Luo Family

They arrived at the Yingzhou region and passed a checkpoint. Luo Bing showed her Luo family token and they were let through. They flew to the Luo Battlefield and were stopped by a bunch of people with crossbows. Luo Bing and the group came out of the Ship and everybody was stunned seeing Long Chen and Cross.

Long Chen started talking to the Luo clan people while Cross stood by the side with a blank look on his face. He didn't mind them cultivating on their own but going to the Samsara Region, is there a need to go there? It's a part of the Academy and open to the students to train their wills but surely there's another way to do it without going to the dangerous path, right?

Then again, he literally fought against the Heavens every time he had a tribulation. He guessed that the girls must have been stimulated to get stronger after seeing his tribulation. They were all in the 4 Extremes Realm, so he didn't have to worry about them too much. Plus they were at the Academy, they were safe.

Well, unless the world collapses and explodes.

Anyway!

Cross was a little upset, but he occupied himself by copying all the techniques from the people around here.

He was happily absorbing techniques when an alarm went off. A giant wave appeared and Cross said to Long Chen "Are you going to train them?" Long Chen looked at Qin Feng, Xu Zixiong, and Bai Xiaole before saying "Maybe..."

Cross sighed and kicked a rock, it blasted through the wave and burst a giant crocodile's head wide open. Long Chen pursed his lips and said "Angry?" Cross grumbled "A bit." Long Chen chuckled and the string men all swallowed their saliva.

Cross said "You over there, give me your bow. What are you doing? No, not you! The guy with a strange nose!" the guy with the strange nose gave his bow over and Cross started shooting beasts down left and right, Long Chen said "Go fight." as he went to clean up the corpses, while Bai Xiaole, Qin Feng, and Xu Zixiong went out to fight.

Cross' arrows were like lightning and he took out a pill before throwing it in the sea and releasing a strange fragrance. Long Chen shook his head and said "All of you go back. I'm afraid, he's releasing his anger today." Luo Changwu was stunned and called for a retreat.

Cross stepped into the void and he raised his hand, countless blackholes appeared behind him as millions of sea beasts appeared. He pointed down and countless weapons rained down on the beasts, noticeably each of the weapons had black runes in them.

They were super strong!

Long Chen took care of all the beasts and noticed their cores were being piled up on the side. He smirked and collected the beasts without worry. Luo Bing swallowed and said "So.. So strong!" Cross' eyes glowed and a giant figure wrapped in black draconic armor appeared, holding onto a sword in his left hand and a spear in his right.

Cross was inside the figure and a golden crown appeared around the figure's head as giant black flame wings unfurled behind it. Cross controlled the figure and slaughtered beasts in the weapon rain.

It was quite the sight!

A while later

The figure disappeared and Cross returned to the shore, there were beasts, sea monsters, sea demons, evil spirits, you name it there it was. Too bad, Cross didn't want to listen to their religious beliefs and killed them all, a giant mountain of beast cores piled up in front of the Luo Clan.

Cross turned around and looked at the sea before pointing, a small black lotus floated into the sea and Cross walked away.

A massive pillar of water shot into the sky behind him and a giant sea demon smashed into the ground, dead. Long Chen happily took it and a bigger beast core appeared on the pile. There had to be hundreds of billions of beast cores there, while Long Chen had taken hundreds of billions of corpses into his own inner world.

He also got all the corpses they had before and cleaned them out, everyone was happy. Luo Changwu came over and said "Little friend, you want the cores?" Cross said in a bad mood "Can you eat it? I have no use for them." Luo Changwu was a bit embarrassed and Long Chen smiled and said "You can keep the cores. We don't need them at all. Plus, he was just venting his anger."

Cross grumbled and turned his head, Luo Changwu said "Let's go to the Luo family then. The patriarch wants to see Long Chen and someone else wants to see Cross." Luo Bing paled and said "You don't mean?!" Luo Changwu chuckled and said "Did you think it would be a secret forever?" he shook his head and a few elders appeared saying "Patriarch said that we-"

Cross groaned and said "So noisy!" as he swung out his scythe, killing the entire group of elders. Luo Changwu shouted "Why did you do that?!" Long Chen sighed and said "You're really impatient, eh?" Cross replied "These ants, they think I'm fucking stupid?" he walked over and grabbed the heads before shaking them and revealing a different face as he said "Blood Clown Hall."

Luo Changwu was shocked and Luo Bing said "How did you know?" Cross said "I didn't." Luo Bing choked on her words and Cross added "That was a joke." he just pointed at his eyes and said nothing else.

Luo Bing said "Ohhh." Luo Changwu grumbled angrily "Fucking bastards, just wait! Let's go." as they finally went to the Luo Clan residence.

A power voice sounded when they arrived "Bring him to the Sharpening Ladder." this guy was playing the pronoun game over here, but Cross knew he was talking about Long Chen. Cross just yawned, Long Chen had a belly full of fire and stomped off to the Sharpening Ladder.

Cross and the rest followed him before stopping at a stone staircase. Long Chen took a step on the staircase and started climbing. Cross sat on a black lotus and looked to not care about anything, Luo Bing was full of expectations for Long Chen but she was also nervous about Cross.

If this guy explodes, nobody knows how big the explosion will be!

Long Chen reached the top and the Sharpening Ladder disappeared. Cross frowned and his eyes turned as he looked into the clouds. A man who looked to be in his forties, turned his head and said "Another waste..."

