Free Web NovelChapter 130: Chapter 114: Attack 2
"Okay, go ahead and take Xiao Yu to your room. I’ll give you your lesson in a bit."
With Coach Su’s approval, Lu Anning immediately nodded. She waved to Xiao Yu behind her and then ran inside. To the sound of their pattering footsteps—TAP, TAP, TAP—Lu Anning and Xiao Yu’s figures vanished from the training hall.
The man with salt-and-pepper hair kept his eyes fixed on Lu Anning until she had completely disappeared from sight. Only then did he shift his gaze to Su Xing, looking him up and down and sizing up the current master of the Sword Hall.
"Teacher Li, what brings you here today?"
Su Xing waited for Lu Anning and the other girl to disappear before turning to Li Yu and the elderly man. He asked nonchalantly, as if nothing were amiss. Hearing Su Xing’s question, Li Yu broke into a warm smile.
"Su Yu’s brother, here’s the situation."
"We mentioned before that in two months—which is just a few days from now—your brother Su Yu was scheduled to go to the Capital City for a study session, right?"
"We had everything arranged, but a problem came up in the Capital City, so the study session has been postponed. It will be rescheduled for a later date. That’s why I and our school’s academic director are visiting each student’s home to inform them."
"Ah... yes, that’s right."
When the man heard Li Yu suddenly mention him, he hastily chimed in. However, his acting clearly wasn’t as practiced as Li Yu’s, and his words came out a bit stilted and hesitant.
Su Xing, who was already aware of the situation, naturally paid no mind to such minor details. He just said with a hint of regret,
"That’s a real shame. Teacher Li, and you, Director... did you come all this way just to tell us this?"
"Yes. We still have to visit the next student’s family, so we can’t stay long."
"Ah... you’re going to so much trouble. I’ll have to treat you both to a meal next time I have the chance," Su Xing said with a grateful expression. Then, at his insistence, he walked them to the lakeshore before turning back.
Su Xing had never been a parent,
but with the experience of two lifetimes, he’d been around the block. These social niceties rolled right off his tongue.
After seeing Li Yu and the white-haired man off, Su Xing returned to the Sword Hall. He watched the two of them by the lake from a distance, peering through the wooden door with narrowed eyes. He had keenly sensed that the white-haired man’s power was far from simple.
Su Yu had told him before that this was the Tier Five Sequencer Li Yu had brought along.
But hearing it secondhand hadn’t given Su Xing a clear concept of what that meant. Only now, after being so close and sensing the man’s aura, could he truly gauge his strength.
If he had to make a comparison,
the man was definitely much stronger than the Angry Vice Bishop.
As for whether the man was stronger or weaker than him, Su Xing couldn’t easily say. In terms of aura, his intensity far surpassed Su Xing’s. But in terms of physical body, he was far inferior.
In a friendly spar, Su Xing knew he wouldn’t be able to win.
But a fight to the death isn’t a simple affair of comparing auras. In a real life-or-death battle, Su Xing was confident he could take the man’s head with the sword in his hand.
「Meanwhile, at the lakeshore.」
Beside the black sedan, Li Yu leaned against the car door, gazing at the warm sun in the distance.
Elder Lu sat in the passenger seat, his eyes shut and his brow furrowed, seemingly pondering some baffling matter. He remained that way until Li Yu’s voice broke his thoughts.
"Elder Lu, did you find anything?"
"Sigh. The baffling part... is that I found nothing at all." Hearing Li Yu, Elder Lu slowly opened his eyes. He gazed toward the distant Sword Hall, his eyes meeting Su Xing’s across the space between them.
"What do you mean?"
Li Yu didn’t quite understand what Elder Lu meant. If you found something unusual, you found it. If you didn’t, you didn’t. The fact that *not* finding anything was what was baffling... well, that baffled Li Yu as well.
"Did you feel it?"
"What?"
"Oh, right. You’re only Tier Four. Your sensitivity to energy isn’t as acute, so of course you wouldn’t be able to feel it."
Elder Lu shook his head and continued.
