What else is a paper tiger if it only dares to be a bully at home?

Chapter 189 What else is a paper tiger if it only dares to be a bully at home?

"What are you looking at? Why are your eyes so wide open? You dare to glare at your second uncle like that?"

Women in the family were always considered inferior, and Uncle Zhu had never been glared at like that by a junior maid before. He immediately raised his right hand to strike again, but Zhu Huan'e shouted, "Xiao Fang, don't!"

Whoosh! The sound of the wind suddenly stopped, landing steadily on Uncle Zhu's right shoulder, just a hair's breadth away.

"What?!" The two protectors barely reacted when someone appeared behind them, holding an axe, and landed on the second leader's shoulder.

The moment Uncle Zhu caught sight of the axe, he felt a chill run down his spine, as if needles were pricking his back.

"Insolence!" The second protector immediately attacked, his fists and palms striking back and forth. Uncle Zhu took the opportunity to dodge and avoid being caught in the crossfire.

The Xuan Dan Sect has been cultivating pills for generations, advancing in rank through pills. Although they advance quickly, they are not good at combat, especially close combat. Therefore, they always need to bring two guards when they go out.

As the left and right protectors of the second-in-command of the Xuandan Sect, their strength was naturally extraordinary. With the help of the pills provided by the Xuandan Sect, there were countless fifth-level fighters who could be trained quickly.

However, the downside of this rapid training is that most of these fighters are complete novices, lacking any magical abilities or even their natal artifacts, which are merely knuckle dusters worn on their fingers.

The fist and palm struck with the wind, but Fang Shi dodged by bending over. When Uncle Zhu turned around, he saw that the attacker was just a young man with no spiritual energy on him, and he immediately regained his composure.

Only Zhu Yatou saw my loss of composure just now, and I doubt she would dare to say anything. Given the environment of the Xuan Dan Sect, the fear of one's parents since childhood is something that cannot be easily shaken off even after many years away from home.

"Second Uncle, please don't hurt that boy." Upon seeing that it was Xiao Fang, Zhu Huan'e panicked. She had dared to talk back before, but now she could only plead.

She didn't know Fang Shi's cultivation level. After spending many days together, she only regarded Fang Shi as her younger brother. At only sixteen or seventeen years old, how much cultivation could he possibly have? At most, he would only be at the second or third level.

Upon hearing this, Uncle Zhu Er smiled contemptuously and said casually, "Use your martial arts and literary skills to capture that brat."

"Yes!" The two, Wenquan and Wuzhang, had just missed their attack when they replied to the second leader. However, before they could gather their strength again, two fists, one on the left and one on the right, shot straight at their faces as Fang Shi straightened up. In the blink of an eye, the powerful fist wind turned into a wave of wind and exploded, sending the surrounding broken tiles flying, blowing the corners of their clothes, and lifting their hair.

Clang! The fist and palm strikes flew several meters, smashing through the paper screen and into the inner compartment. Three or four seconds passed without any sign of the strike coming up.

"————" Zhu Huan'e opened her mouth slightly, looking at Fang Shi who was not moving at all, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.

Uncle Zhu took a barely perceptible breath, a hint of tension flashing in his eyes before quickly disappearing.

"You're the apprentice that Zhu Yatou took on?"

Fang Shi tilted his head expressionlessly and asked, "You're Master's second uncle?"

My second uncle's little tricks are quite clever; I saw them, and I really like them.

"Not bad." Uncle Zhu Er unconsciously raised his proud head: "Zhu Lie, the second-in-command and deputy sect leader of the Xuan Dan Sect."

"Heh, I think you should add the word 'rigid' to your name."

"What do you mean?"

"It means you should be reincarnated as a pig."

"Hmph, what an impudent scoundrel, what an ill-mannered brat. No wonder he became Zhu's apprentice." Although Uncle Zhu didn't know who this kid was, he figured Zhu wouldn't dare let her apprentice hurt her. If that were the case, he could simply threaten to have someone from the sect come and take him back. He was sure Zhu would be too scared to utter a word.

"So, you think you're so classy that you can vandalize someone's shop?"

"The young man has disobeyed the ancestral teachings, so it's only right that I discipline him a bit. What? Did you perhaps have a hand in coming up with this terrible idea?"

Fang Shi said, "Strictly speaking, this idea came from me."

