Chapter 280: I Don’t Even Rank In The Chen Clan! Skull Gate: Plotting Against The Chen Clan!
The next day, when Chen Han got up, he found the outside of his room already noisy.
When he came out, he saw people from the Chen Clan and Chen Dalong all waiting outside his room for him to come out.
At a glance it was obvious it was their first time experiencing something like this, and the Chen Clan people were all a bit unsettled.
Especially Chen Dalong, looking like someone about to confess his love for the first time.
Today he was also wearing a martial arts outfit common in traditional martial arts, with the Chen Clan embroidered on one side and the character “dragon” on the other, looking quite proper.
“Let’s go, we’ll eat something first and then head to the gymnasium.” Chen Han also called for the Chen Clan members to go downstairs, and as soon as they reached the hall, he saw Chu Ping bringing over a middle-aged man, with two others following behind him.
Chu Ping brought them in front of Chen Han and immediately introduced them: “Chen Family Head, this is Mr. Zheng, the eldest son of Old Master Zheng.”
“Zheng Ruixin（Chapter 221）, very glad to meet you, Chen Family Head. This Chen Clan competition is bringing enormous attention to Qingmin City.” Zheng Ruixin also introduced himself kindly and shook hands with Chen Han.
After all, his own Old Master was living long-term with the Chen Clan.
The key point was that he had quite a bit of understanding of the Chen Clan, things the outside public did not know.
For example, the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation from the Chen Clan had given a blessing that healed his father. Normally, something so inconceivable was something his position would not allow him to believe; that would be politically incorrect.
But his father personally said he had seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, so he had no choice but to believe it.
He knew what kind of person his father was and that he would not lie about something like this.
So, the Chen Clan definitely possessed that kind of mysterious power.
And in recent days, the USB drives, storage disks, and descriptions sent up from Linhe County, plus what that old Daoist priest from the Chen Clan had done in Myanmar, made him even more certain.
That old Daoist priest probably was not even human.
Could a human single-handedly wipe out a one-thousand-man army?
So, he had immediately concealed that information so it would not become known.
This was an irreplaceable resource, so he had come over early in the morning to form good karma.
“Mr. Zheng, hello.” Chen Han also shook his hand politely.
He also knew a bit about this man.
The eldest son of Old Master Zheng was a big shot in Qingmin City.
Although he was only at city level so far, given his age, if he had backing, going up to the province was only a matter of time. Even if he never qualified as a top-ranked player, being invincible below that level was not impossible.
“I’ve long wanted to meet you, Chen Family Head. Today I wish the Chen Clan a triumphant victory.” Zheng Ruixin was sincerely congratulating him.
As for the possibility of the Chen Clan losing?
That simply did not exist.
That so-called world fighting champion was still just an ordinary person. Facing someone with a firearm, he would be on his knees in one second.
The Chen Clan people could face one thousand armed men, with artillery as well, and still wipe them all out.
“Thank you, Mr. Zheng. Would you mind joining us for breakfast?” Chen Han actually understood his intentions, so he extended an invitation.
It was good for everyone to build good karma. No matter what, the Chen Clan was within his jurisdiction; it was best for everyone to get along harmoniously.
Zheng Ruixin did not refuse the invitation, and had breakfast together with this Chen Family Head, chatting for a while, mostly about Old Master Zheng.
With his Old Master recuperating at the Chen Clan, asking about his condition was an act of filial piety and had nothing to do with anything else.
Some things were fine as long as everyone understood them in their hearts.
However, given his status and position, he could not stay too long. After breakfast, he left; there was a pile of matters waiting to be handled.
After breakfast, Chen Han led the Chen Clan group toward the gymnasium.
Normally, a competition like this would certainly be scheduled for the evening prime-time heat, with a live stream and such.
After all, the popularity was extremely high right now.
But Ma San and his people were not mainly relying on that. They depended on those overseas betting sites, and they were running a live stream too, just one targeting foreign audiences.
