Chapter 1706 — Am I Dreaming?
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"Little Feng, watch out!" In that split second, Yu Shuixing suddenly sensed Chen Yuxuan's strength, and with alarm in his heart, the warning broke from his lips.
But it was already too late. The clash of palms happened in an instant—no exaggeration to say it was over like a spark struck from flint. The very moment Yu Shuixing's words fell, Yu Feng was sent flying by Chen Yuxuan, slammed straight into the white wall of the conference room. The force smashed a human-shaped hole in the wall, its edge flecked with streaks of blood.
A mid-Profound-Rank cultivator and a peak-late-Profound-Rank cultivator were in two completely different weight classes. Had Yu Feng used footwork and technique to play for time, he might not have lost so miserably. But he chose the direct, head-on approach. He had listened to Yu Shuixing and come at Chen Yuxuan with the intent to kill right away, never imagining that the other's true qi would prove so overwhelmingly fierce and hurl him back.
Everyone was dumbfounded—including the heads of several great houses, Old Master Chen Kuanglan among them—staring at Chen Yuxuan in disbelief. Chen Yuxuan of the Chen family had once been an unknown nobody, in the beginning merely a small-time fighter at the early Yellow Rank. It was only recently that he had begun to attract a little attention, and that attention had been mocking: no sooner had he broken through to the early Profound Rank than he threw his weight around and fought Yu Feng over a woman, only to suffer severe injuries and end up ruined.
Yet no one could have imagined that Chen Yuxuan would become a peak-late-Profound-Rank master and appear at the Great Assembly in such a manner.
Now, even a fool could see that Chen Yuxuan had come fully prepared, not on some hot-blooded impulse.
Of course, the others were merely shocked and envious; Old Master Chen, however, was so stirred that his whole body trembled. He remembered the words Chen Yuxuan had said to him over the phone a few days earlier: "Grandfather, I will make you proud."
And he had done it.
Chen Kuanglan knew perfectly well what a peak-late-Profound-Rank master meant to the Chen family. It was the hallmark of a top-tier great house; at present, only the Yu family had one, in the person of Yu Shuixing. In other words, the rise of the Chen family was no longer a dream.
Chen Kuanglan wanted to laugh. His name had been well chosen indeed—Chen Kuanglan, one who literally turns back the raging tide. At the Chen family's most critical moment, his grandson had turned back the tide for him and revived the family's spirit anew.
"Little Feng!" Yu Shuixing shot to his feet, a roar of grief and fury bursting from his mouth: "Chen Yuxuan, so you've actually reached the peak of the late Profound Rank? How dare you resort to such trickery?!"
"Me, resort to trickery?" Chen Yuxuan smiled. "When did I ever say I wasn't at the peak of the late Profound Rank? Did I say that? I only said I was not at the early Profound Rank, nor at the peak of the early Profound Rank. It's you two, father and son, who are dim-witted, jumping to the conclusion that my strength was poor!"
Chen Yuxuan's retort made Yu Shuixing's expression freeze. True—the man had never claimed he was not a peak-late-Profound-Rank master. He had indeed misunderstood.
But when Yu Shuixing saw Yu Feng's miserable, blood-soaked state, he felt like killing Chen Yuxuan then and there. Yet at this very moment, under the gaze of everyone present, he truly could not do anything to Chen Yuxuan.
The Great Assembly had its own rules. If the Yu family took the lead in breaking them, how could it continue to play the role of the leader among the great houses?