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Chapter 298 - 264: 【Self-important】

Chapter 298: Chapter 264: 【Self-important】

Whoosh!

As the new top scorer of Dong hai University and hailed as one of Dong University’s Double Beauties along with Situ Ruoshui, Su Liuli enjoyed immense popularity at Dong hai University, almost universally known and recognized.

When she ran out of the parking lot with tears streaming down her face, she instantly caught the attention of the students, and a question arose in nearly every student’s mind, "What happened to Su Liuli?"

Ignoring the gazes of the students, and not bothering to wipe the tears from her face, Su Liuli just kept running.

It seemed she wanted to run far away, to get as far away from Su Qin as possible.

It also seemed she wanted to alleviate the pain in her chest through vigorous running.

"Su Liuli!"

As she ran, suddenly a voice called out from beside her.

It was a man’s voice.

Hmm?

Upon hearing this call, the heartbroken Su Liuli paused and instinctively looked towards the source of the sound.

What caught her eye was a strange-looking man, with a full forehead, sharp eyebrows, and bright eyes. His temples were slightly bulging, and his skin was as smooth and tender as a baby’s. He wore his long hair up, secured with a hairpin, appearing quite unusual.

Furthermore, the man’s arms were slightly longer than average, his hands had well-defined joints, and he was dressed in a loose-fitting tracksuit, which looked somewhat out of place on him.

In the morning light, the man watched Su Liuli excitedly and walked briskly towards her, his steps so light that he seemed to almost glide over the ground.

Perhaps because of the man’s bizarre appearance, which was out of sync with the atmosphere of Dong hai University, Su Liuli’s gaze lingered on him for several seconds before she realized she didn’t recognize him. Then, she started running again.

"Please, wait a moment!"

As Su Liuli started to move away, the man called out, his feet shifting rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared right in front of her.

"Who are you?"

Looking distressed, Su Liuli frowned and asked, obviously displeased by the man’s sudden blocking of her path, her tone slightly annoyed.

"I’m sorry, Lady Su, I was too presumptuous."

Seeing that Su Liuli had no recollection of him, and sensing her slight dissatisfaction, Murong Sheng felt a bit disappointed. Despite this, he smiled and said, "I am Murong Sheng, a disciple of the Wudang Sect."

A disciple of the Wudang Sect, Murong Sheng?

Su Liuli was startled, then tried to sift through her extensive memory for any information on this man, but found none.

"You visited Wudang Mountain to offer incense last summer. We met then." Seeing that Su Liuli still didn’t recognize him, Murong Sheng had no choice but to remind her again.

With Murong Sheng’s reminder, Su Liuli suddenly remembered her trip to Southern Tibet, when she had made a detour to Wudang Mountain to pray for blessings for her cousin Su Yuxin.

Then, she also recalled an instance where a Taoist had tried to strike up a conversation with her. Surprised, she asked, "You... you are that Taoist?"

"Yes."

Seeing that Su Liuli finally remembered him, Murong Sheng felt a sigh of relief internally, and his smile brightened.

"Why are you here?" Su Liuli asked curiously.

"I came specifically to find you." Murong Sheng replied frankly, his eyes gleaming brightly as he looked at Su Liuli, not hiding his admiration and affection for her.

"To find me?"

Hearing Murong Sheng’s words and seeing his unmasked adoring gaze, Su Liuli was momentarily taken aback.

"Yes."

Murong Sheng nodded decisively.

"What... what do you want with me?" Su Liuli was full of questions.

"When we met by chance last time, I felt you were very special. After you left, I couldn’t forget you and always wanted to come down the mountain to find you. This time, I accompanied my father down the mountain on business and was already planning to look for you. Then I accidentally found your information, so I came here right away," Murong Sheng explained.

Although Su Liuli had never seriously dated before, she had received confessions since middle school, so often that she couldn’t even keep track anymore.

In such circumstances, after hearing Murong Sheng’s words, Su Liuli discerned his intentions.

After a moment’s thought, as she usually did when receiving confessions, she replied apologetically and tactfully, "I’m sorry, I already have a boyfriend."

"Ah—"

Murong Sheng exclaimed in surprise before asking somewhat puzzled, "I’ve seen your profile, and according to it, you don’t have a boyfriend?"

Originally, Su Liuli was in an extremely bad mood because she had suddenly learned that she was the illegitimate daughter of Bai Guotao. She had just spoken to Murong Sheng partly out of politeness and partly because she was curious why a Taoist would come to the school.

At this moment, when she heard Murong Sheng say that he had looked into her background, Su Liuli raised her eyebrows and turned to leave.

"Miss Su Liuli, please wait a moment."

Seeing this, Murong Sheng hurriedly stopped Su Liuli again, and before she could get angry, he took the initiative to explain, "I didn’t intentionally investigate your information. In fact, at first, I didn’t even know where you were, I came across your information by chance."

Su Liuli frowned, looking at Murong Sheng with a skeptical gaze.

"You should remember what I just said, that I came down the mountain this time following my father on a mission, right?" Murong Sheng added, seeing that Su Liuli did not believe him.

