CH 101

Chapter 101: Feng Family’s Combat Skills

“How could he be Zheng Gaoyuan?”

“Is he really the same person as that fat guy?”

“How could Zheng Gaoyuan be so strong?”

“Did you notice what he said? Mu Tianshi betrayed him? Did Mu Tianshi make use of his looks to make Zheng Gaoyuan pay him money?”

“Look at Mu Tianshi’s expression, that’s probably not wrong.”

“Tut, in fact, Zheng Gaoyuan is much more beautiful than Mu Tianshi.”

In the arena, Mu Tianshi had fainted, while beneath the stage, everyone was chatting. Almost everyone had dug out the photos of Zheng Gaoyuan from before and compared them with those of Zheng Gaoyuan now.

It had to be said that the former Zheng Gaoyuan and the present Zheng Gaoyuan were really not alike. At that time, his face and body were covered with meat, and one couldn’t even really see their shape. Now, he displayed the good genes of his parents and looked much more handsome than Mu Tianshi.

Mu Tianshi had already fainted, and the battle was automatically over. Zheng Gaoyuan came down from the stage with some regret. He deliberately waited for Mu Tianshi to wake up: “Mu Tianshi, don’t forget that I signed an agreement when I subsidized you. You would work in the Huofeng company for five years after graduation, but now five years have passed, and I haven’t seen you work in the Huofeng company for a day. This is clearly a breach of contract! Since you’ve breached the contract, you must pay back all the money I gave you at the start and pay the liquidated damages.”

In the beginning, his grandparents had also wanted to prevent him from suffering losses, so they would let all the people who had been subsidized by him sign an agreement, and most of the others had fulfilled it.

Mu Tianshi’s face immediately changed when he heard this. After the Huofeng Company had an accident, Zheng Gaoyuan left. Mu Tianshi had been protected by others and became a professor at the school. He did not have contact with the Zheng family and naturally forgot this matter over time, but did not expect Zheng Gaoyuan to bring it back up.

“You see, the agreement is here, and the transfer record of the money I gave you at the start is also here… You can’t think that you only need to pay back the tuition and living expenses. The money I bought for your equipment in the beginning is the bulk of the money. You can’t rely on the transfer record,” Zheng Gaoyuan added.

The blood flowing down Mu Tianshi’s body had been stopped by the medical staff, but he could not help spitting out a mouthful of blood. Zheng Gaoyuan had been too easy to coax and had been generous to people around him. In fact, Mu Tianshi hadn’t spent much. The people around him had tried to dig up all the pocket money given to Zheng Gaoyuan by the Zheng family. At the beginning, Zhao Li often fooled Zheng Gaoyuan into buying things for him and then resold them. Mu Tianshi had been jealous and took some things from Zheng Gaoyuan.

At that time, he had still been studying. Relying on Zheng Gaoyuan, he gathered the best combat equipment. Even an armored vehicle from the Huofeng company was tossed to him. The money spent was not a small amount. It might not be much for Zheng Gaoyuan, but it was a huge amount for him.

At the start, his plan failed. If he didn’t have some evidence to save his life, the conspirators behind him might have tried to kill him… He had been so careful and cautious that he dared not even leave the city. How could he have money?

“Zheng Gaoyuan, you……” Mu Tianshi thought of this and looked at Zheng Gaoyuan fiercely. Although he had bought those things, he did not dare to go out of the city. Naturally, they were useless, and by now, their value would already be lowered. There was no way he could get the money back.

“I hate when people look at me like this. If you look at me that way, I’ll beat you again!” Zheng Gaoyuan waved his fist.

Mu Tianshi turned his eyes away, but didn’t expect to see Feng Linqiu walking over. His eyes immediately showed an expression of asking for help.

“Zheng Gaoyuan, sure enough, one should not look upon others with old eyes; you’ve advanced so far! If I’m not wrong, you should have reached level-5. That’s truly admirable.” Feng Linqiu glanced at Mu Tianshi and smiled at Zheng Gaoyuan.

Mu Tianshi noticed Feng Linqiu’s eyes and immediately bowed his head. Shi Qingyang looked at him at this time–the gaze Mu Tianshi used to look at Feng Linqiu just now clearly meant that he knew Feng Linqiu. This person was at least 80% sure to be under the Feng family.

Shi Qingyang had heard Zheng Gaoyuan mention something about Mu Tianshi before. He still clearly remembered that after the armored vehicle of Huofeng company had a problem in his previous life, the Feng family had bought Huofeng Company. Now, with both sides here, he knew that Mu Tianshi had the Feng Family behind him.

Zheng Gaoyuan didn’t know this, but he didn’t like Feng Linqiu, who was inferior to Shi Qingyang while being touted as the premiere genius in the country: “I can do this only because of my master. My master is a man whose excellence has no comparison to those who’ve come in the past and those who will be in the future. He is many times more powerful than me. Who knows just how many times…”

Zheng Gaoyuan proudly praised Shi Qingyang, which made Feng Linqiu unhappy, but he didn’t show anything on his face.

