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Chapter 101: Bodyguard, Where Are You?

Tang Xiao stumbled to the floor with a swollen face and bloody nose It was difficult to see his expression through the results of his beating

Jin Tao, conversely, sat not far away His expression was clear – the satisfaction of a man who’d finally taken a du on Tang Xiao was just that, release He hadn’t escaped the fight without a few bruises of his own, but they were few co Xiao’s side, looking down on hirunted, and said nothing further

“Up!” Lan Jue hissed at hi Xiao shot up “What the hell is this about!” His words were

“Got a probleht he was so much weaker than you Only reason you lost was because you couldn’t use your Discipline, right?”

Tang Xiao didn’t answer, but the look in his eyes did it for hiht!

Lan Jue continued “As an Adept, as a pilot, your physical abilities are your foundation Your will to fight is the key to success You’re fat, but you’re also supple – flexible You’ve got that up on Jin Tao So why did you lose? Because you didn’t have his dogged 1 determination What that means is, if your poere equal, he’d beat you every time This was just a little contest You lose, you suffer a little pain But if this ar… you’d be dead”

“So today the lesson I leave you tith is this: Treat every drill like a battle Treat every opponent like an archene Xiao’s eyes slowly melted away It was replaced with a solemn consideration He was, after all, a smart and talented student There was no doubt he’d come to understand He enty-three years old, and already he possessed considerable ability However despite his innate skills, he’d certainly heard sis from his other instructors Perhaps it had never really resonated with him before, or maybe they had never impressed the fact that success would really require physical sacrifice

“You lost the war of wills Now do you understand?” Lan Jue concluded

Tang Xiao lifted his head, and nodded sole face to Jin Tao “Understanding doesn’t mean we’re finished I never told you to stop”

This tirin on his face

“Wait a irth descended towards hi it’s prey

By the ti from the NEU campus, both the future Metal Fox and Frenzied Lion Mastiff lay sprawled on the dirt This time Professor Lan hadn’t lifted a hand, but they were in a sorrier state than the before It only ended when they had noreally is pretty nice At the very least, relaxing

Thinking back on the actions of the two gentleht a so he first experienced so like they did today It froze the so… a pain that went to the bone! Every ti there counting cigarette buts in the street! Hmph!

Classes weren’t until to It was tis to consider Not only for hi ladies as well If they only worked together their develops would be different this ti thehts were interrupted as a fa the university’s nized him as his fellow sufferer from earlier in the day Richard stood a short distance frolureeted amicably as he spotted Lan Jue

“Don’t come over here,” Lan Jue snarled “I don’t know you” If it wasn’t for this guy he wouldn’t have been so publicly humiliated, abused by that hateful woetic “Look, I’ edy she’shis anger under control, and was nearly back to his indifferent norht it all back bubbling to the surface

“So what are you doing, casing the place?”

“Nah I’ Classes are almost out for the day, and Qianlin will have to coht?”

“Oh,” Lan Jue replied, “alright then, as you were” He shrugged dis his bicycle out of the ca up in his chest He paused, and then a sound rang through the back of his uard!

His response was alh the soul-caller geainst his chest: Gate of the University

I’ll be there soon Send et near me That’s your responsibility Even in his head Qianlin’s voice was cool and dismissive