I'm done for! Today, I'd capsized in a gutter! Sure enough, the more harmless something looked, the easier it was to be fooled by it...
Yue Qianchou immediately found it hard to breathe, his brain slightly starved of oxygen. His face darkened on the spot as he glared at Lu'er and gritted his teeth. "Lu'er! You're playing me?" If this were not someone else's territory, he would have tied her up and given her a sound beating first. A man could be killed, but not humiliated!
Lu'er froze for a moment. "How am I playing you?"
"You..." Yue Qianchou was so enraged that he had no words. Pointing at the sesame-sized speck in her palm, he said indignantly, "What kind of formidable killing move is this? Can growing flowers and grass kill people? And you say you're not playing me?"
"Kill people? Why would anyone want to kill people when everything is fine?" Lu'er waved her hands repeatedly in alarm. "I've never learned those killing tricks. Even if Grandfather wanted me to learn them for self-defense, I still wouldn't."
*...* The shame and indignation on Yue Qianchou's face instantly vanished. Raising a brow, he said, "So it's not that wood-element cultivation techniques lack formidable killing moves—it's just that you don't..." His tone suddenly made a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree turn. Like a wolf grandmother, he coaxed her patiently, "Does your grandfather know a great many things?"
He remembered Bi Changchun once saying that the Five Elements cultivation techniques he cultivated were grand laws originating from the source of Heaven and Earth. Once mastered, they would be extraordinarily powerful; even Bi Changchun himself had sighed that he could not compare. Yet now Yue Qianchou had fully cultivated the Five Elements Great Law. Other than a slight increase in cultivation, he had not found it