Chapter 7 Payback time

Boh!

With a dragon howl, abundant Chi welled up inside Lance Loong and he finally broke through his third stage of dragon veins!

Chi flowed vigorously from his head to toe, from his heart to his arms and legs; with extra efforts, Lance Loong was able to calm them down and push them into his core.

With his eyes glowing divine light, he was obviously not who he was a day ago!

"With the abundant Chi of the third stage of dragon veins which was several times stronger than the second and the The Shooting Star Fist, this fight wouldn’t be easy for Zhan Yang !"

Lance Loong made his final adaption and adjustment from the breakthrough; it was still in the middle of the night. Sun was yet to rise.

Cloudless night revealed its magnificence of silver rivers boldly before his eyes.


"Eighteen silver rivers, nine on daytime, nine night! it is said that the silver rivers was composed of endless stars; I would trade my everything to get to chance to travel through the space and sky and witness its grand view with my bare eyes."

"What if there were nothing in the silver rivers but stars? I could continue to cultivate my Chi by borrowing power from the stars."

Originally, Lance Loong borrowed power only from single star distributed randomly in the sky, but now he had decided to turn to the silver rivers; the abundant star light soon enveloped his body like a massive curtain.

"Power of the stars blended into my blood and bones at a speed more than a hundred times faster than before. The nine rivers are indeed made up of endless stars!"

Starlight was sprinkled on every inch of Lance Loong’s skin; his flesh and skin absorbed the infinite power devouringly and greedily. His body was getting stronger.

Not until the sun rose at dawn did the starlight faded away.

Lance Loong jumped off the roof excitedly.

"Such a productive night; the silver river stars have brought me so much benefits and saved me so much trouble. With my Star-Shielded Body on the stage I, my breakthrough in the dragon veins and the enhanced power and strength, I am ten times stronger!”

Lance Loong smiled: " Hard works finally pay off; my patience finally pay off; with the Star Shield and Shooting Star Fist, I am confident against Zhan Yang and of course all the others. Time to pay back."

Stepping inside the room, Lance Loong lay down on the bed.

" What a sleepless night! it is time to get some rest and refreshment and prepare for the next steps of cultivation."

"Higher stage of Star-Shielded Body must contain endless power and the dragon-shaped jade gifts me an abundance of Chi. Every single day, my Chi cultivated and accumulated within is a lot more than others; I have to transcend the limitation and speed of myself in the cultivation and get hands on Spirit Jade if possible..."

Spirit Jade contained a huge amount of Chi from the nature and would be extremely beneficial to the cultivation of Dragon-veins; only to those juniors who had broke through a certain stage of cultivation would the elders gift him such treasure.

" Half a month to go, I would get the Dragon's Mark and reach the stage 5 of Dragon veins. The difficulties of each higher stage breakthrough grow exponentially. It has been an entire year for Zhan Yang to be in stage 4. The stage 5 breakthrough within half a month is almost a mission impossible.”

" Whatever it takes! For my father, in order not to let people look down upon, in order to revenge that bitch, I will go whatever it takes!"

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Sun had risen high as Lance Loong got awakened by a noise.

The breakthrough of Stage 3 boosted his sensory ability. He could sense the hostile approach from more far away.

Rising to his stand, fully refreshed, Lance Loong smiled and walked out of the door.

Sure enough, Zhan Yang took the lead and stood at the front, while a group of medium-to large-sized people, his siblings, most at the age of 14 and 15 or so and a few even older, followed.

Such an army of Zhan Yang surprised Lance Loong a bit.

Sensing no fear on his face, Zhan Yang sneered and said, "I said I would teach you a lesson last night, and here I am. You thought you are invincible with that level of enhancement? My siblings insist that you learn a lesson from me!"

Lance Loong smiled back dimly and said, " That makes much more sense why you brought such an army. I thought you were frightened!"

Astonished by such relaxed and taunting reaction, Yang siblings took time to recover.

Was this guy still the loser who knelt before them, flattered them and begged for mercy from them?

Anger stemmed from the soles of his feet and surged into the head of Zhan Yang.
The flames of hatred beamed out in his eyes.

