Kapitel 9: The legendary bullying

In his past life during the Grand War he met many people. For Bai Yun who was brought up in a sheltered environment, the stories that they said of their lives were very interesting. From them, he had heard of many things that he never experienced, like competitions and tests.

One of the common things that he heard from them was the so called bullying. This was completely new to Bai Yun. He had never seen this before.

He was the son of the strongest god and one of the eight supreme titled gods. His teacher was the only person who reached the titled god realm using the dao of a weapon, the God of Swords. He was held in high regard and well liked by the most powerful of the titled gods, the God of Death. Even if one was brain dead, one would not bully Bai Yun.

More importantly, the only people he saw before he reached the god step were the maids, his parents, or his teacher's close disciples or friends. None of them had any desire to bully him. Even after he heard about this, Bai Yun did not want to harm someone just to understand what bullying was. Thus he had never even seen bullying, much less experience it himself. Also even if someone was bullying someone near him, they would stop as he neared in fear of offending him.

So Bai Yun watched with interest at the person in front of him. The kid in front of him seemed a few years younger than him. He was standing there as if he owned the entire place. This seemed weird to Bai Yun as he could sense many people in the first and second step around, while this kid was only in the fifth stage of qi condensation.

Qi condensation was divided into nine stages. During qi condensation, the objective is to create a qi condensation whirlpool in the dantian. Initially, the whirlpool would only be a spiral. As one progressed in cultivation the number of arms of the qi whirlpool would increase. The higher the number of arms the whirlpool had, the higher the cultivation state. A higher cultivation state meant that one would have more and purer qi. But this was possible with a higher grade of cultivation technique also. Besides the qi whirlpool of the qi cultivation state was so simple that there was not much difference between a technique created by a god or a dao step cultivator.

"Of course he couldn't understand. He is an idiot. How could an idiot understand what geniuses like us are talking about." One of the posse following the leader said. Then they all started to laugh.

"Hey idiot, I heard that you are no longer an idiot. Is it true?" The leader asked.

"Yeah." Bai Yun said.

"An idiot thinking that he is not an idiot. What a joke." One of them said. The entire group started laughing.

Bai Yun just watched them as if they were idiots. Suddenly the one who seemed to be the leader asked again. "What are you doing in the clan library?"

"I went to pick up cultivation techniques." Bai Yun was quite interested in seeing where this was going. It was not often that a thirty thousand year old like him could get to experience new things.

"What are you doing that for? Aren't you already fourteen years old? A person who hasn't even started to cultivate by fourteen, how much can you do." The kid sneered at him.

For a moment Bai Yun wondered what was the point of saying all this. Then realization dawned. 'This must be the so called trash talk.'

"Who are you?" Bai Yun asked.

"Are you telling me you don't know who I am?" The young man asked incredulously

"Have we met? I only remember the important people from before I was healed." Bai Yun replied honestly.

For a moment the entire group seemed to be shocked. Just as Bai Yun started to wonder what he had said wrong, the leader's face started to change color. In an instant, it became red in rage.

"How dare you." He roared, before lunging at him. His fifth stage qi condensation cultivation started rotating. In his fist, a yellow glow could be seen. It could be seen that he was starting to use a battle technique.

In that instant, the world slowed down for Bai Yun. His thirty millennium of battle instincts kicked in in a moment. His three tendrils of soul quietly started to move. He quickly stepped to his right side, getting out of the way. Since he had no cultivation, he was much slower than the guy who was lunging at him. So he had to use two tendrils of soul to keep himself up. As he did so, the third tendril reached the sole of the kid's shoe.

They were currently standing on the clan grounds. Due to the high number of people who walked by the street every day, there was quite a bit of dirt on the ground. His soul reached the dirt on the ground beneath the kid's feet. And just as the kid was about to apply force to the ground to take the final step before punching him, Bai Yun quietly made the dirt roll beneath his feet.

As the dirt rolled, the kid lost his footing and fell face first into the ground. The force of his step was so much that he hit the ground face first and his nose started to bleed.

For a moment silence reigned the field. No one spoke. Even the people who were simply watching it all were stunned.

Bai Yun quickly brought his sword out from the storage ring. It quickly stopped near the kid. As everyone watched him, his back broke out in cold sweat. There were quite a few people around that noticed it. They all thought that it was because he was scared by the sudden attack and had acted without thought and by accident.

