Chapter 5: Whispering

  Zhang Shan jumped off the stage and walked outwards. The students' eyes showed reverence, and they retreated one after another, clearing a path for him.

  "This is the prestige of a winner. In this world, the strong are respected and only when you have real power will others fear you."

  Zhang Shan walked out calmly, having already achieved his purpose for coming here today, and decided to head home for the time being.

  "A Shan... wait!"

  Two young men squeezed out of the crowd, shouting and laughing. Zhang Shan stopped in his tracks to take a look, and it turned out to be his old buddies Gao Peng and Lei Meng from school.

  Gao Peng was of medium build with a round face that looked harmless to both humans and animals, while Lei Meng was as fierce as his name suggested, with a leopard-like head and piercing eyes, robust and menacing.

  Due to his notorious reputation as a member of the Short-Lived Ghost Family, most students in the academy kept their distance from him. Only two students, Gao Peng and Lei Meng, were on good terms with him.

  Two men came over and held him in a tight grip, walking him out while making admiring noises.

  "Ashan, quickly tell us what's going on. Yesterday when we sent you back home, you weren't breathing at all. How did you manage to come back to life overnight?"

  Gao Peng curiously asked.

  "We were thinking of finding an opportunity to take down that White guy for you, but we didn't expect that today as soon as we arrived at the school, we heard the news that you and White had another duel, and when we rushed over, we only saw that you had beaten that kid off the stage."

  Lei Meng also opened his big mouth and laughed.

  Zhang Shan smiled: "Yesterday should have been a fake death. After waking up, for some reason, he sensed the awakening of his martial soul and then broke through to become stronger."

  "This should be called 'great suffering leads to great fortune', right? Should I also find someone to beat me half to death and see if I can awaken my martial soul?"

  Gao Peng's face was filled with envy after listening.

  "This idea is good, if you don't mind, I'll take care of it myself."

  Lei Meng burst out laughing with a mischievous look on his face.

  Gao Peng glared at him with both eyes: "Meng Zi, you've had this idea for more than one or two days, right? Isn't it just because I won a few taels of silver from you last time? You really want to take advantage of the opportunity to get me killed, huh?"

  "What a few taels of silver is it? Is seven hundred taels of silver good or not? You took my money to gamble and lost, now I even want to eat a good meal but can't."

  He said fiercely, that was his entire family property.

  Zhang Shan looked at the two people arguing as usual, and a faint smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

  These years in school, if it weren't for these two sworn brothers' help, his situation would only be more difficult.

  "A Shan, you've ruined Bai Shaohai today, I'm afraid if Bai Shaoyang finds out, he won't let you off."

  Gao Peng no longer paid attention to Lei Meng's entanglement and turned his head to say to Zhang Shan.

  Bai Shaoyang is the young master of the Bai family, the eldest legitimate brother of Bai Shaohai, and also the chief disciple of the Qitian Academy. He has a cultivation base of nine layers in the Qi Wu realm, and it is said that he has already taken half a step into the Ling Wu realm.

  Last month he went alone to the Tianqing Mountains to practice and seek opportunities to break through to the Lingwu realm, and when he comes back, he might be a martial artist of the Lingwu realm.

  Lei Meng stared with a pair of ox eyes: "Bai Shaoyang's strength is too powerful, and his sword martial soul is extremely ferocious, what can be done?"

  "When we come to a mountain, there will be a road ahead. Let's wait and see when the time comes, there will always be a way."

  Zhang Shan raised an eyebrow and showed no fear.

  "It's nothing, I've done it all anyway, who cares? Ha! Speaking of which, seeing Bai Shaohai getting trashed by you is really satisfying. Let's go celebrate together."

  Gao Peng shook his head, thinking that things had come to this point and there was no use in thinking about it anymore.

  "Not bad, good wine and good dishes must come together for a table, haha, I haven't had a good meal in many days."

  When Lei Meng heard Gao Peng's proposal, his eyes lit up and he applauded in approval.

