The moment he finished saying this, he disappeared from my vision, it's more accurate to say that he disappeared from the place he was in earlier and he appeared a few seconds later in front of me .
All I saw in his place was a swif of dark smoke, whatever Martial Skill he used, it allowed him to appear in front of me suddenly like a ghost, before I even able to react to his sudden movement .
I saw a palm landing on my chest and I then saw my the vision of the scene in front of me widened, my mind a few seconds later caught up with what was happening to my body, making me able to realize that I was actually sent flying .
I crashed on my back and even after crashing to the floor, I was still sweeping the floor with my body, I was certain that I was suffering from an internal injures, as I felt my throat suddenly be filled with blood and almost to the point that I was beginning to have a difficult in breathing, after I finally stopped moving, I couldn't help but spat a few mouthfuls of blood, in hope of being able to catch my breath again .
Seeing the state I was in, I couldn't help but snort at my current self and my current situation, criticizing that I was indeed quite stupid with my reaction just now, I could have at least moved the moment I saw him disappearing from my vision, after all who was he going to target by me .
I also cursed at myself for being so reckless and so wilful just now, I already understood that there was a gap between his strength and mine, but even though I understood it, it didn't mean that I accepted it .
I laughed dryly to myself thinking back to the reason why I was acting like this, it wasn't completely my fault, Instructor Lu earlier words kept echoing in my mind, the words he said about the people at the Flesh Tempering Realm being still considered normal people, so I thought that even though the gap between us was quite a big one, I might still have a chance to compete .
But what in the world was normal about that palm strike just now, if I hadn't broken through the first layer of Flesh Tempering, I could have died just now after only getting one hit .
But I guess when he said those words, he probably didn't expect me to run into fighting someone who was 3 to 4 layers above me, I couldn't help but curse myself for being so optimistic just now, I wasn't even able see how he moved, only saw the attack and then flew into the air .
My mind was burning searching for a solution out of this crisis, but it still had not even a single idea, if before he know my identity, I could have run away directly, but even if I were to try and do it now, at most I will be delaying my funeral time, no even if I died here today, I won't have even the privilege of getting a funeral, I will be cremated and my ashes will go with the wind, similar to how that Lu Jiu .
How funny, I'm really at my limit here both mentally and physically, my chest is almost caved in, my rib cage seemed to have been struck by a speeding truck, I'm able to tell out of experience, for someone that was on the brink of death, I'm quite sarcastic .
Oh, so you really have entered the Flesh Tempering Realm, I guess the beating I gave you and the beating you got from instructor Lu were actually a blessing in disguise for you, and even after suffering that heavy hand of mine, I don't know whether you are fortunate or unfortunate .
But I guess it's the latter after all luck seem to be on my side since even after you achieved a breakthrough, you are still a soft persimmon, that we can weed as we want, if we waited for you to grow, we might have really gotten threatened by your punny ant existence .
A talent like you, falling here by my hand, nothing can make me happier, if you were to have been given enough time to grow, that Lu San might have really used you to catch Dojo Master Chen's eyes, posing a threat to my own Chiang'er, so it's best to deal with you here and now, as for consequences, well who can say for certain that I was the one who did it, your ghost will be long gone .
He kept dropping one bomb after another of info on me as he began to walk in unhurried manner closer to me, the me who wasn't even able to move a finger currently, my insides were in a mess, my Blood Qi was trying to lessen the damage and stable some of those injuries, but it seemed that the damage scope was more severe than I actually believed .
He finally came to stand still in front of me, he was wearing a mask under the cape that covered most of his head, I wasn't able to recall the shape of the mask at first, but as if my memories were stimulated, I was able to identify the mask as a Demon Monkey Mask, as he came to be in front of me, he removed the mask and I saw his wretched face having a cold smileand looking at me with eyes that seemed to be gloating at my current state .
