“Hey! Martic, don’t be too rough. This is Zhang Wen, the renowned instructor from Casares. If anything happens to him, you’ll have all the instructors from Almace Academy coming after you,” the blond man sneered with a mocking laugh.
“No problem! Hehe! I’m just playing around,” the burly martial artist said carelessly, glancing at Zhang Wen and deliberately cracking his knuckles. He strode over to Zhang Wen, towering over him with the physique of a mutant gorilla.
“Teacher Zhang Wen, watch out!” Two young maids, cornered by the blond man and the postmodernist man, suddenly screamed.
The blonde girl, her face flushed with anger, shouted again at the blond man after screaming, “Do you fear punishment for your misdeeds aboard the Star Moon?”
“Punishment?” The blond man opened his mouth wide as if hearing something amusing, “Who will punish me? You? Hasaan still hopes to employ us for dangerous missions in the future. How could he bother us over such a trivial matter? Besides, Hasaan invited us onto this ship and specifically sent you all out just to make us happy, right? Haha!”
At the end, the blond man couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
“Exactly! Hehe! However, if you want us to let that guy go, it’s not difficult either…” The postmodernist man also laughed loudly, continuing the conversation from where the blond man left off. His lustful little eyes kept roving over the three girls, as if trying to strip them bare with his gaze!
“You…” The blond, pretty maid trembled with anger at the lewd tone of the two martial artists.
“Ah?” Just then, the blond man, who had been leering at the three sexy maids, suddenly let out a sound of both surprise and delight.
Regardless of the blond maid’s anger, she could not help feeling afraid in the face of the two tenth-stage masters, the blond man and the postmodernist man. The other maid, who had fled into the elevator chased by them, felt the same, her anger mixed with a bit of fear. However, the pretty maid who had originally been standing in the elevator behaved completely differently from the previous two.
From her face, the blond man could not detect even a hint of fear or tension. She was calm, as if she did not even regard the blond man and his two accomplices!
A woman who could remain unflinching in the face of two tenth-stage masters either had strong backing or possessed an extremely stubborn personality. In the blond man’s opinion, this sexy woman who almost made him unable to look away clearly belonged to the latter!
This kind of stubborn woman was like a deadly drug to men; once seen, it was impossible to control the desire to conquer. In the blond man’s mind, he instantly imagined the scene of pinning her beneath him and wantonly ravaging her.
In the blond man’s imagination, Lailiya’s expression of unwilling submission yet helpless resistance almost made him unable to control himself. His breathing became heavy several times over, and his face flushed with extreme excitement.
“What’s your name?” The blond man’s gaze bypassed the blond maid, directly falling on Lailiya.
As the blond man’s voice fell, the elevator became instantly quiet.
“Kid, you’d better mind your own business!” The muscular man, resembling an ape, noticing Zhang Wen’s gradually darkening expression, immediately slapped Zhang Wen’s shoulder hard, sneering as he warned.
Zhang Wen frowned and glanced at the ape-like man.
“Hey! Matić, don’t go too hard on him. This is the renowned Instructor Zhang Wen from Casares. If you hurt him, be prepared for the instructors from the Almicus Academy to come after you,” the blond man sneered with a mocking laugh.
“No problem! Hehe! I’m just playing around with him,” the burly martial artist replied nonchalantly, glancing at Zhang Wen and deliberately cracking his knuckles. He strode over to Zhang Wen, towering over him with his gorilla-like build, glaring down at him.
“Instructor Zhang, be careful!” The two maids, cornered by the blond man and the postmodernist, suddenly screamed.
One of the blond girls, her face flushed with anger, shouted at the blond man, “You’re causing trouble on the Starlight Moon. Aren’t you afraid of being punished?”
“Punished?” The blond man opened his mouth wide as if he had heard something ridiculous. “Who’s going to punish me? You? Hassan is counting on us to fight for him in the future. Why would he bother us over such a trivial matter? Besides, Hassan invited us onto this ship and even sent you all out here just to keep us entertained. Haha!”
By the end, the blond man couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Exactly! Hehe! But if you want us to let that guy go, it’s not that hard…” The postmodernist also laughed a few times, immediately picking up where the blond man left off, his lecherous eyes constantly scanning the three girls as if he wanted to strip them bare with his gaze.
“You…” The blond maid trembled with anger at the vulgar banter of the two martial artists.
“Huh?” At that moment, the blond man, who had also been leering at the three sexy maids, suddenly let out a strange, almost delighted exclamation.
No matter how angry the blond maid was, she couldn’t help but feel fear when facing the blond man and the postmodernist, both tenth-tier experts. The other maid, who had been chased into the elevator, also felt a mix of anger and fear. However, the maid who had been standing in the elevator all along behaved completely differently from the other two.
From her face, the blond man couldn’t detect any trace of fear or nervousness. She was calm, as if she didn’t care about the blond man and his two accomplices at all!
