Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 147

Chapter 147: The Conqueror
Chapter 147

Run Long ran through the forest while pressing many of his acupoints. His acupoints had been suppressed due to which, he couldn’t use his Qi. Since there was a chance he was the disciple of the miracle healer, destroying his core would lead to other problems that would become a lot of great headaches for the cultivator’s special forces.

So they instead blocked his core so he wouldn’t be able to use his Qi. Run Long didn’t resist and let them do it because the last thing he wanted was to protest and get killed in the process. Even if his master avenged him afterward, wouldn’t he be dead already?

However, when he saw the biker who was fighting the cultivators, he knew who it was. He had felt that Qi before. Wei Jun Ruan. As soon as he felt his Qi, he knew that he wasn’t there to break Run Long free but to kill him.

Once done with the cultivators, he would be the next target, and with his Qi core blocked, he couldn’t even dream of defeating that guy. So the only option was to run away while unblocking his Qi core. The forest helped him hide for some time and gave him the time he needed to unblock his core.

Just as he finished unblocking his Qi, he sensed the presence of Wei Jun very close to him. He turned and saw Wei Jun in the biker suit pointing a gun at Run Long. Run Long still had to replenish some of his Qi so he decided to stall for time.

“You’re him, aren’t you?” He asked.

The biker remained quiet for a few seconds before the gun in his hands disappeared before Run Long’s eyes and along with that, so did his helmet.

“I really need to learn to mask my Qi traces,” Wei Jun said.

According to the system, he would either have to learn to do that, or there was a skill in the shop that he could purchase, Wei Jun decided to go with the second option because there was already too much on his plate.

“What are you?” Run Long asked.

“I’m just an innocent citizen who you attacked.” Wei Jun replied.

“Cut the bullsh*t,” Run Long said and added, “You’re the one who attacked me first. You sabotaged my operation,” Run Long said.

“Did I? Do you have any proof of that? Or is that just a hunch?” Wei Jun asked.

“I know it was you,” Run Long said.

“…That’s it? That’s all you got? You know? What else do you know? Do you know that your master was the one who killed your family? Do you know that your family wasn’t a family of cultivators but a family of evil cultivators?” Wei Jun asked a series of questions.

“…What?” Run Long was puzzled by Wei Jun’s words.

“I know you’re trying to stall for time to restore your Qi. To be honest, so am I. So no harm in having a little chat.” Wei Jun said before he continued, “Your family wasn’t killed by an evil cultivator. Your family, your parents were part of an evil cultivator’s organization. Your master was the one who killed them.”

“You’re lying!” Run Long erupted.

“Am I?” Wei Jun asked with a smirk before he added, “That’s the difference between knowing and having proof. You didn’t believe me without proof either, did you? So how can you just say that ‘you know’ it was me?”

Run Long remained silent. he was impulsive but not an idiot. He could tell that Wei Jun was trying to make him agitated, making him lose his edge for the fight to come. But Run Long wasn’t going to give in to Wei Jun’s provocation.

“Why?” Run Long asked, taking deep breaths to calm himself.

“Why what?” Wei Jun asked.

“Why did you do this? Why did you do all this? You and I had no enmity. No reason to clash. Then why?” Run Long asked.

Silence.

Silence took over the entire space as Wei Jun looked at Run Long for quite a while before he said, “Even if I were to tell you, you wouldn’t understand.”

Run Long scoffed and was about to say something when Wei Jun continued, “So I will give you a reason that would make more sense. Something that also tells you what kind of person I am.”

Run Long remained quiet as Wei Jun once again paused for a while before he began, “You see, I didn’t know what I was doing at first. Why was I doing this in the first place? Was I afraid of dying? Is that why I was doing all of this?”

Wei Jun paused and looked at Run Long deep in the eyes before he said, “Excuses. That was all they were. Excuses to admit the real reason. I mean, why was I enjoying it so much if I was being forced to do this?”

“The system was forcing me. The circumstances were forcing me. I had to do it to remain alive.” Wei Jun continued and then added, “It was all bullsh*t.”

“None of that was true. I haven’t been afraid of anything since the beginning. Not the system, not the circumstances, and certainly not death. But I still did this. Why?”

“I asked myself that question a lot. And then the answer came to me that day in the Shannau city. When I wreaked havoc in that city, I felt something that I hadn’t felt in a very long time. Satisfaction.”

Wei Jun paused and smiled as if nostalgic as he said, “I still remember when my father put me in charge of my first company. It was hard, the others, thought of me as nothing but a child. They wanted to take advantage of my age. And when I killed them all and took what was mine, I felt that satisfaction. The satisfaction of conquering.”

“But slowly, one by one, that feeling waned. I desperately tried to look for it, to feel it again but I couldn’t. And I found out why.” Wei Jun once again looked at Run Long who had nothing but confusion on his face, “It was because there was nothing left to conquer. It was boring.”

Wei Jun said with sadness on his face, but then, it was replaced by a feeling of ecstasy as he said, “But then I came here. An unknown world. An unknown power. All left for me to conquer. And it was amazing.”

Wei Jun looked at Run Long and said, “You asked why it was you? Well, in the words of a new friend I made, ‘That was how it meant to be’.”

“Just like you were supposed to kill me, I was supposed to kill you as well,” Wei Jun said.

“What nonsense are you spouting? I didn’t even know you since a few weeks ago.” Run Long said, not understating most of what Wei Jun had said but even he understood the last part.

“Oh believe me. I thought it was nonsense as well but then you came to my house and attacked me without a proper reason. As if you were being guided by something to kill me. I also understood that day that there was a higher power that wanted me dead and you and the others like you were supposed to do that.”

Wei Jun paused while he activated the skill Qi armament and Qi empowerment.

[Skill ‘Qi armament’ has been activated]

[Qi -55]

[Skill ‘Qi empowerment’ has been activated]

[Qi -70]

[QP 175300]

“Just like I was destined to be a stepping stone for you, you are also a stepping stone for me. The only difference was that just this much was your stop. My stop is somewhere you cannot even fathom.” Wei Jun finished and shot at Run Long.

Run Long had felt the activation of Wei Jun’s skill and he was quick to activate his own. They both collided as dust shot away from them via the shockwave that was emitted due to their collision.

The power difference was clear, Run Long was stronger. However, he wasn’t at his full strength and that was Wei Jun’s edge.

Wei Jun spun and delivered an elbow strike that Run Long stopped with his hands only to feel extra push through the five-point QI discharge.

Wei Jun spun once again and delivered a piercing kick to the same hand guard Run Long had erected. Run Long was pushed back slightly but not by much.

Wei Jun followed that up by delivering an open palm strike that was also filled with five points of Qi. In an instant, Wei Jun had used fifteen points of Qi while Run Long had just used a little of it.

As for Run Long, he saw the strike approaching and stopped his palm strike with his own open palm. Alas, Wei Jun’s strike was still more powerful than his.

But it wasn’t like there was much damage to Run Long. On the contrary, Run Long managed to take hold of Wei Jun by grabbing his arm, and before Wei Jun could retract his palm, Run Long picked him up off the ground and threw his away with his full power.