Swordsman the Wanderer
Ch. 696 - The arrival of Xu Kong
Chu Lou revealed a friendly smile, saying, “Son, there is no need to refuse, this is a small gift from our Chu Patriarch. Since you have saved Chu Bai, this bit of blood is incomparable to Chu Bai's life. Our patriarch also said that you will always be welcome in the main residence of the Chu Clan. Our patriarch will be happy to receive you there personally if it comes in the future.”
“Hmm. Alright, then I do not hesitate to accept this gift with a thank you. I will trouble Elder Chu Lou to convey my gratitude to Patriarch Chu Tai.” Zhang En replied in slight hesitation before receiving the jade box.
Although Zhang En knew this was a sign of goodwill from the Chu Clan, the gift was also a good thing for him.
A short while later, Chu Lou left, returning to report to his Patriarch.
Before he left, Zhang En gave him a hundred extremely rare god-class spirit stones. Therefore, when Chu Lou stepped out of Zhang En's villa, his face was reddish from holding back a happy and wide smile.
"Son, when are we going back to the Sect?" After Chu Lou left, Lin Ming asked.
"Teacher, we'll leave after I'm done going into seclusion." Zhang En replied.
After the competition ended, many enemies had intended to kill him, especially from the Yu Clan and the Tang Clan. Zhang En was a little worried to everyone in his underworld where the Zhang Clan was, therefore, he wanted to rush back as quickly as possible.
On that very night, Zhang En walked into the Tiger Mountain artifact, sat down cross-legged, and opened the jade box in his hand. The suction force from his hand immediately carried that drop of red blood in front of him.
Although his current strength was comparable to that of an average 6-star Golden God cultivator, judging from the strength that the Patriarch of the Yu Clan, Yu Fei, had displayed when trying to take his life, he was not, Zhang En concluded that Yu Fei's strength was at the realm of 7-star Gold Deities.
Therefore, Zhang En was trying to increase his strength, even if only slightly, because a great battle would be waiting for him the moment he exited the God World.
Looking at the drops of Ashura blood floating in front of him, Zhang En opened his mouth and took a breath, inserting a drop of that blood into his body.
As soon as Ashura's blood entered his body, Zhang En felt as if the blood all over his body was boiling and extremely hot.
Zhang En's skin was currently like embers, emitting a wisp of smoke as well as flames from the surface of his blood-red skin. But, the current blazing heat wave of flames on the surface of his skin was only the beginning.
Zhang En was surprised to feel the increasing changes on the surface of his skin, quickly activating his demonic-power, frantically swallowing the overwhelming fire element power of Ashura's blood.
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A month passed.
The smoldering heat that had previously enveloped Zhang En had already subsided by now. When he opened his eyes, a fleeting fire element flickered in his pupils. After a month of cultivating, he had fully absorbed the energy within that drop of Ashura blood.
When he came out and reached the villa hall, he saw Lin Ming and the others waiting for him there.
Seeing Zhang En appear, Lin Ming stood up and approached him.
“Nak, there is someone outside named Xu Kong, saying that he is an Elder of the Sky Tower Sect. He insisted on meeting you!" Lin Ming was filled with worry as he spoke.
Zhang En frowned, thinking, 'The mouthpiece of this Sky Tower Sect suddenly came quickly, the arrival of this fellow is undoubtedly related to Xu Lang's death!'
"Hmph! Let him in." Zhang En replied.
A while later, Zhang En, Lin Ming, Dong Fang, Hua Rong and Yun Fei saw a burly, square-faced middle-aged man, having thick, messy eyebrows, and exuded a sharp piercing aura as it stepped into the living room in a ferocious manner.
As soon as the man named Xu Kong entered the living room, his cold and hostile gaze locked onto Zhang En, “You're Zhang En, right? I'm sure you didn't expect me to come here so soon, did you? However, even if
you managed to escape from this Ashura City, you will not be able to leave this God World as well, therefore, I advise you to stop any hope of escaping you from the very beginning.! "
Zhang En looked at Xu Kong with a cold gaze, "Haa? Hope to escape? It turned out that the Sky Tower Sect sent a cockroach that only knew how to say nonsense before me?"
Hearing this, Xu Kong was startled for a moment, then anger filled his mind and mind.
"Buck, you're looking for death!" Xu Kong bellowed furiously and his aura surged in an instant.
Swoosshhhhh!!!
Xu Kong's palm struck out toward Zhang En.
The power from this palm strike emitted a powerful energy, quickly arriving in front of Zhang En.
Zhang En did not even look towards Xu Kong, he simply replied to the attack with his palm.
Rrrrrrrr!!!
Two palms collided in the air, producing a thunderous explosion that shook the entire room. The shockwave resulting from their attack shattered the room furniture within the villa, as well as blew the ruined roof of the villa to pieces.