Chapter - 4

When Long Chen became conscious again, he was being punched and kicked.

Strange memories filled his mind, and he found out that this was a world of cultivation. The people in this world practised martial arts, and an extremely prosperous cultivation civilization existed.

Influential people existed in this world who could overturn the seas and smash the mountains. However, he didn't understand how a human body could exert such power.

'What did mountain and seas ever do to you?'

The whole Blue Cloud city privately considered Long Chen trash and evaluated him as a fool and waste of the Long Clan. But Long Chen never cared about any of this. He always felt good about himself. He had no interest in cultivation and preferred to read novels.

Still, the current Long Chen appreciated the previous one for his demeanour.

'This place is the same as Earth. Apparently, many people assume that dreams and aspirations are also genetic.

It is appropriate to say that such a person would never even be viewed as a marriage material by any woman if not for his lineage from the Long Clan. Some were even confused about why this garbage was even engaged to Chen Wan'er.

From his memories, Long Chen found out that his grandmother had once saved Chen Guang's life, and to return the favour, he had agreed to wed his daughter to Long Chen when he turned 18.

Today is his 18th birthday. This happened long ago, and Long Chen was not interested in marrying some girl he had never met. So, he went to the Chen clan to return the engagement letter.

The one who threw him out was Chen Yan'er, the younger sister of Miss Chen Wan'er.

As for why she threw him out, you ask ?!

However, as soon as he entered the clan's premises, his friend dragged away for chatting over tea. What welcomed him when he entered the room was a beautiful girl lying on the ground with torn clothes screaming loudly.

The screaming girl was Wang XiaoXiao, Chen Wan'er best friend and cousin. She accused him of molesting her. As one could speculate, can another girl bear to see this? He was punched and kicked on the spot and was thrown out on the street.

Given his frail body, Long Chen died due to punching and kicking.

"Wang XiaoXiao?"

A sexy and charming young woman appeared in his memory. Long Chen was confused because he had only seen once but had never met this girl before. He was taken to this room by his so-called friend.

'Where is that bastard now?'

"System, get your ass here right now."

"Host, calm down."

"System, you damn piece of shit. I feel like I have already done this before. What are you hiding from me?"

"Host, are you willing to know the truth?"

"System, speak now, or else I don't care even if I die."

"Host, some accidents happened three years ago, so your soul had occupied this body. The memories are your own, and the original soul is currently deep asleep."

The system explained the concepts of timeline, space manipulation and ....

YAWN...

After thinking for a long time, he shook his head and threw out all kinds of messy emotions. Right now, he was getting perplexed. Most of the motions behind these memories felt like his but not really his.

He looked at Chen Yan'er with a sword next to his neck in front of him. Then, lightly pushing the blade, he stood up and started walking away from this place.

After aimlessly walking on the street, he started thinking back to relate his memories to this area. Then, finally, he saw a brightly lit building with giant words written in foreign languages.

'Pu Ping Pavilion'

Long Chen looked at these words and laughed. He felt hungry as the previous Long Chen hadn't eaten anything since morning. He was thrown out as soon as he entered the Chen Clan, and given the physical exertion, he felt even more hungry.

Seeing Long Chen, the restaurant owners didn't know what to say. Some were also in the crowd when they saw what happened, but they invited him to see the laughing young man.

Looking at the menu and paintings of food aroused his hunger even more. A group of waiter girls surrounded him, obviously thinking of how rich this young man was and how to make him spend more money at their place.

Unfortunately, just as he was about to eat...

"Evil creature!...."

'Fuck. What now?'

Shaken by the roaring sound, Long Chen almost fell to the ground. He turned his head and saw the black-clothed lady staring at him, her eyes bulged and face red from anger.

He asked softly, "Wanna join?"

"Tie up this bastard!" Chen Yan'er shouted coldly to the group of people behind her. She was so angry when she heard from Wang XiaoXiao that she never expected this scum to be worse than beasts.

Whoosh... Whoosh...

The followers wearing matching uniforms sprang into action, and Long Chen was tied up like some dog.

The current Long Chen was furious.

First, he was accused of rape without any evidence. Then beaten and killed and now tied up.

'Are there no rules in this place?'

He shouted with all his might, "Fuck you, system. You damn bitch, what sort of shit hole have you brought me into?"

The surroundings turned silent.

'It's over!' The followers thought.

They only heard the word 'bitch'. Never would they think that Long Chen had the guts to call Chen Yan'er a bitch.

Long Chen thought he would be beaten again, but he was simply dragged to some dark room and locked up all night. Then, the very next day, he was carried again by some old fellow, and Long Chen could see the disgust in the eyes of the senior servant.

He saw four people sitting at a dining table in the main hall.

Chen clan's patriarch, Chen Guang. His wife, Wang Yuhan. His daughters Chen Wan'er and Chen Yan'er.

Other than the furious three, Long Chen glanced at Chen Wan'er. An exquisite and charming young woman was sitting at the table reading a book and didn't even bother to look at him.

Is this the girl?

