Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain

Chapter 24: Unexpected suicide

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“Sister Zhu!” The great elder seated at the top stood up instantly, shouting loudly.

The surrounding people were shocked, they didn’t have any intentions of stopping the match, but after feeling the aftereffects of the collision between the two, they watched as the entire sparring ground was shattered.

A few disciples and young cultivators opened their divine senses, futilely trying to scan through the entire area despite the dust. Only after the dust had settled could they see the two figures, the sight shocking every single spectator.

Long Chen was still standing in the middle of the sparring ground, his head lowered as he panted, it was clear by the speed of his breathing that he had depleted all of his spiritual power. The scaled armour on his body was damaged, slowly recovering as he breathed. Countless injuries could be seen on his body, with fresh blood flowing freely onto the ground.

And at the side of his feet, a girl was kneeling on the ground with a dazed, pale expression. Her clothes were tattered, her left arm was visibly broken, a large bleeding wound could be seen at her waist, and her hair was now messily strewn about. She looked as if she had lost her soul.

And that woman was the pride of the Hundred Flower sect, the Hundred Flower Fairy Zhu Zhu Shu!

“How could it be? How did this happen?” The sixth princess, seated on the platform, looked at the two people on the ground in disbelief. Her gaze shifted between Zhu Zhu Shu and Long Chen, as if she couldn’t accept Zhu Zhu Shu’s defeat.

In reality, most of the spectators couldn’t accept it either, and all of them looked on in dismay. Zhu Zhu Shu was one of the seven young prodigies in Yan, someone that was undoubtedly strong, a fact that was ingrained in their minds. But all of them could see that Long Chen had the upper hand in this fight, and Zhu Zhu Shu had lost to Long Chen, a result that they couldn’t accept.

“Despicable!” The great elder cursed under her breath as she stared at the two of them, her thoughts unclear as a solemn expression remained on her face.

On the other side, Qin Lao looked at Long Chen with a big smile, his eyes filled with appreciation.

The crowd started discussing amongst themselves.

“What kind of a situation is this? Is no one going to come out to say anything?”

“Are you blind? Long Chen obviously defeated Zhu Zhu Shu! Look at how she’s kneeling on the ground!”

“A pity, the first layer Manifestation realm Zhu Zhu Shu couldn’t defeat a mere Origin realm Long Chen, how shameful!”

“Haah! What are you saying! Long Chen that rat clearly used some cheap tricks to defeat the Hundred Flower fairy, how could that be shameful for her?”

“Get lost, you fanboy!”

As the spectators spoke amongst themselves, the two on the sparring ground had gradually regained their bearings. Zhu Zhu Shu stood up unsteadily, looking at the claws that Long Chen had placed in front of her. She had a bitter expression as she shook her head, she knew that she had lost.

By this time, Long Chen had also caught his breath, and his ears trembled as if he had heard something, his head turning towards the direction of the great elder on the platform.

“Long Chen, if you admit your defeat this time, the Hundred Flower sect will be grateful to you!”

Naturally, Murong Lin couldn’t hear what was said, but the ‘Flowering Steel Trees’ did, and they passed the contents of his message along to Murong Lin word for word.

Murong Lin laughed coldly in his heart: Long Chen already had plenty of hostility towards all of you, and now you’re running straight first into his blade?

Long Chen responded with his middle finger outstretched, his expression full of disdain. Seeing this, the great elder wavered.

“Despicable!” The corners of her lips trembled, the great elder knew this would be troublesome.

Zhu Zhu Shu was defeated by her fiance whom she had despised, it wasn’t just shameful for her, but Long Chen had basically dragged the reputation of the Hundred Flower sect to the mud. The moment Zhu Zhu Shu opened her mouth and admitted her defeat, the Hundred Flower sect couldn’t raise their head anymore.

That was why she planned on teaching Long Chen a lesson. The great elder released her spiritual power and started suppressing him, shouting loudly, “Long Chen, you child! You dare to use a forbidden medicine? Admit to your mistakes now!” She didn’t understand the reason behind Long Chen’s appearance after awakening his bloodline, but this didn’t affect her decision.

She just needed to knock him unconscious and frame him for the crime of consuming a forbidden medicine to regain the lost honour of the Hundred Flower sect!

