Chapter 1281: Chapter 1280: An Old Acquaintance in a Foreign Land
"Senior, do you want to help Brother Wang clear the field?" Pei Yu asked cautiously as he looked at Su Changfeng. In his eyes, a late stage third-rank expert had to be very old already, so he just directly called him "senior."
"The Pei Family’s debt will be settled by my disciple personally when the time comes." Su Changfeng’s tone was indifferent, but just this one sentence drained all the color from Pei Yu’s face.
"Senior, this time, it really was my fault. My Pei Family is willing to pay any price to compensate him." Pei Yu said.
At this moment, Pei An and his son also walked over with terrified faces. The always overbearing and forceful Pei An didn’t even have the courage to look Su Changfeng in the eye right now.
In Qiyun City, the Pei Family could cover the sky with one hand, but Pei An was very clear in his heart: if this masked man wanted to kill him, it would be as easy as flipping a hand. Naturally he didn’t have the guts to act wantonly in front of the other party.
After half a day passed, Wang Junyi finally woke up. At this moment, the aura around his body was clearly more overbearing than before. It looked like the breakthrough had succeeded. Right now, his presence was obviously stronger than before; he had clearly broken through the realm.
"Master, I succeeded, I really succeeded!" Wang Junyi stood up, his face full of excitement he couldn’t hide.
A Fifth Rank Expert—before this, Wang Junyi had never thought that one day he would be able to advance to the fifth-rank. Of course, what made him even more excited was that as long as he kept following Su Changfeng, he would have the chance to come into contact with even higher Ranks in the future and become someone even stronger. How could he not be thrilled?
As for Wang Junyi’s improvement in strength, in Su Changfeng’s eyes it was the most natural outcome. After all, he knew very well the effect of the Red Fruit. If, with the blessing of the Red Fruit, he still couldn’t improve his strength, then he would really have to suspect that he’d taken in a useless disciple.
So in his view, right now it was merely the Fifth Rank, hardly something worth Wang Junyi getting this worked up over.
"It’s just the Fifth Rank. Is that really enough to get you this excited?" Su Changfeng looked at Wang Junyi and said flatly.
As if a bucket of cold water had been dumped over his head, Wang Junyi’s smile suddenly froze at the corner of his mouth. He lowered his head and said, "Master, I know I was wrong."
The three members of the Pei Family twitched at the corners of their mouths when they heard this. Fifth Rank! In their eyes, that was already an existence they couldn’t even imagine reaching in this lifetime, yet from what this master and disciple were saying, it sounded no different from trash.
So this is the gap between the strong and ordinary people? Did it have to be this big?
"Alright, I’ll leave the rest to you. I’ll head back first." Su Changfeng suddenly said to Wang Junyi. As soon as the words fell, he strode away.
Wang Junyi only felt that Su Changfeng was now making a graceful exit after success, using an excuse to go back. So he just nodded and didn’t say much more.
In fact, the reason Su Changfeng was in such a hurry was mainly because he sensed that the arena master seemed about to leave Qiyun City. He hadn’t had time to properly question the man yet. If the other party just left like that, it wouldn’t be so easy to run into him again.
Outside the city at this time, Su Changfeng had deliberately changed into a different set of clothes, mainly worried that someone would discover he was the masked man from before.
But when he appeared in front of that man, the other party’s attitude was extremely bad, clearly not recognizing that he was the masked man from the stage earlier.
"Young man, if you know what’s good for you, get out of the way right now, or don’t blame me for being rude."
"What’s your name?" Su Changfeng stared at him, eyes like torches.
The man snorted, his face full of disdain. "What the hell are you that you think you’re qualified to know my name? Move it. I don’t want to say it a second time."
Su Changfeng sighed helplessly, then said, "Looks like your memory isn’t very good. We clearly just met not long ago, and you’ve already forgotten who I am? Or is it that if I don’t wear a mask, you can’t recognize me?"
Mask?
The man froze, then began sizing up Su Changfeng in disbelief. Could this young man blocking his way really be the masked man from just now?
How was that possible? That person was already a Late Stage Third Rank Expert. How could he be this young?
"You... you’re talking nonsense! How could you be that person?" The arena master’s eyes were full of disbelief.
"Why not? I have no need to lie to you." As he spoke, the aura around Su Changfeng’s body changed. That domineering and familiar pressure once again enveloped the other party.
Only at this moment did the man finally believe Su Changfeng’s identity. But he had never imagined that this man in front of him, still so young, already possessed late stage third-rank strength. It was simply unbelievable.
"What’s your name?" Su Changfeng asked once more.
"Li Sheng."
"Li Sheng? Such a casual name. Don’t tell me your parents found it online?" Su Changfeng said with a grin.
At those words, Li Sheng’s expression instantly changed—online? On the Tianyuan Continent, there was no such thing as "online."
Could it be...
At this moment, Li Sheng’s chest heaved non-stop, his eyes wide open. He seemed to have thought of some possibility, yet felt it was hard to believe.
"You, who exactly are you?" Li Sheng asked.
"I’m the same as you. The place you come from is also my homeland." Seeing Li Sheng’s reaction, Su Changfeng was all the more certain that he was the same as himself. Otherwise the man definitely wouldn’t be this agitated.
"You... could it be you’re from Tuo Shi?" Li Sheng asked again.
"Heaven, Earth, Xuan and Huang... I’m guessing you were also a Heavenly Level expert before? So were you from Shangyun Pavilion, or Lingxiao Pavilion?" Su Changfeng said.
Li Sheng was completely stunned. Knowing so much about Tuo Shi, the other party was definitely one of the Tuo Shi people. But he had never expected that on the Tianyuan Continent he could actually run into a fellow countryman.
Although Li Sheng also knew that Tuo Shi had sent quite a few people to the Tianyuan Continent before, he had been here for so long and had never encountered a single compatriot.
"I’m under Elder Wu’s tutelage. You?" Li Sheng’s face couldn’t hide his excitement.
"Elder Wu originally intended to take me as a disciple, but strictly speaking, we can’t be considered a true master and disciple." Su Changfeng said.
Li Sheng walked up to Su Changfeng. He simply couldn’t put his feelings into words. He had never imagined that in a completely unfamiliar world, he would meet such a "fellow countryman."
"How long have you been on the Tianyuan Continent, and at such a young age you’re already late stage third-rank?" Li Sheng asked.
"I’ve only been here a few months."
Then, Su Changfeng roughly told him about all that had happened after he went to Tuo Shi. When Li Sheng learned that Su Changfeng had successfully advanced to the Heavenly Level in just one month, his expression could not hide his shock. After all, he knew the assessment in Tuo Shi and understood how difficult it was to successfully advance, especially to pass smoothly through the Infinite Cave. Yet Su Changfeng had done it in just a single month. It truly left him in utter disbelief.
The two also talked about the reason Su Changfeng had come to the Tianyuan Continent. When Li Sheng found out that Su Changfeng had voluntarily come to the Tianyuan Continent in Elder Wu’s place, his heart was filled only with deep respect. You had to know, making such a choice required far more than just courage.
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