Chapter 115: A Beating Will Make It Clear
The Chen Family’s estate in Jinze City is located in the most prosperous area of the city center, also at the tallest and largest plot in the exact center.
Similarly a third-tier small city, if Ningjiang City is famous for its deep courtyards and large estates surrounding a large lake, then Jinze City, this city situated on a mine area, has more high-rise buildings, and the tallest building is also Jinze City’s landmark.
At the top of the building, an ancient-style courtyard house is built, arranged in the ‘four waters return to the hall’ pattern, a unique architectural technique that keeps the building unaffected by the high winds.
In the middle of the courtyard, Chen Family Head Chen Hualong sat on a grand master’s chair, with a cigar in his mouth, his hands wearing jewelry and jade rings, skillfully brewing kung fu tea on the long table beside the chair.
Neither fully Chinese nor fully Western, nouveau riche but seemingly with a bit of style, very strange.
Beside him was a young man who was about to speak, but was stopped by Chen Hualong with a glance, and obediently sat down.
Once the kung fu tea was brewed, Chen Hualong poured a cup and pushed it over.
The young man took the tea, drank the tea water, and then said worriedly:
“Uncle, can this really work? That Section Chief Zhong called, but then went back on it.”
Chen Hualong smiled faintly, picked up his own teacup, took another puff of the cigar, drank it all down, then took another puff of the cigar and exhaled the smoke.
“It doesn’t matter.”
He said indifferently: “Someone who checks information, how big a role can he play? We needed his statement to throw out a lead, now the Disinfection Bureau has no one, he’s the head. Actually, we don’t even need him, our Disinfection Bureau Chief is still there, if not, just push him out.”
“Having him make a statement proves that our Chen Family has made great contributions to annihilating demonic creatures in Jinze City and maintaining stability, it can still have an effect.”
“Uncle, are we just throwing him out so easily? If the Bureau Chief says something about this, the Disinfection Bureau will really be incompetent.”
The young man pondered: “What if the higher-ups get angry and send a capable one over? Neighboring Ningjiang City is a lesson from the past.”
Chen Hualong smiled confidently: “We haven’t crossed the bottom line, even if Pan Zhengyang comes down from Yangcheng again, I’ll cooperate where I should. He can’t stop me from going to the Demon Realm anyway, new places always need someone to develop them, in Jinze City besides our Chen Family, who can do this?”
“But the Demon Realm.”
“No buts.”
Chen Hualong interrupted the young man’s words and said:
“The Demon Realm has nothing to do with us, I admit that when my men were mining, there might have been some supervision oversights, our Chen Family cannot shirk responsibility for this.”
“But we also handled it promptly, invited Fu Yan over to deal with the demonic creatures, compensated the injured. Whether the Demon Realm appears or not, we didn’t know. As for the demonic creatures in the city, if the Disinfection Bureau itself has no rallying power, can they blame us? No one obeys them anyway?”
Chen Hualong said: “If they can’t do it, can’t we rally martial artists ourselves to annihilate the demonic creatures?”
He exhaled another puff of smoke and shook his head with a smile:
“For some things, you have to see the essence, that is, with my strength, as long as I don’t cross the line, no one can deal with me. As for the Disinfection Bureau.”
He showed sarcasm, “If he wants to control me, he needs to have that strength!”
Boom!
Just as the words fell, the roof of the four waters return to the hall pattern suddenly burst open with a large gap, and with debris splashing, some fragments shattered the teapot, bringing dust into the teacups.
Chen Hualong’s expression froze as he looked at the person who abruptly appeared in the courtyard.
That person wore a Disinfection Bureau uniform, draped in a coat, with insignia on the shoulders, the entire uniform was fitted at the waist with broad shoulders and narrow sleeves, the cap he wore covered his upper face, making him appear extremely sinister.
“Who is Chen Hualong?”
Li Ye slightly raised his head, scanned between the two, and locked onto the middle-aged man.
“Disinfection Bureau?”
Chen Hualong was stunned and stood up, “Still a Bureau Chief, don’t you know manners? This is my.”
Whoosh!
Before he could finish speaking, Li Ye’s figure flashed, and in the blink of an eye, he was close to Chen Hualong.
“Drink!!”
Upon appearing, he shouted Thunder Sound from his mouth, shaking the courtyard and even the rooftop, the young man nearby was so shocked by the sound that his whole body went limp and he fell straight to the ground.
Chen Hualong was also made to tremble all over by this shout, his figure stiffened for a moment, and Li Ye pressed a claw forward first.
Slap!
Under the immense force, Li Ye gripped Chen Hualong’s head, his five fingers tightly embedding inward, as if to crush his skull.
But at that moment, a hazy yellow qi erupted from Chen Hualong’s body, resisting Li Ye’s five fingers and forcing them open outward.
Squeak—!
The yellow qi clashed with Li Ye’s fingers, producing a teeth-grinding sound of twisting metal, instantly shredding Li Ye’s gloves.
“Protective True Essence? Get down!”
Li Ye sneered, ignoring the strange sensation from his fingers, and forcefully slapped down, smashing into Chen Hualong’s head.
Boom!!
With one palm, the ground under Chen Hualong’s feet was blasted into a pit, sending his whole body smashing below.
Li Ye looked at the blood on his palm and frowned slightly.
