1154 Defeat a Dragon

"Humph! I am afraid of nothing!" Ju Niao narrowed his eyes and said, "I am also Zero-Star Patinated Bronze. I have no reason to be afraid of you! Come, let us have a proper fight!"

'Brother, aren't you three…" Ju Fei looked at his brother with furrowed brows.

"Shut up!" Ju Niao barked. "Our enemy is right in front of us! Don't you let that mouth of yours run!"

"Oh?"

Ju Fei realized his mistake and obediently kept his mouth shut.

Ju Niao was actually a Three-Star Patinated Bronze, 43,000 combat power. He lied so that Chen Xiaobei would not fight him as aggressively. And he wanted to defeat Chen Xiaobei with only a single hit.

Although to Ju Niao, Chen Xiaobei was not considered a threat but Ju Niao wanted to save his energy and win the fight without having to put too much effort into it.

After all, Ju Niao was a thug and not a hero, he could not even be considered as the folks that lived in Jianghu. 

He had used this trick on quite a number of people before.

"If you want to fight then fight! Stop talking so much!" Chen Xiaobei said impatiently.

"Alright! Take this!" Ju Niao cried out as he charged forward.

When he saw that Chen Xiaobei looked unafraid and unintimidated, Ju Niao rejoiced inside, thinking that his deception had worked.

"Go to hell, you retard! Haha! Who told you to pick a fight with my brother?!"

Ju Fei laughed.

From his perspective, Chen Xiaobei had taken the bait and underestimated his brother. This meant that his brother could beat Chen Xiaobei without so much as lifting a finger! They would never, even with a hundred borrowed brains, figured out that Ju Niao's cultivation had already been revealed to their enemy via the Netherspirit Battlescouter.

What was more, they would never, for the life of them, figure out that this young man before them was not just a fierce tiger, but a formidable dragon!

One might be able to cheat a tiger into falling into a trap but not a fire-breathing dragon!

Slap!

Just as both brothers were celebrating their small victory, a loud, crisp sound filled the air. It had come from Ju Niao's face.

"Argh…"

A scream like a pig being slaughtered followed.

Ju Niao spun around for ten rotations like a spinning top before collapsing head first to the ground. Whatever Three-Star Patinated Bronze or True Kang Armor did not even get a chance to be used.

Blaaaargh…

Ju Niao opened his mouth and blood and fragments of teeth came pouring out. One half of his face was swollen so big it looked like it was about to burst open. There was even a dark purple palm print on that side of his cheek.

'What just happened?" The other thugs looked at each other quizzically. None of them saw what happened.

"What happened? Who can tell me what just happened?"

Seeing the brother he worshipped lying on the ground like that threw Ju Fei off balance, losing control of his emotions.

"Do you really want to know what happened?" said Chen Xiaobei who suddenly appeared next to him.

"What rubbish! Of course I want to know!" Ju Fei shouted back. He was too worked up to notice who was talking to him.

Smack!

Chen Xiaobei raised his arm and slammed it across Ju Fei's mouth.

"Arghhhh! Urghhh…"

Because his cultivation was low, Ju Fei was sent flying into the air where he spun 180 degrees before falling down hard onto the floor.

"Aaaaargh… Ooof… Brfff…"

The idiot's face was angled to one side, and his sausage lips were squished, making him look like a big, fat duck lying in his own pool of blood and dental remnants.

"So, do you know what happened now?"

Chen Xiaobei looked down at Ju Fei, smiling.

"I… I…"

The pain was too much that Ju Fei could not even get his thoughts out.

But it was also mostly because he was too frightened to speak, for fear that his lips might betray him and say something stupid. What he said earlier was enough to provoke Chen Xiaobei to smack him this hard. He could only imagine what Chen Xiaobei would do to him if he did it the second time.

"Hey kid, you are so sly…" Ju Niao sucked in a deep breath and said, "Aren't you Zero-Star Patinated Bronze… How could you be so strong…"

"You are the one who said that. I never told you that!"

Chen Xiaobei shrugged, looking nonchalant.

"I… Blaarrrgh…"

Ju Niao was so upset he threw up another puddle of blood.

He realized that he was the one who had been deceived. His plan came back to bite him in his ass!

"My friend… I admit defeat… You can take your people. From today onward, we will not interfere in each other's' business…" Ju Niao said breathlessly.

Chen Xiaobei was too strong for Ju Niao. So, other than begging to be at peace with each other, Ju Niao had no other option!

"We will not interfere in each other's businesses? Ha! Keep dreaming, buddy!"

Chen Xiaobei walked over to Ju Niao, picked him up with one hand and then his little brother with the other hand, and walked into the mansion.

"My friend… We can sit down and talk… Don't do anything rash… Buddy… Hero… Big Brother… Boss…"

Ju Fei and Ju Niao begged.

All the other thugs remained where they were, too afraid to move, what more to try and stop Chen Xiaobei.

Inside the house.

BAM!

BAM!

Chen Xiaobei tossed the brothers in the center of the living room and then sat on the couch, with one leg crossed over the other.

The brothers huddled together, too afraid to even breathe aloud.

Chen Xiaobei was not in a rush. He took out the Green Jade Gourd, popped the lid open and said, "Absorb!"

The gourd sucked in the Spiritual Qi that filled the mansion!

From what he found out earlier, Chen Xiaobei understood that the Northern Wilderness Starfield's Spiritual Qi were much denser than those on earth. But since he left the secret space, Chen Xiaobei had not detected the presence of an abundance of Spiritual Qi. Apparently, the Spiritual Qi were all amassed by the powerful people of this planet who used Spiritual Qi Harvest Formation to stash the Spiritual Qi away into their homes.

Take this mansion for example.

There was no spiritual Qi outside the house. But through a small formation, all the Spiritual Qi from the Spiritual Path were accumulated inside the house for the owner's personal use. Only now did Chen Xiaobei experience the density of the Spiritual Qis here in Northern Wilderness Starfield. A rough estimation puts about 5,000 Spiritual Stones' worth of Spiritual Qi in this house.

That was a quite a harvest for Chen Xiaobei!

"My… My Spiritual Qi…"

The uninjured half of Ju Niao's face showed a forlorn expression.

Clearly, it took quite an undertaking to fill the house with Spiritual Qi.

How could Ju Niao not be upset when Chen Xiaobei took it all away from him just like that?

"Is your life or Spiritual Qi more important?" Chen Xiaobei asked, his lips curved into a half-smile.

"Li…life, of course…" Ju Niao said.

"You are not that stupid after all!" Chen Xiaobei said, "If you don't want to die, you will answer whatever I ask!"