Chapter 120: A Meathead Apology! Part 5

In the inner section of the Ember sect, a crowd was gathered around a certain core disciple's house as a pair of cackling men were making a racket.

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHA! *chough* HAHAHA!"

The man in the doorway laughing so hard his large stomach was jiggling was Itsuki. The man laughing and coughing down on all fours with a swollen face was Kenji. And the dwarf awkwardly fidgeting next to them was Hiro.

"Haha! *sigh*!"

"HAHA! *POW*!"

Right after calming down, Itsuki kicked Kenji in his still laughing face, sending him flying back a few meters into the crowd.

"Hmph! You think just because your face was bruised a little, I'll ask 'my' master to forgive you? Dream on!" Itsuki spoke before turning to leave but…

"*cough**cough* HAHAHAHAHA!"

Hearing his laughter, Itsuki turned to look. There was Kenji, lying face up on the ground with a bloodied disfigured face, still laughing while coughing up blood intermittently.

"What's so funny!" Itsuki said as he looked at Kenji

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"He must have gone mad! It's not too uncommon for a cripple!" An elderly man stroking his beard spoke as he walked out of the crowd.

"Master!" Itsuki muttered in surprise as he rushed to bow his head to the elder.

"Hmph! I had high expectations for you once upon a time, but you shamed us both with your incompetence!" The elder spoke as he tried to kick Kenji out of the way while using his qi, but…

*Bang*

"Hm?"

Just as the elder's flaming leg was about to hit his head, Kenji had stopped the kick by imbuing his own qi into his arms lighting them ablaze as he grabbed the elder by the foot.

"What?"

"pft! HAHAHAHAHA!" As soon as he spotted his former master's astonished expression, Kenji burst out into laughter once more.

"Hey wasn't that qi?" Hiro muttered.

*POW*

Just then, the elder threw a punch at Kenji's stomach, only to be blocked once more as Kenji snapped out of his laughter to block him using his own qi once more.

"How is this possible! Your core was shattered! How are you able to use your qi? Could it be your core was only damaged?"

"THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE! I DESTROYED YOUR CORE MYSELF! IT DEFINITELY BROKE!"

"Silence Itsuki! It would appear my son has returned to me!" The elder reached out his hand.

*Smack*

Only for Kenji to slap it away.

"I'm mo longjer yowur shon amd I'm definitchely mot yowur dishipole anymowe!(I'm no longer your son and I'm definitely not your disciple anymore!)" Kenji spoke, putting in extra effort to try and make his words as clear as possible while he glared at the elder.

"What?"

"Chu truw me outch on tche street tcho die, becowus chu weve embawesed, tchat I shurvived! Sho, fwom me tcho tchu! Gou! Fhuck! Yo! Shelf! (You kicked me out on the streets to die, because you were embarrassed, I survived! So, from me to you! Go! Fuck! Your! Self!)" Kenji said as he got up from the ground to stare his former master in the eyes

"How dare you! I fed you! I trained you! I raised you as if you were my own flesh and blood! And this is how you repay me!" the elder said, growing red in the face.

"…"

Kenji said nothing and only responded with some unintelligible expression due to his face being unrecognizably bruised.

"Kneel!" The elder said, before trying to sweep Kenji's leg with a qi technique.

*BANG*

"Ugh!"

But Kenji countered with his own, matching the elder in a kicking contest. The elder then threw a flaming right hook and Kenji did the same.

*BANG*

The battle continued like this. The elder would throw an attack at Kenji and he would mirror the elder's movements perfectly, matching him in both power and speed.

"How is this possible? You can't possibly be a nascent soul already!"

"Hehe!" Kenji only responded with a smug chuckle.

The elder was right, though. Kenji wasn't a nascent soul yet. He was just a golden core. The reason why he was able to match the red stage nascent soul elder was due to the body enchantments he had engraved on his body to mesh with his qi techniques. Doing this could either strengthen or weaken his techniques depending on how they are used, and should he make a mistake it could backfire tremendously. If not for all that time he spent studying how these enchantments work under his new master, he likely would have died by now, either from the elder's attacks or from his own enchantments going haywire.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!" Another old man sporting a white goatee yelled, while sending a fiery shockwave towards Kenji, knocking him off balance allowing the elder to land a blazing fist in his face that sent him flying into a building.

"*huff* Sect leader!"

"Takashi! What is going on here?"

"It would seem a former disciple of our sect has returned in search of vengeance!"

"Hmph! Is that so?"

"*Cough* Chatsh notch truw! And chu cnow itch! (That's not true! And you know it!)" Kenji said as he picked up one of the broken blanks from the building and used it as a walking cane as he stepped out of the building.

"If you have to blame someone than blame yourself! You should have never come back here!" The elder said as he pulled out a sword from his spatial ring and came flying at Kenji. However, …

*Swoosh*

*Thud*

*Sizzle*

"Ouch! Whatch tshe hell was that! Hm?" Kenji said, as he could feel the swelling in his face go down.

Just as the elder was about to cut him in half, he felt an impact to the top of his head that pushed him down at the last second. He suddenly noticed his words were no longer slurring as he looked up to find someone standing in front of him, her head covered in flames from the elder's attacks.

"Who was? *gag*!"

Suddenly, the flames covering her head turned blue as the small figure grasped the elder's throat and lifted him off the ground with one hand. Soon after the flames went out to reveal Nox's mask.

"Hey, Meathead! I'm here to pick you up from kindergarten! You better have finished your touchy-feely crap! Cause I got a job for you!" She said as she turned her head to look at Kenji, still holding the struggling elder in the air.

"Pft! HAHAHAHAHA!

"What are you laughing at? *Bang*"

The elder, after failing to get out of her grip, threw a fire jab at Nox's head while she was distracted. But it had almost no effect as all it really did was light her head on fire again, only for it to go out as she tightened her grip on his throat.

"You mind not interrupting! I'm kind of in the middle of talking to my kid! *Swoosh*"

Just as the elder was starting to lose consciousness, the sect leader came flying in with a blazing sword strike. Only for Nox to brush it aside and use her other hand to grab his throat too.

"Okay, as I was saying! *Boom*" And just like the elder, the sect leader interrupted her with a qi attack to the face, only the flames were much bigger and hotter than before. That said the results were more or less the same.

"You guys done?"

*Gag*

"Good now as I was *Bang*"

The sect leader, still not giving up, threw one last punch cutting Nox of once more.

"Okay! That's it!

*BANG*

"MY HEAD'S NOT SOME DAMN CANDLE!" She screamed as she planted the two nascent soul cultivators' down into the ground.

"Okay! Now that's taken care of! Now Meathead! You ready to go?"

"HAHAHA! Sure, thing boss!"

And with that the two disappeared through a spatial distortion.