Feng Linqiu knew that Zheng Gaoyuan’s master was Shi Qingyang, but others did not. At this time, someone could not help asking: “Who is Young Master Zheng’s master?”

“My master is him.” Zheng Gaoyuan proudly pointed to Shi Qingyang.

Previously, Shi Qingyang had been very famous in Anhang City. He and Cheng Ran could be recognized on the street. However, when they came to Yangtze City, few people knew them. Now, after coming to Central City, they were complete strangers to other people.

When Zheng Gaoyuan pointed to a man who looked younger than him as a master, others even thought Zheng Gaoyuan was joking.

“If it hadn’t been for my master, I wouldn’t have been what I am now. My master is eminently talented, natural and unrestrained, with a casual and elegant bearing, stalwart and strong, a scholar and a warrior, and gentle and refined in manner,” Zheng Gaoyuan spewed out a string of words.

“Zheng Gaoyuan, you should read more books,” Shi Qingyang said helplessly. These idioms were clearly contradictory! But he couldn’t deny that it felt good to be praised, especially in front of Feng Linqiu–Feng Linqiu clearly wanted to dig his corner, which was really disgusting!

“I think he’s right,” Cheng Ran whispered. He had always been the number one admirer of Shi Qingyang, and Shi Qingyang was more happy to hear what he said.

“Master, I’ll be busy participating in the Rad-Energy Competition.” Zheng Gaoyuan grinned: “Master, I will not humiliate you then!”

Zheng Gaoyuan did this to quietly create momentum for himself and introduce Shi Qingyang. However, doing it to this extent made the people around Feng Linqiu dissatisfied: “Young Master Zheng, you praised your master to heaven and earth, so you should introduce him to us first.”

“Yes, Young Master Zheng, and Young Master Feng is here too. Is there anyone better than Young Master Feng?”

Zheng Gaoyuan was speechless for a while–Shi Qingyang was certainly much better than Feng Linqiu, but the key was he couldn’t say it!

“Shi Qingyang must be very excellent. When Grandpa Cheng spoke to my grandpa yesterday, he also highly praised him. My grandpa also wanted to meet him,” Feng Linqiu smiled. “If he can teach such an apprentice, I think the master must be more powerful. How old are you, Shi Qingyang?”

“Twenty four,” Shi Qingyang said. Although Feng Linqiu had asked him this, he must have already inquired a lot of information about him and Cheng Ran.

“So, when Zheng Gaoyuan met you, you were only 18 years old? When you were 18 years old, you could take in a student. That’s really amazing. At that time, I hadn’t even graduated, and was being taught by my grandfather all day.” Feng Linqiu seemed to praise Shi Qingyang, but once these words were said, it was likely others wouldn’t believe that Zheng Gaoyuan had been taught by Shi Qingyang. Which 18-year-old would take an apprentice older than himself? After all, most people who taught other people rad-energy knowledge today would only be called ‘teacher’. The relationship between master and apprentice…… those who become apprentices should treat their masters as their elders.

Cheng Xuze from Yangtze City had come to Central City and met Feng Yunhong yesterday. Many people who knew that, now understand the identity of Shi Qingyang from Feng Linqiu’s words. Immediately, someone sneered: “What kind of mentoring was it? Was it Cheng Xuze giving him face?”

“Being only 18 years old, it would have only been two years since he stimulated his radiant energy. He wouldn’t even know much about it… let alone taking in a student?”

Feng Linqiu looked at the people around him discontentedly. “What are you talking about? Shi Qingyang must have real skills. He’s the partner of Elder Cheng’s most valued grandson.” After that, his attention was on Cheng Ran.

Cheng Ran very much agreed with Feng Linqiu’s words, but he also knew that Feng Linqiu said these things with bad intentions. He frowned at that moment. Seeing this, Feng Linqiu’s face changed. When he saw Shi Qingyang’s hand resting on Cheng Ran’s shoulder, his expression became more complicated.

Cheng Ran was the first person who had given him a good impression and made him want to get to know him. More importantly, Cheng Xuze loved Cheng Ran very much. It seemed that Cheng Ran still owned half of the shares of several companies under Cheng Xuze…

Although Cheng Ran was a man and was married, he still thought of him as a good partner. After the two of them got married, Feng Linqiu would find another lover. However, Cheng Ran obviously trusted Shi Qingyang, and Shi Qingyang also took Cheng Ran very seriously.

Of course, Feng Linqiu didn’t think this would affect his plan. Compared with Shi Qingyang, he was really much better. Besides, Shi Qingyang was so strict with Cheng Ran. Was it not because he had no confidence in himself?

