Chapter 188: Bombard to Death and Slay to Slag (1/2)

Chapter 188: Bombard to Death and Slay to Slag

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”Level Seven? Just so so!”

As Junior Leopard's words coming out, he walked toward Dragon Granny, each step accompanied by increasingly greater Qi Power. Flame of the black fireballs invisible to ordinary people burnt fiercer and fiercer. The Fire Dragons entwined Junior Leopard, tinting his surroundings red.

At this time, surrounding people were all stricken dumb with amazement.

River Heart Island was located in the center of Luo River, with vehicles shuttling back and forth each day. Though there were few masters of martial arts in the audience, many were old cons who had been in the Jianghu for many years. They may be not good at practicing but they still had the eyesight for good martial arts.

They could not figure out who would win the battle at first. The battle was too dazzling and both performed exceptionally well. Once Dragon Granny took out her Dragon Head Crutch and revealed her face, those who had roamed the Jianghu for many years and well-informed ones immediately recognized her identity. After all, there were only few Level Seven experts around. When it came to Level Seven experts, there were no secrets.

And Dragon Granny was particularly famous among them.

That was because she had a strange background.

She was a family servant of the Meng Family in Ningzhou. There were few Level Seven experts in the world and only one with the identity of a servant. Even in millennium family or prestigious sects and schools, those who were born in servant households typically would not consider themselves as servants if they had the opportunity to cultivate and became a Level Seven expert. At least, it was simple enough for them to be an Elder in the sects. This was a form of respect not only for them but also for other Level Seven experts in the world.

Dragon Granny of the Meng Family in Ningzhou was quite different.

She was a private handmaid who joined the household when her mistress married into the Meng family. She had a decent cultivation but to her gender and status as a servant, she had few opportunities to learn even more unfathomable martial arts skills. Then, for reasons unknown, she came across happy encounters again and again after joining the household. She climbed from mere Level Two to Level Six in the past decades. But that was beside the point. The Meng Family in Ningzhou was a wealthy family and influential clan in the world with abundant resources. With Dragon Granny's great aptitude, it was nothing surprising for her to reach Level Six.

When Dragon Granny reached Level Six, she became an even more trusted subordinate to the mistress of Meng Family. An expert that was so close to the family was a very rare find.

Theoretically, Dragon Granny's cultivation would not increase anymore. After all, there was an unbridgeable huge gap between Level Six and Level Seven for many in the martial arts world. She was, in fact, satisfied with her current condition. Though she was a family servant in the household, she was more like a trusted subordinate to the mistress. With her high cultivation, she lived a comfortable life even in a well-known household like the Meng Family.

But she truly deserved all this luck.

The Meng Family was one of the most well-known clans in the world. Just as fame tended to cause trouble for an individual, so did prosperity for a famous clan. The power struggles within the clan meant endless conspiracies. The danger of living within the household was no less than that in the Royalty. Though the branch of the Meng family that Dragon Granny served belonged to the direct line of descent, there were still enemies. And their enemies were not just any weaklings.

A Level Six expert roaming the Jianghu could be considered as a true danger but considered merely acceptable to an aristocratic family like the Meng Family.

The turning point came when the power struggles in the Meng Family reached to a boiling point. The only thing she could do was staying beside her mistress and protecting her from any suspicious threats. One of those tasks was testing the food for poison.

As a matter of fact, she did not need to do poison testing personally because there were exclusive servants for the job in the household. It happened that the mistress' daughter-in-law, the young master's wife, met complications while giving birth. She had to take medicines because she could not deliver the baby. In the chaotic situation, they could not find the food taster and was about to forgot it. It was Dragon Granny who became suspicious of the food taster's disappearance. She decided to test the medicine and, as expected, there was a problem with it.

The medicine was laced with Meridian Heartbroken Soup.

It was a commonly-used poisonous drug in Jianghu with a deadly toxicity. It would take only minutes for a person to die after taking it. The only disadvantages were its strong taste and pungent odor. Even ordinary people could smell tang from a distance, let alone Jianghu folks. Thus, few people would use it now.

No one in the household ever thought someone would use this poison against them.

