Chapter 195 Canglin Tournament (10)

Once Feng Bujue and his teammates entered the hotel, a lot of people saw them, but none knew who they were so no one took them seriously. The crowd just assumed they were a part of some second or third-rate sect who didn’t know the rules and rushed into the hotel accidentally.

At the time Shi Yanran’s attention was focused on the argument between Gongsun Qian and Ji Tong, after all, she was the one who killed Wang Ao. She was afraid that she made a mistake and they would realize that it was her, so she listened to every word nervously.

The place where she had taken her seat was close to the door of the hotel, so when people came in, she cast a casual glance but when she saw the people who came in, she rose from her seat in astonishment. Gongsun Qian felt that something was wrong and stopped talking with his enemy. He turned and saw his wife staring in the direction of the hotel’s entrance with surprise on her face. “What’s the matter, my wife?”

“They are…” Shi Yanran pointed her finger towards the group of five that had just entered the hotel’s entrance, “They’re the mysterious people who killed Wang Ao last night!” she exclaimed.

The atmosphere of the whole lobby changed in an instant, a few moments ago, these Wulin people were blind to these five people who came in, but now they all moved their gaze towards Feng Bujue and his teammates. No matter how they viewed them, these five people looked unremarkable. They looked like they were young and wore ordinary clothes, they didn’t even appear to be carrying any weapons, they weren’t able to see any worry between their eyebrows, but the most puzzling thing was their movements made them look like they haven’t been trained in any martial arts at all.

“Hum… It was you.” Feng Bujue started with a cold reply, he then led his teammates, walking further inside the hotel.

The tables inside the Canglin Hotel lobby were not four-cornered. The tables were round and could easily seat up to six people. Feng Bujue walked towards an empty table and sat down informally while waiting for his teammates to sit down. He looked towards a waiter and snapped his fingers followed by waving his hand to let the waiter give them tea.

The people were able to see everything, but they had not seen him snap. It was often said that with one hand, no one can make a sound. But today, they saw a strange gesture made with one hand accompanied by a crisp sound. It wasn’t a feat or anything, but it was such a novelty to everyone present. With such a seemingly random and simple gesture, Feng Bujue gave off the impression of levity and of being grotesque to the people surrounding him.

The waiter arrived before them after being frozen for a few seconds. Dutifully, the waiter removed the duster from his shoulder and wiped the table down while he skillfully arranged several teacups with the other hand and poured tea for Feng Bujue and his teammates. “What else do you need sir?”

“Guest rooms.” Feng Bujue answered quickly.

“Well, we can’t really do that right now.” said the waiter. He had accomplished the task of cleaning the table and pouring tea with great skill and smiled back saying; “We’ve had a lot of customers recently so we’re currently full…” Suddenly, a low voice appeared behind the waiter, “Get out of the way!” the waiter felt the breath of the person who spoke at the back of his neck and was freaked out and walked away.

In an instant, Feng Bujue’s eyes met with the person who just spoke. He was a man with about fifty years on him and had graying hair, he looked annoyed. Gongsun Qian’s face was quite distinctive, with his slender eyebrows, high nose and low eyes, smooth cheeks and narrow jaw. When all put together was something very recognizable.

“What’s wrong, my predecessor?” Feng Bujue asked politely.

“Hum! Who’s your predecessor?” Gongsun Qian groaned dryly. In this moment, Gongsun Li and Shi Yanran were standing on either side of the Wanxia House leader.

“Well…” after Feng Bujue heard that, he slowly stood up.

Aside from Gongsun Qian, the people remaining took a step back. Shi Yanran obviously told them about the elusive fighting power of the five people. If she didn’t speak more seriously, she wouldn’t be able to explain her escape and would even be shamed for escaping from some “normal people”.

The condition the people in the lobby began to heat up and many of the younger disciples hoped that both sides would quickly fight so that they could study their martial arts.

“So…” Feng Bujue changing his manner of speaking “Is there anything wrong with that stupid dude over there?”.

Suddenly, everything went quiet and there seemed to be a chill wind blowing in the lobby.

Being scolded by Feng Bujue, Gongsun Qian couldn’t directly answer back. Feng Bujue indeed called Gongsun Qian “predecessor” in the beginning and it was he who rejected how Feng Bujue called him.

“You know why!” Gongsun Qian simply pretended that he didn’t hear the other’s words and directly said. “Why did you kill my disciple last night on the streets?”

When Feng Bujue heard this, he didn’t look surprised. His teammates who were drinking tea with relaxed expressions just seemed like they were watching a show.

“Oh, so he was your disciple”, he turned his gaze towards Shi Yanran then to Gongsun Li, the square-faced man from last night.

Shi Yanran and Gongsun Li’s eyes were twinkling but their expressions were still dignified. “What’s the matter? Today my husband, the leader of Wanxia House is here, you dare not admit it?” She said it was only natural for her to seize any opportunity to turn things against Feng Bujue’s group and confuse the public. According to the logic of her statement, Feng Bujue couldn’t deny it.