A woman who could remain unfazed under the threat of two tenth-tier experts either had something to rely on or was extremely stubborn! In the blond man’s eyes, this woman, who was so sexy that he could hardly look away, clearly belonged to the latter!
Such a stubborn woman was like a deadly drug to men. Once seen, it was impossible to control the desire to conquer her. In the blond man’s mind, he had already imagined pushing her down and ravaging her.
The imagined expression of humiliation on Lelia’s face, unwilling to yield yet powerless to resist, made the blond man almost lose control. His breathing became several times heavier, and his face was flushed with extreme excitement.
“What’s your name?” The blond man’s gaze bypassed the blond maid, landing directly on Lelia.
As the blond man’s voice fell, the elevator fell silent.
“Kid, you’d better mind your own business!” The gorilla-like man, seeing Zhang Wen’s expression gradually darken, immediately slapped Zhang Wen’s shoulder and warned with a sinister grin.
Zhang Wen frowned, glancing at the gorilla man.
“What, you’re not convinced?” The gorilla man sneered coldly, his combat energy fully activated. Countless red sparks quickly appeared around his body, exploding outward like meteors. As they moved further from his body, the sparks gradually dimmed, but some even floated nearly a meter away.
Zhang Wen, of course, knew what these sparks meant. Before reaching the pinnacle of martial arts and entering the super-tier, no martial artist could fully control all their combat energy. When a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, a significant portion would not be used but would instead dissipate into the air, wasted.
However, before reaching the tenth-tier expert level, a martial artist’s combat energy wasn’t strong enough to react with the molecules in the air. So, no matter how much a martial artist below the tenth-tier activated their combat energy, there would be no visible phenomena around their body.
But once a martial artist reached the tenth-tier expert level, their combat energy became strong enough to stimulate the molecules in the air. When they fully activated their combat energy, some of it would uncontrollably dissipate from their body, forming spark-like points of light. In the empire’s martial arts, these points of light were given a name that Zhang Wen found nostalgic—”Qi.”
For a martial artist, “Qi” was essentially the portion of their combat energy that they couldn’t control during battle. Many noble families in the empire had secret techniques that allowed martial artists to minimize the loss of Qi during combat. In other words, if two martial artists of the same strength fought, the one with less Qi would be stronger.
However, for most ordinary martial artists, the situation was the opposite. Since most of the empire’s martial arts didn’t include techniques to control Qi, when a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, the brighter and more numerous their Qi, the stronger their combat energy.
For example, Agat, the “weakest super-tier in history,” when he fully activated his combat energy, his Qi would envelop several meters around him!
The gorilla man standing in front of Zhang Wen, although his Qi wasn’t as terrifying as Agat’s, had already reached the level of “Qi like meteors.” In the empire’s records, reaching this level meant that the martial artist had cultivated their combat energy to the peak of the expert level, just one step away from transforming their combat energy and breaking through to the saint-tier.
Among the contestants on Hassan’s Starlight Moon, aside from Zhang Wen and Agat’s group, there were only one or two saint-tier experts. A martial artist like the gorilla man, who was on the verge of the saint-tier, could easily rank in the top ten among the hundred or so people on board.
When the tenth-tier peak combat energy was activated, not only did it terrify the two beautiful maids, but it also interfered with the elevator they were standing in. The central controller suddenly sparked, and a burnt smell filled the air.
“How about it? Kid, I told you to mind your own business. It’s too late to regret now,” the postmodernist gloated.
“Hey! Zhang Wen from the Almicus Academy. Others might fear your reputation on Casares, but I, Nason, don’t care at all. You’re just a slightly clever teacher, barely at the expert level, and yet you dare to bare your teeth in front of me?”
The gorilla man sneered, his combat energy intensifying, the meteor-like sparks around his body becoming brighter and denser. Clearly, he wanted to use his near-saint-tier strength to intimidate Zhang Wen.
The gorilla man’s actions were like a street thug showing off his muscles before a fight. If Zhang Wen were an ordinary tenth-tier expert, he might have been scared.
But the gorilla man was facing Zhang Wen. Not only was the gorilla man’s strength only near the saint-tier, but even if he were a saint-tier expert, Zhang Wen had already beaten five of them on Fila Planet. The blond man’s intimidation tactics only made Zhang Wen laugh. And there was also a bit of confusion.
“You’ve got quite the nerve! The Starlight Moon is Hassan’s territory, and you’ve only been on board for a few hours? You’re openly harassing his maids. Don’t you want to compete in the upcoming matches?” Facing these small ants, Zhang Wen naturally didn’t bother with any subtlety. He straightforwardly voiced his confusion.
When Zhang Wen spoke, he was simply puzzled. But to the gorilla man, it sounded like Zhang Wen was desperate and trying to scare him by bringing up Hassan.
“Haha! Hassan? You’re trying to scare me with Hassan? That’s a mistake!” The gorilla man couldn’t help but laugh. “What is Hassan? I’m on his ship…”
“Nason!” Seeing the gorilla man about to slip up in his excitement, the blond man immediately shouted.
