As soon as these words came out, everyone’s faces changed dramatically.
Xia Xinxin gave Luo Chen a reproachful look, her face showing clear disappointment.
She had already prepared words to plead for him later.
But Luo Chen had publicly insulted Master Zhang like this. Even if she tried to beg for mercy now, it would be useless.
Luo Chen, oh Luo Chen, why must you act so arrogant and conceited again and again?
Can you still not see the gap between you and the other party?
Chu Yunhao and the others pretended to look furious on the surface, but inside they were overjoyed.
The one surnamed Luo had actually insulted Master Zhang to his face in public.
With Master Zhang’s abilities, even standing above he must have heard it.
Then today, even if Xia Xinxin tried to intervene and plead for Luo Chen, nothing could save him.
Many noble family leaders and big shots from Hai Dong secretly felt pleased as well.
“You have such great courage. Luo, you actually dare to insult Master Zhang,” someone scolded.
“Master Zhang is right above us today. You are finished.”
But Luo Chen remained extremely disdainful.
“I have said it countless times. Even if the so called Master Zhang stands before me, I can curse him and he will not dare utter a single word of complaint.”
“Not even one word.”
“Are you not curious why he has been standing up there for so long, and why he clearly heard that last sentence yet still refuses to come down?”
“Do you find it strange?” Luo Chen said mockingly.
In fact this question did feel strange to everyone.
By rights Master Zhang should have come down already. Why was he still standing above and unwilling to descend?
Moreover he should have heard that sentence just now.
Why had he shown no reaction at all?
“Humph, that is only because Master Zhang is a godlike being who disdains to argue with you,” someone forced an explanation.
“Humph.” Luo Chen gave a cold laugh.
“Come, let me tell you the reason, you foolish ants.”
“Let me tell you why I dare to insult him publicly again and again.”
“Why I hold him in contempt.”
“Why even though he clearly heard me curse him, he still does not dare come down.”
“That is because.”
“He!”
“Does!”
“Not!”
“Dare!”
“The Master Zhang whom you all regard as a god, the deity you just knelt and worshipped on the ground, is nothing but a dog of mine, Luo Wuji.” Luo Chen laughed coldly.
At this moment someone clearly wanted to speak up and refute.
But Luo Chen gave another cold laugh and then shouted at Master Zhang who was standing above.
“Servant dog, roll down here for me.”
As soon as these words landed, everyone froze.
In the instant someone opened their mouth again, they were stunned to see that Master Zhang had really come down.
And he had truly rolled down.
He curled himself into a ball and rolled straight down from the highest stand.
Then he rolled directly onto the pitch, struggled to roll in front of Luo Chen, and knelt prostrate at his feet.
He pressed his forehead against the ground beneath Luo Chen’s feet.
This scene left everyone dumbfounded. Their minds roared, and many people’s heads went completely blank.
Then, under the utterly horrified and shocked expressions of the crowd, Luo Chen raised one foot and stepped on Master Zhang’s head.
“Hehe, Master Zhang, come and tell them, who are you?” Luo Chen said with a cold laugh.
“In reply to Master, I am merely one of your servants,” Master Zhang knelt trembling at Luo Chen’s feet.
“No, this is not real, this is impossible,” someone cried out in disbelief.
“I must be dreaming.”
“This is absolutely impossible. You must be a fake Master Zhang,” someone screamed.
But in the next moment a sharp ice spike suddenly shot out from the ground and pierced straight through that person.
Bright red blood flowed slowly down the ice pillar, like a heavy slap across everyone’s faces.
This was reality, a bloody reality.
Master Zhang was real, and the scene before them was real.
Chu Yunlong fainted directly. Chu Yunhao bit down hard on his teeth until his gums bled.
Yang Jinyu and the others remained stunned like wooden chickens.
The leaders of Hai Dong’s major noble families were still collectively lost in confusion.
Xia Xinxin’s mind roared. The Master Zhang she had respected the most was actually just Luo Chen’s dog, nothing more than a servant.
How could she accept this reality?
So it turned out that she had just knelt before one of Luo Chen’s dogs.
She had schemed so carefully to finally become a nominal disciple under Master Zhang, and she had been so happy that she could not sleep all night. Just moments ago she had even shown off in front of Luo Chen and flaunted her superiority.
At this moment Xia Xinxin felt she was the biggest fool in the world.
To think she had knelt at the feet of someone else’s servant and then gone to show off in front of the real master. Just how ridiculous and stupid was that?
At this moment Xia Xinxin woke up completely. She was wrong, terribly wrong, hopelessly wrong.
The existence she had looked up to, the object she had worshipped, was merely someone else’s dog.
And she had always looked down on Luo Chen.
Did she even have the qualifications to look down on him?
In fact, who in all of Hai Dong had the right to look down on Luo Chen?
Only now did Xia Xinxin recall Luo Chen’s repeated contempt for Master Zhang. Looking at it now, he truly had every right to be contemptuous, because that was simply his servant.
And that promise to grant the Xia family a lifetime of glory was not empty talk. He really had the strength and ability to do it.
Xia Qiuyan’s face was equally pale, even deathly grey.
She had always looked down on Luo Chen, thinking he could not compare to noble family young masters.
But now?
Let alone noble family young masters, even the family leaders could not compare to Luo Chen.
In the entire Hai Dong province, who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him?
So young and already the chief instructor of the Jingnan Military Academy, so young and already a grandmaster, and even the Master Zhang whom Hai Dong noble families worshipped like a god was merely his dog.
Who in Hai Dong could compare to Luo Chen?
The existence that could have granted their Xia family supreme glory had been repeatedly rejected and offended by her.
It could be said that the chance for the Xia family to become incomparably glorious had been personally destroyed by her.
The ones who found it hardest to accept were Chu Yunhao, Yang Shaotian and the others.
They had been thinking eagerly that they had finally found a backer, that they could finally fight Luo Chen, and even step on him and trample him.
But in the end heaven had played a huge joke on them.
Their greatest backer, the existence they worshipped as a god, was merely someone else’s dog.
Not to mention them, even the leaders of Hai Dong’s major noble families wished they could crawl into a hole right now.
It was too humiliating.
The one they had just knelt and worshipped was now kneeling like a dog at Luo Chen’s feet.
“Haha, I, Hong Biao, have truly seen something today,” Hong Biao stood up and laughed at this moment.
“Did everyone enjoy kneeling just now?”
“Pah, a bunch of blind fools. You knelt so readily before one of Master Luo’s dogs, and you still dared to be so arrogant towards Master Luo himself?”
“Aren’t you afraid of losing face if this gets out?”
“Although I have also knelt before Master Luo, I do not feel ashamed, because that is Master Luo himself. But I would never degrade myself to kneel before one of his dogs.” Hong Biao’s words struck even harder than slaps.
They pushed everyone to the peak of shame and rage.
“You were just saying you would let our Master Zhang deal with me. Why are you all silent now?” Luo Chen kept one foot on Master Zhang’s head while looking mockingly at the major noble families of Hai Dong.