It seems to be a small city under Yunan Prefecture, right?"

There was a commotion on the stone platform. A student from Shendu No. 7 Middle School looked at the girl beside him: "Classmate, are you from Chenyang No. 2 Middle School? Do you know him?"

The girl was currently looking at Chu Yuan with her mouth wide open. She could never have imagined that this boy, who had been quiet and low-key on the way here, actually possessed such powerful strength?

She had indeed seen Chu Yuan easily defeat Qi Ying before; but to put it bluntly... who was Qi Ying? She didn't know her at all.

Moreover, how could Martial Artists from Yunan Prefecture compare to Martial Artists from Shendu?

"Classmate?"

"Ah? Ah... We are all from Chenyang City." The girl tried hard to calm her emotions, then continued: "I don't know him either, I've only heard that his Martial Arts talent is quite good..."

"This is called 'quite good'?" The boy was speechless and turned his gaze back, his tone indignant: "He actually dared to rob Xiang Ning of his things... He'd better not go to the divine weapon!"

The girl was a bit strange and asked in a low voice: "That Xiang Ning... don't you all hate him very much?"

The boy frowned: "Where did you see that?"

"I heard it from others..." The girl added: "And looking at their style of conduct, it seems a bit..."

"A bit like they aren't good people?"

"Uh, something like that..."

"You haven't interacted with Xiang Ning, so it's not strange to have such an impression." The boy nodded, seemingly not wanting the girl to view Xiang Ning that way, and continued to explain: "Xiang Ning and Mao Rui are very famous in Shendu; they don't hang out with commoner Martial Artists like us, but they have never bullied us either.

Although they look arrogant and domineering in the eyes of others, the targets of their arrogance and domineering have always been those children of Martial Arts Families!

It is precisely because of Xiang Ning and Mao Rui that the children of those big families in Shendu have restrained themselves quite a bit; otherwise, they would be facing endless beatings..."

"So, are they actually good people?" The girl's expression when looking at Xiang Ning changed slightly;

She had originally thought they were just ruffians from prominent backgrounds, but who would have thought... they actually acted like this?

She was also not from a Martial Arts Family, so her stance naturally leaned towards the side of commoner Martial Artists...

Thinking of the people in her school who had bullied her by relying on their Family's influence... she even started to find Chu Yuan somewhat annoying.

The boy shook his head: "I don't know. Someone once asked Xiang Ning why he did that..."

"Why?"

"He said he just likes to attack those who think they have strength and background, and trample their arrogance into the dust!"

"Then... what about that fatty?"

"Although Mao Rui looks lecherous to the outside world, the targets he teases... are generally girls from those Martial Arts Families; as for ordinary people, he always acts as if he doesn't see them."

"But, that's still not very good..."

The boy glanced at her: "When you are forced to kneel, blocked in the bathroom and slapped, or even stripped of your clothes and photographed... then you will know if it's good or not."

...

Chu Yuan's hand paused as he took the storage ring;

With his Divine Sense activated, the movements on the stone platform could not be hidden from him.

The conversation between the boy and the girl was naturally heard by him, and he immediately understood the reason for Xiang Ning's sudden hostility. It turned out it wasn't a sudden fit of madness...

Although he was a playboy, he was a playboy with chivalry in his heart?

For a moment, the anger in his heart subsided quite a bit;

No wonder when Xiang Ning and Mao Rui returned earlier, people who knew them dared to ask directly what happened inside;

Conversely, none of the trial-takers from the Yunan Prefecture Prefectural Capital dared to ask Li Ji and Qi Ying...

With a shift in his thoughts, Chu Yuan put the storage ring on his hand and sheathed the wind slasher.

"You were right before. It was indeed them who volunteered to help me search for resources."

"Heh~" Xiang Ning seemed to disdain responding and turned to leave;

"To be precise, it was also for their own sake; I am not searching for these resources to Cultivate, but to set up a Formation!

The Secret Realm is undergoing strange changes. There are external Martial Artists in the Blood Abyss, and a giant beast devouring countless of its own kind. At this point, it is unknown what Realm it has reached!

When I went to the Blood Abyss, there were no Fourth Realm Blood Beasts, but when you went, there already were. The difference between the two times was at most ten minutes... What does this mean?"

Xiang Ning stopped and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?"

Chu Yuan sighed softly: "It means... that giant beast can no longer eat! That is why it started to spawn new Blood Beasts!

This change is not a mutation of the Secret Realm itself, but the intervention of external forces! The Secret Realm trial lasts for a total of five days... Under these premises, when do you think they will make their move?"

"Tomorrow? Or the day after?"

"Just about."

Although Xiang Ning had suffered a big loss just now, his sharp tongue remained undiminished: "Heh, worrying blindly... does that make you look capable?"

"If the Guardian you mentioned were still alive, of course I wouldn't worry blindly, but what if... he is already dead?" The scabbard traced a pattern on the hard stone platform;

"The Heavy Mountain Medal!?"

"The owner of this medal is already dead, having died in the Blood Abyss; if I haven't guessed wrong, he should be the one you mentioned, the... Guardian from the military!"