Lingzhang

Chapter 68 Dark under the lamp

"I have always been in charge of the brain fluid drug project. This is the most cutting-edge product of the Xu family in the short term. Moreover, there is also cooperation with the seventh brother of the Zhu family behind it..."

Despite his rage, Xu Shicheng's voice seemed very, very calm.

He seemed to be narrating something that had nothing to do with him.

But it was this restraint of anger that made the face of the Xu family member sitting next to him paler with every word Xu Shicheng said.

What is more terrifying than a madman suddenly going crazy without any warning?
This madman suddenly learned to restrain himself, and the hesitation behind the silence made people even more frightened.

At this moment, the so-called disciples of the Xu family, the so-called young men from aristocratic families, were trembling in fear, with terrified looks on their faces, looking like lambs to be slaughtered.

He has completely lost the bearing of a child from an aristocratic family.

Someone tried hard to raise his pale face and moved his lips to explain something, but he seemed to not know how to say it, and did not know how to convince Xu Shicheng.

So, there was silence. Around Xu Shicheng, everyone became increasingly silent.

"Moreover, this person actually used the wrong method. Brain fluid potion is not for martial artists. This truly cutting-edge field is actually trying to inject potions at the brain thinking level. Will it affect the natural unity of body and mind of martial artists?

Once the attempt in this field is successful, you should understand what it means. This is not a market for a drug, but a field full of gold and silver mountains that will be opened by me personally——

That will be a revolution in martial arts practice! That will be an era where ordinary cultivators can be comparable to the past geniuses! That means Songxi Xu family will be the next state-level giant! It will be able to surpass Tengxia Zhu family in one fell swoop!

At that time, traditional precious medicines will work on the natural nourishment of the human body, and our brain fluid medicine will work on the martial arts control of human thinking and memory. With the participation of the seventh brother of the Zhu family, this will even be a bundled win-win situation!
Of course...Seventh Brother might not be thinking so far ahead. He was just looking forward to the finished product of the brain fluid potion. After this thing could be mass-produced, he would fill himself with a hundred or eighty cans of it, and then crush his second brother to death in a martial arts fight.

But all these beautiful visions were ruined today."

When he said this, Xu Shicheng's tone had become extremely calm, and it was even impossible to hear the restraint of anger in his voice.

He seemed to be indifferent to everything he said, and even because of this, there was a sense of indifference in his calm voice.

But it was precisely because of this, and because of Xu Shicheng's reaction, that the faces of all the Xu family disciples present turned pale with fear, and they also felt regret and anger as if they had experienced the same thing.

"This matter was initiated by my seventh brother and I, so you can imagine how high the level of confidentiality was.

Therefore, the only people who can get in touch with this matter and do these things behind my back are my own people.

I don’t know whether he was displeased with Yue Hanzhang or with me, and wanted to create the illusion that I was besieging and controlling Yue Hanzhang.

If it were any other day, I would have plenty of time to play with you about these things.

But when you came into contact with the brain fluid medicine project behind my back, you should have understood its value and how important it was to the Xu family.

Don’t you understand which end is lighter and which end is heavier?

Now, the project hasn’t even been implemented yet, but everything has been exposed.

I don’t understand what good it would do you to ruin the Xu family’s momentum!”

It is difficult to guard against domestic thieves.

Even for Xu Shicheng, he might habitually despise these so-called brothers and sisters of his, but he never thought of guarding against them as he would guard against outsiders.

Until this moment, the feeling of weakness and fatigue even suppressed Xu Shicheng's surging emotions.

On the arena in the distant venue, another member of the Xu family was defeated. Yue Hanzhang, who used the form of a snake, easily crippled his hands and feet.

But when the random pop-up window of the last opponent of this round was displayed, when the name "Xu Shijin" appeared on the light screen.

The unstoppable voices of doubt in the entire conference hall almost gathered together, and the roaring sound almost seemed to overturn the ceiling of the conference hall.

From afar, a young man with an extremely pale face, with a scar on his forehead that looked as hideous as a maggot crawling across it, stood shivering in front of Yue Hanzhang.

In the silence in the spectator seats, Xu Shicheng casually withdrew his contemptuous gaze and looked at the people around him again.

"This great project has gone down the drain, and it was completely ruined before it was even implemented. Brother Qi is in the base city, and he will definitely come to me to ask for an explanation.

So before Brother Qi comes to find me, who among you thinks you are still from the Xu family, please stand up and give me an explanation first!"

Silence, eternal silence.

But beyond this silence, there was a roar that suddenly reached a higher level, and in that roar it seemed to be a vent and mockery of the previous doubts.

When he looked up, it was at this moment, when the electronic prompt sound beside the ring had just sounded the first word, and even Yue Hanzhang himself had not yet entered the state of unity of body and spirit.

Xu Shijin, who was already terrified to the extreme, raised his hand tremblingly and announced his surrender.

In a martial arts competition, when the gap between the two sides is too obvious, it is not shameful to admit defeat early.

But after Yue Hanzhang experienced all this, when the children of the Xu family had already openly played with the rules of the match and took the stage one after another with the intention of besieging Yue Hanzhang.

This kind of surrender has become something unacceptable.

Their mistake was not that they "misjudged" Yue Hanzhang's true strength and did not anticipate the existence of snake-like martial arts.

