Chapter 43 - A slap (Part one)
Who was Yang Shi?
One of the masters of Yang family who had soon entered the 8th tier of qigong and reached perfection and was respected by so many juniors. Three months ago, Yang Qi was just at the 5th tier of qigong and was in Violent Qi Realm. Yet three months later, he wanted to fight with Yang Shi? Basically, this seemed impossible.
Even a large number of the elders thought that Yang Qi had been extremely arrogant.
"Yang Qi, back off!" Yang Zhougong shouted, "The elders are talking. You must keep to the code of conduct, this is the Yang family's house rules."
"House rules?" Yang Qi faced Yang Zhougong without much politeness. "This Yang Shi had been wanting to steal my father's position as the head of the family, and he even said I was possessed by the demon. If I do not prove my innocence, then perhaps I might even be directly expelled. Or, does the house rules make it that an accused person cannot defend himself?"
"Insolence."
Both of Awakened Lion Yang's eyes turned cold, "Whether you've been possessed or not, we'd find out eventually. However, Yang Zhougong is even older than your grandfather. Why don't you differentiate old from young?"
"In this world, one could only talk logic." Faced with Awakened Lion Yang, Yang Qi was neither arrogant nor ass-kissing. Being a person of powerful strength, he naturally had a sense of confidence as he said calmly, "I just want to distinguish right from wrong, and did it seem that it was intended to be disrespectful to the elder?"
It might be better if he didn't say anything. With such a calm appearance like that, he even made those people of Yang Shi extremely angry, "Brat, you are even that ill-behaved towards the great granduncle. Is this the ritual Yang Zhan teaches you?"
"Old ancestor."
Right at that moment, Yang Hongjie quietly moved forward without saying anything. He said to Awakened Lion Yang, "Yang Qi and I had a three-month appointment to compete in the fall hunting season. If he is disrespectful to the elders, you do not have to do anything. Let me teach him a lesson."
Yang Hongjie's face was full of purple clouds as he stood in front of Yang Qi; qigong was running throughout his body. A wave of purple clouds moved up and the qigong suddenly turned dark purple.
"Yang Hongjie is indeed the best talent of our Yang family. It's so unexpected that in such a short period, he could reach the 8th tier of QiGong cultivation level. Perhaps he could even enter the Qi Zong level much sooner than Yang Zhan."
"True, let Yang Hongjie teach this brat for a while."
"This brat Yang Qi is too craving for fame. He caused such trouble for the family and now even looks down on the elders. Is he still relying on Yang Zhan to reach the Qi Zong level? Currently, with the fight between the juniors, Yang Zhan will not have any reason to interfere."
"Yang Hongjie has obtained the Violet Cloud pill and he even had that unusual fortune where, in one of the caves, he obtains a secret scroll named Violet Cloud Heavenly Move which was of Grand qigong level. There is still another Violet Cloud pill he didn't dare to use previously. At this moment, as he seems to have completed his cultivation, using this pill might even boost his strength further."
"So that brat Yang Qi does not seem to have even the slimmest hope?"
There was much discussion between the masters of Yang family. In their thoughts, Yang Hongjie was indeed the genius in the family, who had had that unusual experience and had cultivated to Grand level qigong.
Even within Yang family, there was no one with Grand level qigong.
Only with Grand level qigong cultivation, one could have some hope to breakthrough the Qi Zong Realm to boost their cultivation level to Fate Stealing Realm.
"Yang Qi, this time I'll teach you not to disrespect the elders. As for exorcising the demon in your body, I once again reiterate that it is still up to you to cultivate with hard work. Building strength by relying on any demon would eventually result in you becoming one."
Yang Hongjie said so to Yang Qi.
"Really?" Yang Qi said casually, "So let’s take it on, I will give you three 'free' moves."
"Three moves?" Yang Hongjie laughed out loud as if he had listened to the funniest joke in the world, "Who do you think you are? It would be me who will give you that three moves." He was angry, yet still burst out laughing as he had been triggered deeply by Yang Qi's crave for fame.
So many masters here quietly shook their head as they thought that Yang Qi might have been devoured by the demon; otherwise, he couldn't be that craving for fame.
"Come!"
Yang Qi wiggled his finger.
Yang Hongjie's eyes flared with murderous intent and purple clouds exploded between his brows as he rushed forward. Suddenly, one of his fingers pointed out, and the purple light immediately changed into qi sword and furiously plunged towards Yang Qi's heart. It was unexpectedly a move to kill.