They wanted those people to know Habak lost.
So, while it was morning here, it was actually prime internet time in quite a few countries.
Of course, because of the online heat, by the time Chen Han and his group arrived at the gymnasium, it was already a sea of people, and all the ticket holders had arrived.
What is it like when fifty thousand people are roaring?
It is absolutely overwhelming.
Even Chen Dalong felt intimidated and said to Chen Han, “Brother Han, there are way too many people.”
Chen Han smiled and said, “Isn’t a big crowd good? After you take down this fighting champion, you’ll be famous. You’ll become the number one fighter in the country, a big celebrity.”
Chen Dalong said awkwardly, “Family Head, you must be joking. At home I can’t beat anyone, even my dad can thrash me, let alone you, Brother Han.”
Chen Han smiled and said, “Your family members won’t be going up there to fight you.”
Around the ring, many media people and internet celebrities had long since gathered, many directly setting up live streams. After discovering this competition had no official media organizer, meaning they could stream without paying, of course they squeezed to the front to open live rooms.
For example, Ming Di was live streaming right now, and there were already a lot of people in his room early on, with the chat discussing:
“Ming Di big shot, how strong is this Chen Clan prodigy?”
“Yeah, he’s so young, is this really reliable?”
“Why doesn’t the Chen Family Head fight himself?”
“…”
Looking at the barrage, Ming Di put on a tattling expression and spoke to the stream: “Everyone, fellow practitioners, I have to tell you a regretful secret. We tried to make a move against this Chen Clan prodigy and failed. Elder Xu Bin was completely crushed.”
His chat exploded with surprise.
Who was Xu Bin? In videos he was shown as a demonic path expert, and in real life he was a retired special forces soldier who had competed in military fighting competitions.
Now this Elder Xu had taken a shot at the Chen Clan prodigy and been crushed?
In other words, the Chen Clan prodigy had the ability to crush special forces?
This news was incredibly shocking.
And there was no reason for Ming Di to lie.
So now the benchmark was that the Chen Clan prodigy could crush special forces. Could Habak, this fighting champion, crush special forces?
In an instant, the whole stream boiled with debate.
At this moment, Chen Han had also arrived at the ring with his people, and the media and internet celebrities immediately swarmed him with questions:
“Chen Family Head, why aren’t you fighting yourself?”
“Chen Family Head, wouldn’t it be more secure to send the three Chen Clan experts?”
“…”
Chen Han did not avoid these questions, and answered directly and decisively: “Everyone, our Chen Clan does not intend to bully anyone. Sending a hall master or a senior would be bullying. Even sending a junior up feels like bullying.”
Boom!~
Those words instantly made the surroundings even more noisy and excited.
Especially since the media and internet celebrities were streaming live, countless people heard this.
Wasn’t that way too dominant?
The Chen Clan simply did not put the world fighting champion in their eyes.
Time passed, and a shapely female host went up on a stage. She was a local internet celebrity host from Qingmin.
And she was a “ball-carrying” host; many people in Ming City had seen her videos and all left comments like “nice ball.”
After giving a series of passionate, hot-blooded opening remarks, the female host invited the two competitors onto the stage.
When Habak came out, his aura was powerful. He wore a special golden belt, proof that he was a world fighting champion.
Chen Dalong also came on stage in traditional martial arts attire, nothing particularly special, but once he was up there, this inexperienced virgin was immediately captivated by the female host’s two “balls.”
It was especially agonizing; more than half was exposed.
And this female host had a very good figure…
But the host had already started the interview, asking Habak if he was confident.
With the interpreter translating, Habak immediately became displeased: “Damn it, don’t ask if I’m confident. Just ask that after I knock him flat, I want the Chen Clan to send a real expert, and not look for other excuses.”
After hearing the translation, the female host realized there was conflict brewing, and quickly turned to ask Chen Dalong if he had any confidence.
