After a thousand years of cultivation, he returns at the pinnacle!

Chapter 5 The Most Familiar Stranger

Jiang Chen looked at his indifferent ex beside him and couldn't help but laugh.

"Liu Ruyan, don't you think you've gone too far? We've only broken up less than three days ago, and you already have a new love interest, without even trying to hide it. Don't you feel even a little bit guilty?"

Liu Ruyan's eyes darted away, her panic vanishing in an instant, replaced by a disdainful sneer.

"Guilt?! Jiang Chen, what right do you have to talk to me about guilt?! You are the only person in the world without abilities, and the fact that I'm still letting you into this private room is a sign of my respectability."

"I'm being considerate of our past relationship, so I'm informing you politely instead of letting you cause trouble here! Do you understand?!"

Sophistry?

Jiang Chen didn't remember saying anything superfluous. He listened quietly to the discussions from beginning to end, sitting there listening to Liu Ruyan's eloquent speech, occasionally eating something, without making any noise of so-called nonsense.

Before the words were finished, the heavy, carved wooden door of the private room was pushed open rather roughly from the outside, slamming against the wall with a dull thud.

A young man dressed in expensive trendy clothes, with his hair styled with hair gel and standing on end, walked in. He was not tall, had an ordinary appearance, and was even somewhat rugged, but the domineering air of looking down on everyone in his eyes was exceptionally striking.

He was followed by two equally well-dressed and arrogant henchmen.

He is Lin Feng, a descendant of the Lin family who is somewhat well-known in Jiangzhou.

As soon as he entered, his gaze swept across the room like a searchlight, finally landing precisely on Liu Ruyan, who was near the head seat, a smug smile appearing on his face.

But the next second, his smile froze, because he saw Jiang Chen sitting diagonally opposite Liu Ruyan, with a calm expression.

Liu Ruyan's ex-boyfriend, the incompetent man known to all. Lin

Feng's brows immediately furrowed, and his eyes turned sinister and displeased.

"Like smoke".

Lin Feng strode over, his voice loud and clear, with a tone that deliberately emphasized his presence.

"I'm late, I had to take care of some small things on the way."

He spoke to Liu Ruyan, but his eyes remained fixed on Jiang Chen, as if he were staring at a bug that had wandered into his territory.

No one is happy to welcome their girlfriend's ex, and Lin Feng was no exception.

Liu Ruyan immediately stood up, her face instantly changing to a bright and polite smile, and took half a step forward to greet him: "Lin Feng, it's good that you're here, please have a seat."

Lin Feng didn't sit down immediately. Instead, he crossed his arms and looked down at Jiang Chen, who remained seated as if on top of the world. He sneered, "Oh, who do we have here? You look so familiar. Isn't this our Jiangzhou's famous figure, the only person in history without abilities, Jiang Chen?"

His voice was loud, instantly drawing everyone's attention. The previous whispers vanished completely, and everyone watched the scene with bated breath. Li Haoran and the others wore expressions of excitement, eager to see what would happen.

"What's up?" Lin Feng strolled over to Jiang Chen's desk and tapped the smooth surface with his fingers, making a soft, tinkling sound.

"I heard you got dumped by Ruyan, and you're upset? So you came here to stir up trouble, trying to get attention?"

He bent down, leaning close to Jiang Chen, a blatantly malicious smile on his face. His voice, though low, was loud enough for everyone around to hear: "Kid, face reality. Right now, you're just trash, a piece of garbage who can't even sense spiritual energy. Ru Yan broke up with you because she had good judgment; she knew what a real potential asset was. S-level talent, understand? That's a realm someone like you can never even reach in your next life, or the life after that!"

He straightened up, his voice rising again, laced with a condescending arrogance: "Seeing how pitiful you are, and since I'm in a good mood today, I'll show you a way out. Kneel down, kowtow to me and Ruyan, apologize, and say you shouldn't have been here getting in the way. Then get out of here as fast as you can. I might consider talking to my dad and getting you a job as a doorman at my family's warehouse in the suburbs. At least you'll have something to eat and won't starve to death on the streets. How about that, merciful enough?"

