Chapter 30 Making Enemies (1/2)
Oh no!
A palm against the keen edge of a sword. Everyone present expected Zhou Donghuang’s palm to be severed by the sword in Lu Gang’s hand.
You use the sword clumsily. If you want to sever my hand, you need more finesse.
Just as many people thought Zhou Donghuang was doomed, Zhou Donghuang smiled nonchalantly. In the instant when his hand met the sword, he curved his thumb and fingers to pinch the face of the sword tightly.
Stonebreaking Fingers was a third-grade technique, allowing your qi to be concentrated in any of the fingers to bore through stone easily.
If enough qi was used, even metals such as bronze or iron could be bored through easily.
Now, it was this martial art technique that Zhou Donghuang was demonstrating. His qi concentrated in his five fingers, making them hard as steel. They pinched the face of Lu Gang’s sword with the edge only half an inch away from his palm, but they prevented it from advancing any further and even touching him.
“Whoa——”
Lu Gang’s face turned red, and he roared like a wild beast as he channeled all the qi in his body to his hand. He tried to free his sword from Zhou Donghuang’s control, but no matter how much effort he put in, the sword in his hand remained frozen.
What terrible strength!
In that instant, Lu Gang’s heart trembled as it struck him how fearsome this youth was. He could not hope to contend with him.
“Come here!”
As Zhou Donghuang spoke casually, he pulled the hand pinching the sword towards the side of his body with a savage tug, and Lu Gang, who was holding on to his sword with a death grip, was pulled in as well.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Donghuang released his grip, allowing the sword to pass beside his body and allowing Lu Gang to rush towards him with the momentum from the enormous strength of his tug.
Weighted Sand Palm!
Zhou Donghuang had already formed his hand into a rigid palm as he released the sword, and he struck out with a whoosh as Lu Gang headed directly for him.
Pong!!
Zhou Donghuang’s palm landed squarely on Lu Gang’s unprotected chest like a thick metal cudgel, making a loud sound and caving Lu Gang’s chest inwards in an instant.
Lu Gang was dead the instant his chest was caved in, but the force of Zhou Donghuang’s palm sent him flying three meters clear before he crashed to the ground.
Ka-dum!
Even at the moment of his death, Lu Gang had not released his grip on the sword, and the sword crashed to the ground together with him.
From the time when Lu Gang adjusted the face of his sword to the edge up to the moment Zhou Donghuang pulled him in closely only to kill him with a single blow—the whole process all happened in the blink of an eye. It was so fast that the gathered onlookers were unable to react.
By the time the crowd outside Yunxuan Restaurant had come to their senses, Lu Gang had already been killed by Zhou Donghuang.
How… how is this possible?
The smiles on the faces of Lu Yuan and Fang Tianyi froze, and dread and shock surfaced in their eyes once again.
Lu Gang was a level-two adept, and he was armed. But he had still died at the hands of this sixteen-year-old Zhou Donghuang?
Even if they were beaten to death, they would not have believed that a youth of only sixteen years old could have this level of ability if they had not witnessed it with their own eyes.
“The man that Young Master Donghuang killed called himself Lu Gang of the Lu Family?”
“Lu Gang? That level-two adept who is called the ‘frenzied sword,’ of the Lu Family of the prefecture capital?”
“This Lu Gang, it’s said that he once killed a bandit chief who was a level-two adept in the span of ten breaths, and he earned the title ‘frenzied sword’ after that battle.”
“Even with a sword in hand, the frenzied sword, Lu Gang was still killed in one exchange by Young Master Donghuang?”
“Young Master Donghuang’s ability is incredibly fearsome, isn’t it? Even if Young Master Donghuang was not a level-three adept, it seems that few level-two adepts of Qi-gathering are a match for him.”
Many of the Qingshan Town locals recognized Lu Gang, and this created an uproar among the crowd, and also many exclamations at Zhou Donghuang’s ability.
“Young Master Donghuang is only sixteen years old. Even if tomorrow was a new year in the Ziyun Era, he would still only be seventeen years old.”
“It’s just a pity that this time he has completely offended the elite lesser families of the prefecture capital, the Ma Family and the Lu Family. If not, when he grew up, even if the entire Ma and Lu Families come out to kill him, they might not be enough.”
“Heaven envies heroes.”
The more outstanding Zhou Donghuang’s performance, the more regret the people of Qingshan Town felt for him.
“Boss.”
Seeing Zhou Donghuang kill Lu Gang made Fu’s eyes shine with gratitude. But the waiters and servant girls in Yunxuan Restaurant, as well as the chefs who had come out when they heard the commotion, all had ugly expressions on their faces.
In that moment, Zhou Donghuang’s calm and emotionless gaze found Lu Yuan and Fang Tianyi, and he smiled suddenly, showing two rows of snow-white teeth.
“I said just now that if he could survive one exchange with me, I would let you leave unharmed. Too bad he was too useless.”
Zhou Donghuang’s tone was calm, and he spoke unhurriedly.
“Zhou Donghuang!”
Fang Tianyi was scared witless and took a step back instinctively.
“If you dare touch me, the Fang Family will definitely not let you off!”
“Zhou Donghuang, if you let us go now, I guarantee the Lu Family will not make trouble for you,” Lu Yuan said solemnly.
Of course, this was just an expedient measure to Lu Yuan. When he returned home, he would get his father to send the most able men with him to Qingshan Town, kill Zhou Donghuang, and seize Yunxuan Restaurant!