Flying Dragon Platform

"Oh, it's Yang Wei. What a coincidence. You're here to eat in the cafeteria too?" Xia Ping greeted him.

Yang Wei gritted his teeth. "This isn't a coincidence. I came here specifically to find you."

"You came to find me? What for?" Xia Ping blinked his innocent eyes.

What for?!

Seeing this guy act as if nothing had happened, Yang Wei was so furious his nose nearly twisted. He snapped, "Don't play dumb! Don't think I've forgotten what happened in class earlier!"

He glared at Xia Ping, wishing he could eat the guy alive. It was all because of this shameless bastard that he'd been given a nickname, and ever since he'd returned to class, his classmates had been looking at him strangely.

The feeling was awful, as if he'd become some rare animal. Whenever he heard his classmates whispering nearby, he felt sure they were laughing at him.

That only made him hate Xia Ping even more. Unless he beat the bastard to a pulp, he'd never be able to vent his anger.

"What happened in class today?" Xia Ping seemed to remember. "Oh, I see. You came to apologize to me. There's no need to be so polite. I haven't taken it to heart."

He waved his hand, looking very magnanimous.

"Who came to apologize to you? Stop imagining things!" Yang Wei was so angry that smoke seemed to come from his nostrils. This guy had mocked him and given him a nickname, humiliating him and making his classmates laugh at him.

He hadn't even made Xia Ping apologize to him yet, and now this bastard thought Yang Wei wanted to apologize to him. There had to be a limit to how conceited this guy could be.

"If you didn't come to apologize, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you want to treat me to a meal?" Xia Ping blinked.

Bullshit! Who would want to treat a shameless scoundrel like you to a meal? Yang Wei would sooner feed the food to a dog than treat this bastard. He was so angry he couldn't even speak, and had no idea how to communicate with the guy.

"Shut up!"

Just then, a young man two meters tall and as sturdy as a black bear stepped forward. He loomed like a small mountain, exuding a deadly sense of oppression.

He stared at Xia Ping and sneered. "You think you can cover up your wrongdoing by changing the subject? Your grades aren't anything special, but you've certainly learned how to win arguments with your mouth.

"Didn't your parents ever teach you what manners are? You give people nicknames on a whim and humiliate your classmates in front of everyone. Is that how you were raised?!"

His words were vicious.

"Over the past eighteen years, my parents taught me only one thing: an eye for an eye!" Xia Ping narrowed his eyes and stared at the two-meter-tall man.

The burly man cracked his knuckles, baring his white teeth in a vicious grin. "Interesting. You've got the nerve to talk about an eye for an eye. You've got guts, but let's see if you have the ability to back them up.

"We martial artists settle conflicts in a simple way: we fight. The strong rule! Come with me to the Flying Dragon Platform and have a match. If you beat me, this matter will be over, and we won't bother you again. What do you say?"

A fight?!

A glint flashed in Xia Ping's eyes. Martial arts flourished in this world, and every student knew martial arts. The young students were all hot-blooded, and a disagreement could easily turn into a fight. As a result, serious conflicts often broke out at school.

To deal with this, the school had set up the Flying Dragon Platform, where students with grudges could fight openly and vent their anger. Some students also went there to spar with one another.

Because of this, private fights were forbidden at school and strictly prohibited. Anyone caught fighting in secret would be expelled immediately, regardless of their status.

That was why the burly man didn't dare openly cause trouble for Xia Ping. He could only invite him to the Flying Dragon Platform to settle things there.

Soon, the surrounding students noticed that a group of people had come looking for trouble with Xia Ping, and they all turned to watch.

"Look, someone's going to fight on the Flying Dragon Platform. This should be good."

"Isn't that two-meter-tall burly man Xiong Batian? Someone's managed to get on his bad side. That guy's in for it."

"Xiong Batian?! The one from Class Six, Year Three, nicknamed Black Bear? The one with natural strength, who can punch with over a thousand jin of force, and is a Martial Apprentice Fifth Heaven expert?!"

"That's right, it's Black Bear. Once he loses his temper, no one can stop him. A few students once got into a conflict with him and went up to the Flying Dragon Platform. He broke five or six of their ribs, and they couldn't take care of themselves for a whole month."

"Yeah, I heard about that too. Apparently, one of the students was so traumatized that he even dropped out."

"How terrifying. That kid's got the worst luck in the world to have Xiong Batian set his sights on him."

The students murmured among themselves, all looking at Xia Ping with schadenfreude.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?"

Xiong Batian cracked his knuckles and stared at Xia Ping with a mocking smile. "If you kneel down and beg for mercy now and crawl through my crotch, I might let you off this once. Just this once, though. If you still don't know your place, I'll beat you up every time I see you and leave you unable to look after yourself for three months."

"Scared?" Xia Ping laughed. "Why would I be scared of a big idiot like you?"

Big idiot?!

The students around them were stunned. Even Yang Wei was stunned. Did this guy have any idea what he was saying? Xiong Batian was a Martial Apprentice Fifth Heaven expert with natural strength and fearsome fighting prowess.

And yet this bastard had just called Xiong Batian a big idiot. Was he crazy?!

"Xia Ping!"

Xiong Batian was so furious that smoke seemed to come from his nostrils. His eyes turned bloodshot. No one had ever dared call him a big idiot—not a single person. Anyone who did would have been rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

But this kid actually dared to say it. He was practically asking to die.

"I don't mind agreeing to fight you on the Flying Dragon Platform, but Yang Wei is the one involved. Will he agree?"

Xia Ping said calmly.

Yang Wei immediately replied, "I agree. As long as you accept Big Brother Xiong's challenge, this matter will be over, and we absolutely won't come looking for trouble again."

He couldn't have asked for anything better. This shameless bastard deserved to be taught a good lesson on the Flying Dragon Platform. The worse things went for him, the happier Yang Wei would be.

Even if Yang Wei wasn't the one throwing the punches, this still counted as revenge.

"All right, I agree. What time?" Xia Ping asked. He didn't think much of the matter. To get benefits from the Super Hatred System, he seemed to need Hate Points.

And he could only get those Hate Points from his enemies. The more chances he had to make enemies like this, the better. That way, he could earn more Hate Points.

"Very good."

Xiong Batian stared at Xia Ping. "Let's make it four thirty this afternoon, half an hour after school lets out. Don't run off when the time comes, or I'll get very angry, and the consequences will be serious."

With that, he shot Xia Ping a warning look and left the cafeteria with Yang Wei and the others.