Wu Chen's Utter Shock

Wu Chen was beneath a red maple tree.

With him were several students he was on good terms with.

To say they were on good terms was putting it nicely; they were really just sucking up to him.

"Ye Nan?"

The students were startled when they saw Ye Nan.

In their eyes, Ye Nan wouldn't dare show his face before them of his own accord.

Wu Chen narrowed his eyes, an intrigued look on his face.

Then the students understood.

They knew Ye Nan had to be here to beg for mercy. What other explanation could there be?

"Wu Chen, I heard you've been looking for me these past few days. Is that right?"

Ye Nan looked at Wu Chen.

"Ye Nan, you've got some heaven-defying nerve. You knew full well I was pursuing Wang Lingxi, yet you still dared to make an improper move on her. Did you think I'd just let that go?"

Wu Chen sneered at Ye Nan.

As far as he was concerned, Ye Nan wasn't even in the same league as him.

"So what do you have in mind?"

"In mind?"

Hearing the implication in Ye Nan's words, Wu Chen frowned.

He had thought Ye Nan had come to him of his own accord to beg for mercy.

But Ye Nan's tone suggested otherwise.

"Ye Nan, how about I give you a beating?"

"Sure."

"You...!"

Wu Chen had never expected Ye Nan to agree so readily.

He grew somewhat angry.

He couldn't understand what gave Ye Nan the right to act so arrogantly in front of him.

The students were also stunned by Ye Nan's words.

"Let's go to the combat room. Just the two of us."

With that, Ye Nan walked toward the combat room.

"Holy crap, has Ye Nan gone crazy?"

"What gives him the nerve? Does he really think he's got a fifty-fifty chance against Brother Wu Chen?"

"Brother Wu Chen, teach Ye Nan a good lesson, or he'll really start thinking he's somebody!"

"..."

The students simply couldn't believe that a piece of trash like Ye Nan dared to act so arrogantly in front of Wu Chen.

"Heh."

After a cold laugh, Wu Chen also headed toward the combat room.

The combat room.

Not long after Ye Nan entered the combat room, Wu Chen arrived as well.

Defeating Wu Chen in front of those students would certainly cause a sensation.

He didn't want to cause too much of a sensation for now.

"Ye Nan, I really didn't expect you to have such a backbone!"

Wu Chen looked at Ye Nan mockingly.

To him, Ye Nan was far too weak. Sometimes, talking tough wasn't a good thing.

"Come on."

Without another word, Ye Nan crooked a finger at Wu Chen.

He knew that if he didn't settle this matter, there would surely be more trouble later.

If he beat Wu Chen into submission this time, that would be the end of it.

"Ye Nan, I'll teach you a lesson!"

Wu Chen roared in fury. He had never imagined that Ye Nan would dare make such a provocative gesture at him.

Then he lunged at Ye Nan.

Once he was in front of Ye Nan, Wu Chen threw a punch at him.

His combat power had now reached 2,500.

A punch like that was certainly not something Ye Nan could withstand.

Ye Nan watched Wu Chen's imposing punch come at him.

He made no move to defend or dodge.

The gap between Wu Chen's strength and his was now too great.

He was an intermediate martial artist, while Wu Chen was only an intermediate martial apprentice.

It was like the difference between a three-year-old child and a powerfully built adult.

He didn't dodge because he wanted to take Wu Chen's punch head-on with his body.

It wasn't that he had masochistic tendencies; he wanted to see just how strong his defense currently was.

Besides the defense that came with being an intermediate martial artist,

there was also the increased defense granted by the Azure Dragon Divine Body. Even without using it,

the Azure Dragon Divine Body could still give him a defensive boost.

Seeing that Ye Nan wasn't dodging, Wu Chen sneered inwardly.

Clearly, Ye Nan's strength wasn't as tough as his mouth.

He knew that once this punch landed on Ye Nan,

Ye Nan would learn his place.

Bang!

Without a doubt, Wu Chen's punch struck Ye Nan's body.

The scene that would follow had already appeared in his mind.

Ye Nan would be sent flying backward, battered and disheveled, his face black and blue.

But the scene Wu Chen had imagined didn't play out.

After his punch struck Ye Nan, Ye Nan didn't budge an inch, not even taking a single step back.

It was as though Wu Chen's punch had had no effect on him at all.

"How is that possible!"

Looking at Ye Nan, who stood as immovable as a mountain, Wu Chen's pupils suddenly contracted, and he cried out.

In Wu Chen's eyes, a punch from him should have sent Ye Nan flying backward.

What on earth was going on?

Still reeling from the shock, Wu Chen raised his eyes to look at Ye Nan.

He saw a faint, calm smile on Ye Nan's face, as though Ye Nan had already foreseen that his punch would do no damage.

"Ye Nan, when... when did your defense become so strong?"

Wu Chen stared at Ye Nan in disbelief. He simply couldn't accept it.

He was one of the top geniuses at Jiangcheng Middle School.

Aside from Wang Lingxi, there were very few who could stand against him.

Ye Nan was certainly not among them, yet now he could take a punch from him head-on and come away completely unharmed.

The sight left Wu Chen's head buzzing.

"You've already made your move against me. I suppose it's my turn now."

Ye Nan looked at Wu Chen, whose face was frozen in terror.

After saying that, he raised his fist.

Before Wu Chen could react, he threw a punch.

Naturally, Ye Nan didn't use his full strength in this punch.

Otherwise, with his combat power as an intermediate martial artist, killing Wu Chen with one punch would have been effortless.

His only aim was to make Wu Chen submit wholeheartedly and stop bothering him in the future.

If this had been a battle to the death, Wu Chen would already have been a corpse.

After Ye Nan's fist struck Wu Chen's body, Wu Chen flew backward.

Only after he crashed to the ground did Wu Chen come to his senses.

Ignoring the pain in his body, he looked at Ye Nan in utter horror.

"Ye Nan, your strength..."

He truly couldn't believe that Ye Nan, who had always had so little presence at school,

was actually so terrifyingly strong.

Had he been hiding his strength all along?

No wonder he had dared to pin Wang Lingxi against the wall.

Only now did Wu Chen understand why Wang Lingxi hadn't pursued the matter with Ye Nan.

"I think that should be enough, right?"

Ye Nan looked calmly at Wu Chen on the floor.

"Ye Nan, I... I want to know how strong you are now."

"You'll find out during the college entrance exam."

With those words, Ye Nan headed out of the combat room.

"Oh, right, I hope you won't tell anyone about what happened today. I'd like to keep a low profile."

When he reached the combat room door, Ye Nan stopped and turned to say this to Wu Chen.

"O-okay."

Wu Chen was still deep in a stupor. Hearing Ye Nan say that, he nodded in astonishment.

It was anyone's guess how much time passed before Wu Chen finally recovered.

"Isn't Ye Nan's family the Jiangcheng Ye Family? Could he also be from a big city?"

After swallowing several times, Wu Chen muttered to himself in horror.