Free Web NovelChapter 46: Break Some Bones
Chapter 45
"Do you guys still want to hear the long version?" Li Yu asked while looking at the group, who were staring at him with looks of pity. It seemed that they had already confirmed in their minds that he had lost his mind.
"Actually, I don’t think that is necessary," Li Xie replied, shaking his head. "We will have Elder Jushong check up on you when we get back to the clan."
Li Yu frowned as he searched through Li Yu’s memories to see who this Jushong was. A few moments later, he remembered. He was the spirit physician of the Li Clan.
It seemed that they didn’t believe a single word of his long explanation, Li Yu thought, feeling slightly stupefied. He had simply told them the truth of what happened. "You guys, I’m serious. freēwebnovel.com
I’m actually telling the truth. You would have been shocked if you were there to witness all the events that I’m telling you about," he said. But the group only shook their heads. Only Yuexin didn’t shake her head.
Instead, her gaze was filled with curiosity and confusion. Li Feng snorted as he rose from his seat, giving Li Yu an annoyed glare. "If you had said that a sage descended from the heavens beyond and healed your spirit root, it would still have been more believable than the bundle of lies that you just spilled out."
Li Yu blinked before replying blankly with a straight face. "Actually, I’m telling the truth. Yeah, I know it sounds unbelievable and sounds as if I cooked all this up to hide the secret of how my spirit root was healed, but that is not what happened. Everything I said is real... I swear that on my cousin’s life."
Li Feng, who was about to leave, stopped in his tracks. Who was Li Yu’s cousin? Of course, he had many cousins, but only one from the direct family line. Him.
He is swearing on my life? "Damn brat." A vein bulged on Li Feng’s forehead. "I need to teach him a lesson." Whoosh! Boom! The sound of something striking something else suddenly echoed throughout the cave as a powerful gust of wind pressure slammed into everyone sitting nearby.
The others instinctively shielded themselves. When the dust cleared, the entire group gasped. Li Feng had attacked Li Yu. His hand, clenched tightly into a fist, was only inches away from Li Yu’s face.
Yet, unlike what everyone would have expected, it was not stopped by Li Yuexin, who was probably the only person fast enough here to react to Li Feng’s attack.
Instead, the one who had actually stopped Li Feng’s punch was Li Yu himself. Holding Li Feng’s fist firmly within his right palm and completely halting its advance was none other than Li Yu.
Li Feng’s eyes widened in shock. First, because Li Yu had been fast enough to react. Second, because Li Yu had actually managed to stop his punch. A punch empowered by Qi.
Li Feng’s intention had been simple. He wanted to knock out several of Li Yu’s teeth and make him suffer a little for swearing on his life so casually. Yet now, his expression was frozen.
Li Feng could feel a crushing force coming from Li Yu’s grip. A force that he was more than certain a Body Refinement cultivator was never supposed to possess. Slowly, ever so slowly, Li Yu pushed his hand aside. The motion seemed casual.
Effortless. As Li Feng’s fist was moved away, Li Yu’s figure was revealed once more, a small smile resting on his face. His dark eyes gleamed with amusement as he looked directly at his cousin.
"What are you doing?" Li Feng frowned as he continued to speak. "Trust me, just because your spirit root is healed and you are now a cultivator, you shouldn’t think you are on my level yet. That would be a very costly mistake."
Li Feng’s voice was clearly annoyed. How dare a Body Refinement cultivator face off against a Qi Refining cultivator? And not just any Qi Refining cultivator, but someone like Li Feng. Li Yu’s face didn’t change from his usual smiling expression.
"Are you certain about that?" Li Yu tilted his head ever so slightly before continuing. "Trust me, you are the one that should be worried if I ever decide to go against you." Li Feng’s face changed instantly, an immediate scowl forming on his handsome features.
"You damn brat." His hand moved toward the hilt of the blade strapped to his side. Li Yu only smiled even wider when he saw that. It seemed he would be breaking some bones today.
And who would have guessed that it would be his own cousin’s? The tension between the two had reached a breaking point, so close to snapping that the atmosphere itself felt strained.
Li Yu was ready to crush Li Feng’s hand and then follow up by breaking a few of his bones, while Li Feng was about to draw his sword and leave several marks across Li Yu’s face.
Just when the two cousins were about to make their respective moves, a voice rang out and stopped them both. "You two, stop this!" Li Yuexin spoke, her face serious. She turned her gaze toward Li Feng.
"Brother Feng, is this how you treat your brother? Someone we have been looking for for so long, and now that we have finally found him, you want to attack him?" Her tone was clearly reprimanding. Li Feng’s face turned sour as he nodded inwardly.