" Well, well, little bastard, the strength you have obtained does highly boost your courage and ignorance as well. You must naively thought you were invincible by defeating Lou. You have successfully infuriated me. Siblings, what do I do to him?”

"Cripple him!”

Yelled the followers one after another.

“ well, sorry about that, their wishes are hard to turn down,” said Zhan Yang, waving his hand. “I would beat you back to the old little weeping, begging bastard you used to be !”

"Just cut the crap already and bring it on!"

This provoked Yang Zhan to the boiling point of his anger. Status as he was and status as Lance Loong was to him, humiliation and attitude of Lance Loong let Yang lose his temper.

" Savage! You ask for it! If I am not to kill you today, I am not Zhan Yang."

Barely finishing his word, Zhan Yang’s Chi venting out from within. His power of Stage 4 was focusing on Lance Loong.

“ It is on!”

The onlookers scattered all of a sudden, leaving only Zhan Yang and Lance Loong in the court.

"This force is about the same level of last night, but less intimidating!"

Fourth stage of dragon-veins deserved its reputation as tough and aggressive but Lance Loong could counter it more confidently, calmly and easily on the strength of his well-tempered, starlight-glowing body.

" Second Stage against Fourth, are you being serious in countering me? I will let you pay the price for your ignorance!"

Like a whirlwind, Yang Zhan thundered toward Lance Loong; the repeated punches accompanied by sharp voice rained on Lance Loong; Lance Loong retreated and evaded as swift as he was.

" Hum, he was acting tough as if he had something just a moment ago, look at him now; what else could he do except for evading."

" what a disgrace."

Onlookers roared with laughter, commenting on the punching-and-evading game.

Dodging Yang Zhan’s punch once again, long Chen took a peek at them and swore inwardly: "a group of stupid donkey."

He mocked Zhan Yang by sneering: “Is that all you have got, Zhan Yang?”

Unlike the ignorant and idiotic onlookers, Yang Zhan was amazed by Lance Loong’s orderly dodge. Each punch he threw was with his Chi dedication and power, but they all missed.

" Strange, there should not be any offensive tactics but shun and defence in Second Stage of dragon-veins!"

At the thought of this, Zhan Yang sneered and clenched his fists, roaring: “ Stop running! Fight me like a man!”

Rounds back-and-forth had Lance Loong make clear the strength of Zhan Yang-- his Chi was several times stronger for certain.

The achievement of Star-Shielded Body had multiplied his attack and speed as his defence got even crazier than that of normal Stage3. Facing the punch of Zhan, he did not dodge but launch his first counterattack instead this time.

"Fierce Tiger Punch!"

"Fierce Tiger Punch!"

Two tiger crashed!

Bang!

Both went backwards at the blow of collision. Each heavy step left a visible footprint on the stone of which one behind Zhan was split into pieces.

"How? How could his Chi be so strong!"

Zhan Yang finally grabbed his feet firmly on the ground after several retreats and came to realize that Lance Loong had already hold his spot looking at him. how is that even possible. He was as startled as all his siblings behind him. Their laughter was frozen as if someone slapped them on the face so fast and suddenly that they were still unable to react.

"Well? How does this punch serve you? Zhan Yang, your Fierce Tiger Punch doesn’t look some daunting after all?"

Zhan Yang was still in a state of suspense.

" Just a few days ago, he was still not a Chi practitioner, but last time while he defeated Lou, he must have reached the Stage 2 which he had obviously hidden. But the power to match against Stage 4? With such power yet keeping it so low profile? What’s his intention?

The smirk on Lance Loong’s face inflamed Zhan Yang’s fury.

"It can’t be, he couldn't have had such power. What tricks were he playing? He knew Fierce Tiger Punch. But no matter how deeply hidden he was or what tricks he played, he should be dead with my next punch."

At the thought of it, Yang Yang thundered as his punches fell towards Lance Loong like shooting stars from the sky. Those younger siblings of Zhan Yang backed up from the court at the strong Chi, thought loudly in awe: “ How fascinating Zhan Yang is. The intermediate fighting techniques--Shooting Star Fist -- is gonna tear him into pieces.”