Chapter 862: Chapter 862 Conflict
"Li Feng, hurry up with your shower. We’re heading back to the barracks to grab clothes first. You’ve got ten minutes."
Xiao Xi turned back and spoke somewhat imperiously to Li Feng, then pulled Huang Shuyao towards the large barracks.
The large bathroom allocated to them wasn’t divided by gender, so the showers had to be taken sequentially. Though it’s inconvenient, that’s the way it was.
The two women walked a bit further away.
Yue Lei, walking behind Li Feng, then chimed in sarcastically.
"Heh, ten minutes. I’ll shower as long as I want. If you’re not happy, come in and shower together."
The two beside Yue Lei displayed a hint of sleazy debauchery.
"Exactly, we don’t mind anyway."
"Hey, whether you two mind or not doesn’t matter, just worried someone might mind, like a certain love-struck pretty boy."
"Didn’t you see him getting all cozy with that group of women, tsk."
"If we weren’t here, they might’ve already showered together. And not just two people, maybe even three."
Yue Lei said, his face laden with lewdness.
"Hey, not everyone can play the pretty boy. We brothers just don’t have that luck. Otherwise, how could he hook up with a rich lady, reach the pinnacle of life, become the chairman of a trillion-dollar corporation? Even though it tanked within half a year, that skill of living off others is undeniable."
"I, Pang Jun, totally admire that. This kind of freeloading skill, I probably won’t learn it in my lifetime."
Yue Lei and his close-knit group of five started bickering, while the two from the Xu Family walking behind them smirked. Yue Lei sure knew how to wield words like a sharp knife.
The two exchanged glances, and although they didn’t join in, they watched the scene play out with amusement.
Tie Xuan furrowed his brows. He’s not dumb; he could easily tell Yue Lei and the others were talking about Li Feng, and he was instantly displeased.
"This bunch of chatterboxes just need a good beating."
Li Feng smiled faintly, "A bunch of grapes-can’t-be-eaten-so-they-say-it’s-sour types. Why bother with them?"
"It’s only the gutless who rely on words to show off."
Li Feng spoke loud enough for Yue Lei and his group behind them to hear clearly.
"Li Feng, who are you calling gutless?"
"Did I say it was you? You jumped to reply."
"Are you really declaring yourself gutless?"
Li Feng turned around and sneered as he looked over.
Tie Xuan, standing next to Li Feng, clenched his fists, making a cracking sound. Tie Xuan is a big and straightforward guy, respects strength above all.
Li Feng had once defeated him, then tied with Hua Wushuang, who had hit him down in a single move.
Thus, Tie Xuan acknowledged Li Feng’s strength; Li Feng was stronger than him, so Tie Xuan respected him.
As for Yue Lei and his group, talking behind people’s backs and speaking such degrading things was just disgraceful.
"If you want to fight, count me in."
Tie Xuan stood firmly on Li Feng’s side, although the other side had more people, Tie Xuan wasn’t the least apprehensive, thanks to his Horizontal Training Golden Bell Shield hard Qi Gong. Unless someone of Hua Wushuang’s caliber was against him, everyone else was just fodder.
Even if they added three or five more, he wouldn’t care.
Seeing Tie Xuan step forward, a young man who had previously sided with Yue Lei, Pang Jun, frowned. Tie Xuan’s prowess was known to them all; Vajra Sect’s Horizontal Training Thirteen Princes Golden Bell Shield was overwhelmingly fierce, not easy to deal with.
"Tie Xuan, this has nothing to do with you. Why are you interfering?"
"Exactly, Tie Xuan, you wouldn’t be acting as Li Feng’s henchman, would you? Did he promise you something?"
One’s mouth curled bitterly.
"Did he eat the meat while letting you sip the broth?"
"Lv Lei, stop spraying nonsense. If you want a beating, speak up, and I’ll oblige."
"Want to fight? Sure, but not here. Too many eyes, it’ll be discovered. Better to go inside and fight."
Yue Lei snickered coldly.
"Are you afraid or not?"
"Whoever’s afraid is the bastard."
Tie Xuan retorted hotly.
Li Feng shrugged, said nothing, turned abruptly, and led a group into the large bathroom. The space was spacious enough for a hundred people to shower at the same time.
After entering the shower, the two from the Xu Family immediately blocked the door.
"Zhou Jie, you’re not planning to interfere, are you?"
Zhou Jie glanced at the two blocking the way, "Move aside. I’m just here for my shower. Unless you bother me, why would I care about your lives?"
Zhou Jie spoke harshly, brushing past them into the shower, casually walking to a nearby showerhead, took off his clothes, and turned on the shower.
Yue Lei glanced at Zhou Jie, this little Overlord Zhou Jie was indeed a formidable person; in a group elimination match of over seven hundred people, Zhou Jie won twenty-seven consecutive rounds, securing one of four spots available, proving his impressiveness.
Zhou Jie could certainly be called a dark horse.
Since Zhou Jie wasn’t interfering, Yue Lei wouldn’t provoke him without reason.
"Tie Xuan, this originally has nothing to do with you. It’s purely a personal dispute between me and Li Feng. Are you really going to stick your nose in?"
Yue Lei looked at Tie Xuan, knowing his prowess wasn’t ordinary, the main issue was that he belonged to the Vajra Sect, mastering the Horizontal Training Thirteen Grand Protectors Golden Bell Shield, which was quite tricky.
Tie Xuan didn’t get a chance to reply before Li Feng stopped him, stepped forward to face Yue Lei.
"Since you claim this is a dispute between us, let’s settle it between ourselves."
"Tie Xuan, stay out of this one."
Tie Xuan, upon hearing Li Feng, furrowed his brow, "Alright, Yue Lei, since it’s between you two, you solve it. But if anyone else joins in, don’t blame me for also getting involved."
Yue Lei shrugged, loosened his limbs, "To deal with a half-cripple, who needs anyone else? That’d be overestimating him."
Yue Lei snorted, then launched a short strike with Yue Family Boxing, the sound of breaking through the air echoed several times.
"Nice, a five-break-sound-in-a-row! Brother Yue, such skill indeed."
Yue Lei beckoned towards Li Feng.
Li Feng stood still, watching Yue Lei’s somewhat flashy opening stance, "Heh, I heard this Yue Family Boxing is actually Huo Family Boxing."
"Apparently, the Yue Family Martial Arts Hall wasn’t called Yue Family Martial Arts Hall originally but Huo Family Boxing Hall. Just over a decade ago, after an accident with the Huo Family hall master, it changed to Yue Family’s control, renamed as Yue Family Martial Arts Hall, shamelessly modified the Huo Family Boxing into Yue Family Sixteen Forms Thunder Fist."
"Tsk, tsk tsk."
"No wonder they say shamelessness runs in the family."
As soon as Li Feng said this, Yue Lei’s face turned instantly sullen, "Li Feng, how dare you concoct lies, slandering my Yue Family Martial Arts Hall."
"Is it slander? One can’t hide their actions, unless nothing was ever done. Do you really think people are idiots, Yue Family?"
Li Feng had interacted with Huo Yongtao, that Young Master of the Huo Family; the guy wanted to reclaim the Huo family’s patrimony, but tragically, the Yue Family had the backing of the big Xu Family, making him no match.
"Fine. Very fine."
Yue Lei spoke with intense bitterness, stomped his feet, the tiles on the ground couldn’t withstand the force and cracked with a crunching sound.
The air echoed with the sound of breaking through.
Yue Lei’s fist broke through the air, rushing straight at Li Feng’s face.