"It was more than vomiting blood. In the end, he was even spewing all kinds of internal organs! Ah, no, just thinking about it now gives me the chills."
"I heard that fat man was a disciple of Thunderclap Hall. The moment Thunderclap Hall learned about it, the whole place erupted!"
"Yeah, who knows where that young man came from? He actually dared to provoke even Thunderclap Hall."
The streets and alleys were all buzzing about the incident, while Gu Chen was still meditating and cultivating in his room.
Before the Rookie Competition arrived, Gu Chen had nowhere in particular to go.
His greatest daily amusement was cultivating in his room.
Yet at that moment, the inn's front doors were kicked into pieces.
A man standing eight feet tall immediately appeared at the inn's entrance.
The man wore a long coat made from brown bear hide, with three burly-looking lackeys following behind him.
"Where's the owner of this inn? Get the hell out here!"
At the man's roar, how could the customers eating in the inn hall dare to linger?
They hurriedly fled one after another. Some could not even make it through the front door and escaped straight through the windows.
Soon afterward, a greasy-faced middle-aged man came forward and said, "Sir, are you here for a meal or to stay the night?"
Chen Xiongfei stared at the innkeeper and said in an exceptionally vile tone, "I'm fucking here to find someone!"
"Last night, one of Thunderclap Hall's disciples was beaten to death in your place!"
"Has this lousy inn of yours been open for too long?"
After saying that, Chen Xiongfei brought down his palm.
A solid wooden table instantly shattered into four pieces!
The powerful force of his palm even blasted a crack into the floor beneath the table!
The waiter hid in a corner and saw everything with perfect clarity.
He was already trembling like a sieve from fright, not daring to so much as let out a fart!
The innkeeper standing before Chen Xiongfei was even more terrified, to the point that he forgot how to breathe.
"Y-You... you..."
The innkeeper held it in for a long while, yet he could not force out a single complete sentence!
Chen Xiongfei grabbed the innkeeper by the collar and forcibly lifted him off the ground.
He said, word by word and with savage ferocity, "Find the person who killed my Thunderclap Hall disciple."
"Otherwise, you'll use your life to atone!"
With that, Chen Xiongfei flung the innkeeper away as though tossing out trash.
In that situation, the innkeeper did not dare say a single word of refusal.
He could only brace himself and say, "Alright, alright, alright! Hero, please don't be hasty!"
"I'll go look for him right away!"
Immediately afterward, the innkeeper hurriedly called the waiter and headed upstairs.
At the time, Gu Chen was still consolidating his Cultivation Level.
He intended to make his already impregnable Cultivation Level even more solid than a rock.
Just as Gu Chen was about to circulate his energy and exert force, a knock suddenly sounded outside.
At that instant, a flash of killing intent crossed Gu Chen's eyes.
Because what he hated most was being disturbed while cultivating.
However, Gu Chen quickly suppressed the anger in his heart. When he opened the door, he found that it was actually the innkeeper and the waiter.
Judging from the expressions on their faces, though, they seemed to have suffered some extreme fright.
Before Gu Chen could speak, the innkeeper hurriedly said, "Guest, you should leave quickly."
Hearing that, Gu Chen was immediately puzzled.
He could not help asking, "I've already paid. Why are you telling me to leave so soon?"
The innkeeper had already been frightened out of his wits.
He could only stammer out an explanation. "Guest, you... you accidentally killed that person last night!"
"The Rookie Competition is about to begin, and I don't know who exactly you are."
"But my place is too small to accommodate such a great Buddha as you. You should leave quickly, or there'll be serious trouble!"
In truth, the innkeeper was not being so kind as to help Gu Chen conceal the fact that he had killed someone.
It was merely that the innkeeper knew Gu Chen had been able to kill last night's fat man with a single punch, so Gu Chen's strength was certainly no trifling matter!
As a result, he did not dare offend Gu Chen at all and could only hurry him into leaving.
As for Chen Xiongfei, he could simply report the matter to the authorities later.
He would say that the murderer had already fled. At that point, no matter how arrogant and overbearing Chen Xiongfei was, he would not dare kill him outright before the authorities.
However, Gu Chen did not take the innkeeper's words to heart at all.
Instead, he replied blandly, "I looked around, and your inn has the best feng shui. It is also suitable for my cultivation and recuperation."
"Besides, I've already paid for my lodging. If there's nothing else, don't disturb me."
Seeing that Gu Chen was about to close the door, the innkeeper and waiter became frantic.
The innkeeper hurriedly said, "Guest, you truly cannot keep staying here!"
"The person you killed last night... was actually a disciple of Thunderclap Hall."
"Thunderclap Hall's people have already come looking for you, so you should leave quickly!"
Upon hearing the name Thunderclap Hall, Gu Chen could not help falling into thought.
He did have some impression of this sect.
Thunderclap Hall was considered a minor sect in Immortal County.
Normally, they went around the streets collecting protection fees, no more than local bullies.
Gu Chen recalled that in his previous life, Thunderclap Hall's disciples had not even passed the first round of selection and had all been eliminated outright.
That was why Gu Chen felt that the fat man from last night had simply been pathetically weak.
After all, Gu Chen had not even used his full strength in that punch last night, yet the fat man had died on the spot.
Gu Chen simply did not dare imagine what would have happened if he had used his full strength.
With that fat man's Cultivation Level, would he not have been beaten into a spray of blood and flesh on the spot?
Seeing Gu Chen pondering for so long, the innkeeper assumed that Gu Chen was afraid.
But Gu Chen then replied, "A mere Thunderclap Hall is nothing to fear."
"Is there any need for you to make such a huge fuss?"
Seeing Gu Chen act as though neither oil nor salt could get through to him, the innkeeper and waiter nearly cursed aloud!
And Gu Chen had just called it a 'mere Thunderclap Hall.'
He made it sound as if Thunderclap Hall's people were complete pushovers!
"Guest, you..."
The innkeeper clearly looked as though he wanted to speak but stopped himself.
But then he remembered that good words could not persuade a ghost determined to die.
Since Gu Chen was so heedless, then even if Chen Xiongfei beat him to death next, that would simply be Gu Chen's fate.
Gu Chen also saw the difficulty written across the innkeeper's face.
After considering it, he decided that since this trouble had been caused by him, he might as well resolve it while he was at it.
That way, he could cultivate with greater peace of mind.
Thinking this, Gu Chen directly asked the innkeeper, "You said Thunderclap Hall's people have come looking for me, right?"
"It's fine. I'll go downstairs with you and see what exactly is going on."
After saying that, Gu Chen strode off in great strides toward the inn's main hall.
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