But someone did and he did it in a very smart way. There was a miraculous medicinal usher in the medicine named Heavenly Lotus Seed. It was a nontoxic ingredient for benefiting Qi and activating blood circulation. Besides, it was effective for covering the tang of the Meridian Heartbroken Soup, neutralizing the poison to be colorless and flavorless.

Perhaps God was muddleheaded that day. Dragon Granny was quickly poisoned after taking the Meridian Heartbroken Soup. As a martial artist, her first response was to practice and drive the poison out. But this response earned her an amazing result. The Meridian Heartbroken Soup and the Heavenly Lotus Seed should cause an incredible chemical reaction inside her body, unexpectedly strengthening her Internal Qi several times over. She grew into a Level Seven expert from a Level Six expert inexplicably. One level means an immeasurably vast difference.

Considering her strength and loyalty, the Meng Family naturally would not treat her as a family servant anymore. They decided to promote her as a Family Elder and were ready to return her indenture signed decades before. But she stubbornly insisted she was her mistress' servant for life and there was no logic for a servant to become a Family Elder.

The Meng Family, including the mistress, tried to persuade her but when it did not work, they let her be.

Thus Dragon Granny remained a servant in the Meng family even if she was a Level Seven expert. The news caused a sensation in the Jianghu. Some thought she was foolish but others regarded her as loyal. While more envied the good fortune of the family for coming across such a fine person.

She may be a family servant but her position and treatment in the household were comparable to that of a Family Elder. The servant status was only in name.

Thanks to this, Dragon Granny became famous throughout Jianghu.

Though she was a Level Seven expert, she seldom appeared in Jianghu. As a family servant, she spent most of her time accompanying her mistress. She was always dressed in a set of black clothes and held the Dragon head Crutch in her hand. Few in Jianghu had seen her real appearance.

But there was no need for them to see her. The rumors were enough. After all, most stories in Jianghu were hearsay.

When the girl used the Universal Three-chop Sword, some long-time Jianghu dwellers had figured out she was a member of the Meng Family in Ningzhou. They also somewhat guessed Dragon Granny's identity when she showed up. When they heard the girl shout, they finally confirmed her identity.

Thus, their eyes were wide open in disbelief as they watched Junior Leopard forcing a Level Seven expert into such situation with his strength alone.

Wasn't Zhou Bao a Level Four expert?

Did he not just reach Level Four few months ago?

Since when could a Level Four expert not only compete with a Level Seven expert but also gain the upper hand after a fierce battle?

Was this even possible?

When a Level Seven expert makes her move, she would squash people beneath her level. Was there not such a saying?

Why was the current situation so different? Why was the Level Seven expert being forced into such a pathetic position?

Was Zhou Bao hiding his power all the time? Was he actually a Level Seven expert, too?

How old was he again?

16? Had he even turned 16?

Even if he was 16, he was still a 16-year-old Level Seven expert!

What did this mean?

Some people with high aspirations were already looking at Junior Leopard differently. While more people revealed deep feeling through their burning eyes. The Water Army Camp soldiers in River Heart Island, in particular, seemed capable of melting Junior Leopard with the intensity burning in their eyes.

An expert!

A Level Seven expert! Our boss was a Level Seven expert!

They were soldiers in the lowest of ranks. It was difficult enough for them to meet a Level Four expert, let alone a Level Seven expert.

A Level Seven expert in their eyes was no less than an immortal. The former may even have more deterrence than the latter. After all, no one knew if immortals truly existed in this world but a Level Seven expert was real and tangible.

Now they were abruptly told that their boss, the commander of the Navy, was a Level Seven expert, or at least an expert that could hold his ground against a Level Seven expert. They couldn't help expressing their mad joy. It was because those soldiers in the lowest ranks knew clearly that the stronger their boss was, the fewer people who would dare bully them. There would be more benefits for them too.

In the past few months, thanks to Junior Leopard's powerful strength, the navy in Jiang City that was crushed psychologically and feeling hopeless was revived. It wasn't a mere path of survival of them. Junior Leopard had also led them to occupy Broken Dragon Beach and wipe out the Yellow Dragon Gang. The outcome of these two incidents made them profits equivalent to several years’ worth of income. In addition, they had complete control over the Broken Dragon Beach port and were about to build a goods yard near the port under Junior Leopard's supervision. No one understood the meaning of these acts more than those who made a living in Luo River!