“Huh? Got it, Kael,” the gorilla man suddenly realized, paused, and then touched his mouth, letting out a sinister chuckle. “Heh! Hassan sent these women to us for our enjoyment. Zhang Wen, I’ll give you some advice: mind your own business. Otherwise, you won’t save the beauty, and you’ll lose your own life! If I kill you, what can Hassan do? At most, I’ll just forfeit the reward.”
“Heh!” Seeing his companion keep his mouth shut, the blond man relaxed and turned his gaze back to Lelia.
Lelia glanced in Zhang Wen’s direction, only to see the gorilla-like Nason completely blocking Zhang Wen’s figure.
“Julie,” Lelia gave the fake name she was using on the Starlight Moon, but her face turned slightly pale.
Lelia herself was a saint-tier psychic. In terms of combat power, even if she couldn’t defeat three tenth-tier martial artists, she at least wouldn’t be easily subdued by the blond man and his group. However, at this moment, despite her saint-tier psychic abilities, Lelia didn’t dare to use them!
Because Lelia had infiltrated Hassan’s Starlight Moon using a shapeshifting technique to impersonate a maid named Julie, who didn’t have saint-tier strength. If Lelia used her saint-tier psychic abilities to fight the blond man and his group, her identity would be exposed immediately! Even if Hassan, considering Lelia’s position as a vice-commander of the Imperial Guard, didn’t dare to harm her, Lelia’s mission on the Starlight Moon would be completely ruined.
Moreover, if Hassan investigated further afterward, the relationship between Zhang Wen and her might also be exposed. That would mean Lelia’s mission to the Southern Realm would be a complete failure! Lelia would rather die than let that happen!
As for Zhang Wen, Lelia hadn’t expected anything from him from the start.
In the past, the saying “Andrei the Brain, Crassus the Fist” from the Ruby Scepter was well-known throughout the Southern Realm. From the intelligence Lelia had gathered, Andrei Stan’s strength had never exceeded the tenth-tier—exactly the same level of combat energy she sensed from Zhang Wen.
That was why Lelia valued Zhang Wen’s cunning so much. In Lelia’s eyes, Zhang Wen must have used some trick to create a rift between Black Baron and Leka, allowing him, with only tenth-tier combat power, to hold off two super-tier experts for over an hour!
So, Lelia had been biding her time, hoping the blond man and his group would just talk some nonsense and then leave. After all, in the Imperial Guard, Lelia had dealt with men like the blond man before, and their lewd teasing was nothing new to her.
However, Lelia had miscalculated. That despicable blond man, for some reason, had actually decided to make a move on her!
Lelia’s glance at Zhang Wen was her last hope, hoping he could come up with a way to scare off the blond man and his group. But getting a disappointing result wasn’t unexpected.
Yes, even if Zhang Wen had his tricks, what could he do against three unreasonable thugs? Lelia gave a bitter laugh in her heart, watching helplessly as the blond man approached her with a disgusting smile.
“What do you want?” Lelia clenched her fists. The blond man’s gaze on her felt like a venomous snake flicking its tongue. What made Lelia even more indignant was that she had the power to blast this repulsive fool into pieces, but she couldn’t do it.
“Hehe! You know exactly what I want,” the blond man sneered with excitement. He wasn’t in a hurry to touch Lelia’s body, instead deliberately slowing down his approach. His goal was to make Lelia taste more humiliation. And the expression of shame and humiliation on Lelia’s face excited him to the extreme!
Gulp! Seeing the blond man’s body almost within half a step of Lelia, his hand almost reaching into the gap of her skirt to touch those alluring legs, the postmodernist couldn’t help but swallow his saliva greedily.
Zhang Wen naturally knew what these sparks meant. Before reaching the peak of martial arts and entering the super-tier, no martial artist could completely control all the combat energy within their body. When a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, a considerable portion of their energy would not be used by the martial artist but instead dissipate into the air, wasted.
However, before martial artists entered the tenth-stage master level, their internal combat energy was still insufficient to react with air molecules. Therefore, no matter how tenth-stage or lower martial artists activated their combat energy, there would be no visible changes around their bodies.
Once martial artists entered the tenth-stage master level, their combat energy would already be powerful enough to stimulate air molecules. When they fully activated their combat energy, uncontrolled combat energy would escape from their bodies, forming glowing spots like meteors. In the martial arts of the empire, these glowing spots were given a name that Zhang Wen found very nostalgic—”Qi.”
For a martial artist, Qi was essentially all the combat energy they possessed but could not control during battle. In many noble families of the empire, there were secret techniques passed down that allowed martial artists who practiced these techniques to minimize the loss of Qi during battle. In other words, if two martial artists of equal strength fought, the one with less Qi loss during the battle would have the stronger power.
However, for most ordinary martial artists, the situation was just the opposite. Because most martial arts in the empire did not contain techniques to control Qi, when a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, the more and brighter the Qi, the thicker the martial artist’s combat energy was considered to be.
