Sword Demon Chen Jue

The rich kids and officials' kids of every world were much the same. The capable rich kids joined their family businesses or struck out on their own and thrived; the capable officials' kids entered government service. Some even surpassed their elders. Then there were the hopeless ones, who either ate their fill and waited to die or spent their lives fighting and raising hell.

Jin Xiaoyu and Xiong An'an belonged to the hopeless sort. Their great-grandfathers were Titled Douluo, and their grandparents and parents had done well for themselves. But the two of them had gone in the opposite direction, becoming layabouts and hooligans.

At that very moment, Jin Xiaoyu and Xiong An'an were shamelessly feeling Huang Tieyi's abs in full view of everyone. Huang Tieyi stood there looking as though life had lost all meaning. He had come to check the Strength Clan's progress on building his house. The trip to the northern district had piqued their curiosity, so they had tagged along.

"Ladies, you can feel my chest. You can feel my abs. Just don't let your hands go any lower. Any lower and it's a crime..." Huang Tieyi said, his voice thick with helplessness as he endured his body's reaction. Jin Xiaoyu and Xiong An'an were tall, curvy beauties with full breasts and shapely hips. Unless a man was a eunuch, it would be stranger if he had no reaction to two women taking liberties with him.

"A Yi, are you building a house here to hide a beauty away in a gilded cage? Tell me, who are you planning to keep there?" Jin Xiaoyu asked suggestively. "Will there be a room for me?"

"A Yi, I want a room too. I'll wear something lacy for you..." Xiong An'an said, licking her lips.

Faced with their teasing, Huang Tieyi sprang into the air and fled in utter disarray.

Jin Xiaoyu and Xiong An'an watched his figure vanish into the sky and burst out laughing.

Once their laughter faded, the two exchanged a glance. Each saw the same worry in the other's eyes: someone might steal Huang Tieyi away.

Huang Tieyi dropped straight into a pool outside Spirit City. The cold water cleared his head. Faced with two beautiful women whose words and hands were equally outrageous, he worried that he might lose his chastity before he knew it.

Huang Tieyi had his own plans. He had no intention of losing his pure yang body before turning twenty-four. As the saying went, the twenty-four solar terms completed the cycle of a year, while twenty-four years of pure yang completed the cycle of a person's innate energy. It was also said that once a person tasted the pleasures of sex, the craving seeped into the marrow and half their pure yang drained away. Only after losing half that innate pure yang energy could they return to a rational, restrained sex life.

That was what Huang Tieyi's family had told him back on Earth, and he had kept himself chaste accordingly. Once he reached high school and could browse the internet, he looked it up. Everything he found said it did not matter. Whether the person behind an online account was male or female, the answer was always to enjoy yourself while you could; by the time you married, there would be no good girls or good boys left.

After Huang Tieyi received the cultivation art Great Art of Energy Absorption and once managed to kill a ghost with his virgin's urine, his resolve to preserve his pure yang until twenty-four never wavered again.

Huang Tieyi lay quietly on the surface of the pool, trying to think of a way to evade the onrushing Jin Xiaoyu and Xiong An'an. This time, they had dared to feel his abs in public. Next time, they might drug him and force him into bed.

After turning it over in his mind, Huang Tieyi decided to flee. As soon as he finished cleansing Dugu Bo's children with Dragon Qi, he would leave for Slaughter City.

Huang Tieyi sprang from the pool and landed on the bank. He used Soul Power to dry himself and his clothes. He was about to head back when a giant sword plunged from the sky and landed directly before him.

"A sword. I smell a sword..." A man with blood-red eyes and a crazed expression stood on the giant sword's hilt.

He leaped down. The giant sword shrank into an ordinary sword and flew into his hand. "A sword. I smell a sword. Are you ready for me to kill you?"

Huang Tieyi stared at Chen Jue, who had descended from the sky with sword in hand. Sensing the violent aura of a man driven mad by the sword, he drew his own sword from his Space Ring without hesitation.

Chen Jue slashed at Huang Tieyi. Huang Tieyi immediately swung his sword upward at an angle to meet the blow.

The moment Chen Jue landed, Sword Qi erupted from his blade and sent Huang Tieyi flying.

The sharp Sword Qi drove Huang Tieyi backward until he fell into the pool. He sprang from the water and swept his sword lightly. Droplets streaked toward Chen Jue, each carrying a thread of Sword Qi.

Chen Jue stood his ground, his sword flashing again and again. Every strike scattered the Sword Qi hidden within a droplet.

"Kid, you really are impressive. That'll make killing you all the better..." Nine Soul Rings rose beneath Chen Jue's feet, and the third, a purple ring, lit up. "Third Soul Skill: Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect!" With a gentle sweep of his sword, ten thousand tiny blades of Sword Qi appeared behind him. Their piercing energy locked onto Huang Tieyi.

"Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect? I have that Soul Skill too!" Huang Tieyi's black Sixth Soul Ring lit up beneath his feet. "Sixth Soul Skill: Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect!" Ten thousand tiny swords appeared around him, each glinting coldly.

"Go!" Chen Jue pointed his sword at Huang Tieyi, and ten thousand blades of Sword Qi surged toward him.

"Kill!" Huang Tieyi thrust out his arm toward Chen Jue, sending his ten thousand tiny swords charging at him.

Tens of thousands of tiny swords collided with a ringing clatter, canceling each other out and vanishing.

Huang Tieyi did not stand still to watch their Soul Skills clash. He slowly backed away.

Hovering in midair, Chen Jue noticed the movement. He remained where he was, confidence written all over his face, and made no attempt to stop him.

Once the tiny swords had canceled each other out, an immense mass of Sword Qi lingered in the sky. "Fifth Soul Skill: Giant Sword Slaughter!"

Chen Jue's purple Fifth Soul Ring lit up beneath his feet. The lingering Sword Qi gathered into a giant sword, which hurtled straight at Huang Tieyi.

Huang Tieyi stepped through the air and activated Lingbo Micro-Step, shifting position to dodge. To his surprise, the giant sword of Sword Qi followed him. No matter how unpredictably he moved, it kept pace.

With no other choice, Huang Tieyi dropped straight down at high speed, the giant sword close behind. Seeing the danger, he plunged behind the waterfall above the pool, and the sword immediately followed.

The giant sword pierced through the waterfall, but the heavy torrent crashed down on it. Its gathered Sword Qi shattered with a boom, and the sword vanished.

Disbelief filled Chen Jue's eyes. A waterfall barely ten meters high had broken his Soul Skill? He would not have believed it even if someone beat him to death.