Volume 1 Chapter 114: Battle!

  A large, ornate chair with gold accents was placed in the center of the presidential suite's hall, along a carpet about two meters wide. Eight men dressed in black stood on either side, four more sat beside the man in the chair, and several others were scattered around, such as those guarding the door and watching over the 'prisoner'.

  These people stood still like wooden stakes, their eyes fixed on one point, not moving at all; if it weren't for the sound of their long and powerful breathing, one would suspect they were statues.

  Master!

  Qin Yan's heart skipped a beat, although these black-clothed men didn't reveal their skills, but just by their breathing rhythm, it could be judged that they all cultivated internal energy, the weakest had at least six layers of heavenly boundary.

  Only by reaching the Sixth Heaven can one's breath become so long through practicing qigong.

  Having a dozen or so masters with inner energy as his followers, such an array shocked Qin Yan. What kind of person is this handsome and beautiful guy?

  The living room of the Presidential Suite is very large and can accommodate dozens of people, more like a small banquet hall.

  On a vacant piece of land inside, six big men sat softly on the floor, and when they saw Qin Yan come in, they all showed surprised expressions.

  As soon as the door opened, Qin Yan saw Su Hao and Dong Qinglong, but at the same time, he also found out that they had been sealed off their acupoints and temporarily lost their mobility, even their physical strength had weakened to less than that of an ordinary person, so their whole body was sore and weak, making it difficult for them to move.

  With a sudden change in expression, Su Hao's face was filled with guilt: "Yan Ge, I'm sorry... I... I've caused you trouble..."

  Su Hao felt very embarrassed: At first, he heard that the bar was smashed by someone, and the other party even asked Qin Yan to apologize. He suddenly became furious. He went to Jiang Xiaoying to get the address of the other party, and took Dong Qinglong and five brothers to rush to the National Convention Center Hotel. As a result, within ten seconds, all six people were caught and taken hostage.

  He didn't know these people. As the legitimate heir of the Su family, he had never seen this handsome and despicable little white face that made women jealous.

  But one thing is certain, this person's background is very big, extremely big!

  "It's nothing."

  Su Hao cast a reassuring glance at him, and Qin Yan looked steadily at the handsome man: "I think, is there some kind of misunderstanding? I don't know you."

  Everyone has a little bit of cowardice, just like the situation in front of them. If the other party was just a small fry, Qin Yan would have kicked them down long ago. Of course, if they were just small fries, it's impossible to take down Su Hao and Dong Qinglong. These people are obviously not weak and have a big background. Qin Yan doesn't want to fight a battle he can't win, even if he wants to take action, at least he needs to know the other party's identity and strength first.

  "You don't know me, but I know you."

  A handsome young man sipped a glass of red wine, and glanced at Qin Yan faintly: "In my eyes, you are just an insignificant reptile. Originally, there would be no intersection between us, and I wouldn't go out of my way to find trouble with reptiles for no reason. But if this reptile provokes me, then it's a different story."

  Crawling insect?

  Qin Yan's face suddenly turned cold. There were really few people in this world who dared to treat Greedy Wolf, one of the fourteen warlords of "Tianming", as a crawling worm!

  He was a cautious man, even when the situation had already reached the point of confrontation, he still delayed and tried to understand more about the enemy's situation.

  But he is a man!

  A man has his dignity, when the other party calls him a reptile, a surge of evil fire rises, he is not prepared to waste his words anymore.

  "Let him go." Qin Yan's face was cold and his tone was icy.

  "Huh?"

  The handsome young man's expression was clearly shocked. In his opinion, this little crawling thing should have prostrated itself before him, how could it be so arrogant?

  Is he drinking to drown his sorrows?

  Good heavens!

  Did I hear that right?

  The handsome man was first stunned and then burst out laughing. This laugh somehow had a hint of the six palaces' powder puff's colorless feeling: "Crawl, I didn't quite catch what you said."

  "Laozi says, you damn dead ghost, release him immediately!" Qin Yan said in a cold and sinister tone.

  Ah!

  The handsome young man who had just been smiling suddenly turned pale, his eyes flashing with a terrifying killing intent: "You, what did you say?"

  "Are you a masochist? You were scolded once and still want to hear it again, I've never seen anyone as shameless as you!" Qin Yan suddenly burst out laughing.

  Kabuki!

  Killer!

  Kabuki!

  Qiao Yichen gazed at Qin Yan with a venomous glare, his eyes seeming to regard him as if he were already dead: those two words were the greatest taboo for him, and anyone who broke that taboo would be put to death!

  He suddenly laughed along with Qin Yan, but compared to Qin Yan's hearty laughter, his smile was filled with cold and venomous malice: "I don't know if after your teeth are pulled out one by one and your tongue is cut off at the root, will you still have such a good eloquence? I'm looking forward to seeing it."

  Whoosh!

  As soon as his voice fell, the two men in black on both sides of the gate suddenly rushed towards Qin Yan like lightning, with a four-foot-long knife appearing in their hands.

  Unlike common knives, this knife has an obvious distinction. At first glance, it resembles a samurai sword, but upon closer inspection, the differences become apparent: the samurai sword has a curved blade with an arc, while this knife is straight and tapered, the samurai sword's blade is wider, whereas this knife's blade is like an axe blade.

  Qin Yan could recognize it at a glance - this was the Tang knife, hailed as the ultimate cold weapon of the Yan Huang!