For example, Agate, the “weakest super-tier in history,” when fully activating his combat energy, his Qi completely enveloped a several-meter range around his body!
Although the ape-like man standing in front of Zhang Wen did not have Qi as terrifying as Agate’s, he had already reached the level of “Qi like meteors.” According to the records in the empire’s martial arts texts, reaching the level of “Qi like meteors” meant that the martial artist had already cultivated their combat energy to the peak of the master level, with only one final step required to transform the nature of their combat energy, break through the limit, and enter the saint tier.
Among the competitors who boarded Hasaan’s Star Moon, except for Zhang Wen and Agate’s group, there were only one or two saint-tier experts. Martial artists like the ape-like man, who had already reached the edge of the saint tier, were among the top ten in strength out of the more than a hundred people who boarded the ship.
As the tenth-stage peak combat energy activated, not only did it scare the two pretty maids, making their faces pale, but it also affected the floating steps where the group was standing. Several arcs suddenly burst from the central controller, followed by a smell of burnt.
“What do you think, kid? I told you not to meddle. Now it’s too late to regret,” the postmodernist man jeered.
“Hehe! Zhang Wen from Almace Academy. Others may fear your reputation on Casares, but I, Nason, couldn’t care less. You’re just a teacher with a little cunning, barely reaching master-tier strength. How dare you show your teeth in front of me?”
The ape-like man sneered, his combat energy even more vigorously activated, the glowing spots around his body becoming brighter and denser. He was clearly trying to use his near-saint-tier strength to exert psychological pressure on Zhang Wen.
The ape-like man’s current approach was like that of a street thug who shows off his muscular arms before a fight. If Zhang Wen were a regular tenth-stage master, he might actually be intimidated by the opponent.
However, the opponent facing the ape-like man was Zhang Wen. Even if the ape-like man’s strength was already near the saint tier, Zhang Wen had once beaten five saint-tier experts in a row on the planet Fira. The blond man’s intimidation only amused Zhang Wen. Additionally, it also caused a bit of confusion.
“You guys really have guts! After all, the Star Moon is Hasaan’s territory. You’ve only been on the ship for a few hours, yet you’re openly harassing his maids. What about the upcoming competition? Don’t you want to get anywhere?” Zhang Wen naturally saw no need to play any mind games with these little ants and straightforwardly voiced his slight confusion.
Although Zhang Wen’s words were simply out of casual curiosity while speaking, they sounded to the ape-like man like desperate attempts to hide his fear by invoking Hasaan’s name.
“Haha! Hasaan? If you think you can scare me with Hasaan, you’ve got the wrong idea!” the ape-like man couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “What’s Hasaan? I got on his ship…”
“Nason!” Seeing that the ape-like man was about to blurt out something in his excitement, the blond man behind him immediately shouted loudly.
“Ah? Got it, Kyle.” The ape-like man also suddenly realized, after a moment of confusion, he touched his mouth, and sinisterly chuckled again, “Hehe! Hasaan himself sent these women to us, didn’t he? Aren’t they here for us to enjoy? Zhang Wen, I also advise you to stop meddling. Otherwise, you won’t be able to save the beauty, and you’ll lose your own life! What can Hasaan do if I kill you? At worst, I’ll just give up the reward money for the rest of the competition.”
“Heh!” Seeing his companion keep his mouth shut, the blond man also felt reassured and turned his gaze back to Lailiya.
Lailiya then glanced in Zhang Wen’s direction, only to see that the gorilla-like Nason had completely blocked Zhang Wen’s figure.
“Julie.” Lailiya gave the false name she was using aboard the Star Moon, her face turning somewhat pale.
Lailiya herself was a saint-tier psychic warrior. In terms of combat power, even if she couldn’t defeat the three tenth-stage martial artists, she certainly wouldn’t be easily subdued by the blond man’s group. However, despite possessing saint-tier psychic power, she dared not use it at all!
Because Lailiya had infiltrated Hasaan’s Star Moon by using shape-shifting techniques and impersonation! The maid named Julie did not have saint-tier strength. Once Lailiya used saint-tier psychic power to fight the blond man’s group, her identity would be immediately exposed! Even if Hasaan, considering Lailiya’s position as a deputy officer of the Honor Guard Corps, dared not harm her, her mission to board the Star Moon would be completely ruined.
Furthermore, if Hasaan investigated further afterward, the relationship between Zhang Wen and Lailiya might also be exposed. That would mean Lailiya’s mission to the South Boundary would fail completely! Lailiya would rather die than see such a result!
As for Zhang Wen, Lailiya had never counted on him from the beginning.
“Hey! Matić, don’t go too hard on him. This is the renowned Instructor Zhang Wen from Casares. If you hurt him, be prepared for the instructors from the Almicus Academy to come after you,” the blond man sneered with a mocking laugh.
