"Liu Qing, our boss is looking for you, what are you doing hiding inside like a coward?!"

"Liu Qing, are you chickening out? You're the second-ranked expert on the Power Ranking, why are you acting like a mouse in front of a cat when you see my boss?! Hiding away like that!"

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"Liu Qing, you should stop practicing the Overlord Spear technique and start practicing the Turtle Spear technique instead. Just one hit on your shell and you'll shrink your head back, hehe."

At the stronghold of the Fierce Eagles, Xiao Xuanyuan led a large group from the Medicine Alliance to surround Liu Qing's courtyard, making it completely impassable and causing the onlookers to look at each other in bewilderment.

Beside the Medicine Alliance, Yu Bohao and his Earth Star team also joined the ranks of those angrily cursing Liu Qing. A group of young people laughed and kept criticizing Liu Qing for being a "coward" and insulting the "weakness" of his Fierce Eagle team. They threw whatever insulting words or strong phrases they could find at him.

"What kind of bullshit Fierce Eagle Team is this? I think it should be called the Little Eagle Team. Fierce Eagle? You don't even deserve to use the word 'fierce'!" A member from Earth put his arm around the shoulder of a member from the Medicine Alliance and laughed loudly.

"Exactly! Why not just stop calling it Fierce Eagle and change it to Little Bird Team? That would suit you bunch of cowardly turtles, right?!" The member of the Medicine Alliance cooperated enthusiastically, laughing and agreeing.

Watching the Medicine Alliance and the Earth Star Alliance relentlessly spewing spittle and hurling insults at Liu Qing's courtyard, Xiao Xuanyuan laughed heartily. He forcefully clinked a bottle of red wine in his hand against Yu Bohao's, took a sip, and said, "Bohao, this is truly refreshing. We've finally avenged ourselves for being surrounded by the Fierce Eagles that day."

"Isn't that right? Usually, Lie Ying is all high and mighty in the inner courtyard, and almost no one dares to mess with the name of Ba Qiang Liu Qing. But now he's hiding in his shell, too scared to come out. It's so satisfying." Yu Bohao nodded with a smile, showing great admiration for Xiao Xuanyuan. "It's all thanks to you, Brother Xiao. Otherwise, with the strength of our Earth Star, we wouldn't be qualified to challenge Lie Ying and Liu Qing."

There was one more thing Yu Bohao didn't say: the red wine he was drinking usually cost ten fire energy per bottle in the inner courtyard, but Xiao Xuanyuan had gotten a whole case of it. Such extravagance, he was truly damn arrogant!

Compared to the cheerful atmosphere outside the courtyard where the Medicine Alliance and Earth Star Alliance were united, all the members of the Fierce Eagle Team inside the courtyard had dark faces. This courtyard was quite large, with two small buildings and more than ten rooms, divided into a front yard and a back yard. The Medicine Alliance and Earth Star Alliance members were cursing and venting their anger at the front yard gate, while all the members of the Fierce Eagle Team were having a meeting in the back yard to discuss how to resolve the matter.

"Yao Sheng has been gone for so long, why hasn't he come back yet?!" Hearing the vulgar and offensive language coming from the front gate, Liu Qing's face darkened to the extreme, and he was extremely irritated by the barrage of insults.

These people not only insulted him, but they also dragged the entire Fierce Eagle team into it. They attacked anyone they knew or had a grudge against, or even the entire Fierce Eagle team. Eventually, the insults even reached Liu Qing's elderly mother, and they started going through his family tree—grandfather, grandmother, maternal grandmother, maternal grandfather…

Hearing this, Liu Qing's face grew darker and darker, almost as black as ink. He was so angry that his fists clenched so tightly that his knuckles cracked.

"It's been about fifteen minutes, they should be back soon." Liu Fei wiped the sweat from her smooth forehead, being careful not to upset her cousin.

"The speed is too slow!" Liu Qing was so angry that he trembled all over. His face turned from black to white and then back to black, like the Earth rapidly turning upside down, changing constantly. This was because the people at the front gate kept flipping through his family tree, cursing and swearing. They had already flipped through his twelfth generation ancestor. If they kept flipping through, they would soon be at his eighteenth generation ancestor.

Clang!

The back gate opened, and Yao Sheng walked in, his face covered in sweat. He went to the table, grabbed the teapot, poured himself a cup of water, and drank it all in one gulp, showing how thirsty he was.

