Chapter 69: The shock of the princelings (2/2)
This was a high quality assessment!
Thus everyone’s reaction to him was that he was a master of martial arts and a genius.
Xue Lianxin had once been taught by Xue Dian of the Republic of China era’s Tianjin Guoshu Institute. His skill with Xingyi had reached such a realm of perfection that he had reached the Transforming Jin stage. He had many disciples and had often many experts come by to hear his guidance.
Even Ma Hongjun of Hong Kong’s Yuxing Corporation, Taiwan’s Sanlian Corporation’s Liu Jiajun, and many others had been guided by him.
Not only was Xue Lianxin’s martial art strong, his personality, reputation and virtue were all well respected. So even when he had grown older, no one dared to compete against him despite knowing his strength was not as strong as before.
Combined with the fact that Chen Aiyang had never lost in a competition and could circulate his Hidden Jin everywhere, no one had doubted Xue Lianxin’s words.
Even the Eight Extreme Fists master Zhang Guangming who had ruled the Vietnamese martial arts world had been struck down by Chen Aiyang.
Zhang Guangming had been 40 years old at the time, meaning his strength was at his peak and could use the “Heng Ha” sounds to temper his body to reach the peak of Hidden Jin.
TL Note: In Chinese, they are called the 哼哈二将 (Heng Ha Er Jiang). They are called the Nio, or the Kongōrikishi. The left guardian represents the “Ah” (Ha in this case), while the right guardian represents the “Un” (Heng in this case) sounds.
It was that battle that had cemented Chen Aiyang’s figure as the number one expert.
The most notable thing was that Chen Aiyang did not use Taichi to kill Zhang Guangming. Instead, he had used the Hidden Jin of Xingyi Quan’s tiger stance.
Afterwards, many experts of the martial arts world had began saying that Chen Aiyang could be the second coming of Sun Lu-tang. An expert that came once every three hundred years.
“What a strong Chopping Jin. This skill of the martial artist has already reached the Fist and Spirit stage where the essence is learned. My sister said this practitioner was only 20 years old I believe? How inconceivable. Xiao Qin’s movements is something I am familiar with. This isn’t something any regular Hidden Jin expert could predict and would most likely lose against. To be able to keep up with Xiao Qin’s movements would be saying he is a top quality expert. I am not familiar with the experts of the mainland, but a person capable of this would be well known and not an unknown figure.
Chen Aiyang’s words were mature for his age, but he looked like a scholarly youth at the height of 1.7 meters. At a glance, he looked more like an intern studying to be a doctor and not a figure that was well known in the underground fighting world.
He was 29 years old, but as Xue Lianxin had predicted, before he reached the age of 40 or even 50, he would reach the realm of Yang Luchan.
Advancing forwards, Chen Aiyang began to probe around Qin Maojiao’s chest with his fingers to observe it.
Xu Zhen’s disciples had looked at Chen Aiyang with a venerated look. Despite some of the disciples already 30 years old, they were all looking at Chen Aiyang as if he was a senior martial artist.
Some of the disciples were even dressed in a classy like uniform as befitting a high class daughter of an official and/or merchant. Their eyes had stars in them as if they were infatuated with him.
“That opponent had only joined the Daxing Corporation three days ago when he fought my disciple in a competition. Ai, how arrogant my own disciple was. He had wanted to earn his own money and did not want mine.” Xu Zhen sighed.
“Oh, you’ve looked up that person’s background?” Chen Aiyang asked.
“I have not. Last night, the Daxing Corporation’s car factory was invaded by some hired guns. Lu Chengwen and his men were all killed in an explosion and that fighter disappeared mysteriously. Funnily enough, Boss Wu had even thought that it was my revenge and sent some people to interfere. Many others are saying the same thing, but am I, Xu Zhen, a man that would do such a thing?”
“Mercenaries…what type of mercenaries?”
“Judging from the trails they left behind, they crossed over from Vietnam. However, I don’t wish to butt heads with Boss Wu; after all, he is a government official. Thus, I came to you for advice and your help in investigating those mercenaries. I wish to know whether or not the one that killed my disciple is dead or not. If he is dead, then all is well, if not, then how could I not take revenge?”
“Ah, we are friends, of course I would help you out.” Chen Aiyang nodded his head. “In a few days I’ll be heading for Chaozhou. Wu Yingda, Wang Xiaolei and Zhao Jun have organized a competition with some expert from the S Province in the mainlands. They want me to bear witness.”
This was what had happened in the three days after Wang Chao had killed Qin Maojiao.
Needless to say, Boulder’s expertise in pinning the blame on someone was was extremely strong. They had even tricked the truth from the princelings and made them think that Vietnamese mercenaries were hired by Xu Zhen had done the job.
But because the Daxing Corporation was such a small company, Wu Yingda did not wish to butt heads with Xu Zhen. But he had given a word of warning since the use of a rocket launcher was far too drastic of an action to take for him to overlook.
Half a month later, Wang Chao had trained the tiger and snake stance to the point of having both spirit and form. On the last third of the month, he and Boulder had secretly staked out at Chaozhou.
The Ike Corporation had been stationed at Chaozhou as well.
There was still 10 days left until the competition between Wang Chao and Zhang Wei. Within the giant building of the Ike Corporation, three sets of footsteps could be heard as the princelings convened within it.
“My word, Ah Jun, just what has gotten you to be so worked up? That Tianxing Corporation is just a small company with several ten million RMB in assets. What is so important about this competition?”
Wu Yingda spoke.
“No, it’s not the Tianxing Corporation, it’s that Wang Chao. He has a special relationship with Zhu Jia and even Zhang Tong of the French company Chanel. He’s not just any regular person, he even has Cao Yi as a friend.My father is the governor, so this group unsettles me. That Wang Chao is young but he is talented, just who is his master? And who sent him that villa in the Tianxing district? I’m quite lost.”
“We can’t say for certain that he didn’t find some sort of secret training manual in the Wulin. Maybe it was from his own personal merit?”
“Impossible, without a master to teach, a secret manual is of no use.” Zhang Wei spoke up from the side of the table.
Suddenly, a man came walking in with a sheaf of papers.
“Chief Zhao, Chief Wu, Chief Wang, the 18th villa of the Tianxing District’s property rights have been found.”
“What! Hand it over!” Zhao Jun spoke up as he grabbed at the papers.
“What’s so secretive about this?” Wu Yinda spoke up before looking over. In the next second, his eyes widened in surprise!