Chapter 3744: Chapter 3744: The Wager (Part 2)

Hearing this, Ye Chen slowly turned his head, only to see three men standing behind him. The one who had spoken stood in the middle, a young man with a horse face and small eyes, fanning himself with a folding fan, his face full of arrogant pride as he looked at Ye Chen.

At his sides stood two men in blue, both with cold expressions, each gripping a weapon, a dense aura of slaughtering intent surging around them.

At this moment, one of the blue‑clothed men, whose lips were a deep purple and who was holding a sword in his arms, gave the horse‑faced young man a disdainful smile and said, "Young Master Deng, why bother lowering yourself to argue with such a frog at the bottom of a well?"

The other blue‑clothed man, holding a strangely shaped, twisted wooden stick, his eyelids drooping, spoke blandly as well, "Brat, the registration fee for the Cloud Clearing Master assessment isn’t cheap. If you’re planning to throw money into the water, why not hand it to me for safekeeping instead?"

By now, the commotion here had drawn the attention of everyone on the street, and they all turned their gazes over!

At this moment, killing intent was already blazing in Xu Shenglong’s eyes. Demonic energy surged wildly around him, veins bulging on his face as if he were about to attack regardless of the consequences!

These three actually dared to mock Brother Ye!

This could be said to be the one thing in Xu Shenglong’s life he found absolutely intolerable!

Even without knowing the strength of the other side, Xu Shenglong would still risk his life to fight them!

Even if it meant death, he would make these people pay for their offense!

But just as he was about to act, a hand pressed down on his shoulder.

It was Ye Chen’s hand!

The anger in Xu Shenglong’s eyes instantly subsided, and he respectfully stood still.

Though he was furious, as a follower, Brother Ye’s will was absolute!

At this time, the surrounding people finally saw the faces of those three men clearly and let out cries of surprise: "It’s Young Master Deng Shaofeng of the Deng family! He actually came to Xianying City as well. Could it be he’s here to take the assessment?"

Another person said, "So you don’t know? He’s not just here to take the assessment. The Deng family is a Cloud Clearing Master clan. Their understanding of the Tongyuan Technique is extremely unique; almost every generation of their direct descendants has a pretty good success rate at becoming Cloud Clearing Masters. And Young Master Deng Shaofeng, as the most outstanding genius on the Cloud Clearing sect path in the Deng family for the past thousand years, is the one upon whom the family has placed high hopes!

This time, the Deng family is going to have Young Master Deng directly become an Intermediate Cloud Piercer!"

The crowd around them all sucked in a sharp breath!

Almost no one dared to directly take the Intermediate Cloud Piercer assessment. The Deng family truly lived up to its reputation as a famous Cloud Clearing clan!

Someone else looked at the two blue‑clothed men and whispered, "Those two in blue, could they be Jiuqing Mountain disciples?"

As soon as this was said, everyone nearby shuddered in shock once more!

The Deng family had actually sent people from Jiuqing Mountain to protect Deng Shaofeng?

That showed just how highly the Deng family regarded Deng Shaofeng!

The Deng family might be a famed Cloud Clearing clan, but they weren’t some massive family. Their strength was limited, so they had no choice but to send people from Jiuqing Mountain to protect Deng Shaofeng.

This Jiuqing Mountain was one of the great powers in the region around Xianying City. Not only did it monopolize quite a few industries in Xianying City, it also took on some killing jobs!

Every disciple of Jiuqing Mountain was a strong expert well‑versed in the slaughtering Dao!

It was said that there were even quite a few Qiankun Realm existences among them!

And now, the Deng family had actually invited Jiuqing Mountain disciples to move for Deng Shaofeng!

The proud looks on the faces of the two blue‑clothed men grew even stronger when they heard the crowd’s words.

Listening to the comments around him, Deng Shaofeng smiled, staring at Ye Chen with extreme contempt as he said slowly, "Brat, now do you realize how terrifying I am?"

"If you take back your words, apologize to me, and then leave this city immediately, I can spare your life! I really didn’t expect that in this Dark Domain, I’d actually see someone in the Heavenly God Realm?"

When he finished, Deng Shaofeng burst into loud laughter. He was the one who was about to take the Intermediate assessment, yet Ye Chen had called the Intermediate level trash?

There was no way he’d let Ye Chen off!

Of course, that depended on the situation. When facing martial artists whose power and background were stronger than his own, Deng Shaofeng was invariably courteous and polite.

But this indifferent young man before him, in Deng Shaofeng’s eyes, was nothing more than a Heavenly God Realm piece of trash. What was there to be wary of?

Though his own Cloud Clearing Technique only had about a sixty percent success rate, even with some error it shouldn’t be too far off, right?

In his opinion, this brat’s strength absolutely couldn’t exceed the Holy Ancestor Realm!

At this moment, Ye Chen finally spoke. He looked at Deng Shaofeng and said calmly, "Since you’re so unwilling to believe in my strength, why don’t we make a bet?"

"A bet?" Deng Shaofeng frowned. "Bet on what?"

A gleam flashed in Ye Chen’s eyes. "Let’s bet on whether I can pass the Advanced Cloud Clearing Master assessment."

The street fell silent for a moment at these words, and then erupted into roaring laughter!

Laughter that shook the sky!

What was this brat saying?

Putting on an act at a time like this?

Talking about passing the Advanced Cloud Clearing Master assessment?

He was dreaming, right?

Just then, someone suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Isn’t this the kid I ran into at the Cloud Clearing Hall a few days ago?"

"You’ve seen him before?"

The man laughed. "Seen him? More than that. Back then, I clearly heard this brat say he went to the Cloud Clearing Hall to cultivate the Cloud Clearing Three Techniques! It was only about ten days ago!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, staring at Ye Chen like he was an idiot!

Was this brat insane? After only ten days of cultivation training, he was one hundred percent guaranteed to fail even the Basic assessment, yet he wanted to jump straight to the Advanced assessment?

This was the biggest joke under the heavens!

The key point was, he even wanted to use this to bet against Young Master Deng?

They’d seen people courting death before, but never anyone courting death this hard!

The originally somewhat hesitant Deng Shaofeng’s eyes flashed with a sharp light when he heard this. After pondering for a moment, he began to laugh. "Fine, brat, what’s the stake?"

This kid really had water in his brain, right? He’d only cultivated the Cloud Clearing Three Techniques for ten days and already dreamed of passing the Advanced assessment?

Someone like this was probably used to being arrogant outside the Dark Domain and thought that in the Dark Domain, everything would still go the way he imagined, right? Heh, too naive!

Of course, Deng Shaofeng had no intention of letting such easy meat slip away!

After all, the other side was bound to lose, wasn’t he?

Ye Chen smiled. "Weren’t you just so fond of making people apologize? In that case, the loser will kowtow and apologize to the winner, and for ten thousand years, shall not set foot in Xianying City. How about it?"

Everyone was involuntarily stunned at these words!

Kowtow and apologize?

Wasn’t that going a bit too far?

In the Dark Domain, face was even more important than in the Bright Territory!

After all, here, others couldn’t see your level of cultivation clearly. Even with the Cloud Clearing Three Techniques, it was not one hundred percent accurate. So if you showed weakness, you would become a weakling in everyone’s eyes!

Let alone the part about not setting foot in Xianying City for ten thousand years?

Not entering Xianying City in itself wasn’t much, but it meant being unable to participate in the Cloud Clearing Master assessments!

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