PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

Bai Zifeng a young man of about twenty years tall, handsome with dark hair and eyes came out from the crowd, just from his appearance and clothing one could tell that he was someone who had a privileged life; The fact that his robe was almost as luxurious and colorful as Miao Xiauyue’s already spoke enough of such a person’s personality.

“Miao Xiauyue, don’t be arrogant, even if you are the daughter of the sect master, you can’t just ignore the sect’s regulations,” Bai Zifeng expressed with a fair but slightly irritated tone.

Miao Xiauyue who knew that this time the rules were on her side and that there was no way that Bai Zifeng could play the facts in his favor didn’t even bother to hide the mockery in her cute voice when she said: “Oh, in that case, why that you do not enlighten me Bai Zifeng What rules did I break? ”

Are you kidding? how could he not know that he had no pretext to intervene, even mentioning the subject of the rules could be considered a mistake on his part; after all the rules had been broken since before the duel started but the problem is that it was his side that did it.

And of course, he would not be so stupid to accuse the daughter of the sect master of intervening in a sect examination when he had hundreds of witnesses who would say that the examination had already ended when three of his subordinates tried to attack the winner of the duel causing Miao Xiauyue to intervene.

Not to mention that one of his subordinates was stupid enough to try to land a malicious sneak attack on the sect master’s daughter, in that sense Bai Zifeng almost wanted to thank Mei Fei Long for preventing such an attack from succeeding or he couldn’t deal with the consequences.

But even with that being the case, Bai Zifeng couldn’t let things stay that way, he had to find a way to get even a bit of advantage out of the situation or he wouldn’t know how to explain it to his elders.

Knowing Miao Xiauyue’s background and Mei Fei Long’s ridiculous strength, Bai Zifeng immediately turned his attention to the one person present that he was not afraid of; Desmond.

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Desmond at that time was not even paying attention to the events around him, not that he did not care but that he was aware of his own limits and knew that trying to intervene in a dispute between high-level disciples and the people who back it was nothing more than suicide; although to be fair Desmond had already been involved enough in the matter to try to act nonchalant about it.

But Desmond didn’t have many options, Mei Fei Long was his only friend and support within the sect so helping her was both something he wanted to do and something he needed to do.

On the other hand, he and Miao Xiauyue could not be considered friends but both saw the benefit of helping each other, besides that there was no real enmity between them and there was no reason why they could not become friends; with Xiauyue on his side Desmond would have a more solid backing within the sect.

While Miao Xiauyue would have one more ally, one with no affiliation to any existing force that had conflicts with her and whose hidden abilities might prove useful; at least that’s what she believed.

At the same time, Desmond had already finished his role in today’s events having successfully provoked their targets, now it was time for Miao Xiauyue to use her strength and status to teach these idiots a little lesson; perhaps with a little pressure, they would reveal more flaws.

It was a pity that Bai Zifeng did not know about this, in her anger and despair at trying to find a flaw to exploit, Bai Zifeng did not hesitate to direct her hostile intentions towards Desmond.

“Miao Xiauyue at this time I am not coming to fight you, but I cannot let that man get away with it, he clearly had bad intentions from the beginning and cold-blooded murderer his opponent; that kind of attitude will not be tolerated by the sect. “Bai Zifeng exclaimed with justice and renewed momentum.

It was a pity that he did not find the kind of support or reaction he expected, leaving aside the trio in front of him; even the audience looked at Bai Zifeng with strange expressions.

Barely holding back the urge to laugh out loud, Xiauyue resonated mockingly: “Oh, so you claim that Desmond had bad intentions against an opponent he didn’t even know to this day and even accuse him of cold-blooded murder, I wonder since when the sect considers combat deaths murder? maybe it was when they decided to change the rules so that it was the internal disciples who duel against the servants ”

Miao Xiauyue’s words not only elicited ridiculous laughter from the crowd but the people around also began to direct strange glances in Bai Zifeng’s direction; it was obvious that more than one person could tell that foul play was involved.

Without even a single idea of ??how to contradict what he was told, Bai Zifeng could swear that he had never been so upset in his entire life, but like it was common in spoiled children, he was not going to swallow his pride and eat the loss.

“I see that both Miss Xiauyue and Miss Fei Long are bent on defending this man,” Bai Zifeng said venomously.

Mei Fei Long noticed something strange in the way Bai Zifeng said it but she never thought it possible that someone was bold enough to blatantly insult her and Xiauyue so she replied: “He is our friend and he did not break any rules, of course, we defend it ”

Bai Zifeng smirked while looking at Desmond carefully, he nodded somewhat exaggeratedly and said: “I can understand that young ladies are at that age where they have certain needs and I must admit that this boy is handsome, but I never thought that Miss Xiauyue and Fei Long were close enough to share the same man in bed ”

The triumphant smile of an idiot was not yet finished on Bai Zifeng’s smug face when the answer came as quick and direct as thunder.

With two silver daggers around his neck, a fist covered with golden echoes pointing to the right side of his face, and a palm projecting five simultaneous blows of Ki on his left face; Bai Zifeng came face to face with the simultaneous attack from the trio that he had just offended.

Miao Xiauyue, Mei Fei Long, and Desmond had exploded in unison with a speed that Bai Zifeng found horrible, the ladies unleashing their iconic martial arts stopping only a couple of centimeters before turning Bai Zifeng’s skull into a bloody mess.

While Desmond took out his shifting fangs hidden inside his robe and placed them so close to Bai Zifeng’s neck that Desmond could decapitate the asshole in front of him if he wished, just by feeding the runes carved into the daggers with metal mana.

Now facing three people whose eyes glowed with murderous intent, Bai Zifeng would have to be an idiot of colossal proportions if he did not realize that he had just made a mistake.

“Xiauyue, would you say that insulting the honor of the sect master’s daughter would be considered an insult and a challenge to the sect master’s authority,” Desmond said, seemingly out of nowhere full of malicious intent.

Xiauyue decided to ignore the close way Desmond addressed her and played along: “Well, I think that would be the case and the punishment is not light.”

“I hope a finger is enough” Desmond’s words had not even finished leaving his lips when without any warning Desmond brandished his daggers and after a fleeting silver flash two jets of blood were followed by the fall of both index fingers of Bai Zifeng.

Not just Mei Fei Long, even Miao Xiauyue who had encouraged Desmond’s actions, neither of them expected such ruthless and instantaneous action from Desmond.

In a way, this was more surprising than seeing Desmond reduce his opponent’s skull to a prolonged spot on the ground, as that had happened in a duel but this move by Desmond was made against someone who was not in a position to defend himself because he was not to mention that Bai Zifeng also had a status that could not be looked down upon.

Bai Zifeng turned pale in a combination of anger and pain but was forced to swallow his words when he heard what Desmond said next.

“Tell me Xiauyue, do you think that is enough? Or should we also take charge of punishing them for trying to assassinate the daughter of the sect master? so far four people attacked you and one of them was clearly waiting for an ambush; if that’s not an assassination attempt, I don’t know what it was ”

A naked and blatant threat, a cynical manipulation of the facts that anyone could say was false, but would it matter if it was a lie after this sociopath murdered him? Bai Zifeng didn’t think so.

“Forget it, we still have to give something in the face to the great and powerful Bai family” Xiauyue replied using words of respect with a mocking tone.