I am afraid that today, what everyone will see is the scene of Yue Hanzhang being seriously injured and defeated by warriors, and then being humiliated by Xu family disciples one after another.

It was precisely this obvious prediction that led to the moment Xu Shijin admitted defeat, which was destined to make the cheers in the entire venue rise to an incredible height.

At least the Xu family member mentioned above still had the courage to face the situation head-on when facing Yue Hanzhang.

When they got to Xu Shijin, they didn't even dare to fight.

Normally, after such a shameful move, Xu Shijin should have left the stage and fled the venue in disgrace. But perhaps he was really frightened and lost his composure.

After Xu Shijin got off the stage, he trotted to the spectator seats. After only a few steps, he stood trembling in front of Xu Shicheng.

To be honest, at this moment, Xu Shijin is able to attract more people's attention than Yue Hanzhang.

As he jogged, almost half of the people in the venue looked at Xu Shicheng and the Xu family members who had gloomy faces.

Even Yue Hanzhang, who had also walked down from the stage, was looking here.

Meanwhile, Xu Shijin's face had already turned red as his blood surged up, causing the scar on his forehead, which was originally as pink as a maggot, to turn into an uglier purple-black color due to the overflowing and stuffy blood.

"Brother Shicheng... I... I was scared just now..."

It seemed that Xu Shijin wanted to explain to Xu Shicheng why he admitted defeat and was embarrassed.

But at this moment, Xu Shicheng was in no mood to listen to his chatter.

Without waiting for Xu Shijin to finish his words, Xu Shicheng waved his hand impatiently.

"Get out! You are such a disgrace, get out - get out now! Don't get in my way here!"

Xu Shicheng's words were very impolite.

But after hearing this, Xu Shijin felt relieved as if he had been pardoned, and then he even smiled happily like a jerk.

Then, without waiting for Xu Shicheng's face to become even uglier, Xu Shijin trotted out of the spectator seats and the venue of the martial arts hall.

But at this moment, Xu Shicheng's anger had been aroused.

After experiencing the ultimate calmness and extraordinary fatigue, all these chaotic emotions eventually entangled with each other like cotton wool, and then ignited Xu Shicheng's anger.

There was already a familiar madness surging in his eyes.

"Some people dare to do it but are not willing to take responsibility for it. If you don't stand up and give me an explanation, don't blame your brother for being ruthless. I will find them one by one and ask them one by one until you are found out!"
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At the same time, with the departure of Xu Shijin, everyone in the conference hall also turned their eyes away one after another.

Eating melons is only a temporary thing.

After leaving with satisfaction, everyone's attention was still focused on the afternoon's martial arts match, which seemed to be of higher quality after the two sides were evenly matched.

Even Yue Hanzhang, who was still waiting for the next round, was now wandering around the arenas like other martial arts students. Many of the matches made Yue Hanzhang watch with great interest.

The successive broken limbs seemed to have finally dissipated the lingering emotions that were surging from Yue Hanzhang's surging martial arts will.

And it seemed that it was precisely because of this mixed outburst of emotions that these pictographic traces were no longer hidden from Yue Hanzhang's body.

Just like Qin Linhui's gait as fast as a bear, Yue Hanzhang's gait as he walked around the venue also had a bit of the "dragon-like and tiger-like" demeanor.

At the same time, after becoming more condensed and ethereal, his aura finally stopped exploding and became calm and relaxed.

But in the spectator seats, from beginning to end, there was always one person who never looked at Xu Shijin, never looked at Xu Shicheng, never looked at anywhere else. Ever since Yue Hanzhang displayed the snake and dragon image, he had been staring at Yue Hanzhang's figure without changing.

It was not until this moment that Huang Zhishu seemed to have come back to her senses from the shock of the pictogram.

She imitated Yue Hanzhang's actions just now, gently twisting her spine and shaking her arms.

In the past, she had imitated Yue Hanzhang's snake shape very well.

But today, the moment her arms shook, she shook her head.

If it cannot be imitated, it means that the pictographic form of Yue Hanzhang's martial arts has truly surpassed the snake-like existence.

Her eyes became clearer and clearer, as if they were about to shine, and her body was shaking constantly due to some kind of excitement.

“Dragon shape! This is a real dragon shape!”

"No wonder, I have never felt the feeling of 'the same kind' in him. The angry dragon overturned the river, he is the superior of the group of snakes!"

"I really want to have a good fight with him! I want to experience what it feels like to face an angry dragon head-on!"

"No! Not just one, but many! Many, many!"

It is very rare that Huang Zhishu, who has always been a deep-minded person, would actually show her "martial arts fanatic" side.

After all, from the scorpion finger free-hand fighting to the snake and dragon pictograms, Yue Hanzhang's progress in martial arts is the most touching to the martial arts students who also master the snake-shaped artistic conception.

That was far beyond the pure shock of the other martial arts students who were just watching the fun.

As Huang Zhishu whispered softly, the extremely low voice fell into the ears of the young girl who was following her.

The girl looked in the direction of the Xu family.

"Sis, if you want a fight, that's easy. I can just match you up against him."

Hearing this, Huang Zhishu suddenly shook her head.

"With this arrangement, how can we have fun with just one fight?!

What the Xu family did was too conspicuous. This is a negative example and you and I should learn from it.

Let me think... Which branch of our Huang family's secret martial arts library is on duty this month?"

(End of this chapter)