Chapter 91 - An Attack That Shocks the Soul (2/2)

A neo martial art was paired with the combat technique of paleo martial arts. Qin Fen suddenly became cautious. There were many different variations of the Dragon Fist, the most famous among them were the Azure Dragon Fist, the Coiling Dragon Fist, the Flame Dragon Fist, the Gold Dragon Fist, as well as others.

Flying Flames’s profile just stated the Dragon Fist, not a specific style of it. Clearly, this meant that he could utilize all variations of the Dragon Fist. He was a warrior that specialized in the Dragon Fist.

The man was forty years old and was only at the four-star strength with a neo martial art. Clearly, the man ought to have come from a decent family. It was just that his talent wasn’t good enough, incapable of ascending to higher realms. However, his combat experience had become incomparably rich from staying at the four-star level for so long.

“Young man.” Flying Flames was taller than Qin Fen, and he stood at a spot that was much more elevated than his. The gaze that looked down seeped with deep disdain. “Since you’re so poor that you can only cultivate in the beggar martial arts, why have you come to found a sect? Cultivating in martial arts isn’t something that poor people should do. It’s better for you to act like a sandbag if you have the time and make some extra money. Why have you come to cause trouble here?”

Qin Fen’s eyebrows slowly began to furrow together. The Dragon Elephant Prajna Art was often called the bitter internal art by others, and the Shaolin Arhat Fist was called the commoner fist form even more. But to be called beggar martial arts? There was too much humiliation associated with the word beggar, and it made him much more uncomfortable than his time with Leafsky.

“What’s wrong? Are you unhappy?” Flying Flames drew his face out long, his forehead piled with quite the intimidation. “Don’t you know how much trouble people like you give to us testers? Don’t think that I’ll thank you just because you’re giving me reward points. This is very bad. The system will believe that experts like me are farming reward points. Remember to submit a note to the system after I defeat you. Say that I didn’t hire you.”

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Qin Fen suddenly recalled a few words that Enzo Rota once said about a certain person. “This here is a poser.”

A poser? When described using Lin Liqiang’s words, this was none other than someone who believed himself to possess a high set of skills and would humiliate someone he deemed to be weaker himself in order to satisfy his own vain heart.

Flying Flames’s behavior was very in line with Lin Liqiang’s explanation of what a poser was.

Flying Flames’s eyes were filled with pity, disdain, and confidence — they were practically seeping out. Qin Fen was a cultivator of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art, and he had broken through to the four-star level from the third stage of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art. However, the fourth stage of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art wasn’t released by the Federation, so cultivators of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art didn’t have a fourth stage internal art to cultivate in. They could only stay at four-star strength for the rest of their lives. Such an opponent could never become strong, so Flying Flames wouldn’t have to worry about them seeking revenge. He could humiliate them as he pleased.

It was impossible to wantonly humiliate someone in reality, but there weren’t any worries at all here in the virtual world. A sense of satisfaction, one not felt for a long time, rose once more in Flying Flames’s heart.

He knew that the more he humiliated a young man like this, the more the young man would want to fight. The fury of youngsters was easily provoked, and when rage got to a youngster’s head, the youngster would expose many holes and weakness in a fight. By then, Flying Flames could use even more humiliating words during the gaps created in the fight.

“Tell me. Do you feel especially spiritually empty every time work is over for you?” Qin Fen wasn’t mad, and not a hint of the flames of fury could be seen in his eyes. His kind voice seeped with a warmth that was hard to describe. He was like an old friend, long since they last met. “When you get back home, do you become very lost? Not knowing what you should be doing?”

….

Flying Flames was stunned. He didn’t expect Thirty-Six Hours’ response to be like this at all. Within the plain words was an intensely shocking power that penetrated the soul. Qin Fen’s simple words stirred true feelings in his heart.

As a small independent businessman, Flying Flames’s income fell short of the best but was better than the worst. However, this wasn’t enough to satisfy him. Instead, it made him feel a bit lost.

“Have you ever dreamed of doing something big when you were young?” Qin Fen paused for a bit. He spoke like a therapist from a hospital, “Do such thoughts reappear when you are lost? Do you come to the Sky Battle Net to realize the things you’re unable to satisfy in reality?”

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Flying Flames’s mouth gaped slightly, unbeknown to even himself.  Does this young man actually recognize me? How else can he make such an accurate assessment for a first meeting?

“One day you came to the Sky Battle Net and requested to open your own sect. During that day, did you discover that you were unable to realize your dream?” Qin Fen was incomparably gentle. His footsteps were very relaxed, not causing a single bit of vigilance in Flying Flames. “You didn’t want to resign yourself to such a situation, right? Yet you were unable to fight against that feeling of loss?”

Flying Flames nodded subconsciously, for he acknowledged Qin Fen’s words. He hadn’t sensed this part about himself at all, and he was shocked that a young man was able to know everything about him.

“Did you later find out in the future that you could transfer these lost feelings onto others?” Qin Fen raised a hand a pointed at himself. “For example, people like me. You especially like to watch people like me, who are applying to open a sect for the first time, lose? Do you like to watch my expression of pain as I lose? You like to destroy the dreams of people such as myself, those who seek to open a sect? You find delight in destroying such dreams?”

Flying Flames was really shocked. This was the first time they met, but Qin Fen had completely discovered the thoughts deepest in his heart. It was as if he had been stripped clean by Qin Fen and was baring himself naked, exposing everything about himself.

Compared to being stripped physically of clothes, having one’s mind completely stripped bare was far more terrifying.

Flying Flames shuddered out of nowhere. A certain emotion called fear quickly rushed through his entire body.

A small smile gradually formed on Qin Fen’s amiable facial expression. It was clearly a smile of kindness, but Flying Flames was able to feel a cold anger behind it.

“You… you….”