I was confused at the fact that he suddenly started to praise my talent, at least the original Tian Long's talent in Martial Arts, then my confusion grow even more when he was suddenly mentioned instructor Lu and how he could have used me to stand in the way of his son Lu Chiang .
I wasn't even able to wrap my head around what he was saying, probably because my head currently didn't have much free time to spare in thinking about stuff like these throughly .
But he for some reason found somehow a pleasure in seeing me confused like this, he also seemed quite proud and became quite talkative, he said in a proud voice and manner :
Look at you, you are about to die and yet you still confused about what I was even targeting you for, you really don't think that I attacked you before because those 4 silver taels, do you .
" Ughhh .
He stepped on my chest, he didn't use much strength but with the current injuries that I was suffering from, it only made the situation worse for me, he could have ended my life if he used even a tiny bit more strength, but from the evil cold grin on his face, I don't believe that he will end my life this easily .
Believe it or not, but it was you catching the attention of that instructor Lu that made me target you no matter what, you probably don't know this, but the guy who y'all are calling instructor Lu, had another identity to him, that identity was what made him taking an interest in you, something very dangerous to us .
He was one of only two Guardians of the Solid Rock Fist Dojo, that Dojo had a more terrifying background than what met the eyes, but unlike with how he saw my Chiang'er, he actually seemed to look at you more preferably .
You see, he didn't like my Chiang'er joining the Dojo one bit, if not for my Chiang'er talent to be strong enough to catch Dojo Master Chen's eyes, he might have asked for him to be expulsed directly .
Whether he know that Chiang'er or I being part of something sinister or not that's not clear, but either way he seemed to be a bit guarded against Chiang'er and he kept opposing him every time he could possibly able to, so you catching a guy like that attention told me of all I needed to know to deem you a threat that I needed to terminate .
You were smart about deciding at first not to help me before when I asked the day before yesterday, but I already thought that you might to do this, so I put a few of my subordinates to the task of agitating the crowds on you to pressure you into agreeing to fall into my trap .
Once you entered the storage room, I once again made you believe that I was targeted you for only the money, but in fact from the start, I didn't give a damn about those 4 silver taels of yours, all I wanted was to see you dead, but with a stroke of luck, you were actually able to survive .
And achieved a breakthrough at that, how powerful, but all this for you to be stepped on by me, by us, go to hell .
He once again raised his foot and stomped at me, but this time, I was able to tell that he used more strength than before, he was finally going for the kill this time, barely before his leg struck me and inarguably breaking my rip cage in half, I got hold of a swif of dirt and with all the strength that I was now able to muster, I threw it at his face, forcing his attack on me to come to a sudden stop .
But it soon continued to land on the area that I was in a second before, cracks began appearing on where his leg landed, I saw that he seemed to have enhanced it by using Blood Qi, I saw his leg flickering with red light .
I was able to evade being stomped to death due to his attack missing the target by a few inches, after I had dragged myself away from his attack just now, I was only able to escape being stomped to death, but the crisis I was facing still didn't go away, it seemed that like his older brother had a huge ego, he seemed to be offended by his inability to achieve what he wanted .
He pulled me up by the neck and held me in front of him with an ugly face, I was able to feel how much strength he had in his arms, an indication of his powerful strength was that he was holding me off the ground by the neck, my feet wasn't even touching the ground, he then looked at me and sneered, then as if he made up his mind about how to punish my insolent action earlier .
He began choking me, but even while he was choking me he didn't stop grinning while saying :
Stop looking at the bamboo trees, your fate was sealed when I saw those clothes earlier, your clothes reeked of horse dung and remember .
I was the one who assigned you and only you to serve at the stables and since those clothes didn't belong to that smelly brother of mine, then I understood that there was indeed someone there .
Even though your cover was good, you really is underestimating the eyesight of me a Martial Apprentice, if I had reported earlier, the Protector might interfere with how I wanted to deal with you, so even though your fate might have been worse than death, you could have a silver chance to stay alive .
What's with your look, are you despaired already, good, mark my face then, it will be the last one you see .
