Ch 10 – Battle Again In Three YearsLike a bullet, the man in black’s speed suddenly increased exponentially, rushing towards Lei Yu with razor sharp nails shimmering with coldness. Lei Yu raised his hand to block his opponent’s attack. Those two were like the drifting wind, from east to west , from south to north, those clashes were almost unimaginable, each clash would result in a burst of strong wind pressure. Observing at the side, Zhao Han was scared silly. “Fortunately, this evening the kid did not fight seriously with me or I would have suffered a great deal, who exactly is he? Why is he so powerful?”
Meanwhile, within the gra.s.s was a pair of eyes with a look of surprise, but no one knew it was there.
The fight between the two had been going on for over a minute now. As Lei Yu gently deflected the man in black’s left-handed attack then quickly turned around. The man in black saw this weakness and five lines of cold sinister light flashed by. Lei Yu suddenly felt a hot sensation on his back because the man in black had used his right hand to split it. At that moment with blood pouring down, Lei Yu frowned, beads of sweat on his forehead was dripping down and he was slightly panting out of breath.
“Do I really need to use the power of lightning?” Lei Yu pondered, “there’s no other way, the opponent is just too strong!”
Clenching his teeth, Lei Yu initiated the next attack, with both hands at a knife-like form, he chopped down at the man in black. The man in black raised both of his hands, grabbing both of Lei Yu’s arms and ripped downwards. Both of Lei Yu’s sleeves were then ripped off, leaving 5 lines of bloodstains on each arm. Clenching his teeth to endure the pain, his hands did not stop, continuing to chop down on the shoulders of the man in black. Containing a burst of paralysis within a powerful force, the man in black’s body began to tremble, surprise revealing in his eyes. But more importantly he saw the brand on Lei Yu’s right arm.
Quickly retreating a few steps back, the man in black said: “You are very strong, and your internal energy is not bad, if we continue fighting both of us could end up seriously injured!”
“What do you want then?” Lei Yu asked while slightly panting.
“Tell me your name.” The man in black was most concerned with the numbness he felt and the lightning brand on Lei Yu’s arm. Currently, if one was to look closely at the man in black, you would be able to see his arm constantly trembling. In fact he had no ability to fight anymore, with his arms in a paralyzed state, there’s no way for him to continue attacking. If at this moment Lei Yu rushed forward, this person would not have anyway to fight back.
“Lei Yu!”
“A member of the Lei family household?” The man in black slightly widened his eyes.
“No! I’m not of the Lei family!” Lei Yu’s voice was slightly emotional, he wanted to rush forward and slap his opponent’s face a few times. Except his internal energy consumption had been nearly depleted, there was no strength left to battle again. But fortunately the other side announced a cease fire.
“My name is Cai Zhong, Ming Sect’s northern branch’s leader.
(So what if he’s of Ming Sect!)
“Three years, three years later at this exact same place, same time and date as today, we’ll battle it out again, how about it?” asked the man in black.
It’s rare to encounter a worthy opponent, as Ming Sect’s branch leader, Cai Zhong was naturally excited. Especially when the opponent’s age was much younger than him and already possessing such skill and strength. This inspired Cai Zhong’s fighting spirit, a fighting spirit that was not willing to lose out when compared to Lei Yu.
In fact Lei Yu’s thought process was the same as his opponent’s, when faced with someone more powerful than themselves, they naturally want to pursue them. Today it was clear he was at a disadvantage, if it wasn’t for his reliance on the power of lightning, the one being seriously injured would be himself. Lei Yu promised himself that from today onwards, he will definitely put more effort into cultivating. Yet cultivating requires an opponent to test its strength on, and in front of his eyes was the obvious best choice.
“I accept this match! But&h.e.l.lip;”
“I know what you’re worried about, I a.s.sure you, this Zhao Han is my younger cousin, and from now on he will not bother you or your girlfriend.”
“Uh&h.e.l.lip;” Lei Yu wanted to explain, but thinking about it, it wasn’t necessary, so he just nodded his head.
