I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 948: Chapter 242: Unknown Demands

“Woman’s shortsightedness!” Xu Biao said coldly, “Qiuqiu and Qiuyun are both my children, how could I neglect their happiness? Zhang Feng and Nan Yu might not be Xu Clan disciples, but they are Ying City’s most outstanding martial artists of their generation, lucky enough to have awakened a top-tier bloodline. Such youths, if they appeared in the sacred land, would be called Dao Children. Suitable for Qiuqiu and Qiuyun, they are more than enough!”

“What Qiuyue wants is not this. She just desires a husband who cherishes and loves her, but what about Tang Luo!”

For the sake of her youngest daughter, Madam Xu challenged her husband for the first time, screaming, “He can’t even give her children; do you really want your daughter to end up alone and unmarried!”

“Presumptuous!” Xu Biao bellowed, eyes bulging, his aura uncontrollably exploding, terrifying Madam Xu into paralyzation on the ground.

Seeing his wife falling to the ground, the Mysterious Moon Sword Supreme hurriedly retracted his aura and stepped forward to help her up, only to be pushed away.

Madam Xu sat on the ground, head held high, face streaming with tears: “You’ve always been so obstinate. Over these many years, when have you truly paid attention to your daughters and me? I know you blame me; you resent that I did not bear you a son to inherit the mantle of the Mysterious Moon Sword Supreme!”

“It’s all in the past. What’s the point of bringing this up now? The ground is cold; get up quickly!”

Xu Biao’s expression was wooden as he approached once more, intending to help his wife to her feet, only to see a pair of hopeless eyes.

“You really do resent me.” Madam Xu covered her chest, mourning, “Yes, I’m useless. I failed to provide a male heir for the Tianji lineage. I’m sorry to our ancestors. I will apologize with my death!”

With a mighty palm force accompanied by the sound of the wind, Madam Xu, resolved to die, slapped towards her own fontanelle but was stopped by Xu Biao.

“What are you doing!”

Xu Biao had not expected his wife to be so fierce; after blocking her palm strike, he put aside all decorum, yanked her up, and shouted angrily, “Grown up so much yet at the smallest disagreement you threaten life or death. The children are all grown up; don’t you feel ashamed!”

“Ashamed?” Madam Xu wept, “Do you know what I’ve been through these years? My heart is already dead. What more do I have to fear about losing face? Now that the children are grown, I beg the Sword Venerable to let me go without worries.”

“What nonsense are you talking about!” Xu Biao said displeased, “Other Sword Venerables have multiple wives and concubines, yet I only have you. Not only do you oversee all household affairs, but I have never queried about all the income. The rare treasures that my disciples bring each year are enough to fill an entire storeroom. Everyone in Ying City envies the status and position of you, Madam Xu. Aren’t all these enough to satisfy you? Where does such resentment come from?”

Looking at her husband, Madam Xu laughed, a laughter filled with dead hope and desolation.

The Mysterious Moon Sword Saint, so dominating in the martial world, was clueless about the true reason for her heart’s demise, and all the while, she felt like the one being unreasonable.

“Indeed, everyone envies me, thinking I married a good husband, that all these coveted possessions that other households fight over, using every means and tearing faces, are in my hands. But who really cares what I truly want.”

Wiping away the tears on her face, Madam Xu performed a deep curtsy, “You are right, my husband. I’ve been ungrateful and made needless fuss. It won’t happen again.”

“Hmm,” Xu Biao nodded, satisfied, “That’s more like it. Make another trip to the Heavenly Phoenix Sword Saint’s mansion. Tell Tang Sen that the marriage is decided. I will let Qiuyue go back with them to Longxi. Also relay a message, if Tang Luo encounters any difficulties in his cultivation, he can always come to Yuanzhou to seek guidance. The Mysterious Moon Sword Sect is his home!”

…

Longzhou, Lanshan City

The group of challengers who had come from a long way off from Zhongzhou were all like the proud sons of heaven, raised under the adoration of many.

If not for the too-arrogant reputation as “First Divine Child of Ten Thousand Clans”, they would not have lowered themselves to challenge the son of a Longzhou family.

But faced with Tang Xing blocking their path, most hesitated, because among those who came to challenge Tang Luo were mostly men in their thirties or forties, not a few of whom had broken through to the Fierce Realm, making it somewhat difficult for them to raise their hands against a child whose hair hadn’t even fully grown.

Instead, it was a few of the younger challengers who couldn’t hold back their anger at Tang Xing’s arrogant words and accepted the battle.

The venue for the contest was a martial arts pavilion in Lanshan City, and the news that Tang Xing would fight on his brother’s behalf quickly spread throughout the city.

Because of the family’s reputation, Spiritual Fire Pride had an excellent name in Lanshan City, but few people had actually seen Tang Xing’s true face. Upon seeing the young lad’s sword-arched brows, starry eyes, and jade-like face, he gained even more fans.

Although they did not believe that the diminutive Tang Xing could be the match for these challengers from Zhongzhou, it did nothing to stop them from cheering for their local pride.

The group of Zhongzhou proud sons naturally did not take the townspeople’s cheering seriously, as no one thought they could lose against a fifteen-year-old child.

However, the battle shocked everyone, as Tang Xing’s cultivation was far higher and stronger than they had imagined.

Having absorbed half of a Buddha Seed from the Path of No Suffering and Extinction, Tang Xing’s Spirit Arts were infused with a Buddhist zen-like essence, making not just their succession more mysterious, but also greatly enhancing the tenacity of the Spirit Arts themselves.noveldrama

Especially when casting the Vajra Seal, it carried an implication of a reincarnated spiritual child; although weaker in cultivation, he managed to continuously defeat three opponents, one of whom even bore special blood lineage.

What was even more astonishing was that, during such fierce combat, Tang Xing’s fighting power kept improving, and the fusion of zen essence with Spiritual Power was getting better and better.

By the final battle, when executing the Vajra Seal, a Dharma Aspect of an Arhat appeared, drawing sideways glances from the people of Zhongzhou.

This kind of pure and zen-rich seal technique is seldom seen even among practitioners of the Esoteric Sect, let alone in a place like Longzhou where faith is scarce. They were amazed by Tang Xing’s Buddha nature and even more by the power of his Spirit Art.

Martial arts is what remains in your body after you have finished practicing a technique.

Perhaps truly fated with the Buddha or perhaps due to the exquisiteness of the Buddha Seed, Tang Xing’s combat abilities indeed went through a dramatic transformation after absorbing the half-developed Buddha Seed.

Faced with their second young master’s daily transformation, the proud sons of Zhongzhou who had come for the challenge were dumbstruck. If at the start the challengers from Zhongzhou, on the peak of Mortal Realm, were absolutely confident in defeating Tang Xing, by the third day, even the most self-assured zhongzhou challenger from the Mortal Realm felt that their chances of a victorious battle would not exceed seventy percent.

The face of First Divine Child of Ten Thousand Clans hadn’t been seen, but Tang Xing had made a name for himself first. At that time, the biggest excitement in Lanshan City was the great battle between Spiritual Fire Pride and the challengers from Zhongzhou.

Under the unintentional cover of his foolish younger brother, Tang Luo returned to Lanshan City unnoticed by anyone.

Standing in the dao arena of Marshal Star Pavilion, shoulder to shoulder with Du Sha, Tang Luo stroked his chin and pondered, “To whom shall I bestow this damned reputation?”

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