Chapter 14: Battle on the rooftop
"Uncle Lee, did you see how Chen Jie was scared to even be in my presence? Haha~ what a weak fellow, couldn't even handle a few mockery. Why was he even called a genius before Qi Deviation? My opinion is that he's trash."
"Agreed." Xiong Lee nodded his head.
"He is just a good-for-nothing piece of thrash." A mocking smile appeared on his face as he said these words.
Xiong Lee, even though he was a very respected person, in truth his talent wasn't that great, and only with the help of his cunningness and pills he was able to come this far. He just robbed weak people of their resources, techniques, and even luck played a great role in his development.
But in the end, everything summed up to talent. This world was unkind traveling every person differently.
Some people possessed heaven-defying talent while others were outright trash. Some just possessed mid-core talent while others possessed below average. Xiong Lee came in the latter category, and thus he was trying his best to curry favors with people.
Thinking all of this, Xiong Lee looked towards Feng Sheng. This person was extremely talented and one of the three greatest talents of this era. He was someone destined to reach the pinnacle. But for Xiong Lee...
He's my golden egg-laying duck.
"Feng Sheng, you are right. You are the true genius and someone like you has a limitless future. How can Chen Jie even think of comparing himself with you? He should be proud that he was allowed to breathe in the same room as you were."
Listening to all of the Feng Sheng felt that his chest was puffing up with pride. He felt that it would burst at any moment.
However suddenly at that second Xiong Lee froze. His palms were enveloped in blue Qi which he launched toward Feng Sheng shocking him.
Feng Sheng was about to exclaim but then realized that the punch was aimed at him. Through the corner of his eyes, he spotted a male wearing tight-fitting black clothes. Before Xiong Lee's punch could come in contact with this person he melted into shadow.
Next instance he appeared behind Xiong Lee. There was a dagger present in his palm, using which he launched an upper slash towards Xiong Lee. Even if Xiong Lee's talent was below average, he still had a lot of experience in the world of cultivation and hand-to-hand combat.
He wasn't flustered and instead twisted his right foot turning his upper and then grabbed the black dagger successfully blocking the attack that was coming towards him.
But then he abruptly felt like he was grabbing water which slowly escaped his palm. The figure once again melted into darkness.
"Be on alert. Guards! Scan the entire area, search for that bastard!"
Since Xiong Lee and Feng Sheng were currently present on the rooftop, it was very easy to cause commotion and call for help.
Guards quickly rushed towards the roof. These guards were followed by respectable cultivators who had come today to enjoy the banquet.
Quickly spreading his qi around the place, he tried to search for the one who just now attacked them.
Abruptly his Qi was triggered.
He's over there!
Xiong Lee exclaimed inwardly as he dashed towards his left side. Enveloping his fist with blue Qi he launched a strike toward the figure who immediately emerged from the darkness, trying to injure Xiong Lee with his dagger.
"Hmph, futile attempt." Xiong Lee scoffed as he easily dodged to incoming attack. However, at this second, the qi that was still spread around the area once again triggered.
"Huh?"
Through the corner of his eyes, he saw another figure had emerged entirely out of the darkness. This figure was also wearing dark tight tight-fitting clothes.
This figure also was male but unlike the one he was battling with had broad shoulders and a waist. He could be considered a half-giant.
Even though he was supposed to be an assassin for some reason, possessed a giant double-edged battle axe. Though this suited him more. It would be very funny to see a half-giant wield a small dagger.
'A bait! This lean fellow was acting as bait!' His friends would definitely laugh their asses off when they would come to know that the ruthless Xiong Lee was tricked by a bunch of kids.
Spurt!
"Argh!"
Seeing that Xiong Lee was distracted the assassin near Xiong Lee managed to strike him with the dagger on his right shoulder.
But that wasn't his main concern. It was to stop the humongous assassin that had appeared near Feng Sheng. If Feng Sheng was killed, forget leaching of him.
Xiong Lee would receive heavy punishment from not only his family but also the Feng family.
To his despair, the assassin had already raised his giant battle axe.
The other cultivators also wouldn't be able to reach there in time.
'Thankfully I have this!' He exclaimed in his heart. The next second a talisman appeared in front of him floating on top of his palm.
Before he could activate his talisman, Xiong Lee felt all his hair on the body stand. Once again he twisted his body dodging the dagger.
"Shit!"
He wasted a second in which the assassin had already launched his attack.
He had already launched his battle axe which like a boomerang was spinning towards Feng Sheng.
'Now I can only gamble everything!'
There was only one way to save him. And that was to gamble it.
The talisman quickly busted into flames and was launched towards Feng Sheng. He planned to neutralize the attack. Though it would take a lot of predictions and calculations he managed to pull it off.
But then... The battle turned. At forty-five degrees the battle axe turned. The attacks didn't need as a result the flames were launched toward Feng Sheng while the axe was launched towards Xiong Lee.
Everything happened within a split second.
Boom!
The battle axe struck Xiong's chest pinning him to the wall. But he didn't care about it at all. The time itself seemed to have slowed down as he looked at the flames that were slowly about to engulf Feng Sheng.