"Chengzhi! Cough, cough, cough!"
Hearing the sound of someone falling outside, the old man from the Qi family rose in a panic and rushed toward the door.
"I'll go take a look."
Lu Weiguo frowned. Though he disliked the overbearing attitude of the old man from the Qi family and Qi Chengzhi, the two families did have some ties, so he got up and went outside.
"What happened just now? Why was Qi Chengzhi so afraid of you?"
An Jing blinked at Chen Zheng and asked, her face full of curiosity.
"That Young Master Qi learned a few little tricks. He was about to use one on me just now, and what happened was the backlash."
Chen Zheng smiled as he spoke.
"Why did Qi Chengzhi shout at you not to eat him? Did he see you as some kind of monster? Or are you not human at all, but a demon that cultivated into sentience?"
An Jing asked again.
"Just a little trick of mine. Nothing worth mentioning."
Chen Zheng replied casually.
"Could I learn it? How about teaching me? Chen Zheng, you're my boyfriend now. There's nothing wrong with me asking you to teach me something, right?"
An Jing hugged Chen Zheng's arm and began wheedling.
This famously icy beauty of a professor at Nan University was actually hugging a man's arm and acting cute!
Watching from the side, Su Cheng suddenly had a feeling that An Jing very possibly wasn't just using Chen Zheng as a shield. She might genuinely be interested in him.
Though there was something of an age gap between them, just as Sister An had said earlier, she liked little puppy boys like Chen Zheng! Strictly speaking, of course, Chen Zheng didn't really count as a little puppy boy, but he was a mystery from head to toe, and that was far more attractive than mere looks!
As she thought about it, Su Cheng sighed inwardly again. Seeing how forward An Jing was being, she felt it might not be long before she should stop calling her Sister An and start calling her Sister-in-law Chen...
In the end, the old man from the Qi family left with the somewhat deranged Qi Chengzhi, but before leaving, he issued a threat, declaring that he would make Chen Zheng pay. Chen Zheng merely smiled faintly at that. Though he hadn't deliberately cultivated, his physical body and primordial spirit were immortal and indestructible. Though his cultivation was far from its peak, his defenses were absolutely invincible. Nothing on Earth could possibly hurt him.
Bullets?
Rocket launchers?
Or missiles?
Would any of those work?
Perhaps he could find some time to go abroad and try them out!
An Jing wasn't going to stay at Lu Weiguo's home, so the three of them returned to Su Cheng's place that evening.
"Mwah! Chen Zheng, thank you. Here's your reward!"
The moment they entered, An Jing suddenly gave Chen Zheng a kiss, then jogged into the bedroom and shut the door with a bang.
"A reward? We've already kissed on the lips. What kind of reward is this?" Chen Zheng shook his head lightly. Seeing Su Cheng looking at him, he smiled again. "Su Cheng, are you going to give me a reward too?"
"A reward?"
Su Cheng froze for a moment, then suddenly stepped forward and kissed Chen Zheng on his other cheek. Then, looking as though nothing had happened, she went into her own bedroom.
After entering her bedroom, however, Su Cheng pressed her whole body against the door, feeling her heart still beating a little faster.
That had been her first time taking the initiative to kiss a man. She didn't know whether An Jing's initiative just now had stirred her competitive spirit! She felt that she did have feelings for Chen Zheng now, but they were only feelings of affection, nowhere near love!
Though that was what she thought, her heart began beating faster and faster. Something had suddenly occurred to her: with Chen Zheng's abilities, could he read minds? Could he know what she was thinking?
If Chen Zheng knew what she was thinking, then... wouldn't that be a little awkward...
"Young girls these days. Why do they like kissing people so much? Am I really that charming?"
Just as that thought arose in Su Cheng's mind, Chen Zheng's voice drifted faintly in from outside. She was dumbfounded when she heard it, then bit her lip and thought fiercely.
Hmph!
That fellow Chen Zheng really can read minds. He must know everything An Jing and I are thinking!
In reality, Chen Zheng was merely reflecting on his own charm. He really hadn't used any mind-reading technique. He had something more advanced than mind reading.
Chen Zheng returned to his bedroom and was just about to lie down when he received a text. He saw that it was from Chen Zhi, asking him to get on his computer. She said she had found some information on Misty Rain Tower.
A short while later, Chen Zheng received the file.
"Misty Rain Tower... a Chinese research institute for paleontology and supernatural anomalies, long dedicated to searching for legendary giant ancient creatures... that's only the organization's public description. In truth, Misty Rain Tower is an assassin organization."
"The one who attacked Chen Zhi was the Black List assassin Gun King, who once sniped a Grandmaster. He came to Nan City this time specifically to deal with Chen Zhi..."
"Ancient Martial Arts experts, ability users, and even legendary demons, monsters, ghosts, and fiends... Misty Rain Tower's three kings are supposedly all more powerful than Ancient Martial Grandmasters, but why do they seem a little weak to me?"
Chen Zheng quickly scanned the information on Misty Rain Tower and finally couldn't help shaking his head.
To ordinary people, those members of Misty Rain Tower mentioned in the file could practically be considered superhuman. But after reading it, he had only one impression: weak!
They really were a little weak!
If everyone in Misty Rain Tower gathered in a square, Chen Zheng was absolutely certain he could slap them all to death with a single palm!
While Chen Zheng was reading the information on Misty Rain Tower, elsewhere, inside Misty Rain Tower's headquarters building in L City, three people sat at a conference table in the executive conference room, which required the highest clearance to enter. All three were watching the large projection screen.
Information on Chen Zheng was being displayed on the large projection screen!
"Chen Zheng, an illegitimate son of the Xining Chen Family. Three years ago, he attended the Chen Family's evening banquet and suffered a round of humiliation. Three years ago, he was an utterly ordinary person. I don't believe three years could give an ordinary person the ability to kill Gun King so easily, unless he awakened some sort of ability. And according to our information, though the Xining Chen Family is known as the Medicine King Family, what they actually practice is only Ancient Martial Arts, and not even at the highest level. No one in this fellow's family has ever awakened any special abilities, and I don't believe Chen Zheng could have undergone some genetic mutation either. So this Chen Zheng has clearly had some other fortuitous encounter."
A middle-aged man in a long white robe spoke with a smile.
"Ye Wang, there's no point in saying so much. I'll have Catherine go to Nan City and sound out this Chen Zheng. Of course, if she can turn him into a blood thrall, that would be ideal."
A man dressed in medieval formal attire also smiled.
"Catherine? That niece of yours? William, I'm afraid that if your niece goes to Nan City, this Chen Zheng will slap her into meat paste."
Hearing that, the middle-aged man in the long white robe gave a soft chuckle as well.
"Really? Our race isn't so easily slapped into meat paste!"
The man called William opened his mouth, revealing two extraordinarily sharp fangs. At that same instant, his blue pupils turned blood-red, making him look utterly ferocious!