With a move, the qi condensed into qi swords and attacked in all directions. While the Violet Cloud sword qi exploded and shot out, the sword shadows were everywhere. One move had covered every direction.
"Purple Qi from the East!"
However, a moment after, as the purple qi swords rained down, they only hit the empty space and exploded in the air, while Yang Qi was three steps away. No one could see how he had avoided that.
Ah?
The Awakened Lion Yang at Qi Zong level had his eyebrows tremble.
"First one, Yang Hongjie, only two moves remaining. Make good use of them." Yang Qi was so calm and leisurely.
"Funny, go and die." Yang Hongjie's face was very terrifying. He rushed forward with his arms crossed, one horizontal and one vertical. The qi was earth-shattering and so powerful, it drew out a word "Kill" in midair.
The word "Kill" was condensed out of qi, carrying the rumbling sounds of condensed gas. It was like an exploding dynamite that created a crater on the ground.
Yet within this deep crater, Yang Qi had disappeared.
"This is the second move."
It wasn't certain when Yang Qi had come behind Yang Hongjie.
"Heart-Piercing Kill." Yang Hongjie didn't think. Like a destroyer, he turned his back, his hand morphed into claws with five fingers and swept by. Above the sharp claws, the qi condensed into a several feet long hook which intended to claw out Yang Qi's heart.
Regretfully, Yang Qi stomped his feet to step out.
The Heart-Piercing Kill fell into empty space.
"The third move's done. I really want to make a move now. Yang Hongjie, take care." Yang Qi's voice once again came by.
"Brat, let me open your mind to a bit of the true Grand level qigong within me, Violet Cloud Heavenly Move!" Yang Hongjie crazily shouted. He stepped back, with each purple line of light webbed densely within his body. Behind him, the purple rainbow rumbled over like a flock of wyvern dragons. "Violet Dragon Ascending!"
"Violet Dragon Ascending? It's unexpectedly this move. The force is truly powerful."
"The ground's starting to crack."
So many people saw that the ground cracking into blocks as if an earthquake occurred, accompanied by landslides. The violet dragons weaved from behind with momentum and reached the top.
"Violet Dragon Ascending? Good then, I'll make my move? This must be your most powerful move, right?" Yang Qi threw out a slap while he was talking.
As the slap was swung, everyone unexpectedly felt the air surrounding them was sucked out quickly. All of them could see a giant hand flaring up in the sky.
Ah!
A painful cry.
All the violet clouds had been destroyed as the violet dragon gave out a growl before it broke into pieces.
Wah!
Yang Hongjie flew directly outside and spat out a large gulp of blood. He knelt on the ground with his whole face swollen.
His spirit had been plentiful with a move that could tear up the ground. However, with just a simple slap from Yang Qi, he was smacked down onto the ground.
"Cripple." Yang Qi shook his head and crossed his arms to look at Yang Hongjie who was slapped to the ground. "You cannot withstand even just a slap from me. A top-notch genius of our Yang family that has even eaten the Violet Cloud pill. It's true that a useless man will remain useless no matter what he consumes!"
"You..." Up until then, Yang Hongjie couldn't believe he was defeated. He struggled to stand up, yet as he worked his qi up, the veins all over his body made it so painful that they felt like snapping.
Yang Qi's move was still merciful. He had truly not carried it out with murderous intent, as he only wounded Yang Hongjie; otherwise, he could really make the opponent into minced meat with just one punch.
He was being very kind and did not kill so randomly.
"Take a three-month rest then you would recover gradually. No matter what, you're still from Yang family. I won't abolish your martial arts." Yang Qi said it again.
"I hate you...." Upon hearing so, Yang Hongjie felt so greatly insulted. His throat made some gurgling sounds before he fainted.
"You demon! You dare to wound our Yang family's disciple."
In a quick blink, Yang Shi made a move.
"A Thousand Miles Frozen!"
The icy qigong from him exploded in a short moment, which made frost suddenly fall down. The extremely cold qi became an infuriating prison that sieged Yang Qi from behind.
This attack had been quite sudden with prior conspiracy, just like an expert assassin who splattered blood every five steps he went by, so ruthless and sinister. Even Yang Zhan couldn't react in time.
The man possessed the most powerful and rarest among the icy qigong, A Thousand Miles Frozen. Moreover, at the moment he took action, he had claimed directly Yang Qi to be the demon. Thus, he had many reasons to call this demon exorcism as he basically didn't recognize Yang Qi as Yang family's disciple. His intention was quite sinister.
"Qi son!"
Yang Zhan yelled out but it was too late.
Those owners from the family's other branches, and even the head couldn't react in time as well.
