Chapter 15 Donghuang Intervenes (1/2)
Zhou Donghuang was in his room, concentrating on practicing the Way of the Supreme Four Divisions. As the meridians in his body expanded, the qi stored in them increased.
Suddenly, he heard someone shouting urgently and frantically, “Young Master! Young Master!”
“Granny Lian?”
Zhou Donghuang’s expression changed upon hearing her voice, and he leaped off the bed and sprinted out of the room.
“Granny Lian, what’s wrong? Has something happened?”
“Young Master, people from the Wang family are here, led by the level-two adept, Grand Patriarch Wang Yukun. They are at the entrance. Her Ladyship did not want me to tell you and went out alone with me…”
Granny Lian blurted out everything as fast as she could.
As soon as Granny Lian mentioned that Lin Lan was willing to suffer three blows from Wang Yukun for his sake, Zhou Donghuang’s expression changed completely.
“Mother!!”
Zhou Donghuang’s eyes popped out of their sockets, and his first thought was to rush out, but Granny Lian stopped him.
“Granny Lian, what are you doing?!”
Zhou Donghuang glared angrily at Granny Lian as though about to devour her, scaring her so badly that she trembled.
“Young Master, I told you this to see if you were able to rescue Her Ladyship,” she said through trembling lips. “If you are unable to face that Wang Yukun, I will prevent you from going out with my life… because Her ladyship told me as we were going out that I should bring you away if the opportunity arises.
“If you are unable to face Wang Yukun, I can only bring you away! If you stubbornly insist, there is only one way, that is over my dead body.”
Granny Lian stood squarely in front of Zhou Donghuang, blocking him, her voice firm and resolute, leaving no room for any doubt about her resolve.
Lin Lan had actually not allowed Granny Lian to tell Zhou Donghuang what had happened and had only intended that Granny Lian find a way to sneak away with Zhou Donghuang while she stalled the Wang family members.
Granny Lian had spilled everything out to see if Zhou Donghuang was able to find a way to stop Wang Yukun.
Although she felt it was improbable, she had resolved to try nonetheless. After all, the Young Master had surprised her again and again in recent days…
“Granny Lian, come out with me.”
Hearing Granny Lian’s story, Zhou Donghuang took a deep breath, and after calming his raging emotions, a cold murderous look shone in his eyes.
Granny Lian’s eyes lit up. Going by the Young Master’s actions, he seemed really confident.
Leaving Granny Lian staring blankly, Zhou Donghuang had already sprinted off at a speed that left her, a level-one adept, choking on dust.
“Young Master’s speed…”
Granny Lian’s eyes narrowed, and gasping with astonishment, she ran after him.
…
Outside the main entrance of the Magnolia Guild.
Pong!!
As a level-two adept, Wang Yukun used his full force of two bull’s strength and with one blow, sent Lin Lan flying. She crashed into a pillar at one side of the Magnolia Guild’s main entrance and fell heavily to the ground. Her breathing was shallow, and blood spurted from her mouth.
“Mother!”
Zhou Donghuang had just arrived, and looking at the scene before him, his expression changed completely. He dashed to Lin Lan’s side and tipped a bottle of medicine into her mouth.
“Mother, swallow this… this is a healing elixir I made.”
Only after making certain that Lin Lan’s injuries were not life-threatening did Zhou Donghuang let out a breath and stand up. His gaze had turned cold and fell upon Wang Yukun.
“Zhou Donghuang!”
Behind Wang Yukun, Wang Feng jumped off his horse as well and moved to stand beside Wang Yukun. He stared at Zhou Donghuang with an expression full of hate and anger, as though he wanted to bite Zhou Donghuang’s head off.
“You are Zhou Donghuang?”
Wang Yukun’s gaze fell on Zhou Donghuang, and he smiled placidly.
“Your step mother treats you really well… she agreed to suffer three blows from me just to protect you.”
“It’s too bad that after just one blow from me, she can’t even stand… one more blow and that will be the end of her! You can say you’ve saved her life by coming out, if not, both of you would have died today.”
Wang Yukun was now looking at Zhou Donghuang as though he were a dead man, and indeed, Zhou Donghuang was no different from a dead man in his eyes.
“Donghuang…”
Lin Lan struggled to stand, but her severe injuries had robbed her of the strength to stand. After trying to push herself up with her palms, she collapsed again.
“Granny Lian, take good care of my mother.”
Just then, Granny Lian came out, and after turning back to instruct her, Zhou Donghuang’s gaze found Wang Yukun once more.
“And you are Wang Yukun?”
Zhou Donghuang grinned, showing two rows of snow-white teeth. Instead of showing anger, he smiled a radiant smile.
“Today, you can consider yourself to have lived a worthy life, to be able to die by my hand.”
Hearing Zhou Donghuang’s words, Wang Yukun was stunned, as was Wang Feng beside him.
So was everyone else.
No one had expected that Zhou Donghuang would suddenly say such a thing. Did this mean that he intended to fight Wang Yukun?
“Donghuang!”
Lin Lan’s expression changed, and she tried to push herself up again but was stopped by Granny Lian.
“Lady, don’t you feel that… Young Master is now very self-confident?”