d"What a hilarious logic that was! You helped them murder my grandson just because you were at your wit's end? Qiu Yunchong, I won't let you get away with it if you can't give me a plausible explanation! You hear me?"
Xu Wenchuan's intimidation put an agonized look on Qiu Yunchong's face.
It was literally the best demonstration of an old saying — one went for wool but came back shorn.
Being a royal relative, Xu Wenchuan would barely fall for the treaty signed between the emperor and Wu Qiujun.
Hence, Qiu Wanli could hardly gloss it over with an explanation measuring up to the requirements of the Duke of Dingshan. The best scenario he could envisage was nothing but ending up getting spat to his face by Xu Wenchuan.
In that case, to fool Xu Wenchuan was no different than asking for the moon.
Right after reproaching him, Xu Wenchuan looked back at Wu Qiujun.
"Old dog, Qiu Yunchong said that anyone who messes around here is at your mercy, is that right?"
Wu Qiujun put a grim look on hearing that.
"Why do you play dumb? Your empire would be no appeal to me if Bai Zhenchuan, your emperor, hadn't been so ill and stupid to have signed the treaty with me!"
"Boo! Shame on you! How dare you have the impudence to say that? How much wealth have you embezzled from the Qingyun Empire? I have never seen any wholes retain a reputation of chastity! So you have the power to punish any troublemakers here in whatever manner you see fit. I am here waiting for your amazing demonstration of that!"
Xu Wenchuan struck out his palm right away; his formidable attack brought about a quake-like destruction with an ear-splitting boom, resembling the explosion of a grenade.
A huge amount of wood debris spattering here and there, an invaluable bookshelf, made of premium crabapple wood, got smashed into ashes forthwith.
In the aftermath of his attack, a couple of raw stones of blood steel got implicated and ended up useless powder as well. Barren stones as they were, they could have earned thousands of kilos of gold for Wu Qiujun.
"Xu Wenchuan, what are you doing?!"
Wu Qiujun glared at Xu Wenchuan, completely terrified.
Xu Wenchuan sneered, twitching his mouth.
"Wu Qiujun, for God's sake, what's wrong with you? Can't you tell what I'm doing? I'm causing a trouble, right here in the Tianbao Mansion!"
"Darned! Fantastic! Now that you have discarded our brotherhood, I shan't give a shit about our past anymore. Come and have a fight!"
Wu Qiujun could no longer bear with Xu Wenchuan's insult any longer.
Bursting out growling, he launched dozens of attacks at Xu Wenchuan, hacking the latter with his palm.
Standing still, Xu Wenchuan sneered and made an equally forceful move to fight back.
Their palms crashed into one another again and again with striking momentum.
The tit-for-tat cliff-hanger lasted for a while.
Xu Wenchuan's amazing performance manifested his mighty mettle to the brim. Considering his age, one would, by all means, become in complete awe of him.
Duan Lengyan hadn't attached that much attention to Xu Wenchuan before the duel started. Based on what she knew, Xu Wenchuan's martial capacity only stood at the eighth level of the spiritual energy, inferior to Wu Qiujun.
By extension, Xu Wenchuan would have ended up throwing in the sponge as the tough duel going.
She soon found, nevertheless, it turned out the other way round.
With waves of booms coming off, Xu Wenchuan and Wu Qiujun had at least had dozens of rounds.
To her surprise, Xu Wenchuan didn't appear exhausted at all; the more rounds he had, the higher spirits he was in — it looked as if the duel could have continued forever.
He had never been at a disadvantage during the duel; they only reached a tie even if Wu Qiujun applied himself to it.
On seeing that, Duan Lengyan went slack-jawed and wondered in spite of herself — did it mean that Xu Wenchuan's martial capacity had reached the ninth level as well?
Hardly had she recollected herself than Xu Wenchuan shook the Tianbao Mansion with his sonorous laugh.
In the meantime, their palms met one another again in the air.