I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 952: Chapter 246: Good News

The group of Zhongzhou’s prides had not yet recovered from their shock when Tang Luo had already risen into the sky and disappeared from view.

Facing each other, the Zhongzhou prides did not know how to react. Li Chengjuan looked at the stele crumbling into dust before him, then turned his gaze to where Tang Luo had vanished, rubbing his sore cheek, he muttered resentfully, “Let’s go!” noveldrama

Initially, they had arrived in Longzhou with the intention of correcting the king’s patrol and destroying the stele, but now that the stele was truly destroyed, the group of prides felt far from the joy they had anticipated.

Perhaps only by truly examining their hearts would they realize that what had brought them all this way to Longzhou was not so much a resolve to support justice, but rather petty jealousy and ambition.

Longzhou, such a remote place, how could it produce a powerhouse in martial arts? If Tang Luo could do it, why couldn’t they?

But when they finally saw that the very monument they had traveled such a great distance to compete for, knowing they were no match, was just a dispensable object in the eyes of the other party, their resentment intensified.

It’s like treasuring something oneself only to have it discarded by others, this kind of discomfort was worse than defeat. But now that all excuses were gone, what could they do? Were they really going to fight it out with Tang Luo?

No one in their right mind would choose to fight one-on-one in the arena against such a young master of physical techniques.

Because no one wanted to end up like the stele, shattered into a pile of flesh. Perhaps before coming to Longzhou, they all thought they could compete with Tang Luo, but after that brief encounter, they knew that a one-on-one fight was simply courting death.

Not leaving, were they really going to stay in Lanshan City and enjoy the snow?

The proud warriors from Zhongzhou came swaggering in to issue a challenge and left with their tails between their legs, but this kind of victory did not make the people of Lanshan City cheer. Everyone felt that Tang Luo should not have destroyed the Dutian King’s patrolling stele for these few people.

After all, they could not think of anyone else among the younger generation, aside from Longxi’s Pride, who could be worthy of the title ‘First Divine Child of Ten Thousand Clans’.

Thus, the citizens of Lanshan City took it upon themselves to rebuild a stele for Tang Luo. Longxi’s Pride was unaware of this since he was in closed-door cultivation in Aran Mountain, incidentally researching the Asura Divine Heart issue.

Since transferring tens of millions of divine medicinal herbs into the medicine garden, the power of the Innate Qi Arrows, now lacking the illumination of divine herbs, had dropped a notch. If it weren’t for tapping into the second Divine Storage, combining two strands of Innate Qi, this divine ability might have already been abandoned.

He had thought that this divine ability wouldn’t improve until the third Divine Storage was opened, but unexpectedly, his trip to the Wilderness had granted him the Asura Divine Heart, which directly elevated this divine ability by a notch, even giving him the ability to contend with Grandmasters.

But the current issue was how to avoid the pure Blood Fiend’s harm to himself, which had become Tang Luo’s most pressing concern.

The Blood Asura God Shocking Finger was manageable, as the channels of his meridians were limited in the first place, and damaging one didn’t affect the rest. However, merging the Blood Fiend with the Breath Arrow was deadly.

During the process of extracting the massive amount of Blood Fiend from the Void Stomach, Evil Qi would overflow. And crucially, it couldn’t be gathered using Yin-Yang Grinding because the Blood Fiend and Innate Qi were naturally opposed; merging them would simply neutralize their respective powers. They had to be separated by divine abilities and then unleashed explosively.

To be accurate, the core of the Blood River Divine Sword was still the Divine Sword formed from two strands of Innate Qi. The Blood Fiend simply acted as a toxin to specifically break through protective Qi, physical bodies, and spiritual forms.

Originally, the style of martial arts designed for Gouchen was a combination of the Imperial Magnetic Beads and physical techniques. Now, with the Blood River Divine Sword, he had gained another killing weapon. However, this Asura Divine Heart contradicted his physical body, creating a significant problem.

But solving problems is always the responsibility of a martial arts researcher. The reason Tang Luo firmly refused the Xiushi Emperor was precisely that he believed he could come up with a solution to the Blood Fiend dilemma.

Time passed day by day. In the past, three men would attend the Tang Clan’s annual gathering, but this year only Tang Luo and Tang Xing were present. According to the old Tang Family tradition, there would be a reunion dinner after the gathering. However, with both parents and the younger sister absent, the two young men simply turned the festive banquet into a kitchen affair.

To liven up the dinner table, Tang Luo took the initiative to invite Miao Zhu to dine with them, barely making it a three-person gathering.

Since Miao Zhu was originally a servant girl, she didn’t dare to lift her head from the moment she sat down, and her hand shook violently as she held her chopsticks. Oddly enough, Tang Xing was also eating with his head down, silent as if there was something he couldn’t face.

“Spill it, why do you look as if you’ve done something wrong?”

The simple question scared the two young ones, and Miao Zhu’s head dipped even lower, while the young boy became like an eggplant hit by frost, hesitating to speak to his elder brother.

Looking at Tang Xing and then at Miao Zhu, Tang Luo put down his chopsticks, puzzled, and said, “Is there some trouble you’ve encountered?”

“Brother,” Tang Xing looked at Miao Zhu who was silent with her head down and gritted his teeth, “Miao Zhu is pregnant!”

To extend the family line was usually a good thing, but the complication lay with Miao Zhu’s identity. The Tang Clan had family rules: Clan sons could have concubines, but they were not allowed to have children with them to prevent future disputes over inheritance and strife between legitimate and illegitimate offspring.

Normally, if a concubine or a servant girl became pregnant, the child would be aborted, unless the primary wife agreed to take her as a concubine, allowing the child to be born.

Tang Xing would only be sixteen after the New Year, and since he could not marry without having had his coming-of-age ceremony, taking a concubine was out of the question. Thus, according to the rules of the Tang Clan, the child in Miao Zhu’s womb was to be aborted.

It seemed that Miao Zhu wanted to keep the child in her womb, hence the anxiety, but family rules were just that, rules. They couldn’t be changed by the will of one woman, especially since such rules were established by the clan precisely because there were many precedents, making them unalterable.

However, rules are made by people, and the key lies in what the parties involved think.

Tang Luo’s expression remained unchanged as he said indifferently to Miao Zhu, who kept her head down in silence, and to the young boy looking utterly dejected, “Tell me what you’re thinking.”

Having never dealt with such matters, Tang Xing was visibly flustered and had no ideas. Miao Zhu too kept her head down, silent. After all, they were facing the rules of the Tang Family, what grounds did they have to rebel?

“No words? Your silence means you’re willing to accept the clan’s arrangements then. So why the long faces?”

The expressions of the two young ones darkened further. Tang Luo, with his elbow on the table and his face propped up, said nonchalantly, “If you want to keep the child, it’s not impossible.”

The young boy’s eyes lit up immediately, and he asked eagerly, “Brother, is there a way?”

“Send Miao Zhu to Red Cloud Mountain, build a house there, and settle her in to nurture the pregnancy. When mother returns, we’ll hurry to arrange the coming-of-age ceremony,” Tang Luo shrugged and said, “Rules are dead, but people are alive. As long as you don’t broadcast it, who’s to know that Miao Zhu is with child, right?”

“But…” the young boy looked troubled and said with an embarrassed smile, “The clan already knows.”