Not Bowing Down

Lucas frowned when he saw these three men, especially the young noble in the middle who was obviously looking to cause trouble for him.

"Senior brother Jiang, I don't want any trouble. Please leave," Lucas politely said since he was trying his best to mind his own business, and the last thing he wanted was to get mixed up with this and cause his mother trouble.

Lucas' cultivation was in the weakest realm, at the intermediate realm of True Qi, where he had only comprehended some of the basic martial dao and was in the process of building up his meridians.

Unlike normal cultivators, Lucas was unable to cultivate for the majority of his life, and it was only after his mother painstakingly gathered some precious resources that he was able to start cultivating.

Still, his talent was trash, and he was never able to catch up to his peers. Because of that, he was the weakest disciple of the sect, and even those the same age as him were way ahead of him in cultivation.

He had no idea why the gods were so cruel towards him to the point that not only was his mother in trouble, but he also didn't even have average talent.

But despite all these setbacks, his determination to get stronger never wavered, and that was why he was painstakingly training hard every day so as to make up for his talent and save his mother. He wasn't going to let his weakness hold him back.

However, he had no idea that precisely because he was so weak and poor, the others were jealous that a beauty like Celia would spend so much time with him., especially the young master of the Yu Family, Jiang Yu.

His father was Linaro, the Prime General of this kingdom and also the one who captured Nadia and Lucas. But Lucas obviously knew this, and despite how angry he was at Linaro, he knew he didn't have the qualifications to take revenge now.

"Hahaha, did you hear what this trash just said? Asking me to leave? Do you have any idea to whom you are talking to? Put down your toy sword and come lick my feet while apologizing for even breathing near my woman, Celia. If you do that, then I might let you leave with just some broken limbs," Jiang said with a cruel smile.

"You are so merciful, Young Master!"

"As expected of our talented and handsome young master," The two young men praised from the side, making Jiang smile even more smugly.

Lucas could feel his chest heating up, feeling anxious and fearful since he knew that he was no match for Jiang while the other two can't be taken lightly.

Jiang was at Level 4 Spirit Realm, where his True Qi was already in the process of transforming into Spirit Qi, a richer and purer version of Qi that was qualitatively more powerful than True Qi.

It was impossible for someone in the True Qi Realm to beat someone in the Spirit Qi Realm. Even a child knew that.

Jiang didn't pick on Lucas for the past few days since Celia was sticking with him the entire time, and only now was he able to somehow find some time where Lucas was alone.

However, despite being nervous, Lucas refused to bow to this villainous young master since he knew that if he did this once, then he would forever be bowing like a dog to him, and this was not something he wanted.

And so he stood with his back straight and looked at Jiang with a firm gaze as he said, "Senior brother Jiang, Celia is only a friend to me. I don't know why you are trying to form unnecessary assumptions, but I will in no way bow to you for no reason. If you hurt me for no reason, the disciplinary elders will surely catch wind of this, and they will punish you."

Jiang let out a roar of laughter, "Haha, punish me? Trash, how could you be so naive? Those so-called disciplinary elders will tremble at my sight, and you are depending on them to punish me? As long as I don't kill you within this sect, everything else is fine. Now, I will ask you once more. Are you going to kowtow to me or not?"

Seeing Jiang's stern expression and hearing his words, Lucas wondered why the world was so unfair and corrupted. Since he always lived under Nadia's protection, he never knew the cruelty of the outside world.

But because of his situation, he had begun to realize a lot of things fast over the past few days, including things like this. He never expected that the world would be so corrupt and dirty.

In his mind, he had always envisioned a beautiful world where he was living happily with his mother.

And now he wished that he could become strong enough to get rid of filth like this who stood in the way of him saving his mother.

Lucas took a deep breath as he brandished his sword, "I will never!"

"Fool…boys thrash him," Jiang said with a smirk, not even bothering to get his hands dirty beating a trash.

"As you wish, young master!" The two of them said as they dashed forward to beat up Lucas, who quickly maneuvered his sword to fend off these two.

The two of them didn't even take Lucas seriously as they tried to grab him, thinking that he was trash at using the sword as well.

But to their surprise, Lucas skillfully swung at them, making a cut at their robes as a warning for them to not come near him.

The two were shocked since they knew Lucas was at the Intermediate Realm of True Qi with only while they were True Qi Masters.

And they weren't nobodies as well. The two of them were coming from well-off families and had learned martial arts from a very young age as well.

So how would they have known that someone weaker than them would be so skilled at using the sword?

If Lucas didn't have a sword, all it would take them was the blink of an eye to stomp him under their feet.

Lucas' eyes were sharp and focused as he said, "Stay back. I don't want any trouble, as I said before."

Jiang frowned as he looked at the two with a dark expression, "You idiots! Are you getting scared of a trash like him? How useless! Watch me!"

Without any warning, Jiang brought forward his fist to punch Lucas, who tried to defend himself by swinging his sword at Jiang's arm.

But Jiang's other hand moved too fast and grabbed Lucas' arm, and before he knew it, Jiang's fist forcibly punched Lucas' stomach, making his eyes bulge out as if they might pop out any second, and he felt as if all the breath in his body was forcibly pushed out.

"UGH!" Lucas' let out a low, heavy groan as his back bent backward, but before he could even catch his breath, Jiang slapped his face severely, making his lips bleed and his cheeks red as he fell down on the ground.

"Hmph. You two idiots couldn't take care of this trash?" Jiang said as he momentarily glanced at his two servants, though they really weren't his servants, but he treated them as such.

He then stepped on Lucas' leg, pressing down on it as the sounds of his bones creaking echoed, "You little dog. You dared to refuse my mercy? Now I shall make sure you are crippled ten times over and make you beg for death even though I won't kill you. But at least you won't be dumb enough to crawl back to Miss Celia."

Lucas gritted his teeth as he tried his best to suppress his pain and groans since he didn't want to appear weak before these bullies who preyed on the weak.

Instead, he was still glaring at Jiang as if trying to show him that he would never give in to him.

"You little fucker!" Jiang was even more infuriated since this was the first time a trash had the balls to still glare at him despite being under his feet.

So he raised his leg to crush the leg of his bones to paste, but before his feet could step on Lucas' leg,

"STOP IT!"