Boom Boom!
The qigong “A Thousand Miles Frozen” directly hit onto Yang Qi's body.
Everyone all saw that the icy qigong, capable of freezing a small river, coming in contact with Yang Qi. However, he seemed unwounded while the freezing qigong dissipated like a spring breeze that blew onto his face.
Yang Qi suddenly made a move.
Another slap.
This time, the hand flew noisily up in the air. With qi rolling like lightning, the hand ferociously slapped onto Yang Shi's face.
The icy qi and icy armor on Yang Shi's body had all been broken. His head was smacked to an almost twisted degree, and his teeth also fell out. The body was hit flying up in the air and then clashed the rocky mountain in the valley before rolling down.
Whoosh!
With a huge hurricane, Yang Qi appeared on Yang Shi's body after it had fallen on the ground; his feet stepped on the dantian region on the abdomen.
"Yang Shi, you've caused it yourself. Being an elder, yet it's so surprising that you quietly sneaked an attack like that. Are you still human?" Yang Qi looked at the toothless mouth of Yang Shi as he pressed his feet on Yang Qi. "You're just like Yang Hongjie, a cripple, that cannot withstand a slap from me."
"Yang Qi... Why you..."
Yang Shi couldn't move a foot on his body. This was extremely humiliating for him yet from within, he was extremely fearful about one thing: how could Yang Qi be this strong? Just a slap could turn him over, and he didn't even have time to observe what kind of qigong he had utilized. This had truly reached the point of turning eventual decay into a miracle.
"You cannot think of it, right? You just supposed that by reaching the 8th tier of QiGong, you could suppress me? No need for my father to make a move, I could take you on by myself. If you still want to steal the ownership of the house from my father, then, good, I could abolish your qigong to save you from ruining the family's peace."
Yang Qi's feet were about to draw in qi to destroy Yang Shi's dantian at Qihai level.
"Stop!"
A loud roar came out like a lion with awe-inspiring majestic force. Along with this voice came the sound of qigong, which made people feel a bit stiff.
It was "Lion's Roar qigong" of Yang family's ancestor, Awakened Lion Yang. He used sound to shake people's spirit to the point of controlling the enemy.
If one was a person with weak qigong, if he directly called someone, that person would obediently carry out actions according to the instructions in the lion's roar.
Chapter 43 - A slap (Part one)
Who was Yang Shi?
One of the masters of Yang family who had soon entered the 8th tier of qigong and reached perfection and was respected by so many juniors. Three months ago, Yang Qi was just at the 5th tier of qigong and was in Violent Qi Realm. Yet three months later, he wanted to fight with Yang Shi? Basically, this seemed impossible.
Even a large number of the elders thought that Yang Qi had been extremely arrogant.
"Yang Qi, back off!" Yang Zhougong shouted, "The elders are talking. You must keep to the code of conduct, this is the Yang family's house rules."
"House rules?" Yang Qi faced Yang Zhougong without much politeness. "This Yang Shi had been wanting to steal my father's position as the head of the family, and he even said I was possessed by the demon. If I do not prove my innocence, then perhaps I might even be directly expelled. Or, does the house rules make it that an accused person cannot defend himself?"
"Insolence."
Both of Awakened Lion Yang's eyes turned cold, "Whether you've been possessed or not, we'd find out eventually. However, Yang Zhougong is even older than your grandfather. Why don't you differentiate old from young?"
"In this world, one could only talk logic." Faced with Awakened Lion Yang, Yang Qi was neither arrogant nor ass-kissing. Being a person of powerful strength, he naturally had a sense of confidence as he said calmly, "I just want to distinguish right from wrong, and did it seem that it was intended to be disrespectful to the elder?"
It might be better if he didn't say anything. With such a calm appearance like that, he even made those people of Yang Shi extremely angry, "Brat, you are even that ill-behaved towards the great granduncle. Is this the ritual Yang Zhan teaches you?"
"Old ancestor."
Right at that moment, Yang Hongjie quietly moved forward without saying anything. He said to Awakened Lion Yang, "Yang Qi and I had a three-month appointment to compete in the fall hunting season. If he is disrespectful to the elders, you do not have to do anything. Let me teach him a lesson."
Yang Hongjie's face was full of purple clouds as he stood in front of Yang Qi; qigong was running throughout his body. A wave of purple clouds moved up and the qigong suddenly turned dark purple.
"Yang Hongjie is indeed the best talent of our Yang family. It's so unexpected that in such a short period, he could reach the 8th tier of QiGong cultivation level. Perhaps he could even enter the Qi Zong level much sooner than Yang Zhan."
