Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 565 - 535: The Bet

Chapter 565: Chapter 535: The Bet

He didn’t know what he saw, but his tight face twitched at the corners of his mouth before he snorted, "Are you threatening me?"

Ying Zhao shook his head, "It’s not a threat, but I want you to give me a reason to go against my professional ethics and conscience!"

Wenqu Star Lord furrowed his brow, "What do you mean?"

Ying Zhao, with hands clasped behind his back, paced back and forth and sighed as if struggling, "You know that my job not only entails guarding and protecting, but I am also with Kunlun Daily.

What is the purpose of our Kunlun Daily?"

"Talking nonsense, grasping at straws, being irresponsible?" Wenqu Star Lord immediately answered.

Ying Zhao’s face didn’t turn red in the slightest, but instead, he chastised with Yi Zheng’s articulation, "Wenqu Star Lord, that’s an irresponsible remark you’ve made!

Let’s not talk about others; just look at what is written on this stele, is there any falsehood?"

Wenqu Star Lord glanced at the stele, then fell silent once more.

Ying Zhao continued, "Our purpose is to respect facts, to tell the truth, and to seek truth from facts!

For many years, no matter who we faced, we’ve always told it like it is.

For us, to speak the truth, to state the facts, it’s a responsibility etched deep within our souls!"

Ying Zhao became more enthusiastic as he spoke, and finally, with clenched fists and tears in his eyes, he exclaimed, "For this responsibility, we are prepared to be despised by all, to become unwelcome, even ready to give up our lives for it!"

Yi Zheng was completely taken aback. He was a newcomer to West Kunlun and knew the basic gist of the four scourges’ usual deeds, though not like the back of his hand.

The four scourges did indeed tell the truth, but they always picked on the easy targets. Those they couldn’t beat, they really didn’t say an extra word, so their so-called truths exposed carried no risk whatsoever, let alone demanded their lives.

They even blackmailed and extorted some unlucky fellows with what they had; how was this a dangerous profession? It was nothing short of a lucrative business with huge profits!

Yi Zheng couldn’t believe that he was seeing someone describe the tabloid profession so sacredly for the first time!

What was most important was that this guy was actually not blushing!

As he reached the peak of his impassioned speech, Ying Zhao let tears stream down his horse-like face. Those aware knew he was talking about the paparazzi’s craft, but the clueless might think he was leading a revolution for all the people under heaven.

In the end, Ying Zhao grabbed Rabbit and put an arm around him, pointing at Rabbit and said, "See? This is one of my best brothers!

He came back just yesterday,

He told us that he wants to study hard, to be a good person!

But no one teaches him!

Star Lord Taibai, that Sun Tzu, said he would recommend a good person for him but ended up sending him to the Chopping Wood Sect, where he didn’t learn anything else but became an expert at swindling and deception!"

Hearing this, Wenqu Star Lord looked at Yi Zheng with sympathy, then said, "Although Kong Ni has problematic ideas, deep down, he still wants to be a good person. Besides, these years, he’s only used his dirty tricks on evil men, so... he can’t exactly be considered a bad person.

But indeed, learning from him could lead one astray."

Ying Zhao put an arm around Wenqu Star Lord’s shoulder, tears streaming, and said, "Star Lord is truly worthy of being Wenqu Star Lord; they say scholars belittle each other, but you don’t belittle at all!"

Wenqu Star Lord shrugged off his hand, coughed dryly, and said, "I am a scholar, but he is not."

Ying Zhao didn’t care about that and continued while arm in arm, "Anyway, my brother here wants to be a good Rabbit wholeheartedly.

It so happens that we four brothers are not lacking in Wen Tao Wulue..."

Wenqu Star Lord gave him a cold laugh and a disdainful glance.

Unfortunately, Ying Zhao was rolling his eyes throughout, looking into the sky, not seeing Wenqu Star’s expression, and kept talking on his own, "Sadly, we are too busy with our careers to teach him.

It’s a fortuitous coincidence, you are here!

The world is vast, but who doesn’t know that you, Wenqu Star Lord, are peerlessly exceptional when it comes to teaching and educating?"

As the saying goes, flattery will get you everywhere, and even though Wenqu Star Lord was proud, he couldn’t help but relax his expression slightly when such a high-level God Demon Level master buttered him up.

Ying Zhao continued, "But it won’t do to teach him alone, will it? Look behind you, look under your feet; what sort of people—er, rabbits—are these?"

Wenqu Star Lord looked down the mountain and saw two rabbits lurking in the grass nearby, one with a brick in hand, the other with a stick and a sack...

As someone who had seen more people than Yi Zheng had eaten rice, Wenqu Star Lord scoffed at their equipment and the look in their eyes, "Are you planning to trick me with a sack and then backstab me?"

"Let’s get out of here..." Realizing their plans were exposed, the two rabbits quickly gathered their things and ran off.

Ying Zhao, pointing gratefully at the distance, said, "Not those two, but that group over there. Look at their eyes; they thirst for knowledge!"

With that pointed finger, a group of rabbits in the distance turned their heads. The ones with sack, stick, and brick went over and said something; then, as a group, they all made cracking noises with their wrists, tilted their heads, bulged their eyes, their faces covered in stubble, tugging at big gold chains, and raised a finger, "That Sun Tzu?!"

