Chapter 88 - Training Dummy
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The power behind the sabre strike sent him crashing into the ground with a loud crash!

“Greetings, my name is Long Di. Going forward, could you stop putting your neck in the way of my Saber, please? I’m not a sadist, and you are not my type.”

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Putting his neck in the way of his saber!? Was this brat serious!? Since when did he try to seek such suffering for himself!?

He was only going for the girl on the bed when the sabre came out of nowhere and blindsided him!

“You little brat, do you have any idea who I am!?” Tai Ren was absolutely livid that some small character from a backwater village dared to attack him.

“A human trafficker?” Long Di innocently asked.

“A human traffick… What!?” Tai Ren had no idea what Long Di was talking about.

“Oh, it’s someone who deals in the illegal trade of humans, but since this is a Nymph, should I call it Nymph trafficking? Somehow, it doesn’t have the same ring to it.”

“Enough! Get out of my way, and maybe I’ll… what is that?” A flash of bronze lit up his peripheral vision before it became clear what it was once more.

‘Did I truly wander wrongly?’ Was the thought that streaked through his mind before…

A bronze sabre came crashing towards him once more with incredible force!

Boom!

A cross block was the only type of defence he managed to erect before he was sent flying.

When he stood up once more, both Tai Ren’s arms were cracked, but oddly enough, no blood flowed. He seemed to be completely made up of an earth-like substance, similar to clay.

Vrrmm!

The lines that covered his body were reflected on the ground, and soon after, the earth energy present flowed along the lines and into his body. As this took place, the wounds that covered his arms healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

D-D-Dum!

When Long Di saw that Tai Ren could heal, he immediately got annoyed and revealed his cultivation base, causing his cauldrons to burst into existence!

They spun furiously as the two Star Cores flashed like stars in the night!

When Tai Ren saw the cauldrons, an overbearing pressure bore down on him. Whatever grade they were was something that defied common logic, and he was blown away by what he sensed.

“This human brat is a Two-Star Core Martial Master!? Impossible!” Tai Ren’s face was twisted in anger.

Where did such a human come from!?

Most demons hated humans, and the mere fact that there was such a young genius amongst them was something that he needed to have corrected by eliminating Long Di!

“Ah! It’s you again, you once half-dead human trash! Why are you still he—”

Pa!

Zhen Paohui had started to curse at Long Di when a backhand landed cleanly on his cheek!

Long Di hated young masters a lot, but slapping them was therapy you couldn’t pay for.

So when he encountered Zhen Paohui once again, he couldn’t keep his hand from moving on its own. The feeling of slapping a young master was even more exhilarating than simply reading about it!

Truly, reading ten thousand books is not as good as travelling ten thousand miles.

Zhen Paohui was shocked! From the day he was born, no one dared to strike him, but this human felt he was empowered to do so!? What fresh hell was this!?

“Human trash! You dare to—”

Pa!

Another slap landed on Zhen Paohui’s face.

The power behind this slap, however, caused the skin on his face to split open as it sent him flying away. The blow was too much for him to take and as such; he fainted mid-flight.

When Long Di had slapped him before, he had reined in his power, but when Zhen Paohui kept on talking, he ‘accidentally’ used more power as a result.

The third elder was enraged when he saw this. “You little beast! Do you know who you’ve slapped!? Immediately ap—”

Boom!

The giant bronze sabre fell to the ground with a resounding crash, shocking the third elder into silence.

Long Di merely offered him a side glance with a simple request. “Can you stop talking?”

Tai Ren took the momentary distraction caused by the third elder to charge towards the Nymph once more.

Shu!

Long Di shot off towards him, brandishing the sabre! Feeling the suppression that came from above, Tai Ren looked back, then up, only to see Long Di descending with an overhead slash!

D-D-Dum!

Tai Ren’s cultivation base erupted as a unique type of somatic essence spread out in every direction!

Eight red cauldrons, three inlaid with a glittering star core each, quickly materialised as well.

The shock wave slowed Long Di’s descent, giving Tai Ren enough time to react. He slammed both palms to the ground, and the lines on his body appeared on the ground in a wide area, giving rise to a massive wall!

Krrsssh!

Long Di didn’t hold back on the power of his strike, and even augmented the giant bronze sabre’s destructive potential with lightning!

Rumble!

He crashed into the wall with a terrible force that tore it asunder!

‘What!?”

Tai Ren was knocked back from the point of impact with shock plastered all over his face.

He couldn’t understand why Long Di’s physical strength was so overbearing!

By the time Long Di landed, he saw where Tai Ren had created a long ditch on account of the force that knocked him back!

Bang!

Not giving him any breathing room, Long Di shot towards him once more, unleashing a flurry of slashes with the sabre!

The elders were all shocked at Long Di’s combat prowess. There were some areas that needed work, sure, and his sabre technique was horribly unrefined, but it was actually getting better as he fought!

When they saw how Long Di corrected certain mistakes that caused openings to appear, and how he kept modifying his stances during specific attacks, they all sucked in a cold breath of air!

‘He can’t be…!?’

This boy was actually using Tai Ren as a live-practise dummy!

Tai Ren quickly realised this and his eyes burned with shame and anger.

“I’ll kill you!”

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