Chapter 73: A Single Fist Establishes Dominance

  "Zhou Longjun! How did you also come to Flame Valley?" Zhou Ying's face, which had been filled with anger, immediately changed to a warm and enthusiastic expression as he stepped forward and said.

  This week, Long Jun is not a mediocre person like Zhou Longqi. Although he is young, he is a genius in the Zhou family who can be ranked among the best. In the future, his status in the Zhou family will definitely not be low. Zhou Ying is just a collateral descendant, and there's no comparison between them. Being able to mock Zhou Longqi doesn't mean he dares to provoke Zhou Jun.

  However, towards Zhou Ying's enthusiasm, Zhou Longjun only glanced at him lightly and shifted his gaze to Zhou Longqi, saying calmly: "You shouldn't have come to a place like this, there are many people here who want you dead."

  "I don't want to stay at home like that, coming out can still meet opportunities, just like my father. As for those who want to kill me, they are already the second batch, will you take action?" Zhou Longqi seemed to be quite familiar with Zhou Longjun, this young genius, and said directly.

  Zhou Longjun hesitated for a moment, then his icy gaze turned to Zhou Ying and the others. This made the latter's heart feel uneasy, and they repeatedly shouted: "No way, Zhou Longjun, you can't kill me! This is against the clan rules, and you will be punished by the family!"

  "It seems you know this point, I thought your brain was itchy and forgot!" A flash of killing intent passed through Zhou Longjun's eyes.

  He almost turned around and ran away

  Zhou Longjun finally shook his head and said, "No, these things need you to solve by yourself. Good luck."

  After saying this sentence, he didn't care about people's reaction and turned around to leave.

  "Wait!" Zhou Longqi suddenly stopped Zhou Longjun.

  "What's wrong?" Zhou Longjun turned his head and asked, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "There's something I need you to witness." Zhou Longqi clenched his fist and replied, "I've already found the direction."

  "Oh? Which direction?" The sword genius showed some interest.

  "Agreed!" Zhou Longqi replied forcefully, "I need you as a witness, I'm going to punch Zhou Ying once!"

  Zhou Longjun was taken aback by Zhou Longqi's change and nodded, saying: "Very good!"

  "What?" Zhou Ying was somewhat surprised, "You want to hit me?"

  Because Zhou Longjun was present, Zhou Ying didn't dare to be too arrogant.

  "Duel?" Zhou Longjun ignored Zhou Ying.

  "Yes!"

  "Alright then, I'll watch you punch him!"

  "You..." Zhou Ying looked at Zhou Longqi walking towards him, somewhat unable to save face, and stiffly said: "Fine, fine! You asked for it!"

  Zhou Longqi's body began to shine with a cyan light, he couldn't apply yuan force to yuan jue, but the operation and cultivation were not a problem. However, as he approached Zhou Ying, the cyan light on Zhou Longqi's body gradually weakened, at this time he was softly saying to himself in a voice that others could not hear:

  Let go, let go. Let go!

  As he walked up to Zhou Ying's face, the blue light on Zhou Longqi's body completely disappeared, and he had stopped circulating his yuan power.

  "Hmph!" Zhou Ying didn't say anything else, gritted his teeth, circulated his yuan energy, and punched Zhou Longqi's face. He wasn't the kind of person who could take a beating standing up!

  "It's now!"

  Zhou Longqi let out a loud roar! His entire body's yuan power suddenly burst forth, and at the same time, an intense aura also exploded out. The roar was mixed with a king's aura, and a stream of air shot towards Zhou Ying, pressing down on him.

  Even if Zhou Ying had mentally prepared herself for Zhou Longqi's imposing aura, this came too suddenly and too fiercely. Her mind was shocked to the point of being somewhat dazed, leaving only one thought: what did he want to do?

  A fist burst out of the blue light and hit Zhou Ying's face, causing a loud cracking sound. A miserable cry was heard as he flew backward.

  Looking at Zhou Ying's face covered in blood and filled with pain, Zhou Longjun gritted his teeth and said a sentence that Hu Gao had said earlier: "A man should be a hero, barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes! I did it!"

  After finishing, Zhou Longqi's face turned pale as he looked at Hu Gao with a hooked mouth corner, then at the two gray-clothed old men with tears in their eyes, and finally turned to Zhou Longjun. The sound of bones bursting earlier did not only come from Zhou Ying's thick face, but more from Zhou Longqi's fist, his right hand's finger bones were basically all shattered.

  Zhou Longjun looked at Zhou Longqi, who was silent, with a surprised and satisfied expression on his face. He nodded and said, "Not bad! It seems you've found a good friend. This Discontinued Ointment is useful to you, I'm leaving!"

  Throwing a bottle of ointment from the space ring, Zhou Longjun said and was about to leave, then paused and added: "What you let me witness, I will tell the master of the house, good luck!"

  Watching Zhou Longjun's back as he walked away, Zhou Longqi curled his lips, but a warm feeling still surged in his heart.

  It makes sense! Hu Gao glanced at Zhou Longjun who had walked out of the crowd, shook his head and smiled. It turned out that not all members of the Zhou family were "second-rate" relatives.

  "Zhou Longqi! I'll be waiting for you three months from now to come find me!" Zhou Ying glared at the young master of the clan with resentment, then let out a snort towards Hu Gao, and left with the support of her guards.

