252 Ignoran (1/2)
A young man dressed in white stood in the air, standing face to face with the man who was dressed entirely in black. From a distance, the pair made quite a distinct contrast.
”You're also a mid Dharma adept from the Lightning Sword Sect?”
Han Yuzheng, the young man who was dressed in black, looked at the young man in front of him who was dressed in white. He raised his brows and squinted slightly, the smirk on his lips looking slightly more strained than it did before.
”Zhou Donghuang, a disciple of the Autumn Valley,” Zhou Donghuang said unhurriedly as his eyelids raised sluggishly, and he glanced over at Han Yuzheng casually.
”An Autumn Valley disciple?”
Han Yuzheng was shocked at first. The smirk on his lips seemed less forced this time. ”Did you not see that a core disciple from your sect had lost to me?
”You don't think that you, an inner disciple of the Lighting Sword Sect, could possibly be my match, do you?” Han Yuzheng said with contempt in his eyes and a smirk on his face that seemed to become crueler.
At the same time, quite a number of Lightning Sect members grew dull after they heard Zhou Donghuang's self-introduction, but then they reacted.
”It's Zhou Donghuang, a disciple of the Autumn Valley! He's the one who managed to defeat the Summer Valley disciple, Lian Can mere moments after being at the early Dharma stage!”
”This Zhou Donghuang, he's only been at the early Dharma stage for a few months. He can't mean to say that he's already at the mid Dharma stage?”
”That's impossible! How can he possibly make such a leap from the ultimate Primal Core stage to the mid Dharma stage within just a few months?”
”He can't possibly be trying to go up against Han Yuzheng with his mid Dharma training, right? Now that I think about it, Zhou Donghuang's actually younger than Han Yuzheng.”
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Naturally, Han Yuzheng heard what the Lightning Sect Members were discussing. ”He moved up to the mid Dharma stage a few months ago?”
”He defeated the Summer Valley disciple Lian Can? That Lightning Sword Sect disciple who lost to Xie Yun?”
Han Yuzheng remembered that the first inner disciple the Thunder Knife Sect sent down today had once sparred with and subsequently defeated a Lightning Sword Sect disciple by the name of ”Lian Can.”
This time, the smirk on his lips was so contemptuous it could not possible become any more so.
”Valley Head He.”
From up above in the sky, Luo Yuanqiu stared deeply into He Jin's eyes. ”Is it possible that this disciple from your Autumn Valley is stronger than Hu Jian?
”He doesn't seem to be any older than my disciple Han Yuzheng.”
He Jin smiled indifferently at Luo Yuanqiu's words. ”He's only 24 years old this year as well… He's more or less the same age as this disciple of yours.”
”The same age? Interesting, interesting.”
A 24-year-old inner disciple of the Lightning Sword Sect has the guts to go up against his favored disciple, Han Yuzheng?
This was basically setting himself up for failure!
Luo Yuanqiu firmly believed that there was not a single person of Han Yuzheng's age in the entire Hengliu galaxy, let alone the Tielao planet, who was a match for him.
”Junior Brother He.”
Lian Can stared suspiciously at Zhou Donghuang who made his way forward. Lian Kun leaned towards He Jin and asked surreptitiously, ”This Zhou Donghuang from the Autumn Valley, he hasn't broken through to the mid Dharma stage yet, has he?”
Lian Kun knew full well the extent of Zhou Donghuang's abilities.
He had barely broken through to the early Dharma stage before he defeated his foster son and disciple Lian Can… The fact of the matter was that, when Lian Can was at the early Dharma stage, there was basically no one in the whole Summer Valley at the same stage who was a match for him.
However, he still lost pathetically to Zhou Donghuang despite giving the first strike.
Since that moment, Lian Kun had thought Zhou Donghuang was not merely a simple person.
He Jin went ahead and had Zhou Donghuang step forward despite the fact that a mid Dharma core disciple of the Lightning Sword Sect had lost to Han Yuzheng, so what did that say about him?
He Jin was confident about Zhou Donghuang!
And it was precisely because of this that he asked He Jin if Zhou Donghuang had already moved on to the mid Dharma stage. Although he did not think it was possible, he could not help but ask anyway.
This was because he felt that Zhou Donghuang had already been strong when he was still at the early Dharma stage, but even then he would only be stronger than the average mid Dharma adept.
With a mid Dharma adept as outstanding as Han Yuzheng, it was more likely than not that Zhou Donghuang was not his peer.
Judging solely by the capabilities Han Yuzheng had displayed, not even a late Dharma adept could beat him in battle.
”Senior Brother Lian, you'll have your answer if you keep watching, no?”
He Jin had no direct answer for Lian Kun's query, save for a mysterious smile that made Lian Kun uneasy as he turned back to look towards the stage.
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”Zhou Donghuang, was it?”
Han Yuzheng looked at Zhou Donghuang, smiling derisively. ”You have to manifest your Dharma power if you want a match with me… Otherwise, I fear you might not even have the chance to manifest it at all.”
It was needless to say, but Han Yuzheng was arrogant.
Arrogant as he was, even the Lightning Sword Sect members present now could not deny that he had every right to be this arrogant.
After all, the only mid Dharma adept they had in the Lightning Sword Sect could not last more than three moves with him.
Zhou Donghuang was unfazed and undisturbed in the face of Han Yuzheng's arrogance.