“Your disciple? What nonsense are you talking about child? My Ming Clan did no such thing sending Sea Expansion Realm cultivators to assassinate anyone much less an Elder of the Clan.”
Everyone was surprised by Li Shen’s accusation but frowned since it sounded like a blatant lie.
“This prince is completely shameless, what tall tale to tell.”
“Yeah, why would the Ming Clan attack someone like that?”
‘Master, he wasn’t lying about sending Sea Expansion Realm cultivators after senior disciple brother, but the aura around him turned red when he denied the Elder’s involvement.’
Hearing Jun’s words, Li Shen frowned in his heart.
‘He sent a Nascent Realm cultivator clone to kill Yang Su but not the Sea Expansion Realm Cultivators?’
While Li Shen’s proposal and accusation hung in the air a voice could be heard from the entrance.
“If disciple Shen’s words are true then the Ming Clan attacking a disciple of my Sword Pavilion is an offense I can not overlook.”
Following those words, Ye Fei could be seen walking into the hall.
Tai was next to him and seeing Li Shen he burst into tears before his chubby figure warped away to appear in front of him.
“Master! I thought you were dead!! Waahhh!! I almost had to get a new master!”
Tai dived into Li Shen’s chest and began leaving tears and snot on his robes.
Li Shen smiled bitterly at Tai’s actions before he patted his head and said.
“It’s okay Tai, I’m fine. Go stand with Little Snow for now, Daddy’s in the middle of something.”
Tai nodded before he warped next to Lu Yue who was holding Little Snow. He looked at her curiously wondering why Little Snow was being so familiar to her.
Everyone’s eyes had remained on Tai this whole time.
Seeing him use such abilities completely stunned them, especially when looking at his age.
“Huh? Who is that kid? How come he has such abilities?”
“I heard that trashy prince calling himself daddy, is it his kid?”
Li Shin who had on a bored expression for some time now suddenly glared at Li Shen before saying.
“That bastard! Is he cheating on my Yue’er?!! I knew he wasn't good for her!!”
Lu Feng frowned and chopped his head almost splitting it open before saying.
“Don’t be stupid, it’s obvious those are his rumored Void Beasts. To think they could take on human form, I’m quite curious if they are as wondrous as the legends make them out to be.”
Rubbing his forehead with a begrudging look, Lu Shin asked.
“Hey bro, what are we going to do? Now that father wants to make friends with the Li Clan are we going to join the conflict on the Maple Continent?”
Lu Feng hearing his little brother’s words looked between Ghuanyu and the various Leaders of the powers on the Maple Continent with a frown.
“I don’t know, that’s why we’re here watching on the sidelines.”
Lu Shin scowled and said.
“This was a stupid idea, why did father even suggest this marriage alliance in the first place? Everything is going to shit on this Continent.”
Lu Feng sighed and said.
“When we return talk to father about this, I’m sure you will understand that even he never wanted to do this.”
Hearing that Lu Shin was surprised, but he kept it in mind to ask their father when they returned.
Lu Feng while watching the events play out in the hall thought to himself.
'How chaotic. The unity they once showed when we came here is completely gone, now they are even more divided than us.'
“I guess this was one of that person’s intentions.”
Lu Feng turned his gaze to Ghuanyu who was frowning at Ye Fei.
“The Blade God Ancestral Clan.'
'Too bad it has dwindled away after being severed by the Li Clan. I would have loved to try out my Sword Intent against a genius of their Clan. A pity indeed. Well, I guess I’ll settle on him for now, father says he’s even more talented than me in the sword. I love my father, but that’s complete dog shit.”
Li Tian in the crowd walked up to Ye Fei and greeted him, but he suddenly felt someone staring at him.
He turned his gaze to find Lu Feng looking at him.
The two powerful geniuses' eyes met across the hall and Lu Feng gave a warm smile and a nod. However, Li Tian indifferently looked away.
“Huh? What a fucking rude guy.”
Lu Feng hardly cursed but arrogant people like Li Tian annoyed him immensely.
While this hidden clash went unknown to everyone, Ghuanyu was confronting Ye Fei.
“To believe the lies of this brat, Sword Pavilion Vice Headmaster Ye Fei is revealing his naivety.”
“Li Shen is a disciple of my Sword Pavilion so I would obviously take his words seriously.”
Ghuanyu’s eyes narrowed at Ye Fei's words.
Pointing out Li Shen’s status and relationship with him was nothing more than siding with Li Shen.
“I thought you abstain from these matters, to think the righteous Illusory Sword would break his word.”
Ye Fei didn’t respond to Ghuanyu’s underline ridicule, but he was cursing his adoptive mother in his mind.
‘First, she told me not to interfere with the Li Clan and the Ming Clan stifles, but now she’s telling me to come here and show support to disciple Shen. Did she see something?’
Ghuanyu snorted at Ye Fei’s silence before he turned back to Li Shen.
“If you think you’ll amount to anything in this lifetime then don’t be shocked to see what happens in the future.”