“I’m going to beat him to death.” Chen Dalong did not waste words and replied directly and decisively.
The confrontation was set.
This was exactly what the audience wanted to see.
But Habak was very annoyed. He was a world fighting champion; for some unknown kid to provoke him, he would make him pay.
Viewers watching the live streams could also sense the gunpowder in the air.
Especially overseas, where Brother Long behind Ma San had already started a live stream on the betting sites.
Those foreign viewers could not understand Chinese, but they could see the tension.
So the barrage was packed with calls for Habak to kill the opponent.
In the West, the phrase “Chinese kung fu” used to be very popular and influential, but in recent years, with official controls around the world, Chinese kung fu had been equated with performance art.
So, in all kinds of world fighting competitions, Chinese kung fu was absent, because it was seen as too weak.
No one believed so-called Chinese kung fu could be stronger than a world fighting champion.
After a series of procedures, explaining rules, signatures… both were invited onto the ring.
Habak had a professional team: shoulder rubs, leg massages.
Chen Dalong’s gaze, however, went to the sexy girl holding the round cards at the side. She was a model holding up the round signs.
Sexy was truly sexy, with very little fabric on her body, and she was also a “ball-carrying” participant.
Those two pale round “balls” made Chen Dalong’s mouth go dry.
Back when he carried bricks on construction sites, he had never seen beauties like this. After returning to the family, he stayed in the Chen Clan all the time and never came out.
He really had never encountered such a show of beauty.
An inexperienced virgin with no worldly experience is like this, so Chen Han gave him a hard smack on the back of the head from behind: “Don’t look so unsophisticated. Knock that foreigner flat and these girls will add your Weixin on their own. Don’t make a lecherous fool of yourself.”
“Ah, I wasn’t…” Chen Dalong would not admit it.
But Brother Han’s line about them adding his Weixin was a big stimulus. He immediately looked at Habak.
Now he was full of the desire to perform, determined to go all out and destroy the opponent.
Habak’s thinking was similar. He felt the Chen Clan was insulting him by casually sending someone.
So when the match began and the referee announced “start” and stepped back, he clapped his hands at Chen Dalong, making provocative gestures.
But Chen Dalong froze for a moment, because after this period of cultivating 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》 and sparring with his dad, even though his father had constantly beaten him, he had learned how to find an opponent’s openings.
When fighting his father, the gap in strength meant he could not find any opening at all. Now this world fighting champion, while provoking and humiliating him, left his face wide open.
He would never let such a free opening go, and directly lashed out with one move of 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》.
Habak had not taken him seriously at all, but when that leg whipped toward him, the speed shocked him. It was too fast.
Almost instinctively, he raised his arm to block, and then felt a sharp pain. A powerful force slammed into him, and in that rushed defense he was blasted backward.
“Fuck…” Habak could not believe it. That single kick told him how terrifying the opponent was. Then, to his shock, another kick came.
He realized the opponent was terrifying and instinctively tried to dodge, but he found that after that previous kick he was not firmly rooted.
He did not even have time to raise his hand to block again before he felt a massive impact whip across his face, a sharp pain, seemingly with several teeth shattered…
“????” Habak felt himself spin in the air and crash hard onto the ground, instantly losing consciousness.
In that instant he was stunned, unable to believe it.
Those two fighters who had narrowly lost after going toe-to-toe with the Chen Clan’s top expert, he had been sure he could easily crush them.
Were those really narrow losses?
Looking at the unconscious Habak, even Chen Dalong was taken aback. That was it?
For safety, he had used the finishing move of 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》, expecting the guy to at least withstand two hits. Who knew…
The surroundings suddenly fell silent, the air seeming to freeze for a brief moment.
Just before, everyone had thought maybe Chen Dalong was too young. No one expected this outcome: the world fighting champion taken down with two kicks?
It was too fast.
The key question: how could this world fighting champion be so weak? Was he bought off to throw the match?