  The blade tore through the air, emitting a faint whistling sound, and a hint of silver-white knife aura could be seen swirling around it.

  That's right, it's knife qi!

  Even if it is the strongest person at the peak of the nine heavens of martial arts, it is impossible to destroy the sky and earth with a palm like in martial arts movies. The internal energy of a warrior cannot attack through the air, but if there is a medium, it's different, just like two warriors can inject their internal energy into each other's body during a duel, they can also infuse their internal energy into swords.

  Otherwise, with Qin Yan's Wudang Eightfold Heaven's strength, what significance does the opponent have in using cold weapons?

  Without inner energy stored within, Qin Yan's one punch could shatter the sword and knife, the power of the sword and knife was no match for his fists.

  However, after being infused with internal energy, the cold weapon's toughness, hardness and sharpness will all undergo a heaven-reversing and earth-overturning change.

  A silver-white blade aura tore through the void, emitting a heart-wrenching wail that made one's teeth ache.

  Two men in black uniforms held Tang knives and approached rapidly like thunder and lightning. As the Tang knives moved, two dense residual shadows were drawn out in the air!

  At this moment, when the other party released their inner energy, Qin Yan had already judged their boundary!

  At first, it was only certain that these more than ten people all had at least the Six Heavens Initial Stage boundary, but to what extent they had reached could not be judged. Now, Qin Yan was shocked to discover that the two black-clothed men who made a move against him had actually both reached the Seven Heavens Initial Stage, and among this group of people, they were clearly the lowest in status!

  Whoosh!

  He is fast, but he is faster!

  The Tang knife was about to chop down, but the target suddenly disappeared. Just as the two men in black were shocked and lost their color, Qin Yan appeared behind one of them on the right side.

  This is the footwork from that ancient manual. According to the manual, the power of the techniques recorded in it, whether it's mental state, combat skills, footwork or body methods, are only average at the initial stage. The so-called initial stage refers to the nine heavens of martial arts, but what they don't know is that in the manual obtained by Qin Yan, this is just the beginning.

  Even if it's just average in the early stages, that's only relative. In fact, this average is already very strong, like the 'Yangguan Santai' in martial arts.

  Rather than a martial skill, it's better to say that it's an art of using internal energy. It can make Qin Yan's internal energy in the early stage of the eighth heaven and earth period play out with power close to the peak of the middle stage of the eighth heaven and earth period, almost at the level of the later stage.

  It seems that this enhancement is not even a small rank, but it's worth noting that in the world of martial artists, there has never been a case where one's attack was enhanced through the use of internal energy.

  The tactics are like this, and the footwork is also like this.

  Qin Yan's figure seemed to drift like a ghost, and with the incredible footwork combined with the gap in their strength, those two black-clad men couldn't even react.

  Bang!

  He raised his hand and knocked one of the men in black on the inside of his right elbow joint.

  The man in black was paralyzed all over his body, half of his body was instantly paralyzed, and the hand holding the knife also lost its strength, staring blankly at Qin Yan snatching the Tang knife.

  That's right, Qin Yan's first move was to grab the knife.

  He knew that the two black-clad men guarding the gate were the weakest among nearly twenty black-clad men on the other side. He wasn't sure how many more powerful experts there would be afterwards. If the difference in strength between the two sides was relatively large, he wouldn't be afraid even if he was bare-handed against swords and guns. But if there were experts with similar strength to his own, and they had knives while he didn't, then he would be at a great disadvantage.

  The Tang knife entered his hand, and the internal energy immediately poured in. He dodged to one side, avoiding another black-clad man's slashing blow, and kicked out with his leg, sending the half-paralyzed black-clad man flying.

  At the same time, Tang Dao's knife hilt struck the black-clad man's spine, accompanied by a crisp collision, and a blood arrow burst out of his mouth. Two black-clad men fell to the ground one after another.

  "I've heard before that you're a heavenly being from the eighth heaven, but I didn't believe it. Who would have thought it was actually true."

  Qiao Yichen's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he snorted: "But... what about the Eight Heavens? Being able to defeat Jiang Xue is nothing! A crawling insect will always be a crawling insect! Since you're so capable, I'd like to see how long you can stand, or if you'll kneel down right now?"

  It was Qin Yan's turn to be shocked now.

  This guy clearly knows he's in the Eight Heavens Boundary, clearly knows he defeated Jiang Xue Mei of the Falling Petals Sect, yet still dares to provoke himself, what does this show?

  Could it be... as he said, with his own strength of eight heavenly layers, he didn't even put him in his eyes?

  Wow! Wow! Wow!

  A man in black standing beside Qiao Yichen, with a face as expressionless as a dead man's, walked towards Qin Yan, taking off his sunglasses along the way.

  Hmph...

  He saw him make a slight movement with his hand, and the sunglasses turned into countless fragments falling to the floor. Qin Yan's pupils involuntarily contracted, this guy was actually an Eight Heavenly Layer expert!

  A pale face stood surrounded by four men in black clothes, were all these four people from Hachioji?

  If it's really like this, then this person's background is truly terrifying!

  Whoa!

  Wow!

  Hmph!

  The man's feet struck the floor in a rhythm that grew faster and faster, he was about twelve or thirteen meters away from Qin Yan, starting with a slow walk, then a brisk walk, and finally turning into a run.

  From stillness to movement, it only takes an instant. When the distance is shortened to the point where blades are about to clash, the man's figure has already become a blur...