C9 Rebirth Camp Team

Splash...

The moment Wang Xiao spoke, the private room erupted into chaos.

"Is Wang Xiao out of his mind? Young Master Chen stepped in to handle the situation. All Tong Waner had to do was offer a toast and it would've been settled. Why stir up trouble with those comments?"

"Exactly. He didn't protect Tong Waner earlier, and now he decides to show up and play the hero?"

Disdain and disgust filled the eyes of the students as they whispered among themselves.

"Haha, Young Master Chen, as you can see, it's not that I'm disrespecting you—it's that someone here isn't giving me the respect I deserve."

Big Brother Pig's expression turned sour upon hearing Wang Xiao's retort, and he addressed Chen Jie.

Chen Jie's eyebrows twitched. He was merely acquainted with Big Brother Pig and knew better than to intervene when he was angered.

He then turned back to Wang Xiao and said icily, "Kid, you're the first to have the guts to insult me. Well done!"

"You're mistaken. I'm not fond of insulting people. But if I were, it would be like insulting a pig!"

Wang Xiao shrugged nonchalantly.

"You!" Big Brother Pig's eyes bulged with fury—he detested being compared to a pig. "Attack! Break his leg. Let's see if he remains this cocky."

His henchmen, upon hearing the command, tightened their fists and lunged at Wang Xiao's face.

The other students watched with pity, already envisioning the beating Wang Xiao was about to receive.

"Delusions of grandeur!"

With a cold snort, Wang Xiao's legs tensed and he vanished from his spot.

Reappearing in an instant before the two goons, his right hand shot out.

Two sharp slaps echoed through the air, sending the lackeys flying into the private room's wall.

A stunned silence fell over the room, eyes wide and mouths agape as if they could swallow goose eggs.

Whoosh...

Moments later, a shocked commotion filled the private room.

"Oh my god, Wang Xiao is incredible!"

"Wang Xiao, you actually know martial arts?"

Big Brother Pig's eyes were bulging as he fixated on Wang Xiao in disbelief. "How is this even possible?"

"I'm not here to watch you put on a show. Spill it—who's pulling your strings?"

Wang Xiao approached Big Brother Pig with a calm demeanor and spoke to him.

"What show? Kid, I have no clue what you're talking about."

Big Brother Pig's heart raced at Wang Xiao's words. Could he have found out about his dealings with Chen Jie?

"If you're not willing to talk, then you can't blame me for what happens next."

Wang Xiao shook his head and let out a cold snort as Big Brother Pig stubbornly maintained his silence.

"Listen, kid, I run things around here. If you lay a finger on me, in minutes you'll—Ah!"

Big Brother Pig had intended to talk tough, but his threats were cut short by a scream of agony.

Wang Xiao had twisted his right hand's fingers, and with a sickening 'crack,' they were broken. A wave of excruciating pain surged through his arm and into his body.

"Ready to talk now?"

Wang Xiao looked down at Big Brother Pig, who was now pale and sweating bullets, and asked in an even tone.

The students around them were witnessing Wang Xiao's brutal tactics for the first time, and they all swallowed hard, regarding him with awe.

Big Brother Pig clenched his teeth, resolved to keep silent as if prepared to take his secrets to the grave.

"Still got some fight in you, huh? Well, let's see about that."

With a cold smile, Wang Xiao's hands danced over Big Brother Pig, methodically dislocating his joints one after another. Without pausing, he dislocated half the joints in Big Brother Pig's body.

The room echoed with his agonized screams, chilling to the core.

"It was Chen Jie! Chen Jie gave me five thousand yuan to stage this whole act, all for that girl."

Wang Xiao paused, but before he could say another word, Big Brother Pig, terror-stricken, confessed everything. His voice shook and his body quivered as if he had endured unspeakable torture.

In his eyes, the young man before him was no less than a demon, a fiend from the deepest pits of hell.

As soon as those words were spoken, the private room erupted into chaos!

"What, Chen Jie?"

"Such a devious scheme. If Wang Xiao didn't have a few tricks up his sleeve, Chen Jie might have..."

The students quickly caught on to Chen Jie's motives. They looked at him with eyes brimming with scorn and revulsion.

To stoop to such low tactics for the sake of pursuing a girl was utterly disgraceful.

They had nearly been duped by Chen Jie's ruse!

It was all over for him! Hearing Big Brother Pig single him out, Chen Jie's face drained of color, and he slumped to the floor in defeat.