Liu Qing, his face a mixture of black and white, approached him, grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him closer. "What did the elders of the inner courtyard say?! Did they send anyone?! Where are the guards?! Where are the enforcement team?! Why did only you return?!"

Liu Qing bombarded Yao Sheng with a barrage of questions, leaving him somewhat bewildered. However, he quickly recovered and said, "The inner court elders said that Xiao Xuanyuan is just a student in the inner court, not an elder or mentor. There's no need to go to such lengths to send the enforcement team and the guard team. They told us students to resolve our own issues."

"Son of a bitch!

Liu Qing slammed his palm directly onto the hard wooden table in front of him, smashing it to pieces. The teapot, tea table, and other items fell and smashed all over the floor. Yao Sheng, who had just returned, was startled. At that moment, he was still holding a teacup in his hand. Seeing that the wooden table was destroyed, he simply threw the teacup down as well.

"Back when we were on the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, Elder Zhongsun said that guy was corrupting the teaching profession, seducing female students, and bullying the younger ones. He was an elder, yet he bullied a student! Now he's saying that guy is an inner court student. Isn't this blatant bullying of honest people?!"

Liu Qing was filled with indignation. His once handsome and aloof face was now flushed red and contorted with rage. He was especially furious when he heard the crowd at the front gate cursing his ancestors for sixteen generations.

"Liu Qing, you're a stupid dog, your head is full of mush! How many ancestors and great-great-great-brothers have you had in your sixteen generations?! You forgot to count just now." One of the Earth's members, who wasn't very bright, forgot to count how many ancestors he had cursed while he was cursing.

Beside him, Tie Zhu stretched out his two large palm-sized hands and pointed one finger at a time, "One, two, three, four, ten, oh dear, I don't have enough fingers, give me yours."

This idiot reached out and grabbed the hand of the dim-witted Earthling member, counting together, "Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, right, right, you cursed fourteen ancestors in total, two more are missing."

Then the dim-witted guy continued cursing, "You've disgraced your ancestors for sixteen generations! Liu Qing, you coward, hurry up and come out, or I, Tie Zhu, will start cursing your ancestors for seventeen generations!"

Everyone around was stunned as they watched these two idiots counting on their fingers.

Yu Bohao was happily drinking his red wine when he glanced sideways and suddenly saw this scene. He saw his Earth Star team members counting on their fingers with Tie Zhu, and his eyes twitched.

"what happened?"

Xiao Xuanyuan, who was standing nearby, also noticed his strange behavior and followed his gaze. What he saw made him both laugh and cry. A black and gold embroidered shoe flew through the wind and hit Tie Zhu's big, dark head. "Tie Zhu, you idiot! I didn't call you here! With your math skills and IQ, you dare to come out and embarrass yourself?!"

Tie Zhu had a long face and was whimpering.

"Waaaaah, boss, I can only count to ten!"

Chapter Thirty: What else do you have to say now?

Seeing Tie Zhu's cowardly appearance, Xiao Xuanyuan was both amused and exasperated. This guy actually shamelessly followed him. After putting on the black and gold brocade shoes that Tie Zhu had thrown back, he said, "Tie Zhu, you broke the rules this time. When you get back, remember to clean all the toilets in the alchemist's office. I'll forgive you for sneaking in this time."

Upon hearing that Xiao Xuanyuan hadn't mentioned beating him up, Tie Zhu was overjoyed and jumped up, looking utterly smug. "Thank you, boss! Thank you, boss! To repay you, I, Tie Zhu, have decided not to pursue the matter of you stealing my goddess away, hehe."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuanyuan's handsome face immediately darkened. He beckoned to Tiezhu, "Tiezhu, come here, I have something to discuss with you."

"Boss, you're not going to beat me up again, are you?! I'm not going." Tie Zhu, standing at 1.89 meters tall, stubbornly refused to go. He actually looked quite robust under the sunlight.

Xiao Xuanyuan nodded, somewhat appreciatively, and said, "It's fine if you don't come. I'll remove you from the Medicine Alliance when we get back."

"Waaah!" Tie Zhu looked aggrieved, and with his pigeon-toed little steps, he ran to Xiao Xuanyuan with a sob, crying, "Boss, be gentle."

"Okay, turn your butt around!"

