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You couldn’t help but admit that Zhushi Jiu’s previous words had slightly intimidated them. “If you lose, you’ll pay with your life.” This sentence, accompanied by Zhushi Jiu’s calm expression and eyes, exuded a sense of pressure that made everyone subconsciously hold their breath.
Xiaole reacted quickly, feeling a bit embarrassed and angry: “Don’t talk nonsense! If you’re not afraid, let’s have a fight!”
Zhushi Jiu stood up from his seat, walked slowly and steadily to a distance of about 10 meters away from the round dining table, turned around, and looked at Xiaole.
“Let’s start here. There are no rules, and you can use your fists or legs. Let’s settle this quickly.”
Xiaole couldn’t help but laugh. Wang Chong, who was watching the scene, suddenly felt a sense of familiarity. He recalled his previous bodyguard, who had been provoked by Zhushi Jiu’s disdainful attitude and ended up being defeated in just a few moves… History was repeating itself, and Zhushi Jiu was once again testing Wang Chong’s friends.
What Wang Chong didn’t know was that Zhushi Jiu was doing it on purpose. After Wang Chong called him a “martial arts grandmaster,” Zhushi Jiu decided to test Wang Chong’s friends. From a convenience perspective, if he was someone hiding in the shadows from another faction, Wang Chong’s friends would become the best tools for him. These people naturally posed a certain threat and might affect this escort mission. Zhushi Jiu’s test was just a temporary plan, not very thorough, but at least it could determine if these people were abnormal.
Xiaole stood in front of Zhushi Jiu.
“Brother Wang, be the referee! You can start it!”
Wang Chong said indifferently, “You’ll regret this later.”
Xiaole retorted, “Ha! Let me expose this fake’s true face and see who’ll regret it!”
Wang Chong couldn’t help but sigh, shouting, “Begin!”
Zhushi Jiu didn’t move, but Xiaole did. He charged forward with a loud “Whoosh!”
Wang Chong coldly smiled, thinking that even if Zhushi Jiu’s body was weak, it was not something Xiaole could defeat.
He couldn’t imagine that someone who could even catch the timing of their opponent’s blink could be beaten by someone with no foundation in martial arts.
As expected, in the next moment, Zhushi Jiu counterattacked against Xiaole, who was charging towards him. When Xiaole’s fist was about to hit Zhushi Jiu’s thin face, Zhushi Jiu lightly deflected his hand, dodged to the side, and struck Xiaole’s abdomen with his knee.
“Pfft!” Xiaole’s air was knocked out of him.
Zhushi Jiu then lightly kicked Xiaole’s legs.
Due to inertia, Xiaole’s entire body fell forward, kneeling on the ground!
Zhushi Jiu stood beside him, looking down at him with an indifferent expression.
The entire dining hall fell silent, as if you could hear a pin drop.
“…Is that it?” someone finally muttered.
Xiaole, who was still kneeling, looked up at Zhushi Jiu, who was gazing at him as if he was an object, not a living human being.
The youth with the ear piercings was also shocked, but he quickly shook off the feeling.
“What’s wrong with you, Xiaole?! Is your leg weak?”
By his visual acuity, he couldn’t see more details, but Xiaole had kneeled on the ground in just one second. As for what had happened, he didn’t get it.
“No, earlier…” Xiaole opened his mouth but stopped short.
What happened earlier? He was as bewildered as Wang Chong earlier.
It was the same as being instantly defeated, with no awareness whatsoever… No, he did feel something – at least, he felt his leg being kicked.
That exaggerated reaction ability was not something ordinary people possessed.
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“What just happened?” The youth with the ear piercings looked at the other stunned companions.
The companions shook their heads. “We don’t know… We don’t know how Xiaole ended up on the ground… Awesome!”
The praise, of course, was not directed at Xiaole, who had been instantly defeated, but at Zhushi Jiu.
They didn’t expect that this thin, seemingly wind-blown man could take down Xiaole in an instant. Although they didn’t know what had happened, they couldn’t help but praise Zhushi Jiu.
The youth with the ear piercings was skeptical, pushing away the girl beside him and standing up.