But the truth was much scarier.

He broke out in cold sweat because it took all of his will power not to cut off the head of the kid in front of him.

During the Grand War he had fought and killed devils for thirty thousand years. In fact, if he counted the time before the war, he spent more than ninety five percent of his life fighting. And in the war, he had faced many devils, who all fought very unconventionally and dangerously. In time he incorporated that into his attacks. In fact, this way of disrupting the fighting momentum was first used against him in his very first battle.

Being full of himself, he had charged into battle against the devils headstrong when he first met them. The devil he was up against used a simple force to disrupt his rhythm and send him flying into an asteroid. In fact, if that devil wasn't only in the immortal step, he definitely would have died. It took him dozens of fights before he started to mind his surroundings.

While looking at the leader who was lying on the ground to guard against, he looked at the group from the corner of his eyes. They all looked stunned. Then they all started to race towards him.

Bai Yun moved in an instant. All the ones coming toward him were in the second or third realm of qi condensation. Only the one in the middle was at the fourth step of qi condensation.

For Bai Yun whose soul was technically at the peak of qi condensation, dealing with a few brats at that cultivation with no fighting experience was simply too easy. He send two of his soul tendrils out. The first tendril hit the fourth step kid in the head and pushed his head to the right. The second caught his feet and pushed it to the left.

The next instant the kid started spinning. As the entire group was standing close to each other and had run forward without thinking, the spinning kid was promptly in their way. In a second they all got tangled up and found themselves on the floor.

The kid who was lying on the ground started to get up with a bellow. But Bai Yun had always kept an eye on him. As Bai Yun started to step back, he immediately pushed his third tendril, which was on the leader's head, pushing his head into the ground once again.

By now he was already a few feet away. Since he had no cultivation except in the soul system, even a casual hit from any of them would have easily defeated him.

Out of nowhere, a huge force attacked Bai Yun. Bai Yun immediately recognized it as an attack by a foundation establishment cultivator. This attack wasn't at full strength, or he would never survive it.

Bai Yun used the power of the three tendrils to propel himself back. The attack strengthened and caught up to him in a moment. Bai Yun coughed up blood before flying back.

As Bai Yun looked up he saw a youth giving off a foundation establishment aura standing where he stood. He held his hand behind his back, and stood there with a look of indifference on his face.

The leader of the group immediately jumped up. With a look of rage, he turned towards Bai Yun.

"Shan that's enough. Haven't you embarrassed the family enough?" The foundation establishment youth said.

"Big brother I only lost due to carelessness and his weird demonic magic. I will definitely defeat him and wash this humiliation away." The kid said.

"It wasn't any demonic magic, but the soul cultivation system. And from what I could see, he has only reached the first ring level, which is the equivalent of a third stage qi cultivation practitioner. Forget the fact that he was of a lower cultivation than you, you lost to someone who was an idiot only two months ago. You are to go home and enter closed door cultivation immediately. You should exit only after a breakthrough"

"But ..."

"No buts. That's an order."

Bai Yun looked at what was happening in front with astonishment. Anyone could see that the kid lost due to his lack of fighting experience. Why was he sending him into closed door cultivation, instead of trying to solving the problem?

Then the youth simply turned around and started to walk away, without even looking at Bai Yun. Bai Yun called out. "Hey what the hell was that about?"

The youth turned his head to look at him and, without breaking his stride, replied. "A small lesson for hurting my brother."

Before Bai Yun could react he had already disappeared. By then the posse had all gotten up. "Count yourself lucky that my big brother showed up just now. Or else I would have beat you until you could no longer recognize yourself." A voice said.

Bai Yun turned to look at the kid who was leaving. While wondering if this kid lost all his memories of thirty seconds ago, he shook his head. Suddenly the kid stopped and turned to him. "Since you can cultivate now, that means that you will be participating in the clan's annual meeting. If you dare to show up I will make you regret what you did today." He then sneered at Bai Yun and left.

For a moment Bai Yun was the only one standing in the middle of the road. He was surprised that no one came to stop him, or stand up for him. In a moment the crowd dispersed, while still talking about what just happened. This seemed to be a regular occurrence.

It seemed that my understanding of this world is very different from reality. It seemed to be much crueler than the world I know. And that is inside the clan. How dangerous will the outside world be.' Bai Yun thought while frowning.

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