Chapter 124: Little Aunt’s Revenge (1)

The one who ambushed him was of course Wang Yue.

He had lured Li Chonghe out tonight to kill him. Naturally he would not talk about martial virtue.

Besides, he was only Nascent Soul, and Li Chonghe was Return True. Even if he ambushed him, there was nothing shameful about saying it. Choosing to hard-clash head-on across two great realms was what would mean a sick brain.

So he struck without a drop of slush.

Li Chonghe lived up to being a battle-hardened Return True expert. Even in that flash of lightning he still reacted, instinctively sidestepped to spare his head, then raised his left arm in front of the saber light.

Boom!

Their true qi collided and rang out like a thunderclap.

That saber blow sent Li Chonghe spinning through the air. Wang Yue was also stopped by the other’s true qi and stuck in place, unable to press the win at once.

"Who are you?" Li Chonghe hit the ground hard, rolled up, and demanded in a harsh voice, but inside he was terrified.

From this masked man’s presence he was only a peak Nascent Soul martial artist. How could his attack power be this strong?

From Nascent Soul to Return True was a qualitative molt. The gap could not be measured in ordinary terms.

Facing a peak Nascent Soul martial artist, even someone just entering Return True, and even if the other ambushed, it was hard to get hurt.

Right now this masked man had not only hurt him, already third-layer Return True, he had hurt him badly. Under that saber a long wound had been cut in his left arm, and the other’s tyrannical true qi had exploded in the wound, almost completely wrecking the meridians of the whole arm. For a short time it was ruined.

Wang Yue was a bit shaken too. Return True really was absurdly strong. With his true qi purity more than thirty times an ordinary martial artist’s, plus Level-Eight Gale’s full thirty-two times boost, he had only wounded Li Chonghe and ruined one left arm. Luckily he had not chosen to face him head-on, or he might really not have been able to take him.

"Who exactly is Your Excellency, and what grudge do you have with Li? The saying goes enemies should be resolved, not bound tighter. If Li has truly offended you somewhere, please say it. Li is willing to make it up." Li Chonghe said it to steady the masked man, one to buy time to treat the wound with true qi, two because he had taken a liking to the masked man’s technique.

To heavily wound third-layer Return True with peak Nascent Soul cultivation, in his view the other had to be using some extremely powerful technique. If possible, of course he wanted that technique in his hands.

There is a good saying: villains die of talking too much.

Wang Yue was not a villain, so he wasted no words. After dissolving Li Chonghe’s true qi block he charged again at once.

This time, though, he slid the saber back into the sheath on his back and attacked barehanded.

Level-Eight Gale was strong, but that instant of gathering force before the move was a fatal short board. With Li Chonghe’s strength, dodging it was not hard.

He also wanted to keep that move and find a chance to catch him off guard again.

"Jade Shattering Palm? You’re from Golden Mountain’s Wang Family!" Li Chonghe said, startled, while blocking, wondering when the Wang Family had gotten an expert like this.

Wang Yue did not answer. He only attacked like mad, palm after palm.

Li Chonghe was hurt badly now. He had planned to run if things looked bad, but once they crossed hands he found this masked man was not as strong as he had imagined. Still far stronger than ordinary peak Nascent Soul, but at most about first-layer Return True. He was missing an arm, but he could still handle it, even had hope of winning.

That saber move just now should have been some forbidden technique, not something he could use lightly. Even if he could still use it, just watch when he drew and dodge.

Thinking that, Li Chonghe’s confidence surged. He stopped thinking of running and used his remaining right arm and both legs to trade blows.

Once Li Chonghe started fighting back, Wang Yue immediately fell to the worse side.

That was on purpose, though. With true qi more than thirty times purer than an ordinary martial artist’s, if he went all out he would not match third-layer Return True, but he would not be far off.

If he used full strength, Li Chonghe might see things going badly and run.

A third-layer Return True expert set on fleeing was something Wang Yue really could not handle.

So he deliberately showed weakness and waited for a one-hit kill.

In a blink they had passed a hundred moves.

One of them rivaled Return True, the other was a true third-layer Return True expert. The power of their techniques was naturally shocking. In that short time, dozens of meters around were already a mess. The original dense wood had become an empty lot covered in a thick layer of timber scraps.

After a hundred moves Wang Yue only had the strength to block, none to hit back.

Li Chonghe saw the timing was about right and said lightly, "Whoever you are, whatever your tie to the Wang Family, hand over your technique and I can let you leave. I won’t pursue it later. I can even shelter the Wang Family a little."

Now!

While Li Chonghe was distracted talking, Wang Yue suddenly reversed the slump and sent out a palm.

It was still a move from Jade Shattering Palm, and the simplest one. Li Chonghe did not take it seriously and meant to deal with it casually.

The moment their palms met, Li Chonghe’s face changed. He cried out, "You weren’t using full strength?!"