“Good, we have a deal!” Pulling along the still surprised Zhao Han, the two quickly left Lei Yu’s eyesight.
As the two left, Lei Yu fell to the ground, he had consumed too much of his internal energy. The previous fight in the evening had already depleted a portion of it, and now his final blow used all the last ounce of internal energy he had left. All these combined made Lei Yu especially exhausted. Yet with all his last strength staked in the final blow, the other side was able to leave, striding away with such ease and grace. Inside his heart, Lei Yu was inspiring himself to put in more effort to become strong. Three years, three years will pa.s.s by fast, we must seize every day. But then remembering after two weeks, he would have the opportunity to enter the Dragon Team. And inside Dragon Team would be many master pract.i.tioners of cultivating techniques. The daily training and duels will definitely make him improve faster compared to cultivating alone. Thinking about this caused Lei Yu’s blood begin to boil in excitement.
At this moment, someone suddenly came out of the bushes. The scared Lei Yu hurriedly retreated backwards raising his hands ready to attack.
With a “plop” sound, the person that rushed out in front of Lei Yu actually kneeled down and shouted: “Master! Please accept me as your disciple! You are really too handsome! So great! *clapping sound* your dashing palms landing on his body was way too cool, so brilliant!”
Lei Yu blinked a few times looking at the person in front of him, “are you trying to scare me to death?”
“My apologies master, do you have any thoughts on accepting a disciple? I am willing to serve and wait on you without any regrets! I hope you will not refuse this sincere disciple!”
“Stop joking around!” Lei Yu used his last ounce of strength to support his body before standing up, “I have never thought about taking in a disciple, and oh yeah, you best not disclose what happened here today.”
“As long as you agree to my requests, I will definitely not disclose this!”
“I already said I don’t accept disciples.”
This person helplessly watched Lei Yu. With a long face “if you do not agree to my request, I will stay kneeling here to my death and not get up!”
“You should first put your pants back on! Or else people would think&h.e.l.lip;” said Lei Yu who was already exhausted, his body somewhat shaking.
“Ah!” looking down, the student said: “I was just taking a s.h.i.t, students aren’t allowed to smoke cigarettes so I was hiding here to get a smoke, then seeing your exciting fight that I actually forgot to pull up my pants. Ahhhh! I forgot to wipe!
“&h.e.l.lip;!” Lei Yu did not know whether to laugh or cry. He currently did not have any energy left to laugh. Yet he couldn’t hold in his laughter when faced with this student in front of him.
“Help me out, give me your hand for support.”
“No problem!”
“Are you still a student?”
“First year (freshman), in that school.”
“What is your name?”
“Liu Hao!”
“Okay.”
As they arrived at the school’s main entrance, a fast car drove towards them, getting out of the car were three people: one was the familiar face of Nuo Hu; the other was Ai Er; and the third was someone Lei Yu had seen before, it was Nuo Hu’s bodyguard Bao.
“How was it? How come you didn’t tell me sooner!” Nuo Hu hurriedly scolded as he observed the wounds on Lei Yu’s arms.
“It’s okay, everything’s alright now.”
“Brother Yu, you’ve been wounded, quick, lets go to the hospital!” Ai Er held onto Lei Yu, and with one person on either side, they a.s.sisted Lei Yu into the car.
“This brother (buddy), you are&h.e.l.lip;” asked Nuo Hu sitting in the front pa.s.senger seat and looking behind at Liu Hao.
“My name is Liu Hao, first year student and I’m&h.e.l.lip; I’m master’s disciple.“ Liu Hao did not know what Lei Yu’s name was so he could only answer like this.
“Huh&h.e.l.lip;?”
Ch 11 – Averse To Accepting A Disciple
At a high-end residential villa.
“Cousin! Why did you&h.e.l.lip;” (T/N: older male cousin)
“That kid is really powerful, I suspect he is a member of the Lei family, after all his surname is Lei, but it might or might not be it” said Cai Zhong, exhaling a breath as he came out of his meditative state. (T/N: this meditative state is how cultivators recoup their energy loss or to heal injuries)
“Lei family?” asked Zhao Han.
