Chapter 183 - Fighting the Mighty Lord Long
Chapter 183 Fighting the Mighty Lord Long
Lord Long said, “You should know that I will brook no argument when I’m speaking. Even Long Yan dares not defy me. I have conquered the underground of two provinces, and there are even many informants of mine in your Hei Province. Jiang Zihou is not a perceptive man and he is doomed to fail. If you choose to refuse, you might follow in his footsteps.
“It’s destiny. Why don’t you obey it and swear your loyalty to me? I admire your talent and you will play an important role in the wars to come. Together, we can unite the entire underground and make the world afraid of us. And you shall be given the three provinces. I’ll let you be their ruler, as well as my fiercest claw. The world will kneel before us!”
There was insanity burning red in Lord Long’s eyes. “By then, I’ll be the king of the underground in the whole world. The government has the day, yet the night can only be mine! Xiao Bing, are you willing to help me build this empire, which belongs to everyone in this world?”
Lord Long’s ambition was beyond Xiao Bing’s expectation. Xiao Bing had met many men who were the pain in many countries asses, but none of them was as ambitious as Lord Long. To become the king of the underground world in China and even in the whole world? Xiao Bing deemed this man insane.
Lord Long’s eyes were afire with expectation. “Will you join me for this cause? To conquer this world?” he asked with his hands crossed behind his back.
Xiao Bing took a small step back, which made Lord Long’s pupils contract instantly. But then he grinned. “Where do you think you’re going?”
Xiao Bing’s hair stood on end upon hearing that. Only when he was in a dangerous situation would his pores open and hair stand on end. It only happened once in Xiao Bing’s life.
Xiao Bing faintly smiled. “How could I know without trying?”
Right after he had said it, Xiao Bing found that his body was tensed, as if the air around him had stopped flowing.
Xiao Bing had realized that he had been taken to a realm that Lord Long created. He was the king in this little world. Everyone in this little world could only exert 80 percent or even 50 percent of his strength, except for Lord Long.
Lord Long was a god in this realm.
Xiao Bing could barely imagine that Lord Long had stepped into such a level. “No wonder he can conquer those two provinces so quickly!”
Lord Long reached out one of his hands toward Xiao Bing slowly and spoke in a calm voice. “Come closer, and you and I will be brothers. There’s a bright future waiting ahead of us. But if you take one more step back, I’m afraid that you will die right here and now.”
Lord Long seemed to be a magnet that kept drawing Xiao Bing to his side.
Xiao Bing’s gaze was full of composure, which made Lord Long frown and his heart sink.
Xiao Bing’s white teeth were out in the air as he grinned. “Mr. Long has the advantage of timing, surroundings, and the number of men in this space. But I believe that Lord Long is not a man of treachery. You did all this not just to kill me in this realm you created.”
“What do you mean?” asked Lord Long.
Xiao Bing grinned. “Why don’t we make a bet?”
Lord Long became curious. “On what?”
“It’s just me and you now. How many blows do you think you need to defeat me?”
Lord Long pondered for a moment. He knew Xiao Bing was at the middle stage of Transforming Strength from his first glance at him. “No more than three movements. I will definitely capture you alive or even kill you!”
“Good!” Xiao Bing laughed. “Then if you can’t kill me or capture me alive within three movements, you will let me go and we will fight again on the battlefield in the underground.”
Lord Long asked, “But what if you lose?”
“Then I will pledge my fealty to you if I am captured alive.”
Lord Long’s eyes brightened. “Truly?”
“You know I’m always true to my word!”
But right after the moment that Xiao Bing said the last word, he suddenly appeared beside Lord Long and delivered a strike with his strength focused on his leg.
The strike carried all his power. Lord Long even felt the piercing air before the strike came. The biting wind rushed toward Lord Long’s ear and his hair was tousled.
But Lord Long did not even move a little. That fierce leg stopped a few centimeters away from Lord Long’s head. Yet there was a sudden sound of a clash, as if Xiao Bing’s leg had hit something. Lord Long took a small step back while Xiao Bing felt his whole leg become numb.
Lord Long was shocked by the step he had to take because Xiao Bing’s strength completely exceeded his expectation. Xiao Bing had exerted at least 80 percent of his power. Lord Long could not understand how Xiao Bing did it.
The levels of martial cultivation were divided into five parts, namely Qi-refining, Bone-forging, Clear-strength, Concealing-strength, and Transforming-strength. A cultivator could be called a master of martial arts if he reached Clear-strength. And if he reached Transforming-strength, he would be titled as a grandmaster who combined his internal and external power. These were the levels known by most of the people.
However, Xiao Bing knew that Transforming-strength was not the end of martial cultivation. Above it, there were Elixir-strength, Star-strength, Void-breaking, and Immortality.