Yuexin was right. He had just lost his cool. "You are right. I shouldn’t be attacking a lost brother during our first meeting." The rest of the sentence remained inside his mind. I would be doing it another time. Seeing that Li Feng had seemingly given up on slicing him up, Li Yu was still holding onto him though.
He still wanted to break some bones. Really break some bones. "Brother Yu, you too..." Li Yu blinked. Was he about to be reprimanded as well? Li Yuexin’s gaze landed on Li Yu’s palm, which was still gripping Li Feng’s hand.
Seeing where she was looking, Li Yu let go of Li Feng’s hand. Li Feng also pulled his hand back, hiding it inside his sleeve. His gaze appeared calm and cool, but the anger within it had not lessened one bit. Still, he held himself back.
Li Feng turned to look at Li Yuexin. She was going to rebuke Li Yu as well, right? Li Yuexin walked closer to Li Yu, her expression not looking good. She was definitely going to reprimand him. Maybe even slap him a few times. At least that was what Li Feng thought as he smirked internally.
But that was not what happened. Li Yuexin bent down and grabbed Li Yu’s hand, checking it carefully and tenderly as if it were a fragile egg. She let out a huge sigh of relief when she saw that it wasn’t swollen or anything of the sort. It didn’t even appear injured.
Yet, just to be extra sure that Li Yu was alright, she collected a healing potion that Xie had kept in reserve... Just in case things turned south. Then she handed it to Li Yu and urged him to drink it.
Seeing all the care and how genuinely worried she seemed to be for him, Li Yu decided not to argue that he was perfectly fine and accepted it anyway. After all, he wasn’t the one she was supposed to be worried about.
Among him and his cousin, he was more than certain that he possessed the superior physical strength. Li Feng, seeing this scene, felt his blood boil. His emotions stirred and his pride was stung. Without waiting another second, he turned and left the cave.
When he got outside, he revealed the hand he had used to punch Li Yu. And behold... His hand was swollen. It looked exactly like it had after he had his bones crushed repeatedly during intense training sessions.
Seeing this, Li Feng couldn’t help but frown, his expression twisting into complicated emotions. He had even reinforced his hand with Qi when he attacked. Yet it felt as if he had struck a boulder rather than a human being. freewebnσvel.cѳm
A shiver ran involuntarily through his body when he thought about what might have happened if Li Yu had not released his hand earlier. Would his hand have been crushed? But that shouldn’t even be possible.
Li Yu was only at the Peak of Body Refinement. He shouldn’t possess the power necessary to crush his hand. Common sense said it was impossible. It was supposed to be impossible.
Utterly impossible. A Body Refinement cultivator should never be stronger than a Late Stage Qi Gathering cultivator like himself. And yet, no matter how much he tried to convince himself otherwise, reality seemed to disagree.
His swollen and reddened hand was disagreeing with common sense. Just how strong is Li Yu? Li Feng couldn’t help but have that question flash through his mind.
Meanwhile, inside the cave, Li Yuexin was still inspecting Li Yu’s hand as if searching for even the tiniest hidden injury. Li Yu, starting to feel slightly uncomfortable, gently pulled his hand away and gave her a small smile.
"I am fine, really," Li Yu said. "Are you sure?" Li Yuexin asked, her expression still filled with concern. "I am." Li Yu replied with another smile. Sincerely, he was starting to feel strange.
Li Yuexin seemed to care about him a lot. No, not him. The previous Li Yu. Hadn’t he already told her that Li Yu was dead? Well, he believed that point should have been obvious from his story.
But seeing the expressions on all four of their faces, he could tell without anyone needing to say it that none of them believed his story. After confirming that he was truly unharmed and not hiding any injuries, Li Yuexin finally let out a small sigh of relief.
Then her head lowered. "I am sorry..." Li Yu blinked. "You have always protected me over and over again, and yet when it comes to my turn, I was unable to do anything for you in return." Her voice grew softer. "I couldn’t even protect you from Brother Feng’s attack earlier. I am sorry..."
Li Yu blinked again. Now he was genuinely surprised by what she was saying. First, he didn’t need any saving and certainly wanted no pity. And second, even more surprising, was the fact that she had been genuinely worried for him.
Li Yu couldn’t help but smirk. If he and Li Feng had truly fought back then, the one she should have been worried about was Li Feng.
Because Li Yu was absolutely certain that if he wanted to, he could have effortlessly crushed him.
In fact, with the level of power he possessed right now, Li Feng wouldn’t even be able to leave a mark on him before being completely overwhelmed.
