Medical and Martial God

”Yue Longxuan is strong enough to kill Huang Quan easily, but he chose to use landmines. Utterly shameless and devoid of martial virtue.”

”Huang Quan only gets to be number one because our Restorer Alliance and the Eternal Kingdom can’t be bothered with him. I bet he’s a Fourth Realm War God at most.”

”I watched the stream of Huang Quan fighting Ba Dao. Ba Dao was just a Second Realm War God who had comprehended Blade Intent. Even though Huang Quan killed him in one strike, that doesn’t prove Huang Quan is strong, it just means Ba Dao was weak. Huang Quan is probably only a Third Realm War God.”

”Huang Quan can only act tough around regular people. When he faces our Restorer Alliance or the Eternal Kingdom, he’s nothing but an ant.”

The group members chimed in one after another. While none of them believed Huang Quan was a match for Yue Longxuan, they all looked down on him and didn’t take him seriously.

Just then, a member named ’King of the Snow Region’ spoke up. ”You are all underestimating Huang Quan.”

Meng Yinwan replied, ”North King, what do you mean by that?”

The King of the Snow Region wrote, ”Hehe, it’s nothing...”

At ten o’clock the next morning, on the summit of a small hill not far from Unparalleled Mountain, Meng Yinwan and four others from the Restorer Alliance were using binoculars, enjoying the spectacle unfolding on the peak.

On the summit of Unparalleled Mountain, an old man with white hair and a white beard, exuding the air of a Grandmaster, was dueling a counterfeit Huang Quan dressed in the Huang Quan Suit and wielding the Battle Soul Blade. Yin Pinghu stood to the side, recording on his phone, while Kristina and dozens of experts from the Eternal Kingdom watched the show.

”What’s going on? Yue Longxuan arranged to fight Huang Quan on Unparalleled Mountain at noon, so why did Huang Quan arrive at ten? And wasn’t Yue Longxuan planning to kill him with landmines? Why are they actually dueling?”

Meng Yinwan and her four companions frowned, completely confused. They had no idea that the Huang Quan on the summit was a fake, or that Yue Longxuan was just filming a scene.

At that moment, on the peak of Unparalleled Mountain, the grandmaster-like Yue Longxuan seized an opportunity and kicked the counterfeit Huang Quan in the chest.

The impostor was sent flying. He struggled on the ground a few times but couldn’t get back up.

”So the renowned Huang Quan is just a piece of trash that can’t take a single blow,” Yue Longxuan said with arrogant disdain, standing with his hands behind his back. He perfectly embodied the bearing of a grandmaster.

”Excellent!” Yin Pinghu stopped the recording and said respectfully, ”Master Yue, your acting is truly extraordinary. Once this video is released, it will surely shake the world. No one will doubt it.”

”Let me see!” Yue Longxuan walked over and took the phone to replay the video. Watching his own cool and effortless performance, he laughed with satisfaction.

”Can I get up now?” the fake Huang Quan asked from the ground.

”Keep lying there!” Yue Longxuan instructed. ”Someone has been spying on us from the top of that small hill a few hundred meters away. I assume they’re from the Restorer Alliance. Let them mistakenly believe I really defeated Huang Quan. That way, the video will seem more realistic when it spreads.”

”Oh!” The counterfeit Huang Quan continued to play dead.

Yin Pinghu asked, ”Master Yue, when do you think is a good time to release the video?”

”Now is fine!” Yue Longxuan said, relaxed and supremely confident. ”It’s less than two hours until my scheduled fight with Huang Quan. The 250-meter radius around Unparalleled Mountain is filled with landmines. If Huang Quan wants to climb the mountain, he must pass through the minefield. This means his time left on this earth is less than two hours.”

Kristina added, ”In this era of depleted Spiritual Energy, everyone on Earth is a mere mortal, with the exception of the Fourth Realm War Gods and above from the Eternal Kingdom. Even if Huang Quan were a Ninth Realm War God, he would be doomed against a weapon of mass destruction like a landmine. Besides, there’s no way he’s a Ninth Realm War God!”

Yin Pinghu nodded. ”Understood. I’ll upload the video to the Martial Artist forum right away.”

With that, he opened the Martial Artist forum and was about to create a post to upload the video.

Just then, the whirring sound of an approaching helicopter filled the air. Kristina, Yue Longxuan, and everyone else on Unparalleled Mountain turned toward the noise.

Their expressions all soured as if they had just tasted something awful. Yue Longxuan, in particular, felt as if he had been fiercely slapped across the face.

”Damn it, Huang Quan doesn’t play by the rules!” Yue Longxuan said with an exasperated look.

Kristina and the others felt the same. They had all been waiting for Huang Quan to arrive and hike up the mountain, right into the minefield where he would be blown to bits.

But instead, Huang Quan had arrived by helicopter!

All those landmines they buried were for nothing.

The helicopter flew over the summit of Unparalleled Mountain, and Ye Xiu, dressed in the Huang Quan Suit, jumped straight out.

”Why is there another Huang Quan?”

On the distant hill, Meng Yinwan and her four companions were utterly baffled. ”What’s going on?”

In an instant, they understood. The Huang Quan who had just been defeated by Yue Longxuan was a fake. The Eternal Kingdom intended to build up hype by having Yue Longxuan kill Huang Quan!

”Huang Quan, you shouldn’t have come by helicopter!” Yue Longxuan said coldly as Ye Xiu landed. ”If you had walked here, you would have died peacefully. Now you must face me, and you will die miserably.”

He then turned to Yin Pinghu. ”Start recording again. I’m going to kill Huang Quan myself.”

”As you command!” Yin Pinghu quickly activated his phone’s video camera.

Ye Xiu ignored Yue Longxuan. He pointed at the fake Huang Quan lying on the ground and asked, ”Didn’t you know that impersonating me is a capital offense?”

His ghostly mask hid his face, making it impossible to see his expression or his eyes, but his voice sent a chill down the spines of Yue Longxuan and everyone else present.

”Such arrogant words,” Yue Longxuan scoffed. ”He impersonated you, so what? I’m here today, and I’d like to see you try and kill him.”

Ye Xiu waved a hand.

The fake Huang Quan was lifted from the ground by a terrifying suction force, his feet leaving the earth as he flew toward Ye Xiu.

”Telekinesis? Child’s play!” Yue Longxuan shouted as he charged toward Ye Xiu, attempting to intercept the impostor.

”Get lost!”

Ye Xiu struck out with his left palm. Yue Longxuan’s shirt instantly burst apart. His charging body was thrown into reverse as if struck by a shell, and he was sent flying backward, defying all laws of motion. He flew more than ten meters before crashing to the ground, a horrifying, caved-in palm print on his chest.

”Gah...” Yue Longxuan spat out a mouthful of blood and exclaimed in shock, ”This... this is impossible! How can you be this powerful?”

As he spoke, he tried to get up but found his injuries wouldn’t allow it. The slightest movement sent waves of agonizing pain through his body.

A look of horror spread across Yue Longxuan’s face. The man he had dismissed as an ant had just gravely injured him with a single, casual palm strike. Huang Quan’s strength was terrifyingly immense.