Chapter 280: Chapter 171: All Bark and No Bite (Part 2)

However, Chu Yan’s mastery of this martial art was not particularly profound.

It sufficed to deal with Gu Qianqiu, since the techniques countered each other.

But it fell short when facing others.

Unexpectedly, this Young Master Mei had cultivated this martial art to such an advanced level.

With a casual move, he broke a Golden Spear and Iron Horse technique.

Following up with a sweep of his sleeve, the edge of the Golden Sword suddenly skewed.

Young Master Mei shifted his palm momentum again...this time fiercely.

It was as if the deep sea suddenly exploded into a sky-rocketing rage, countless snowflakes coalescing and swirling around him, torn to pieces and reformed into a white frosty mist.

Endless waves of Qi soared skyward and then crashed down, spreading in all directions.

The surging torrents swept through, Chen Zhengnan and Cao Qiupu did not anticipate such a change, each switching techniques to block.

As if two stubborn stones under the ocean waves.

The torrents swept across, scattering the wind and snow, as if to level the entire world.

The walls of the Seven Plum Manor were pushed down by the torrents, the buildings crumbling in the spreading waves.

This shift was exactly a move—Furious Sea and Sand—from the Valley of Myriad Nights’ secret technique, Anger Tide Technique!

In Celestial Dance City, Gu Qianqiu had once used this move against Wu Ganqi.

Yet it was broken by Wu Ganqi with a single Executioner’s Sea Slash.

However, Young Master Mei’s inner power was so profound that the might he displayed could not be compared to Gu Qianqiu’s.

It was like comparing a firefly to the bright moon, truly worlds apart.

Even Chen Zhengnan and Cao Qiupu under the impact of this move could no longer hold their ground.

The first to be swept away was Cao Qiupu, his body flowing with the wave like a lone boat adrift in the sea, yet not engulfed by the waves.

Chen Zhengnan, like a sword, his body flew back but a moment, then transformed into a sword, landing with a crash.

Like a Needle of the Sea, the sword point rose, splitting rivers and seas!

Forcibly carving a path through the infinite torrents.

This also exposed the weakness of the Anger Tide Technique.

Though its momentum was as mighty as the raging waves, its force was dispersed, easily countered point by point.

As Chen Zhengnan and Cao Qiupu were repelled by Young Master Mei, his figure suddenly turned and leapt into the air.

Bending his finger to point, the fingertip aimed directly at Chen Zhengnan.

Young Master Mei’s fingertip bloomed with plum blossoms, each petal drifted around him.

Keen, strange, and tragic!

Its speed seemingly slow yet actually fast, in a blink arriving before Chen Zhengnan.

Chen Zhengnan had just integrated all his inner breath into that sword, now left without strength to meet the new.

Facing this move, he suddenly found himself powerless!

Gnashing his teeth, just about to forcefully draw Qi, when he heard a dragon’s roar crash upon the scene.

A dragon-shaped Qi surged forth, engulfing heavy frost, howling in!

The one who intervened was naturally Chu Qing!

Although he wanted to observe Chen Zhengnan and the others’ situation, he could not really let them die in front of him.

While the previous series of events sounded intricate, it was merely a transformation of moves.

After Night’s Silent Sea broke the Golden Spear and Iron Horse move, Young Master Mei followed with Furious Sea and Sand to repel the two, then aimed a killing point at Chen Zhengnan.

Chu Qing’s intervention from the Golden Spear and Iron Horse strike was but a few breaths away.

Yet within those few breaths, Chu Qing realized the problem, Young Master Mei’s inner power when unleashing Furious Sea and Sand exceeded that of Prince Mu from Celestial Secret Valley that day.

This does not mean Young Master Mei was truly stronger than Prince Mu.

Prince Mu’s Burial Song and Prince Mei’s Cloud Rain Order were fundamentally different martial arts.

The former could utilize the body in the tomb, harnessing its inner power remarkable in its own right.

Understanding Prince Mu’s true martial arts attainment without seeing him personally was impossible.

The Cloud Rain Order itself was an evil skill of seizing inner strength.

Young Master Mei, as a Tribulation Slave, gathered the inner strength drawn by the Tribulation Slave unto himself.

He amassed this immense inner strength from how many people, a dozen, dozens, or even hundreds?

Previously, Prince Mei’s journey to the Seven Plum Manor likely did not involve taking the Tribulation Slave’s inner strength, or else Young Master Mei would not be so formidable.

