Chapter 398 - 396: Clouds Stirring Across the Four Directions
"Hehe, no problem, what could be wrong with me? Who am I? I’m the unbeatable Xiaoqiang."
Chen Tianlong started bragging again.
But to be honest, this time he does have something to brag about—he solved a series of problems and took down a Yellow Dao five-star expert. It’s ridiculously absurd.
"Mm, as long as you’re okay."
Wu Mengting said sweetly with a smile.
After hugging for a while, the two quickly separated. They got too excited earlier and didn’t pay attention to those around them, but now they’ve calmed down, and Wu Mengting’s pretty face started to blush.
After all, the two beauties behind her are her good friends, and she indeed felt a bit shy.
"Cough cough... we’re invisible, we’re invisible," Lu Xiaoyu started teasing again, coughing twice while singing and bouncing over.
"..." Chen Tianlong saw that Lu Xiaoyu was coming over to make mischief, so he stood straight and said to Lu Xiaoyu as she approached, "Xiaoyu, should we continue playing?"
"You need to ask Wushuang, she’s your boss, I’m just here for the fun."
Lu Xiaoyu finished speaking, deliberately glancing at Wu Mengting, somewhat jealous of their public display of affection earlier.
"Chen Tianlong, I want to go home."
Wu Mengting’s words settled the matter. As Chen Tianlong’s girlfriend, if he couldn’t even meet this simple request, then she wouldn’t mean much to him.
"Alright, I’m actually tired too."
Chen Tianlong nodded, while Lin Wushuang, who was feeling competitive, realized that she was nothing compared to Wu Mengting’s boyfriend, so being competitive would be pointless.
"Xiaoyu, we should head back too, I’m a bit tired."
Lin Wushuang was not physically tired, just emotionally drained.
Before long, a BMW sped down the highway towards South Sea City. Around eight in the evening, they arrived at South Sea City No. 1 High School.
After dropping the three campus beauties off at the girls’ dormitory, Chen Tianlong returned to his own dorm.
After a day of chaos, Chen Tianlong showered and went to sleep.
Hao Family Mansion.
Hao Dahai and Hao Shuai were clearly sighing with frustration; they never expected things to turn out this way. Though the Xu Family managed to retain their spot among the Four Major Families, they didn’t manage to crush the Lin Family, and Mo Shaoyun was squeezed out instead.
This means that at least in three years, the Mo Family will have another chance.
Hao Shuai couldn’t swallow this defeat—it’s infuriating how the seemingly guaranteed victory slipped away. The Lin Family’s resilience truly is astonishing, as they couldn’t be toppled.
The originally flawless plan fell apart at the crucial moment, causing Hao Shuai much headache. Luckily, his authority remained intact, and his status in the Celestial Wolf Gang was unchanged.
Moreover, something made Hao Shuai quite happy: Chen Tianlong had completely severed Ye Xiong’s meridians. Ye Xiong ranked third among the three top fighters the Celestial Wolf Gang harbored under Gang Leader Tang Xiao’s heavy investment.
With one of them defeated, Tang Xiao would surely be furious and harbor resentment towards Chen Tianlong.
Chen Tianlong’s days won’t be easy following this.
Besides the Celestial Wolf Gang, another party might take action: the Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall.
Two top experts sent by Shangguan Ba were severely injured by Chen Tianlong, whether or not their meridians were severed, Hao Shuai didn’t know, only that the injuries were critical.
Critically, Hao Shuai had his subordinates follow up—the two Pure Yang disciples weren’t dead but had become vegetative.
"Chen Tianlong, for the trouble you’ve caused me, I, Hao Shuai, will pay you back double in the future!"
Hao Shuai glared viciously at Chen Tianlong’s photo and threw a flying knife from his hand.
The weekend passed like that, today as usual, the school remained filled with the sound of reading, but outside, tensions were palpable.
West of South Sea City, inside the Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall, Mo Shaoyun finally returned Shangguan Wei from the hospital.
At this time, senior disciple Cheng Hao was deeply regretful, he shouldn’t have believed Mo Shaoyun’s nonsense. Now, look what happened: their junior brother Shangguan Wei was beaten into such a state, how could he explain this to their master?
"Mo Shaoyun, aren’t you going to give me an explanation?" Cheng Hao was clearly angry, he lent one person to you, now you returned a vegetable, isn’t that maddening?
"Well, um... Cheng Hao, senior brother, here’s the thing, you can’t really blame me. Shangguan Wei, senior, is indeed formidable, but he was entrapped by that kid Chen Tianlong, it was really out of my control."
Mo Shaoyun started shifting the blame to Chen Tianlong.
"Hmph, when you asked for personnel, how did you guarantee this wouldn’t happen? Now that a problem occurred, you push it onto Chen Tianlong. Aren’t you ashamed?"
Cheng Hao could easily tell this was just shirking responsibility.
"Okay, do you have any other ideas? I’ve already stated the method, if you insist it was my fault, then fine."
Mo Shaoyun was not one to lack temper, Cheng Hao was clueless. Mo Shaoyun simply offered a suggestion, Cheng Hao refused to listen and kept making trouble.
If it wasn’t because Cheng Hao was the senior in Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall, Mo Shaoyun couldn’t be bothered explaining.
"Alright! Alas..."
Cheng Hao thought about it, the immediate priority was to deliver Shangguan Wei to their master and see what decision would be made.
After reaching an agreement, they began delivering Shangguan Wei to the Hall.
Soon, the upper disciples of the Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall gathered around, each frowning, feeling incredulous.
Shangguan Wei was their pillar, though somewhat mentally peculiar, he was still good when together. Plus, his skills were second only to their master and a few senior brothers.
Yellow Dao five-star strength in the Mortal Realm is considered heaven-defying, certainly unmatched, yet he was hurt like this, it’s simply unimaginable.
"What’s going on, who will explain this to me?" Shangguan Ba was furious seeing Shangguan Wei lying like a dead dog.
"Master... Master! Junior brother Shangguan Wei... He was injured by a guy called Chen Tianlong in South Sea City."
Cheng Hao said weakly, given South Sea City, could there be any other expert? If Shangguan Wei was injured by some civilian, wouldn’t Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall lose face?
"Nonsense, I know Chen Tianlong has some skills, but you’re telling me he caused this much damage to Shangguan Wei? Are you tricking me?" Shangguan Ba clearly didn’t believe it.
At this time Mo Shaoyun went over and respectfully said, "Hall Master Shangguan, it really happened like this. On the day, we planned to take out Chen Tianlong in the haunted house of the amusement park but encountered unexpected events. When we met senior brother Shangguan Wei again, he was covered in silver needles, seemingly sealed in acupoints."
"Silver needles? Acupoints sealed?"
Seeing Mo Shaoyun speak, Shangguan Ba decided to move toward Shangguan Wei and start examining.
Moments later, Shangguan Ba frowned as if noticing something odd, "Hiss... Are you sure it was that kid Chen Tianlong?"