Tie Zhu then awkwardly turned his backside around, stretched out his hand forward, and pretended to glide, while everyone around him cast strange glances at him.

"Tiezhu, take off!" Xiao Xuanyuan kicked hard, and Tiezhu's tall body flew into the sky and flew outwards, quickly turning into a streak of starlight and disappearing without a trace.

Before disappearing, he yelled one last time, "I will definitely come back!"

Having dealt with this idiot, Xiao Xuanyuan felt much better. Looking at Yu Bohao, who was looking at him with a strange expression, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "I couldn't do anything about it. He wanted to come back himself."

Under the overwhelming barrage of profanities from the Medicine Alliance and Earth Star, Liu Qing finally couldn't take it anymore and led a group of eighty or ninety people, including Lie Ying, out of the backyard.

His face was ashen, and his gaze was extremely gloomy as he stared at Xiao Xuanyuan, angrily questioning, "As a teacher and elder, what is there to be happy or proud of in bullying an inner court student?!"

Wow! Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuanyuan almost jumped up. If this got out, he would never be able to stay in the inner courtyard again. After all, bullying the weak was a disgraceful act.

Xiao Xuanyuan sneered and stepped out from behind the crowd, saying coldly, "I'm not some elder, I'm just a student, a student who's just coasting along in the inner courtyard like you. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm only sixteen years old. You must be in your twenties, right? With such a big age difference, how can you say I'm bullying you?!"

One sentence silenced the onlookers who had been gossiping. Just moments before, they had been indignant, accusing Xiao Xuanyuan of being shameless for bullying an inner court student as an elder, and had spoken out in protest. But upon hearing that Xiao Xuanyuan was only sixteen years old, they immediately shut up.

Liu Qing, if you, a young man in your twenties, can't even beat sixteen-year-old Xiao Xuanyuan, then you can only blame yourself for your lack of strength. Who else can you blame? After all, the inner academy doesn't prohibit conflicts and challenges between students, so you can say that it has a legitimate reason.

"you you"

Liu Qing pointed at Xiao Xuanyuan, so angry and frustrated that he was about to vomit blood. He had been cursed by dozens of people all morning, and he was already furious. Now, facing Xiao Xuanyuan, he couldn't win a fight, and he couldn't win an argument either. He couldn't describe how miserable he felt.

"What do you mean, 'you'! Don't think I don't know. On the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, you secretly instigated four Dou Ling experts from Fierce Rat and Black Cat to gang up on me, trying to make me suffer. You didn't expect that, did you? You tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice instead. In the end, you were all dealt with by me. Now, hehe, it's your turn, you green-haired turtle!" At the end, Xiao Xuanyuan pointed directly at Liu Qing, stabbing him straight in the heart.

"What evidence do you have? Don't make baseless accusations, or I'll report you to the elders." Liu Qing barely suppressed his anger, his eyes burning with fury.

"You want evidence, right? Men, bring the leaders of Fierce Rat and Black Cat here." Xiao Xuanyuan waved his hand, and immediately members of the Medicine Alliance brought up two burly men with bruised and swollen faces, looking sighing.

The onlookers, always eager for a good show, immediately recognized the two men. "Aren't these Mu Shuquan, the leader of the Fierce Rat gang, and Heishan, the leader of the Black Cat gang? Why are they all bruised and battered? They've been beaten so badly they wouldn't even recognize their own mothers!"

"Speak, who ordered you to gang up on me on the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower a few days ago?" Xiao Xuanyuan's voice was fierce, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes when he looked at Mu Shuquan and Heishan.

Mu Shuquan and Heishan shuddered almost simultaneously. They glanced at Xiao Xuanyuan with fear, then said in a panic, "It was Liu Qing, it was Liu Qing who ordered us to do it."

Liu Qing was also enraged. He immediately took out a black iron spear from his storage ring and slammed the butt of the spear heavily into the ground, making a loud bang and creating a small crater. "You two, don't slander me! Tell me, did the other party give you any benefits or coerce you?"

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clap clap!

Applause suddenly broke out, attracting everyone's attention.

Xiao Xuanyuan clapped his hands and stepped forward, turning his head to look at Mu Shuquan and the black cat. "Tell me, what benefits did I give you?!"

"No, no, no, Brother Xiao didn't give us any benefits," Mu Shuquan and Heishan were almost crying, fearing that Xiao Xuanyuan would settle accounts with them later.

