Blazing Sun, Killed with One Punch

In the forest, Zhao Liang's sudden appearance gave Zhou Lei a fright.

"Who are you?" Zhou Lei's expression changed dramatically. He hadn't even looked like this when the level-one exotic beast appeared.

Zhao Liang felt far too dangerous to him, and he had clearly come with ill intent.

Zhao Liang ignored Zhou Lei completely and looked at Qin Chen instead. "You killed a level-one Fire Cloud Tiger with one punch. Now I'm even more certain that you killed Zhao Kuan!"

The strength Qin Chen had just displayed had surprised him.

"You have no proof I killed him, yet you came here to kill me?" Qin Chen asked calmly, looking at him.

Zhao Liang shook his head. "Whether there's proof doesn't matter. It's enough to know you killed him. Finding proof is troublesome, and what my Zhao Family dislikes most is trouble!"

Although there was no direct evidence that Qin Chen had killed Zhao Kuan, the surveillance footage, their grudge, and Qin Chen's strength were all enough to explain everything. That was sufficient.

"I'm curious. When you killed Zhao Kuan, did you ever think this day would come?" Zhao Liang asked Qin Chen, looking down at him.

The Zhao Family might not have been a top family in Rongcheng, but there weren't many who dared provoke them.

Qin Chen's father had met with an accident a year ago, and the Qin Family had endured it for the entire year. Qin Chen's sudden move now had surprised him.

"How about I send you down there so you can ask him whether he ever thought the day would come when I'd kill him, back when he hired someone to run over my father?" Qin Chen said with a smile.

Zhao Liang wasn't angry when he heard that. Instead, he smiled. "You talk tough. I wonder if your strength is just as tough!"

Boom!

As soon as the words left his mouth, he charged at Qin Chen like a ferocious beast. As he drew close, he swept his saber at him.

Qin Chen dodged with a flash, and the large tree behind him was cut in two by the saber.

Boom!

The tree fell, its severed surface smooth as a mirror. When Zhou Lei, who had retreated into the distance, saw it, his expression changed dramatically.

"So strong. Two-star or three-star?" His heart tightened, and he hurriedly pulled out his phone and made a call.

At that moment, as Qin Chen dodged, he also threw a punch straight at Zhao Liang's head.

Zhao Liang's reaction was no slower. He held his saber crosswise to block it.

Clang!

With a loud crash, his body was shaken and gradually forced backward.

After he steadied himself, he looked at Qin Chen, astonishment in his eyes.

"You hid your strength before?" Since Qin Chen could force him back with a single punch, his strength was nothing like what Zhao Liang's investigation had revealed.

"It seems you found out my combat power when I was certified by the Martial Arts Association."

Qin Chen immediately understood that Zhao Liang probably thought his combat power was still 780.

Or perhaps Zhao Liang thought that even with the cultivation he had done recently, it couldn't have increased by much.

Unfortunately, he had misjudged how quickly Qin Chen was improving.

"Your strength, on the other hand, disappoints me. A trash three-star propped up by drugs!" Qin Chen suddenly said.

Although they had only exchanged two moves, Qin Chen had instantly judged that Zhao Liang was no normal three-star.

The threshold for a normal three-star martial artist was 2,000 combat power.

According to his investigation of the Zhao Family, Zhao Liang had been a three-star martial artist for some time, yet his combat power was only close to the three-star threshold. That was highly abnormal.

Zhao Liang's expression changed when he heard Qin Chen's words.

He had indeed relied on drugs to raise his strength, and even Zhao Kuan had done the same. They had merely paid a steep price to bribe the certification officer during their assessments.

For the Zhao Family to maintain its image as a prominent family in Rongcheng, his father alone was not enough.

So the two brothers had both relied on drugs to break through and become martial artists.

That way, in outsiders' eyes, the Zhao Family had not only a four-star Zhao Wanshi, but also geniuses like Zhao Kuan and Zhao Liang. The family's standing would be unshakable.

"So what if I relied on drugs? As long as I can kill you, that's enough!" Gripping his saber, Zhao Liang slashed at Qin Chen again.

Watching Zhao Liang charge toward him, Qin Chen stood where he was, with no intention of dodging. Instead, he said mildly, "I thought you could pose a huge threat to me, but you're such trash. Then die!"

At that moment, Qin Chen clenched his fist.

Boom!

A huge mass of flame appeared over his fist.

But the fire didn't look like a raging blaze. It looked more like formless tongues of flame.

Watching from a distance, Zhou Lei saw Qin Chen's entire body seemingly enveloped by the huge mass of flame. A single glance made his eyes sting.

In the forest, a figure was speeding toward them. Suddenly, he looked up into the distance, and it was as though he saw a sun.

"What is that?" Luo Bin's expression changed, and he sped up.

In the command room.

When Yang Xue saw Qin Chen force Zhao Liang back, she breathed a small sigh of relief, but her expression remained tense.

She knew Zhao Liang had only raised his saber to block in a moment of urgency. He had yet to show his true strength.

When Zhao Liang attacked again, her heart rose into her throat. But the next moment, she saw Qin Chen clench his fist, and the entire screen was shrouded in an intense light, making it impossible to see the details.

"What martial art is that?" She sprang to her feet.

She wasn't surprised that Qin Chen could learn martial arts, but she could feel the immense pressure of this martial art even through the screen.

"Die!" Zhao Liang brought his saber down at Qin Chen's head.

But when Qin Chen threw his punch, Zhao Liang was instantly unable to keep his eyes open. The next second, he heard a crack, and the saber in his hand shattered. Without pausing in the slightest, the fist wreathed in terrifying flames slammed straight into his chest.

Boom!

Zhao Liang felt an immensely powerful force enter his body. He even heard his own heart rupture. His eyes bulged instantly, and his face turned deathly pale.

Bang!

His body flew backward, smashing through one great tree after another before finally falling to the ground, unable to move.

Qin Chen walked toward him step by step. "A trash third-grade is still a trash third-grade. No matter how many drugs you take, you can never truly reach the threshold of a normal third-grade."

Zhao Liang watched Qin Chen approach, unable to believe that he had been defeated with a single punch.

At the same time, his eyes were filled with hatred, not because of Zhao Kuan, but because of himself. He could not accept that he was no match for Qin Chen.

Although he had only become third-grade through drugs and his true strength was only second-grade, he was still at the peak of the second grade.

What right did someone not yet eighteen, with no family background whatsoever, have to be stronger than him?

"You don't seem convinced?"

Qin Chen came up to Zhao Liang, crouched down, and spoke mildly.

Zhao Liang tried to speak, only to find that his internal organs had all been damaged. He couldn't make a sound.

"You can't even speak. Then I'll put you out of your misery!" Qin Chen raised his palm and brought it down toward Zhao Liang's head.

"Qin Chen!" Just then, a shout rang out. "Don't kill him!"

But Qin Chen's palm did not pause in the slightest.

Bang!