Chapter 537: Chapter 537: So It Was a Performance
Master Qingteng struck Lin Fei’s dantian with one palm, and instantly felt something was amiss!
This palm was like a clay ox entering the sea.
All his force was completely unusable, as if he had lost his ground.
At Lin Fei’s dantian, there seemed to be a strange energy, like a vortex, that instantly absorbed Master Qingteng’s palm.
Master Qingteng’s eyes widened, filled with shock; he had never encountered such a bizarre situation.
He had never heard of anyone’s dantian having an adhesive power?
Because the dantian is where Inner Qi gathers and accommodates a martial artist’s cultivation, it often needs more protection to avoid being struck at the vital point, leading to the loss of martial skills.
Thus, the dantian is an opening for a martial artist, the weakest opening.
But now, Master Qingteng’s palm fell on Lin Fei’s dantian, yet he couldn’t feel it was the weakest opening at all.
As Master Qingteng pushed his palm forward, it was like entering a vortex in water, unable to exert any strength. When he tried to withdraw his palm, Lin Fei’s dantian’s vortex-like strange power held it firmly, unable to retract.
This put him in a dilemma!
It was the first time Master Qingteng met with such an embarrassing situation.
As his palm struggled, cold sweat already dripped down his forehead.
This left Zhu Qinglong and his son, who stood aside, with puzzled expressions, not knowing what Master Qingteng was doing.
His palm on Lin Fei’s dantian moved forward and then backward, but regardless of pressing forward or pulling back, it seemed powerless, extremely strange.
Zhu Qinglong secretly wondered: Isn’t Master Qingteng supposed to destroy Lin Fei’s martial arts?
Why hasn’t Master Qingteng destroyed Lin Fei’s martial arts yet?
But Zhu Qinglong didn’t know that Master Qingteng wasn’t unwilling to destroy Lin Fei’s martial arts, but simply couldn’t.
Not being able to destroy was one thing, but being stuck, unable to retract his palm, was another.
Right then, Master Qingteng felt that the vortex-like strange power at Lin Fei’s dantian, not only absorbed his palm but started absorbing his grandmaster Inner Qi.
Master Qingteng was shocked to find his grandmaster Inner Qi continuously being absorbed into Lin Fei’s dantian along his arm.
What… what exactly is going on?
Master Qingteng was about to lose his mind.
Not only had he failed to cripple Lin Fei’s martial arts, but his grandmaster Inner Qi was also being sucked away by Lin Fei.
This scared Master Qingteng immensely.
He desperately wanted to pull back his palm, but Lin Fei’s dantian firmly held Master Qingteng’s palm.
The grandmaster Inner Qi flooded into Lin Fei’s dantian; Master Qingteng’s whole body started to spasm involuntarily, his face filled with panic, even extending his other hand to Zhu Qinglong and his son for help: “Qinglong, hurry and help me, pull my hand!”
Zhu Qinglong and his son were stunned, snapped back, and quickly grabbed Master Qingteng’s hand, starting to pull back with all their strength.
Leng Ying, Qin Yunyue, Xiao Ling, Qin Zimo, and others were all dumbfounded: Was Master Qingteng and Zhu Qinglong’s father and son pulling out a radish?
At that moment, there was a series of snapping sounds as the steel cables binding Lin Fei suddenly all broke apart.
Master Qingteng was instantly shocked: The steel cables binding Lin Fei snapped?
He immediately looked at Lin Fei, only to see Lin Fei, who had been writhing on the ground in pain just before, now looking at him with a smile.
This caused Master Qingteng’s heart to sink with an indescribable bad premonition!
Just then, Lin Fei raised his palm, as fast as lightning, carrying a sweeping force, and suddenly struck Master Qingteng’s chest.
Bang.
Master Qingteng, along with Zhu Qinglong and his son, were sent flying, smashing tables and chairs in the hall into pieces.
Zhu Qinglong and his son were knocked unconscious on the spot.
Master Qingteng was also heavily injured by Lin Fei’s palm strike, spitting blood.
He struggled to get up from the ground, eyes filled with disbelief: Lin Fei had clearly swallowed his Blood Scorpion King, how could he still strike and injure him?
Master Qingteng pointed at Lin Fei: “You… weren’t you already controlled by my Blood Scorpion King?”
“Who said I was controlled by your Blood Scorpion King?” Lin Fei stood up from the ground, speaking casually.
“Now, I’ll return the Blood Scorpion King to you.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Fei opened his mouth, and with a whoosh, a crimson shadow shot out.
Pop.
A crimson scorpion landed in front of Master Qingteng, exactly the Blood Scorpion King he had previously forced Lin Fei to swallow.
However, this Blood Scorpion King was no longer the living one; it had turned into a slightly steaming, cooked Blood Scorpion King.
Master Qingteng could hardly believe his eyes: His Blood Scorpion King had been cooked?
“Did you kill my Blood Scorpion King?” Master Qingteng gritted his teeth at Lin Fei.
Lin Fei shook his head and said, “It wasn’t me who killed your Blood Scorpion King, it was you.”
Master Qingteng said angrily, “You’re talking nonsense! When did I kill the Blood Scorpion King?”
Lin Fei said, “I borrowed your grandmaster Inner Qi just now and directly killed your Blood Scorpion King, using your grandmaster Inner Qi’s fiery energy to cook it.”
“Ah!~~~” Master Qingteng’s face changed in shock, his body swayed almost to the point of falling, speechless from the blow, realizing that his grandmaster Inner Qi was absorbed by Lin Fei and used to kill his Blood Scorpion King.
His painstakingly acquired two rare Gu insects, the Golden Centipede and the Blood Scorpion King, all perished at Lin Fei’s hands.
Now, he only had the last one in the abyss…
At this moment, Leng Ying, Qin Yunyue, Xiao Ling, Qin Zimo, and others came to their senses, realizing that Lin Fei was completely unharmed.
Then Lin Fei’s previous writhing and screaming on the ground…
“So, you were pretending all along?” Master Qingteng looked at Lin Fei, his face pale, and said.
Lin Fei said, “That’s right, I was pretending earlier because my friends were still under threat from your scorpion.
As for why I didn’t strike immediately after you drove away the scorpions, it was to play with you, to see if you had any other tricks up your sleeve.
You wouldn’t really think I’d swallow the Blood Scorpion King and believe you’d release my friends, would you?
Trusting the enemy, only a fool would do that.”
Indeed, the reason why Lin Fei dared to swallow the Blood Scorpion King was not to exchange his own life for everyone’s.
Because he knew doing so couldn’t possibly save everyone; Master Qingteng’s words were simply not trustworthy.
Lin Fei swallowed the Blood Scorpion King because he was confident it wouldn’t endanger his life.
Once the Blood Scorpion King entered his throat, it was immediately enveloped by his deep True Qi, losing its freedom to act.
Then, Lin Fei began his performance, screaming and writhing, until Qin Zimo and the others were no longer in danger, when Master Qingteng made a move to destroy his martial arts, Lin Fei struck back.
At this time, Lin Fei’s figure flashed, with a swish-swish-swish sound, he unsealed the acupoints of Leng Ying, Xiao Ling, and Qin Yunyue.