However, after executing Furious Sea and Sand, and then delivering that plum blossom-pointed move, the inner strength utilized declined sharply.

Although it targeted where the enemy must defend, condensing the killing move to a point.

But based on Young Master Mei’s prior performance, this move should have been even more ruthless.

Yet Chu Qing at the moment could not bother to unravel the mystery within, he could not let the old tsundere Chen Zhengnan die at the hands of the Tribulation Slave.

A move from the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, "Regretful Dragon", was unleashed, the majestic palm force carrying a chill, disrupting the swirling wind and snow.

Prince Mei’s expression changed, and his body twisted, soaring into the air.

He transformed his fingers into a palm, reminiscent of thousands of blossoms.

The palm force spread, seeping through like ink painting over a pool.

Boom!!!

The two forces collided, and Chu Qing was immediately surprised.

Based on Prince Mei’s previous performance, Chu Qing dared not underestimate this person, hence he attacked with full force.

Unexpectedly, when the two forces met, Prince Mei turned out to be completely unable to withstand the blow, his body shuddered, and flew backward.

Caught off guard, Chu Qing quickly realized the truth.

In a normal confrontation, people rely on the Inner Strength in their Dantian, and although using Martial Arts that exert great power and consume a lot of Inner Strength causes depletion,

the energy circulates naturally within the body, like a water spring continuously emerging from the ’Dantian’.

However, the Inner Strength Prince Mei absorbed was temporarily taken into his body.

Tie Chuming said he is a Tribulation Slave, and the master of the Cloud Rain Order needs him to use the Yin Yang Unification Skill to fully integrate the Inner Strength into his body.

In other words, the true owner of this Inner Strength wasn’t Prince Mei but Prince Mei.

Only with the Cloud Rain Order Demon Skill could this Inner Power be truly mastered by Prince Mei.

Prince Mei was like a container holding stored Inner Strength, although he could use it, it was as fleeting as rootless duckweed, diminishing with each use.

Earlier, when facing the combined forces of Chen Zhengnan and Cao Qiupu, he used the Furious Sea and Sand, depleting most of his Inner Strength.

Although some Inner Strength was generated within his Dantian, it was a drop in the ocean compared to what he needed to use.

Thus, his vast Inner Strength was diminishing with each use, weakening as he fought...

If he could have killed everyone present earlier, he might have been able to gather strength again through the servants in Seven Plum Manor.

But once his accumulated Inner Strength was exhausted, he would be completely downgraded to a third-rate fighter, powerless.

This was why he wanted to eliminate them quickly before.

He didn’t expect that besides Chen Zhengnan and Cao Qiupu, there was also Chu Qing present.

Upon realizing this, Chu Qing didn’t want to waste any more time.

With a sharp clang, the Single Saber was drawn.

The Sixteen Paths of Shocking Evil Saber suddenly unleashed!

His form darted like a wisp of smoke, the saber changing endlessly.

The sharp edge slashed through the air, phantom edges transformed, falling suddenly.

But Prince Mei clasped his hands, enveloping it with a technique named "Child Worships the Goddess of Mercy".

Prince Mei grinned savagely, blood gushing from his lips, a grim smile.

His laughter carried a touch of confusion:

"Who are you now?"

Last night, he had been diligently ’harvesting’ Inner Strength and slept in the morning, never expecting so many people in the manor.

Die Wu, unaware of the risks, thought all the arrivals were easy prey.

Little did she know that those who came were not ordinary prey, but were sharks and beasts.

When the commotion in the main hall broke out, she had no choice but to awaken the recently sleeping Prince Mei.

Prince Mei, grumpy from being woken, took action...

The result was not good, initially facing three masters together, he felt troubled.

When the fleeing scholar ran away, he felt victory was certain.

Now... he felt he was about to die.

He couldn’t comprehend how after a good sleep in the morning, the sky seemed to have collapsed.

Chen Zhengnan looked at Chu Qing with complex emotions.

He sighed softly:

"So, you really learned it..."

As his words fell, seven streaks of blood exploded from Prince Mei’s back.

The crisscrossing saber lights had already landed on him.

He seemed to have caught Chu Qing’s saber, but in reality, he was struck entirely!

Prince Mei froze, intending to look down, but his head tilted, and with a thud, it had already fallen to the ground.

Chu Qing sheathed his saber, flicking off the blood, and slowly returned the blade to its scabbard.

[Commission Completed!]

[Successfully assassinated Prince Mei: Acquired one Random Martial Arts Treasure Chest!]