Chapter 100: You Lack Actual Combat Experience! (1/2)
Chapter 100: You Lack Actual Combat Experience!
“Oh? Just who is this monk to be so familiar with not only the southern styles of martial arts, but even the subtle and intrinsic natures of how practitioners of Bajiquan use their elbows? Remarkable, how remarkable indeed. It seems that amongst the People, there are truly hidden dragons. It is especially rare in this peaceful era that these type of people remain hidden without ever getting involved in the underground world.”
Wang Chao’s eyes quickly gathered onto the monk.
The beard of this monk had been very long, but it had been well groomed and his forehead was a smooth white with a slight red hue. His eyes flashed brightly and the skin on his hands were pliable and tough without any signs of aging. Clearly, he had reached the Hidden Jin stage as well and practiced enough to keep his skin in good condition.
When a person first starts to practice, they temper the muscles, bones, and skin. Any hard style martial arts would naturally form calluses on the hands and kill the skin. If one were to learn Hidden Jin, then the strength of the pores would multiply, and the life force of the skin would grow even stronger. After another stage, the dead skin would fall off and the new skin would be born anew over it.
The wounds incurred by the axemen hired by Zhao Jun had left behind a terrifying centipede like scar on the back of Wang Chao in the past.
But after he had learned the tiger stance, eagle stance, dragon stance, and snake stance so that the Hidden Jin had spread through to his arms, back, chest, waist, and legs, the centipede scar on his back had slowly healed. In the end, the dead skin had fell off, leaving behind perfect skin.
“Let’s go, there’s no point staying here any longer then.”Lin Yanan had ignored the monk’s words and drew close to Wang Chao. “It looks like the friends of Zhang Wei are truly afraid of an enemy of Zhang Wei coming to eliminate any problem before it happens. With Zhang Wei’s family gone overseas, any obligations and manners you have are now fulfilled. There’s no point causing any more trouble, let’s go.” She whispered.
Lin Yanan didn’t want to cause any trouble with Leung Jingmen or the monk and had wished to leave.
“If you don’t speak the truth, you will not leave!” The bearded monk’s eyes flashed as he took a step forward. His hands extended forward before coming at Lin Yanan’s wrist.
His forefingers pinched together to form a blade while his thumb and pinky fingers closed together. With a gentle but swift movement, he had already made contact with Lin Yanan’s clothing.
Startled, Lin Yanan had found herself with no time to dodge. Despite her being fast, the monk had been far too fast for her. Furthermore, there had been no wind with his strikes, making it seem as if it was unable to be predicted in its movements and to escape his grasp.
“What are you doing?”
Wang Chao gave a gentle cough, there would be no way for him to not act against the monk. With a single jab of his fist that rumbled with thunder as the muscles moved as one, the fist pressed against the monk’s hand.
“The Five Thunders, your inner organs and muscles act as one?! How is that possible?” The monk’s ear twitched as he brought his hand away, realizing that he could not defend against Wang Chao’s fist. If he tried, then his hand would be broken from the force within Wang Chao’s fist.
To release thunder was said to be when a Daoist monk would truly be considered to be called a Daoist spiritual master. The Thunder Magics were one of the most amazing powers of Daoism. In popular legends, a spiritual master that had learned the Thunder Magics would be able to subdue demons, intimidate heretics, call upon the winds and rain, turn beans to soldiers, to ride the clouds and mist, and to be omnipotent.
Naturally, these were only myths that were told generation to generation without ever understanding it.
However, for a practitioner to release a thunder-like sound, this could be said to be an act of god that no ordinary person would understand.
Frightened, the Daoist monk quickly took back his fist and slid backwards. This movement had been exquisite and quite similar to the way a practitioner of Bagua would move.
When Leung Jingmen saw Wang Chao take action, he too had taken a step back in fright.
“Who are you? How did you attain such a level of martial arts?” As the Daoist monk moved back, his eyes looked at Wang Chao with fear and surprise.
By now, the villagers around the stone bridge had finally taken notice of the commotion and had gathered around them like a ring.
Those youths who were practicing their fists earlier had instantly surrounded Wang Chao, Zhu Jia, and Lin Yanan.
Wang Chao looked at the people around him with furrowed eyebrows. He hadn’t thought that a trip to see Zhang Wei’s family would cause such an event.
“What are you doing surrounding him, hurry up and move!” When the monks saw how eager the youths were to fight, he nervously let out an angry shout.
The monk was fully aware that Wang Chao’s single palm strike just then was enough to kill him as easily as an ant.
“I am a disciple from the Wudang Jiugong Sword School. My family name is Gan. Might this one ask where this master has come from, and why reasons you have for looking for Zhang Wei? Master Zhang Wei lost a gamble and was forced to die by jumping into the ocean and his family has already left for overseas.”
The tone of the monk had changed straight away.
“I am the one that master Zhang Wei fought in that gamble. I came here today purely to see if I could help his family.” Wang Chao had given his answer some thought. Lying would do him no good here. Instead of spouting lies with loopholes, it would be better to come clean. He was a just and honorable person and did not wish to speak in circles.
The entire Wudang mountains had many Daoist temples and even more monks hidden away to train in martial arts. There were many different schools, and even Chen Aiyang’s “Fishing Toad Jin” came from the Wudang school “Golden Toad Sect” as a way to cultivate the health.
These schools weren’t the same as the ones depicted in the martial art novels. There were no eldest disciple, second disciple, third disciple, fourth disciple, the son of a disciple, or any chivalrous person living as a traveling performance. The many schools of Wudang oftentimes had only just one person who would learn a specific style of martial arts and cultivation method. If there was no one to learn it, then it would die out.
“So it is! I knew a malicious person would come here! It is fortunate that we’ve prepared for this and sent Zhang Wei’s wife and child overseas. Don’t even think about using your Hidden Jin to cripple the son before he grows older. But, I had no idea that at such a young age, a talented person like you would have such a malicious heart? You forced Zhang Wei to jump to his death, and now you wish to do harm to his child! I am a martial artist as well, and although I wouldn’t try to provoke you on a normal basis, this is a situation where I cannot back away! No matter how strong you are, I am the senior student to Zhang Wei, I cannot just escape my duties. Come take your strike then!”
After Leung Jingmen had learnt of Zhang Wei’s death, he made his preparations and deals to have Zhang Wei’s family sent overseas with more than enough money to hide.
Zhang Wei had many enemies, some of them experts capable of Hidden Jin. Despite people not so willing to brazenly commit murder in today’s legal system, using Hidden Jin to harm a child would manifest itself many days later. Through this method, even the police would find it nearly impossible to understand what had happened.
Just like how Wang Chao used Hidden Jin in his Eagle Claw to injure Miyagi Hanshin, it took six days for Miyagi’s kidney to undergo necrosis and result in him urinating blood.
With how Wang Chao and the two others came visiting with their words not matching their actions, Leung Jingmen’s reaction to the revealing of their statuses was only naturally. It would be even weirder for him to believe that Wang Chao had wanted to help Zhang Wei’s family.
A person shows up out from nowhere after killing a man. That same person says he wishes to help the family of the person he killed, but he had always dodged the main question. It didn’t take much to guess that this person was up to no good.
From the situation around him, Wang Chao knew that there had been a misunderstanding. But trying to run his mouth to explain the situation wouldn’t do him any good now.
“A fight is unavoidable it seems. With so many villagers here, if we aren’t careful, then they’ll smash our car and make it hard for us to leave. Then I’ll defeat these two and establish my strength so that we can straighten things out.”
Taking in his surroundings, Wang Chao had instantly made an analysis and made a plan in accordance.