"Good lad." Zhu Lie was amused by Fang Shi's arrogance, but also by Zhu Yatou's naivety and childishness, that she could be persuaded by this little brat to disobey ancestral precepts.

He laughed even harder, saying that Zhu Huan'e had now been completely caught red-handed, and that he would see how she managed to stay at home.

"Zhu girl—since he is your apprentice and has voluntarily confessed to the main crime, your second uncle will not make things difficult for you. Considering this is your first offense, you will come back with your second uncle this time to apologize to your father properly, and this matter will be over, understand?"

Zhu Huan'e gritted her teeth and nodded, "Yes—"

"Huh?" Fang Shi protested, speaking bluntly without any hesitation, "Seriously, Master? Aren't you going to put up a fight?"

"Xiao Fang, you don't understand. An individual is utterly powerless in the face of an entire sect—"

Even according to Fang Shi's plan, it would take Zhu Huan'e at least several years to accumulate enough capital to defy her family by relying on the hot pot restaurant.

Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how badly the Xuan Dan Sect is doing, it is still a behemoth that can stand on its own two branches in Emerald City.

Ultimately, Zhu Huan'e already knew what was going on the moment Zhu Zhu arrived at Emerald City. She had seen the grand opening of the hot pot restaurant, but it was just a beautiful dream she had in the last few days.

However, Fang Shi picked his nose and said casually, "What's left of this sect?"

"Ignorant child, do you think my Xuan Dan Sect has no one left just because you listened to a few words from that girl Zhu?"

"Are those two guys on your left and right awake yet?" Fang Shi tilted his head again, looking at Zhu Huan'e. "Master, you've already violated the ancestral precepts, why don't you be even bolder?"

Influenced by his first master, Fang Shi felt that this method had great potential.

"What do you want to do?!"

"I don't want to do anything. There are so many people watching, what can I do? I just want to remind my second uncle that there have been more cases of wild animals lately, so he should be careful on his way back."

Seeing that Fang Shi looked like a clueless greenhorn, Zhu Lie was hesitant to gamble and instead vented his anger on Zhu Huan'e, "You little Zhu girl, look what kind of disciple you've taught! I see you've been idle and incompetent all these years, teaching such twisted logic."

"Second Uncle~ you didn't really only bring these two people with you this time, did you?" Fang Shi's lips curled up uncontrollably, looking anything but well-intentioned.

The axe on his shoulder gleamed coldly. Recalling how the axe blade had just been on his shoulder, Zhu Lie dared not think about what would have happened to him if that axe had not been stopped.

Thinking this, Zhu Lie unconsciously swallowed and took a half step back without making a sound, eager to know what was going on with those two guys from the Wenquan and Wuzhang schools.

Zhu Huan'e saw all of these little actions and was stunned. She wondered how Xiao Fang could do this, and how her second uncle could be so afraid of him. Her second uncle, who had always been so powerful and authoritative in front of her since childhood, had become so pathetic.

Is it really not that scary?

"Master, it seems you understand now." Fang Shi twirled his axe, turned around, walked to the door, chased away the onlookers, and closed the door.

"What do you want?!" The door slamming action startled Zhu Lie quite a bit. Perhaps because there were no outsiders watching, he became even more unable to control his expression.

Fang Shi walked over slowly and said leisurely, "First of all, the fact that a naive girl like Zhu Zhu could escape from Xuandan Sect and run to Emerald City shows that Xuandan Sect's management is no longer strict. Either they have no intention of managing her anymore, or their members have already deserted."

"Secondly, for a sect as prestigious as Xuandan Sect, the fact that their second-in-command doesn't even have a decent carriage to travel with shows that the situation in Xuandan Sect is such that the second-in-command can no longer leave openly. As for money, they have to sell their daughters to curry favor with others, so they probably don't have much left."

"So, Second Uncle, how long are you going to keep up this paper tiger act? Forgive me for being blunt, but even without mentioning the two points above, just seeing a coward like you who only dares to act tough with the women in his family tells me what kind of person you are."

Zhu Lie was so angry by his words that his chest heaved. He pointed at him and kept saying "you—you—" for a long time, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence.

It's good that he can't speak, so Fang Shi can continue talking while twirling the axe.

"So, Second Uncle, you hit my master with your right hand just now, right?"