Chapter 140 - The Shocking Universe Palm (1/2)

A shiver went through Zhuo Fan as he looked at her, “Y-you, how did you know?”

“How could I not?” Chu Qingcheng smiled and reproached, “Dear! I’m waiting for your honest answer!”

“J-just don’t shout, alright? Edifice Lord Chu, it’s all just a misunderstanding. I really didn’t know this was what you meant at the time…” Zhuo Fan was waving his hands frantically, then caught Vicious Pill King beginning his second refining and was getting nervous, “We will talk about this later. After I kick this old coot out.”

He started to run as soon as he finished speaking.

Chu Qingcheng was startled and was more disappointed than bewildered.

It wasn’t narcissistic of her when she always thought that her character and appearance were outstanding. She saw with her own eyes how 99% of the men who looked at her had dirty thoughts.

And even those exceptions, would at least talk to her like normal human beings. But none went as far as to run away.

Zhuo Fan ran as if a crone was out to get him. She couldn’t help but feel angry, [Why is this brat so different as compared to other men?]

[Others will try to act like gentlemen on such occasions, eloquent and smooth-talk me into doing what they want. Well, I guess those men normally pluck the flowers of hundreds of women already… Meanwhile, this guy is still a virgin…]

Chu Qingcheng’s blushed, admonishing herself, [Just what am I thinking?]

But she had no way of knowing what was truly on Zhuo Fan’s mind. He ran because he once climbed to the Demonic Emperor position. He knew full well that righteousness and women were the biggest dead weights in a man’s pursuit for power.

He wanted to regain his Demon Emperor power, to rise above and beyond. And to do that, he had to cast aside such weights.

Chu Qingcheng didn’t return to the terrace. She stood there, watching the only man who moved her heart running towards his first place spot.

Meanwhile, Zhuo Fan only had a thirst for victory in his eyes.

Tacking a side glance as his returned archenemy, Vicious Pill King, now that he got his anger more or less under control, smiled wickedly, “Brat, why did you even return?”

“To make pills, of course!”

Zhuo Fan sighed inside. [Vicious Pill King is the best in the empire after all. He recovered his calm after just a few breaths.]

Few people were capable of such a feat.

“He-he-he, making pills? More like you came here to bother me. “

“You overestimate me. How could I possibly dare to mess with you?” Zhuo Fan snickered.

Shaking his head, Vicious Pill King was refining his ingredients with one hand while he grinned, “If not to mess around, then what other point is there? With your snail pace speed, there’s no hope you can win.”

“So, that’s why you thought I came to mess around.” Zhuo Fan was quite calm.

Vicious Pill King eyed him with contempt, “Ha-ha-ha, if this was your plan all along, it may not have been half bad. Stopping me from making a 5th grade pill would get that Tao Danniang to finish first. Too bad, you were too conceited and spoke that nonsense about letting anyone who took first get your head. Wouldn’t that also apply to Tao Danniang?”

Startled, the people’s hearts grew nervous.

Indeed, in this competition, only Zhuo Fan couldn’t afford to lose. Once he fell from the top, his head would fall with him.

“Ha-ha-ha, I will enjoy killing you just as if I was the one who won! You think Tao Danniang can stop me?” Vicious Pill King cackled, finally venting and releasing his anger.

Chu Qingcheng frowned in worry for Zhuo Fan with a hint of reproach in her eyes.

[Be as insufferable as you want but within limits. This old guy has leverage and will have your head. Yet, this is just how Qingtian would’ve acted.]

Chu Qingcheng watched on with love and hatred. Was she going to lose her loved one a second time?

Tao Danniang was close to finishing when she heard this. Her hand trembled and the process stopped.

“Old hag, go on then. If you won’t finish, someone else will!”

Zhuo Fan turned from her to Vicious Pill King and his eyes grew colder, “Old coot, I told you. I will never leave this spot and no one can take it from me. Not you, not anyone.”

Zhuo Fan’s hand suddenly ignited into a raging fire and gestured for tens of ingredients to fly inside.

Watching the flame, it was no different from Vicious Pill King’s or the other Profound Heaven experts’ Yuan Qi flame. But after one breath, Zhuo Fan was sweating.

Vicious Pill King laughed even harder, “You little prick, your cultivation is not nearly enough to sustain such a strong flame. You’re looking to die if you keep this up!”

“Humph, narrow-minded old goat, yours truly will show you the difference between us!”

Zhuo Fan shouted and slapped the burning hand.