Chapter 178 – Provocation (1/2)
Chapter 178 - Provocation
A peak-level medium Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist?
Ye Chen’s pupils instantly shrunk. This girl with a veil was a peak-level medium Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist. With his sensible soul power, Ye Chen grasped the Zhen Qi vibration released from this girl’s body, which was as great and strong as a rapidly flowing river.
Lin Yue slightly paused, then turned around with great difficulty after he recognized the girl; he said to Ye Chen with a low voice, “Murong Qingcheng, the second-ranked disciple of the Black Dragon Empire’s rank 6 institution, Sky Flying Devil Martial School, Hidden Dragon Ranked 27, but it’s said that her real power is no weaker than the top 10.”
‘Sky Flying Devil Martial School?’ Ye Chen thought, ‘such a coincidence, back on the Wild Goose Falling River, I’ve met the Black Crow Taoist Priest, an elder of this Sky Flying Devil Martial School, now I meet their second-ranked disciple here in this Three River City!’
Lin Yue continued, “The Black Dragon Empire is not too far away from here, but usually, very few of martial artists in that empire would respond to Qi Shaoieng’s invitation. I have no idea why is she showing up this time, after all, all top 30 Hidden Dragon Ranked martial artists are so proud; they hardly ever even talk to lower ranked people.”
The appearance of Murong Qingcheng had immediately created a weird atmosphere in the backyard, that all the other young male martial artists simultaneously sorted their clothes and straightened their bodies, trying to show their best sides to this goddess-like girl. As for the other few young female martial artists, each let out a cold sniff, evidently feeling quite unpleasant. However, they had to admit that whether in terms of body shape or temperament, Murong Qingcheng was far better than all of them. As for facial features, everyone knew that Murong Qingcheng was one of the two legendarily beautiful girls in the entire Black Dragon Empire, that even multiple princes of the empire had been dreaming about her.
A vivid passion surged out of Qi Shaofeng’s eyes while he hurriedly walked up and said, “Ah, Miss Murong, please forgive me for not going out to welcome you!”
Murong Qingcheng gave a faint smile and responded, “Just call me Murong.”
“Good, Murong, please take a seat over here.” Qi Shaofeng raised his right arm and showed Murong her seat.
Sitting beside Qi Shaofeng’s seat, Murong Qingcheng held up a cup of tea that was served by a waitress just now; she took a slight sip then swept around the backyard with her pair of soul-taking beautiful eyes. She was slightly surprised when she saw Ye Chen, who was sitting in a corner, because she clearly remembered that Ye Chen was not in the last season Hidden Dragon Rank. ‘He might be a newly emerged talented young martial artist.’ she thought.
This party was held out of no special purpose, but serving as a platform that could allow all talented young martial artists to know each other and exchange their experiences. Without a doubt, as talented and passionate young martial artists from different institutions, martial arts and cultivations were their eternal main topics since the beginning of the time.
“Brother Zhang, I heard that you have already reached the ninth-level of your ‘Wind God Break’, just wondering how powerful you are now. You must be pretty amazing!”
“The ‘Wind God Break’ is the secret martial art of our Wind Steer Martial School, it surely is amazing. Brother He, even your Gold Steel defence art might not be able to hold off my move now.”
“Eh? Since you’ve said so, why don’t we gave a try to find out whether your Wind God Break is more powerful than my Gold Steel defence art?”
“As you wish!”
As martial art related topics went on, some of them couldn’t help but become irritated, making them start a competition.
To this situation, Qi Shaofeng was well prepared that he quickly cleared a large space empty for them, he then grinned and said, “The next season of Hidden Dragon Rank has not yet begun, you two should know when to stop in order to not affect our good friendships.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t hurt him.”
“I’ll be gentle as well.”
These two young martial artists ranked similarly in the last season Hidden Dragon Rank, therefore, they both wanted to find out which one of them was more powerful than the other; it was something that could be told even from their languages.
Qi Shaofeng gave a bitter smile then stepped back to beside Murong Qingcheng.
Boom!
Swiftly, each of the two young martial artists had already launched a move. The sturdy and muscular one released a golden, translucent shield, which had wrapped his entire body up; that shield seemed to be formed from golden air streams, yet it looked thicker and more solid than airstreams, which was more like a layer of golden water, firmly shielding every corner of the martial artist’s body.
In front of him was a tall and slim young man, whose hair was fluttering in the wind. A cyan whirlwind emerged behind his body, which was compressed into an oval shape. The core of the oval whirlwind was deep blue. As the tall and slim young man abruptly threw out a punch, a cyan stream of air immediately coiled around his arm, then swooshed out towards his opponent.
Lin Yue explained to Ye Chen, “The one with Golden Steel defence art is named Zhao Gang, Hidden Dragon Ranked 65, and the one with Wind God Break is named Cheng Feng, Hidden Dragon Ranked 60. Although their ranks are slightly different, their levels are nearly the same, therefore, no one knows who would win this fight.”
“Perhaps Zhao Gang.” Said Ye Chen.
“Why?” Asked Lin Yue confusedly.
Ye Chen grinned and said, “Although Cheng Feng’s moves were launched fiercely and violently like a thunderstorm, but he could never break Zhao Gang’s defence within a short time; but Zhao Gang has already started looking for the weaknesses of Cheng Feng while he’s defending himself. If I’m right, Zhao Gang will launch his effective counterattack once after Cheng Feng’s Zhen Qi begin running out.”
Hearing Ye Chen, Lin Yue turned his face back to the battlefield, but he failed to discover any clue that was mentioned by Ye Chen no matter how hard he tried. These two young martial artists had been moving way too swiftly, that it was quite difficult for the other same level martial artists to analyze their fight; even if they could, they couldn’t possibly forecast their later situations just like Ye Chen just did.
“Shameless big talker.” Said Gao Yuan after letting out a scornful sniff.
Lin Yue didn’t take Ye Chen’s forecast seriously either, but since Ye Chen was his friend, he would surely defend him from the others under the current situation.
“The conversation is between us and has nothing to do with you.” Said Lin Yue.
“Oy,” said Gao Yuan with a scornful tone, “Every single one in this space is much more powerful than both of you, the reason why brother Qi invited you is that he wanted to give you a chance to meet some truly talented martial artists and learn that there are always someone beyond you. Don’t think that coming to this party makes you equally powerful than us!”
Ye Chen did not show any change in expression, he only responded blandly, “Well, in terms of power, you’re only average among all these people here, you’re not qualified to say that to us either.”
Gao Yuan showed a frosty gaze, then said, “Among the ranks of all Hidden Dragon Ranked martial artists of your nine nations, the highest was only 54. If you think that you can domineer the world of younger generation martial artists only because you’ve defeated some of those lousy Hidden Dragon Ranked martial artists in your nine nations, you would certainly become such a huge joke. Seriously, don’t be so stupid, you’re not as powerful as you think.”
A few others, who had always been looking down upon the nine nations, including the Elephant Mountain Nation and Windy Nation, each showed a teasing look when they heard Gao Yuan.
“Where does this kid come from? He can’t really think that he’s a big deal, can he?”
“People from the nine nations have always been in the bottom of every single season of Hidden Dragon Rank.”
“The last time, that stupid thing named Wo Wuxie jumped out and messed around, yet we’ve thought him a good lesson. Now we have another arrogant dumb kid from the nine nations.”
Lin Yue’s face was darkened badly, he whispered to Ye Chen, “Ye Chen, can Zhao Gang truly win the fight?”