36 Chapter 36. One-sided bullying

"What-" Dan ran short of breath as he stopped in his tracks.

"How is this possible-" the man spoke out in shock as he could not understand what was happening at all.

"Hmm... What do you think would be the most badass way to do this?" Leo curiously asked as he walked forward and approached the duo.

"You are just using a trick to make yourself look stronger than you are!" the man barked back as he revealed a smug look on his face.

"Hahahaha! You were just faking it! You will not fool me! You better watch out! I am not going to go as easy as before," Dan spoke as he charged forward and sent a punch right towards Leo's abdomen.

"Simple and sweet, I can't be bothered to mess about with you, otherwise the other guys will getaway. Oh wait, I can just do this," Leo smacked his head in stupidity as he dashed forward using his spider's 8 leg movement and he suddenly reappeared next to Dan.

"H-how did you?" Dan called out in disbelief but before he could continue, Leo sent a simple punch towards him and struck him straight on his abdomen as he sent him a meter back.

Dan landed straight on his back as he immediately gripped his stomach in pain as he curled up and screamed in pain.

"Young master!" the man spoke out in shock and worry as he rushed to Dan's side.

"Don't take another step forward!" Leo coldly spoke as he lifted Dan up and placed a hand on his neck.

"NO! Don't hurt him please!" the man spoke out complying with Leo's demand as he froze in his steps.

"Call you all your other mates and let them all appear here now," Leo demanded again as he gripped Dan even tighter, causing Dan to lose consciousness as his body went limp.

"Come out, guys!" the man spoke loudly as he pulled out a whistle and slightly blew on it.

And upon responding to the whistle's call, six other men appeared out of the bushes and trees and landed next to the man.

"What are your intentions from coming here? Speak now or else I will make sure your young master will never take another breath in this world," Leo coldly asked as he demanded in an extremely dangerous glare.

"You have already guessed it," the man directly replied back.

"I see, how dumb! Haha! I don't want any trouble so I want you all to leave now, here take this degenerate arrogant lump of meat," Leo blandly spoke as he threw Dan in their direction.

The men quickly formed into a small horseshoe-like formation as they caught Dan and lessened his impact. The man immediately walked up to Dan and checked on his body and gave a sigh of relief after he found out that Dan was not previously injured at all.

"Surround him," he coldly ordered and the squad immediately rushed and circled Leo who was just standing there.

"You are all just at gathering realm, you think that you can beat me?" Leo arrogantly mocked as he calmly looked around at the men.

"Do you think we will lose to a regular gathering realm when there seven of us?" the man scoffed.

"Do you think I'm a regular gathering realm cultivator?" Leo asked as an evil smile appeared on his face, "I knew that you would do this, watch out."

And as soon as Leo said this he rushed straight at one of the cultivators and immediately punched out with his left fist.

Seeing Leo's fist quickly approach him, the cultivator immediately punched out to counter Leo's fist, and as the two punches collided, a huge crack sounded as the sound of bones shattering could be heard loudly by everyone in the island. The cultivator's hand was bent in countless places as bits of bone popped out from his skin but that was the least of his worries as Leo's little fist had continued moving towards his face at an extremely fast speed. Phoom! A huge satisfying punch met the thick, hard face of the cultivator as he was sent flying back towards the pond as he swept up a large wave of water and he landed on to the other side of the shore right into a tree, with the outline of his body vaguely imprinted on the tree that he landed on.

"You were hiding your strength this whole time?!" the man spoke out this time his tone filled with amazement and shock as he could not believe that a six-year-old looking child had just sent a man flying around twenty meters.

"I never told you I wasn't," Leo jokingly replied with a smile as he politely asked, "So, are you guys going to leave or not? I'm more than happy to take care of you guys but I suggest that you all come at once. That way I don't lose time for training."

"Tch! You are bringing the wrath of the Weaver clan upon yourself!" the man angrily barked as he began thinking.

"I don't care about whatever that clan is and what the repercussions are. As long as you don't mess with me then I don't mess with you. I respect people's business but once you mess with me and my loved ones, then I can only feel sorry for you. Fortunately, you didn't succeed in your stupid endeavor. Otherwise, the Weaver clan would taste the end of its existence today," Leo threatened as his eyes narrowed into dangerous slits.