"True, let Yang Hongjie teach this brat for a while."
"This brat Yang Qi is too craving for fame. He caused such trouble for the family and now even looks down on the elders. Is he still relying on Yang Zhan to reach the Qi Zong level? Currently, with the fight between the juniors, Yang Zhan will not have any reason to interfere."
"Yang Hongjie has obtained the Violet Cloud pill and he even had that unusual fortune where, in one of the caves, he obtains a secret scroll named Violet Cloud Heavenly Move which was of Grand qigong level. There is still another Violet Cloud pill he didn't dare to use previously. At this moment, as he seems to have completed his cultivation, using this pill might even boost his strength further."
"So that brat Yang Qi does not seem to have even the slimmest hope?"
There was much discussion between the masters of Yang family. In their thoughts, Yang Hongjie was indeed the genius in the family, who had had that unusual experience and had cultivated to Grand level qigong.
Even within Yang family, there was no one with Grand level qigong.
Only with Grand level qigong cultivation, one could have some hope to breakthrough the Qi Zong Realm to boost their cultivation level to Fate Stealing Realm.
"Yang Qi, this time I'll teach you not to disrespect the elders. As for exorcising the demon in your body, I once again reiterate that it is still up to you to cultivate with hard work. Building strength by relying on any demon would eventually result in you becoming one."
Yang Hongjie said so to Yang Qi.
"Really?" Yang Qi said casually, "So let’s take it on, I will give you three 'free' moves."
"Three moves?" Yang Hongjie laughed out loud as if he had listened to the funniest joke in the world, "Who do you think you are? It would be me who will give you that three moves." He was angry, yet still burst out laughing as he had been triggered deeply by Yang Qi's crave for fame.
So many masters here quietly shook their head as they thought that Yang Qi might have been devoured by the demon; otherwise, he couldn't be that craving for fame.
"Come!"
Yang Qi wiggled his finger.
Yang Hongjie's eyes flared with murderous intent and purple clouds exploded between his brows as he rushed forward. Suddenly, one of his fingers pointed out, and the purple light immediately changed into qi sword and furiously plunged towards Yang Qi's heart. It was unexpectedly a move to kill.
With a move, the qi condensed into qi swords and attacked in all directions. While the Violet Cloud sword qi exploded and shot out, the sword shadows were everywhere. One move had covered every direction.
"Purple Qi from the East!"
However, a moment after, as the purple qi swords rained down, they only hit the empty space and exploded in the air, while Yang Qi was three steps away. No one could see how he had avoided that.
Ah?
The Awakened Lion Yang at Qi Zong level had his eyebrows tremble.
"First one, Yang Hongjie, only two moves remaining. Make good use of them." Yang Qi was so calm and leisurely.
"Funny, go and die." Yang Hongjie's face was very terrifying. He rushed forward with his arms crossed, one horizontal and one vertical. The qi was earth-shattering and so powerful, it drew out a word "Kill" in midair.
The word "Kill" was condensed out of qi, carrying the rumbling sounds of condensed gas. It was like an exploding dynamite that created a crater on the ground.
Yet within this deep crater, Yang Qi had disappeared.
"This is the second move."
It wasn't certain when Yang Qi had come behind Yang Hongjie.
"Heart-Piercing Kill." Yang Hongjie didn't think. Like a destroyer, he turned his back, his hand morphed into claws with five fingers and swept by. Above the sharp claws, the qi condensed into a several feet long hook which intended to claw out Yang Qi's heart.
Regretfully, Yang Qi stomped his feet to step out.
The Heart-Piercing Kill fell into empty space.
"The third move's done. I really want to make a move now. Yang Hongjie, take care." Yang Qi's voice once again came by.
"Brat, let me open your mind to a bit of the true Grand level qigong within me, Violet Cloud Heavenly Move!" Yang Hongjie crazily shouted. He stepped back, with each purple line of light webbed densely within his body. Behind him, the purple rainbow rumbled over like a flock of wyvern dragons. "Violet Dragon Ascending!"
"Violet Dragon Ascending? It's unexpectedly this move. The force is truly powerful."
"The ground's starting to crack."
So many people saw that the ground cracking into blocks as if an earthquake occurred, accompanied by landslides. The violet dragons weaved from behind with momentum and reached the top.
"Violet Dragon Ascending? Good then, I'll make my move? This must be your most powerful move, right?" Yang Qi threw out a slap while he was talking.
As the slap was swung, everyone unexpectedly felt the air surrounding them was sucked out quickly. All of them could see a giant hand flaring up in the sky.
