16: Chapter 16 Saving Trouble

"Miss..."

Li Tian took the cage in his hand, turned around, and looked at Yue Ying.

Bang!

To everyone's surprise, after saying just two words, Li Tian was sent flying.

Not only was the crowd stunned, but even Yue Ying looked at Yuan Chen with a strange expression.

"Husband, this..."

Yuan Chen retracted his foot and said calmly,

"Considering the usual tricks of these Young Masters, and since you are so beautiful, I figured he was about to harass you."

"I didn't want the hassle of wasting time, so I struck first!"

Besides, Li Tian had been speaking in Yue Ying's direction, so he felt his guess was spot on.

The surrounding Cultivators widened their eyes in shock upon hearing this explanation.

Is that how it works now?

However, they didn't accuse Yuan Chen of judging a gentleman by the standards of a scoundrel.

Because judging by Yuan Chen's move just now, he was definitely a master.

It was better not to court trouble.

Besides, Li Tian didn't look like a good person anyway.

Everyone quietly stood aside to watch the drama unfold.

"You're looking for death!"

Li Tian roared in anger and scrambled to his feet.

He didn't even bother with the cage that had tumbled to the side.

He glared furiously at Yuan Chen.

However, he didn't completely lose his head.

After his roar, he looked at Yuan Chen warily.

"Who are you?"

He hadn't been able to see through the strength of the two earlier and had assumed they were Mortals.

He hadn't expected to encounter a master.

He needed to find out the other party's background.

But he wasn't too worried.

In this place, their Xuandu Sect was the law.

And he had met almost all the favored geniuses of the Xuandu Sect.

There was absolutely no one like Yuan Chen among them.

It seemed he was from outside the Wasteland.

In that case, he would be easy to bully.

"Yuan Chen. No power, no background. What of it?"

Yuan Chen said indifferently.

After speaking, he continued to ask,

"You were planning to harass my wife just now, weren't you?"

"So what if I was?"

Although he was a bit puzzled by Yuan Chen's words, he did not back down since Yuan Chen had asked.

Otherwise, if his companions found out, they would laugh at him for being intimidated by a rogue Cultivator.

"That's enough!"

Yuan Chen replied.

Before Li Tian could even register what he meant,

Yuan Chen's figure vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already right in front of Li Tian.

Without hesitation, he raised his leg and kicked hard between the other's thighs.

There was a muffled bang.

It sounded as if something had burst.

"Ah!"

Li Tian let out a blood-curdling shriek.

Then, he directly blacked out.

"Yingying, let's go!"

Leaving the dumbfounded crowd behind, he strolled casually deeper into the area.

On the way, he picked up the cage containing the Little Purple Marten.

He would just treat it as loot dropped from killing a wild mob!

The surrounding crowd looked at Li Tian, who lay on the ground, half-dead.

A chill ran down their spines.

That was too ruthless!

Although one could reconstruct their Physical Body in the Golden Core Stage, meaning his future fertility wouldn't be affected,

the pain of getting kicked there was very real, and there was no avoiding it.

An unknown amount of time passed.

Only then did Li Tian slowly wake up.

The moment he opened his eyes, he gnashed his teeth and roared,

"Yuan Chen, I will remember you!"

Then, he limped away.

...

Inside the imperial palace.

"It is absolutely an honor for my daughter to marry your esteemed son!"

Emperor Emperor Huo Du said with great joy.

Beside him, Ancestor Huoyun also nodded with a smile.

"Then let us choose a date for her to marry my son."

Luo Li nodded in agreement.

Today, Ancestor Huoyun and the others had hosted a banquet for the masters who had come to assist them.

Once the dishes were served one by one, Emperor Huo Du spoke up at Ancestor Huoyun's prompting.

Luo Li had no objections; even if they hadn't brought it up, she would have mentioned it in a few days anyway.

The group conversed merrily.

And as Ancestor Huoyun focused his attention on Luo Li, the other guests felt no resentment.

Not only was Luo Li the strongest person present,

but the Azure Dragon faction behind her was also not to be trifled with, let alone the entire Dragon Clan.

Even Zhao Zhong, who came from the Xuandu Sect, just listened quietly to their conversation.

Just then,

a young man walked awkwardly through the main entrance.

It was none other than Li Tian, who had parted ways with them earlier.

Seeing Zhao Zhong, Li Tian walked straight toward him.

Seeing Li Tian, even Emperor Huo Du could only nod with a smile as if greeting a peer.

Such was the nobility of the Xuandu Sect.

Currently, the five or six masters from Xuandu who had arrived were all seated just below Luo Li.

Meanwhile, the other helpers were seated in an even lower area.

This showed the high status of the Xuandu Sect.

"Li Tian, what is this?"

Seeing that Li Tian's aura seemed as if he had been in a battle, and he appeared to be slightly injured,

Zhao Zhong couldn't help but ask.

After all, he was the one who had brought him along.

If anything happened, he wouldn't be able to explain it to the boy's father.

Li Tian did not answer immediately.

Ignoring all decorum, he sat down next to Zhao Zhong.

He grabbed a flask of wine,

and only spoke after guzzling it down to his heart's content.

On Zhao Zhong's other side, Zhao Yaya wrinkled her nose and glared at Li Tian with dissatisfaction.

Her father was, after all, his master. His behavior was far too disrespectful to his Elders.

Didn't he see that the other Elders from the Xuandu Sect were all looking at Zhao Zhong with amused expressions?

Li Tian said,

"Don't even mention it."

"Damn it! I saw a chick on the road and thought she was a Mortal, but she turned out to be a Cultivator."

"And the guy with her was also a Cultivator. We ended up fighting."

Li Tian kept his voice down, knowing that harassing a Mortal woman was not honorable, so he didn't make a big deal of it.

But he didn't realize that the moment he entered, all the masters had already focused their attention on him.

Although he had changed into fresh clothes, his unstable aura still made it obvious that he had suffered a severe injury.

Zhao Zhong frowned.

He glanced around at the surroundings

and advised in a low voice,

"Li Tian, we've just arrived in the Human Realm, so behave yourself."

"Many masters have arrived recently. You might offend someone we can't afford to provoke if you're not careful."

Li Tian waved his hand dismissively.

"In this place, there is no one our Xuandu Sect cannot afford to offend."

After speaking, he raised his cup and downed another gulp.

Recalling the scene of being taught a lesson by Yuan Chen, he felt another surge of pain between his legs.

He said irritably,

"Stop talking about this useless stuff."

"Master, help me look into someone named Yuan Chen. See what his background is."

His tone did not sound like a disciple speaking to his master at all; it sounded more like he was ordering a servant around.

What he failed to notice was that when he uttered the name "Yuan Chen," the expressions of many people around him turned extremely strange.

"Li Tian, how dare you speak to Master like that?"

Zhao Yaya finally couldn't hold back and snapped in anger.

Zhao Zhong's face also darkened.

But a moment later, he froze.

Wait.

Hadn't he heard the name Yuan Chen somewhere before?

With just a moment's thought, he recalled that Luo Li seemed to have mentioned her son's name earlier.

At this thought,

his expression changed drastically.

Speaking ill of someone's son right in front of them, and even admitting to harassing their daughter-in-law...

Wasn't this just seeking death?

Before he could say anything,

Li Tian, who had been beside him, was gone.

A loud crash echoed from behind!