These words repeatedly echoed in Mo Xie's head, his blood started to boil and for the first time felt extreme rage, something that had far surpa.s.sed what he felt when the Mo Family was attacked.

A few words from the past resurfaced in his memory.

"You want to protect everyone you love? You want to be strong in order for those that you protect will never suffer harm?" The person that spoke these words was none other than his father.

His father died after on a dangerous mission, he was sent alone to finish the task, his father never came back after that. His mother was exiled out of the Clan. Mo Xie tried his best to find his parents, but to no avail didn't even get a clue. Not their corpse nor the way they died was known to him.

He trained harshly under the Clan's order, he then vanished one day on a mission like his father, but what he did was to train endlessly to make his revenge.

His father chuckles at this and continued his word; "Then you'd have to be the strongest person not only in the Clan but all nine realms!"

The young innocent Mo Xie that time asked his father; "Nine realms?"

His father smiled with a nod; "Don't say it to anyone okay? But we are currently in the lowest realm, the 1st realm, and in a single Realm, you can find billions of experts much stronger than our clan!"

"Woaaah!" Mo Xie felt amazed.

His father chuckles: "And in order to protect those that you love, you need to be stronger than all of those people and the people above them!"

Mo Xie smiled; "Then... Until then, I will never let anyone hurt those that are dear to me!!"

Mo Xie's father only chuckled. That was the last time he saw his father.

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Suffering such failure before, and even after that suffered again. Mo Xie felt extreme rage. Right now, there's someone that has ill intention towards someone he missed, someone that was separated from him for so many years. (1 and a half year to be exact)

Chu Zhuen seeing Mo Xie's rage felt ecstatic, he had been humiliated for a lot of weeks by Aiqing and was ignored continuously by Shang Ting, Huolin, and Luoyang.

Chu Zhuen is tall, a meter taller than Mo Xie.

Seeing the powerless Mo Xie, Aiqing's father, Shang Ting's husband that's unable to do anything sent him to the peak of his mood.

Seeing such an event, Shang Ting felt worried, she was about to go and stop the two, but before she could, Aiqing's hands grab hers, behind Aiqing is the Sword Emperor feeling a little worried for the newly risen Medical Saint.

Chu Zhuen didn't forget to add fuel to the fire: "What can... a mere... bronze ranked mortal can do anyways, right?"

Si Baili, Tong Bulu, and the other experts were about to stop the two, but Aiqing knocks her sword sheath on the ground still staring at her father unmoving.

With just that, all of them clenched their hands as they stare at Chu Zhuen. A lot of them especially the ones Mo Xie helped was ready to be on the Soaring Blaze Phoenix Empire's bad side just to help Mo Xie.

Who's Chu Zhuen and who's Mo Xie? An arrogant b.a.s.t.a.r.d and a great benefactor. Two opposite people and the surrounding ones know who to choose.

For Chu Zhuen, it would be merely playful words in his part but never had he expected, that those words that he said were already touching Mo Xie's bottom line, especially since something happened before that he couldn't prevent due to his own weakness.

Mo Xie mood suddenly lightens, his eyes calm as he looked at Chu Zhuen with kind eyes; "Isn't that so?"

Chu Zhuen chuckles, as he finally got the revenge he liked, Chu Zhuen slowly walks forward to talk to Si Baili.

He glanced at Aiqing and Shang Ting chuckling, his face full of victorious smug, like saying; 'Your father/husband is only that, beneath me!'

But at this moment, before Chu Zhuen could actually pa.s.s Mo Xie, Aiqing chuckles too; "Oh, boy, I already warned you before."

The Sword Emperor's calm eyes that were usually unchanged suddenly opens widely; "Not good."

As the second strongest human in the whole of the Continent, the Sword Emperor is the amba.s.sador of peace, the peacemaker of the Human Race! He doesn't want to see something that would start the war, if not of Aiqing stopping him since the beginning, he would have already reprimanded Chu Zhuen until he goes home.

Aiqing seeing that the Sword Emperor was about to make a move spoke: "Granpa, you shouldn't meddle too much in other people's affairs, especially if it is too private."

Aiqing chuckles as she spoke and added; "Well, I clearly know something..."

"Father will never tolerate those that blocks his path."

The Sword Emperor frowns, he wanted to save Mo Xie from what he's about to do, but the daughter of that person is actually stopping him.

But just a few seconds later, he finally knew why...

Mo Xie's body was wrapped by a golden light, everyone saw this and became quite shocked. Especially the Sword Emperor himself. He had already seen it before.

Mo Xie's eyes immediately became filled with killing intent; "Had I mentioned that you can already walk away?"

"Hmm?" Chu Zhuen felt bewildered, still, he chuckles: "Just because you are in front of your family doesn't mean that you are unstoppable. Don't try to show off just because your loved ones are in front of you. Do not regret your decision!"

Mo Xie chuckles, his hands slowly approached Chu Zhuen's shoulder, the latter felt this and laughs: "Ahahahaha, a mere bronze ranked garbage... !?!"

But as Chu Zhuen looked at Mo Xie's eyes, Chu Zhuen felt shocked... bewildered... speechless... and terrified.

Mo Xie's not displaying any emotion right now, his pitch black eyes felt to Chu Zhuen like he would be devoured completely, there are no signs of light in it, it's like Mo Xie's whole eyes turned black.

Before Chu Zhuen could react, Mo Xie's hands are already on his shoulder.

Mo Xie opened his mouth but Chu Zhuen couldn't hear a single thing, the latter asked with sweat appearing all over his body; "W-what?!"

Mo Xie tilted his head; "I said... for how long are you going to look down on me?"

As soon as Mo Xie finished speaking, Chu Zhuen's body slams down with his knees breaking the concrete below; "H-how?! A mere bro-"

Mo Xie's eyes twitched: "Say that bronze word one more time, and you`ll see what will happen."

Right now, Mo Xie's bleeding from all of his orifices, but he's not showing the least of expression.

Chu Zhuen couldn't speak, his body frozen from trembling in fear, he couldn't even gather Spiritual Energy out of his body due to fright.

Mo Xie's lips parted, slowly spoke: "Not enough..."

As Mo Xie's words finished, he pushed down Chu Zhuen who's extremely defenseless, the latter is like a normal civilian who couldn't even defend himself against a weak cultivator.

Chu Zhuen kneeled on the ground with all four.

The Sword Emperor couldn't help but shudder, remembering who this power resembles so much after; "Martial Intent..."

Martial Intent, a killer move of extreme difficulty. This is something that can be accomplished after mastering at least three kinds of Weapon intents, an example would be; Sword Intent, Saber Intent, Mace Intent, etc.

Only true geniuses can master something like this, the Sword Emperor only saw a single person possessing such calibre, and right now, he's staring at the second one with his heart pounding loudly.

Meanwhile, Mo Xie looked down on Chu Zhuen and spoke: "Know your place."

Chu Zhuen had been devoured by Mo Xie's murderous aura and killing intent. This is not something that a spoon fed cultivator could actually fight with.