“No problem! Hehe! I’m just playing around with him,” the burly martial artist replied nonchalantly, glancing at Zhang Wen and deliberately cracking his knuckles. He strode over to Zhang Wen, towering over him with his gorilla-like build, glaring down at him.
“Instructor Zhang, be careful!” The two maids, cornered by the blond man and the postmodernist, suddenly screamed.
One of the blond girls, her face flushed with anger, shouted at the blond man again, “How dare you cause trouble on the Starlight? Aren’t you afraid of punishment?”
“Punishment?” The blond man opened his mouth wide as if he had heard something ridiculous. “Who’s going to punish me? You? Hassan is counting on us to fight for him in the future. Why would he bother us over such a trivial matter? Besides, Hassan invited us onto this ship and even sent you all out here just to make us happy. Haha!”
By the end, the blond man couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Exactly! Hehe! But if you want us to let that guy go, it’s not hard…” The postmodernist also laughed a few times, immediately picking up where the blond man left off, his lecherous eyes constantly scanning the three girls as if he wanted to strip them bare with his gaze!
“You…” The blond maid trembled with anger as she listened to the vulgar banter of the two martial artists.
“Huh?” At that moment, the blond man, who had also been leering at the three sexy maids, suddenly let out a strange, delighted exclamation.
No matter how angry the blond maid was, she couldn’t help but feel fear when facing the blond man and the postmodernist, both tenth-tier experts. The other maid, who had been chased into the elevator, also felt a mix of anger and fear. However, the maid who had been standing in the elevator from the beginning behaved completely differently from the other two.
From her face, the blond man couldn’t detect any trace of fear or nervousness. She was calm, as if she didn’t care about the blond man and his two accomplices at all!
A woman who could remain unfazed under the threat of two tenth-tier experts either had something to rely on or was extremely stubborn! In the blond man’s eyes, this woman, who was so sexy that he could hardly look away, clearly belonged to the latter!
Such a stubborn woman was like a deadly drug to a man. Once seen, there was no way to control the desire to conquer her. In the blond man’s mind, he had already imagined pushing her down and ravaging her.
The imagined expression of humiliation on Lelia’s face, unwilling to submit but powerless to resist, made the blond man almost lose control. His breathing became several times heavier, and his face was flushed with extreme excitement.
“What’s your name?” The blond man’s gaze bypassed the blond maid and landed directly on Lelia.
As the blond man’s voice fell, the elevator fell silent.
“Kid, you better mind your own business!” The gorilla-like man, seeing Zhang Wen’s expression gradually darken, immediately slapped Zhang Wen’s shoulder with force, grinning menacingly as he warned.
Zhang Wen frowned and glanced at the gorilla man.
“What, you don’t agree?” The gorilla man sneered coldly, his combat energy already fully activated. Countless red sparks rapidly appeared around his body. These sparks were like exploding meteors, shooting out from the gorilla man’s body. As they moved further away from his body, the sparks gradually dimmed. However, the farthest ones even floated almost a meter away from his body.
Zhang Wen, of course, knew what these sparks meant. Before reaching the pinnacle of martial arts and entering the super-tier, no martial artist could fully control all the combat energy within their body. When a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, a significant portion of it would not be used by the martial artist but would instead dissipate into the air, wasted.
However, before a martial artist reached the tenth-tier expert level, their combat energy was not strong enough to react with the molecules in the air. Therefore, no matter how much a martial artist below the tenth-tier activated their combat energy, no unusual phenomena would appear around their body.
But once a martial artist reached the tenth-tier expert level, their combat energy became strong enough to stimulate the molecules in the air. When they fully activated their combat energy, some of it would uncontrollably dissipate from their body, forming spark-like points of light. In the empire’s martial arts, these points of light were given a name that Zhang Wen found quite nostalgic—”Qi.”
For a martial artist, “Qi” was essentially the portion of their combat energy that they couldn’t control during battle. In many noble families of the empire, there were secret techniques that allowed martial artists who practiced them to minimize the loss of Qi during combat. In other words, if two martial artists of the same strength fought, the one with less Qi would be stronger.
However, for most ordinary martial artists, the situation was the opposite. Since most of the empire’s martial arts lacked the secrets to control Qi, when a martial artist fully activated their combat energy, the more and brighter their Qi was, the more profound their combat energy.
For example, the “weakest super-tier in history,” Agate, when he fully activated his combat energy, his Qi would envelop several meters around his body!
At this moment, the gorilla man standing in front of Zhang Wen, although his Qi wasn’t as terrifying as Agate’s, had already reached the level of “Qi like meteors.” In the empire’s records, reaching the level of “Qi like meteors” meant that the martial artist had cultivated their combat energy to the peak of the expert level, just one step away from transforming their combat energy and breaking through to the saint-tier.
Among the contestants who boarded Hassan’s Starlight, apart from Zhang Wen, Asura Agate, and their group, there were only one or two saint-tier experts. A martial artist like the gorilla man, whose strength was on the verge of the saint-tier, was at least in the top ten among the hundred or so people on board.
