"Um... I watched the whole time you were giving Sister An that massage, and your eyes were so pure there wasn't a trace of anything else in them. Are you... immune to women because you've seen too many of them before, or are you just not that interested in women..."
Su Cheng thought for a moment, then couldn't resist asking another question.
"Why the sudden question?"
Chen Zheng smiled, his gaze utterly pure.
"..."
Seeing Chen Zheng's expression and gaze at that moment, Su Cheng instantly understood. It wasn't that this man had no interest in women-he was simply extremely focused when he worked!
"I'm very focused when I'm doing something serious, so I don't think about anything else."
Chen Zheng gave Su Cheng a slight smile and left An Jing's bedroom.
"..."
Su Cheng fell silent.
"I... became a Grandmaster?!"
A little after nine the next morning, An Jing woke up and discovered that something was different about her body. She immediately sensed that the True Qi within her was more than twice as potent as before, and her Ren and Du meridians had opened too!
What was going on?
Nan University.
Finding himself far too bored, Chen Zheng wandered around Nan University on his own.
Quite a few students took the initiative to greet him along the way. Thanks to the earlier three-pointer incident and the incident where he had sent Kim Eun-woo flying with a kick, he was already a celebrity at Nan University.
Nan University.
Mirror Lake.
Chen Zheng walked down a quiet, tree-lined path beside the lake.
"Young man, you've narrowed your own path. There's no road ahead."
He was only halfway down the tree-lined path when a middle-aged man approached him head-on. The man blocked Chen Zheng's way, his sharp gaze locking directly onto him!
"The road is beneath my feet. Wherever I walk is a road, so there's no such thing as my path narrowing or running out. You were following me from a distance earlier, weren't you? Now you've taken another route to block my way from the front. Do you think this gives you an air of mystery, or perhaps a sense of destiny?"
Chen Zheng merely chuckled.
"Xiejia of the Qi family!"
The middle-aged man stared coldly at Chen Zheng and spoke in an icy voice.
He was announcing his identity!
"Qi Chengzhi?"
Still looking utterly unruffled, Chen Zheng looked at the middle-aged man.
"Chengzhi is my own nephew! Chen Zheng, you crippled my nephew and left him out of his mind. He's still mentally deranged even now. I know Chengzhi fell victim to your tricks! Do you realize that your actions are a provocation against the entire Qi family?!"
The chill in the middle-aged man's eyes was enough to kill!
"Oh."
Yet Chen Zheng still responded with just one indifferent word.
"You have one more chance. Come to the Qi family with me and restore Chengzhi to normal. Otherwise, hmph!"
The middle-aged man snorted coldly, and a bizarre scene unfolded. The surrounding air actually began twisting as though it were made of lines. That distorted air turned into ghostly faces, which lunged at Chen Zheng one after another!
"Mental power? So Qi Chengzhi learned his crooked tricks from you." Yet Chen Zheng remained unruffled. The moment he spoke, those ghostly faces vanished with a whoosh.
"So you really have cultivated a secret mental technique too! But I refuse to believe that a twenty-year-old youngster like you can surpass me, the Nightmare Grandmaster whose name is on the Black List!"
The middle-aged man sneered, and with that sneer, the ghostly faces condensed again!
"Roar!"
In an instant, the ghostly faces surged forward, snapping at Chen Zheng!
"In the end, they're all illusions created by mental power. I've long since become immune to such things. How could they possibly hurt me?" Chen Zheng merely smiled faintly, not even bothering to lift a hand. The hideous, terrifying ghostly faces lunging up to him shattered once again.
"You!"
Qi Xiejia's expression changed as he stared fixedly at Chen Zheng.
He hadn't expected Chen Zheng to expose the secret of the mental technique he cultivated with a single remark!
The secret mental technique he cultivated did not summon ghosts or gods. Instead, it exerted a kind of mental pressure, causing his opponent to hallucinate, become engulfed in fear within those hallucinations, and then suffer a mental collapse!
He had once used it against an Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster, driving that Ancient Martial Arts Grandmaster stark raving mad!
Yet this time, Chen Zheng had seen straight through it. He refused to believe it-refused to believe that a twenty-year-old youngster's attainments in mental cultivation could surpass his!
"Do you have any powerful killing moves? If not, I'll make my move. Oh, a reminder: once I strike, blood will be spilled. Be careful."
Chen Zheng gave Qi Xiejia a slight smile, looking exceedingly friendly.
"I can't let you live!"
Qi Xiejia's brows knitted. Suddenly, he bellowed, raised his right hand, and sent a streak of silver light shooting out like lightning!
The silver light shot straight at the space between Chen Zheng's eyebrows!
A hidden weapon!
And not an ordinary hidden weapon!
It was a hidden weapon controlled by mental power!
"Clink!"
The hidden weapon hit!
The hidden weapon struck Chen Zheng between the eyebrows!
"Chen Zheng! Don't blame me. You brought this on yourself! Before the Soul-Chasing Divine Needle, you... how is that possible?!"
Having landed his strike, Qi Xiejia revealed a vicious expression. But halfway through his threatening words, that vicious expression turned to horror!
Because!
Because the needle-like hidden weapon that had struck Chen Zheng between the eyebrows suddenly fell away. It suddenly dropped from between his eyebrows and fell to the ground!
There wasn't even a mark between Chen Zheng's eyebrows!
"Looks like you've used up your killing moves."
Chen Zheng chuckled.
"You! Impossible! How old are you? How could you have trained your body to the realm of a Buddhist vajra! Even if you practiced the Golden Bell Shield, you couldn't possibly have reached major completion! Chen Zheng! I'm a member of the Qi family, an expert on the Black List! You dare lay a hand on me?! You!"
"Boom!"
Horror filled Qi Xie's eyes, but he still tried to use his standing to pressure Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng, however, simply struck!
One kick!
Sent flying!
With a boom, Qi Xiejia was sent flying by a single kick from Chen Zheng and slammed into a tree!
"Pfft!"
Qi Xiejia slid down the tree and opened his mouth, spraying blood-not just one mouthful, but mouthful after mouthful!
"You! I! My dantian! My True Qi! My mental power! I... cough, cough, cough!"
With his back against the tree trunk, Qi Xiejia desperately tried to stand. But the moment he started to rise, he discovered to his horror that all his abilities, whether his True Qi or his mental power, had vanished!
At that moment, only horror and fear remained in his gaze as he stared at Chen Zheng!