Chapter 179: A Man’s Identify and a Tree’s Shadow

“Eh? Hey Li, did you see that? Might’ve sworn {that a} gust of wind blew in simply now, and an individual got here strolling previous us. Or am I going blind?” One of many two bodyguards to the KTV constructing immediately requested the opposite.

“You positive you’re not going blind? What individual was there?”

Within the time that the 2 bodyguards have been speaking, Wang Chao had already entered the KTV constructing and into the karaoke corridor Tan Wendong had reserved for his girlfriend. Even with a precursory look round, Wang Chao needed to admit that Tan Wendong was nice at planning issues.

For the sake of celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday, he had thrown an awesome celebration and employed some folks to behave because the stereotypical bodyguards for the VIP gang chief and visitors. Whereas these bodyguards might cease the police, they couldn’t presumably cease Wang Chao.

He had taken benefit of when the 2 bodyguards had laxed their consideration span earlier than shifting previous the doorways with the actions of the “Snake Scuttling Rat Scattering” approach. A single swish of his toes and a shake of his physique had been all that was wanted for him to blow previous them with out even a shadow to be seen. With how Wang Chao had scuttled previous them, there was no approach the 2 of them would have seen him.

For an individual who practiced martial arts, they may transfer their our bodies to excessive speeds. Shifting a dozen meters immediately and with such velocity that even the human eye couldn’t register them was not an exaggeration.

The hero Du Xinwu had as soon as placed on a show like this earlier than for the army junta. There had been an occasion inside a small room the place two folks have been ingesting tea and chatting to 1 one other. Simply because the junta had raised the cup of tea as much as drink, Du Xinwu had already disappeared from the room with no hint. Even the doorways didn’t appear to be it had been touched even.

And straight from the room on the opposite aspect, Du Xinwu had walked out. The junta had been shocked to no finish and thought that Du Xinwu had discovered the artwork of invisibility and wall phasing.

What had really occurred was when the junta had taken that second to drink his tea, Du Xinwu had used the “Leopard climbing tree” to leap out from the window.

The paws of a cat had a pad that might enable for swish and silent leaping and touchdown. For a martial artist, their legs and arms could be skilled to a level the place they may replicate the muscle tissue of a cat. With a leap of the physique, they may land and roll in the way in which a cat would immediately and trick the senses of even a human.

Below the eyes of many, Xue Dian had been capable of fly from one aspect of a eight seater desk to the opposite aspect within the time it took to slam the desk. He had repeated this achievement many instances, however not a single one of many observers have been in a position inform how he managed to do it and had thought it was magic. Even a practitioner with the well-trained eye might see the temporary second of motion if he centered all of his consideration on Xue Dian.

Wang Chao was an individual whose martial arts has reached a stage of silence. This was comparable in stage to the masters of Guoshu of the previous. So in a single second, he would positively be capable to cross over into the KTV constructing with out a lot issue.

Upon getting into the KTV constructing and strolling up the third ground, Wang Chao was capable of hear the slightest sounds of singing together with the comfortable sounds of a lady. Straining his ears, Wang Chao was capable of discern the voice of Tan Wendong from inside. Following the voice, Wang Chao walked to the biggest room and pushed open the door.

It had solely taken 5 seconds earlier than all sound from throughout the room got here to an entire cease.

At a look, Wang Chao might see Tan Wendong sitting on the couch within the middle. By his aspect was a picturesque-looking woman that wore black garments and had a fragile determine–this was clearly his girlfriend.

Apart from Tan Wendong and his girlfriend, there was additionally Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Hearth. On the opposite aspect, a plain fabric carrying police girl might be seen with a visor on her hand and one other male police officer by her aspect.

“Tan Wendong, I’ve heard that you just’ve gotten rid of certainly one of boss Hong’s arms?” The policewoman requested. “You may need been lenient and helped us enormously this time to assist put a cease to the drug commerce from Vietnam, however what you’re doing continues to be unlawful nonetheless. So long as I discover some form of proof, I’ll positively be the one to personally escort you to jail in handcuffs.”

“Yea yea, you’ve mentioned that loads of instances.” Tan Wendong spoke lazily from the place he laid on the couch; he hadn’t wished to maneuver even a single finger resulting from his place even. “At the moment’s the birthday of my woman, so let’s cease and neglect about all this speak. We’re mates, so we ought to be comfortable immediately.”

“Hmph!” The officer pressured a small smile. Catching motion from the nook of her eye, she turned to take a look at Wang Chao who had simply opened the door, “Who may this be, a good friend of yours, Wendong?”