Once the peak tenth-tier combat energy was activated, not only did it terrify the two beautiful maids, but it also interfered with the elevator they were standing on. The central controller suddenly sparked with a few arcs of electricity, followed by a burnt smell.
“How about it? Kid, I told you not to meddle. It’s too late to regret now,” the postmodernist gloated.
“Hey! Zhang Wen from the Almicus Academy. Others might fear your reputation on Casares, but I, Nason, don’t care at all. You’re just a slightly clever teacher, barely at the expert level, and yet you dare to bare your teeth in front of me?”
The gorilla man sneered, his combat energy intensifying, the meteor-like sparks around his body becoming brighter and denser. Clearly, he wanted to use his near-saint-tier strength to pressure Zhang Wen psychologically.
The gorilla man’s actions were like a street thug showing off his muscles before a fight. If Zhang Wen were an ordinary tenth-tier expert, he might have been intimidated.
But the gorilla man was facing Zhang Wen. Not only was the gorilla man’s strength only near the saint-tier, but even if he were a saint-tier expert, Zhang Wen had once beaten five of them in a row on the planet Fila. The blond man’s intimidation tactics only made Zhang Wen laugh. Additionally, it left him with a slight sense of confusion.
“You really have some nerve! The Starlight is Hassan’s territory, and you’ve only been on board for a few hours? You dare to openly harass his maids. Don’t you want to compete in the upcoming matches?” Facing a few ants, Zhang Wen naturally didn’t bother with any subtlety. He straightforwardly voiced his confusion.
When Zhang Wen spoke, he was merely expressing his curiosity. But to the gorilla man, it sounded like Zhang Wen was desperate and trying to scare him by invoking Hassan’s name.
“Haha! Hassan? You think you can scare me with Hassan? That’s a mistake!” The gorilla man couldn’t help but laugh. “What is Hassan? I boarded his ship…”
“Nason!” Seeing that the gorilla man was about to slip up in his excitement, the blond man behind him immediately shouted.
“Huh? Got it, Kael,” the gorilla man suddenly realized, paused, and then touched his mouth, grinning sinisterly. “Hey! Hassan himself sent these women to us for our enjoyment. Zhang Wen, I’ll give you some advice too: mind your own business. Otherwise, you won’t save the beauty, and you’ll lose your own life! If I kill you, what can Hassan do? At most, I’ll just forfeit the reward.”
“Hey!” Seeing his companion keep his mouth shut, the blond man also relaxed and turned his gaze back to Lelia.
Lelia glanced in Zhang Wen’s direction, only to see the gorilla-like Nason completely blocking Zhang Wen’s figure.
“Julie,” Lelia gave the fake name she was using on the Starlight, but her face turned slightly pale.
Lelia herself was a saint-tier psychic expert. In terms of combat power, even if Lelia couldn’t defeat three tenth-tier martial artists, she at least wouldn’t be easily subdued by the blond man and his group. However, at this moment, despite having saint-tier psychic powers, Lelia didn’t dare to use them!
Because Lelia had infiltrated Hassan’s Starlight using a disguise technique, impersonating a maid named Julie, who didn’t have saint-tier strength. If Lelia used her saint-tier psychic powers to fight the blond man and his group, her identity would be immediately exposed! Even if Hassan, considering Lelia’s position as a vice-commander of the Imperial Guard, didn’t dare to harm her, Lelia’s mission of sneaking onto the Starlight would be completely ruined.
Moreover, if Hassan investigated further afterward, the relationship between Zhang Wen and Lelia might also be exposed. That would mean Lelia’s mission to the Southern Realm would be a complete failure! Lelia would rather die than let that happen!
As for Zhang Wen, Lelia had never placed any hope in him from the start.
In the past, the saying “Brain of Andrei, Fist of Crassus” from the Ruby Scepter was well-known throughout the Southern Realm. From the intelligence Lelia had gathered, Andrei Stein’s strength had never exceeded the tenth-tier—exactly the same level of combat energy she sensed from Zhang Wen.
It was precisely because of this that Lelia valued Zhang Wen’s cunning so highly. In Lelia’s view, Zhang Wen must have used some trick to create a rift between Black Baron and Leka, allowing him, with his mere tenth-tier combat power, to hold off two super-tier experts for over an hour!
Therefore, Lelia had been biding her time, hoping that the blond man and his group would just talk big and then leave. After all, during her time in the Imperial Guard, Lelia had dealt with guys like the blond man before. Verbal harassment and mockery were nothing new to her.
However, Lelia had miscalculated. That despicable blond man, for some reason, had actually decided to make a move on her!
Lelia’s glance at Zhang Wen was her last glimmer of hope, hoping that Zhang Wen could come up with some way to scare off the blond man and his group. But getting a disappointing result wasn’t surprising to her.
Yes, even if Zhang Wen had his tricks, what could he do against three unreasonable thugs? Lelia gave a bitter laugh in her heart, resigned to watching the blond man approach her with a disgusting smile.
