Wandong recognized the servants right away — the underlings who walked beside Xiu Wei yesterday. Wandong knitted his eyebrows tightly with a tinge of seriousness popping onto his countenance. It seemed that they pressed ahead with their sinister designs.
Leng Yuecui raised her brows and set eyes on the well-dressed dandy. Then she introduced, "It is Jin Mu, a guy from the Tiezhan Empire. He is ranked the ninety-ninth on the Qingyun Rankings."
The Tiezhan Empire was indeed a superpower, an equal of the Qingyun Empire. According to the annual enrollment statistics of the Qingyun Academy of Tactic Formation, there were quite a few students who came from the Tiezhan Empire. And they even took twenty places at least on the Qingyun Rankings. People from this empire were notorious for their bellicose and overbearing dispositions. They even persisted in their old ways in the Qingyun Academy, making it hard for others to get along with them. Local students from the Qingyun Empire, without solid backing, feared them somewhat, not to mention those who came from small countries, like the Tiandu Kingdom.
Wandong contemplated it for a minute and got hold of the big picture.
Having had his son get the worst of it from Wandong, Xiu Sheng, Xiu Wei's father would not for the life of him let Wandong get away with it. Nevertheless, he was not sufficiently audacious to challenge The Duke of Dingshan, Yaoting's Grandfather. Hence Xiu Sheng turned to the Tiezhan Empire for help to start with Ye Mei, in a bid to give Wandong a warning. "A dignitary of the Qingyun Empire should avenge his son with the help of a dandy from the Tiezhan Empire! That's amazingly preposterous! " Wandong thought to himself.
While Wandong was seemingly dismissive of Xiu Sheng's conduct, Jin Mu flew into a rage and cursed, "F**king idiot! To hell with you! Now you're asking for it." In the meantime, he slapped a passerby so heavily that the miserable guy plunged up in the air before he figured out what was going on.
It was a rather merciless slap. Wandong saw clearly that quite a few broken teeth darted forth out of the poor student's mouth along with his blood. After he landed on the ground, it took a while for him to struggle to get back on his feet. And Xiu Wei's underlings even added insult to his injury — hardly had the student fallen back on the ground when they scrambled to kick him. In a short while, only his painful groans remained.
"Hahaha...He knows he's ending up dead because he got in my way! Hurry up, beat him to death! Don't show any mercy to him!" Jin Mu bade the underlings. They got further emboldened by his support and progressed with the beating in a deadly manner.
"Heh...How come a dog from the Tiezhan Empire dared to bark wantonly in the Great Qingyun Empire?" Wandong said in a cold and aloof tone, putting on frosty looks.
"Who is it? Audacious prick, you wanna be buried with this guy?" Jin Mu let out a cry. It seemed that he had never encountered anyone who dared to speak to him without respect.
On spotting Wandong, Jin Mu frowned in spite of himself and restrained himself a bit. Then he greeted Wandong with a feinted stuff smile, "I didn't expect you here, Childe Xu."
Wandong uttered a hum, taking no notice of him. Then he pointed at the underlings around Jin Mu and shouted, "Come here!"
"Esteemed...Esteemed Childe Xu, we...we give you our best regards and...and wish you good health..." The underlings hastened to pay him regards, with waves of quivers running through their bodies, ghostly pale. The scene in which Wandong gave a harsh beating to Xiu Wei appeared vivid to them as if it just had happened yesterday. They had every reason to be scared to death by him, compounded with his threatening malefic air about him.