When Tan Wendong noticed Wang Chao, his whole physique flew up as straight as an arrow whereas remaining seated to glare at Wang Chao like a hungry wolf staring down his prey.

“You! What are you doing right here, you attempting to trigger hassle for brother Dong?” Wind and Cloud had each leapt as much as their toes nervously. “How did you are available in right here in any case?” That reminiscence from when Wang Chao had lower aside Tan Wendong’s weapon with two fingers had been contemporary of their minds.

“No purpose in any respect, I’m simply right here to speak.” Wang Chao waved his hand in a gesture of goodwill. Slowly strolling into the room, he sat down onto the empty couch to the aspect of Tan Wendong.

“Ah, immediately is the birthday of your girlfriend.” It was virtually as if Wang Chao was a lifelong good friend of Tan Wendong. On the similar time he was speaking, he had already fished out a pricy wanting field. “It is a birthday current.”

“Eh?” Tan Wendong’s girlfriend hesitated to take it from him at first, however when she noticed the nod her boyfriend gave her, she took the field and gingerly opened the field. Upon the unboxing, she noticed a platinum sapphire ring twinkling within the mild again to her embedded within the field–it was clearly from an costly model.

This ring was merely one thing that Wang Chao had purchased along with his bank card at a jewellery retailer on the way in which to the constructing.

“Isn’t an costly reward like this a little bit an excessive amount of for the event?” Tan Wendong’s eager eyes had instantly realized that this ring needed to be significantly costly and was maybe a number of ten thousand RMB in worth.

“An excessive amount of? No no, how might or not it’s something however becoming?” Wang Chao’s eyes had twinkled as he noticed Tan Wendong.

When Wang Chao had gifted the extraordinarily costly platinum sapphire ring as a birthday current, the female and male law enforcement officials had seemed to one another in shock.

Tan Wendong had as an alternative stared at Wang Chao a little bit longer earlier than shifting to an much more comfy place on the couch as soon as extra, “Don’t count on a reward for one thing that doesn’t deserve one. Did you could have one thing you need from me?”

“There’s certainly.” Wang Chao smiled.

“Then say it, why don’t you?” Tan Wendong spoke lazily. “Your expertise is healthier than mine personal–ten instances over even. I noticed you in these army uniforms, you should be excessive on the pecking order. What matter might you presumably need this little Wendong to do for you?”

“There’s no future to being in a gang. You’re a younger however proficient one with loads of potential. To combine with a prison gang and deal in crime as an unemployed member of society like this may be a waste.” Wang Chao immediately felt as if he was appearing in some form of film or novel the place the hero would attempt to sway the demon king to “Drop the knife and turn into a Buddha”.

Tan Wendong hadn’t moved from his spot, however there had been a smile that didn’t fairly attain his eyes on his face. “From what it appears like, you’re attempting to purchase me to observe you? Coming right here and naming a worth could be useful to you I guess, and shopping for me wouldn’t be too arduous along with your energy. However, don’t you suppose {that a} single ring like that is far too little?”

When Wang Chao heard Tan Wendong reply to him, he felt that this youth had been far too into the underworld and had inherited the ruthless and artful nature of the type. In a extra chaotic world, he would positively be the king of the realm.

However in an period of peace, being ruthless like that might be pointless. A time of chaos may need referred to as for such a determine, however for a time of peace, an individual like that might be ineffective.

“I’m not attempting to purchase you. I’m merely attempting to present you an opportunity to pursue your research.” Wang Chao spoke. “Your expertise in martial arts is completely excellent. In my over twenty years of life, I’ve by no means seen somebody as excellent as you’re; even being referred to as a genius wouldn’t be an apt description. With a while and dedication, then you’ll positively turn into a robust martial artist. I don’t want to see you stroll the trail of the underworld, wouldn’t it be potential so that you can flip again?”

“You need brother Dong to cease his profession as a boss and quit all that he labored for? Who do you suppose you’re, the premier?!” One other youth to the aspect had exploded out in anger in direction of Wang Chao.

“I’m the headmaster of the Laoshan Faculty of Inner Martial Arts.” Wang Chao hadn’t bothered to take a look at the one who spoke and as an alternative continued to face Tan Wendong to present a response.

“What? The headmaster of the Laoshan Faculty of Inner Martial Arts? Are you grasp Wang Chao then?” All of the sudden, the feminine police officer to the aspect had cried out in shock when she heard Wang Chao point out his faculty.

“How are you aware me, has my identify preceded me?” Wang Chao rotated to take a look at the officer. He had felt barely suspicious; his identify was well-known on the planet of martial arts, however outsiders wouldn’t learn about him. Similar to how any Go participant would know Lee Chang-ho, those that weren’t conversant in Go would even acknowledge that identify.