“Ghuanyu, be careful of what you say to my son.”
Ghuanyu turned to Li Shu and casually said.
“My Ming Clan and Ming Academy is on the rise, geniuses are being created every day. He will amount to nothing and neither will that other son of yours. I will never allow the Li Clan to qualify to leave this Continent after his departure.”
Ghuanyu smiled maliciously after saying that before he went to teleported away along with his group.
However, he glanced at the group from the Star Bound Continent he had been ignoring till now. His plans have been subverted somewhat by this marriage alliance but if the Lu Clan wanted to interfere he had no problems having them suffer the same fate as the Li Clan.
Ghuanyu sneered in his heart as he disappeared.
It was obvious he did not intend on participating in Li Shen’s offer.
Li Shen looked at where he left and his thoughts raced.
Quickly, a singular thought then appeared in his mind.
“So that’s his motive!”
Li Shen now understood what Ghuanyu’s goal might be.
‘He’s planning on waiting until the talented members of our Li Clan leave the planet in search of the Golden Lotus Clan. That’s why he came here today to see the current strength of our Clan. He’s stayed as the Clan Head patiently waiting for a time when we are weakened. But...’
Li Shen looked at Li Mei.
‘If I’m not wrong, she has surpassed the Soul Transformation Realm. Ghuanyu was confident father had left but wasn’t sure of her presence. Now that he knows the scope of where our strength is he’ll continue to wait for another Emperor to be crowned. That’s when members of our Clan leave this planet and when we are at our weakest.’
‘Even though father is against it, the members from the past generation who chose to leave might not change their minds. This will leave this generation to fight on their own.’
Li Shen finally grasped part of the hidden conflict simmering under the Maple Continent.
At the spearhead of each side are his Li Clan and the Ming Clan.
Suddenly from the crowd, Su Gong stepped forward with a serious expression.
“I’ll take you up on your offer!”
His broadsword on his back let out a loud hum and his Mid Foundation Realm cultivation sent ripples into the surroundings.
“This isn’t the place for any more battles.”
Li Mei said before she snapped her fingers.
“Huh?!!”
“Wow!!”
“Wh-what happen?! How come we're outside?!”
Exclamations of shock echoed out from the seats as everyone was suddenly teleported inside a training arena somewhere in the Li Clan.
Even the Clan Leaders and the others were teleported here as well.
They all looked at Li Mei with solemn expressions.
To teleport thousands with just a snap of her fingers, just what level of power was that?
They weren’t ordinary cultivators, if someone wanted to forcefully teleport them it would be impossible, but with a mere snap of her fingers, she showed a portion of her overwhelming power.
And the weirdest thing of all was that no spatial fluctuations were present in that teleportation. it was as if her snap had merely bent reality and willed them to be moved here.
A level of Law manipulation that was beyond the Clan Leaders and the others' understanding.
Li Shen stood on one of the stages in the arena and across from him was Su Gong.
Looking up at the sky he saw the Leaders of the various powers disappearing.
‘Are they leaving?’
‘No, they’re still here. I guess they're existences that don’t usually show themselves. This event with all of them showing up is a rare occurrence and would probably never happen again.’
‘It was strange seeing such powerful cultivators converse like mortals. I had expected them to... well, I don’t know what I expected them to do. Despite the power they wield, their thoughts and actions sometimes reflect that of ordinary people.’
This was a strange fact that Li Shen observed.
They don’t have the mentality of a being of their level, or rather it was just that Li Shen was used to the Gods in the God Era that never mingled with existence lower than themselves.
‘They have some mortality to them is what I think. Not the awareness of a higher level of existence.’
“Bastard, what are you looking at? Your fight is with me. I don’t care if your the prince or not I’ll make you regret trying to use me, Su Gong!”
Li Shen lowered his head to look at Su Gong and he could hear the cheering of a few people in the crowd.
He didn’t mind this sudden situation since it gave him a stage to wipe his stigma clean.
Ghuanyu wasn’t here to see it but word of mouth travels fast.
Li Shen smirked and said.
“Be honored, you are my first slapping stone on my journey to become the number one genius in this generation.”
“What?”
Su Gong asked with a baffled expression but Li Shen simply ignored him and took a step forward before vanishing.
Su Gong was taken aback by the speed and couldn't react. Li Shen’s palm landed squarely on his cheek.
BANG!!
Su Gong's pitiful burly body twisted in the air while two streams of blood spurted from his nostrils.
With a loud thud, he landed outside the stage before his body began to spasm like a fish out of water.
The crowd went deathly silent after seeing this before everyone glanced from Su Gong half dead body to Li Shen on the stage.
With a childish, but mischievous and sadistic grin on his face, Li Shen said.
“Who’s next?”
Slap after slap echoed out in the silent arena and soon after not only did Li Shen achieve his goal of creating a boom by defeating numerous Academy disciples, but he also gain a rather peculiar name from slapping every opponent with a sick grin on his face.
‘The Sadistic Slap Devil.’
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