“Right, it’s the Lei family, but the brand of the Lei family should all be flame shaped, but this kid actually has a lightning shape, could it be that he tattooed it on himself?” Cai Zhong thought about it, then rejected the answer. “Shouldn’t be tattooed on, his attacks contain attributes of the lightning and I almost suffered a major loss. If he did not hold back, it’s a possibility that I would not be able to return here.”
“How could he be so powerful? Should I ask my father to go to the Lei family to ask about him?” asked Zhao Han.
“No need to disturb the elder. In three years time&h.e.l.lip; wait until three years later and we will definitely see which of us is stronger!” Cai Zhong’s eyes shimmered with lights, Lei Yu unintentionally stimulated Cai Zhong’s inspiration for training.
“That young girl&h.e.l.lip;”
“Give it up, I promised him, do not bother them!”
“Okay, I understand.”
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Lei Yu was brought to the hospital by Nuo Hu. There, he was bandaged up and then driven home. Liu Hao left by himself in a taxi, but before leaving he said “tomorrow, I’ll come back to your house and perform the induction ceremony!” This gave Lei Yu a big headache.
“The incident has concluded, they promised not to bother you anymore” said Lei Yu with a smile.
Ai Er felt her heart ache looking at Lei Yu. She did not want to cause trouble for Lei Yu since his life was already quite pitiful. Yet these things already happened, fortunately he only suffered minor injuries, nothing major or Ai Er would die of guilt.
“Brother Yu, try to rest well.” Ai Er then placed a cup of water at the bedside for Lei Yu.
“I do want to recuperate a bit.”
Nuo Hu heard from Ai Er what had happened so he didn’t ask any further questions. “Rest well little Yu, we are leaving now.”
Lei Yu nodded his head, after accompanying the two to the door, he returned to his bedroom, took off all his clothes and sat down cross-legged. From earlier on, he felt a throbbing sensation inside his body so Lei Yu had urgently wanted to figure out exactly what was going on.
After calming his mind, Lei Yu concentrated and monitoring his internals. It was exactly as he expected, that green energy had appeared again, continuously repairing the wounds on Lei Yu. The claw wounds on his arms and back were being wrapped up by that green energy.
“What exactly is this power? Why does it have such an extensive repairing ability?”
Lei Yu still could not understand, yet the wounds were currently being repaired at a rapid rate. First to be repaired were the blood vessels, then followed by the muscles. As the wounds were slowly closing up, Lei Yu attentively experienced the warm feeling of when the green energy nourished them.
Two hours later, Lei Yu’s skin had actually completely healed, only a layer of blood was left on the surface. Lei Yu lightly pinched all around. “My G.o.d! There’s no scars!” Lei Yu really had to admire this green energy’s repairing ability. At the same time, it made him want to know the origin of this power even more. But he did not know where to start investigating because this power appeared together with the lightning brand and the Lei Yu Divine Arts.
Suddenly, his internal energy started to surge. What little left of his internal energy underwent some turmoil before slowly converging to his dantian’s Sea of Energy area. The spa.r.s.e spiritual energy in the air was gradually being drawn into Lei Yu, and that yellow energy would start removing the impurities of the spiritual energy entering his body. This series of steps were completed almost instantaneously, while Lei Yu only had to propel his own purple energy according to the cultivation methods in his mind.
Lei Yu, who had entered the early [Integration stage] already felt strong enough. After all, before he came back to the city he did kill that an unknown wild beast. And this beast was able to rival the legendary qilin. But today when facing Cai Zhong did he realize he was still too weak. Since he made a battle date with his opponent in three years time, he must intensify his own cultivation. With a resolute and unyielding personality, Lei Yu naturally was not willing to fall behind.
The internal energy inside the body was continuously being enriched, and the energy in his dantian area continued to recover and enlarge, giving Lei Yu a surprise as the scene unfolded. His purple energy originally was only the size of a baby’s fist, residing in his dantian’s Sea of Energy area. But now it had increased by a full size, containing small amounts of explosive force giving Lei Yu a shock. “This is&h.e.l.lip; what the heck is going on? How could it improve so fast?”