  Zhou Ying left, and Hu Gao finally breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, the trouble in front of him was solved. As for Zhou Longjun who appeared later, Hu Gao had no interest in understanding him at all. Anyway, as long as he wasn't an enemy, it was fine.

  Zhou Longqi didn't want to let Zhou Ying off the hook, but he thought for a moment that his father's matter wasn't urgent at this time, and there was no need to drag Hu Gao down with him. He looked at Hu Gao, who seemed relieved, and smiled slightly, "Today is really not easy."

  "Hmm, things here have come to an end. I still have some things to attend to. Be careful in the future and don't forget 'eight out, fourteen back'!" Hu Gao patted Zhou Longqi's shoulder, this guy is definitely a jinx, can't follow him anymore.

  "Aren't you going to act with us in Flame Valley?"

  "Well, but I believe we will have another chance to meet."

  "Alright..."

  Seeing Hu Gao insist on leaving, Zhou Longqi couldn't do anything and could only nod. After a slight hesitation, he suddenly took off a silver ring from his finger and said, "Hu Gao, this is a space ring. I'm sure you've heard of the wonders of a space ring. I'll give it to you now, consider it as paying some interest in advance."

  Zhou Longqi had rarely met people in his life who were worth trusting, and the few he did know were only because of their identity. Although Hu Gao hadn't known him for long, Zhou felt that Hu was a very genuine person, not like the hypocritical members of his clan, which made him feel very at ease, and could be said to be his first true friend.

  "Master, this..." His two bodyguards' faces turned urgent.

  "Space Ring..."

  Hu Gao looked at the spatial ring handed over by Zhou Longqi, and subconsciously wanted to take it over, then put it on his own finger, but he still shook his head in the end, pushed away the latter's hand, and said: "No need, the interest will be temporarily stored with you, young man. Remember, human feelings are the hardest debt to repay in the world!"

  Having said that, Hu Gao didn't give Zhou Longqi a chance to continue speaking and quickly turned around and walked away.

  After parting with Zhou Longqi, Hu Gao arrived at a desolate area, surrounded by sand and rocks, without any trees in sight. The temperature in the air was significantly higher than elsewhere, exceeding sixty degrees at least. Even an ordinary Seventh-Order Condensation Realm martial artist would find it difficult to stay here.

  The open area had bursts of clear wind blowing by, and upon closer inspection, the wind actually had a faint reddish hue. Hu Gao hastily dodged to the side.

  The reason is none other than that this gust of wind contains fire poison. If it blows onto the body, it will immediately cause harm to him.

  Xiao Wu excitedly flew out of Hu Gao's body, landing on the ground. His wet little nose twitched with effort, and the long whiskers under his chin fluttered about. A yellow glow flashed around him, and immediately Hu Gao felt a surge of energy being absorbed into his body, including even the fiery energy in the air, which was also known as fire poison.

  "You stay here and cultivate slowly by yourself, I'm leaving."

  Hú Gāo dodged another wave of flame-toxic wind and was about to leave the place directly. Staying here was simply suffering, not only could he not absorb energy from the air, but also had to prevent being invaded by the flame toxin.

  "Hey, boss, don't go yet." Xiaowu saw Hu Gao about to leave and hastily spoke up to stop him. "I have an idea, do you want to hear it?"

  Hu Gao glared at him with a bad temper, didn't he see how hard it was for him to dodge, yet he still had the mood to talk nonsense!

  "Boss, isn't your control over your powers almost perfect? Wait a minute and I'll filter the fire poison in my body to make it as mild as possible. Then you see if you can condense it... yeah, condense it into a fire poison pellet. In the future, when we fight with others, we'll have an extra trump card."

  "Fire poison bullet?"

  Hu Gao's eyes lit up, seemingly having an idea, but immediately his eyebrows furrowed: "Can't this fire poison be absorbed into the body?"

  Xiao Wu had already told him earlier that the energy of this fire poison was extremely violent, comparable to the demonic energy in a late-stage first-grade demon core. Let alone a small condensed shadow realm warrior like him, even if it were a full-body realm or explosive yuan realm warrior who absorbed it into their body, there would be unforeseen consequences.

  "Don't worry, elder brother. Although I can't completely purify this fire toxin, it's almost there. When the time comes, I'll mix in a hint of dragon energy. As long as you're careful, it won't harm your body. However, this energy is too violent, even more so than the combined power of your yuan force and physical strength. You must control it carefully. Wait until you've perfectly condensed these energies together, then I'll complete the final step, refining them into a fire toxin pellet."

  Xiao Wu chuckled: "In my estimation, the fire poison pellets condensed with the fire poison here should be roughly comparable to a full-strength blow from a nine-stage peak of the Condensed Shadow Realm. If we successfully condense them, in the future if someone tries to use human wave tactics on us, we'll just use the fire poison pellets to blast them to death."

  "Don't fantasize about it being so good, let me try first. Also, can you keep an eye on the fire poison around me and make sure they don't get to me?"

  Hu Gao rolled his eyes and sat down cross-legged beside him. Although he didn't know if Xiao Wu was reliable or not, he had to admit that Xiao Wu's idea was really good. If he had some fire poison bombs on hand, as long as he didn't run into a martial artist with a strong body, he wouldn't have anything to fear.