He misunderstood me looking at the bamboo trees as me thinking that my cover wasn't good enough or something like that, but even though I was in such a tight situation, my head was actually more actively thinking that I might have had a chance to escape, if I had risked it all and just left this place earlier as I had in mind .
That was why I was looking back at the place I was hiding earlier, I discarded this thought of mine just as the wretched face in front of me began talking, hearing what he said, I in fact guessed as much, so it wasn't despair that I was feeling, in fact I'm beginning to see a way out of this, even though I'm inbound in place, I can still have one advantage .
That advantage was him being clueless about the fact that I had already joined the Dojo and learned some of the Martial Arts in it and that I already learned all the content to that High-grade Martial Skill book, he gave me together with the secret technique in it .
I might have a bit uncertainty in my intention to use it before, after all I hadn't even made sure whether the panel in my mind did work in the same way as with the technique or not, that was why I called it a drastic measure in the first place .
Those things what I was currently planning to use to launch one last decisive strike, if it went as I want it to, it might allow me to seriously injure him enough to be at least able to come with a way on how to deal with him from that point .
If it failed, I have some faith in at least being able to injure him slightly and it will be enough for me to die while knowing that I have tried my best to repay the debt, I owe to the original Tian Long, I too will be able to die with a fewer regrets with that .
I will be using that secret technique, but unlike before, I will be using it to take the offense this time around, I wanted to use Tiger's Strike or Clawing Tiger, but unlike the move I had in mind, those two moves were new to me and I have no confidence in executing them .
But the move I had on mind to use together with the Dragon-Tiger Transformation secret technique was different, not only did I have a basic grasp on how to execute it, but I also had seen it in action before which will even if I don't execute it as well as it was demonstrated to me before, I believe it will still cause some serious damage to the careless opponent in front of me .
It was really a bad move from him to be so carless even though his enemy was right in front of him like this, the moment the plan become complete in my mind, I looked at him with a strange look, one he wrongly misinterpreted it as me being in despair, but I was actually looking down on that carless move of his .
As he was tightening his grip on my neck a bit more, he was completely unaware that even though my eyes were almost rolled back up, I was currently circulating my Blood Qi in the specific way mentioned to use that secret technique, I clenched my left hand hand in a fist, then kept recalling the Thunderclap Fist that senior brother had demonstrated to me earlier .
Everything in my body was set, the final move needed to activate the secret technique was actually to either make a special stance and that what Lu Jiu had done, or the use of Blood Qi to trigger a certain chain of reaction and igniting the Blood Qi and Vitality on fire and that what I still hadn't done .
After making sure that the scene that kept displayed on my mind, made me able to execute the punch with no problem, I agitated my Blood Qi and started to ignite myself on fire .
The moment I did, I felt as if a new force entered my body and wherever that weird force appeared, it helped in healing me and also filled me with strength, enough strength in fact to be able to suddenly grasp the hand of Lu Si tightly, much to his shook, his pupils suddenly dilated at my action .
Before he was even able to react, I swayed my body and delivered the strongest punch I'm currently able to execute the Thunderclap Fist, I enhanced it with the huge amount of Blood Qi that was available for me to use and directly delivered the punch to his abdomen, I heard the whistling sound of thunder as my punch was unleashed, once it hit the abdomen of Lu Si, his eyes first widened, blood began to come from his orifices, then he directly fell down no longer breathing .
I coughed heavily after I fell down on the ground and looked at the man next to me and waited for a few seconds, but he was still not breathing, his body suddenly began to become cold and his face paled, my intention with the attack just now was to seriously injure him at most, but from the looks of him, he seemed to have died .
( Blood Qi Ignition was detected Due to the use of secret technique, Blood Qi Ignition was removed .
( Mysterious Energy wrecking havoc in the body detected, the havoc was removed .
( Poor execution of Marital Skill, Fractions, Strains, Cuts, dislocated shoulders, all got removed ) .