Chapter 40 (1/2)

The sky was a deep blue as it seemed to overlook the earth like ink engraved upon parchment. It spread out freely towards the distance, and the color weakened as it went further. The moon was half covered as it vanished among the clouds. It seemed like she smiled sweetly, concealing her face and covering her vermillion lips.

Yan Tian drove the Audi on the road to get home. On the road, Yan Tian thought of many things. He thought why had his master wanted him to come to this city? What was the meaning of the letter he set aside for him? And that old loon; why had he given him the ring?

In his master's letter, his master said he was already unsuited to be his master, then afterwards, the old loon had given him the ring. Within the ring there was an ancient merit law. Could it be that the old loon and his master knew each other?

In addition, what was that man today? How could he have such strong power? Yan Tian believed his own power was rather mighty, and in the world, the number of people more powerful than him could all be counted. However, that man had used some unknown method to increase his power and had surprisingly become so strong.

Yan Tian had a kind of intuition. He could feel that the world in his thoughts wasn’t so simple at all. Perhaps there were many things he didn’t know, like the Cosmos Ring he had picked up, which a book had surprisingly popped out from. Yan Tian had never heard of such a thing before, yet he had discovered such a thing on his body.

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Once he returned home, he found Sun Yue was up to the same old same old. Every day she sat down on sofa going through television dramas. Yan Tian laughed bitterly as he planned to take a cold bath first, since his entire body was sticky.

”Woah, what are you up to? How come your clothes are so tattered?” Just as he was getting ready to go into the bathroom, Sun Yue saw his beaten-up clothing.

”It's nothing. As I was coming back, my clothes got messed up a little.” Yan Tian naturally wouldn’t speak of how his clothes were damaged when he and the gangster were fighting. He randomly shot off a reason and entered the washroom.

Meanwhile in Fengan City's Northwest outskirts, there were two people standing in a hidden underground laboratory. One of them seemed to be a sixty-year-old man and the other appeared to be a forty-something middle-aged man. At the moment, they were in the middle of looking at something on a display screen. It seemed like a martial arts star's filmed kung fu flick.

”Hmm, the power displayed is alright, but the reaction is still too sluggish.” The old man looked at the screen and shook his head.

The old man stroked his short, stiff mustache, his eyes a tan color that were both set deeply in his eye sockets. He had long unkempt ash-colored hair, and he wore a white doctor's coat that had not been washed for a long time.

”Yes, his strength is much stronger than Yan Tian's, but it's just that his reaction is too slow. The speed is too slow.” At this moment, Flaming Ma stared fixed at the scene on the display.

What they were watching was no martial arts flick, nor was it any movie. They were watching scene of the fight between Yan Tian and the gangster. It was unknown when they had shot it.

”Hmm, it looks like I'll have to research carefully some more about this.” The old man was slight dissatisfied looking at the gangster on the screen, shaking his head. He snorted coldly: ”Hmph, last time, the reagent that old thing gave me got used up fast.”

”Old Yang, what reagent?” Flaming Ma asked puzzledly.

”I don't have any of the drug materials at all. Last time, I made my student go rob that old fellow of a bottle. Right now I only have enough to do another test.” Old Yang recalled that there wasn’t enough reagent and shut his eyes, shaking his head.

”Old fellow? Who is he? How about I help Elder Yang capture him?” Once Flaming Ma heard Elder Yang's reagent was gained from the hands of another, he thought of capturing that person. If he wanted something he didn't have, he had many men.

As soon as Elder Yang heard Flaming Ma, he furrowed his brows: ”No, if you s.n.a.t.c.h him, we'll be done for.”

”Then what is Elder Yang's intention?”

”It's fine. I have my own ways of handling this matter. Anyways, your side venture needs to be prepared as quickly as possible.” Elder Yang narrowed his eyes at Flaming Yan.

”OK, I can be at ease with Elder Yang here. I've already started operations. I believe it won't be long until I have some achievements.” Flaming bowed humbly in great respect towards Elder Yang.

”If it's like so, that's great. I promise you that I will definitely help you accomplish your affairs.” Elder Yang nodded his head in satisfaction.