Su Liuli still frowned, "What does that have to do with you investigating my information privately?"

"This time I came down the mountain with my father to engage in a life-and-death duel—I saw your information in my opponent’s documents," Murong Sheng said truthfully.

"Who are you going to have a life-and-death duel with? Why would your opponent’s information include mine?" Su Liuli’s pupils dilated sharply upon hearing this, guessing something in her mind but not daring to be sure, her tone slightly excited.

Murong Sheng said, "According to the information, you are friends with my opponent, Ye Fan."

"You’re going to have a life-and-death duel with Ye Fan?"

Although Su Liuli had just vaguely guessed that Ye Fan was Murong Sheng’s opponent, hearing Murong Sheng personally confirm it still shocked her immensely.

On one hand, in her eyes, Murong Sheng and Ye Fan were two unrelated parties, it made no sense for them to engage in a life-and-death battle; on the other hand, having witnessed Ye Fan’s duel to the death with Hongwu Sect’s genius, Yang Qing, she knew well the cruelty of Martial Artist duels—it’s either your death or mine!

"Yes..." Murong Sheng nodded, about to say more, but Su Liuli interrupted him.

"Why do you want to have a life-and-death duel with him?"

"It’s like this, my father was defeated by his father, Ye Wenhao, years ago, losing the glory of being first on the Qing bang. After that battle, my father returned to Wudang Mountain for seclusion and has only recently left seclusion. This trip down the mountain is to find Ye Wenhao to redeem the humiliation of that battle, and at the same time, he wanted me to engage Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son, Ye Fan, in a life-and-death duel," Murong Sheng further explained.

Hearing the reasons, Su Liuli’s eyebrows were deeply furrowed, her gaze flickering, silent and seemingly lost in thought.

"Miss Su Liuli, according to the Martial Arts duel agreement, one party will undoubtedly be killed or completely lose the ability to fight."

Murong Sheng, seeing this, stood straight and chest out, confidently smiled and said, "Originally, my father wanted me to kill Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son in the duel, but since he is your friend, I can spare his life for your sake and just defeat him."

As his words fell, Murong Sheng looked expectantly at Su Liuli.

The next moment.

Su Liuli did not appreciate him as Murong Sheng had hoped. Instead, her expression suddenly turned cold: "Are you sure you can defeat him?"

"Of course."

Sensing Su Liuli’s anger, Murong Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then lifted his head, full of arrogance, "I am the most outstanding disciple of the younger generation in Wudang Sect, there’s no way he is my match."

"There have been many arrogant people who thought defeating him would be easy, but all of them were sent to Yama Palace!"

Feeling Murong Sheng’s arrogance, and recalling Murong Sheng’s arrogant offer to spare Ye Fan’s life as a favor to her, the already upset Su Liuli felt a surge of anger burning within her heart, she coldly laughed, "If you don’t want to die, you’d better leave Dong hai immediately!"

"You... what did you say??"

Initially, Murong Sheng thought that by sparing Ye Fan’s life for Su Liuli’s sake and just defeating Ye Fan, Su Liuli would appreciate him. But seeing that not only did Su Liuli not appreciate him but also spoke angrily saying he couldn’t possibly match Ye Wenhao’s illegitimate son and even saying ’if you don’t want to die, leave Dong hai immediately,’ he was completely stunned.

He knew through information provided by Zhang Qian, the owner of Wudang Martial Arts Hall, that although Ye Fan was a rare practitioner of both Magic and Martial Arts with combat abilities not inferior to an Innate Great Success Martial Artist, and with Magic Cultivation that also might have reached the Early Innate Realm, and had even easily defeated the Lan Hua Sect successor, he didn’t take him seriously.

Because, being the Martial Arts genius of Wudang Sect, who led the young disciples and had already reached the Innate Great Success Realm, not to mention due to practicing Wudang Sect’s treasured defense ’Taiyin Xuanmen Sword Technique,’ in terms of combat power, he was completely not inferior to a typical Peak stage of Innate Martial Artist!

More importantly, for this trip down the mountain, Murong Gu, the Great Elder of the Wudang Sect, especially brought one of Wudang’s treasured magical artifacts, the ’Taiyin Xuan Sword.’

The Taiyin Xuan Sword, a Pure Yang Magical Artifact, not only negated the invasion of Evil Yin Qi but also cut through iron like mud. Once Murong Sheng wielded the Taiyin Xuan Sword, combined with the ’Taiyin Xuanmen Sword Technique,’ his combat power would multiply several times over, easily slaying Peak stage of Innate Martial Artists!

In such a scenario, for Su Liuli to say he might not be a match for Ye Fan, how could he not be shocked?

In his view, if he wielded the Taiyin Xuan Sword, slaying Ye Fan would be no different than slaughtering a little chick!

"Su... Su Liuli, I will prove that everything I’ve told you is not just talk, that kid is no match for me—within three moves, I will definitely defeat him!"

Snapping out of his daze, Murong Sheng, while not understanding why Su Liuli trusted Ye Fan so deeply, was extremely indignant and then, fearing that Su Liuli might get angry, he added, "Of course, I will keep my promise to you and spare his life!"

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