Chapter 184: This Master Arrived Late
Seeing Lu Jian flee out the door, Lu Yun grew extremely anxious in his heart. If this fellow spread his secret, then all would be lost!
With this thought, Lu Yun could no longer care about meridians exploding or Qi Deviation. He gritted his teeth and roared angrily, changing his vital energy from release to withdrawal, forcibly drawing that surging vortex into his body!
Since he couldn’t shake it off no matter what, he would absorb it!
The vortex finally found an entrance and surged into Lu Yun’s meridians in an instant, leaving not a trace behind. The whirlpool naturally disappeared as well…
Lu Jian’s true qi was incomparably pure, refined with every rotation in the vortex. By now, it was almost indistinguishable from Lu Yun’s vital energy. As soon as this terrifying true essence energy entered his body, Lu Yun’s veins bulged all over, his skin turned red and swollen, and his meridians throughout his body far exceeded their limits, on the verge of collapse. He looked no different from the time he suffered Qi Deviation!
The difference was that this time, Lu Yun’s mind was clear, and he could still control his body. He knew very well that if he didn’t quickly consume the true essence energy in his meridians that far exceeded their load, he would definitely explode and die!
The best way to consume it was naturally to take out Lu Jian!
Lu Yun steadied his mind and saw that Lu Jian had already fled to the front yard, about to charge out the main gate.
“Where do you think you’re going!” Lu Yun shouted explosively. His right foot stomped the ground, shattering the extremely hard floor tiles into pieces, and his body shot out like lightning. In just one step, he caught up to Lu Jian!
Lu Jian was running at full speed when he felt a fierce wind surging from behind. Without time to think, he braced one foot on the ground and whipped the other back in a kick!
At Lu Jian’s realm, every part of his body was a weapon. Even using his foot, he could still execute Drawing Square into Circle!
But the circle was only half-drawn when his flying right foot was grabbed by Lu Yun!
Berserk forceful energy immediately surged along Lu Yun’s palm and blasted into Lu Jian’s Yongquan point! Lu Jian was greatly alarmed and hurriedly circulated his true qi to resist, but under that berserk true essence energy, his resistance was like paper, instantly shattered completely!
In an instant, like boiling water poured on snow, Lu Jian’s meridians throughout his body fell, completely occupied by Lu Yun’s berserk true essence energy. After a miserable howl, he immediately lost control of his body and could only be entirely at Lu Yun’s mercy.
Lu Yun injected most of that true essence energy into Lu Jian’s body, finally escaping the danger of meridians exploding. But the momentary overload just now had already caused great damage to his meridians. At this point, Lu Yun’s limbs were gradually going numb, and even more terrifyingly, his consciousness was starting to blur—he knew very well this was the precursor to his body succumbing to the pain and falling unconscious!
Lu Yun bit the tip of his tongue to force himself to stay conscious, then concentrated all his forceful energy in his arms, treating Lu Jian like a rag doll and swinging him repeatedly to smash him into the ground!
In his current state, let alone precise techniques, he couldn’t even execute ordinary moves. He could only attack Lu Jian with this simplest method.
After forcibly smashing him dozens of times, Lu Yun finally couldn’t hold on. He let go, crashing to the ground unconscious…
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Lu Ying and Lu Xiang had long heard the commotion in the front yard and hurried over to see what had happened. But at the drooping flower gate between the garden and front yard, they were firmly blocked by several guards. These guards, after fleeing from the front hall, had sent only one to fetch reinforcements while the rest rushed to the backyard to protect the young master’s family.
Seeing the guards’ stance, Lu Xiang and Lu Ying immediately knew Lu Yun was in danger. Both were extremely worried and desperately tried to break free from the guards’ obstruction to go protect Lu Yun. The guards, not daring to let them go to their deaths, held them tightly and earnestly tried to dissuade them.
While they were entangled, they saw Lu Jian, with one arm broken, charging out from the front hall toward the main gate in a frenzied run.
“This is bad!” The guards grew extremely anxious. Though they knew they couldn’t catch up, they still hurriedly gave chase at full speed. With the guards no longer blocking them, Lu Ying and Lu Xiang also hurried after. They saw Lu Yun charge out from the front hall, crossing over ten zhang in a single step to reach Lu Jian’s back!
