The Empress’s Gigolo

“Are you for real?” There was an ominous glint in Tu Hong’s eyes.

You are challenging me to a fight? Are you looking down on me?

An ordinary person challenging a Cardinal Heaven expert like me? Do you really think that I have no substance?

Tong Zhenye and Tu Wan’s faces changed slightly. Ren Baqian was indeed too audacious! By actually challenging a Cardinal Heaven expert to a fight, did he really have that much confidence in his tools?

“Yes, but there will be no fighting or killing because it doesn’t suit me. We’ll make it simple—you win if you can catch me. How about that? However, you must first put a piece of metal on your body.” Ren Baqian laughed after giving a profound explanation.

“How heavy can a piece of metal be? You think you can slow me down with it?” Tu Hong scoffed.

“Just a piece of metal. You win if you can catch me. Otherwise, you lose!” Ren Baqian replied.

“I accept your conditions! What’s our wager?” Tu Hong took a quick glance at the empress, but she didn’t show any reaction.

Since the empress wasn’t going to interfere, Tu Hong would be showing Ren Baqian the meaning of Cardinal Heaven.

Those little things that he relied on would be completely unable to withstand a single blow when facing real strength.

“No wager, just the outcome of the battle,” Ren Baqian responded faintly.

“Scared of losing?” Tu Hong sneered.

“I’m afraid that your family will be destitute after you lose!” Ren Baqian laughed quietly. Other than the land, gold, and silver plundered from the Hao Nation and the Yun Nation in the past, the family of an aboriginal official didn’t have much.

Ren Baqian wasn’t looking down on them as they were indeed extremely poor.

Not to mention the officials from the aristocratic families of Great Xia or the Yun Nation, the aboriginals couldn’t even be compared to rich merchants.

“You think that I will lose?” Tu Hong looked at himself before lifting his head and staring at Ren Baqian.

“In any case, I don’t think that you will win.” Ren Baqian spread out his arms, looked at his palms, and said, “I predict that it will be an auspicious day in three days. As for the venue, we shall hold it here. The duration of the contest will last the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn. If you can’t even touch my clothes throughout this entire area before a stick of incense burns out, then there will be no value in continuing,” Ren Baqian explained.

“I don’t need a stick of incense, a 10 count will do!” Tu Hong raised up both hands and spread open his 10 fingers before clenching them tightly. At that moment, Ren Baqian heard a bursting sound in the air.

“A 10 count will suffice!” Tu Hong ferociously repeated himself.

“We shall wait and see. See you in three days!” Ren Baqian smiled. He raised his hand to his temple and flung it forward, performing a Chinese military salute that was atypical. Even though the people in the surroundings didn’t know what this gesture meant, the students ineffably felt that it was very dashing!

He then returned to the city with the empress in her imperial carriage. During the journey, the empress suddenly said, “Even though the technology in your world is very advanced, I still believe that a person’s strength is the most important.”

“They should both be very important. How would I not understand the value of a person’s strength? Those people place all of their emphasis on this single aspect and assume that a person’s strength is everything. I just want to tell them that there are other things that can be very formidable as well.”

“What are your plans?” the empress asked. She knew that Ren Baqian wasn’t prepared to lose to Tu Hong.

“You aren’t using poison or the skunk bomb, right? Leaving poison aside, even though the skunk bomb is really disgusting, its effects are really unimpressive. If you use it unexpectedly against someone of the same level, it will really interfere with your opponent and make him panic. You can then take advantage of the situation and seize victory. If your opponent’s level is way higher, it no longer serves any purpose,” the empress said.

“How so? It’s not that I’m unaware of the strengths of a Cardinal Heaven expert. Even though I’m not exactly sure, I still roughly know what his abilities are. The strength of a Spirit Wheel expert is at least 1,500 kilograms and the strength of an aboriginal Cardinal Heaven expert should be at least 2,000 kilograms. Of course, the bigger problem here is the speed. At full speed, a Cardinal Heaven expert will be able to cover a distance of 100 meters in less than one second. An ordinary person is practically unable to react in time to this speed. I’m very clear about all of this.” Ren Baqian smiled as he looked at the empress.