Maybe he could find someone to hook up with Shi Qingyang…

“Of course my master has real skills!” Zheng Gaoyuan immediately said.

Shi Qingyang also smiled: “Young Master Feng said he would compete with me before. I don’t know when you would be free?” Although he had only revealed combat skills up to level 5, and had even more advanced combat skills that he couldn’t show, how many times did he “compete” with Feng Linqiu in his last life? He even knew the combat skills of the Feng family, not to mention Feng Linqiu’s moves.

At that time, although he had been excellent, his level had been the same as that of Feng Linqiu. Feng Linqiu could never beat him, for nothing else, than because Feng Linqiu was too careful and always wanted to protect himself when facing the enemy. He had been protected by the Feng family since he was young, and like Mu Tianshi, he did not have much experience.

He knew a lot of fighting skills, so generally, people of the same level would lose if they hesitated to fight him. However, if they knew his moves well, it was not difficult to win against him.

When Shi Qingyang came to Central City this time, he had wanted to keep a low profile, but he didn’t want to be bullied by others. What’s more, although the Feng family was powerful, they weren’t at the level to cover the sky with one hand and control the world.  After all, in his previous life, didn’t they first seek Liang Liang to seduce him and then plann to make him a waste person before they dared to touch him?

Heh, more importantly, even if he only used level-5 combat skills, wasn’t the amount of radiant energy in his body still level-8?

Feng Linqiu didn’t expect Shi Qingyang to say such a thing, but immediately said: “My strength is stronger than yours. It wouldn’t be good if I hurt you during the duel…”

“Shi Qingyang, Xiao Ran, you’re here!” Just at this time, Cheng Sisi came over and said, “Shi Qingyang, aren’t you going to go through the formalities for further studies? I’ll take you over.”

“Second sister?” Cheng Ran was at a loss. He had been waiting for Shi Qingyang to deal with Feng Linqiu. Why did Cheng Sisi come over?

“Come with me!” Cheng Sisi spoke angrily. She knew Feng Linqiu’s ability very well. If Shi Qingyang really competed with him, he would lose face and be hurt.

Thinking of this, Cheng Sisi felt angry again. In the past, although Feng Linqiu didn’t confess to her before, he contacted her every day, telling her about his hunting team, school, and his studies… She thought that if Feng Linqiu’s attitude was the same as before, that would just mean she’d misread his intentions at the beginning. As a result, Feng Linqiu did not contact her at all these past two days.

Originally, they had been scheduled to leave the city this morning, but Feng Linqiu cancelled it. Normally, Feng Linqiu would had given her an explanation, but now she only received group messages.

Cheng Sisi had been spoiled since she was young. When had she ever suffered such injustice? She would have liked to slap Feng Linqiu if she hadn’t been afraid of the Feng family.

“Why, you won’t dare to fight?” the people around Feng Linqiu immediately said.

Feng Linqiu retained his elegance: “Sisi, since you have something to do, you can go quickly.”

“It’s not urgent to go through the formalities. Anyway, if you’re free, let’s have a duel first?” Shi Qingyang asked with a smile.

“Since it’s a duel, I won’t use level-7 combat skills for the sake of fairness,” Feng Linqiu immediately responded. It would seem like he did this fairly, but even if he didn’t use level-7 combat skills, the radiation energy in his body was level-7…

Shi Qingyang naturally knew this. After all, he planned to do the same thing.

A group of people came and went, and they had long forgotten Mu Tianshi. Mu Tianshi got up from the ground, looked at Zheng Gaoyuan and went to see Shi Qingyang.

When Cheng Ran saw this scene, he stepped on Mu Tianshi’s feet. After Mu Tianshi screamed, he smiled heartlessly: “Sorry, I didn’t mean it.”

Mu Tianshi stared at Cheng Ran. He clearly felt that the bones in his feet had been crushed. He said it wasn’t intentional, but how could he do it if he didn’t mean to? However, even though he hated Cheng Ran to death, he dared not offend Cheng Ran.

It’s just like how he tried to coax Zheng Gaoyuan even though he had been disgusted with Zheng Gaoyuan.

“Brother Cheng, you are really good!” Zheng Gaoyuan immediately said. Cheng Ran’s strength could not be clearer to him. At the beginning, he had been so fat, but Cheng Ran could carry him… However, his master was really stingy, and later he refused to let Cheng Ran carry him.

At this time, Shi Qingyang had already entered the dueling platform with Feng Linqiu. At the same time, he also remembered when he first came to Central City in his last life. At that time, Feng Linqiu had approached him in a friendly manner, and he had taken Feng Linqiu as a friend. When Feng Linqiu and he had a duel, he didn’t hold back. When he won against Feng Linqiu, he didn’t say anything. After that, he even discussed his own shortcomings with Feng Linqiu…

At that time, he always thought it was boring to keep secrets among friends, but at that time, Feng Linqiu might have hated him to death.

