Chapter 42 The News Spreads
The palm knife was like a shadow, bringing up gusts of wind that rolled up all the fallen leaves on the ground.
Qin Ziling retreated repeatedly, occasionally taking advantage of a flaw to fight back. After more than ten moves, he was still hit in the chest by Zheng Xinghan's palm knife.
“Not bad!” Zheng Xinghan immediately retracted his palm blade and said with approval: “With your cultivation level having just been promoted to the cowhide level, you have been able to hold out for so long under my 30% strength. This is already very impressive.”
"Thank you for the compliment, senior brother." Qin Ziling said with a smile.
"Prepare well, I'm counting on you!" Zheng Xinghan patted him with a smile, then turned around to instruct other apprentices.
Qin Ziling looked at Zheng Xinghan's back as he turned and left, a smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.
"I used the bronze corpse to strengthen my body and spent a lot of money. The effect is really great! It's only been more than three months. If I give it my all, I should be able to match Senior Brother Zheng!"
Zheng Xinghan only used 30% of his strength just now, and Qin Ziling actually used almost the same amount.
Moreover, he found that his five senses were becoming increasingly sharp. Many of Zheng Xinghan's moves seemed to him to have major flaws. If he had used all his strength, he would have defeated the enemy long ago.
Of course, Zheng Xinghan also retained most of his strength. If he used all his strength, the flaws would become difficult to detect because of the explosive increase in speed and strength of his attacks.
Therefore, Qin Ziling conservatively estimated that if he gave it his all, he should be able to compete with Zheng Xinghan.
Zheng Xinghan naturally didn't know about this. Even Zuo Le, who had just watched their fight from a distance, didn't notice anything.
It was actually Qin Ziling's blood and energy that merged into a corpse force, which was very strange. He only exerted 30% of his strength. Even though Zuo Le was a martial artist at the level of strength, it was difficult for him to find out the real situation without fighting with him in person.
Otherwise, if Zuo Le and Zheng Xinghan knew that Qin Ziling actually judged in his heart that his strength was comparable to Zheng Xinghan's, they would definitely be shocked.
"It seems that Qin Ziling does have some talent in actual combat. Brother Nangong, although you have now broken through to the Iron Skin level, you have just broken through and do not have much practical experience. It is still difficult to defeat him!" On the other side, Lu Taiqiang said to Nangong Yue.
“Force can defeat skill. What’s the use of being strong in fighting? Just give me some more time. When my energy and blood become stronger, I can suppress him directly.” Nangong Yue said with a gloomy face.
After he broke through to the Iron Plate level yesterday, he had already been planning to seek revenge on Qin Ziling. However, after witnessing the fight between Qin Ziling and Zheng Xinghan today, he knew that although he had made a breakthrough in his realm, it might not be so easy to defeat Qin Ziling.
"In fact, in actual combat, besides talent, the most important thing is to find more people to fight with. I have quite a few actual combat masters in my family. If you really want to practice, you can come to my house and I will let them practice with you. Hehe, with your iron-plate level of cultivation, as long as you practice more with actual combat masters, it will be easy to defeat Qin Ziling." Lu Taiqiang said.
"Okay, thank you very much, Brother Lu." Nangong Yue nodded.
"Haha, we are brothers, why thank you!" Lu Taiqiang patted Nangong Yue's shoulder and said with a smile, a hint of displeasure flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Before, Nangong Yue always called him Senior Brother Lu, but now that he has broken through to the Iron Skin level, he has unconsciously changed the name to Brother Lu.
Although there was only a difference of one word, it revealed that Nangong Yue already viewed this young man from a wealthy family as an equal.
This naturally made Lu Taiqiang, who always thought he was better than Nangong Yue, feel unhappy.
But he could only endure the unhappiness in his heart. After all, Nangong Yue was a genius in cultivation and a martial artist with the potential to reach the realm of great strength.
The Lu family has more than one descendant, Lu Taiqiang, and Lu Taiqiang is not suitable for practicing the Lu family's inherited skills. If he wants to gain status and power in the Lu family in the future, he will definitely need external help.
So he now needs to win over Nangong Yue and even invest heavily.
If one day Nangong Yue really becomes a martial artist at the strength level, with the support of a strength martial artist, his status in the family will naturally be very different.
"Hehe, that's it." Nangong Yue said with a hint of pride on his face.
If it were in the past, Nangong Yue would definitely be flattered by Lu Taiqiang's words, but now he took it for granted and didn't think anything of it.
After the news spread last night, several big families in Fangqiao City came to visit him specially, with the intention of winning him over.
Now Lu Taiqiang is just one of them to him.
Although Lu Taiqiang is his fellow disciple and has some advantages, if one wants to win him over, it depends on how sincere he is.
"Senior Brother Nangong, Senior Brother Lu, I just got news that Qin Ziling will be competing with Yanluo Gang leader Yan Kui at noon in two days ." Just as Nangong Yue finished speaking, Wu Cheng trotted in from outside, walked up to Nangong Yue and Lu Taiqiang, and said with a flattering expression.
"Qin Ziling actually wants to compete with Yan Kui? No wonder Senior Brother Zheng suddenly became interested in competing with him just now. It turns out he wanted to judge his chances of winning." Lu Taiqiang said with sudden enlightenment.
"Brother Lu, I don't know much about Yan Kui. You have a lot of experience and connections. What do you think are the chances of the two of them winning?" Nangong Yue asked.
"I do know Yan Kui and have seen him fight. He is a master in actual combat. Judging from the current strength shown by Qin Ziling, the chances of winning should be slightly higher than Yan Kui. However, Qin Ziling has always been unknown and is a newly promoted martial artist at the membrane realm. Yan Kui will definitely look down on him and be careless. In this way, once Qin Ziling seizes the initiative, the chances of winning will be hard to say." Lu Taiqiang touched his chin and said calmly.
"Then do you want me to remind Yan Kui?" Wu Cheng said in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Lu Taiqiang's face suddenly darkened and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.
Although Lu Taiqiang is not a good person and he doesn't think highly of Qin Ziling, after all, they are now from the same school and they have never had any conflicts before. How can he allow an apprentice from his martial arts school to help outsiders to cheat his fellow junior brother?
"No need for that. I actually hope Qin Ziling can win this battle. Otherwise, if Qin Ziling is defeated by Yan Kui, I won't be proud of defeating him again." Nangong Yue waved his hand.
"Hehe, that's right, that's right." Wu Cheng didn't expect that his flattery would hit the horse's leg, and seeing that Lu Taiqiang was looking at him with a clearly cold gaze, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat, and he quickly smiled and said along.
"Sister, I just got the news that Qin Ziling and Yan Kui broke down in their talks and finally decided to have a fight in two days to resolve the dispute. If Qin Ziling wins, the Yan Luo Gang will never be able to cause trouble to our shop again, and we won't have to pay the share money. If Yan Kui wins, Qin Ziling can no longer intervene in our affairs."
"But Qin Ziling has only broken through to the membrane realm three months ago, and it took him nearly three years of training to break through. How could he be a match for Yan Kui?" Yun Tai limped and hurriedly climbed up to the second floor of the "Hua Yun" powder and rouge shop and said to Yun Lan, who was counting accounts at the desk.
