Chapter 33: Yuan Family of Central State

After understanding the situation, Liang Yi cupped his hands towards the leading strong man and said:

"Although this matter does not concern me, I cannot bear to leave these two children here so young, therefore..."

At this point, Liang Yi's eyes lost all mirth, and his tone became indifferent,

"So everyone, please leave! I do not wish to repeat myself!"

Having decided to protect these two children, Liang Yi naturally would not be polite in his wording. As the current foremost disciple in the world, with the future number one at home, he had plenty of confidence!

"This gentleman, you should think carefully. We are backed by the Zhang Family!" The lead strong man said with an implicit threat, seeing that Liang Yi was not showing due respect.

"Hehe."

Even though Liang Yi's face wore a smile, everyone, including the two children, could detect the sarcasm in his tone.

Indeed, under the effect of the sarcasm technique known throughout the Heavenly Dynasty, the opposition was starting to lose their patience.

Originally, Zhang Youqun did not want to cause any trouble. He could tell at a glance that this young master was not to be trifed with; if he offended someone he shouldn't, it would still be him facing punishment upon return.

Therefore, his intention was to directly go back and ask the young master to handle this—as he believed the other party would definitely give face to his own young master. But now, in front of this public setting with many idle onlookers watching the excitement, if they were mocked and yet remained indifferent, it would be the Zhang Family's face on the line, which would be a real capital offense!

"Go, test his limits!" Zhang Youqun ordered with a wave of his hand, sending up a few cannon fodder and also instructing a clever one to go find their young master.

"Don't be like this, fighting is not good," Liang Yi kindly advised.

"Hmph!" The few bodyguards were not as clever as their leader; they felt that this young man had the audacity to obstruct their Lord's business, and deserved a good lesson for not properly appreciating the young master's upbringing.

"Swoosh! Swoosh!"

The sharp sound of cutting air rose as several muscular men swung their wooden sticks and attacked the three.

"Ah~" Liang Yi sighed and suddenly spotted Su Youyi among the crowd of onlookers.

Turning around and picking up the two children, he casually dodged an incoming wooden stick, leaped lightly to Su Youyi's side, and pushed the children into his junior sister's care.

"Help me take care of them for a moment." Before the sound of Liang Yi's voice had faded, he had already returned back to the fray.

Liang Yi did not even draw his sword to confront his opponents, feeling that if he had to draw his sword against this group of weakest-level weaklings, then he was just a weakling himself.

He easily predicted their attack trajectory, avoided it, and countered with a punch to their heads.

"Wow!" The surrounding crowd exclaimed. To them, those Zhao family bodyguards had some combination attack skills, and their wooden sticks seemed to seal the space around them, but Liang Yi dissolved it as effortlessly as if he were a butterfly dancing through flowers, coupled with his appearance and temperament, that was why the crowd exclaimed, especially the women.

"(ˉ▽￣～) Cut~~"

A certain junior sister in the crowd commented thus.

With Liang Yi's current attributes, fighting them was like playing a game, with instincts formed from countless battles in his past life enough to completely overwhelm them—it was a real case of one punch knocking out a kid.

After four or five punches, there were none left standing around Liang Yi; they were all sprawled on the ground, groaning.

"Shall we continue?" Liang Yi coldly gazed at Zhang Youqun.

Zhang Youqun gritted his teeth without a word, cursing the subordinate who went to inform the young master for not returning yet! Now, the fight was clearly not winnable; the lad was obviously not serious – even if Zhang Youqun himself entered the fray, he would still be at a loss, better to lose less face.

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"Hmph! Impressive skills, young master. May I have your name? The Zhang Family will surely reward you handsomely!" Zhang Youqun shouted.

"Zhang Family? The arrogant Zhangs, right?"

Liang Yi's comments drew laughter from the onlookers. The Zhang Family was indeed known for their arrogance, but few dared to call them out on it.

"My name is Zhang Ye, and it turns out I'm one of the clan," Liang Yi casually made up a name—anything to reduce the chances of being discovered by the Devouring Spirit Sect.

"Fine, if you're brave enough, wait here for our young master. He'll be here soon!" Zhang Youliang ordered his men to help up those lying on the ground, pointed at Liang Yi, and then led his people away, sparing themselves further embarrassment.

When the spectators realized the excitement was over, they gradually dispersed.

"Ding! Congratulations on completing the mission [Injustice]!"

"Congratulations on receiving the mission reward: 10,000 Experience points!"

"You expect me to wait just because you told me to? Do you think you're my son?" Liang Yi snorted disdainfully.

Once the other party was far away, he took Su Youyi and the two kids and swiftly made their escape. Who knows if a member of the Devouring Spirit Sect was lurking around the corner, waiting to make trouble.

The two kids remained silent, quietly following behind them.

"Senior brother, what about these two?" Su Youyi gestured to the two little ones trailing behind them.

"I bumped into them by chance; I don't know them," Liang Yi explained briefly and then turned to the two kids. "Now that the Zhang Family's attention is on me, they probably won't be looking for you for a while. What are you going to do now?"

"Big brother, can you take us to our father?" The little boy looked protective of his sister as he raised his head to plead with Liang Yi.

Liang Yi waited a moment but no task prompt appeared. It seemed that even the System thought this task was too simple to merit a mission.

After feeling a bit disappointed, Liang Yi glanced at his junior sister and saw that she seemed to quite like the siblings, already squatting down and chatting with them.

"Junior sister, what do you think?" Liang Yi asked, seeing them having a good conversation.

"Their father should be at the City Lord's residence discussing matters. That's why they were told to wait outside at the teahouse. Unfortunately, they ran into that young scoundrel from the Zhang Family, who noticed that Yuan Hua's sister, Yuan Jiaming, was cute and wanted to take her as a maid. They had no choice but to run out," explained Su Youyi.

In just a short time, Su Youyi had already figured out the whole story and learned their names.

"The Yuan Family from Central State?" Liang Yi was somewhat surprised.

"Yes," said the boy named Yuan Hua in a soft voice.

"Then why are you afraid of those from the Zhang surname? Just show your identity, and wouldn't they be licking your boots? And where are your guards?" Liang Yi was puzzled. Although both the Zhang and Yuan families belonged to the Immortal Dynasty, clans from Central State were considered a notch above those from other regions.

"We did reveal our identity and showed our Jade Pendants, but that young master from the Zhang Family kept insisting we were imposters. As for our guards, we came to Xunyang City in secret, according to our father, so we couldn't tell anyone, and he only brought us, his children, because we've hardly traveled far and he wanted us to see the world."

Yuan Hua, a bit out of breath after speaking so much, was gently helped by his considerate sister, Yuan Jiaming.

Liang Yi bent down to examine them, which startled Yuan Jiaming into hiding behind her brother. Liang Yi touched his own face, puzzled. Had his Charm points been reduced again?

"Senior brother, let's help them," Su Youyi implored, moved by compassion, seeing in the siblings a reflection of herself and her senior brother.

"Alright, alright, it's on the way," Liang Yi waved his hand, dismissing the minor inconvenience since his junior sister had spoken up.

With one kid by his side and two trailing behind, Liang Yi felt like he really led a life of hard labor.

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