Cross sneered and said "You seem to think I give a shit, how many people can I kill here under you roll down to stop me?" the man was silent and said "I dare you." Cross snorted and voice directly to the man, nobody else heard him as he said "The only reason I'm not killing anybody is because it's Long Chen's family, otherwise, Hmph! Maybe I can't kill you, but surely I can take half the Luo Family with me."

Cross grinned and added "Hehe~ Luo Ning doesn't need to remember she has a family after all. I suggest you continue your charade and fuck off, I'm scared of myself when I get angry. If I was Long Chen, forget about being nice, I would've slaughtered my way into the Luo Family. What a joke."

He took his eyes back and left the crowd, his mood got worse. Qin Feng looked over and ran after him, Bai Xiaole, Xu Zixiong, and Luo Bing followed him.

Cross was walking away with his hands in his hoodie pockets when Qin Feng said "Big Bro, you know where boss went?" Cross replied "He went to fight the Old man. You probably won't see him for a while." Qin Feng was silent and Luo Bing said "I wouldn't walk around to much! You might-"

A voice cut her off and said "Might what, Bing'er?" Luo Bing paled and the group stopped. Cross turned to see a middle aged man, who slightly resembled Luo Bing and Luo Ning. Cross looked at the man and the man looked at him, neither said anything and Luo Bing said "Dad, you-"

The man raised his hand and just stared at Cross silently, Cross just looked at him with a bored look and a straight back, not giving in at all. Are you kidding? He didn't give anybody face, forget out a lover's father, even if his father was standing in front of him he would do the same.

The man suddenly said "You're going to marry into the Luo family." Luo Bing froze and Cross started laughing, the man still still without an expression on his face. Qin Feng pulled Bai Xiaole and Xu Zixiong back, anticipating the situation getting out of hand very quickly.

Cross sneered "You're funny, old man. Maybe you should quit cultivating and become a comedian." Luo Bing scrambled in front of her father and said "Dad, listen. They're not that far yet, there's no need to-" the man cut her off and said "You want my daughter to marry out? Impossible."

Cross rolled his eyes and said "Seems like you're the same as that old man at the top of the hill. No wonder the Luo family is falling." he looked to the side, expressionlessly, as he added "I thought Luo Qingyang was the only moron in the Luo Family but it seems I was wrong."

The man frowned and Cross looked at him saying "Do you know who I am?" The man sneered "You're a big shot?" Cross shook his head and said "You don't even know who I am. If you did, you wouldn't say this to me. I don't even yield to Enpuda, a World King. I'm not asking you whether you know of my name, I'm asking if you know of my character."

He sighed and said "Obviously, you don't. Which is why I said that the Luo family is falling. You want me to bend and join your family? All I can say is wake up, you're still dreaming. I don't even bend to the Heavens and Earth and you want me to bend to you? Are you joking? You're basically asking me to cut my cultivation."

Cross said emotionlessly "Don't make the mistake of thinking I don't dare kill you. I've killed the family of my wives before. One was her brothers and the other was her entire family except her sister. I really wouldn't test my bottom-line. I'm not a good person, and I happen to be having a bad day today."

He turned around and added "Regarding Luo Ning... You can try and take her from me. If one comes, I'll kill one. If two come, I'll kill two. It doesn't matter who it is, if they want to hurt my family..." his tone turned murderous and cold as he finished "They can only die under my blade!" before walking away, Qin Feng and the other two following after him.

The man looked at Cross' back with narrowed eyes, Luo Bing said "You! Argh!" before chasing after Cross. The 5 disappeared and a woman appeared next to the man before saying "It seems you made a bad impression on your son-in-law." though she was smiling happily, the man snorted and said "Hmph, he's just a brat."

The woman smiled and said "I quite like him! He looks very dependable, though I worry a bit about Ning'er... The boy isn't afraid of anything, which is dangerous." the man snorted and said "Damn brat if he hurts Ning'er... I'll kill 'im." the woman just giggled.

Cross said "Luo Bing, where's the library?" Luo Bing brought them to the Library and Cross started scanning books left and right, adding them all to his collection.

20 days passed

Cross was sitting outside and drinking by himself, looking out at the scenery. 20 days. He wasn't mad anymore, his mood was better but he was still a bit irked. They don't have to rush into dangerous practice, maybe he was being selfish and wanted them to stick to him all the time, but they were his lovers. He didn't want them to suffer even a bit.

Though he would never admit it, he knew that his presence was like a crutch for them. They'll learn to walk but very slowly. If you kick the crutch out, maybe it will be painful, but they will learn to walk faster and better, most importantly on their own.

What's the point of sadness? He'll be more sad if they die, if they leave and come back much stronger, then he should be happy. He sighed, it didn't mean he had to be happy that they chose the hard way.

He was in his thoughts when he was tapped on the shoulder. He turned his head and saw Long Chen, he said "So, the old man beat you up?" Long Chen nodded with a smile and Cross shook his head saying "You're crazy."

Long Chen smirked and replied "Says the guy who said he would charge in killing people." Cross clicked his tongue and said "The old man sure is unreliable." Long Chen chuckled and said "You met Luo Bing's parents?" Cross clicked his tongue again at the thought of the guy who wanted him to marry into the Luo family.

Long Chen grinned and said "I heard that too." Cross said "A bunch of rats, all of them. It's insane." Long Chen shook his head and said "Come eat?" Cross waved and said "I don't mix well." Long Chen just dragged him along saying "Who dares question me? You mix or you're forced to mix."

Cross just sighed and was dragged along on the ground.