Chen Wan'er eyes skimmed over him, and her brows wrinkled slightly, but immediately recovered to the cold and expressionless face and turned her attention towards the book.

Long Chen didn't think much. He looked away from Chen Wan'er and swept his eyes towards others. Chen Guang's face was gloomy, and the anger in Wang Yuhan's eyes was not hidden.

Chen Yan'er clenched her fist and obviously wanted to beat him again.

'What a headache.... ' Long Chen sighed in his heart.

Long Chen stood for a while, but none spoke.

Long Chen went to the table and sat down directly without any concern. He was hungry for a long time, and these fuckers didn't even trouble themselves about giving him any food.

'Never mind these people. Let's eat first. They aren't going to kill me anyway now.' Long Chen considered and started to eat. He swallowed a mouthful of food and drank a bit of water. Long Chen felt like he had never tasted such lousy food before.

Long Chen's disgusted expression was seen by the four people.

'Is this boy an idiot? Can't he understand the situation he is in? Look at him eating like nothing happened. What's that disappointed expression on his face?'

Chen Yan'er secretly glanced at her parents. Sure enough, she saw that their faces were turning black; she moved her hand towards the hilt of her sword.

'This bastard...'

"Do you remember what you did yesterday?" Chen Guang finally opened his mouth.

Long Chen focussed on eating, seemingly never hearing the question.

PANG...

Wang Yuhan finally couldn't hold her anger anymore. She stood up, pointing her fingers towards Long Chen's face. "Answer the question, you evil bastard?"

Chen Guang pressed his hand on his wife's shoulder. He looked at Long Chen and said: "Long Chen, my life was once saved by your grandmother, and it was me who sought after your grandmother for the wedding alliance between us. Although I know you are not good at martial arts, I was still willing to marry my daughter to you. I never thought that you would do such evil things."

"Hmm? Evil thing? Is that what you think happened, or do you clearly know what happened?" Long Chen asked.

Long Chen's query stunned the four people. They had long heard this person was a fool and never talked like this. But, most importantly, he dares to say in this tone after making such a big blunder.

"Good.. good... good.. the child of Long clan really can speak. Tell us, how should we treat you an evil animal like you?" Chen Yan'er asked furiously.

Long Chen didn't answer immediately. Instead, he took his time to chew this tasteless food and placed his chopsticks back on the plate, and asked calmly, "Patriarch Chen, may I ask, are you an imbecile?"

"Long Chen, you dare?" Chen Guang slapped the table. "Is this the way you speak to your elders? Then, believe it or not, I'll slap you to death."

Long Chen already seemed angry over the treatment he was given at Chen clan yesterday. His voice turned cold, and he questioned, "Patriarch Chen, Although you are an elder, it doesn't mean I should respect unreasonable people. If you dare to kill me, go ahead. It's been an entire day now. Did you even bother to ask me what happened exactly or try to investigate?"

Chen Guang calmed down a bit. Given his position, he felt he was carried by anger and questioned Long Chen, "If you have something to say, please do. After this, consider that I have returned the favour."

Long Chen nodded at Chen Guang. Then, before saying anything, he took out a scroll from his pockets and placed it in front of the Chen family of four.

"This is the engagement letter. First of all, I came yesterday to return this back to you. Second, everyone is aware of my cultivation level or lack of it. So how could I possibly go to the same room where the genius of Wang Clan stays and molest her amid so many experts in your Chen clan? Third, well, are you an imbecile to not even figure something like this?."

Long Chen didn't say anything else and walked towards the exit.

Noticing Long Chen's back, Chen Guang slumped in his seat with a bitter smile: "I never thought this little guy would dare to speak like this to my face."

As he said this, Chen Guang felt guilty about Chen Wan'er. He sighed and spoke to the young girl. "Father shouldn't have involved you in this."

"As a disciple of Chen clan, I will do as the patriarch ordered." Chen Wan'er spoke without any expression on her face and left the table.

Wang Yuhan glared at her husband and spoke angrily, "Hmph, some patriarch and father you are."

Looking at his crying wife, Chen Guang's anger was even more potent.

"I never wanted to involve you in any of this. But given our precarious position,... I am really exhausted." Chen Guang said to his wife.

"What happened?" Wang Yuhan recovered from her crying and asked her husband.

"Our Chen family mainly makes weapons and tools. Although others also do it, the quality is incomparable to ours. We established ourselves in this city because of the support of these two industries."

Wang Yuhan nodded. Each of the aristocratic clans has its own core. The Chen family is dominated in artefacts, and other families are dominated by other industries.

"But recently, the Li family has recruited a high-level inscription master. As a result, the weapons forged by them have improved in quality, affecting our business. If it goes on like this, the foundation of our clan will be shaken." Chen Guang stated as he closed his eyes.

Wang Yuhan was also surprised. She knew too well the importance of this industry to the Chen family. If it was replaced by other families, the Chen family would directly decline.

What will a declining Chen family experience? They have offended a lot of people these years.

"Forget it; what should we do with Long Chen?" Wang Yuhan asked.

Chen Guang thought for a while and slowly said, "Soaring Sword Sect."