Chapter 30
Almost instantly, Lu Xuan realized that someone must have broken in.
Following that gunshot, he could hear a splatter of several other shots, coming from afar.
Then, it soon became a full-blown crossfire.
It should be the military and the assassins clashing, as the bodyguards of the Ling family did not hold any gun permits.
Lu Xuan jumped up at once and pushed open the door, making his way out. Soon, he was in the corridor just outside the guest room.
Meanwhile, Ling Huang, Ling Fei, and Ling Yu appeared, protected by the guards who surrounded them. They all lived in rooms near Lu Xuan so that it would be easier for Lu Xuan to defend them.
1“Damn it! I can’t believe they arrived so soon!” Ling Huang’s expression turned quite ghastly. The attackers had come too soon. They had deduced that the other party would only make a move within these few days. Who would have thought that they would launch an attack that very night?
Long knife in hand, Higashigawa Taro mocked as he inched threateningly near to Lin Sheng.
Suddenly, a bright, crisp voice resounded the hall.
“To think that an international assassin like you would have such national pride!”
Another figure leaped off the second floor.
“Not too long ago, there was a Korean who said that TaeKwonDo was the strongest martial arts on earth. Would you be interested in fighting him, I wonder?” Lu Xuan commented in slight jest.
“Koreans? They are but a bunch of unworthy beings!”
Higashigawa Taro turned to Lu Xuan and ridiculed, “Why, are you trying to stall for time? That would be useless. One second, that’s all I need to kill you. Buying time? How do you plan on burying time?”
Higashigawa Taro assumed that he had seen entirely through what Lu Xuan was trying to do. One his face, he wore an expression of cold disdain.
One moment he was still chatting leisurely, and the very next moment, Higashigawa Taro had unleashed his blade unto Lu Xuan.
The snow-like gleam of the blade swung down from right over Lu Xuan’s head.
“Watch out!”
On the second floor, Ling Fei could not help but warn.
However, the bloody scene never happened. Beyond everyone’s expectations, Lu Xuan had pinched the terrifying blade of Higashigawa Taro between his two fingers.
“What? That’s impossible!” Higashigawa Taro went pale in great shock. Lu Xuan had stopped the slash that he thought was a sure kill with just two fingers.
He tried to pull at the long knife trapped between Lu Xuan’s digits, but it refused to budge. It was as though it was being held in place by a pair of pliers.
That was when he finally realized that something was wrong. He recalled what Lin Sheng had just said, and put it together with Lu Xuan’s horrifying display of strength.
Then, he saw a scene that he would never forget in his life. Lu Xuan turned his fingers. To his horror, the Japanese long knife forged with alloy broke apart, inch by inch.
“What kind of monster are you?!”
All color finally drained from Higashigawa Taro’s face. Over the years that he had been an assassin, he had never seen an existence as terrorizing as Lu Xuan.
Even a level five like him, a Baodan Grandmaster at the pinnacle of his cultivation, could never snap the alloyed long knife with just two fingers.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
“I don’t care what kind of a monster are you! Die!” Higashigawa Taro immediately fished a gun from his waist and began to shoot at Lu Xuan in an insane frenzy.
However, when he finally saw what was happening, he was scared out of his wits. Those bullets hovered three inches in front of Lu Xuan, as though something invisible had intercepted the shots.
“That’s Vigor! A martial arts legend. I can’t believe that you’re a martial arts legend!” At last, Higashigawa Taro realized why he could not stand up to Lu Xuan. The man before him was no Baodan Grandmaster; he was a martial arts legend, a title that even the Japanese martial circle had heard of!
“Run!”
Higashigawa Taro made an instant decision to run, but in the very next instant, a shard from his shattered knife had punctured his skull as a gleaming piece of blade. It pinned him to the ground, and he soon lost all traces of life.
Even if he were a level five Baodan Grandmaster, with a brain pierced right through, only death would await.