  At this time, the two of them laughed and pulled Zhang Shan to a trip to Drunken Immortal Building, ordered a table of wine and food, and stuffed themselves for a meal.

  It was said to be for Zhang Shan's celebration, but in the end, it was still Zhang Shan who paid the bill.

  After having enough wine and food, Zhang Shan bid farewell to the two of them and returned home.

  As soon as he entered the door, he heard two excited cries: "Third Master, you're back."

  Two maidservants, identical in height and build, emerged from the main hall of the house. Not only were they indistinguishable in terms of their physical appearance, but also in their facial features - same oval-shaped face, eyes like dots of ink, elegant and refined, with no discernible difference except for the color of their clothes.

  Two sisters, Yu Yin and Yu Ku, are twin sisters. They were brought back to the Zhang family by their father, Zhang Zi Xun, ten years ago.

  The father of the two sisters was a minor official in the Qing dynasty. He was executed for his crime, and at the time, their five-year-old daughters were sold to a brothel.

  Two sisters took advantage of the turtle slave's inattention and ran away, but they didn't get far before being caught. They were severely beaten by the turtle slave right on the street.

  It happened that Zhang Ziyu was on a business trip to the capital, and he ran into them. Out of pity, he bought them at a high price and brought them back home, becoming Zhang's family maids.

  Before long, the two sisters were already fifteen years old, and Tingting had grown up into a beautiful young woman.

  Looking at the two identical beauties, Zhang Shan's eyes lit up. There aren't such naturally beautiful women on this earth, and as his own servant girls, he thought he could do whatever he wanted with them.

  Zhang Shan thought a bit wickedly, and memories related to them over the years involuntarily emerged in his mind.

  Another self had only known to work hard every day and didn't care about romantic relationships, so he hadn't even held their small hands before.

  However, since he grew up with the two sisters, they were considered childhood friends and servants, so he didn't treat them as inferiors.

  Zhang Shan smiled at them: "What's wrong with you two? Why didn't I see you at home yesterday?"

  "Yesterday, madam ordered us to go to the mine outside the city for inventory, and we stayed there overnight, only returning this morning."

  Sister smiled softly and replied.

  Zhang Shan nodded, and at home in the outskirts of the city there was a small iron mine, which did not produce much, but enough to support the Zhang family's life as a small wealthy household.

  At this time, his sister opened her bright and shiny big eyes and asked: "After we returned, I heard the lady say that you, young master, have awakened your martial soul. Is this true?"

  "Of course it's true, young master! I'll be very powerful in the future!" Zhang Shan said with a smile.

  "It's really great, then Young Master will definitely be able to advance to the Spiritual Martial Realm and won't end up like Second Young Master or Third Young Master, right?"

  Words burst forth in excitement.

  Zhang Shan had two older brothers who never awakened their martial souls and were unable to advance to the Spiritual Warrior realm, so they didn't live past twenty years old, dying even earlier than Zhang Shan's father.

  "What nonsense are you talking about, Xiao Gang?"

  Yu Yue hastily scolded her sister's unbridled mouth.

  "It's all right, young master, I will live a long life from now on."

  Zhang Shan knew that Xiaoniang's straightforward words were actually for her own happiness and didn't mean anything else.

  "Alright, I'll go practice in the backyard, you all carry on with what you're doing."

  He casually pinched her lovely face and then walked towards the backyard with a smile.

  "Sister, young master... he bullied me."

  Watching the young master's receding back, Yu Yan covered her blushingly red face and spoke in a bashful tone.

  "He's the young master, we're just servants, what's the big deal if he pinches you?"

  She rolled her eyes at her sister and said gruffly.

  "No, young master, he hasn't come near us for years."

  She blinked and whispered softly.

  Her face turned red, and she couldn't take her sister's idiotic words anymore, but in her heart, she was also muttering to herself.

  "Xiao Qi's words seem to make sense too. The young master does appear somewhat different from before, could it be that after awakening his martial soul, he has become more open-minded?"

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