546 Gong Liang (1/2)

The two Xiong Family card artisans had hideous expressions as they turned toward Copper who was at the window!

Copper abruptly sobered up and shouted angrily, ”Xiong Shen, how dare you . . .”

A murderous look flashed through Chen Mu's eyes, and he lightly raised his hand from where two ripples that were invisible to the naked eye swiftly enshrouded the two Xiong Family card artisans.

”Ow, my eyes! Why can't I see anything!”

”What place is this?”

The two card artisans' voices were full of fear. They were like headless houseflies as they spun about in midair.

Xiong Shen's heart plummeted, and his expression changed dramatically, ”Stay calm, it's an illusion card! It's just an illusion card!”

The two Xiong Family card artisans didn't hear what he shouted. Their terrified voices gave the onlookers a chill.

”Argh, I have to leave . . .” That card artisan shrieked hysterically, as he suddenly sped up and charged straight toward where Xiong Shen and the rest were. Xiong Shen unconsciously dodged, but just as he did so, he was suddenly surprised, ”Careful . . .”

”Argh . . .” The scream was unusually poignant. A very eye-catching splat of fresh blood spread on the outer wall of the Victoria Hotel.

The other Xiong Family card artisan shouted crazily, ”I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!”

He was desperately shooting off energy bodies in all directions and stirring up a hornets' nest. The screams of the onlookers came one after the other. Card artisans with any strength at all rushed to raise their energy cloaks, but there were still quite a few accidental injuries.

”Humph, Does the Xiong Family just go around recklessly injuring people?” A very cold voice sounded out.

The already angry Xiong Shen become still more angry, and his expression darkened, ”Which of our friends is displeased with our Xiong Family? Why don't you show yourself and tell me about it?”

”That idiot might do a better job killing, to avoid injuring others.” The cold voice sounded out once again, as though he hadn't understood Xiong Shen. Just as the voice fell, everyone saw a golden flash before their eyes, and that Xiong Family card artisan rubbed his throat as his eyes bugged out and he tried to call out in a broken voice.

His body plunked from the air like a bag of sand. He was badly mangled when he hit.

Xiong Shen's face was steely grey, but he drew in a deep breath and restrained himself. His sightline returned to Chen Mu. Xiong Shen was someone who had some knowledge of things, and although that golden streak was only a flash that came and went, he was awed by the strength of the card artisan in the dark. If he didn't handle things well under everyone's gaze now, the Xiong Family face would hit bottom.

To set up two enemies at the same time wouldn't improve his situation.

He signaled Gong Liang with a look as he said, ”What is your big idea? You have stretched your reach too far into our Xiong Family internal affairs.” Chen Mu was looking at Copper, feeling all sorts of pleasant surprise. Although he had always maintained the hope to see Copper again, most of the time he thought of it as an extravagant hope. But now Copper was right there alive in front of him. That sort of pleasant surprise was indescribable. He also very quickly recognized Lan Feng to Copper's side.

He didn't hear what Xiong Shen was saying but flew straight to the window where Copper was.

Gong Liang swung around to stop Chen Mu, laughing coldly, ”What? Weren't you going to challenge me?”

”Out of my way!” Chen Mu's gaze became abruptly colder.

”Ha-ha, but you called me out by name for the challenge . . .”

Before Gong Liang could finish speaking, Chen Mu made his move! He had no interest in wasting any words on that guy.

With a slight lift to his hand, the formless ripples covered Gong Liang like a large net.

The cold smile on Gong Liang's face didn't go away, as his body became suddenly blurred and he appeared to the right side of Chen Mu. He spread his right hand, where countless deep green wings appeared in front of him, each them about ten centimeters long and very sharp. They were so exquisite that their emerald green was like jade. The dense and dark green wings floated in front of him with their points aimed at Chen Mu.

”Go!”

Xiu, xiu, xiu!

The concentrated whistle was as though a storm had kicked up, which didn't only enter the ear, but was taken in by the soul.

Chen Mu skillfully slid off as though he were standing on ice, as he made a criss-crossing slide in midair. Those dark green wings grazed Chen Mu's body before disappearing behind him. Gong Liang didn't look at all surprised, as though he knew that a blow like that had no way to injure that young card artisan in front of him. His attack continued uninterrupted, as the dark green wings endlessly shot toward Chen Mu like raindrops.

That kind of straight shot was just too simple to dodge for Chen Mu as he was by then. He would only have to make a trivial shift sideways to be able to dodge most of the blows. His simple and agile movements drew the attention of quite a few of the card artisans looking on. It was especially his calm and ease which made the spectator card artisans secretly try to guess his identity. Up until then, although Chen Mu had never deployed any complex skills, in the eyes of quite a few people, that sort of seasoned performance would only ever be composed on those who had gone through a long period of battling.

Some of them even conjectured whether Chen Mu was a card artisan cultivated in secret by some establishment, since only that sort of card artisan could ever be accomplished to such an extent.

Chen Mu suddenly furrowed his brow and then without any warning shifted two meters to the side.

Without any noise, three wings flitted past where he had just been stationed.

Then there was immediately a 'weng' sound!

Everyone was aghast as they noticed that a huge green shadow appeared behind Chen Mu, with the dark green wing energy bodies that Gong Liang had just sent off amazingly returning back!