He was peacefully staying in his stronghold when suddenly a large group of people surrounded his doorstep. As the leader of a faction, he was just about to go out and say something tough and show off when he was beaten to a pulp and taken away without any warning. Moreover, his own team was still in a daze, and no one dared to step forward to stop them.

After all, the reputation of the Medicine Alliance was so widespread that it had almost become a legend, and no one in the inner courtyard dared to provoke them!

"You can tell if the Medicine Alliance is good or bad just by their first move!"

"Even if you're daring to mess with a tiger, don't provoke the Medicine Alliance!"

"There are countless experts on the Strong Ranking, but the leader of the Medicine Alliance is the most awesome!"

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Such popular rumors have spread to every corner of the inner courtyard, and now almost everyone in the inner courtyard knows about them!

"A few days ago, when we were on the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, we were exhausted from cultivation and resting in the rest area. Then, Liu Qing mysteriously approached us, Fierce Rat and Black Mountain, saying there was a fat cow and asking if we dared to take it. He also told us that Brother Xiao had many high-level pills and fighting techniques, and that regardless of success or failure, he would give Black Mountain and me five hundred fire energy. That's why we..."

With dark circles under his eyes, Mu Shuquan slowly recounted the whole story, "Moreover, the Fire Crystal Card in my storage ring has more than 500 Fire Energy, which Liu Qing gave to me yesterday."

"I also have more than 500 fire energy in my storage ring, which Liu Qing also gave to me."

As they spoke, Mu Shuquan and Heishan hurriedly took out the Fire Crystal Cards from their storage rings and showed them to the people around them. "That day, Brother Xiao took all the fire energy from our Fire Crystal Cards. We only have enough for seven days left."

Seeing Xiao Xuanyuan's ill-intentioned gaze sweep over them, the two quickly changed their tune.

The onlookers quickly cast curious glances, and when both Fire Crystal Cards displayed the same number "507", they roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

The inner academy has a rule that when senior students compete against each other, or when the fire energy of the other student needs to be deducted for any other reason, the fire crystal card will be automatically locked, leaving seven days' worth of fire energy to ensure the student's basic living expenses.

The two people's statements were consistent, both referring to "507" fire energy, so this matter is almost certainly true.

Xiao Xuanyuan snatched the two pale blue fire crystal cards, stepped forward, and said with a smile, "Liu Qing, what do you have to say now?"

Chapter Thirty-One: Next time, you won't be so lucky.

"Now the evidence is conclusive. It was indeed Liu Qing who provoked the other party first. No wonder the Medicine Alliance came knocking on our door!"

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"I just heard them say that Liu Qing accepted the challenge from the leader of the Medicine Alliance, and the match was scheduled for today. I didn't expect that Liu Qing would not dare to accept the challenge. He is so cowardly and shameless. He has completely disgraced the Fierce Eagle Team."

"What an incompetent bastard! He doesn't even keep his promises. I used to idolize him, but I spit on him!"

As the matter unfolded, public opinion began to tilt in Xiao Xuanyuan's favor, while onlookers, always eager for drama, turned against Liu Qing.

Seeing this, Liu Qing knew that the situation was hopeless. In order to salvage his reputation, he decided to make a final effort. He held a gun in one hand and pointed it at Xiao Xuanyuan, "Enough nonsense. Didn't you want to challenge me? I'll accept it."

"Good, you do have some guts. I respect you, but..." Xiao Xuanyuan gave a thumbs up in praise, then changed the subject, saying, "You called a bunch of Dou Ling to gang up on me, how do you plan to settle this?!"

"I knew nothing about this, so what else can you do about it!" Liu Qing retorted, ready to deny everything and act shamelessly. As long as he was shameless enough, no one would dare to do anything to him.

"Your skin is thick enough, as thick as a wall, isn't it?" Seeing that the other party refused to admit it, Xiao Xuanyuan said sarcastically.

"Are you going to fight or not? If not, shut up!" With that, Liu Qing turned around and prepared to leave. Despite his outward appearance of being strong and in control, he was actually quite nervous inside.

After all, Xiao Xuanyuan was a freak who single-handedly took down four Dou Ling level experts, and with just one punch, he knocked out the number one ranked expert, Manli Wang. His name was known throughout the inner academy, and no student was afraid of him.

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