"Damn!" Jian Chen shouted inwardly and began to grit his teeth.
Shao Da, he was actually a trial disciple just like Jian Chen, however, with the strength of the third level of qi training that he had now, Shao Da was one of the strongest disciples among the other outer disciples.
Basically, a trial disciple who had reached the third stage of cultivation had to immediately choose to apply as an outer disciple in order to have more abundant resources, but not Shao Da, especially because there was Wang Lee's name behind him.
Wang Lee, according to Jian Chen's memories, he was a probationary disciple who had been in the Sect's probationary period for many years, not because he was weak, but because he had great power behind him. With the fourth qi training cultivation that Wang Lee had, Jian Chen was confident that he should already be an outer disciple. But he didn't.
Wang Lee, he preferred to remain among the experimental students and utilized his strength to establish a separate group.
Led by Wang Lee himself, he recruited many probationary disciples above second qi training who were afraid to take the outer disciple examination and started doing arbitrary activities.
With the power and strength of the Wang Faction, he stipulated that each probationary disciple had to give him a monthly allotment of ten spiritual stones per month as protection fees, shelter or other things.
With the majority of probationary students being in the first to second training, they would only think that it was a natural thing. But Jian Chen thought otherwise.
The monthly allowance of twenty spiritual stones that the Sect gave to probationary disciples every month should be enough to let a potential disciple reach the third qi for once every six months. But, with the half quota that Wang Lee had set, it was as if Wang Lee had arranged everything so that the outer disciples could not progress.
With a predetermined six month period, if the probationary disciples cannot complete the examination to become outer disciples, they will all be expelled by the Sect, and then replaced by new probationary disciples onwards.
With such strict regulations, it was natural that there would be many trial disciples above the second level of qi training who were afraid of failing the examination starting to join Wang Lee's group, and in the end this group would continue to become stronger among the trial disciples.
At first Jian Chen really didn't understand why Wang Lee's behavior like that would only continue to be tolerated by the Sect, but in the end he knew that there was definitely someone more influential behind Wang Lee himself.
And now, since the Yanjiang Sect's allotment of twenty spiritual stones had already come down, Shao Da would immediately go to the outer disciples to ask for the same monthly allotment, and the allotment they asked for was half of what the Sect gave.
With all kinds of thoughts, Jian Chen was sure that if ten of the forty spiritual stones he had with Su Mei were given to Shao Da, at least Su Mei would still be able to break through to the third level of qi training at the end of the month. But, if Shao Da asked for a hundred individuals….
Jian Chen couldn't hold it in and said, "Everyone indeed gets twenty spiritual stones per month. Because Su Mei and I are two people, so we have a total of forty stones. I'm not lying, and the ten stone quota is what I've been given for several months."
"Is it true?" Shao Da seemed to smile funny and asked, "Then why have you only given ten stones all this time if you are two people?"
"Tch." Jian Chen was speechless and almost wanted to shout, “Because you guys are too greedy!”
Fortunately Jian Chen could withstand it, because this Shao Da had three times the strength of qi training. If he became angry, Jian Chen was confident that no one could defeat him at this time.
Therefore, Jian Chen tried to remain calm and had to use his head to resolve the situation now.
Not having a hundred spiritual stones was another matter, what Jian Chen was thinking about now was how to make Su Mei run away with forty spiritual stones on her body. Because Jian Chen was very confident, with the second level of qi training that she had now, forty spiritual stones would be more than enough to let Su Mei break through the third stage and take the Sect examination.
The matter regarding his own fate, Jian Chen did not think much about it, the most important thing was Su Mei.
Only, before Jian Chen finished completing his plan, he saw Su Mei suddenly in front of him, and looked at Shao Da while saying, "Here are forty spiritual stones. If you want them all, take them. If that's not enough, you can do anything to me. But, I beg you... let Brother Chen go..."
“No, Su Mei---” Jian Chen wanted to stop Su Mei's idea, but he immediately stopped when he saw that Shao Da appeared to be moving from a distance.
Then, with a “bam” sound and a gust of wind coming from in front of him, Jian Chen discovered that Su Mei’s figure had suddenly disappeared from before him.
Only when Jian Chen heard a “bomb” sound and a scream did he discover that Su Mei’s figure had already been thrown far to the side and was no longer conscious.
"Su Mei!"
Jian Chen was extremely shocked and hurriedly approached him, but he immediately stopped, because suddenly there was a gust of wind coming from behind him, and then with a muffled “bam” sound, intense pain came from his stomach.
"Aaarggh!" Jian Chen screamed and his body was thrown back to where it was.
Falling in great pain on the ground, Shao Da's voice came back, "First: I never thought that an ugly woman and trash like you were two people. In front of an absolute power like me, you guys are just useless trash who aren't even worth living!"
“You…” Jian Chen’s face was gloomy, he bit his teeth and felt extremely angry.
Shao Da didn't care and walked towards Jian Chen with a cold face. "Second: When I become the strongest among you, I have the right to decide about your death and life. If I want something, you just have to obey without saying "no". Because... You know, trash like you really isn't worthy of say anything in front of me."
“Shao Da...” Jian Chen's body trembled, and with his anger overflowing, a hot feeling as if it was burning his heart came over.
Shao Da was completely unconcerned and simply picked up the spiritual stones that had fallen on the ground, then stood in front of Jian Chen and looked at him indifferently.
Watching Jian Chen tremble with rage, Shao Da suddenly laughed and said, “Do you finally know who you are? Do you finally know, that in a world filled with powerful people like me, trash like you are nothing but ants!”
Rubbish!
Ant!
Vain!
Those three words seemed to tear Jian Chen's soul apart. He finally knew what this world was.
Justice, goodness, and other good things only belong to people who have power. Meanwhile, for weak people, despair and the abyss of misery are the end.
Everything is in vain, no matter how good and fair you are, if there is no strength, everything is just useless trash.
Power... Power!
The essence of it all is strength!
Having power, you are the law of the world who are free to do whatever or be whatever you want!
“I see, you finally know where trash like you belongs,” Shao Da said again to Jian Chen and turned around with one more warning, “I won’t kill you today, but you have to remember, that next time… I won’t reluctant to kill trash like you." 
Falling to his knees while looking at the ground before his eyes, Jian Chen's brain seemed to go blank, the world around him seemed to stop, and everything around him seemed to be still.
Unable to think or hear anything anymore, Jian Chen only felt that he and everything in this world had never existed. But one thing was certain that suddenly appeared in the depths of his soul, that was "fight"
No matter how weak and useless you are now, the determination to never submit to anything suddenly appeared in his head.
Fight! Don't let yourself become waste is a real whipping.
It doesn't matter whether you die or live, don't let anyone underestimate you.
The determination to never grow weak seemed to penetrate Jian Chen's body and soul, making him stand up and suddenly say, “Wait…”
Shao Da stopped and frowned in displeasure when he heard Jian Chen's voice.
Turning around and looking at Jian Chen who had stood up but still not seeing him there, Shao Da's expression became cold, and a murderous glint appeared in both his eyes.
Slowly, Jian Chen raised his head to you, and with his eyes and expression changing one hundred and eighty degrees from before, his mouth slowly began to move, “Trash… that even dirt isn’t worth pinning on you, how dare you call me trash?”