Feng Bujue just kept his silence for two seconds and his brain quickly discerned these people’s identities and relations and then he shouted back “Ah? I don’t care about your problems and you’re still picking a fight with me? How dare you do that?!”

When the real culprits thought that Feng Bujue was just about to tell the truth, he unexpectedly exclaimed towards Gongsun Qian “Do you think that I can’t admit it? That’s right! I killed the man! Do you have any problems with it?”

When Gongsun Li and Shi Yanran heard this, they didn’t understand it for a while, they were confused. WTF he admitted it?! And in such a clear way! Are you insane?

Gongsun Qian with a face full of saliva sprayed from Feng Bujue thought heartfeltly: Well… you are so honest…

“Good! Since you dare to say it, we don’t need to speak about it anymore. There is no hatred between Wanxia House and you. If you killed my man with no reason, according to the rules, I’ll have to avenge my apprentice right here and –” Gongsun Qian wasn’t done speaking when he was suddenly interrupted by Feng Bujue.

“Wait a minute! Who said that I killed him for no reason?”

“Oh?” Gongsun Qian’s expression slightly changed. “Are you an enemy of Wang Ao?”

“No.” Feng Bujue answered.

“Do you have a grudge against Wanxia House?”

“Also, no.”

“Then what’s wrong with you?”

“He molested my wife.” Feng Bujue said, pointing to Like Rain.

“Err…” Gongsun Qian couldn’t speak at this moment.

It wasn’t just Gongsun Qian, even Little Tan, Dispirited, and Ji Bu’s teacups fell on the ground. While it appeared that Like Rain was still calm, she stared at Feng Bujue coldly as if he owed her a lot of money, and now the interest had been doubled.

“We were just walking around town last night when we saw your apprentice Wang Ao walking towards us drunk.” There was no doubt about Feng Bujue’s ability to fabricate lies. Making up the story this whole time. “When he saw my beautiful wife, he came forward and molested her.” he spat on the ground and continued, “I guess that jerk assumed that we were just ordinary people without martial arts. He dared to speak insolently in my presence and pointed at my wife”.

Feng Bujue glared fearlessly at Gongsun Qian saying angrily, “I’ve always liked to deal with these kinds of men, thinking that they had a good command of martial arts and always relying on their background, so I killed him with one slap.” he sneered, “Besides, I know my wife’s temper better than anyone. If I didn’t do it right away, she’d do it instead. The jerk would’ve died anyway. So?” he said. “Do you still want to avenge him?”

His words were trying to fool his enemy. If enough proof was given, his statement wouldn’t sound believable at all.

Of course, the most important part of his sentence was the part where he said “he thought none of us were capable of martial arts,” which was the one Feng Bujue wanted everyone to know and with him saying “Wang Ao simply killed by me” this was the result…

The people in the lobby knew of course that there were two ways of entering Canglin Town and they were all aware of it. These five people probably had some means of concealing their own strength! It’s no wonder these figures haven’t been seen before.  Was there any reason for them to go by the proper road? They must have taken the other path, they must be masters of fighting.

“This… That’s just what you said –” Gongsun Qian was interrupted again.

“Ask the people beside you, I’m telling the truth.” Feng Bujue said confidently.

His confidence didn’t come without reason, he knew very well that those two people would tell lies. The reason was simple – killing a person required motives.

Unless Shi Yanran and Gongsun Li had a better idea than saying that Feng Bujue was a crazy man who killed anyone that he sees, they had no way of refuting his story.

“Well… This…” Shi Yanran hesitatingly said, “I didn’t see them killing Wang Ao, when I arrived he was already dead.”

Gongsun Li lowered his voice saying, “I arrived even later than her… regarding Wang Ao’s conflict with them, I wasn’t able to see it… but I don’t think they’re lying. Also, I have indeed heard of gossip saying that Wang Ao was a romantic and loved to flirt with beautiful women….”

Hearing this, Gongsun Qian believed ninety percent of Feng Bujue’s story because Shi Yanran and Gongsun Li weren’t able to explain the situation clearly. The two of them, of course, won’t tell the truth.

And now, the death of Wang Ao seemed to be justified.

Gongsun Qian recalled that there were several times Wang Ao seemed to be flirting with Shi Yanran and then he thought that the boy’s appearance was good… The more he thought about it, the more that he felt it was true. The idea of avenging his disciple was quickly dismissed.

“How about it? This sir, am I telling the truth?” Feng Bujue’s voice rose higher. “I’ll leave it here today,” he said angrily, “I killed the man! If you say that I killed him wrongly, then let’s decide life and death with destiny.”

“Gongsun Lord, you’ll have to deal with this now.” Ji Tong looked from the sides and finally understood the situation, so he gloated seeing his opponent become embarrassed.