But just as she was about to make a move, Zhu Zhu Shu’s body moved first.

Long Chen was currently resisting the suppression from the great elder, and he turned his head to look at Zhu Zhu Shu, who was standing in front of him with a dishevelled appearance. She asked him with a bitter smile, “Do you hate me?”

Her voice was cold but powerless, her throat hoarse after the battle.

“I hate you!” Long Chen spoke with gritted teeth, “I dream of skinning you alive!”

Zhu Zhu Shu nodded, a sorrowful smile on her face, “I know what I did was wrong, but it was already done, and I have no regrets.”

Long Chen turned his head, ignoring her words as he focused on resisting the great elder’s suppression.

In his eyes, his entire family had died because of Zhu Zhu Shu. The resentment between them was something that would never be resolved.

Seeing that he was completely disregarding her, Zhu Zhu Shu smiled bitterly as she truly experienced just how unyieldingly fickle the world was.

She slowly raised her right palm into the air.

A gust of wind blew past, the dust and fragments on the sparring ground were long gone, allowing the spectators a clear sight of the two figures and their movements on the stage.

Murong Lin stared at Zhu Zhu Shu’s strange actions with the corner of his lips slightly raised.

“No!” The great elder no longer bothered with suppressing Long Chen, and she watched Zhu Zhu Shu’s actions with great dismay as she tried to rush towards her. The crowd could only watch as her body flickered from the sparring ground to the side of the courtyard.

“What?” Long Chen heard a voice from behind him before he could even turn his head to react.

Zhu Zhu Shu looked at the Hundred Flower sect’s courtyard with emotion, then at Long Chen’s back coldly. A helpless voice came from her throat, “Your sinful disciple Zhu Zhu Shu has lost today, I am too ashamed to face the seniors of the sect, I will pay for my sins with my death!”

What?

The crowd didn’t have any time to digest her words as they watched her raised hand swing downwards, directly slamming into her head.

“Ping!”

A strong spiritual power was imbued in her strike, instantly shattering her brain as her body wavered and fell powerlessly onto the ground.

Zhu Zhu Shu had killed herself.

No one had expected it.

“No!” The great elder had reached Zhu Zhu Shu’s side, but she was too slow. Zhu Zhu Shu had died, her soul gone from this world, forever unable to be resurrected.

Everyone was in shock as well, some stood up, and some even jumped over the railings of the stage and ran towards the sparring ground.

The Hundred Flower sect’s female disciples were dazed, some of them had expressions of disbelief, some were covering their mouths in distress, and the rest were looking at Long Chen with hatred, enough for Long Chen to feel the hundreds of eyes piercing his back. As for Zhu Zhu Shu’s suitors, they were in complete disbelief. They even started to doubt their eyes, suspecting whether or not this was a dream or a play that Long Chen and the Hundred Flower sect had prepared together. None of them could accept the fact that Zhu Zhu Shu was dead.

Murong Liu looked at the sparing ground with distress and despair, mumbling to herself, “Sister Zhu!”

Murong Ding was equally upset as well, he hadn’t expected something like this to happen on their journey, and that the Hundred Flower Fairy, one of the four great beauties of Yan, would commit suicide like this.

The eyes of the great elder were reddened as she caressed Zhu Zhu Shu’s face, she had just witnessed the suicide of a young girl that she had considered as her own granddaughter. In hatred, she looked towards Long Chen as she roared, “Long Chen! Die!”

Long Chen was equally stunned as he stared at Zhu Zhu Shu’s corpse. He was conflicted, but he quickly regained his senses. He wasn’t the one that had killed her, but Zhu Zhu Shu’s suicide would undoubtedly implicate him. As such, he quickly retreated back to the side of the sparring grounds, running towards Qin Lao.

No one knew how to react as they watched the gap between the two figures shorten, they watched as the hand of the great elder inch closer towards Long Chen’s back.

Murong Lin, who was seated on the platform burst into laughter, his body trembling as he covered his mouth. The system’s voice rang out in his mind, “Ding! The protagonist Long Chen’s ‘Little protagonist halo’ has started to shatter, his protagonist value has dropped by 50.”

“Ding! Congratulations to master for obtaining 50 villain value, you now have a villain value of 150, you can use it to purchase the items in the system shop!”

“As I expected, my plan works, causing her suicide counts as well.”