Chapter 280 – Moon Lake (VI)

Chapter 280

Moon Lake (VI)

There was a lulling moment in-between the head falling down onto the ground and the body following, where nobody present uttered a sound, much less a word. It felt as though everyone was collectively trying to truly understand what had just transpired in the span of the blink of an eye. No, even less than that.

Wei himself was in utter shock, having never, not even for a second, considered that any of the kids could do… well, anything. Certainly nothing like that.

“W-W-WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!! WHO IS THERE?!! REVEAL YOURSELF AT ONCE! M-M-MY NAME IS JIN LEI, AND I’M THE FIRST SON OF THE ELDER LUANG OF THE HUNDRED FLOWERS SECT! I-I-IF YOU KILL ME, THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE!!”

“…”

The desperate, almost maniacal threat was met with utter silence as the kids’ expressions shifted from those of anger to those of… bemusement. They were looking at Jin Lei rather… funnily, one might say.

“Is he stupid?” one of the young girls finally voiced out.

“He looks like he’d be stupid,” the youngest girl said.

“Light! We don’t judge people based on their looks,” the boy who’d just attacked said.

“Oh.”

“He sounds like he’d be stupid, though,” the same boy said as everyone burst into laughter. Even the old man’s lips were twitching, as though he was barely holding back.

“Y-you dare laugh at me?!! Vermin like you?!! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!! SKIN THEM ALIVE FOR ME!!!”

“AAAGHHH!!!”

The roars exploded as Wei watched the collective might of Jin Lei’s group descend upon the old man and the kids. Just as he was about to step forward, he found himself frozen, almost shaking in fear–his gaze met that of the young boy, perhaps fifteen at most, who had stayed at the back of the group.

It was as though those were instead eyes of the void itself, and they were telling him to not move an inch… and if he did, he would not survive it.

His friends must have felt the same, as they all stood rooted in place, their expressions identical–fear and confusion mixed, mostly–all while what they expected to happen… never did.

Though that strike was magnificent beyond reproach, they all thought it took the boy everything, perhaps even tapping into Life Qi within his heart, to execute it, and he did so because he felt enraged on behalf of his Master–wasn’t he their father?!

Discarding the white lie told, Wei was certain that the boy was spent… but that wasn’t the case.

Four people didn’t even step forward to fight–the old man Lu, his ‘brother’ Lao, the kid that gave Wei the feeling of dread that even the Sect Master never could, and the youngest boy who observed it all with great curiosity.

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Others stepped forward fearlessly, and Wei quickly learned there was a reason for it.

The first one to shock him was the boy who struck with the sword–not only was he not spent, but Wei feared he barely used any Qi, as he stepped forward through the shadows and drew his sword once again.

Wei felt resonant Sword Qi alight his own view of it–he’d seen swordsmen wielding Sword Qi before, but it was never quite so… odd. The boy’s attack seemed to both accelerate and stop all at the same time, yet before he could wrap his head around it, another head flew in a shower of blood.

Right by his side, a girl that seemed his age, donning a pair of strange-seeming gauntlets, stepped past his shadow and welcomed the attacker on his flank. She ducked underneath the slash of the blade and stirred her fist upward toward the man’s jaw.