Chapter 55: A Beast in Human Form
Luo Yongnian had a lot of confidence when it came to the dark web.
Luo Ying relaxed immediately when she heard her uncle talking about the dark web because she knew immediately that her clan was really out to take down Lu Xuan once and for all.
The Luo Clan had access to vast resources, but a young martial arts legend nonetheless still posed a significant threat. Despite not being able to shake the Luo Clan for a time, someone like that would have still severely threatened the clan in the long run.
It was possible for someone to have a career as a thief, but there was no way a target could have stayed on high alert against said thief indefinitely. That was something the clan knew very well.
The dark web was a world unknown to ordinary folk. In the world as it was then, both Cultivators and the Awakened were still a topic of speculation, yet it was a widely known truth among those who frequented the dark web.
That was an entirely different world on its own, which had its own system and order.
Luo Ying scouted quite a number of Awakened ones with criminal records, and she would take some jobs on the dark web herself. As such, she knew just how terrifying the dark web truly could be.
It was an underworld spanning across the entire real world, after all, and it had a long history behind it. Even a clan as formidable and resourceful as the Luo Clan was unable to tell just how many other forces were involved.
Or rather, the dark web itself was an underworld created by untold numbers of clans and families, like the Luo Clan.
While that world was hidden from the public eye, for the most part, it was nonetheless very powerful.
The dark web was also the only place where one could have easily recruited two martial arts legends.
The price of hiring a martial arts legend was staggering. But then again, the reward yielded by hiring such figures would ma.s.sively overshadow the price required.
Luo Ying was only truly relieved then. She had never been able to rest easy ever since she knew that a martial arts legend marked her for death. She knew precisely how scary such figures could be because such figures were keeping her family relevant in the first place.
If a martial arts legend were to be determined to kill someone, the target would have definitely ended up dead, regardless of the extent of effort invested in running away.
Even if she were to hire a martial arts legend to protect her, it would have been impossible for said hired legend to be by her side all the time, and any opening created would result in her death.
Worse still, there was no way she could have survived if the attempt was made.
Such was the ferocity of martial arts legends that made them so terrifying.
The only possibility of her being able to escape being killed was to hole herself up in her ancestral home, never emerging even a single step for the rest of her life. That was something she could not bring herself to do.
As such, the only way she had to avoid resorting to such measures was to take the initiative and kill her would-be killer.
“I’m relieved to hear that you’ve gotten all that thought out, Third Uncle.” Luo Ying nodded.
Luo Yongnian then said, “I don’t care who it was that killed one of our own or how impressive their background is. Such people will have to pay, or no one else will take us—the Luo Clan—seriously in the future.”
“A martial arts legend, eh? Just perfect enough to get me doing this personally,” Luo Yongnian added confidently.
Nothing out of place happened in the night. Lu Xuan bode his family farewell the next morning and went to the Wuyi mountain.
Lu Xuan packed nothing other than a small bag of bare necessities. He then quickly arrived at the Wuyi mountain station.
He then quickly left the station after getting off the bus, heading straight for the woods in the mountain.
Some creatures in the mountain mutated somewhat after being exposed to spirit qi.
For instance, there was a wild boar right before Lu Xuan.
That wild boar was so huge that it exceeded the height of a grown man, emanating terrifying, intimidating aura all over it as it roared at Lu Xuan.
He just happened to trespa.s.s into the turf of that wild boar by accident.
“Doesn’t seem like I have a choice. I’ll have to kill this animal then.” Lu Xuan eyed the wild boar before him, which had bloodshot eyes and was rampaging.
It launched itself straight at Lu Xuan right afterward.
Common folk would have been easily intimidated by the wild boar’s aura, frightening them so badly that they were very possibly unable even to move a muscle.
However, Lu Xuan was no common folk. He simply lifted his leg and kicked the animal, without so much as paying attention to it.
Boom!
That one devastating kick landed hard on that charging boar’s head.
That one kick actually managed to stop that rampaging wild boar from moving further. Any experienced hunter would have been able to tell that the most dangerous animal to be found in the mountains was not a tiger or a bear, but a rampaging wild boar.
Lu Xuan did not even budge from where he stood. The wild boar had apparently mutated to a certain extent after exposure to spirit qi, making it far more terrifying than common wild boars.
However, Lu Xuan proved to be even more terrifying than the boar was. To a certain extent, one could have even said that Lu Xuan was a terrifying beast in human form.
As such, he had no fear of the animal at all, for no ferocious animal could have been more terrifying than he was.
He then followed up with another kick at the wild boar right away.
That wild boar whelped as it was sent flying from the kick.
The wild boar then retreated frantically right away, as if it was thoroughly frightened by the man before it.
Lu Xuan simply saw the boar running away, not bothering to give chase.
He simply stood where he was and said, “You’ve come all the way here. Why not show yourself, hm?”
Someone leapt from a thick branch of a tree not far away from where Lu Xuan stood right after he said that line.
That figure had been standing on the branch like a G.o.d looking down on mortals mere moments ago.
He had an extremely terrifying aura about him. Bugs and birds did not even dare to make any noise where he was. His aura was so frighteningly intimidating that bugs, which were creatures without any capacity for thought, were thoroughly frightened.
“Luo Yongnian, it’s you, huh?”
Lu Xuan saw a familiar face coming at him.
He had been far more familiar with the people of the Luo Clan than he would have liked to in his past life. There was no way he would not have recognized the members of that clan.
“You know of me?” Luo Yongnian’s eyes glittered with terrifying light when he heard what Lu Xuan said.
That was because he holed himself up in the clan to further his training just about all the time, hardly venturing into the outside world. Common logic stated that there was no way Lu Xuan would have heard of him. However, there was nonetheless one possibility why Lu Xuan knew who he was—the young man had investigated matters about the clan.
It was just as Luo Ying had antic.i.p.ated. Lu Xuan was not about to let go. He was determined to go against the Luo Clan.
“Seems like I can’t leave a mongrel like you leave the place alive then!” Luo Yongnian said coldly as he gritted his teeth.
“And I thought the Luo Clan would have sent someone else. It never crossed my mind that they would have sent you instead. Fair enough. I’ll leave a statement for the Luo Clan on your head, sending them a message saying that I’m not a pushover.” Lu Xuan was thoroughly unfazed. He was actually that confident in his powers.
Both men were martial arts legends, and if Luo Yongnian were considered to be at the pinnacle, then Lu Xuan would have been deemed invincible.
Flames emerged all over Lu Xuan at that very moment. Lava and spitting streams of fire were everywhere.
It was as if he was in the h.e.l.l told of in myths and legends.
“You seem to think that such level of illusion will faze me, huh?” Lu Xuan smirked. At the very next instant, the place was transformed back into the woods again.
What happened back then was nothing more than an illusion.