Lu Xiang’s pupils shrank instantly, and he cried out involuntarily: “Shrink Ground into Inches!” Though the old master’s kung fu was mediocre, having lived to this age among the noble clans, he recognized at a glance that this was a move only a Heavenly Rank Grandmaster could use!
Seeing Lu Yun’s heaven-shaking stone-breaking strike, Lu Xiang’s worries vanished like smoke, replaced by full-bellied doubt—his grandson was only sixteen; how could he use a Heavenly Rank Grandmaster’s technique?!
Lu Ying ignored all that and ran at full speed toward Lu Yun, because she saw her younger brother grabbing Lu Jian’s leg like he was shelling peanuts, desperately smashing him back and forth into the ground. Moreover, Lu Yun’s face was savage, his features twisted—where was the usual handsome look?
To bystanders, Lu Yun looked extremely terrifying, but Lu Ying only felt endless heartache. She knew her younger brother must have encountered some problem!
But Lu Ying couldn’t get close to Lu Yun at all. When she reached six feet in front of him, she was flung to the ground by the ferocious forceful energy. Only after Lu Yun completely lost consciousness did she get up and reach out both hands to catch him. Though she knew she might be harshly repelled by Lu Yun’s true qi like their father had been, or even injured because of it, in that moment she completely disregarded herself—she just didn’t want her younger brother to fall to the ground.
Lu Ying caught Lu Yun, and the expected rebound didn’t happen. She only felt her younger brother’s body light and floating, soft and powerless like an infant. Lu Ying held him tightly in her arms, tears flowing as she checked Lu Yun’s condition. She saw his eyes tightly closed, his breathing extremely faint…
At this time, Lu Xiang also suppressed his full heart of doubts and arrived beside the brother and sister. He bent down, reached out to probe Lu Yun’s meridians, and felt them empty—unable to sense even a trace of true qi.
“Grandfather, what happened to Younger Brother?” Lu Ying looked at Lu Xiang with tearful eyes.
Lu Xiang shook his head with a grave expression and said in a deep voice: “Quickly find a doctor—no, hurry and invite the Vice Sect Master!”
Before the words were finished, Lu Xiang saw a blur before his eyes, and a middle-aged man in a Daoist robe with long hair disheveled appeared before him. Who else but Lu Xian?!
Though extremely worried at this moment, Lu Xiang’s mouth twitched as he thought to himself: ‘This is too fast…’
Lu Xian had naturally been summoned by the guard who reported the news. Upon hearing that Lu Jian and Lu Yun had clashed, he knew it was serious and sped toward Jingxin Ward. For a Grandmaster, this distance was reached in an instant, but the guard had still wasted considerable time rushing to report, so by the time he arrived, he only saw Lu Jian’s head smashed to pieces and Lu Yun lying in Lu Ying’s arms, life or death unknown.
“Still too late.” Lu Xian’s expression was grave. With one reach, he took Lu Yun from Lu Ying’s arms. Looking closely, he saw Lu Yun had merely fainted, and he relaxed a breath. But when he probed Lu Yun’s meridians, his expression turned serious again.
“Vice Sect Master, is my younger brother alright?” Lu Ying posed the same question to Lu Xian.
“He won’t die.” Lu Xian frowned tightly and casually answered Lu Ying before closing his eyes in thought.
Lu Xiang and Lu Ying feared disturbing Lu Xian and didn’t even dare breathe. After a good while, Lu Xian opened his eyes and slowly said to Lu Xiang: “Uncle, what happened today must be kept strictly confidential.”
“Naturally.” Lu Xiang nodded heavily. Though he didn’t understand the situation, he knew Lu Xian was protecting his grandson.
“Please trouble you to notify the Clan Leader and ask him to come.” Lu Xian instructed again.
“Alright, good.” Lu Xiang responded and ran outward without thinking. Two guards hurriedly followed.
In the courtyard, Lu Xian looked at Lu Ying and said: “Tell me exactly what happened just now.”
Though Lu Ying didn’t know how this related to saving her younger brother, since the other was Lu Yun’s master, she had nothing to conceal and detailed everything she had seen to Lu Xian. A nearby guard who had witnessed the whole thing knew even more than Lu Ying, and with his supplement, Lu Xian gained a general understanding of the events.