Wenqu Star Lord’s face darkened as he looked at Ying Zhao.

Ying Zhao, still pretending to be oblivious, continued to roll his eyes to the sky, rambling on, "These kids have never learned any culture since they were young. They are crude, ignorant, filled with fury, always idle and causing trouble.

We’ve sought various teachers for them but to no avail, no one can teach them.

We’ve come to think that only you can teach them and lead them on the right path in this vast world!"

Wenqu Star Lord looked at that group of things and shook his head, saying, "Ying Zhao, I’m not a three-year-old child. I’m well aware of my own abilities. These things... cough, cough, Rabbit, I’m afraid I am powerless to help."

Moreover, I have my own rules. Those who wish to enter my Book Mountain must produce a splendid piece of writing that conjures an anomaly in Heaven and Earth and whose name will be passed down through the ages in a particular world. Furthermore, they must withstand the tests of the Heaven and Earth Association and achieve a top-three ranking before they can be considered."

This time, making an exception to accept this Rabbit was already the biggest concession I made out of respect for the Queen Mother and Gold Star Taibai."

You want me to stay here and teach so many people all at once?

I cannot do it!"

Ying Zhao smacked his lips, "So, all that I said was in vain, was it not?"

Wenqu Star Lord stubbornly raised his head, "Rules are rules!"

Ying Zhao’s temper exploded in an instant. He laid his cards on the table, no longer concealing his intentions, and with the eyes of a bully, he said, "Wenqu Star Lord, what do you mean by ’rules are rules’? What, your rules are rules, but ours are not?"

Our rules dictate that what we know must be written down and shared, known to all under the heavens!

Yet, for the sake of our brother, we are willing to go against our conscience, let our souls live in agony, and still keep this matter under wraps.

What about that?

Our sacrifice is worthless, is that it?"

Wenqu Star Lord’s eyebrows knitted together, "You... are trying to threaten me again?"

Ying Zhao waved his hand and shouted like a ruffian, "Yes, I’m threatening you!

What about it?

We had an agreement before.

If Rabbit takes us to the Pan Peach Festival, we will help him complete the task of educating all rabbits, leading the Confucian Sect onto the right path, and embarking on the enterprise of becoming an orthodox and reputable sect!

Alas, they were not capable enough and became a Demon Sect instead, a God Demon Level Sect to boot."

When Wenqu Star Lord heard this, his eyes bulged as if to say, "You really have been a great help, haven’t you?"

Ying Zhao continued, "Anyway, I’ve put it out there today.

If you don’t teach them, we’ll make sure that every scandal of yours is known throughout All Heavens!

It’s no big deal; these past few years, I’ve done nothing but chisel steles!"

A rare voice came from afar, "I won’t sleep anymore, just flying around the world. Believe me, there’s no place in the vast world that I, Rare, cannot reach."

Then the Kaiming Beast spoke up as well, "From now on, eight out of my nine heads will be watching you. Even if you fart in your pants during a meeting, I’ll write it down!"

Lu Wu also shouted out, but alas, his abilities were not of much use here, so he just roared, "Brothers, keep it up!"

Wenqu Star Lord’s face turned dark as he was, after all, a man of the world. But to be threatened so righteously and straightforwardly was something he had never encountered before.

As the saying goes, a scholar cannot reason with a soldier, so Wenqu Star Lord could only look on helplessly.

Ying Zhao said, "Wenqu Star Lord, take on this job, and I guarantee we’ll take care of all your scandals, never allowing them to spread further!"

Wenqu Star Lord promptly refused, "I do not accept threats!

If I have done wrong in my life and you wish to expose it, then expose it."

Ying Zhao was dumbfounded. He had never met a person of fame who didn’t care about their reputation before.

Just then, a figure approached Wenqu Star Lord, bowing deeply at a ninety-degree angle.

When Yi Zheng saw it, he instantly became annoyed, "Liu Fei, what are you doing?"

Liu Fei said, "Wenqu Star Lord, I beg you to stay and teach the disciples of the Confucian Sect. They are inherently good and not evil men.

They were originally just wild rabbits in the mountains, and it was the system’s descent that step by step brought them to where they are today.

Along the way, they had no teachers to guide them, relying solely on their own exploration.

Surviving has been difficult enough, and learning is even harder than ascending to the heavens.

As the saying goes, saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-story pagoda, and leading people to be virtuous brings boundless merit.

What’s more, guiding a sect, over a million people, to turn away from evil and return to righteousness?"

Wenqu Star Lord looked at the woman before him. He could feel that she, unlike those rabbits or chickens, was different. Her eyes were pure, sincere; she was like a true gentleman.

In the face of such a person, Wenqu Star Lord did not care about her strength but instead clasped his hands and returned the courtesy, "Daoist Fellow flatters me. It’s not that I am unwilling, but there are some rules that cannot be broken."

"It’s not about rules that can’t be broken; you’re just not up to it, right?" Yi Zheng suddenly spoke up, scoffing.

Wenqu Star Lord glanced at Yi Zheng, "Bluffing won’t work on me."

Yi Zheng was utterly frustrated. Dealing with a clever and stubborn person was like a dog trying to bite a turtle - utterly futile.

However, Yi Zheng was not someone who gave up easily. With a flash of inspiration, he said, "Wenqu Star Lord, how about we make a bet?"