Dragon Gate Realm martial artists rely on martial arts moves and train body strength.
Breaking Through Realm martial artists more so demonstrate their own strength, with qi force in their attacks.
Three Realms’ Opening Origin Realm then has this True Essence.
Compared to the qi force of the Second Realm, it has greater power and is more special.
When he had just broken through the three passes before, he sparred with Pan Zhengyang, who gave him a blade qi at that time, now experiencing it firsthand, he found the two to be different.
Pan Zhengyang’s True Essence had a killing aura.
While the True Essence he felt now was more sharp.
This Chen Hualong should specialize in weapons.
Slash!!
Just as he thought this, Li Ye suddenly sensed something, his figure flashing like frame skipping, dodging a sword light that shot up from the pit.
That sword light flipped the edge of the pit, slashing out a large gap, flying obliquely upward, also cutting a smooth gash in the rooftop eaves.
“Bullying too much!”
Chen Hualong blasted out from the pit, covered in dust, his short hair moving without wind.
He held a long sword in his hand, yellow True Essence wrapped around the blade, glaring angrily at Li Ye.
“Attacking without distinguishing right from wrong, who the hell are you!”
Where did the Disinfection Bureau get such a reckless young man?
Judging by the solidity of his qi and blood, at most Second Realm, not yet at the Three Realms stage where True Essence disperses.
With this strength, coming to die?
“If you want to die, I’ll send you to death!”
Chen Hualong thrust his sword straight, True Essence bursting forth, so fast that one couldn’t react.
Bang!
Li Ye indeed didn’t react, his ‘trace’-level Five Senses Pass making him detect a step slow, and his similarly ‘trace’-level Divine Movement Pass speed not enough, he forcibly took the True Essence attack that hit his chest.
This True Essence spread on his chest, shattering the clothes there, even leaving a wound on the flesh, blood gushing out.
This blow made his figure stiffen.
“Vajra Pass expert?”
Chen Hualong sneered, his figure suddenly flashing, lightness skill leaping into the air, the yellow light on the sword even more fierce, a force split Mount Hua chopping down.
Clang!!
As the sword blade came down, Li Ye raised one arm, blocking the sword with his arm, then clawed out.
Clang!
Chen Hualong slashed to the side, the sword blade scraping Li Ye’s arm, twisting toward Li Ye’s five fingers, producing crisp sounds again.
Whoosh!
Li Ye exhaled a stream of air from his nose, his whole body swirling into motion, head, shoulders, elbows, knees, legs, his entire body like weapons, attacking fiercely, every move targeting Chen Hualong’s vitals.
Clang clang clang clang!
Sword light flowed amid Li Ye’s attacks, in close-quarters entanglement, Chen Hualong’s attacks fell short, hit several times by Li Ye, the immense force far stronger than his, one strike sending him flying.
After flying out, Li Ye instantly followed up, continuing the assault.
Boom!
Until he punched straight at Chen Hualong, but his hand veered uncontrollably to the side, smashing the courtyard’s building wall, then he stopped, brow furrowed tight.
At this moment, Li Ye was covered in sword wounds, his upper body clothes tattered, blood flowing down.
While Chen Hualong looked disheveled but clear-eyed and spirited, seeing Li Ye’s attack miss, he quickly dodged, sneering:
“Kid, even if you train Vajra Pass to full level, you can’t block my attacks, between realms, it’s worlds apart!”
Even saying this, his heart was filled with shock.
True Essence isn’t qi force, qi force can be blocked by external martial arts, but True Essence penetrates, one sword hit destroys more than just the outer wound!
His True Essence, once penetrating, specifically cuts enemy internal meridians and nerves, logically from that earlier sword, Li Ye’s movements should have been impaired.
How could he persist this long, attacking continuously so many times, only now his attacks starting to deviate.
Where did this freak come from!
Chen Hualong gritted his teeth: “So, who the hell are you!”
Li Ye didn’t speak at this time, but looked at his own hand, brow furrowing tighter.
“I see, this is True Essence, got it.”
He nodded, looked at Chen Hualong, a wisp of black qi in his eyes.
Chen Hualong’s hair stood on end, instinctively thrusting his sword forward, but just as he stabbed toward Li Ye’s throat, a hand directly gripped his sword blade.
Shadows under the sunlight expanded infinitely, enveloping Chen Hualong’s body, turning his expression to intense horror.
“Strike Malice.”
Li Ye’s body steamed like a machine, spewing massive black qi, with a crack he crushed the gripped sword along with the True Essence.
Crack!
The next instant, he grabbed Chen Hualong’s head, and as he gripped tight, the clear sound of skull cracking could be heard.
Then, he smashed down forcefully.
Boom!!
The ground was blasted into another deep pit, kicking up smoke and dust.
In that smoke and dust, Chen Hualong lay on the ground, head tilted back into the deep pit, motionless.
“I’m Li Ye, Ningjiang City Disinfection Bureau Chief, here on out-of-town business.”
Li Ye felt in the pocket of his tattered clothes, pulled out a demonic creature fragment, and casually tossed it onto Chen Hualong.
“Now, mobilizing your whole family to head to the Demon Realm to stop the demonic creatures, understand?”
If not, no problem.
After a beating, he’ll surely understand.
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