Chapter 330: Chapter 323: The Player behind the board!
BOOMM!!
Just by pressing his palm downwards, Feng Li was forced to the ground on all his four limbs, and so was the rest that slandered Duan Li, becoming helpless in the face of his insurmountable power!
"W-What?!" Feng Li and his lackeys were visibly stunned and scared by this sudden attack. They had never been subjected to such pressure before!
Crack! Crack!
Their bones and joints began to clatter together, such that if Duan Li were to exert any more force than this, then they would become a cripple forever!
Some of the smarter ones among them immediately began to understand this fact, resulting in their face to become ashen.
"This.. could it be... his aura?" one of them exclaimed as beads of sweat formed on his forehead.
"What?" his friends widened their eyes in disbelief.
"How can that be? He is only at the Core Formation realm... It's impossible for his aura to be able to pressure us like this!" they exclaimed, not daring to believe their ears.
Even the pressure from Nascent Soul realm cultivators could only freeze them, not forcing them to be on all four of their limbs like this!
His aura? The heck it is!
We refuse to believe it!
"Have you guys cooled down yet?" Duan Li said, his voice echoing in the hallway as he looked down on them without lowering his head.
After studying spatial arts, he could already channel his aura and presence onto individuals as he like, making them feel as though they were bogged down by a mountain on their backs!
As long as they were not too strong, taking their ability to move using this technique was as easy as pressing his palm down towards their direction!
This was very different than how other cultivators expressed their presence and aura to others. While others could only unleash them as a whole, he could concentrate them to single point using spatial arts, causing his aura to be more dense and powerful not normal for someone of his realm.
In addition, he was already powerful enough as he is. Perhaps, only Nascent Soul realm experts could shake free from this technique of his!
On the other hand...
What dignity!
The rest that were not subjected to Duan Li's powers gasped in astonishment. It felt like they were looking at the Emperor staring down his subjects from his high throne!
"Your Excellency! These rebels must be punished!"
"Since they are so brave in slandering, we can hang them by their big b*lls your Excellency!"
"Yes yes! In fact, even adding public whipping would still be going easy on them!"
One after another of Duan Li's devout believers began to voice out their enraged emotions energetically against these people that did not believe them.
Holy-molly!
Duan Li was surprised by these angry mobsters that lashed out punishments which seemed to be getting barbaric in nature from one person to the next, causing the already ashen faced Feng Li and his lackeys to become even more pale!
These bastards!
Feng Li cursed in his mind as he threw a wrathful glance towards them, a shred of doubt began to surface in his mind.
Could Duan Li really be.. the Imperial Overseer?
"N-No! That cannot be! That person said so himself that this Duan Li was just a cheap impersonator!" he bit his lips hard to the point that blood flowed down his chin.
"Duan Li! How dare you resist arrest! Are you planning for a rebellion against the Empire?!" he shouted out at the top of his lungs.
To him, it doesn't make sense on how Duan Li could be this strong, not to mention at such speed!
It was fine if he was the only one bogged down by Duan Li's aura as he was still in the Qi Condensation realm, but the people behind him were a mix of Foundation Establishment realm, Core Formation realm and some were even at the Golden Core realm!
Given so, how could Duan Li have the capacity to suppress them all?
It was simply impossible!
Furthermore, they were both juniors. Yet, how did the other party managed to cultivate even faster than him who enrolled earlier?
He felt that after he met Duan Li in that Xuan village, all his good luck was sucked out of him!
Thinking about these, Feng Li became extremely indignant!
"He must be using some kind of an artifact! It has to be!" he thought inwardly while struggling to break free. However it was useless.
"Tell me, who told you to do this?" Duan Li suddenly asked, causing a flinch in Feng Li's expression.
"N-No one! I am certain that you are a fake!" Feng Li replied before continuing, "Anyway, stop this and let us arrest you!"
Hearing this, Duan Li became quite exasperated.
Pah!
A tight slap landed onto Feng Li's left cheek.
Pah!
Another slap landed on his right cheek.
Pah!
And one slap to his forehead.
All three slaps caused Feng Li to become light headed and his cheeks swollen red.
"I don't care whether you believed or not that I am the Imperial Overseer. What I am interested in is the person who sent you to do this. Tell me who it is, now!"
Pah! Pah! Pah!
...
Inside the moon pavilion, a young man dressed in a neat scholarly uniform was sitting casually by the verandah while drinking tea, sipping it slowly one at a time.
His expression was calm and collected and his eyes reflected a depth of the bottomless ocean.
This scholarly young man was Rong Huan, an elder of the Strategist club that fell from grace after he misjudged Duan Li's level of importance, causing his standing within the social circle to plummet and his reputation destroyed.
"As the moon and sun revolves, will they still return to where they belong. A thousand swords cannot stop it, nor can it sever the intangible strings that kept it apart." he said, reciting a certain poem about the origin of the universe.
"I am always the player behind the chess board while others are but my pawns. I might have to back out and retreat sometimes, but I can still play!" he raised his head to look at the blue sky, before letting out a chuckle.
Duan Li, do you think that you can continue to be arrogant to me?
So what if you are really the Imperial Overseer?
For daring to be impudent to me, I will still screw you time and again!
If I get caught, all I have to do is feign ignorance and make a guilty face!
"Hahahahahaha!" Rong Huan continued to laugh as he found satisfaction in his flawless plan.
Piak!
A bird dropping fell right into his mouth.
"Ueewkk!!" Rong Huan's face immediately turned green and contorted. Due to him laughing with a wide open mouth, the bird dropping went straight into his throat and he almost swallowed it.
Ptui!
"Stupid f*cking bird! I will find your nest, and I will fry your young chick and cook your eggs!!" He bellowed out from the verandah and shouted towards a red bird flying away happily into the distance.
...
"What's wrong with the elder above us?" A person below Rong Huan's floor happened to overheard his shout and couldn't help but to frown in displeasure as his focus in playing the boardgame was disturbed.
"It must be a senile old man." his friend that sat at the opposite of the game table replied. "Even the most vicious bandit will never dare to cook their own eggs even when they are super hungry!" he continued and moved a piece on the board.
"..." his friend.
Brother, when did you last time wax your ears?
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_Ram_ Hello guys! As what I've also said to my patrons, I'll do releases to cover the last week's chapter that I did not release here. Reason was because I did not manage to release my due chapters on patrons last week so I stopped here too. This week onwards, I should be able to have my writer's mindset back! Anyway, enjoy and thanks for reading! ;)
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