Ah!
A painful cry.
All the violet clouds had been destroyed as the violet dragon gave out a growl before it broke into pieces.
Wah!
Yang Hongjie flew directly outside and spat out a large gulp of blood. He knelt on the ground with his whole face swollen.
His spirit had been plentiful with a move that could tear up the ground. However, with just a simple slap from Yang Qi, he was smacked down onto the ground.
"Cripple." Yang Qi shook his head and crossed his arms to look at Yang Hongjie who was slapped to the ground. "You cannot withstand even just a slap from me. A top-notch genius of our Yang family that has even eaten the Violet Cloud pill. It's true that a useless man will remain useless no matter what he consumes!"
"You..." Up until then, Yang Hongjie couldn't believe he was defeated. He struggled to stand up, yet as he worked his qi up, the veins all over his body made it so painful that they felt like snapping.
Yang Qi's move was still merciful. He had truly not carried it out with murderous intent, as he only wounded Yang Hongjie; otherwise, he could really make the opponent into minced meat with just one punch.
He was being very kind and did not kill so randomly.
"Take a three-month rest then you would recover gradually. No matter what, you're still from Yang family. I won't abolish your martial arts." Yang Qi said it again.
"I hate you...." Upon hearing so, Yang Hongjie felt so greatly insulted. His throat made some gurgling sounds before he fainted.
"You demon! You dare to wound our Yang family's disciple."
In a quick blink, Yang Shi made a move.
"A Thousand Miles Frozen!"
The icy qigong from him exploded in a short moment, which made frost suddenly fall down. The extremely cold qi became an infuriating prison that sieged Yang Qi from behind.
This attack had been quite sudden with prior conspiracy, just like an expert assassin who splattered blood every five steps he went by, so ruthless and sinister. Even Yang Zhan couldn't react in time.
The man possessed the most powerful and rarest among the icy qigong, A Thousand Miles Frozen. Moreover, at the moment he took action, he had claimed directly Yang Qi to be the demon. Thus, he had many reasons to call this demon exorcism as he basically didn't recognize Yang Qi as Yang family's disciple. His intention was quite sinister.
"Qi son!"
Yang Zhan yelled out but it was too late.
Those owners from the family's other branches, and even the head couldn't react in time as well.
Boom Boom!
The qigong “A Thousand Miles Frozen” directly hit onto Yang Qi's body.
Everyone all saw that the icy qigong, capable of freezing a small river, coming in contact with Yang Qi. However, he seemed unwounded while the freezing qigong dissipated like a spring breeze that blew onto his face.
Yang Qi suddenly made a move.
Another slap.
This time, the hand flew noisily up in the air. With qi rolling like lightning, the hand ferociously slapped onto Yang Shi's face.
The icy qi and icy armor on Yang Shi's body had all been broken. His head was smacked to an almost twisted degree, and his teeth also fell out. The body was hit flying up in the air and then clashed the rocky mountain in the valley before rolling down.
Whoosh!
With a huge hurricane, Yang Qi appeared on Yang Shi's body after it had fallen on the ground; his feet stepped on the dantian region on the abdomen.
"Yang Shi, you've caused it yourself. Being an elder, yet it's so surprising that you quietly sneaked an attack like that. Are you still human?" Yang Qi looked at the toothless mouth of Yang Shi as he pressed his feet on Yang Qi. "You're just like Yang Hongjie, a cripple, that cannot withstand a slap from me."
"Yang Qi... Why you..."
Yang Shi couldn't move a foot on his body. This was extremely humiliating for him yet from within, he was extremely fearful about one thing: how could Yang Qi be this strong? Just a slap could turn him over, and he didn't even have time to observe what kind of qigong he had utilized. This had truly reached the point of turning eventual decay into a miracle.
"You cannot think of it, right? You just supposed that by reaching the 8th tier of QiGong, you could suppress me? No need for my father to make a move, I could take you on by myself. If you still want to steal the ownership of the house from my father, then, good, I could abolish your qigong to save you from ruining the family's peace."
Yang Qi's feet were about to draw in qi to destroy Yang Shi's dantian at Qihai level.
"Stop!"
A loud roar came out like a lion with awe-inspiring majestic force. Along with this voice came the sound of qigong, which made people feel a bit stiff.
It was "Lion's Roar qigong" of Yang family's ancestor, Awakened Lion Yang. He used sound to shake people's spirit to the point of controlling the enemy.
If one was a person with weak qigong, if he directly called someone, that person would obediently carry out actions according to the instructions in the lion's roar.
