Chapter 154: It’s Hard to Remain At the Top (1/2)
Chapter 154: It’s Hard to Remain At the Top
“Pft!”
Victory had been determined after a single exchange and separation. Wang Chao spat out another mouthful of blood with a pale face. There was no color to his face now, making him resemble one of those youths that hadn’t seen the light of the sun for years, ill and deathly pale.
Zhou Binglin’s “Bending the Bow to Shoot the Twin Paws of the Tiger” had used up his entire life’s worth of strength from his vertebrae, waist, and leg. Both fists had been like Jiao Long rising from the ocean. With a burst of power, his fists had shocked Wang Chao’s internal organs, causing his intestines to become injured.
A serious injury like this, even with Wang Chao having a strong body due to the Transforming Jin, he would not be able to withstand it.
The hard Jin of Taichi could shock something at its highest level of mastery. In the hands of a person, it could injure the internal organs and bones of a person.
With a little strength, shock could be applied.
With Zhou Binglin’s dozens of years of martial art experience, his two fists could cause a stone to shatter into bits and pieces without there being any major pieces left.
His martial arts had already made major achievements since the age of 20.
At the age of 30, he hadn’t atrophied in strength and instead maintained his position at the top. This was needless to say a good example of his well cultivation of health and martial arts.
His skill right now was the same strength he had when he was 20.
This battle had only consisted of two exchanges. But it could be said that both sides had sustained damages after showing their intent and all of their strength.
“Cough cough, cough cough.” As he coughed out blood, Wang Chao felt extremely sickly as he struggled to breathe without fainting.
“Rip his clothes and tie it around his shoulder, it might help him.” Wang Chao let out another breath of air and sat down on his butt. There were stars in his vision as he grunted. Taking out his cell phone, he dialed in several digits for an international call.
“Wang Chao? Is that you?” A masculine voice could be heard from the other side. It was a very familiar one, because this person was Chen Aiyang.
“I’m in Beijing. I’ve had my internal organs damaged in a match, could you come over?”
When Wang Chao was injured, he had thought about how he couldn’t even touch the other person now. If something were to happen and he was challenged to a match, the one that would lose and die here would be him.
He had become well known through fighting. A man of the water would most likely die in the water. A man of the fist would die because of the fist as well. When Chen Aiyang was injured, Wang Chao had taken his place in a match. And now that he himself was injured, having Chen Aiyang help protect him was a reasonable request.
Sure enough, when Chen Aiyang heard his request, there was a brief moment of stunned silence. “I’ll make the preparations right away to come over as soon as I can.”
As Wang Chao spoke, Cao Jingjing had finally summoned her courage and help bandage up Zhou Binglin’s shoulder. Using his clothes to tie it up, she wrapped the strips around the neck to tighten it. From the looks of things, she looked like she herself was injured.
Because Wang Chao was teaching Cao Jingjing martial arts, they were in a rather seclusive area. It was particularly hard to get here, the average passerby would need to go past several shrubbery and corners in order to get here.
Corners like these were generally places where couples would look for to get intimate. Because of their battle, no person had been here.
“Why isn’t he bleeding! He’s not breathing, is he dead or something?”
When she was binding his wounds, Zhou Binglin’s shoulder had suddenly gone rigid and the blood had stopped bleeding from there. Plus, his breathing and heart beat had essentially gone to zero. Not even a sound could be heard from him.
“Our martial arts have reached a pinnacle where we can our muscles and blood vessels. Even if we were shot, we could take out the bullet and still lessen the heart rate so as to lessen the blood flow.” Wang Chao breathed out. “Call your dad. If something like this makes its way into the public eyes, ai! I can’t even walk right now.”
Cao Jingjing immediately pulled out her phone to make the call.
“You and Wang Chao are together, why? What happened? Where are you?” After several succinct words, Cao Jingjing had explained the situation to her father, “I’ll make the phone calls and get some people there. You all just stay right there and don’t move. Don’t let anyone see you.”
Ten minutes after hanging up the phone, four rather doughty looking men had suddenly shown up. Upon seeing the three people gathered, they had wasted no words and immediately took out several stretchers. Both Zhou Binglin and Wang Chao were both placed on top of the stretcher. These men were moving so fast that it seemed as if they were flying. With just a few minutes, they had exited the place and been placed on top of a car that immediately zoomed towards a hospital.
Wang Chao could relax here now and go to sleep blissfully.
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Chao had found himself in pain all over. His entire interior of his body seemed as if it was burning without relief.
“Don’t move, your internal organs were all shocked. The lightest touch could cause another injury and make it even harder to recover.”
“Master Chen, is that you? How did you know I would be here?” Wang Chao opened his eyes to look at Chen Aiyang.
Chen Aiyang wore a black business suit with golden glasses. He clearly resembled a scholarly businessman and not like the Taichi master he was normally seen to be.
“It was your friend that helped pick up your phone for you and tell me which hospital you were in. When I came, it was fortunate that your friend had spoken in detail about the situation.” Chen Aiyang’s face grew serious, “Who did you fight with to get into such a state? When I took a look at your body, I could see that your martial arts has reached the Transforming Jin stage. Even if you fought me, I wouldn’t be able to win against you so conveniently. Your fighting style is exquisite beyond belief, it’s hard for me to believe that you could be injured to this state.”
“Ai! I fought against an expert because of our intents. In the end, neither side won.” Wang Chao sighed.
“What expert?” Chen Aiyang handed Wang Chao a cup of water to let him drink two sips.
“Zhou Binglin of the Sun Style Taichi. Have you heard of him before?” Wang Chao propped himself up carefully.
“Zhou Binglin of the Sun Style Taichi….” Chen Aiyang’s eyes flickered for a moment as he thought, “That man, I’ve heard of him before. 20 years ago, he was well known in the Southeast Asian district of Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Korea, and Taiwan for his many matches. Even Xue Lianxin of Taiwan had once been challenged by him once. He was in his twenties and almost his thirties at that time. But before he could even reach his thirties, he suddenly stopped fighting and hide himself in Beijing. This man had fought with my master before. His Taichi is robust and is focused on the fighting aspects, not the flowery movements meant for performance. He has killed or crippled many well known figures and is a super-figure. In his youth, his skill at martial arts was even better than mine. But according to this, he should be in his fifties by now and in no shape to be fighting. Could it be that even in his fifties, he’s still able to fight as if he was 20?”