Chapter 109: Turbulent Times (Second) (1/2)
Chapter 109: Turbulent Times (Second)
“Why in the world is Zhao Jun here?”
Within the lounge of the Chenshi Corporation, when Wang Chao saw Zhao Jun appear, he began to have a bad feeling.
That crown prince of the Ike Corporation. Ever since Wang Chao was a nobody to the person he was today, the curse of Zhao Jun lingered with him. At the beginning, Zhao Jun had hired a group of axemen to try to first blind with him quicklime powder and then kill him. Afterwards, he had Zhang Wei fight him in a competition in an attempt to kill him.
The reason for the feud between the two had been simple. It was because of Zhu Jia.
But the Wang Chao of today had money, fame, and a powerful support backing him. He had made friends in the Wulin like Liao Junhua, Dai Jun, and Chen Aiyang along with some other high-ranking members of society. With his martial arts, power, and the many friends he had on this day, he was no longer worried of a confrontation with the unbridled princeling.
Zhao Jun’s entrance had been very smooth. Dressed in western-styled clothing and talking with a smile, he had smiles all around.
But when he entered the room and glanced around, he saw Wang Chao and Zhu Jia standing right next to each other. Straight away, his face slipped for a moment and a sinister light entered his eyes.
If Zhao Jun’s sinister glare was said to be well hidden, then the middle-aged man that had entered the room with Zhao Jun had a malicious stare that leaked hostility without even hiding it.
This hostility had been so obvious that Wang Chao’s pores began to swell together in anticipation.
This middle-aged man was one of the Three Tigers of Guangdong, the “Little Arm Saint”, Xu Zhen. The man who bore hatred with Wang Chao for killing his disciple.
When Zhao Jun saw Wang Chao and Zhu Jia, he had stopped for a moment. A smile later slipped its way back onto his face as he walked forward with Xu Zhen.
“Hello! Chen Bin, you look beautiful tonight!” Zhao Jun turned to look at Chen Bin who was right next to Zhu Jia.
Giving a slight smile, Chen Bin’s eyes glanced to Wang Chao.
Zhu Jia looked at Zhao Jun for a moment as well with a clear-as-day cold smile before turning to look at Wang Chao too.
Coming across such an awkward event, Zhao Jun’s face drained of color.
Just at that moment, Xu Zhen came forward with an ashen face towards Wang Chao. With clenched teeth, he spoke in an icily frigid tone, “Master Wang, what strategy you have. In such a short amount of time, you have made such an illustrious name for yourself! First excluding the death of my disciple, you managed to open up a martial arts school in Shandong. Then, you killed the genius from Japan, Ye Xuan and then managed to heavily injure the daughter of my friend, Yagyu Haruko. It seems that the grievances between us two must be resolved one day.”
Yagyu Haruko was the daughter of Xu Zhen’s friend from Japan, Yagyu Suimei. The affair that had happened in Manchuria had naturally made its way to his ears fast enough.
The Japanese martial arts world had brought several talented Japanese youths to Manchuria with the intent of training them in Russia. That much Xu Zhen knew.
The Japanese martial arts world were using this as a test to see if there were any experts amongst the People. A toss of a stone to see what was in the lake.
When the moment came for them to understand just how strong the Chinese were, they would immediately send over even more martial artists for a large-scale invasion of the martial arts world.
Now was an era of peace and stability. These exchanges in martial arts meant nothing in terms of practicality when someone won or lost. But whomever gained the upper hand here would deeply impact the culture, beliefs, and faith of whichever ethnicity that came out on top.
“Master Xu, when I killed your disciple, I had no other choice. It was an official competition with no ulterior motives. If you wish to take vengeance for your disciple, I will not object. All I can ask is for you to find a time, and I will accept.” Wang Chao sighed as he tried to think of a way to dissolve Xu Zhen’s hate.
Xu Zhen was a master of Tongbei with a deep understanding of martial arts after all. If he were to die from his wounds in an official competition, then the school of the White Ape style Tongbei would lose a precious sect. That would then be a tremendous blow that the already deformed and withered Chinese martial arts world.
Wang Chao was no longer the foolish little boy he was a few years ago. Aside from Xu Zhen’s vast martial arts, Wang Chao’s scope of the world had been expanded. Guoshu was for the nation, and his aspirations were as lare as the ocean. Righteousness remained key, and personal hatreds should be disregarded.
“Xu Zhen my friend, is this the master Wang who kicked my daughter?” Just at that moment, another middle aged man approached Xu Zhen from the back with a slightly accentuated Chinese manner of speech.
This man stood behind Xu Zhen since he himself was a little shorter than Xu Zhen and was not as conspicuous as Xu Zhen was.
When he first heard the words between Xu Zhen and Wang Chao, the man’s ears had perked to attention as he caught the meaning behind Wang Chao’s words. It was only when he understood the entire thing that he had stood up. Both of his eyes flared with a glaring light that reeked of hostility to the point where he could be heard cracking the joints in his body.
This man’s killing intent had been so massive, and his eyes had been like a viper staring down its prey that Wang Chao had felt that the air around them had begun to feel a little stifling.
“Judging from this man’s words, he must be the father of Yagyu Haruko. Yagyu Suimei then?” From his words, Wang Chao could swiftly guess just who this person was.
Yagyu Suimei was about 1.7 meters tall. Standing behind the 1.8 meters tall Xu Zhen, Yagyu Suimei was noticeably short. Even to Wang Chao, who was 1.8 meters tall as well, the difference was quite big,
Although Yagyu Suimei was a good head shorter than Xu Zhen and Wang Chao, the amount of frosty presence he exuded was no less than either of the other two.
“Hm? Brother Yagyu, he is the one who killed the expert Ye Xuan. Similarly, he is the one who kicked your daughter Haruko. Brother Yagyu, this is an expert that is truly worthy of you fighting against.” Xu Zhen immediately confirmed Wang Chao’s identity for him.
“Very well then!” Yagyu Suimei suddenly had a smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes appear on his face as all of the hostility drained away from his body. It was almost as if it was a mistake at first. “We aren’t the main characters for the next two days, we only wish to invite several of the guests here. If we wish to compare notes, then there will be ample time to do that later, what is the rush after all?”
Finishing his words, Yagyu Suimei’s eyes glanced over from Wang Chao to Chen Aiyang. When the eyes of both persons met, Yagyu Suimei had a pleased look on his face. With a nod, he moved to sit down by himself on a sofa and closed his eyes as if he was resting.