At this moment, the other Wulin people recognized what Feng Bujue said was fact. There were a lot of whispering and discussions all around arguing that, this time, things won’t end well for Wanxia House. It turned out that their disciple did something wrong and wasn’t even able to defend himself from some young man. Would it still be okay for Gongsun Qian to avenge Wang Ao?

“Wang Ao… Did he really act like a bastard in front of you guys?” Gongsun Qian asked.

Feng Bujue knew that his lie wouldn’t stand up with hard scrutiny. Even if Wang Ao were drunk and fully confident with his abilities to take down five people who had no Kungfu, he was still a proper and respectable disciple. He wouldn’t have behaved like a ruffian on the streets. What’s more, Like Rain’s appearance was far from the level of fairies. Was it possible that Wang Ao has never met a beautiful woman? Logically speaking, the probability of this happening was small, almost non-existent.

“What? Do you think what Wang Ao did… do you think he shouldn’t die because of that?” Feng Bujue suddenly expressed a violent look, taking a step forward. He reached out and grabbed Gongsun Qian by the collar “if you found that I was flirting with your wife, do you think you’d be able to stand that? Huh?”

Feng Bujue’s response surprised everybody’s expectations, Gongsun Qian was even more shocked and couldn’t avoid Feng Bujue’s hands. He had been in this chaotic society for such a long time and he has never encountered this kind of low-leveled fighting style. When Wulin people wanted to fight, they would fight. No one had ever heard of someone grabbing their opponent’s collar to frighten them, even gangsters and private salt-peddlers wouldn’t do so.

“Let the young man cool his anger.” Gongsun Qian knew that it wouldn’t be easy for him to handle the situation right now and that it would be rude of him to strike Feng Bujue right now, so he said, “That’s not what I meant.”

“Hum…” Feng Bujue groaned coldly, retreating his hands with the appearance of “I’m not a good person”.

His teammates were amazed by his spectacular performance, Dispirited couldn’t help herself and whispered into Little Tan’s ear, “Our captain would definitely receive an Oscar if he were an actor….”

“Indeed…” Wang Tanzhi answered.

Even Shi Yanran who stood opposite them wore an inexplicable expression and couldn’t stop thinking, “I was the one who killed Wang Ao last night right?! It was me right? It was Gongsun Li and I who tried to bring disaster upon them! What’s with the situation right now?! Not only did this man take responsibility but he even told his story so smoothly and acted as if it were the truth. Is this man crazy?!”

“Err… I haven’t asked for your name yet.” Gongsun Qian said, putting on a politer expression as he straightened his clothes. He now understood that it was meaningless to continue to argue right and wrong and he would just continue to embarrass himself if held out till the end, in face of the burning gazes of most of his contemporaries.

“The owner of the Breaking Sword Tea Shack, Feng Bujue.” making a standard introduction.

This sentence also wasn’t easy to accept, Gongsun Qian had never heard of this “Shack” and he wasn’t shameless enough like Feng Bujue to ask, “I’ve heard of that name a lot of times.” He could only try to get rid of the subject and replied, “Well Lord Feng, Wang Ao’s action doesn’t represent Wanxia House’s customs, he disregarded our courtesy, sense of justice, and integrity. He had a well-deserved fate”. He addressed Wang Ao by name, no longer calling him his disciple. “Lord Feng helped us eliminate that bastard, but I didn’t even know and behaved rudely, I ask for your forgiveness…”

“Well… it’s only human.” Feng Bujue sat back down shamelessly, picking up his teacup and taking a sip. He wasn’t polite to Gongsun Qian in the moment at all, giving off the appearance “I just killed someone but who cares?”

The face of Gongsun Qian was uncontrollable seeing Ji Tiong on the side, he felt a sense of anger running from his head to his heels.

He thought, “I can’t just sit back, I have to find a way to get some face back.” he couldn’t do it directly, of course, it would just be him throwing around his weight. So, he decided to humiliate these young people with his words.

Thinking of this, Gongsun Qian said,” Hehe… Lord Feng, I have been in the world of Wulin for many years,” he said with an affectionate smile, “but have never heard of the Breaking Sword Tea Shack. To be a young and chivalrous man with such an advanced martial art, also being a leader of a party in your age. I wonder who your teacher is? Where do you and your party reside? And… How many disciples are there in your Broken Sword Tea Shack?”

Dear readers, this is what you would call someone “seeking for death”.

If language were a weapon, Gongsun Qian was like a Root Shu (a kind of weapon from ancient times, plainly speaking, it was a wooden stick) and Feng Bujue was The Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon (a legendary and powerful weapon used by the Inuisei Amanto when they first arrived on Earth and it gave them an overwhelming advantage over the Earthlings, assuring their takeover of Edo and Earth)

“Oh?” the smile on the sides of Feng Bujue’s mouth was so lewd that it instantly gave his opponent goosebumps and a strong sense of foreboding.

Before he knew it, Feng Bujue had read the other side’s mind, “That’s easy. I have no teachers. Since our shack has just opened, our faction has no place to live yet and besides my wife and I, we have a total of three squatters.”