“Shi Qingyang, let’s start.”

“Good.” Shi Qingyang smiled. Originally, he intended to take the lead to win against Feng Linqiu. However, since Feng Linqiu said that he didn’t need level-7 combat skills, he could take it easy and let others see Feng Linqiu’s “skills”.

The Feng family had many unique fighting skills. Feng Linqiu saw Shi Qingyang’s expression of indifference, tugged at the corner of his mouth, and directly used a powerful fighting skill–”Dragon Strike”.

Under the influence of Feng Linqiu, almost all the radiation energy in the protective cover was attracted toward him, and finally twisted into a long rope composed of thick radiation energy. Of course, the Feng family called this long rope a dragon.

This combat skill was very strong, because the radiant energy that constituted the long rope was actually rotating the entire time. If it was touched, it would rip apart the skin, and it would block other combat skills. In the end, the radiant energy from those dissolved skills would become a part of the long rope in its rotation.

Of course, this wasn’t a skill without a way to combat it. After this long rope appeared, there would be a head and tail. Feng Linqiu could control it on one side, and others could control it from the other side.

Shi Qingyang let the long rope approach, and then controlled it with his own energy before Feng Linqiu’s proud eyes. Then, with a swing of his hand, the rope seemed to be under his control and hit Feng Linqiu.

Feng Linqiu’s face changed. He put up a protective shield on his own body, but immediately said, “I admit defeat!”

Shi Qingyang suddenly felt choked. He always knew that Feng Linqiu knew how to grasp the current situation very well, and never dared to fight hard with others during the competition. However, he never thought that he would admit defeat so quickly.

“Shi Qingyang, you are really good. You can crack the weaknesses of my fighting skills. Can we have a good discussion?” Feng Linqiu smiled and opened his mouth.

Shi Qingyang took a deep breath and found that he really underestimated Feng Linqiu. Although Feng Linqiu’s strength was not good, he was very clear about how to maximize his interests. Although Feng Linqiu lost in one move in the fight between the two men, he still behaved well. Even if he conceded, it would not be too ugly.

After all, in other people’s eyes, Feng Linqiu was level-6, stronger than him. Maybe they would think that Feng Linqiu’s defeat was to give him face.

Shi Qingyang suddenly regretted that he didn’t “exaggerate his moves” in order to make himself look more handsome. However, although Feng Linqiu looked good on the surface, he was sure he was already angry in private… Shi Qingyang didn’t mind making him angrier at all: “I’m afraid I can’t. I have other things to do. Besides, it’s very easy to crack the secret of this combat skill. What’s there to talk about?”

Feng Linqiu was really angry. The combat skill that destroyed an opponent’s radiant energy had become a weapon for Shi Qingyang. How could he not be angry? However, although he was able to crack this combat skill just now, using it against Feng Linqiu would put him in a very embarrassing position. And he hadn’t been sure whether Shi Qingyang would have another move up his sleeve…

So he simply gave up, but how could he feel good to lose to Shi Qingyang? “Shi Qingyang, you’re joking. This combat skill was created by my grandfather. You being able to counter it, should it be because of Elder Cheng? I remember that my grandfather used this combat skill when he and Elder Cheng exchanged pointers.”

“You call this combat skill very powerful? First use your left hand to draw four radiation lines with your four fingers, then use your right hand to draw the same four radiation lines, and interact with your two hands…” Shi Qingyang slowly explained the method to execute this combat skill, and while he said it, he practiced it with his own hands.

After he had figured out the Feng combat skills in his previous life, Feng Linqiu had also asked him if he liked to study these. The two had discussed their skills together. Exemplified by the combat skills he had given to Cheng Xuze at the beginning, he also understood the combat skills of the Feng family.

Speaking of this, Feng Linqiu’s discussions with him had all taken place after Feng Linqiu and Liang Liang had learned about his physical problems. At that time, Feng Linqiu probably decided to deal with him long ago, and had asked him these questions to extract any residual use out of him. “I’ve seen others use it before. I really don’t think this combat skill is so powerful. Is the exclusive combat skill of the Feng family so simple?”

Shi Qingyang’s face was innocent, but Feng Linqiu’s expression changed again and again. He remembered that his grandfather had asked him to pay attention to Cheng Ran and Shi Qingyang. Shi Qingyang couldn’t be underestimated!

One day, he would wipe that expression off Shi Qingyang’s face!

Feng Linqiu was very angry, but the people who watched the battle had already recorded a video by chance. Shi Qingyang spoke so clearly and made a demonstration. Although they didn’t learn it all at once, they had been taught an exclusive combat skill of the Feng family!

Although it seemed that this combat skill was not as powerful as it had been when Feng Linqiu used it before…