At midnight, in a private room on the third floor of the Abundant Harvest Tower inn.
Outside the window, the moon lay hidden and the stars were sparse. All was silent, save for the faint clack of a watchman's wooden clapper in the distance, which only deepened the night's stillness. Lu Changfeng sat cross-legged on the bed, regulating his breathing. At the exact stroke of midnight, his eyes snapped open!
A sharp gleam flashed through his eyes and vanished, as though he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
The next instant-
"Boom!" "Crack!"
The room's door and half the adjoining wall were blasted apart by an overwhelmingly savage force!
Amid flying splinters and masonry, two ghostlike figures, one fat and one thin, charged straight at Lu Changfeng on the bed, carrying fierce killing aura like two bolts of lightning tearing through the night!
The fat man was none other than "Iron Mountain Venerable" Chu Zhenyue. Despite his enormous bulk, his charge was astonishingly fast. His fan-sized right palm had already swollen larger, its skin turning a dark iron-blue. Bearing a crushing weight of wind pressure, it slammed down toward Lu Changfeng's head! This was Five Mountains Pressing Down, a killing move from his signature Bedrock Mountain-Suppressing Palm. Before the palm wind even arrived, the air inside the room had congealed like iron!
The thin man, "Traceless Ghost Shadow" Cui Wuying, clung like a festering sore to the shadows of Chu Zhenyue's assault. Silently, several blurred, distorted leg shadows shot out like venomous dragons leaving their lairs, viciously targeting the vital points of Lu Changfeng's lower body from cunning angles. The wind from his kicks was so sharp that it hissed, designed specifically to pierce protective true qi.
One was fierce and forceful, the other subtle and