[Heard No. 3 Middle School has a guy who trained a martial skill to the Transformation Realm. Is that true?]
[Absolutely! So fucking badass. When he unleashed that Transformation Realm martial skill, we thought a Weird Beast had broken into the school!]
[That crazy?]
[Crazy? You know Niu the Brute, the head of our school's martial arts department? His voice actually cracked from shock!]
[The guy was only at skin tempering second tier, but once he used that Transformation Realm martial skill, his total score beat even the guys at skin-polishing fifth stage!]
[Too bad his Divine Talent is so low. Otherwise, Yang City might've had another student getting into the four elite universities this year!]
[Seriously, it's fucking ridiculous. That dickhead runs around causing trouble all day, yet he has that much martial talent. Heaven must be blind!]
While Xu Yuan was taking Luo Han and Sun Hao to the pedestrian street, news that a martial arts prodigy had appeared at No. 3 Middle School had already spread through Yang City's martial arts student circles.
It wasn't even limited to martial arts students. The news was spreading like wildfire among ordinary students too.
In particular, the senior-year group chat at No. 3 Middle School was filled with shock, along with countless curses.
They weren't cursing Xu Yuan, but railing against heaven's injustice!
Still, the names they called Xu Yuan in their messages weren't polite in the slightest.
"That fucker," "that dickhead," "that son of a bitch"...
Hiding behind anonymity, these guys made snide remarks without restraint. Xu Yuan's mouth twitched so hard as he read them that he wanted to post some lewd pictures and get the group nuked.
But after thinking about it, he let it go. They were still growing boys; he shouldn't leave his little brothers nutritionally depleted.
The bus swayed along and soon reached the pedestrian street.
Xu Yuan called Fatty and Sun Hao off the bus and headed straight for the pedestrian overpass full of beggars.
"Brother Yuan, what are we doing here?"
The pedestrian street was rather quiet on a weekday. Looking at the deserted street, Sun Hao felt terribly uneasy.
"Didn't I tell you? Helping you cleanse your sins!"
Smiling, Xu Yuan soon led the two beneath the overpass.
The moment the beggars saw the three of them, they all panicked.
A few guys who had been sitting on skateboards pretending to be disabled immediately stood up, grabbed their skateboards, and ran like the wind!
It was like a fucking medical miracle.
Xu Yuan's mouth twitched. There really were too many fucking bad people in this world.
He pointed at the dozen or so beggars remaining. "Haozi, go give them three hundred each!"
Sun Hao currently had 2,337 Sin Points, twenty-nine more than Xu Yuan's 2,308.
At fifty yuan per Sin Point, he only needed to give away 1,500 to drop below Xu Yuan.
But Xu Yuan had no intention whatsoever of saving Sun Hao money. He went straight for three hundred per person!
He wasn't worried about Sun Hao lacking money either. He knew this guy had saved up plenty of ill-gotten gains from extortion.
Sun Hao was completely dumbfounded.
He was really making him do good deeds and accumulate merit?
Am I really that deeply sinful? Is this for my own good?
Sun Hao was starting to doubt himself.
But he quickly kicked that thought out of his head.
For my own good, my ass! That fucker Xu Yuan is just screwing with me!
Whatever he thought, though, he still had to hand over the money.
If he didn't, he feared Xu Yuan really would have Fatty beat him until he vomited blood!
With that thought, Sun Hao took out his wallet, his heart aching terribly, and walked toward the beggars with a dark expression.
The beggars panicked even more, hurriedly tucking their bowls against their chests.
"Who the fuck told you to put those away? Get them out!" Sun Hao snapped furiously.
Silent as cicadas in winter, the beggars hastily set their bowls back down amid a clatter.
Then, as though they had seen a ghost, the beggars watched Sun Hao start tossing money into their bowls.
Three hundred... three hundred... another three hundred...
In the blink of an eye, he had handed out 4,200.
The beggars were all dumbstruck. Has this little beast developed some humanity? Not only is he not robbing us, he's giving us money?
Has the sun risen in the west?
"All done, Brother Yuan. I gave it to everyone. Have my sins been cleansed?"
Sun Hao returned to Xu Yuan with a flattering smile.
In his heart, however, he had already cursed eighteen generations of Xu Yuan's ancestors.
Four thousand two hundred!
How many times would I have to rob my classmates to get that much?
But he had already decided: once Xu Yuan left, he would double back and make these beggars return every last bit!
Cleanse my sins?
Cleanse my ass!
Xu Yuan ignored Sun Hao. His attention was entirely inside his mind.
On the Beast Ranking, his and Sun Hao's names had dissolved into a pool of blood.
