Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 831 Simply relying on accumulating Qi is not even as good as Wang Ai.

"No, Mr. He, is it really necessary for us to go this far?"

Zhang Chulan swallowed hard after hearing He Songling's words.

Just a few months ago, he was a college student. Has this already escalated to the point of murder?

“Hey, call him Lao Ling outside.” He Songling first corrected Zhang Chulan’s way of addressing him, and then said, “You’re not just a college student now. Your job is to work for Na Du Tong. Except for a few special people, Na Du Tong doesn’t have temporary workers, only permanent employees.”

You received a contract from NaDuTong, so of course you have to cooperate with the company to eradicate the Quanxing heretics. And as a member of an organization that, while not officially a state-owned enterprise, is in reality a branch office, shouldn't you decisively kill cult members who attempt to murder others?

"Yes, yes..." Zhang Chulan was a little flustered, "but with my strength..."

This is not the Zhang Chulan who climbed all the way up, eventually fought Zhang Lingyu, and won the championship.

The final battle of the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony not only awakened Zhang Lingyu, allowing him to confront his own inner self, but Zhang Chulan also experienced a profound transformation, undergoing a significant shift in his attitude and perspective on the path ahead. Simultaneously, he gained a true understanding of his own strength.

But now, Zhang Chulan, who has been getting beaten up all the way, is really not very confident.

"Did the old immortal transform your body for nothing?" He Songling glanced at him. "Try circulating your Qi."

"Holy crap!" Zhang Chulan slightly circulated his Qi, and the golden light on his body shot up high like a flame under wind pressure.

Zhang Chulan felt as if the meridians in his body were coated with the finest lubricant and reinforced with ball bearings; with the slightest slip, they would slide uncontrollably a great distance. In fact, the speed at which he circulated his Qi throughout his body was probably...ten times faster than before?
Zhang Chulan looked at He Songling with genuine admiration. The old immortal was indeed remarkable; he said he'd increase it tenfold, and it was tenfold—without the slightest discount.

"He... Old Ling, you're amazing!" Zhang Chulan looked at himself, who looked like he was on fire, and was still a little worried: "But this... won't affect me, right? I feel like this isn't the Golden Light Mantra anymore."

"This is certainly not the Golden Light Mantra. Even if you enhance your meridian aptitude tenfold, and one year of practice equals ten years of practice for others, it still won't make up for the cultivation you missed during your growth period in a short time. So I used some special methods on you."

After He Songling became an immortal, he was able to understand all the methods used by supernatural beings. Although he could not think of all the applications of Qi, as long as he heard that someone could produce such an effect through Qi, magic, chakra, or something similar, he could deduce the essence of the skill from the effect.

In the method he gave Zhang Chulan, in addition to the explosive energy techniques such as Reverse Life that he was most familiar with, he also added a combination of methods similar to those of Shen Chong, the Root of Calamity, and Gao Ning, the Thunder Smoke Cannon, so that Zhang Chulan could increase the strength of his Qi body when his adrenaline surged during intense battles.

In other words, they fought harder and harder until they fell.

To be honest, He Songling has already toned it down a lot. If it were the He Songling of seventy years ago, he would have given Zhang Chulan the ability to use the Three Corpses technique to trigger the opponent's inner demons, plus the ability to absorb the opponent's Qi, and so on.

"I call this thing Super Saiyan. It was inspired by your and Feng Baobao's nonsense about naming things for a commercial version." He Songling looked at Zhang Chulan, who was getting used to his new form, and poured cold water on him, "Don't get too cocky. In your normal state, you're only at the level of Zhang Lingyu. Even if you fight to the end, you'll only be at the level of Wang Ye. But he has two 'unique skills' and Tai Chi is a way to strike after the opponent has made their move. He'll just outrun you and knock you down."

Zhang Lingyu was all show and no substance on Longhu Mountain; in reality, he wasn't even as good as the elite members of the Tang Clan in the original story who couldn't kill. Admittedly, age played a part, but as a member of the Tang Clan, Yuan'er not only couldn't kill, but she even deliberately aimed at non-vital parts, which was tantamount to crippling her martial arts skills.

In comparison, Zhang Lingyu is still too incompetent.

"That's enough." Zhang Chulan looked at his burning hands with delight. So, he could finally become a strong person too.

"You're still a long way from becoming a strong person." He Songling shamelessly read Zhang Chulan's mind again.

"Improving your meridian aptitude only gives you a slight advantage during the Qi accumulation phase. Once you reach a bottleneck, especially those of you who practice Buddhism or Taoism, you have to rely on and comprehend those mysterious things. Just meditating and refining Qi for a hundred years won't make you Zhang Zhiwei, and you won't even be as good as Wang Ai."

"If Old Master Wang knew you were slandering him like this, I'm afraid..." Zhang Chulan was about to say that Wang Ai was a big shot, the head of one of the four families, and one of the most powerful figures in the entire Zhong family's circle of supernatural beings. Using him as a low standard was to look down on him too much.

But then she thought about the man's status, and decided to let it go. It was normal for him to look down on Wang Ai—he could easily beat Wang Ai with a fake document he made.

"Well, if you have the ability, try to get a master's degree at Trinity University. I don't know how they've developed now, but even with the quantifiable academic requirements I set back then, it should be enough to guarantee you a higher standard."

He Songling stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the distant mountains, which were now ablaze with flames. "These people are really something, daring to set the mountains on fire. Let's go, or your advisor and his men will have killed everyone."

In the original novel, Zhang Zhiwei didn't have any special abilities; he just relied on his high level of physical cultivation. No matter how fast his legs were, he couldn't possibly run all over Longhu Mountain in an instant; no matter how strong his "divine power" was, he couldn't survey Longhu Mountain in a single thought.

Not to mention that halfway there, they saw Lu Jin almost surrounded and killed, and had to step in to save his old friend. As a result, even with Zhang Zhiwei's intervention, many people were still killed or injured in this battle. Tian Jinzhong was even directly assassinated by Gong Qing, the acting leader of Quanxing, and before his death, Gong Qing and Lü Liang took away his memories.

This directly led to the later incident where the Celestial Master descended the mountain, and Zhang Zhiwei challenged the Quanxing Sect one-on-one, almost wiping out the Quanxing Sect, which had been passed down for more than two thousand years.

But things are different now.

Zhang Zhiwei himself needs no introduction.

Although Lu Jin, now in the late stage of the third level, still couldn't defeat Zhang Zhiwei, he was no different from Zhang Zhiwei to others. It's simply impossible to imagine that in the original story, a few oddballs and freaks nearly caused his downfall with a simple ambush.

Another reason was that He Songling stayed in Taber on Longhu Mountain.

(End of this chapter)