Chapter 146 - Lions Roar (2/2)

And saying that the Valley of the Medicine Masters was a small sect?

“Big words!”

Chen Dandan laughed coldly and followed up by giving the youth a freezing look. “Zhou Donghuang, from what you are saying…you…no one brought you into the Valley of the Medicine Masters, but you came into the Valley of the Medicine Masters on your own?”

“In the Valley of the Medicine Masters, I come and go as I please, why do I need someone to accompany me?”

Zhou Donghuang smiled condescendingly.

“Zhou Donghuang!”

As Zhou Donghuang finished, Chen Dandan glared at him and raised her voice again. “Such gall, you actually dare barge into the Valley of the Medicine Masters!”

“Barging into the Valley of the Medicine Masters?”

When they heard what Chen Dandan said, the group of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters who had gathered around broke into a commotion, and the looks that they gave the youth were filled with hostility.

“Little fellow, you are really quite capable…that you managed to avoid being seen by the elders of the observation towers and sneak into the Valley of the Medicine Masters!”

One of the young men beside Chen Dandan took a step forward, giving Zhou Donghuang a cold look. “We have rules here in the Valley of the Medicine Masters: a light penalty for trespassers is to have their level of practice destroyed; a severe penalty is death!”

“In view of your youth and ignorance, I’ll destroy your level of practice. After that you can find your own way out of the Valley of the Medicine Masters!”

As soon as he finished, the young man’s arms and legs moved without warning, and his whole person seemed to transform into a hound as he sprang at Zhou Donghuang.

“Hng——”

As the youth sprang at him, Zhou Donghuang suddenly gave a cold snort.

The snort did not seem like anything to the gathered group of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, but pierced into the young man springing at Zhou Donghuang and caused his expression to change completely, and his body trembled suddenly as he stopped in his tracks.

Crash!!

In full view of the crowd, the young man who had sprung at Zhou Donghuang crashed headfirst into the ground, skidding forward due to his momentum, completely unconscious.

Bright red blood ran from both his ears, flowing slowly and steadily like a stream.

“This is…an aural attack technique?!”

There were a good number of experienced disciples among the crowd of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, and seeing that the young man had been wounded to such a degree in the blink of an eye, their expression changed, and the looks that they gave the youth in white standing with his hands clasped behind his back were now tinged with dread.

In the instant the young man had sprung into motion, Zhou Donghuang had demonstrated an aural attack technique that he had obtained on Earth called “Lion’s Roar”.

Although Lion’s Roar was only a second-grade technique, with Zhou Donghuang’s current level of practice, he could easily kill an ordinary Qi-gathering adept.

If he had demonstrated Lion’s Roar to the fullest extent of his ability, that young man would certainly be dead!

The young man was only a level-six adept of Qi-gathering.

“This…how is this possible?!”

The scene unfolding before her caused Chen Dandan’s beautiful face to go pale. She never imagined that a level-six adept would be so gravely wounded and struck unconscious by just a sound from Zhou Donghuang before even approaching him.

“Aural attack technique?”

“Since when were aural attack techniques so strong? Ke Hui was a level-six adept, but he was struck unconscious at once.”

“Even if the aural attack technique he demonstrated was a second-grade technique, to strike a level-six adept unconscious even if he was unprepared would mean that he is at least a level-eight adept.”

“Him? A level-eight adept?”

“He looks like he is at most seventeen or eighteen years old…a seventeen year old level-eight adept? Are you kidding me?”

…

The gathered crowd of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters chattered among themselves and gave Zhou Donghuang looks full of disbelief, as though they were looking at a monster.

“Level-eight of Qi-gathering?!”

Chen Dandan’s expression changed, and the other young man beside her discreetly wiped away a trickle of cold sweat, giving silent thanks that he had not been the one to step forward first.

Otherwise, the one lying on the ground now would not be Ke Hui, but him.

His level of practice was similar to Ke Hui’s.

“Go and bring Elder Li here!”

Chen Dandan took a deep breath and suppressed her roiling emotions with an effort, instructing the young man beside her in a low voice, “Tell Elder Li that there is a trespasser in the Valley of the Medicine Masters!”

The Elder Li that Chen Dandan spoke of was a Connate-stage adept, the elder of the Valley of the Medicine Masters who was responsible for maintaining order and discipline in the training grounds. His accommodation was near the training grounds.

He would occasionally come to the training grounds to observe, but most of the time he would be found practicing at his accommodation.

“Very well,” the young man acknowledged hurriedly.

After the young man left, the look Chen Dandan gave Zhou Donghuang contained an additional portion of dread, but her gaze was just as chilly and her expression just as icy. “Zhou Donghuang, I could never have imagined that you have already attained level-eight of Qi-gathering.”

“It’s a pity…even if you have attained level-eight of Qi-gathering, today you will surely die here!”