“You’re the exact same grasp Wang Chao that fought and killed grasp the nak muay Nguyễn Hồng Tú in Hong Kong utilizing the crocodile stance, right? I’m Fang Bei!” This police officer had spoken with such pleasure that her phrases have been barely incoherent.

“Wendong, he’s grasp Wang Chao! The final time we labored collectively, we managed to seize the druglord Tai Jiu; the subordinate of the warlord Zha Jun from the Golden Triangle. He was one of many troopers taught by Nguyễn Hồng Tú.”

At one level, Tan Wendong had labored with the police for a mutual strike of the onto the drug market and its folks from Vietnam. With the police, they have been capable of confront the drug lord Tai Jiu. After three days had handed, loads of the armed police had been killed earlier than they managed to shoot at Tai Jiu and seize him alive. Throughout that point, Tan Wendong had been the one which fought him.

This Tai Jiu had certainly been one of many males that Nguyễn Hồng Tú had skilled.

Nguyễn Hồng Tú’s demise at Wang Chao’s hand had made its method to a few of the members of the armed police that handled that particular a part of southeast Asia. Fang Bei had been a kind of folks within the know.

Tan Wendong offered medicine as a part of his enterprise, however he had nonetheless partnered with the armed police to land an important strike onto the overseas drug commerce. It was a relatively unimaginable factor to consider, however when one took a more in-depth have a look at the information, cooperation was solely pure.

“Are you the primary martial artist in southeast Asia, grasp Wang Chao?” Tan Wendong spoke severely. Now that he knew Wang Chao’s identification, he was extra respectful in how he referred to as him.

“I don’t dare declare the title of primary, however I’m certainly Wang Chao. Will you be taught martial arts beneath me then? Life in a prison gang has no future as I’ve mentioned.” Wang Chao spoke politely. He as of proper now stood on equal footing with the grandmasters reminiscent of Zhu Hongzhi and Hsueh Lien-hsin. Though he wasn’t a lot older than Tan Wendong in age, he nonetheless held the title of senior.

Tan Wendong was an individual who liked martial arts. If he didn’t, then he wouldn’t have introduced his ability in it to such a level. Wang Chao had been capable of see that side of Tan Wendong in addition to the need to enhance. So long as there was a grandmaster that taught him, then Tan Wendong’s potential would by no means cease.

Any single person who liked martial arts would positively seize the possibility to enhance his research given the possibility.

“I’ve an older cousin whose ability in Tantui is much past mine. However he was by no means capable of depend on it to earn his hold and went into soccer. And now, he’s a member of the nationwide soccer staff with a very good life to stay. From younger, I discovered martial arts as effectively, however I wasn’t in a position to make use of it to earn my meals both. Grasp Wang, you inform me to earnestly be taught martial arts, however I worry that has no future both. If I can’t survive whereas attempting to stay righteously, how might I do that? Am I to only be taught martial arts my whole life?”

Tan Wendong had immediately requested.

“Even I don’t depend on martial arts to stay my life. I’ve discovered my very own firm for that.” Wang Chao smiled. “InN fact, you’re a genius, and I hope that you’ll be a part of with me to additional our research. However for those who be taught martial arts with me, you can not stay a life as a prison like this.”

“Wendong, you actually can’t hold happening like this! The upper ups have already heard rumors of you and are ready to maintain the order for the sake of society. With a single level of the finger, they may have you ever executed at a second’s discover! I hold telling you this, however you by no means hear, even I can’t provide help to ceaselessly ! Grasp Wang has given you an opportunity to check with him–that’s an unbelievable alternative! You’ll be able to’t simply cross this up.” Fang Bei spoke up urgently. “Grasp Wang has even connections with the army!”

“Grasp Wang, I’ve seen your achievements with martial arts earlier than, and I too want to be taught beneath you. However it is a matter that I wish to take into consideration.” Tan Wendong replied.

“No worries, no worries in any respect. I’ll be on the Infantry Faculty as a army teacher for the following two months. In the event you ever decide, then simply discover me there.” Wang Chao replied earlier than strolling out.

As quickly as he walked out from the constructing, Fang Bei got here working out after him, “Grasp Wang Chao, please wait one second. Would I be capable to converse to you for a second?”

“Hm?” Wang Chao requested, “What’s it?”

Biting her lips for a second, Fang Bei lastly spoke, “I wished to speak to you about Wendong. It’s important to be sure he separates himself from the prison world!”