The group arrived at a tavern, rented several rooms, and ordered a table full of food.
Zhao Wuji sat beside Lin Xiao and personally poured him a cup of tea, leaving Dai Mubai and the others dumbfounded.
Lin Xiao's identity truly was a mystery, something no one could figure out.
"Everyone, eat to your hearts' content today. I'll cover all the expenses."
"Yeah!" Ma Hongjun clapped and cheered. "Teacher Lin Xiao is so generous, so I won't hold back."
Zhao Wuji glared at Ma Hongjun. "Did you come here to eat or to train? You ordered so much. Can you even finish it?"
Ma Hongjun scratched his head and chuckled. "Teacher Zhao, it's not often that we get to come out. Of course we should eat our fill. We only get a chance like this a few times a year, right?"
Zhao Wuji shook his head. Thinking that Ma Hongjun had a point, he picked up a chicken leg from the table and began wolfing it down.
Watching them, Lin Xiao picked up a piece of soul beast meat and tasted it. This place was very close to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, and tavern owners generally bought soul beasts hunted by nearby mercenary groups.
The higher a soul beast's cultivation, the better its meat tasted. It also had an effect: increasing Soul Power.
In other words, eating more soul beast meat could increase one's strength.
Na'er picked up her chopsticks and looked at the soul beast meat on the table, feeling an indescribable discomfort.
Seeing that Na'er was not eating, Xiao Wu asked, "What's wrong, Na'er? Does it not suit your taste?"
"No~" Na'er put down her chopsticks. "I don't like eating soul beast meat. I feel a kind of resistance in my heart, like something doesn't want me to eat it."
Lin Xiao paused. He had forgotten that Na'er was not an ordinary person. He called over a waiter and ordered some ordinary poultry meat. Only then did Na'er eat a few bites.
Just as they were enjoying their meal, the tavern's front door was kicked open.
Several men walked in from outside, looking like students from an academy as well.
At their head was a middle-aged man. He was neither tall nor handsome, and the two tufts of mustache on his face made him look particularly sleazy.
They could clearly see a round emblem on the left shoulders of their clothes, engraved with two small words: Blue Sunshine.
There was no need to guess. These people were all students of Blue Sunshine Academy.
Every student from Blue Sunshine Academy held their heads high, as though they could not see anyone around them, and headed straight for the dining tables.
The tavern owner immediately hurried over, bowing and scraping as he spoke.
"Lord Soul Master, what would you like to eat?"
The middle-aged man at the front glanced at the owner, then turned and sat at a table beside Lin Xiao.
The other members of Blue Sunshine Academy followed him over.
"Just bring us a few simple dishes, then prepare several of your best rooms for us."
The man drank a cup of tea and spoke casually.
At that moment, the owner said awkwardly, "Uh... Lord Soul Master, our little inn has no rooms left. The rooms were all booked by the guests at that table just now, so perhaps you could..."
"What did you say?" The middle-aged man's expression darkened as he slapped the table beneath him into pieces.
The fragments flew out at that moment and landed squarely in front of Lin Xiao's food.
The owner was so frightened that he involuntarily took a step back.
This town depended on the soul masters visiting the Star Dou Great Forest for its livelihood. Put simply, these soul masters were all men to be treated like masters, and people like him naturally did not dare slight them.
"Lord Soul Master, this... this isn't something we can decide."
Just as the middle-aged man was about to get up and leave, an icy voice sounded behind him.
"Stop. Apologize."
The sleazy man turned around and coldly stared at Lin Xiao, who had spoken.
"What did you just say? You want me to apologize?"
When the others from Blue Sunshine Academy saw Gu Yuena and the girls, their expressions changed slightly, their eyes filling with lust. "My god, so many beauties."
"Little girls, how old are you? Come let big brother take a look."
"Haha, I'm going to have a good time tonight."
"Come on, little sister. Come with your big brother. Big brother has a big sword!"
Zhao Wuji raised an eyebrow and was about to stand up to teach these ignorant brats a lesson when Lin Xiao held him down.
"Hm?" Zhao Wuji looked at Lin Xiao in confusion. "Your Excellency, they..."
"I'll say it one more time. Apologize."
Everyone from Blue Sunshine Academy changed expression slightly. They abandoned their teasing of Gu Yuena and the others, turning to look at Lin Xiao, who was sitting in his chair.
"Damn it, who the hell are you? You want our teacher to apologize? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? What makes you think you can?"
"Exactly. You're even wearing a mask. What, are you too ugly to show your face? Hahaha!"
Lin Xiao slowly rose to his feet and picked up a pair of chopsticks from the table. In the blink of an eye, the chopsticks in his hand had already been thrown.
The middle-aged man's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted, "Not good! Stop!"
But his warning was clearly too late. With a soft pfft, every student Blue Sunshine Academy had brought stood frozen in place, their eyes vacant. From a distance, nothing seemed to have happened.
But upon closer inspection, blood had begun to seep from their foreheads.
That chopstick had pierced through every one of their skulls. With that single strike, everyone from Blue Sunshine Academy except the teacher had died.
As the breeze blew, every member of Blue Sunshine Academy collapsed to the ground, obviously dead beyond doubt.
The middle-aged man sucked in a breath of cold air. His legs gave out, and he fell to his knees, terror plainly written across his face.
An instant kill with a single strike, without using any Soul Power or soul skills—this person was undoubtedly an expert among experts.
Zhao Wuji snorted. They might have been spared if they had offended him, but offending Lin Xiao was a direct death sentence.
"Y-you... who exactly are you?!"
Lin Xiao picked up the bloodstained chopstick from the ground and crouched in front of the middle-aged man.
"Now, do you have anything else to say?"
The middle-aged man was so terrified that tears streamed down his face. Before he realized it, yellow liquid had soaked through his pants.
He had actually pissed himself.
"My lord, senior, grandpa! Please spare me. I was wrong."
The middle-aged man frantically kowtowed, begging for even the slightest hope of survival with every bow.
But this time, he had miscalculated. Lin Xiao was someone who repaid every grievance; he would never let a tiger return to the mountains.
With another pfft, the chopstick in Lin Xiao's hand pierced through his heart. With a bang, it tore through the man's body and embedded itself in a wall more than ten meters behind him.
"This..."
The Shrek Seven Devils all sucked in a breath of cold air. Was this Teacher Lin Xiao? How ruthless.
"Who... exactly... are you..."
Still filled with confusion, the man crashed heavily onto the ground. Blood flowed from his chest, staining the dust across the floor.
Lin Xiao snorted. "Waiter, clean this up. Put today's damages on my tab."
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