Lei Yu clearly understood, wanting to absorb the trace amounts of spiritual energy in the surrounding air required a lot of effort. Although with the unknown yellow energy a.s.sisting him in removing impurities did save him a lot of time, but even so, the speed of absorbing the spiritual energy should not change that much. But now it had just been a few short hours, the spiritual energy inside his dantian’s Sea of Energy area had increased by a lot! Could it be that he depleted his internal energy too much, therefore it made his absorption rate increase?
All these situations were running around in his mind, yet he could not figure out an explanation.
Currently the most important thing to him was to recuperate the loss of internal energy from yesterday. Although the internal energy inside his dantian had increased by a full size, the meridians inside his body felt a bit empty, it did not have the previous feeling of being full of strength when it was filled up, it actually felt a bit weak now.
Lei Yu slightly exhaled, opened his eyes and turned around to look at his old tattered clothes. Inside still contained a few fruits. He picked one up and brought it to his mouth while walking towards the bathroom to wash up.
This Liu Hao was definitely in a rush to perform the induction ceremony. Lei Yu had just finished washing up and changed his clothes and the doorbell rang.
“Master! I came to deliver breakfast to you!” Liu Hao had brought bread and hot milk with him.
“Thank you, and don’t call me master. I’ve told you, I’ve never thought about taking in a disciple” said Lei Yu as he took the breakfast.
Liu Hao immediately put on a pitiful face, his lips quivering, his eyes shimmering back and forth, “I beg you, I beg you to accept me as a disciple!”
“How about I call you boss, can’t you just let me go! You’re even a freshman in a University!” (T/N: very prestigious to be a University student)
*Ba thump* Liu Hao knelt down. “If you don’t accept me, I will never get up from this kneeling position!”
Picking up the bread and taking a bite, the other hand holding the hot milk, Lei Yu said: “Have fun kneeling, I’m going to go run some errands, oh yea, when you leave, don’t forget to lock the door after you.” Without waiting for Liu Hao’s reply, Lei Yu fled the area.
Exiting and waving down the car, Lei Yu needed to buy some daily necessities and clothes. Nuo Hu treated Lei Yu, this sworn brother quite well, he easily took out tens of thousands of yuan (T/N: chinese currency) making Lei Yu extremely moved.
Nuo Hu helped him too much, Lei Yu was always thinking about how to repay his kindness and how to pay back, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to repay him right away, it just wasn’t the right time yet.
In the evening, Lei Yu was carrying a lot of packages and upon opening the door, he was caught completely off guard.
“Why are you still kneeling here?”
“Master, just listen to me! Oops, I mean, just accept me!” Liu Hao pitifully rubbed his trembling legs.
“You’ve been kneeling here all along?” asked Lei Yu.
“No&h.e.l.lip; nope, just before I couldn’t hold it in anymore and went to the toilet.”
“I really commend you, quickly get up. You haven’t eaten the whole day right?” asked Lei Yu.
Liu Hao continued to put on pitiful face and nodded hard.
“Fortunately I just bought some instant noodles, wait a bit, I will cook it for you.” Lei Yu then added: “Stand up while you wait!”
“Master, are you accepting me?” ask Liu Hao excitedly.
Lei Yu helplessly sighed, “if you can eat five bags of instant noodles then I’ll accept you, oh, and plus five eggs.”
“h.e.l.l yeah! “Liu Hao slammed his hand down, abruptly getting up from the ground, nodded and said: “I promise I’ll complete the task!”
A full pot of noodles plus five eggs, Lei Yu watched as the pot rapidly decreased in content. Finally, even the soup was gone. He was completely impressed by Liu Hao, he didn’t think this guy could eat that much! It seems it’s best not to invite this guy over for dinner in the future just in case.
“I’ve finished eating, master!”
Lei Yu unconsciously said “Niu bi!” (T/N: Chinese slang, similar to – so awesome)
“That’s right!” Liu Hao looked up with an insufferable face.
“Oh right, I only know your name is Liu Hao, I don’t know anything else.”