It meant a stable and abundant income. They could easily finance the operations of the entire Water Army Camp with only the goods yard and port.

Where did all these come from?

All these came from Junior Leopard's power. The foundation to all these was his power. Now that they found out that Junior Leopard's power was even stronger than what they had imagined, how could they not be ecstatic?

Dragon Granny was downhearted, very much so. She had never expected a newbie who had reached Level Four not long ago could force her into such a pathetic situation.

Was he really a Level Four expert?

As a Level Seven expert, she could easily see through the cultivation of a person beneath her level.

Junior Leopard's cultivation was absolutely clear to her. He was in Level Four and a newbie at that. It ought to be a piece of cake for her to handle him. But what was the fact now?

She was surprised to find she couldn't figure out Junior Leopard's strength.

Just put the six golden flames he used earlier aside first, the amount of Internal Qi these two Fire Dragons entwining him alone need required him to be at least a Level Six expert.

His Internal Qi was even clearer than that of a Level Seven expert. This was completely beyond her expectations and surprised her a lot.

It was easy to explain his clear Internal Qi. Blaze Technique of the Heavenly Nine Dragon was a cultivation method famous even in Great Jin. It was not a secret to people, especially a Level Seven expert like her, that the method had two forms. Naturally, they knew that when a person had a profound and abstruse knowledge about the method, it was possible for him to practice the second state. That meant using Internal Qi to form a true Fire Dragon! This Fire Dragon was molded purely by Internal Qi. Even it was formed by someone under Level Seven, its quality would not be worse than the cultivation of Internal Qi of a Level Seven Expert. If the Fire Dragon was formed by an expert over Level Seven, its power would be more stunning.

Therefore, she was surprised but not astounded when she saw Junior Leopard's two Fire Dragons. Considering he had reached Level Four at such young age, he must be a genius. There was nothing truly shocking about a genius being able to comprehend the second state of the Blaze Technique of the Heavenly Nine Dragon that few could do in hundreds of years.

But in her fierce battle with Junior Leopard, she had been distracted by the power of the Fire Dragons. Till now, she just realized she had ignored something.

The amount of his Internal Qi!

The quality and quantity of Internal Qi were the decisive factors in one's cultivation. Quantity was the crucial quality to someone under Level Seven. In other words, the stock of Internal Qi in one's body.

Junior Leopard had only Level Four cultivation and was not a Level Seven expert's match no matter in terms of quality or quantity. But from her tussle with the Fire Dragons, she was distinctly aware that the amount of Internal Qi required by them was beyond Level Six cultivation! That was to say Junior Leopard had the cultivation of someone beyond Level Six while still in Level Four. That was what amazed Dragon Granny.

No matter observing from his physical strength or cultivation of Internal Qi, Junior Leopard appeared to be a Level Four expert. How could he consume so much Internal Qi in his attacks?

And what were those six balls of eccentric flame? They could melt her Green Spiritual Glass Cover! The Internal Qi of Blaze Technique of the Heavenly Nine Dragon was certainly incapable of such feat. She had never heard of any cultivation methods capable of it. Her first thought was he was using a secret skill. Those fireballs must be an amazing secret skill like her Green Spiritual Glass Cover. Then her second thought was that this guy must have an External Elixir!

Yes, External Elixir! Only External Elixir could help him to use Internal Qi with a mismatched cultivation and physical strength.

But that was an External Elixir!

That was an incredibly rare thing. There were few materials in the world that could be used to make one. Even in her age, she had only heard about it but never seen it. Even in prestigious sects and schools like the Meng Family, it was said that only a certain powerful, cloistered Family Elder owned one. Could this young man have one too? If he did, he was too incredibly lucky!

Considering the possibility that Junior Leopard may own an External Elixir, she certainly needed to be cautious. She stood there with her walking stick, gasping for breath as she set her sight on him. She stared at him as his Qi Power intensified with each step he took. Her expression remained unchanged. Finally, her eyes landed on the eccentric osseous earring on his left ear.