The blood writhed eerily, gradually forming their names again.
Only their positions had switched, and the numbers had changed too.
[Xu Yuan: 2,309, rank 9!] [Sun Hao: 2,261, rank 10!]
Huh? Why did mine go up by one? Xu Yuan wondered.
Before he could figure it out, that evil, eerie voice, brimming with malice, rang out in his mind again!
"Xu Yuan: extortion, blackmail, theft, robbery, attempted rape... accumulated Sin Points: 2,309. Ranked ninth on the Evil Demon Ranking. Awarded one copy of the 'No Immortals, No Gods, Only I, the Evil Demon, Shake the Heavens Art'!"
As soon as the voice faded, a scripture scroll made from the hide of some unknown creature floated out of the Beast Ranking.
Thick black mist billowed from the scroll. Within it, utterly horrifying ghostly faces appeared from time to time, seemingly shrieking and roaring, making Xu Yuan feel the same terror he had experienced upon first seeing the Beast Ranking!
After the terror came wild delight!
He had actually been worried all along that the Beast Ranking would recognize he wasn't a beast and stop rewarding him. Now it seemed he had worried needlessly!
This Beast Ranking was nothing more than an inanimate object with no intelligence whatsoever!
Like a program, it would only operate according to preset rules!
This is very nice!
With that thought, Xu Yuan quickly withdrew his consciousness from his mind.
He was still out on the street. This wasn't the time to study that scroll.
Besides, he wasn't finished yet.
Sun Hao might be meek and submissive now, but he might turn around and do a whole bunch of inhuman things, grinding his Sin Points back up.
To be safe, he needed to lower this guy's Sin Points as much as possible!
As for how far he could lower them, that depended on how much ill-gotten money this guy had saved!
"Not bad. I can see your sins have lightened considerably, but a quick calculation on my fingers tells me you still face a bloody calamity. Let's keep going!"
Smiling, Xu Yuan turned toward the other end of the pedestrian street.
There was another pedestrian overpass over there.
Sun Hao had thought it was over. Hearing this, he nearly burst out cursing.
You're not going to stop, are you?
All I fucking did was run my mouth a little before. Do you really have to screw me over like this?
Just you wait. Once I get back on my feet, see how I deal with you!
Seething inwardly while keeping a smile on his face, Sun Hao was completely cleaned out half an hour later.
His savings of over nine thousand had all ended up in the beggars' hands.
His Sin Points had also dropped to 2,173.
In the short term, even if he continued acting inhumanly, his Sin Points couldn't overtake Xu Yuan's.
And in a few more days, the Divine Guard Army would come to collect the new recruits. By then, even if he wanted to commit evil, he wouldn't have the chance.
As for taking back the money he had given away?
Xu Yuan had already blocked that route!
Xu Yuan left his contact details with several beggars and told them to let him know if Sun Hao demanded money from them!
That move nearly made Sun Hao vomit blood on the spot, and a trace of viciousness crept into his gaze as he looked at Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan's response was simple.
The phantom of a savage bull flashed behind him, and Sun Hao's gaze immediately cleared.
"B-Brother Yuan, don't mess around. Someone could die..."
A Transformation Realm Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt could wreck even a dummy as tough as someone at skin tempering ninth stage. At skin tempering second tier, he definitely wouldn't survive a hit.
"Good, as long as you know someone could die."
Xu Yuan smiled and withdrew the phantom. "Go back. Be a decent human being from now on, or I'll come looking for you again."
"Yes, yes, yes! I'll definitely be a decent person from now on, definitely..."
Sun Hao nodded repeatedly, then turned and left!
I can't fucking afford to mess with you, but can't I at least hide from you?
Yet the moment he thought of the nine thousand-odd yuan he had painstakingly saved, Sun Hao felt like crying but had no tears.
It's all fucking gone!
"Brother Yuan, can Haozi become a good person?"
Watching Sun Hao's retreating back, Fatty asked with a frown.
"No."
"But even you've become a good person, Brother Yuan!"
"Me?"
Xu Yuan laughed. "How am I a good person? Fatty, you don't think I made Haozi give those beggars money for their sake, do you?"
"Wasn't it?" Fatty scratched his head, confused.
"Of course not. It was just for myself."
A trace of indifference flashed through Xu Yuan's eyes. "All right, stop dwelling on this. It's time to go home and share the good news!"
It was also time to go back and study the Beast Ranking's second reward!
'No Immortals, No Gods, Only I, the Evil Demon, Shake the Heavens Art'-with a name that arrogant, it ought to be pretty badass, right?