Chapter 180 - The Interrogation (1/2)
“My lord, if you would only make an attack, the Primal Core essence that Zhou Donghuang now holds, will be yours.”
Lu Yuanshan also smiled at Su Mo as he said, “That Zhou Donghuang, is just a brat from a tiny village way out of town, and he could enter the Connate level at 20 years of age with the essence left behind by the Primal Core adept… If you, my lord, were to take hold of this same essence, you could hope to enter the Primal Core stage and fulfill your greatest potential!
In the history of the Valley of Medicine Masters, there had never been a Primal Core adept, and Lu Yuan Shan knew of this.
“Indeed.”
Shi Yu smiled and echoed. “My lord, that village boy, Zhou Donghuang is not worthy of having that essence from the Primal Core adept!
“Only you, the best amongst them, the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters and lord of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, should be worthy of owning the essence left behind by the Primal Core adept.”
After he said this, Shi Yu continued to pour praise and fawn over Su Mo, but this instead made Su Mo nervous and break out in a cold sweat.
How dare he mention that his master was not worthy and that he was?
At once, Su Mo’s face was grave, and he was about to blow up when—
Creeeaaaaak
The room door behind Su Mo opened, and a figure cloaked in snow-white robes slowly sauntered out, saying, “And I was just thinking, who is it that thinks so lowly of me.
“So it is you, Shi Yu.”
Zhou Donghuang looked at Shi Yu, a look of calm in his eyes, his face completely cool and unfettered.
“Zhou… Zhou Donghuang?!”
It was only when Shi Yu stared hard at the young man in white that he recognized that this person was indeed Zhou Donghuang. It had been a while since they last saw each other, but the child-like features had gone away and were completely replaced by those of a maturing youth.
“Zhou Donghuang?”
At Shi Yu’s gasp of surprise, Lu Yuanshan was at first completely shocked, but this quickly turned into a look of complete fear as he thought, “This Zhou Donghuang, how is it that he is here? Furthermore, why was he stepping out of the Head of the Valley of Medicine Master’s personal abode?”
At this moment, Lu Yuanshan felt a bad premonition.
Though Lu Yuanshan had never seen Zhou Donghuang before, it did not affect his impression of Zhou Donghuang’s character. He knew that he was dressed in snow-white clothes all year round, had handsome features, and had an extraordinary aura about him.
The young man dressed in white that was before him ticked off on all these criteria.
Coupled with Shi Yu’s exclamation of surprise, he was more than certain that the young man in white was the very same Zhou Donghuang who came into possession of the Primal Core essence from the Western Chu Ridge in Yunyang!
“Zhou Donghuang, why are you here?”
Now, Shi Yu was also starting to understand that something was in fact amiss, and all the color in his face was starting to drain.
Judging from their current stance, this Zhou Donghuang did not seem to be held captive by any means by the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters Su Mo.
“Master, how do you intend to deal with these two men?”
And while Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan were frightened to their core, their faces having turned white with the look of fear in their eyes, Su Mo bowed to ask Zhou Donghuang this question.
As Su Mo’s words got across to Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan, their faces instantly changed once more, and all that was left in their eyes was a look of complete hopelessness.
Mas… Master?!
The Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters and lord of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, whom they so revered, was now calling Zhou Donghuang his master?
At this instant, the both of them believed that they were in a dream.
Shi Yu immediately pinched his face, and Lu Yuanshan pinched himself in the thigh, and as they felt the pain, reality hit them and they understood that they were not at all dreaming.
Everything unfolding before their eyes was indeed real!
“I… impossible! This cannot be possible!”
Shi Yu was confused and panicked, his eyes filled with despair. As he took a step back, he kept shaking his head like he had been stricken with madness.
He could not, for a moment, accept the truth before him.
Plop!!
As Shi Yu seemed to be losing his sanity, at the same time, Lu Yuanshan had knelt down on the ground and was repeatedly kowtowing before Zhou Donghuang. “Young Master Donghuang, I am the Lu Yuanshan, head of the Lu family from the Chu royal city. We have no quarrel with each other, and I had no intention of hurting you! I swear I had no intention of hurting you!”
“With your reputation, you must not be bothered at all about little old me, you can’t be that bothered… am I right?”
Lu Yuanshan was absolutely scared out of his own wits. This young man, reputed to be the Chu royal city’s Connate-level teenager, was in fact now the master of the Head of the Valley of Medicine Master, the same man whose rule covered the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley?
If he had not seen this with his own eyes, he would never believe that this was real, even if his own life was at stake.
Now, upon hearing Lu Yuanshan’s cries for mercy before Zhou Donghuang, Shi Yu seemed to suddenly come to his senses from his moment of insanity, and with a plop, he went down on his knees before Zhou Donghuang.
On top of that, Shi Yu seemed to kowtow with a lot more force than Lu Yuanshan. “Young Master Donghuang, I was wrong! I was wrong!
“With your esteemed position, I must be worth less than an ant in your eyes. My lord would not bother with such a small iniquity and take it as if I had just let off some hot air!
“I, Shi Yu, swear that I would never again try to go against Young Master Donghuang! I swear! I swear!”
In the face of death, all Shi Yu had on his mind was a determination to preserve his life.
Swoosh!
After casting a sweeping glance at the two men, Zhou Donghuang’s figure seemed to flash, and he leaped into the air, only leaving a simple command as he flew into the distance. “I’ll leave you to deal with this on your own.”
“Yes, Master,” Su Mo responded obediently.
When Zhou Donghuang leaped into the air, both Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan were shocked and dumbfounded. “A Primal… Primal Core adept?!”
The ability to tread the air like this, as legend had it, was the mark of a Primal Core adept.
It was at this moment that they realized that Connate-level teenager they once knew was already miles ahead of the Connate stage and had entered the Primal Core stage, becoming a legendary Primal Core adept!
“It is no wonder that even the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters would acknowledge him as ‘master.'”
The two men instinctively thought of the same thing at the same time.
“Since you had dared think of sabotaging my master, you are only looking for death!”