His two henchmen behind him burst into laughter, and Li Haoran quickly chimed in, "Young Master Lin is truly magnanimous!"

"That's right, Jiang Chen, why don't you hurry up and thank Young Master Lin for giving you this opportunity?"

Liu Ruyan stood behind Lin Feng, her lips moving as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she simply looked away, tacitly accepting Lin Feng's almost insulting provocation. In her view, perhaps this would make Jiang Chen give up completely and leave as soon as possible.

Wang Kai was so angry that he was trembling all over, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked, but Jiang Chen stopped him with a single look.

Faced with Lin Feng's barrage of humiliations and outrageous demands, Jiang Chen finally put down his chopsticks. He picked up a napkin and slowly wiped his mouth, every movement exuding a composure that seemed out of place with his surroundings.

Then, he raised his head and looked directly at Lin Feng, who was spitting and brimming with arrogance, for the first time.

That look was terrifyingly calm. There was no anger, no shame, not even a trace of offensive emotion; it was as if he were watching a boring monkey show.

"Are you done talking?" Jiang Chen asked, his voice not loud, but strangely drowning out all the other noises in the private room.

Lin Feng was taken aback by his reaction, then his anger intensified: "What the hell is your attitude? You're asking for it, aren't you?"

Jiang Chen seemed not to hear his angry shout, and turned his gaze to Liu Ruyan behind Lin Feng, whose expression was complicated, and then slowly swept over the faces around him, which were either excited, nervous or gloating.

Finally, his gaze returned to Lin Feng's face, which was somewhat distorted by anger, and a very faint, almost pitying smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"S-level talent, heir of the Lin family..." Jiang Chen shook his head slightly, his tone as indifferent as if he were commenting on roadside rubble.

"Is that all the magnanimity and vision you have?"

He leaned forward slightly, and although he was sitting, he inexplicably gave off a sense of oppressive superiority. His voice was steady and seemingly indifferent.

"Your so-called pride, in my eyes, is nothing more than the clamor of a frog in a well. Your family background, which you rely on, is nothing more than a fleeting glimmer in this world. As for your talent..."

Jiang Chen paused, his gaze falling on Lin Feng as if it were a tangible object, as if he could penetrate the skin and see the newly awakened, unstable, and impure lightning attribute energy within him.

"You think you're invincible just because you can control a few wisps of mixed lightning spirits?"

Jiang Chen's smile deepened slightly, but there was no hint of a smile in his eyes, only endless indifference.

"A thousand years of cultivation can be shattered with a flick of the finger. What are you then?"

The moment the words left his mouth, Lin Feng's arrogance froze, and a strange, unprovoked unease gripped his heart. Before he could react, something even stranger happened...

The lightning energy that had been subtly overflowing from his body due to his emotional agitation, causing even the tips of his hair to stand on end with static electricity, had silently and completely subsided, becoming as docile as if it had never existed. He tried to mobilize it, but was horrified to find that the spiritual power within his body, which had been so readily at his command, was now incredibly obscure, as if frozen by an invisible layer of ice!

"you!!!"

Lin Feng's face turned deathly pale instantly, and for the first time, horror and disbelief appeared in his eyes. He took a step back abruptly, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

Jiang Chen had already stood up leisurely. He didn't even glance at Lin Feng again, as if he had just brushed away a buzzing fly.

He nodded slightly to Wang Kai, who was staring in disbelief, and said, "Let's go. The food here is just so-so."

After saying that, Jiang Chen turned and left. Wang Kai looked around and thought that he might as well not stay in this place. The friendship he had formed with his classmates over the past three years seemed to have been destroyed. He quickly followed after him.

Lin Feng, pale-faced and covered in cold sweat, was left behind at the scene. Liu Ruyan, who was beside him, was still unaware of what had happened and kept asking him questions, but her eyes were fixed on the departing figure.

Jiang Chen just now was such a stranger...

Even though it's only been three days, it feels like we've become the most familiar strangers.

His eyes and his tone were completely different from the gentle boy she remembered.

She shook her head, no longer thinking about it. Now that Jiang Chen was gone, the banquet could continue peacefully, and there was no need to worry about that guy coming to pester her anymore.