"Hmph, just another coward!"

Wang Xiao scoffed as he watched Big Brother Pig's confession, then tossed him aside like a lump of clay. He then turned his attention to Chen Jie.

"Wang Xiao, what... what are you going to do?"

Chen Jie's pallor deepened as he caught Wang Xiao's gaze, fear flickering in his eyes. He had just witnessed Wang Xiao dislocate all of Big Brother Pig's joints with a chilling calm.

*Snap*

The sharp sound of a slap echoed through the air.

Wang Xiao swung his hand across Chen Jie's face, then spoke icily, "That slap was on behalf of Tong Waner, my girlfriend. For a lowlife like you, I wouldn't waste any more effort."

With that, he turned to Tong Waner and said, "Waner, we've had enough entertainment for today. Let's head out."

"Okay!"

Tong Waner nodded sweetly and quickly stepped to Wang Xiao's side.

She had remained silent from the moment Big Brother Pig showed up and harassed her, her gaze never leaving Wang Xiao.

Even as she walked past Chen Jie, she didn't spare him a glance.

"Tong Waner, I..." The sting from the slap was sharp, but the sting of her indifference cut Chen Jie deeper. He wanted to explain himself.

But Tong Waner didn't afford him the opportunity, linking arms with Wang Xiao and walking away.

"Despicable lowlife, I've no desire to stay here any longer either."

The other students gave Chen Jie a contemptuous snort and left one by one. Eventually, only Zhang San and a few others remained in the private room.

"Damn it, Wang Xiao, I won't let this slide!" Chen Jie's fists were clenched, his teeth gritted in a furious roar.

His reputation in class had plummeted after the incident. To think that his final high school class reunion would end in such a debacle was infuriating!

In the continuous mountain ranges of Jiangnan Province, where shrubs abound and few people venture, a secluded valley hid many shadowy figures. These figures, cloaked in darkness and exuding a palpable aura of death, had clearly taken lives. Masked and anonymous, they were all members of the same clandestine organization.

"There's been a complication with the mission to assassinate Tong Waner in Forest City. Two of our bronze-ranked assassins have been killed."

The words came from a masked figure perched on a precipitous cliff overlooking the valley, his hoarse voice addressing the gathered Rebirth Camp assassins below.

A collective gasp rippled through the valley at the news.

"Two bronze-ranked assassins should have been more than a match for a ten-person mercenary squad. Doesn't Tong Waner only have a team of ten ex-military bodyguards?"

"Indeed. It was the Li brothers who made the attempt. With their skills, they should have been able to at least retreat safely, even if they failed to kill her."

The Rebirth Camp assassins, perched on various stone outcroppings, exchanged troubled glances.

"Here's the death footage sent by the Li brothers just before their demise. See for yourselves."

The apparent leader among them spoke again, producing a mini projector and casting the footage onto the valley floor. The image revealed a strikingly handsome man effortlessly catching the Li brothers' dagger in his bare hands, completely unscathed.

The seasoned assassins of the Rebirth Camp all watched intently, their experienced eyes quickly recognizing the Sky Silkworm Gloves on Wang Xiao's hands.

"My god! That's the legendary assassin's secret technique: the Tendon-dissecting Hand!"

Just then, an assassin with piercing eyes watched in awe as Wang Xiao effortlessly dismantled the Li brothers' joints, prompting an involuntary cry of astonishment.

At the sound, many assassins from the Rebirth Camp within the valley furrowed their brows, their gaze flickering with intrigue.

Though the image only showed Wang Xiao, the enigmatic skill he employed to disarticulate bones clearly conveyed the excruciating agony the Li brothers must be enduring.

A shiver ran down their spines upon realizing it was the infamous Tendon-dissecting Hand technique.

Their attention intensified as Wang Xiao produced a jade bottle, sprinkling a mysterious powder over the Li brothers.

As the corpses began to bubble and dissolve into a pool of blood, another gasp echoed through the valley, "Is that Corpse Dissolving Powder? Wasn't that the signature move of the world's deadliest assassin, the Ksitigarbha King?"

Memories stirred, and someone added, "The Heavenly Silkworm Gloves, the Tendon-dissecting Hand, Corpse Dissolving Powder... These are all hallmarks of the Ksitigarbha King!"

Another Rebirth Camp assassin spoke gravely, his words resonating through the valley and setting off a wave of shock and murmurs.

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