Chapter 1150: Black Cloud Faction

"Wah! Zhufeng, don't you think that's a little too much? How could you make such a claim?" Liu Chen said.

Hu Ben nodded and said, "Yeah! You shouldn't be cocksure like that! Or you'll get beaten up!"

Ning Yuchen did not believe Chen Xiaobei either. "There's someone in the 8th Regiment who can drink better than Hu Ben. If you match with him, I'm afraid you'll be vanquished!"

Chen Xiaobei merely shrugged at the comments and said nothing to defend himself.

He was no longer that youth who was eager to win a fight. He no longer felt the need to convince everyone that he was right. Whether he was received with praise or skepticism, he would just laugh it off and not take anything to heart.

Because he understood that no one else knew him better than himself.

On his chest was the Cleansing Bodhi from Duobao Rulai. It was releasing its Special Abilities on him.

Purify, preventing the invasion of dust or poison. Everything cleansed.

That was the Spiritual Ability of the Cleansing Bodhi. It separated the harmful toxics in the liquor that Chen Xiaobei had drank and cleared them from his body.

Which was why whatever Chen Xiaobei drank just now was equivalent to water!

That was the reason he claimed that no one in the universe would be able to drink more than he.

He was not tooting his own horn. He was merely stating a fact that Ning Yuchen and the rest knew nothing about.

Chen Xiaobei did not explain it to them and they did not pursue it any further.

After that, none of them dared drink too much. They settled to chatting and munching, enjoying each other's company.

"I think I was wrong about Hu Ben liking this place. He likes the people here!" Chen Xiaobei raised a new conversation topic.

When Sister Hua came to make a toast, Chen Xiaobei noticed that her relationship with Hu Ben was pretty special. Then all throughout their time there, Hu Ben would steal glances at Sister Hua. Even a fool would know that there was something going on between the two of them.

"Ahem... I don't know what you're talking about..."

Hu Ben blushed and pretended to be really fascinated by the dishes in front of him.

"So, there is a story!" Chen Xiaobei giggled.

"Of course there is! And it's a romantic story of a hero saving a damsel in distress!" Liu Chen blurted. "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful woman called Sister Hua. She gave up the chance to be selected by the temple and came to Silver Plume City to start a small business. She would run it until her ten years is up and then return to her land!"

"Whoa, hand on a minute! What do you mean gave up to be selected by the temple?" Chen Xiaobei interrupted.

"Well," Ning Yuchen began to explain. "During their 10 years' service, if any Northern Wilderness soldier is afraid to die or is not confident that they would be selected by the temple, they can opt to resign from their positions as soldiers. After which they could choose to either to return to their homes or live in the nearest capital city. They will be forcibly sent back to where they came from once their 10 years is up! The referrals of the people who choose to leave after their resignation will not receive any sort of remuneration. But the referrals of those who are sent back forcibly will receive a payment of 30,000 Spiritual Stones!"

"So, you're saying that other than the 150,000 Northern Wilderness soldiers here in Silver Plume, there are also foreigners who had abandoned their posts but did not leave?"

"Yup." Ning Yuchen nodded. "There are nearly 150,000 of them! Sister Hua is only one of them. A lot of people can't take being attacked by those beasts on a daily basis..."

"Excuse me! Do you guys want to listen to my story or not?"

Liu Chen crossed her arms.

"Yes, yes, yes. Continue your story!"

Chen Xiaobei nodded.

Li Chen wet her lips and continued, "As I had mentioned earlier, Sister Hua was a beautiful woman. And beautiful women will always be in the minds of perverted wolves! So, on one dark, windy night, one such pervert was about to get his claws on Sister Hua! This stupid pervert stood over her, his pants already on the floor... But right at that moment, Hu Ben came down from the skies and beat the pervert bloody, screaming and crying as he fled! From that day on, Sister Hua fell in love with the heroic Hu Ben! The both of them would have romantic tryst in the bar nearly every day. They live... er... happily ever after!"

Hu Ben was a deep shade of red. "You little bugger! Don't simply add to the story! It was not as dramatic as you said!"

"Who said I was being dramatic?" Liu Chen retorted. "Isn't Sister Hua pretty? Didn't you kick that pervert's ass until he was half-dead? Or..."

Bam!

Before Liu Chen could continue her defense, the bar door was kicked open.

An obese, big-eared fatty walked in.

He had a bandage wrapped around his head and his arm was still in a cast. From the look on his face, you could tell that he had come to look for trouble.

Smack!

Liu Chen smacked the table and pointed at the fatty and barked. "Who the hell are you? Don't you know who's guarding this bar?"

"Who am I?" Fatty looked straight back at her. "I am the stupid pervert you were talking about!"

"Huh?" Liu Chen's anger was fueled. "So, you're the shithead who bullied Sister Hua! It seems that Hu Ben's punches didn't make an honest man out of you! Where did you find the balls to come pick a fight?"

Ding!

[Cultivation: Early Phase of True Nirvana; Health: 3; Combat power:3]

Chen Xiaobei looked at the idiot. No wonder he got beaten up by Hu Ben.

But why was he so arrogant when he was that weak.

The answer was pretty obvious. He had people backing him up!

"Black Cloud Faction is taking over now! If you don't want any trouble, you should scram!"

Behind the fatty came about twenty men. They all looked like they meant business!

"Black... Black Cloud Faction! What did Sister Hua do to offend them? We better leave! Hurry..."

"We should never come back again..."

"Let's go... We do not want to get involved with the Black Cloud Faction..."

The bustling bar suddenly became empty, leaving only Chen Xiaobei and his friends.

Even the cook and the workers bolted.

"Is this Black Cloud Faction really that scary?" Chen Xiaobei asked out curiosity.

"Of course!" Liu Chen knitted her brows together. "The three factions here at the outer city, Black Cloud, Vicious Dragon, and Formidable Heaven have powerful nobles backing them! No one in their right minds will mess with them!"

"What are the outer and inner city?" asked Chen Xiaobei, taken aback.

"We told you earlier that the Silver Plume citizens are the nobles of this planet. They all live in the inner city!" Ning Yuchen said, "Foreigners are just regular citizens who live in the outer city and are forbidden from entering the inner city! If the people from the outer city have help from those in the inner city, they can stir up trouble and do as they please!"

The fatty's smile grew wider at this. "Since you already know how powerful Black Cloud Faction is, then get down on your knees and apologize!"