At the sight of this, the innkeeper and the waiter were nearly scared half to death!
But with things having come to this, there was nothing they could say.
Having run an inn in Immortal County for so many years, they had seen far too many rash young fools like Gu Chen who did not know the height of heaven or the depth of earth.
In the end, they were either beaten to death alive or tortured to death. Basically, none of them met a good end!
So much so that as they watched Gu Chen's back descend the stairs, the innkeeper and the waiter had already imagined the gruesome scene of his death.
"Innkeeper, what should we do now?"
Faced with the waiter's question, the innkeeper did not actually know how to answer either.
He could only sigh silently and mutter, "Alas, every man has his fate!"
"I'd say this young man will meet his end here today."
When the innkeeper and the waiter went upstairs to look for Gu Chen,
Chen Xiongfei and his three underlings had actually found a table, sat down, and started drinking and eating meat as though they had returned to their own home!
In truth, Chen Xiongfei did not care at all about the man who had died last night.
Though that man had also belonged to Thunderclap Hall, he had merely been a minor lackey, not worth mentioning.
The reason Chen Xiongfei had come to the inn with such fanfare was simply that he wanted to throw his weight around and pick up a few benefits along the way.
Besides, the Rookie Competition was about to begin. If Chen Xiongfei did not stir up some commotion at a time like this,
would Thunderclap Hall not be looked down upon by the other sects and Rogue Cultivators?
Just as Chen Xiongfei was thinking this, he suddenly felt an intense killing intent surge toward him from behind!
That killing intent came so fiercely that goosebumps instantly rose all over Chen Xiongfei's body!
"Who goes there!"
Chen Xiongfei immediately turned to look behind him, only to find nothing there.
There was merely a seemingly frail young man standing on the stairs behind him.
At this sight, Chen Xiongfei was instantly dumbfounded.
Because he had indeed felt an extremely intense killing intent just now.
He had even thought that some peerless master or ferocious Demonic Beast had suddenly appeared behind him.
So why was it just some brat whose feathers had not even grown in?
Chen Xiongfei did not think much of it, assuming that he had merely suffered a hallucination by accident.
Thus, with an arrogant expression, he shouted at Gu Chen, "Brat, what are you staring at!"
Faced with Chen Xiongfei's angry shout, Gu Chen's expression barely changed at all.
He still stood quietly on the stairs, his icy gaze fixed on Chen Xiongfei.
One had to know that in this area, no one dared meet the gaze of anyone from Thunderclap Hall for more than three seconds.
Yet Gu Chen kept staring at Chen Xiongfei without fear of death, immediately making Chen Xiongfei deeply displeased!
Before Chen Xiongfei could say anything more, one of the lackeys beside him stood up directly.
The moment he rose to his feet, his huge frame instantly gave off an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Pointing at Gu Chen, he cursed, "Fuck, brat, are your ears deaf?"
"Are you fucking sick? Why do you keep staring at our boss?"
"If you're sick, come over here. I'll treat you!"
Yet in the next second, Gu Chen's right hand moved slightly, and the stair railing beside him instantly began to tremble violently.
A piece of wood broke off from the railing and shot straight toward the burly man!
Gu Chen moved extremely fast. The burly man noticed Gu Chen's movement, but had no time to react at all!
In an instant, he felt as though something was missing from his thigh.
Looking down, the burly man discovered that the piece of wood had pierced straight through his thigh!
At that moment, a ghastly bloody hole had appeared in his thigh!
In the blink of an eye, intense pain surged in from every direction like a tidal wave.
The burly man toppled headlong to the ground, clutching his bleeding thigh as he howled, "Ah! It hurts like hell!"
At this sight, Chen Xiongfei and his two remaining lackeys were utterly dumbfounded!
Because they had not expected Gu Chen to actually dare attack them directly!
This immediately enraged Chen Xiongfei.
It would have been one thing if Gu Chen had not gone around them when he first saw them.
But now he actually dared to strike!
Thinking this, Chen Xiongfei slapped the table and stared at Gu Chen. "Kid, you're pretty damn arrogant, huh?"
"Do you know who I am? You even dare beat my men!"
Yet Gu Chen still stood where he was with an icy expression, asking word by word, "That man from last night—was he from your Thunderclap Hall?"
The moment he heard this, Chen Xiongfei instantly understood.
The young man before him was the murderer who had killed a Thunderclap Hall disciple last night!
Realizing this, Chen Xiongfei immediately became even more furious, blowing his beard and glaring.
He pointed at Gu Chen and said, "So it was you, brat, who killed our Thunderclap Hall disciple?"
"I thought you'd already tucked your tail between your legs and run away. I didn't expect you to have the nerve to stand here!"
If it had been an ordinary person, Chen Xiongfei's words would have scared them into pissing themselves long ago.
But Gu Chen remained calm and composed as he said, "That guy acted like he hadn't slept with a woman in several lifetimes, making that sort of dead noise in the middle of the night."
"I kindly went over to remind him, but he cursed at me instead."
"I merely gave him a light punch. I didn't expect the people of your Thunderclap Hall to be so weak that he died from it."
Gu Chen's tone was extraordinarily calm as he said this.
It was as though accidentally killing someone was as simple and ordinary as eating a meal!
So much so that Chen Xiongfei felt Gu Chen was simply arrogant beyond all bounds!
While Chen Xiongfei was still thinking this, Gu Chen unhurriedly walked down the stairs.
"This matter actually isn't that serious."
"As long as you apologize to me, I won't pursue it any further."
When Chen Xiongfei heard Gu Chen say this, he could hardly believe his ears.
He looked at Gu Chen with an incredulous expression.
"Kid, are you still not sober?"
"You killed one of my Thunderclap Hall men, and I haven't even said what I'll do to you yet."
"But you're asking us to apologize? Isn't that turning heaven and earth upside down?"
Gu Chen sat down directly at a table in the main hall and said coldly, "So you have no intention of apologizing over this?"
Chen Xiongfei felt Gu Chen was arrogant to the extreme. He had to teach Gu Chen a lesson now!
Immediately afterward, Chen Xiongfei gave the two lackeys beside him a meaningful look.
In an instant, the two lackeys charged straight at Gu Chen!
The innkeeper and the waiter were peeking at everything happening downstairs from the turn in the stairway.
At that moment, they thought Gu Chen was certainly doomed!
But in the next second, their expressions froze right on their faces.
They saw Gu Chen lightly raise his right hand, and a gust from his palm struck one of the burly men directly.
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