Gu Hanzhong’s five men stormed out of the car, but a single punch had them sprawling on the floor.
“You!” Lan Tianci went wide-eyed.
Who wouldn’t recognize their abductor? Especially when this black figure left him in Feng City.
His fate changed and it was all this guy’s fault.
Li Mo didn’t spare him a word and left.
“S-stop!”
Lan Tianci roared, but Li Mo was long gone.
“One punch…
“He-he.
“How laughable.”
Lan Tianci gave a self mocking chuckle seeing the unconscious men.
He couldn’t even beat one of them, least of all five, in a single punch.
‘Dad could do it…’
Recalling Lan Yue, Lan Tianci woke up.
He got used to being spoiled and ending up with never needing to do anything in his life.
As any mistake he’d ever made would get patched up by others.
“Would I have turned the same if I had power?
“How ironic, being saved by the one who did this to me. And what can I do? Nothing.
“The ones I bossed around can’t help me.
“Friends? In all my life I can’t say I made one true friend.
“Gu Hanzhong didn’t use to mess with me because of dad. Now that dad can’t help me, he is after payback.
“Gu Hanzhong is just like me, but he has the Sage King Physique. And even if Gu Tianjue wasn’t around, he could still stand tall.
“But what about me?”
Clank~
Lan Tianci was roused from his introspection by a falling blue book at his feet.
“Thousand Leagues Punch?”
Lan Tianci held the book, stunned.
He once looked over his family’s Hundred Sacred Kickboxing, and even if he couldn’t train it, he understood the difference from a hundred and a thousand.
“Was there such a thing in this world? A ploy maybe? Ha-ha, fine. Come then, what’s the point of fearing ploys now?”
Lan Tianci flipped through the book.
Lan Tianci was a plain human. He wasn’t gifted either, just your average citizen.
But seeing how it couldn’t get any lower than this, when one reached the rock-bottom the only way forward was up. So he took this sudden ‘boon’ in the form of Thousand Leagues Punch at face value.
Lan Tianci read for three days and finally memorized the first three lines on the first page.
He was no genius, and the complicated words were hard to remember.
“What do they even mean? What good will it do to memorize this if I can’t train it?”
Lan Tianci recalled his dad.
Skipping the obvious issue about the book’s verity, with his perception, it would take hundreds of years before he would even train in it.
“I’ve seen my fair share of fools, but you take the cake.”
Li Mo appeared again out of helplessness.
“I knew it was you!”
So what if it’s me?”
“What are you planning?”
“Nothing.”
“You made me like this so how could this broken fist thing not be some plan of yours?”
“Was it really me who made you like this, or did you brought it on yourself?”
Lan Tianci was silent. Even without Li Mo saying it, he understood the truth in these few days.
“I know that might makes right. You are powerful so you can use me as you want!”
“Correct.” Li Mo nodded.
“I want to be strong!”
“With your talent, it’s nigh impossible.”
“I know that, but I still want strength.”
Lan Tianci had suffered so many blows these days that made him clearer than anyone of the value of power. Or he wouldn’t have just picked the Thousand Leagues Punch.
Li Mo reached over and took the Thousand Leagues Punch. He walked to Lan Tianci and poured its contents into his mind.
He also hit his acupoints, teaching him the right meridian pathways.
“I see… I see…”
Lan Tianci clenched his fist and blue spiritual qi gathered. He punched and the grass a couple feet away swayed.
“Is this the Thousand Leagues Punch? Ha-ha-ha, I can practice it!”
“You can’t even reach one meter and you want a thousand leagues?”
“Did you help me? Then you must know the true way to train the Thousand Leagues Punch. Teach me!”
“I can only put you at the starting line. I can guide you no further. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I am sure you know what that means.
“Cultivation rests solely on you. Godlike talent or supreme constitution matters not. The only thing of value is your heart.”
Li Mo vanished.
This time he was gone for good.
He said his piece and taught what he could. Next was all up to Lan Tianci.
Ten miles out, Li Mo and Lan Yue watched Lan Tianci practice the Thousand Leagues Punch.
Lan Yue was very distressed.
It was all a play he and Li Mo enacted. But it was always Li Mo who took the initiative while Lan Yue sometimes showed resistance. And as he was weaker than Li Mo, he could only watch his son suffer, powerless to help.
“Can you help him his entire life?”
“I may not be able to, but I will try my best to do it while I’m alive.”
“You’re just too good to him.”
“His mom died young. He’s the only family I have…”
“All the more reason to let him grow. By always helping him you harm him instead.”
“Will you undo the seal?”
“No.”
“You…”
Li Mo would never had gone so far to help someone else, but Lan Yue was the Chief of Experts Alliance. If he didn’t remove the man’s flaw, when the alien invaded and Li Mo took to the stars, who’d lead the battle?
Lan Yue was a good leader and only by fixing this flaw of his would let Li Mo rest easy.
“It’s really difficult forming the core of the alien resistance.”
Li Mo sighed.
The God Realm gradually enveloped Earth. It wasn’t long before the aliens would descend and if the core resistance wasn’t ready by that time, there’d be hell on Earth.
Experts Alliance, headquarters.
Three thousand experts sat cross-legged on the floor with the spiritual qi visible as it tempered their bodies.
For them to grow strong, Li Mo had to pay a heavy price. He drew great amounts of spiritual qi from beyond the planet and used Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art to transform the headquarters into a cultivator’s paradise.
A day cultivated here equaled a year anywhere.
That was on account of these people who never encountered such pure spiritual qi, of course. While it had a negligible effect on Li Mo.
Hum~
A rush of cold swept the area.
Frozone Sun Wei entered the fifth level!
Xixiang base’s Jiang Qingshuang entered the peak fifth level.
There were no exceptions. Any expert cultivating in the Experts Alliance headquarters would have their power greatly bolstered!
This was Li Mo’s promised Hundred Qi Pill.
Bai Wudi was among them as well. His progress scared even himself. He now comprehended the Bai clan’s fifth skill and was this close to learn the sixth.
‘Is this real? Grandfather spent a hundred years to grasp the fifth skill so how could I achieve it so early?’
Bai Wudi was too shocked to even believe the truth in front of him.
Whoosh~
Three lights shot from a person’s head, straight into the sky.
The average Liu Feng had actually broken through, trice even.
Entering the peak fifth level on the spot!
