Seeing that 99% of all the disciples here seemed to hold a grudge against him, Hu Tao decided to take the first move. Unlike before when they ganged up on him, he now had more than a few moves up his sleeves to deal with a crowd of people. He won’t have to rely on tapping into the lightning in his chains for survival. Ever since he merged with Blackie, only qi-infused attacks could hurt him at all. But only him, Jing, and Wan are aware of this knowledge as far as he knows.

  Hu Tao flicked his finger and caught the iron ball attached to the end of his endless chain. He surged a massive amount of qi inside the metal ball and laughed as it quickly grew to an insane height in his hand. Once it reached the perfect weight for him to swing around with all his strength, he stopped infusing his qi into it. If he wasn’t careful, he could crush himself with the weight of the ball.

  Despite deciding to gang up on Hu Tao, no one decided to take the first move. Unfortunately, Hu Tao learned from his father that you should always take the first move if you could help it. It will give you an advantage over the control of the fight and they won’t expect it if you’re quick enough. All of the cowardly bastards stared at him until he was ready to attack first. If he was going against someone as godly and handsome as himself, he would’ve attacked as soon as he could.

  But now, they gave Hu Tao enough time to grow his metal ball to its perfect size. This perfect size being huge enough to cast a giant shadow over everyone here right now. He could see their legs shaking and lips quivering as they started to realize just what kind of man they stood against. With such a sight in front of him, Hu Tao couldn’t help himself.

He laughed.

  He laughed long and hard enough till the piss and shit running down these pussies’ legs eventually turned into burning rage and hatred. After a good ten- or twenty-second-long laugh, they finally got their shit together and dashed toward him. It seems like they came to some sort of strange understanding. Hu Tao wondered what kind of fucking idea came to their heads in such a short amount of time.

“He can’t use something that big without crushing himself too!”

“Attack him while he’s helpless!”

“How could anyone fight with such an unwieldy weapon?! He’s obviously bluffing just to scare us!”

“It does look like I'm full of shit, doesn’t it?” Hu Tao looked up at the massive blackness above his head that blocked his view of the sky. “But do I seem like the type of fucking pussy to bluff my way out of something?” Hu Tao started to get shorter and shorter.

“He can’t hold on much longer!”

“He’s about to be crushed by his own weapon! What a fool!”

“Stupid braggart! Even if I have to die, I will make sure you come with me for the humiliation you forced upon my sister!”

  With a powerful push, Hu Tao palmed the metal ball that was comparable to a meteor in the eyes of the disciples in the far into the sky. Everyone’s jaw dropped as they realized just how freaking insane Hu Tao was. Perhaps it wasn’t the first time hearing about Hu Tao’s lunacy, but it was a different matter altogether to witness it in person. None of them could survive if such a thing crashed on them.

  All but one of the disciples immediately stopped their rush and began fleeing in all directions. The one disciple whose sister was humiliated by Hu Tao chopped at him with his long sword without a shred of hesitation in his swordplay. Hu Tao grinned as he saw this brave little Qi Gatherer. He didn’t look anything special and wasn’t anywhere near as handsome as himself. But his balls were certainly bigger than anyone else here.

  Hu Tao gave him a respectful death that any brave fighter deserved. He lightly deflected the angle of the guy’s sword by pushed at the side of his blade with his palm before giving a single palm thrust onto his chest. A burst of qi exploded a hole from the front of his chest to the back. With a missing heart, Hu Tao expected him to instantly drop but this insane bastard decided he wasn’t going to give up even if he didn’t have a heart!

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  For the first time in a while, Hu Tao could say that he was genuinely caught off guard. The heart-less bastard tapped his heart with some weird technique before falling dead to the ground. Hu Tao couldn’t resist as a strange force coiled around his heart and tightly squeezed to ensure its placement there.

“What a crazy fucking bastard. How many more of you zombie-like bastards are going to show up?!” Hu Tao felt his strength weaken greatly after being hit by that strange technique.

“Oi! Where the fuck are you all running!? Didn’t you want to kill me?!” He soon laughed it off as he got on all fours and started chasing after the fleeing disciples.

