Chapter 147 - Connate Stage Youth (1/2)
Although Chen Dandan maintained a fierce demeanor, it was actually a facade.
Right now, the youth before her was already a level-eight adept of Qi-gathering, and if he made a move against her before Elder Li arrived, she would be unable to defend herself.
“You’re truly the daughter of the second elder of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, deciding the fate of others so readily.”
Zhou Donghuang smiled coldly and took a step forward, and began to walk towards Chen Dandan. With each step, it seemed that he was stepping on Chen Dandan’s chest, making Chen Dandan’s expression change.
“You…what do you think you’re doing?!”
As Chen Dandan’s expression changed, she looked at Zhou Donghuang in dread.
“As I said earlier…I am here to collect a debt.”
In an instant, Zhou Donghuang was in front of Chen Dandan, breaking into a smile that showed both rows of teeth.
It was a brilliant smile, but it frightened Chen Dandan into a fit of trembling.
As the childhood playmate of this youth before her, she naturally knew that when the youth showed a smile like that, he was anything but happy, and was actually showing that he was extremely furious.
In the instant that Chen Dandan’s expression changed once again, Zhou Donghuang flicked his arm out, striking at Chen Dandan’s chest with his palm.
“No—”
Chen Dandan’s expression changed completely. With her level of practice, she was completely unable to dodge Zhou Donghuang’s palm in time.
“Stop…”
Several of the disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters who were gathered around watching were level-eight adepts, stronger in ability, who had originally intended to stop the youth who was attacking Chen Dandan. But when they saw a foot of green haze welling out of the youth’s palm, it was as though each had been savagely throttled, and their voices died in their throats.
Out of the two words “stop it,” they only managed “stop.”
Crash!!
Zhou Donghuang’s palm landed on Chen Dandan’s chest, and the green haze from the youth’s palm dissipated with the sound, while Chen Dandan was sent reeling two steps back from the blow. Her face alternated between turning red and green, and trickles of blood leaked from the corners of her mouth.
“Connate…Connate-stage adept?!”
“Earlier he was only…using his qi?”
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Now the attention of the gathered crowd of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters was no longer on the wounded Chen Dandan. Their gazes fell in unison on the youth dressed in robes whiter than snow.
When the youth had struck out with his palm, there had been a destructive green haze coming from his palm, easily a foot long.
This was the hallmark of the early Connate stage.
This youth who looked seventeen or eighteen years old was actually an early Connate-stage adept?
“Is he really a Connate-stage adept? A Connate-stage adept striking sister Chen Dandan with his palm, and only managing to drive her back two steps?”
“Even a level-eight adept of Qi-gathering, never mind a Connate-stage adept, would not possibly drive her back only two steps with a casual blow from his palm.”
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At the same time, some people began to be suspicious that the blow from Zhou Donghuang’s palm only drove Chen Dandan back two steps, but basically felt that Zhou Donghuang had deliberately held back.
“You…you destroyed my meridians?”
Chen Dandan was shocked that although Zhou Donghuang had expended his qi, when she subconsciously tried to activate the qi within her body, she noticed that the qi within her body was dispersing in all directions, and she was unable to gather it.
At the same time, she felt waves of sharp pain coming from the meridians in her body.
With Zhou Donghuang’s palm landing on her with a not-great force, all in all, it was not difficult for her to guess that the blow from Zhou Donghuang was not intended to wound her, but to destroy her meridians!
Immediately, a look of despair came over Chen Dandan’s eyes.
She could not be more clear what having her meridians destroyed implied.
It implied that she would become a martial invalid for the rest of her life!
She thought that by becoming the daughter of the second elder of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, she could fly to the top branch and become a phoenix…
She never imagined that just when her level of practice was advancing at an incredible rate, promising that she would attain the Connate stage in this lifetime, her childhood playmate from former times would seek her out and directly destroy her meridians.
With her meridians destroyed, there would be nothing she could do, even in the Valley of the Medicine Masters where there was no lack of powerful adepts.
“He…destroyed Sister Chen Dandan’s meridians?”
“My god! He is offending the second elder backing Sister Chen Dandan to death!”
“I was wondering why he held back earlier…so his blow was not intended to wound Sister Chen Dandan, but was intended to destroy Sister Dandan’s level of practice!”
“If I were Sister Dandan, and if I had a choice…I would rather be so gravely wounded that I would be lying on my bed for a few months than have my level of practice destroyed.”
“In the face of a choice like this…anyone would probably choose to be bedridden for a few months, wouldn’t he?”
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The faces of the gathered crowd of disciples of the Valley of the Medicine Masters showed expressions of shock. They could never have imagined that the youth before them would be so daring, destroying Chen Dandan’s level of practice with his first attack.
It must be stated that Chen Dandan was no ordinary person.
She was the daughter of the second elder of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Chen Tianhe!
Moreover, because the second elder of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Chen Tianhe, previously had neither a son nor a daughter, he doted on his long-lost daughter, Chen Dandan.
This was also the reason why Chen Dandan had been able to attain level-four of Qi-gathering not long after arriving at the Valley of the Medicine Masters.