“So are you intending to use poison?” she asked.

“Of course not. That would destroy all the fun.” Ren Baqian laughed after seeing the empress’s confused look and continued, “I think that it will definitely be very interesting when the time comes. Does Your Majesty want to make a bet with me?”

The empress leaned her body on the animal skin and adjusted her posture to make herself feel more comfortable. She then adopted an indolent look on her face and asked, “What do you want to bet?”

“How about Your Majesty wears a bikini?” Just as Ren Baqian’s words landed, he felt a sense of chill emitting from her body.

“Since it’s a bet, it’s better to have a larger wager, isn’t it? Besides, a bikini is considered a perfectly normal piece of clothing to wear on Earth. Haven’t you seen it as well, Your Majesty?” Ren Baqian didn’t seem the slightest bit concerned.

The empress answered, “It’s normal for them, but I don’t like it. If you win, I will give you a kiss. If you lose…”

“Then I will give Your Majesty a kiss!” Ren Baqian responded immediately.

“Pfft.” The empress rolled her eyes.

The empress pondered for a bit before replying, “If you lose… I really need to think about this. There doesn’t seem to be anything that I want from you. Forget it. If you lose, you have to agree to something that I ask of you. As for what that is, I will tell you when I think of something.”

“It shall be like this then.” Ren Baqian laughed. Lose? This word didn’t exist in his dictionary.

…

After Ren Baqian and the empress left, many people stayed behind and whispered to each other.

The students were the most excited as they gathered together and celebrated with Du Laoliu. However, they all cautiously stood at the winning position and maintained a 20 meter distance.

“Alright, I finally have a whole new level of respect for you today!”

“I never thought that you would actually win. This really gave me a shock.”

“Outstanding, really outstanding. You actually beat Tu Yu? Haha!”

Du Laoliu winning this duel wasn’t just restricted to the outcome of the fight.

It actually stirred up hope in a bunch of the academy’s students. These were the ones who were considered to be useless people by others.

Unlike how they used to completely lack direction in life, they now saw their future value through this duel.

Even though Yagui had said it many times, none of it had been as straightforward to comprehend as this fight was.

“Pah! If there comes another chance, I will kill you!” Accompanied by a strong foul odor, a voice suddenly spoke up. Everyone scattered all at once.

There was no telling when Tu Yu came over, but they could tell that he still couldn’t move at this moment and had to rely on the support of others.

Now, he stared viciously at Du Laoliu with bloodshot eyes.

The extraordinary shame and humiliation of losing to a Four-way Heaven piece of trash was something that he had never expected to happen in his entire life.

He could even imagine how much of a laughingstock he would be when he returned home.

“Do you dare to fight another round?” Tu Yu asked with blood red eyes.

“There’s nothing else that you can lose at this moment.” Du Laoliu stared back at him unwaveringly. “Besides, the next duel will be between Yagui and your father. We will wait and see how the Tu family will react when you lose again.”

“Dream on! That man? Don’t you know what Cardinal Heaven means? My father will destroy all of that rubbish that you are relying on,” Tu Yu replied with an ashen face.

“We shall wait and see!” Du Laoliu laughed. “Even though a Cardinal Heaven expert is indeed very strong, I have also just beat someone at the Kismet Heaven level. It seems like you aren’t as strong as I expected you to be.”

“You…!” Tu Yu snarled. “If given another chance, I will definitely kill you!”

Du Laoliu couldn’t be bothered to pay any attention to him, so he turned around and ran toward his fellow students.

“Hey, wait for me. Hey, don’t run so fast! Why are you guys hiding so far away?”

“You are too smelly, smellier than the toilets! Don’t let us see you for the next few days.” The students burst out laughing.