“What do you want?” Lelia clenched her fists. The blond man’s gaze on her felt like a venomous snake constantly flicking its tongue at her. What made Lelia even more indignant was that she had the power to blast this disgusting fool into pieces, but she couldn’t do it.
“Hehe! You know exactly what I want,” the blond man sneered with excitement. He wasn’t in a hurry to touch Lelia’s body but deliberately continued to slowly close the distance between them. The blond man’s goal was to make Lelia taste more humiliation. And the expression of shame and humiliation on Lelia’s face excited him to the extreme!
Gulp! Seeing the blond man’s body almost within half a step of Lelia, his hand almost reaching into the slit of her skirt to touch those alluring legs, the postmodernist couldn’t help but swallow his saliva greedily.
Precisely because of this, Lailiya valued Zhang Wen’s talent for “schemes and tricks” so highly. In Lailiya’s view, Zhang Wen must have employed certain tactics that caused a rift between Black Viscount and Leica’s cooperation, thus, with his own combat strength no more than the tenth-stage, he managed to hold off two super-tier experts for over an hour!
Therefore, Lailiya had been patient all along, hoping that the blond man’s group would finish their verbal harassment and leave quickly. After all, during her time in the Honor Guard Corps, Lailiya had dealt with many men like the blond man, and verbal insults and teasing were nothing new to her.
However, Lailiya never expected to miscalculate. That annoying blond man, for some unknown reason, actually intended to lay his hands on her!
The glance Lailiya cast toward Zhang Wen was filled with a final glimmer of hope, hoping Zhang Wen could come up with a way to scare the blond man’s group away. However, she was not surprised by the disappointing result.
Yes! No matter how resourceful Zhang Wen might be, what could he do when faced with three unreasonable villains? Lailiya bitterly smiled to herself, helplessly watching the blond man approach her with a revolting smile.
“What are you going to do?” Lailiya clenched her fists. The blond man’s gaze on her felt like a venomous snake continuously flicking its tongue at her. What infuriated Lailiya even more was that she clearly had the power to reduce the disgusting fool in front of her to dust, yet she could not do so!
“Hehe! Don’t you know what I’m going to do?” The blond man sneered excitedly. He didn’t rush to touch Lailiya’s body but deliberately continued to close in on her slowly. The blond man’s intention was to let Lailiya savor the humiliation more. The expression of shame and helplessness on Lailiya’s face excited the blond man to the extreme!
Gulp! As the blond man’s body approached to within almost half a step of Lailiya, his hand almost reaching into the gap of her skirt to caress her tempting thighs, the postmodernist man couldn’t help but greedily swallow his saliva.
Sigh… I’ve had enough of this,” at that moment, Zhang Wen, cornered in the elevator by the ape-man, suddenly shook his head slightly and sighed with a smile.
“Huh?” Zhang Wen’s voice was extremely soft, and everyone in the floating elevator was focused entirely on Lailiya. As a result, only the ape-man next to him barely caught a few words of what Zhang Wen had said.
“What did you say?” The ape-man, Naxun, didn’t think for a second that Zhang Wen, who was in the palm of their hands, could fly into the sky. He lazily glanced back at Zhang Wen, his tone completely lacking any caution.
“I said, you people really haven’t improved at all,” Zhang Wen slowly curled his lips into a smile. At the same time, he reached out like greeting an old friend and placed his hand on the ape-man’s shoulder. “After all, you’re a tenth-stage expert, a figure in your own right. Why are you still using the same old tricks to tease girls? Can’t you come up with something more creative? It’s really hard to watch.”
“You… what exactly are you trying to say?” The ape-man was clearly thrown off by Zhang Wen’s bizarre teasing. He looked at Zhang Wen in confusion, not even thinking to tell him to remove his hand from his shoulder.
“Hehe, what am I trying to say? I’m saying, do you want to die? I can make that happen for you,” Zhang Wen still smiled as he softly spoke.
“Huh?” The ape-man’s eyes instantly widened, as if he couldn’t believe Zhang Wen had the audacity to say such a thing!
But immediately after, the ape-man’s vision was completely filled with a fist wrapped in blue lightning.
Damn it! He actually dared to attack… was the last thought that flashed through the ape-man’s mind before his head was struck by Zhang Wen’s full-force punch. The speed of Zhang Wen’s punch was so fast that it even surpassed the ape-man’s reflexes, leaving him unable to gather enough battle energy to protect his head.
Bang! A loud sound, like a boxer’s full-force punch bursting a sandbag, suddenly echoed through the floating elevator.
“What’s going on?” The golden-haired man was startled and quickly turned his head. Unfortunately, his movements were half a beat too slow. Just as the golden-haired man turned his head, the ape-man’s body had already flown like a cannonball straight toward him.
“Eh?” The golden-haired man cried out in shock, instantly unleashing his battle energy to prepare to block the flying body of the ape-man. However, at that moment, he suddenly felt a tremendous force coming from behind, beyond anything he could imagine!
