The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

Chapter 248: Chapter 248: Sent Flying with a Slap

The reason Wanyan Hongchao hadn’t yet gone to Jizhou for revenge was simply that he had important duties.

As one of the Four Great Elders, he was responsible for taking turns guarding the herb garden and waiting for the other Elders to emerge from their seclusion.

"Brother Wanyan, you mustn’t get angry. I said he is the Martial Arts Department’s most honored guest, and that’s exactly what he is. Show some sincerity and apologize for your rudeness at once. Perhaps you’ll be allowed to live. If not—" Yan Qingshan said with a grim expression, his aura surging.

"Yan Qingshan, are you fucking threatening me?!" Wanyan Hongchao shot to his feet, his face contorted with rage.

"I’m merely reminding you how to stay alive. Since you refuse to appreciate the gesture, don’t blame me for fighting you to the death." From the moment Yan Qingshan became Jiang Xinghai’s servant, he had sworn to protect everything about his master—including his honor.

"Fight me to the death?"

Wanyan Hongchao suddenly burst out laughing. "Yan Qingshan, you think a mere Fourth-Grade Great Venerable like you can fight me, a Seventh-Grade Great Venerable, to the death?"

"So what?" Yan Qingshan stepped forward.

"In that case, I’ll slaughter you first," Wanyan Hongchao snarled, his face a mask of fury.

"Third Elder, wait!"

Just then, Hu Dashan appeared in their field of view. "Why trouble the Third Elder with these two? I’m more than enough to handle them."

He strode over, shot a single glance at Jiang Xinghai, then walked right past him to stand before Yan Qingshan.

He completely ignored Jiang Xinghai.

"Old Hu, you’re going to stand against me, too?" Yan Qingshan sounded completely confident.

His confidence stemmed entirely from Jiang Xinghai’s presence.

"You’re the one who doesn’t understand the rules, Old Yan. Standing against you is simply my duty as a member of the Martial Arts Department." Hu Dashan had disliked Yan Qingshan for a long time.

"Old Hu, go tie up that... Mr. Jiang. Old Yan is the one who asked for this fight; how could I possibly back down?" Wanyan Hongchao said grimly.

Yan Qingshan immediately took a large step back, protectively shielding Jiang Xinghai, who was observing the herb garden. "If anyone takes another step forward, I, Yan Qingshan, swear I’ll take one of you down with me, even if it costs me my life!"

Just then, Jiang Xinghai turned around with an annoyed expression. "Old Yan, first things first. Tell me, is this the herb garden of the Central State Martial Arts Department?"

He gestured to the herb garden before them, a look of profound disappointment on his face.

"It is," Yan Qingshan confirmed.

Jiang Xinghai was deeply disappointed. "To think that the herb garden jointly guarded by the great Martial Arts Department and the National Medical Hall would have only five First-Grade medicinal herbs, three Second-Grade ones, and a single Third-Grade one! How pathetic." freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Moreover, he observed that the garden possessed only a very faint Spiritual Energy, and even the natural fragrance of the herbs themselves was fading.

"So you really did come to plunder the herbs! Damn you!" Wanyan Hongchao exploded with rage.

"I’ve had enough of your endless barking, you old codger." Jiang Xinghai had been observing the herb garden until now, not participating in the others’ dispute.

But now things were different. He had found a stalk of Dragon Scale Bamboo, a Second-Grade Spiritual Medicine, standing over half a meter tall and entirely emerald green.

Now, it was time to deal with Wanyan Hongchao and Hu Dashan.

"How audacious!"

Seething with rage, Hu Dashan advanced on Jiang Xinghai. "To be so disrespectful to the Third Elder... Boy, you’re doomed to die without a proper burial today!"

"Get lost!"

Jiang Xinghai took a step forward and swung his palm.

SMACK!

A single slap sent Hu Dashan flying.

’What?’ Wanyan Hongchao was the most shocked, aside from Hu Dashan himself, who had been sent tumbling aside.

’A Fourth-Grade Great Venerable!’

’Sent flying by a single slap, just like that?’

"Old Yan, finish him."

Jiang Xinghai shot Yan Qingshan a meaningful glance. Heavily injured, Hu Dashan was no longer a match for Yan Qingshan.

"This old servant understands." Yan Qingshan surged forward.

Jiang Xinghai turned to the astonished Wanyan Hongchao. "Old man, I hear Wanyan Honglie was your cousin, correct?"

"O-Of course." Wanyan Hongchao nodded instinctively.

"And Wanyan Xiong was your nephew," Jiang Xinghai added.

Wanyan Hongchao suddenly realized something. "Could it be... you’re... you’re that Little Chef!"

"Surprised?" Jiang Xinghai raised a hand and lit a cigarette.

Wanyan Hongchao sucked in a sharp breath.

He had also seen the network-wide live broadcast of the deathmatch on Luolin Mountain that night.

And he had seen for himself just how powerful that Little Chef was!

He never would have imagined it was the very same Mr. Jiang standing before him!

Paying no mind to Wanyan Hongchao’s reaction, Jiang Xinghai leaped into the herb garden.

"Thief, you dare!"

Wanyan Hongchao shot forward in an instant. "Since you’re the one who killed my kin, I have even more reason to end you!"

BAM!

However, Wanyan Hongchao had barely leaped into the air when he was met with a kick from Jiang Xinghai.

CRASH!

Wanyan Hongchao was sent flying by the kick, crashing heavily back where he started.

At the same moment, the sounds of Hu Dashan’s dying struggles echoed out.

"Mr. Jiang is magnificent!"

Yan Qingshan, who was in the middle of pummeling Hu Dashan, saw the Seventh-Grade Great Venerable Wanyan Hongchao get sent flying by Jiang Xinghai’s kick.

’His master’s power was truly terrifying!’