Reader's P.O.V

The three scouts gathered at the exit of the slave camp the three scouts waited for the last and probably most important of the candidates to finally show up so they could leave as although they threatened it there would be no point in leaving this kid behind seeing as they made it a point to give him a specialized Trial like the Troupe Hunt.

"That twerp doesn't even have the respect to show up early, why does human trash like him have to get such an opportunity such as this??", Hu Beng complained in a vain attempt to win over one of the scouts favor while rubbing some dirt on Longwei's reputation. "Listen, Senior Hu, if you don't have anything relevant to say shut the hell up and wait, he is the entire reason we even get to leave this early... If you weren't so ignorant you'd remember that usually when they do recruitment it takes anywhere from two weeks to a month before we can get around to going to the sect and they wouldn't be wasting resources like this carriage to take us as we would walk through the forest till we got there", Xu Mei finally said much to everyone else's satisfaction as Hu Beng had been running his mouth like this for well over an hour, although they did wonder what the hell Longwei was doing to take so much time after Xu Mei was right when she said he was the reason they were leaving so early in the first place.

"Mei, how dare you to speak to me in such a tone, I have done my best to take care of both you and your uncouth brother just to have you disrespect me in turn", Hu Beng retorted in anger as he truly never imagined that Xu Mei someone who he thought of as his little sister would speak against him in such a ruthless and disrespectful manner regardless of his attitude.

"You know she isn't wrong in anything she said", a voice said from a distance, the group turned to see Longwei approaching. He wore the martial gee of the outer court disciples and had a short sword sheathed at his hip, while Longwei personally wished he could use a larger one his body would not allow for it, his appearance was a lot more polished and refined than earlier if they didn't know better they would have assumed he was some big shot noble that was visiting.

"Besides I am the only reason you even get to smell the sect doors anytime this year", Longwei said in an indifferent tone as he walked past Hu Beng and straight towards Xu Mo with two books in hand. "Brother Mo it seems I've delayed your training quite a bit, so to make up for it I prepared these two manuals for you and your sister to improve your Iron body technique as well well as cultivate the Foundation establishment realm", Longwei said with a smile as he handed one book to each of the siblings and made his way to an open space nearby.

Since the carriage wasn't ready Lydia figured she'd give them time to train so she sat in the carriage with the other two and watched them from a slight distance. The Xu siblings immediately made room for themselves and started practicing the exercises they were given to the letter so as not to mess anything up, Yuchiro Yue sat cross-legged and began to meditate while Longwei practiced the standard slashes of a sword; The vertical strike, the horizontal strike, the diagonal strike, the cross slash, the X slash and lastly the spiral block. He practiced 5 sets of each in that order then slowly increased the number of sets he did each time he finished all sword motions. The only one who remained idle even after Longwei arrived was Hu Beng who was still processing what Longwei had said.

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Hu Beng shot a glare at Longwei as he approached him rapidly, "It seems I've found the one responsible for my younger siblings' sudden burst of rebellion... you're a dead-man!!", Hu Beng declared as he charged at Longwei. Hu Beng Leapt and spun mid-air to build momentum, he then applied an iron body to his feet as he dropped down attempting an ax-kick on Longwei's head. Hu Beng noticed Longwei send him a merge side glance which went to further infuriate him, he was already planning on how to continue his assault when this kick brought Longwei to the ground.

This fantasy of his crumbled when he felt his foot pass through Longwei as though there was nothing there, it became worse when Longwei's figure faded away as the kick passed through. Although when the kick hit the ground it made a deep imprint in the ground with cracks around it Hu Beng's expression was ridden with fear. He felt a chill go down his spine as a figure was present behind him. Hu Beng tried to shift his body but Longwei who was behind him knocked Hu Beng off balance causing him to fall backward. Longwei had aimed for the teenager's balancing foot making recovery near impossible even for someone of his experience, as Hu Beng fell to the point where his body was Horizontal Longwei leaped ever so slightly and rolled to the side, using the momentum he had built up he drove his elbow down on Hu Beng's face sending the boy crashing into the ground and immediately breaking his nose.

As if it wasn't enough already Longwei made one more rotation and drove his fist down on Hu Beng's chest, The impact of the blow crushed Hu Beng's rib cage and made a small crater in the ground with crack all over the imprint. Longwei landed on one foot and successfully stood upright looking at the bloodied face of the teenager who dared to attack him. Sadly his trifling knowledge of the Iron-body technique wasn't enough to save his nose from being crushed in Longwei's assault, there was blood rapidly gushing out of his nose, his face was contorted around his nose twisting his already below average looking face and turning into a scrunched out, twisted, bloody mess. His rib cage was done for but it was at least a wound he could hide. It was doubtful that anyone would even bear to look him in the eye for the rest of his life.

Thoughts like these run rampant in Hu Beng's head but he was too scared to even try to blame it on Longwei even if it was in his head. "I'll give you exactly ten seconds to explain why you just attacked me before I decided to use my sword to continue this little scuffle", Longwei declared with a glimmer in his eye. He was about to begin counting when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

Longwei's P.O.V

I looked back to see Lydia's figure towering over me with a dissatisfied frown, "Did you need something??", I asked not having the energy to deal with her right now. "I would like a word with the fallen", she responded to even my surprise. Only after she said this did I realize she was disappointed with The hu brat and not me. I'll wait and see what she does to those she is disinterested or disappointed in since this woman only acts to further her amusement. With that in mind, I sighed, nodded, and stepped aside.

"Where did you learn the iron-body technique boy??", She asked straight away once again surprising me yet again. If she truly did not know that he was gifted the technique by the Hu family then that means a lot more went on under these people's noses than I originally thought. The Hu brat was too busy twitching and writhing in pain to respond to her and for some reason that only seemed to tick the lady off more because she went out of her way to kick the poor fella." When I ask you a question you answer me dammit! Where did you learn that technique?!?!?!", She screamed in fury as she marched towards the boy she had just kicked over 10 yards, I'm pretty sure I heard his already broken rib-cage crack with that kick but Lydia didn't seem to care. At this point no matter how much I didn't like him even I had to have a heart and step in before this woman killed the boy for no real reason.