"You are to speak and say that you have the ability to destroy the Weaver clan with your meager ability," the man angrily shouted as he commanded, " Charge everyone!"

And immediately everyone there began charging at Leo as they pulled out some daggers from their waists and thrust them forwards at Leo.

Leo did not speak at all and instead charge straight them. He executed his spider leg movement art and dodged all of the dagger thrusts and stabs that were coming his way like a snake in a maze as he landed right next to the man.

"Surprised?" Leo asked with a smile as he raised his head up to see the man.

"Tha-that was not just a move, you just used an art!" the man spoke in disbelief. Children at this age would not even qualify to learn arts yet for they had not controlled their energies yet but Leo was able to. This had caused more shock and gave Leo an extremely high threat level on the man's mind subconsciously as he had managed to dodge all the attacked and arrived in front of him unharmed.

"Yep, now I will ask for the last time, or else I will take you all to the clan field and publicly reveal what you have just done. It's your choice, it's a win-win situation for me," Leo warned for the last time as he patiently waited for the man's signal.

"Do you think you are the only person with an art?" the man spoke evilly as the rest of the men appeared next to him and they all began to execute an attack art.

"This is called Cicada's penetrating Stab," the man spoke out proudly as a sharp green dagger aura appeared surrounding the men as their daggers were all raised in a horizontal straight line.

As the daggers of each man were lines up horizontally, the green sharp aura around them condensed and appeared on the dagger's surface as it radiated dangerous energy.

"Hahahaha! We only got orders to capture her so whether or not we kill you doesn't matter," the man haughtily laughed as he charged forward and sent several slashes towards Leo. The green sharp energy separated from their daggers and formed into an arcing slash as it rapidly approached Leo. The rest of the men soon followed as they also sent several slashes that were imbued with all their strength.

"Did you think you were the only one with an attack art?" Leo's mocking laugh sounded from the receiving end and as soon as he said that. A large dark empowering flame-like energy appeared from Leo's body as it coated Leo's fists like black paint.

"This energy! How can you have a black ranked art and how can you even learn it at such an age?!" the man spoke out in amazement and disbelief again as he could not believe the energy that was being radiated from Leo's over the energy from their art.

Leo simply pushed out with all his strength and faced each of the slashes and a large shockwave appeared as the energies clashed together. A huge wisp of dust and smoke appeared as it clouded the island in a slightly thick cloud.

"Did we get him?" one of the cultivators asked out curiously as he tried to look through the thick smoke.

"Cough! Cough! I'm still too weak, this art cannot defeat all of these white rank arts yet," Leo's slightly disappointed voice sounded from the other end as the dust cloud slowly cleared.

Upon seeing Leo's silhouette appear on the other end, the cultivators' mouths went agape from shock as they saw that there was almost no damage to Leo's body, and not even his clothes were harmed in any way. Did this just happen? A child that was one-fifth of their age was able to take on seven middle-aged adults.

"How is this possible? How the hell are you still fine!" the man shouted in frustration as he refused to believe that Leo had just survived the barrage of slashes.

"Life's not fair," Leo wisely added, "now it's time for you all to go to sleep."

As soon as Leo said this, he executed another art, and a heavily dreamy aura slowly diffused from Leo's body onto the island, "Black ranked art! Spider poison fog: Sleep variant!"

And as Leo said the name of the art, the heavy dream aura turned from colorless, into a bold misty pink air and coated over the men.

"How are you able to learn so many black arts?" one of the cultivators shouted in disbelief as his tone slowly got quieter and his eyes went slowly hollow as he slowly fell onto the floor, in a heavy deep unwakable asleep.

And quickly, just after the man, the rest of them slowly began to drop as they slowly fell asleep.

"My goodness..." Leo spoke out in amazement as he did not expect the art to be so effective. He had expected some of them to still be awake but this was better than he had expected.

"Are they really asleep?" Leo spoke to himself as he walked forward to one of the cultivators who were sleeping.

Snore!!!!!

The man loudly snored as a dribble of saliva slowly flowed out from his mouth as he smiled.

Poke! Poke!

Leo proceeded to poke the man several times and to his relief and surprise, the man did not react at all and just carried on sleeping.

"Looks like the Weaver clan will need seven true love's kisses for these ugly sleepers," Leo joked as he laughed happily.

"Now, let's check up on Aurora and get these men to the field," Leo decided as he piled up the men on the end of the bridge.