NOVEL NEXT Chapter 596: Reaching the Peak 5 (4,000 words)_2
Even Wu Zhao felt that Tan Shuangshuang's demands were somewhat excessive, yet didn't find anything wrong with it.
Seeing that Tan Shuangshuang wasn't planning to use a weapon, Wu Zhao naturally didn't intend to use one either. He merely circulated the spiritual power throughout his body, and his skin immediately took on a green jade hue, resembling a jade figure.
This is the Wu Family's signature cultivation technique, the Green Jade Body Refining Technique, which can instantly harden the skin, making it resistant to knives and guns. It's said that when cultivated to great success, even the full force strike of a Great Martial Artist can be endured.
Of course, Wu Zhao's Green Jade Body Refining Technique is only at the beginner level, far from great success, and can only fend off enemies at the Martial Artist level. Naturally, Tan Shuangshuang, though a Martial Artist, didn't take Wu Zhao's Green Jade Body Refining Technique seriously. If his father were to use it, she might indeed be troubled.
Tan Shuangshuang didn't plan to wait for Wu Zhao to make his move. Her foot shifted, and she swiftly closed in on Wu Zhao!
As Wu Zhao, taken aback, reacted and retreated, Tan Shuangshuang's hand already aimed at Wu Zhao's chest. These two attacks from Tan Shuangshuang completely lacked martial techniques, using only the Tan Family's basic footwork and attack methods.
Sometimes, when the basics are mastered to the extreme, they rival the power of martial techniques. Tan Shuangshuang had already reached the transformation realm in her past life through countless cultivation sessions of the Tan Family's basic attack methods and footwork.
At this moment, she used them with such proficiency that Wu Zhao had no room to counterattack, forced to retreat to evade Tan Shuangshuang's strikes—one move, two moves; Tan Shuangshuang used basic attack methods, while Wu Zhao evaded clumsily.
With the third move, a cold glint flashed in Tan Shuangshuang's eyes, and she channeled spiritual energy to her fingertips, suddenly executing the Cloud-piercing Finger aimed directly at Wu Zhao's chest.
The Cloud-piercing Finger is an advanced martial technique, although only low-grade yellow level, it's the most suitable martial technique for Tan Shuangshuang's level to cultivate. Tan Shuangshuang was equally skillful in its cultivation.
The Cloud-piercing Finger mainly targets acupoints, delivering offensive spiritual energy into the opponent's body to achieve a lethal effect. Having evaded Tan Shuangshuang's previous two attacks, Wu Zhao believed he could handle the third.
But once Tan Shuangshuang truly executed the Cloud-piercing Finger, Wu Zhao realized that wasn't the case. Tan Shuangshuang's attack was exceedingly adhesive, and no matter how Wu Zhao tried to evade, he couldn't escape the direct hit of the Cloud-piercing Finger aimed at his chest.
Wu Zhao nearly exhausted all his body's spiritual power in his feet, dodging rapidly, but it was futile. Tan Shuangshuang's attack stuck close to his body, advancing continuously as he retreated!
After finding every evasion ineffective, Wu Zhao's face turned grim, laced with an indistinct fear. He finally sensed the tenacity of Tan Shuangshuang's strike but found no escape!
Just when Wu Zhao thought he couldn't dodge Tan Shuangshuang's third move, Tan Shuangshuang's attack seemed spent, unable to advance further, halting abruptly as her fingertip was about to touch Wu Zhao's chest.
Tan Shuangshuang's fingertip stopped two fingers' breadth away from Wu Zhao, giving him a sense of relief from a near-death experience. Then he heard Tan Shuangshuang snort coldly, retracting her hand as she calmly said, "Leave 50,000 gold coins, take your people, and leave the Tan Family!"
Wu Zhao was dumbfounded for a while. Tan Shuangshuang's attack indeed gave him a sense of imminent death. He was merely a small Martial Artist, and if his heart vein were harmed, it would be a near-certain death!
Of course, Wu Zhao didn't believe Tan Shuangshuang would dare to kill him, but inflicting serious harm and making him suffer lying in bed was something she undoubtedly wouldn't hesitate to do. Hence, Wu Zhao thought he would have to become intimate with the bed for a while, only to find Tan Shuangshuang had spared him!
50,000 gold coins isn't a small amount. Even if Wu Zhao and the Wu Family members who came with him pooled all their money, it wouldn't suffice. Wu Zhao then wrote an IOU and had all the Wu Family members press down their handprints before leaving the Tan Family sheepishly, promising to gather the coins and deliver them the next day.
After Wu Zhao left, Tan Shuangshuang picked up the heavily injured Fei Hu and turned to leave. The young Tan Family members, feeling ashamed, wished they could shrink their presence as much as possible, hoping Tan Shuangshuang regarded them as air, entirely unnoticed.