“Let me try!”
Some people just didn’t believe it until they experienced it themselves. Wang Chong’s mouth twitched, almost laughing out loud.
Xiaole shouted, “Wait! I was just careless earlier. Let me try again!”
The youth with the ear piercings frowned. “You lost, so you lost. Don’t make excuses. Let me go instead.”
“No, I’ll go! I just had a leg cramp earlier, really!”
The youth with the ear piercings was speechless. “Can’t you find a better excuse? One minute it’s carelessness, the next it’s a leg cramp…”
Looking at the two arguing, Zhushi Jiu suddenly smiled: “Forget it, you two can come together.”
“…”
“What?”
“You two can’t decide who goes first, so why not come together? I don’t mind.”
The youth with the ear piercings got angry, and Xiaole’s mood was already bad. When they heard this, they both got furious.
“Go ahead and try!” someone from the back yelled.
Zhushi Jiu looked at the people at the dining table. “If you’re not satisfied, you can all come together.”
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This was looking down on them to what extent!
However, the people at the back of the dining table still maintained their rationality. They had already bullied a seemingly weak man, and now they were being asked to gang up on him? They still had some self-respect.
But the angry youth with the ear piercings and Xiaole didn’t care. “This is what you said!”
The two directly charged at Zhushi Jiu from both sides.
When facing the two, Zhushi Jiu didn’t make any extra movements, still standing in place, waiting for the two to close in. Then, he slowly dodged Xiaole’s fist and the youth’s whip-like leg, quickly grabbing Xiaole’s collar and the youth’s pants, and flinging them towards each other.
Xiaole was kicked in the chest and stumbled backwards, while the youth’s pants were pulled open, and he fell on his butt with a “thud.”
The people at the dining table were stunned, unable to speak for a long time.
Wang Chong laughed, feeling a sense of pleasure. “This is my teacher, I told you he’s a martial arts grandmaster! If you want to try, go ahead, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
The youth in the white casual wear shook his head in amazement. “I was wrong, this is a grandmaster.”
Previously, he had been the loudest in taunting Zhushi Jiu, but now he was the first to admit defeat.
The girl who had spoken up earlier laughed: “Money Zele, Sun Haoke, you two are not a match for him.”
“Money Zele, don’t be so naive!” Sun Haoke retorted, his face red with anger and embarrassment.
Money Zele was about to help Sun Haoke up, but Sun Haoke slapped his hand away.
“Hey? Sun Haoke, are you injured or something? Can’t stand up?”
Sun Haoke’s face turned even redder, almost bleeding. His eyes seemed to be saying, “Kill me now.”
Money Zele noticed something was amiss, and his expression changed from gloom to excitement.
“Ha! This guy… He’s wearing red underwear!”
“Shut up!” Sun Haoke yelled, his face livid.
The people at the dining table couldn’t help but laugh at the scene.
…
The group returned to their seats.
Zhushi Jiu picked up his knife and fork, continuing to eat.
From now on, no one would call him a “starving ghost” anymore. Instead, they felt that Zhushi Jiu’s every move, every action, was full of heroic spirit.
“Teacher, do you have some sort of rare disease? Why does your body look so weak?”
Money Zele asked, his words a bit too venomous.
Zhushi Jiu didn’t mind, answering with a heroic tone: “It’s not a disease, it’s my cultivation. Only by pushing myself to the limits of life and death can I truly grasp the limits of my body. So, I often starve myself to the limit before eating. Don’t imitate me; ordinary people can’t do it.”
At this, the group looked at Zhushi Jiu with admiration.
Even Wang Chong, who knew Zhushi Jiu’s identity, was a bit suspicious if Zhushi Jiu was telling the truth or not.
Zhushi Jiu swallowed his food, feeling his stomach gradually filling up, his cells rejoicing, and his digestive system working at full capacity, converting the food into energy that filled his limbs.
He looked at the group with a sincere expression: “Let’s not talk about me anymore. It’s time to fulfill our bet. You all lost, so it’s your turn for self-introduction, and let’s be friends.”
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