Impossible. He was a world fighting champion. Such an honor would not be risked for a fixed fight. Losing like this would disgrace his entire identity, especially being knocked out like that.
Moreover, with the blood and several teeth kicked out, who would stage that for you?
Everyone realized it was not that the world fighting champion was weak, but that the Chen Clan’s kung fu was too strong.
No wonder the Chen Family Head had been so confident, saying sending a junior already felt like bullying.
The Chen Clan’s kung fu was simply overwhelming.
In an instant, the entire gymnasium erupted again.
Although they had spent a lot of money on tickets and the fight ended so abruptly, right now they just felt fired up.
“That was so satisfying. The Chen Clan’s kung fu is amazing.”
“Now we finally see the power of Chen Clan kung fu in the ring.”
“Haha, world champion? Let’s see how awesome he is lying there!”
“…”
People watching the live streams online were equally dumbfounded, likewise never expecting the match to end so sloppily.
The most stunned, of course, were viewers abroad. Many of them had bet on Habak to win and wanted to see Chinese kung fu get crushed.
Who could have imagined this result?
What about that world champion we talked about?
Could it be that in front of real kung fu, a world champion only had this much skill? In their minds, the figure of that “Chinese dragon” seemed to reappear, and they recalled the legends of Chinese kung fu.
Then many remembered they had bet on Habak to win, and their mentality instantly collapsed. The barrage filled with dense curses.
Inside the gymnasium.
Chen Dalong had already been invited onto the stage, and the “ball-carrying” female host, all sweetness now, started the interview: “Mr. Chen Dalong, having won this match, how do you feel? Do you feel a great sense of achievement?”
Chen Dalong felt this host was standing a bit close to him, but he still answered seriously: “Uh, what achievement is there? At home, for this past month my dad beats me every day. He flattens me in a few hits. I never expected this world champion to be so weak.”
Listening to this, everyone was left with one feeling: “He really pulled it off.”
But the host continued, “Then with your strength, where would you rank within the Chen Clan?”
Hearing this, Chen Dalong said directly, “You’re really overestimating me. If I had a ranking, would I be here fighting him? At home we didn’t want to bully anyone, so we just casually picked a weak one to come out.”
Boom!~
Those words really left everyone reeling.
Damn it, that feeling of being flexed on again.
The key point: you easily annihilated the world fighting champion, yet you say you are the weakest in the Chen Clan?
So that means the Chen Family Head, the three Chen Clan experts, and those elders are all stronger than you?
Holy crap, if that was true, the Chen Clan was truly terrifying.
Ma San thought that if the Chen Family Head had fought, Habak would have gone down fast, but he had not expected even a random young man from the Chen Clan would make Habak drop that quickly.
Still, their plan was complete, so once the result was out, he left in a hurry. They would not get involved in what came after.
The gym staff would handle the wrap-up work. Since they had a share of ticket sales, they could not just do nothing.
Making money quietly and then disappearing without a sound was the reason they had never gotten into trouble.
Once in a car, he immediately dialed Brother Long’s number.
At that moment, on a special cruise ship in international waters, an extremely burly man answered the call: “Ma San, well done. This time we made five hundred million dollars.”
Hearing this, Ma San’s face lit up with excitement. “Choosing the Chen Clan as the entry point was the right move. I never expected Habak to be this weak in front of a junior from the Chen Clan.”
Brother Long chuckled at that and said, “Ma San, what do you think about using the Chen Clan for another big game? Right now, the Chen Clan people must have a huge reputation. When the time comes, have them deliberately lose. We can clean up on the domestic betting side.”
Ma San was startled. “Brother Long, don’t joke. You’ve seen the Chen Clan’s kung fu.”
Brother Long laughed. “Ma San, what’s the use of high-level kung fu? Look at the times we live in. Against bullets and bombs, does kung fu matter? I’ll have them cooperate with you. Go have a ‘talk’ with the Chen Clan.”