Normally, the cultivators of the Qi-refining and Bone-forging stages were regarded as beginners of martial arts. The ones of Clear-strength, Concealing-strength, and Transforming-strength were considered masters of martial arts. And the artists of Elixir-strength, Star-strength, and Void-breaking were regarded as grandmasters. As the ones who obtained Immortality, they only lived in legends. No one in this world had reached that level, at least not in Xiao Bing’s knowledge. Most of the martial artists thought that that term should be deleted from the division of martial arts. And many of them wouldn’t even mention the term for most of their life.
There were fewer and fewer martial artists in this world, let alone grandmasters. Since Xiao Bing once worked for the government, he had read a survey conducted by a secret department. According to the statistics on it, there were merely around 200 masters of the Transforming Strength stage, which meant that each province had 10 on average.
There were 1.6 billion people in China, yet there was only one master of the Transforming Strength stage per 8 million people. The chances were truly small.
The grandmasters, who were a million times more powerful, were even rarer. There were no more than 50 masters of Elixir-strength on record. And the number of Star-strength was no more than 10. And the only one in China who had reached the level of Void-breaking was Xiao Bing, who merely had achieved the early stage of that level.
In other words, before Xiao Bing’s power was sealed, he was the most powerful martial artist in China in this era!
The veritably mightiest man!
Because of his special identity, his name was not well-known. And since he was in the Dragon Teeth and Dragon Gate, the mightiest man known to others was always called the Yang Master Long. Some even called him the Dragon Master, since it had a nice ring to it.
There were only a few who knew Xiao Bing’s real name.
The fierce qi was surging around him in this world he created. It was obvious that Lord Long had reached the formidable Star-strength stage.
Aside from Xiao Bing, the most powerful cultivators in the Dragon Gate were merely of the Star-strength stage. And nearly everyone in the Dragon Gate was capable of causing an upheaval in a country.
The rarity of Star-strength masters was obvious. They were merely inferior to Xiao Bing, who had reached the level of Void-breaking before his power was sealed.
A Star-strength master was powerful enough to crush a small troop. Even though there were three martial artists of Transforming-strength, they would not be Lord Long’s match, which was why Lord Long was afire with confidence in this fight.
Lord Long once thought that even though he could not make Xiao Bing lose his ability to walk, at least he could weaken him. He thought Xiao Bing could only exert only 50 percent of his power, he had never imagined that the number would be 80 percent. Hence, because of his negligence, he stepped half a meter back due to Xiao Bing’s blow.
After having attacked with his leg, Xiao Bing took advantage of the flaw in this little world and continued his strike. He focused all his strength on his fist and intended to hit Lord Long in his nose, which is the most delicate part of the human body, a truth unknown to many. This was the same with even the masters, and compared with others, they usually put more defense down below.
That was why Xiao Bing targeted Lord Long’s nose, one of the most delicate parts of the human body.
However, Lord Long did not try to parry passively this time. He reached out his hands toward Xiao Bing’s wrist and successfully grabbed it.
Lord Long’s eyes brightened instantly. “You lost!” he said with pride.
Being grabbed on the wrist by a master did seem to definitely bespeak failure.
While Lord Long felt slightly at ease, Xiao Bing smiled strangely. He swung his other fist at his enemy’s nose without any sign of stopping.
Lord Long gripped Xiao Bing’s wrist backhanded. Xiao Bing was supposed to spin to adjust his body to the direction of his arms, otherwise his wrist could have been ripped from his arm.
However, he did not do that. Suddenly, there was a horrific crack and Xiao Bing’s right arm was broken, yet at the same time, his other hand hit Lord Long right in the nose. There was supposed to be defensive qi around his body, but he had never expected that Xiao Bing would deliver the strike at the price of a broken arm. So Lord Long slightly slackened off, which allowed Xiao Bing to manage to break through his defense and hit him in the nose.
The strength on the fist was already reduced to half when it hit the nose. Yet it was still rewarded with a muffled grunt of pain. He had to let go of Xiao Bing’s wrist and cover his nose with both his hands. There were even tears in his eyes.
Xiao Bing growled and sprinted toward Lord Long’s chest, which was less protected at the moment. He felt as if he hit on a wall of steel when he knocked into Lord Long. The impact sent him hurtling backward. Blood rushed into his throat and he spat out a tremendous amount of blood.
Lord Long took two steps back again and dropped his hands, which were covering his nose. He was staring at Xiao Bing, who huddled himself up on the ground. Then Xiao Bing managed to sit up. Although he was greatly injured, his confidence and carefree smile were something Lord Long had never seen on others.
Xiao Bing raised three fingers as he bellowed, “I survived three blows of yours!”