Chapter 33: You All Come at Me Together!

Li Qunfan had not been having a smooth few days.

Ever since he was beaten up by that newcomer, the looks his fellow disciples gave him had all become strange.

He had been cultivating bitterly in the inner sect for over two years, his strength having broken through one level of the martial path realm; he could lift a cauldron with his strength and crush skulls with his hands.

Yet with such strength, he was directly knocked unconscious by a newcomer who had entered less than two days ago.

Although there were many reasons, such as his hands being bound, his carelessness in not dodging, and the sect rules forbidding him from fighting back, it was still enough to be shameful.

But this was not what hurt Li Qunfan the most; what made him feel the worst was:

"Does Xiao Fang really not like me?" Li Qunfan lay on his side on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

These past few days, every time he closed his eyes, Fang Can's mocking words would echo endlessly in his mind:

She never loved you!

She never loved you!

You...

Li Qunfan's goal in practicing martial arts was to become strong enough to be worthy of her, and then be together with mutual affection.

But Fang Can's single whisper cruelly pierced through this reality: Xiao Fang had never liked him.

"Impossible! Xiao Fang must like me!"

Li Qunfan's eyes, filled with bloodshot veins, widened; he tried to use the role-playing method, but it had absolutely no effect.

Fang Can's calm words were like a sharp knife deeply stabbing into his heart, causing his wound to bleed continuously.

The so-called idealistic martial path requires finding a goal, a belief, and then walking forward unswervingly.

But when the Wu Zhiren themselves begin to doubt, it is already too late to save the situation.

After these few days of mad self-training, Li Qunfan terrifyingly discovered that his martial path realm had not only failed to improve, but was gradually declining.

With the loss of martial will, the proportion of new blood in his body was sharply decreasing step by step.

In just four or five days, his physical strength had permanently decayed by a full ten percent; if this situation were exposed, he would likely be beaten down into the menial servant courtyard.

"Fang Can! It's all that Fang Can's fault! I will break all his limbs!"

With full hatred, Li Qunfan punched the table in the room, smashing it apart, his eyes covered in bloodshot veins.

"One month; in just one month, the sect rules will allow normal sparring."

Li Qunfan roared almost: "I must fight him until he admits that Xiao Fang loves me!"

Thinking of this, Li Qunfan's emotions finally calmed down a little; feeling his slightly weakened body, he slowly fell asleep with a depressed mood.

Tonight, his sleep quality was still not very good.

'Why am I on the ground!'

The next day, Fang Can slowly opened his eyes, looked around, and only then realized he had woken up on the floor.

Gently rubbing his somewhat dizzy head, Fang Can began to recall last night's events.

'I remember that before I passed out, I was practicing martial arts; because I ate ten pills of arsenic at once, the more I practiced, the more uncomfortable my body became. Thinking I would sit for a while to recover, I then lost consciousness.'

Thinking of this, Fang Can roughly understood what happened last night; it was probably because he overdosed on drugs and simply fainted.

Slowly pushing himself up from the ground, Fang Can changed into a fresh set of clothes and thought: "Next time I should be more careful; although I won't die, if I pass out, I can't practice martial arts."

Looking at the 9.2% progress, Fang Can tightened his belt; he had not forgotten what he needed to do today.

Walking out of the small house, feeling the cool morning breeze of the otherworld, Fang Can took steps and headed toward the Martial Arts Hall.

Along the way, meeting senior brothers from the same sect, everyone exchanged cold nods of greeting, then hurried together toward the Martial Arts Hall.

Although it was still early morning, some people had already risen early to practice internal energy within the grounds.

However, compared to seven days ago, Fang Can could now easily discern the techniques and patterns of these people; movements that were previously unclear were now completely clear as day.

'All the senior brothers in this Martial Arts Hall have flesh and blood alteration not exceeding 20%; most hover around 10%,' Fang Can speculated in his mind.

After all, this Martial Arts Hall is only for training new disciples; after three years of cultivation, they will be dispatched outward.

And within those three years, if one can break through the threshold of the second level of the martial path realm at 20%, it is considered quite talented, belonging to the top one in a hundred level.

Just as Fang Can was pondering, his gaze unconsciously looked forward.

In the distance was Li Qunfan, wearing dark circles under his eyes, glaring at him with eyes full of killing intent.

At the same time, the other two companions who had previously extorted him were standing with him, staring at him with ill-intentioned looks.

Of course, they did not dare to come up, because they feared not only being unable to fight, but also being exposed by Fang Can.

"You've come just in time."

Seeing his target, he was about to step forward when instructor Yang Lie called out to him: "Fang Can, come here."

"Hmm?" Fang Can turned his head and saw Yang Lie slowly walking over.

"Yang Jiaotou Yang, is there something you need?"

"Nothing much; there is a rule I forgot to tell you."

Yang Lie held his hands behind his back, his right palm gripping a wine flask as he spoke slowly and deliberately:

"The rules of the Martial Arts Hall require a martial contest to be held once every month, allowing disciples to spar with each other."

"I heard you had some unpleasantness with Li Qunfan and the others recently; once the month is up, they might cause you trouble, so be careful yourself."

"Although you were recommended into the sect by Hall Master Li, as long as they don't beat you into serious injury, I cannot intervene."

Regarding Yang Lie's warning, Fang Can nodded and smiled: "Thank you for the reminder, Yang Jiaotou Yang, but what if I want to spar with them right now?"

"What do you mean, you brat?" Yang Lie's forward-leaning body straightened unconsciously: "Do you think your life is too long? If you provoke them actively, even the sect rules cannot protect you."

Regarding Yang Lie's attitude, Fang Can already knew; he simply bypassed him and walked actively toward Li Qunfan in the distance.

"What do you want, you brat! Looking for trouble? Do you really think I dare not hit you?"

Seeing Fang Can approach, Li Qunfan was so angry his teeth itched, but he truly did not dare to make a move.

Watching helplessly as Fang Can strode up to him, he widened his bloodshot eyes, trying to make Fang Can see the murderous intent in his gaze and back down.

What greeted him was a single, unsophisticated slap from Fang Can.

"Bang!"

Like a heavy cannonball, Fang Can's right palm smashed directly into Li Qunfan's face.

In that instant, Li Qunfan felt his left half of the face struck as if by a hard iron block, and his entire body flew sideways.

"Boom!"

Amidst the horrified gazes of everyone, Li Qunfan's body crashed straight into the stone wall of the training ground, then "crashed" to the ground, unable to get up like a dead dog.

Seeing the obvious cracks left on the stone wall from the impact, the entire training ground instantly fell silent.

Yang Lie instinctively rubbed his eyes in disbelief: 'Qi sensation has arisen? No, it's at least approaching the first level of the Profound Threshold. How is this possible? How is this possible!'

Under the gaze of all, Fang Can walked to Li Qunfan, grabbed the other's hair, and forcibly lifted the entire person up; the other's consciousness had already slipped back into unconsciousness.

Boredly tossing Li Qunfan's body aside, Fang Can turned his head, bared his teeth, and smiled: "Senior brothers, why don't you all come at me together?"

(End of this chapter)