Chicken

Lei Kongming then took out his identity token and handed it to Hu Ling. "Aunt Hu, please give me the contact information of Brother Long. It will be easier for me to find him."

Hu Ling nodded at Lei Kongming's suggestion. "I will also enter my contact information into it. You can contact me if you have any trouble."

Suddenly, Hu Ling's identity token started flashing. After she used her divine consciousness to read it, she said, "Xiao Ming, I have some urgent matters to deal with."

Lei Kongming understood that Hu Ling was also an elder in the outer door and needed to deal with many things, so he quickly took his leave.

Walking out of Hu Ling's courtyard, Lei Kongming didn't waste any time. He quickly followed Hu Ling's instructions and reached the martial arts ground she had mentioned.

This martial arts ground was just a very large stage made of stones, which was then covered in a formation to make it harder. It would prevent any attacks from spreading out of the stage which ensures the safety of the audience.

Lei Kongming stopped a passing outer door disciple to ask about Lei Longwei's courtyard. To his surprise, as soon as the outer door disciple heard Lei Longwei's name, he became very unfriendly, as if Lei Kongming was the lawyer of his father's murderer.

Thankfully, the weak-sighted outer door disciple noticed Lei Kongming's inner door token, which saved Lei Kongming a lot of trouble as the outer door disciple's attitude took a 180-degree turn. He now treated Lei Kongming like a lawyer defending his criminal father.

Lei Kongming followed the directions the outer door disciple gave him and reached the area where Lei Longwei was staying. There were huge rows of courtyard houses, and each outer door disciple could own one of them. He felt a little envious, as he, an inner door disciple, was staying in a small hut while outer door disciples could have their own houses.

"Xiao Ming, Stop! I said Stop!"

Lei Kongming turned around to find Lei Longwei and some other outer door disciples running towards him. At first, he was a little confused, but then he felt a bit displeased at Lei Longwei for calling him 'Xiao Ming.' Despite this, he was still quite touched to see him running towards him with such enthusiasm.

"Xiao Ming, stop! Why are you running? Just stop!"

Lei Kongming wanted to reply that he was standing there, waiting for him, but then he noticed a chicken running in front of Lei Longwei.

"..."

At this moment, Lei Kongming realized that Lei Longwei was calling the chicken, not him.

'Lei Longwei! Give me back all the tears I just shed. I wasted so much of my emotions on you.'

By now, Lei Longwei also seemed to notice Lei Kongming and froze in place with an awkward smile while the disciples who were running with him continued to chase the chicken.

"Ha ha, Brother Kong, when did you come to the outer door? You should have told me, and I would have come to pick you up."

"Brother Long, you are so busy catching your chicken, how could I disturb you?" said Lei Kongming with a smile filled with kindness, similar to that of a strict school teacher who has caught a naughty boy red-handed.

"Hahaha, Brother Kong is still so good at joking."

As Lei Longwei attempted to change the topic, Lei Kongming gave him an even kinder smile.

Suddenly, the disciples who had been running with Lei Longwei returned with the chicken they were chasing.

"Boss Long, we finally caught Xiao Ming."

Lei Kongming silently covered his inner door disciple token and asked, "It seems that Boss Long loves his chicken. Is there any special reason for this?"

The outer door disciple holding the chicken nodded and said, "Yes, that's because Boss Long's cousin was unable to enter the outer door. On the first day Boss Long entered the outer door, he decided to buy a chicken and named it after his cousin in remembrance of him."

"Really? Boss Long is truly kind," said Lei Kongming, looking at Lei Longwei with an even kinder smile.

The outer door disciple glanced at Lei Kongming but was unable to identify him, so he thought that Lei Kongming was their new little brother. He then took a step closer to Lei Kongming and whispered, "Brother, there's a rumor in the outer door that Boss Long does this to mock his cousin. Boss Long wants to show everyone that his cousin is as weak as a chicken and is not worthy of..."

"Stop!"

Lei Longwei now wanted to slap this outer door disciple to death; he had been continuously signaling this stupid outer door disciple to stop talking, but this disciple continued to ignore his signals.

"What happened, Boss Long?" the outer door disciple turned around to ask, puzzled.

"Nothing. You all take the chicken back. I will first entertain this brother here," said Lei Longwei with a smile that was uglier than crying.

"Brother Kong, don't listen to their nonsense. I named the chicken Xiao Ming because I was really missing you."

At this time, Lei Longwei knew he couldn't deny that he was the one who named the chicken Xiao Ming, so all he could do was try to change his reason for naming the chicken, though it was just a lame excuse in Lei Kongming's eyes.

"Hahaha, I understand, Brother Long. Don't worry about it. Besides, why are they calling you Boss Long?"

Lei Longwei felt a little relieved when Lei Kongming didn't mention the chicken, "They are the members of my faction."

"Faction? Brother Long, why did you start a faction?" asked Lei Kongming curiously, as he had never heard of any factions in the inner door. Well, previously the 8th peak didn't even have any members, so it was normal not to have of any factions.

"Brother Kong, there are a lot of factions in the outer door, and they are continuously fighting with each other to grab resources. Instead of joining them, I decided to start my own faction to help me secure more resources."