Little Fatty Cheng Jinjin felt his body hair stand on end in an instant.
He looked at the newly acknowledged big brother in astonishment.
He hadn't expected his big brother to be so brave, speaking so forcefully in the face of the overwhelmingly imposing student council, showing not the slightest sign of weakness.
As he watched the other side's aggressive and hostile demeanor, his palms were already sweating coldly, and he dared not make a sound.
The other freshmen and senior students watching from a distance were also full of astonishment, not expecting that there could be such a fearless presence among the new students, who even dared to slap the face of the vice chairman of the student council.
"Boom!"
A row of school uniform-clad student council members glared furiously, exuding a murderous aura, faintly tinged with the scent of blood, clearly not mere campus bullies, but martial artists who had gone through slaughters and seen blood. The surrounding freshmen all took a half step back unconsciously, intimidated.
Xue Can's face turned iron blue as he said coldly,
"Kid, I've given you face."
"Do you really not want it?"
Luo Yu's words were sharp, stabbing into Xue Can's heart like a knife.
"If you think your face is worth something, you wouldn't come here personally to get it trampled under my foot for a mere million points."
A commotion stirred as figures stepped forward from behind Xue Can, rebuking with anger:
"How audacious!"
"How can you speak to the vice chairman like that?"
"Are you out of your mind, kid?"
Luo Yu ignored these people, not even glancing at them. They were all lackeys. It was enough to spray the dog's owner; spraying the dogs along with him would be demeaning.
At this moment, the conflicted look on Cheng Jinjin's face behind Luo Yu was evident as his fists clenched tightly.
Clearly outmatched by the enemy's strength, but if he didn't speak up now, it didn't sit right with him.
"The vice chairman thinks he's so impressive?"
"If your vice chairman is really that amazing, hurry up and cough up the points you owe my big brother."
"Got the guts to place bets, but not the guts to make good on them?"
Cheng Jinjin summoned his courage and blurted out everything in one breath, then felt his back soaked with sweat.
The words of Little Fatty added another level to the already dense atmosphere, ready to explode at any moment.
Luo Yu was somewhat surprised; this Little Fatty, who seemed quite timid, was doing well just standing beside him, and now he even dared to speak up?
Interesting, indeed.
"Another new student who doesn't want to live?"
"It seems that my student council's authority is still not established well enough if every Tom, Dick, and Harry dares to challenge us."
Xue Can raised his hand to silence everyone, and they instantly shut their mouths.
He looked at Luo Yu:
"Before coming here, I thought highly of your talent, and I believed that with such talent, your temperament couldn't be too weak."
"But it seems I was wrong; you're just a short-sighted, hot-headed bumpkin from a small place who has never been hard-knocked by society."
"Such temperament, such a way of conducting yourself... even with some talent, how far can you go? After all, you won't get very far."
Just as Luo Yu was about to open his mouth, an impassioned voice came from his side; Little Fatty seemed to have turned his fear into strength and got into the rhythm:
"Why would my big brother need your assessment in how he lives his life?"
"I'm very curious, who gave you the courage to talk to me like this?" Xue Can frowned, looking at the Little Fatty next to Luo Yu.
When Little Fatty saw Xue Can's gaze, he trembled as if a domestic pig was being stared down by a ferocious tiger in the jungle, his calves shaking, his limbs weak and powerless.
For a moment, he found himself unable to speak.
"Heh."
A cold laugh sounded at this moment.
Luo Yu stepped in front of Little Fatty and said, "It seems that aside from being unreasonable, Chairman Xue's brain isn't working too well either. The courage my people have naturally comes from me."
After Luo Yu stepped in front of him, Little Fatty felt like a drowning person who had been suddenly rescued, instinctively wanting to take deep breaths, but not wanting to embarrass Luo Yu, he took quiet breaths while enduring the discomfort. He was curious—was the oppressive feeling from Xue Can really that intense, or did his big brother truly not feel it?
"I think I've given you plenty of face, haven't I?" Xue Can said, "If it were any other student, their fate right now would be very grim."
"So Vice Chairman Xue judges people based on their status, targeting only the easy ones?" Luo Yu raised an eyebrow.
The expressions of the onlooking freshmen and seniors subtly changed, feeling uneasy. What was supposed to be a casual observation now seemed like an instance of the student council bullying others.
"Vulgar and rude people like you can only flex your verbal muscles," said Xue Can, growing impatient, "Congratulations, you've run out my patience."
"Right now you only have two options: either I give you another fifty thousand points, you join the student council, and we all live happily. Or... heh..."
Xue Can didn't finish, but a series of cold laughs made it clear what he meant.
Luo Yu shook his head.
"If you don't spit out the points, even if the student council doesn't come after me, I'll still come after your student council's trouble."
"What arrogance," Xue Can said with a laugh fueled by anger, "A mere freshman like you, what gives you the right to trouble my student council?"
"Yes, you have some talent, but it takes time to fulfil it. Besides, do you really think my student council has no one else?"
"Boom!"
Xue Can erupted, releasing his spiritual power and qi and blood, conjuring a peerless martial artist in Golden Armor, wielding a Heaven-slaying Halberd, carrying the Sky-Shaking Bow on his back, with many spectral soldiers appearing faintly behind him in formation, majestic and orderly, clearly not a simple array of Ancient Spirits.
But this was just the beginning. Waves of yellow light rippled from beneath Xue Can's feet and dispersed in all directions. In an instant, the surroundings were engulfed by rolling sand, as if transformed into a different world where the air became hot and dry, turning Xue Can into the center of this world.