  Multiple clones emerged from Hu Tao’s body as he ripped through the fleeing disciples whose only focus was on escaping at full speed. If they weren’t fast enough in retreating, they would surely be crushed without any hopes of resisting by that falling black star above them. This impending doom caused them to make several mistakes when one of the clones of Hu Tao managed to catch up with them. Panic, fear, and the will to survive exploded within them all at once when caught. They unleashed everything they had to eliminate Hu Tao, no matter how scary he was.

“I did not attack you nor plan to! Why are you chasing me?” Xiao Hong asked as she repeatedly hopped on giant qi-formed snowflakes.

“Maybe I just like the look of your ass. Why are you being so selfish? Just let me get a quick grab and I'll be on my way.” Hu Tao laughed.

“Disgusting scum.” She glared at him as she fired an icicle behind herself to pierce through his body.

“Aren’t you being too cold, baby?!” He laughed even more as he narrowly dodged the sharp piece of ice that left a thin cut across his cheek that leaked black ooze.

  Eventually, Hu Tao was forced into rebounding himself off of the trees to catch up with the ice girl as she went higher and higher into the sky. With each bounce, his speed increased until his hand was almost grabbing her left ass cheek. Just as he was about to get a squeeze, he suddenly felt something dangerous heading towards him. He tried pulling his arm back but somehow the object increased in speed and chopped off his right arm.

  As Hu Tao landed back on the ground with his right arm missing and leaking black ooze, he looked over in the direction the weapon was flying. The black liquid dripping from Hu Tao melted the ground underneath him. His eyes locked onto a somewhat familiar figure in the distance slowly walking towards him. Hu Tao checked his left arm to see if everything was all functional and it seemed good enough.

“Going after my woman is different from insulting me.” Wuying Tang glared.

“So, she’s already taken? You know, women in relationships taste better when taken by another man.” Hu Tao grinned.

“Hmph. A swift death is too merciful for trash like you.” A bluish-gold flame-like aura of qi erupted from Tang’s body as he deftly caught his giant boomerang.

“Before we fight, I gotta ask something though.” Hu Tao’s eyes locked onto that strange weapon in his hand. “Do you know a woman named Jing?”

“No.” Tang suddenly disappeared. “Now prepared to die.” His boomerang was swinging to completely sever Hu Tao’s body in half.

“Do you really not know a woman named Jing?” Hu Tao casually asked as he tried blocking the weapon with just his left hand.

  Surprisingly, he was sent flying away even with using a majority of his strength to block. Hu Tao didn’t understand what happened. He of all people was overpowered? Only a genius body cultivator could possibly match him in strength. Something wasn’t adding up.

“Xiao Hong. I’ll deal with this. You can go.” Tang turned his head and looked into Xiao’s icy-blue eyes.

“Thank you... I won’t forget what you’ve done for me.” She didn’t know why he was sacrificing himself for her. They haven’t spoken at all before this meeting.

“Heh. Don’t look so surprised. I’m not planning to die here. Something as slow as that can’t kill me.” Tang pointed upwards at the slowly falling black ball encompassing a majority of the area around them.

“I’ll take my leave now. If you survive, I'll be willing to pay back this debt for saving my life.” She told him before running away at her fastest speeds.

  Just as she was leaving, a chain extended like a vicious snake toward her back, ready to skewer her. Xiao Hong was unaware of the danger heading towards her but Tang wasn’t. He threw his boomerang with all of his strength to protect his woman. The boomerang seemingly disappeared from existence as it appeared just in time to save Xiao Hong from a horrible fate. It deflected the chain off into the foggy forest as the boomerang tore through the giant weirdly shaped trees that caused one to feel frightened by simply looking at them. Then, it returned in merely a second as it came flying back.

“Look at you, Mr. Cool Guy. How many ladies do you pull acting as cool as that?” Hu Tao chuckled as he got up and dusted himself off.

“You’re stronger than I thought...” Tang didn’t hold anything back in that hit. He tried killing Hu Tao with his full power and he barely looked all that injured.

“Are you coming on to me now, pretty boy?” Hu Tao shined his blackened teeth.

“Just die already.” Tang disappeared once more as he rushed toward Hu Tao.