Rousing Morale

"You two know my father?"

Xiao Chenyu was surprised, but after glancing again at the rather plain clothes worn by Zhou Qing and Tang San, he smiled disdainfully, "Don't think that you can get away with flattering me."

Zhou Qing and Tang San looked at each other, speechless.

How did you realize that their saying "like father, like son" was a compliment to you?

never mind.

None of that matters.

The important thing is that Xiao Chenyu is about to get beaten up.

"How about we make a bet?"

Xiao Chenyu turned his gaze back to Xiao Wu. "Best two out of three. If you work-study students win, we will never bother you again. But if you lose, you little rabbit will become my pet! Don't worry, following me will not let you suffer. You might even become the Lady of Nuoding City in the future."

Xiao Chenyu is the son of the Lord of Nuoding, and his title in the Heaven Dou Empire is hereditary.

Although the position and duties of a city lord are not hereditary, with the connections and network of Xiao Chenyu's Father, it wouldn't be a big problem for Xiao Chenyu to become the city lord of Nuoding City in the future.

"Get lost! You're so ugly, yet you covet Sister Xiao Wu's beauty? You're like a toad trying to eat Swan! Dream on! Don't you even take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror?" Xiao Wu roared loudly, mimicking various phrases she had heard from the adventurers in the Adventurer's Guild.

"Hmph, that's how people from small villages are, so vulgar! We'll have to teach them a lesson in the future." Xiao Chenyu sneered, then asked Zhou Qing and Tang San, "Just tell us if you agree or not. If you don't agree, don't blame us for continuing to bully you, and we'll do it even more."

"I won't agree." Zhou Qing shook his head. "The bet is unfair; people can't be used as stakes."

Tang San was confident he wouldn't lose, but when he heard Zhou Qing refuse, he was taken aback. However, after hearing the second half of Zhou Qing's sentence and thinking about it, he understood. "People really can't be used as bargaining chips."

Tang San, born into the Tang Sect, also possesses a chivalrous heart. In his previous life, child abduction was a common occurrence in the martial arts world...

He felt that this situation was somewhat similar to poor parents who were unable to support their children and sold them, but neither he nor Zhou Qing were Xiao Wu's parents and had no right to dispose of Xiao Wu.

If you were to do that, you'd be no different from human traffickers who abduct children.

Therefore, this path cannot be opened.

"Anyway, I don't care. If you don't gamble with this little rabbit, don't blame us for being cruel later," Xiao Chenyu chuckled.

"So--"

Zhou Qing grinned, revealing his white teeth. His Blood Circulation System Martial Soul was activated, and a yellow Soul Ring appeared.

"A hundred... Hundred-Year Soul Ring!"

Xiao Chenyu's eyes widened, and he took a step back in fright.

As the son of the city lord, Xiao Chenyu, though a playboy, knew some secrets: those who possessed Hundred-Year Soul Ring were very likely born into a sect or Soul Master family.

The sons of powerful families might come to smaller cities to gain experience and understand the hardships their ancestors endured, thus reflecting on the bitterness of the past and appreciating the present...

"Boss Xiao, it's just Hundred-Year Soul Ring, there's no need to make such a fuss, right?" A follower named Liu Long next to Xiao Chenyu was puzzled. He came from a minor noble family and felt that although Hundred-Year Soul Ring was rare, there was no need to be so surprised. In the Nuoding Guild, there were a few Soul Master who also possessed Hundred-Year Soul Ring.

"What do you know? He's a new student, only six years old!"

Xiao Chenyu was unaware of Zhou Qing Innate Full Soul Power, but he knew that a six-year-old child who could become Soul Master, and even possess Hundred-Year Soul Ring, was likely backed by some powerful force.

People like that are not to be trifled with.

But Zhou Qing didn't care what Xiao Chenyu and Liu Long were saying. He took six steps, each step causing the ground to tremble slightly.

"Wait, we also..."

Seeing Zhou Qing's imposing aura, with his hair and beard bristling like a charging bull, Xiao Chenyu was so frightened that he kept backing away, but Zhou Qing still managed to get close to him.

He stopped, Bowing Body, and swung his arms forward like cannonballs, his yellow Soul Ring lighting up.

First Soul Skill: Yongchun!

Soul Power gathered between his fists, and as his Qi and Blood swirled around him, the phantom of a Moo Spring Ox seemed to appear on Zhou Qing's body. The moment his fists were thrown out, the blood-red Moo Spring Ox also burst forth, bursting out from between his fists and rushing past Xiao Chenyu. The huge air current it carried, along with the heat of his Qi and Blood, knocked him and his followers to the ground.

The force of the punch struck the woods behind them, collapsing all the trees within a ten-meter diameter!

Gray smoke and dust, fallen trees.

This demonstrates the power of the attack.

Xiao Chenyu lay on the ground, speechless—if that move had hit him, he would have surely died!

"Call--"

Zhou Qing lowered his arms and chuckled, "So, do you still want us to use Xiao Wu as betting stake?"

"No... no!"

Xiao Chenyu kept shaking his head, not daring to have any thought of resistance. At this moment, he just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.

"Alright, let's change the stakes. If we win, we can spar with the work-study students later, but we can't Taunt or bully them without reason," Zhou Qing stated his conditions.

"Um?"

Xiao Chenyu was puzzled. Did the competition have to continue?

But seeing that Zhou Qing had already retreated, they dared not say anything more...

"Zhou Qing, why didn't you hit him just now?" Xiao Wu glared at the smirking Xiao Chenyu and asked Zhou Qing, "So I could have gotten revenge for you!"

"If I really get hit, I'll have to spend some time in jail, and then the lord of Nuoding City will personally hang me in front of all the residents of Nuoding City."

Zhou Qing rolled her eyes, then glanced discreetly at the work-study students who were looking at her with admiration and envy, and deliberately lowered her voice, "Besides, we can help them for a while, but not forever. Once we graduate and leave Nuoding City, the work-study students who are younger than us will be bullied again."

"What I did just now was merely to intimidate, and incidentally to create a slightly more reasonable opportunity for combat than before, hoping that noble students, commoner students, and work-study students will all follow this requirement in the future."

Tang San nodded. "That's the best-case scenario. So, shall we two not make a move later?"

"I'm not going to make a move anyway, because I used both fists just now, and that consumed most of my Soul Power." Zhou Qing shook his head, then looked at Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng and the others, raising his voice to a normal volume, "You can make a move, after all, you are a work-study student. The other two must also be work-study students. Best two out of three."

"I'll do it!"

Wang Sheng volunteered.

"Anyone else want to fight?" Zhou Qing asked the other work-study students. "A good fight is better than a bad one. If you don't want to be bullied, you can't just rely on the protection of the strong. You also need to become strong. Even if you're not strong, you should have the courage to raise your fists against the strong!"

Young people are always easily excited.

Encouraged by Zhou Qing's words, and with his Blood Circulation System Martial Soul still in a possessed state, it made a clearly audible thumping sound as his heart beat.

This sound, like a war drum, seemed to possess a passive ability to Blood Resonance of others, causing all the work-study students present to eagerly raise their hands.

Even the more timid work-study students shouted out at this moment.

"I!"

Pick me!

"Wow!"

"We fifth and sixth graders who are doing work-study programs only have Soul Power one or two levels lower than them, it's no big deal!"

"I can go!"

At that moment, all the work-study students wanted to go into battle.

Ultimately, Zhou Qing gave the choice to Wang Sheng, who then called out a tall, thin work-study student...