That force easily shattered the golden-haired man’s near-saint-stage protective battle energy and struck directly at his waist.
“Ahh!” The golden-haired man let out an earth-shaking scream. At the same time, the ape-man’s body finally collided with him.
Under the pressure of these two immense forces, the golden-haired man, already severely injured, spat out a large mouthful of blood. His body spun like a toy figure flicked away by a finger and slammed heavily into the ceiling of the floating elevator!
Crack!
The crystal ceiling, strong enough to withstand a full-force attack from a tenth-stage expert, actually developed countless spider-web-like cracks from the impact of the golden-haired man and the ape-man’s collision! Then, the two fell down with a series of splatting sounds, like two dying dogs.
“You… what did you do?!” The only one left in the floating elevator, the postmodernist man, was completely stunned! He trembled with fear as he pointed his finger first at Zhang Wen, then at the three pretty maids, shouting in a voice like a duck with its throat pinched.
“I didn’t do anything. Would you believe me?” Zhang Wen smiled as he walked toward the postmodernist man.
“You… you actually dared to attack Naxun and Kaylo…” The postmodernist man panicked and kept stepping backward.
Zhang Wen was clearly just a physical martial artist barely reaching tenth-stage. How could he instantly defeat Naxun, who was nearly at the saint-stage? And how could he make the golden-haired man unable to withstand even the residual force of Naxun’s impact that he had thrown?
What’s going on here? Who exactly is this Zhang Wen in front of me? At that moment, the postmodernist man felt as if his entire world were collapsing!
“What’s so special about Naxun? Daring to lay hands on my woman—he could be the emperor of heaven himself, and I’d still beat him to a pulp,” Zhang Wen laughed, his figure suddenly appearing beside the postmodernist man.
Still dazed mentally, unprepared physically, and weaker than the ape-man Naxun, the postmodernist man was naturally no match for Zhang Wen. Zhang Wen’s fist flew out again, unquestionably landing another hit.
Clang! The heavy impact caused the psychic floating elevator to sway like a temple bell and emit a deep, dull sound. Naturally, the postmodernist man, slammed against the wall, was knocked unconscious—this was already the result of Zhang Wen holding back.
Compared to the ape-man Naxun, whose nose was broken and face nearly shattered, and the golden-haired Kaylo, who had at least a dozen broken ribs and a right arm twisted into a strange curve, this accomplice’s fate was already extremely fortunate.
“Are you all okay?” Zhang Wen walked up to the three girls with a smiling face and asked.
Witnessing firsthand how Zhang Wen suddenly unleashed his might, instantly defeating Kaylo and his gang, one of the two pretty maids, the red-haired one, had her mouth opened into an “O” shape, completely speechless.
“I’m… I’m fine,” the golden-haired pretty maid managed to keep her composure. After smiling, she extended her hand toward Zhang Wen, allowing him to help her up.
“You… you really are that Zhang Wen teacher? The Zhang Wen teacher from Almystic Academy?” The red-haired pretty maid suddenly regained her senses, quickly got up from the ground, and jumped right in front of Zhang Wen.
“If there’s no second person named Zhang Wen at Almystic Academy, then you’re talking about me,” Zhang Wen instinctively touched his nose.
“Really? But I heard that the Zhang Wen teacher at Almystic Academy’s martial arts skills… weren’t that impressive,” the red-haired maid looked at Zhang Wen somewhat awkwardly but quickly became excited again. “How did you beat them all so quickly?”
“Hehe, it’s just because they had lust clouding their minds, focused only on the pretty girl in front of them and forgetting to be cautious.”
“Hehe! Maybe so. But I still think you’re amazing!” Hearing Zhang Wen compliment her beauty, the red-haired girl happily winked at Zhang Wen, then cheerfully bounced to the center of the floating elevator, reopening the valve that the ape-man had previously blocked.
“Hmph!” While walking toward the central control panel, the red-haired girl didn’t forget to take the opportunity to stomp a few times on the golden-haired man’s head.
Boom! The floating elevator vibrated slightly and resumed its upward movement. The two pretty maids giggled and ran back to the center of the elevator. This time, however, their curious gazes were fixed on Lailiya.
When Zhang Wen had rescued Lailiya and the other two, the phrase “my woman” was clearly heard by the two pretty maids. Since they had just met Zhang Wen for the first time, naturally the “woman” he referred to was the beautiful and sexy older sister standing beside them—Lailiya. Although they were very curious about how Zhang Wen had managed to attract that sexy and beautiful older sister so quickly, Zhang Wen had just saved them. Naturally, the two pretty maids wanted to express their gratitude.
“Hehe! Zhang Wen teacher is already a big celebrity in our Kasares! Be sure to sign for us next time if there’s an opportunity!”
As soon as the floating elevator stopped, the two pretty maids exchanged a meaningful glance between Zhang Wen and Lailiya, leaving behind a string of silvery laughter as they ran out.
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