When a person reaches Tier Five, they form a resonance with the world itself. Some individuals with exceptional talent can even cause the world to hum in response.
That is why Tier Five is the most important dividing line within the ranks of the Extraordinary.
The sensitivity to and utilization of energy by Extraordinary Beings at Tier Five and above is far beyond anything those below them can compare to.
This is also the most critical reason why Tier Fives can tear open spatial rifts. It’s not just that their abilities are powerful enough, but that they can accurately locate the weak points in space.
Most Tier Fives rely on this technique to tear open rifts.
Of course, Su Xing was an exception.
He tore open spatial rifts using the simplest method—brute force. He was truly in a class of his own.
"Elder Lu, so what is it you sensed?"
Hearing Elder Lu say this,
Li Yu didn’t get annoyed. He just sat up straight and asked earnestly.
Elder Lu glanced at Li Yu, leaned back in his seat, and crossed one leg over the other.
"I didn’t find anything off about Su Xing. He’s just too normal. As normal as any regular person."
"But... I did discover that Su Xing’s female apprentice has already become Extraordinary. A Tier Two Martial Artist, at the very least."
"Do you think... that without a proper lineage or inheritance, a Martial Artist like her could break through and become Extraordinary on her own?"
The moment Elder Lu finished speaking, a chill ran down Li Yu’s spine. His voice grew tense.
"Are you saying... Su Xing is the one who turned Lu Anning into a Martial Artist, but his own power is so great that even you can’t see through him?"
"Then he must be at least Tier Six?!"
At this thought, Li Yu was momentarily speechless. He had previously considered a link between Su Xing and the mysterious master, but had ultimately dismissed the idea.
But now...
Su Xing couldn’t possibly be the mysterious master.
After all, the mysterious master had only killed a Tier Five. At his absolute strongest, he was a Tier Five Martial Artist. That was far weaker than the Tier Six Elder Lu was speculating about.
"No, no, no, no..."
Elder Lu shook his head. "He can’t be Tier Six."
"I’ve met my fair share of Tier Six and Tier Seven individuals, and none of them felt like this."
"Unless he’s so powerful it’s beyond belief, he couldn’t possibly hide his abilities from me completely."
"Or... he has some item that can block perception. But things like that are incredibly rare and aren’t likely to turn up in a place like this."
"I’m more inclined to believe he’s an ordinary person."
This back-and-forth was making Li Yu’s head spin. One moment, Elder Lu was saying Su Xing was extraordinary; the next, he was saying he was just a regular person. Li Yu couldn’t help but ask:
"Elder Lu, then what were you agonizing over just now?"
"’If Su Xing isn’t the one who passed on the inheritance to them, then who is?’ That’s what I was puzzling over."
"Su Xing himself might just be a normal person, not worth paying much mind to. But who is the one that left them this inheritance? Could it be that mysterious master you mentioned?"
Elder Lu silently glanced at Li Yu. Li Yu pondered for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Elder Lu, that is highly possible."
"There has always been speculation within the organization that the mysterious master has been silently protecting the Sword Hall. However, the organization’s strategy has been to deliberately *not* investigate the master, so we’ve never dug too deep into it."
"But the mysterious master is incredibly powerful. As for why he’s been protecting this Sword Hall, we’re completely in the dark."
Just then,
Li Yu’s phone suddenly rang, shattering the rhythm of their conversation and their train of thought.
Elder Lu glanced at Li Yu, gesturing for him to answer. Li Yu looked at the caller ID: Wang Yu. ’Shouldn’t he be at the organization’s headquarters right now?’ he thought. With a puzzled expression, he answered the call.
"Hello?"
"Senior Li Yu! Attack! There’s an... we’re being... attacked!!!"
A man’s panicked voice came through the phone, broken and intermittent. At the same time, the sound of massive explosions could be heard from the other end. The color drained from Li Yu’s face.
He gripped the phone, the veins on the back of his hand popping out as he roared:
"Wang Yu! Tell the team to hold on! I’m on my way back now!!!"
