Chapter 200: Chapter 175: Wen Yuan Defeats Martial Marquis_1
Smash!
Lu Wenxuan’s hand shuddered, the teacup slipped and shattered on the floor.
He sprung to his feet from his chair.
"You... didn’t die?"
Lu Wenxuan was taken aback.
Back then, when news was leaked, the Li Family’s Martial Marquis came to kill Lu Yan. He narrowly escaped from two pursuing Marquis and fled the city. He had thought Lu Yan dead for sure.
To his surprise, Lu Yan was alive and well.
"Master Lu, you promised not to disclose guests’ secrets, yet you revealed my whereabouts to the Li Family behind my back, harming me while profiting from my silver. Quite scheming."
Lu Yan spoke in a cold voice.
Lu Wenxuan gave a wry smile. "You have misunderstood. It was my concubine and her brother who told the Li Family, not me. After the incident, I killed them both. My disciples can verify this."
"Your concubine? How did she know?" Lu Yan asked.
"Well... uh..."
Lu Wenxuan started stuttering.
"Was it you who leaked it?" Lu Yan asked.
"I let it slip accidentally," Lu Wenxuan admitted awkwardly.
"So, it all started because of your carelessness? Your slip led to two Martial Marquises from the Li Family chasing me, almost killing me. I was stabbed thirteen times, critically injured and barely escaped death. After escaping, it took five years to recover. How do you plan to settle this account?"
Lu Yan asked coldly.
"Stabbed thirteen times? And you still got away?"
Lu Wenxuan was seriously skeptical.
"That’s my ability, but it’s not important. The question is, how are you going to settle this?" Lu Yan emphasized.
"How do you want me to settle it? I can offer silver as compensation, is thirty thousand two enough, or do you need fifty thousand?" Lu Wenxuan asked.
Lu Yan shook his head.
Lu Wenxuan’s face darkened. "Don’t push your luck. You’re standing here, safe and sound. This compensation is enough."
"Follow me and cook Martial Food for me unconditionally for ten years, and we’ll call it even," Lu Yan laid out his terms.
Lu Wenxuan nearly jumped up, pointing at Lu Yan angrily. "You’re delusional to ask a master martial chef to cook for you unconditionally for ten years!"
"If you don’t agree, you’ll have to experience the pain of thirteen stabs," Lu Yan said.
Lu Wenxuan cooled down and said curtly, "Seems like you came here today just to make trouble. Take the thirty thousand two in silver and go. Let’s forget about the past. If you cause any more trouble, don’t blame me for not giving you a penny."
"Really?"
Lu Yan stepped forward, his muscular body casting a large shadow, giving a terrifying sense of oppression.
Lu Wenxuan’s heart sank and he took a step back.
But recalling that he had recently made a breakthrough to the Martial Marquis Level Four, he plucked up courage, released his bone strength and slapped towards Lu Yan.
However, the next moment, his wrist was caught by Lu Yan.
Lu Yan’s hand clamped down like iron hoops, becoming ever tighter, and Lu Wenxuan felt a sharp pain as his wrist bones started deforming.
At the same time, Lu Yan’s right hand grabbed Lu Wenxuan’s throat and lifted him into the air.
Lu Wenxuan’s face turned beet red, he struggled for breath, and was filled with horror. Despite his Martial Marquis Level Four cultivation, against Lu Yan, he was helpless as a lamb to the slaughter.
What was Lu Yan’s cultivation level?
Could a Martial Marquis Level Five be so powerful?
He had seen Martial Marquis Level Five before, and it was nowhere near this powerful.
So, thirteen wounds were bullshit. Given Lu Yan’s current strength, he must have been just as strong back then. Could the two Martial Marquises from the Li Family possibly have injured him seriously?
The grass on the tombs of the two Martial Marquises from the Li Family must be taller than people by now.
Lu Yan must have used the incidents of the past to blackmail him.
"Wait... wait... listen..." Lu Wenxuan managed to choke out a few words.
Lu Yan let up a little.
Lu Wenxuan gasped for breath.
"Speak."
Lu Yan said coldly.
"I have a good relationship with the Tuoba Clan and often need to prepare Martial Food for them. If I were to cook for you for ten years, the Tuoba Clan might not agree," Lu Wenxuan said.
He sneered, trying to use the Tuoba Clan to pressure Lu Yan.
"I didn’t ask you to cook for me here. Come with me to my territory," Lu Yan said.
Lu Wenxuan’s face turned even darker. "You want me to abandon my business here and follow you. After ten years, all my hard work here would go to waste."
Crack!
Lu Yan tightened his grip and almost twisted off Lu Wenxuan’s neck.
Lu Wenxuan was held high in the air by Lu Yan. His legs kicked in the air but he was too weak to use his strength.
"If you don’t agree, you’re finished right now," Lu Yan said coldly.
"Master..."
Right then, Lu Wenxuan’s two disciples heard the commotion and ran over. The sight that greeted them was horrifying.
Thud!
Lu Yan stomped heavily and two shards of the teacup, driven by bone strength, shot out and hit the two disciples in the lower leg acupuncture points. They both fell down.
Lu Wenxuan was even more shocked.
His two disciples, who had each broken through five limits, were easily subdued by Lu Yan with a single stomp and two shards of teacup.
This was beyond comprehension.
Could it be... a grandmaster?
As a grandmaster, he had once asked him, Lu Wenxuan, to cook Martial Food for him while hiding his own status. What was he afraid of?
"I...I agree..."
Lu Wenxuan managed to squeeze out a few more words.
He had no choice but to capitulate.
He knew that without this compromise, he wouldn’t fare well today.
What made him nauseous was that he couldn’t even argue back because Lu Yan was in the right.
A smile immediately bloomed on Lu Yan’s face, his expression changing faster than flipping a book.
At the same time, he released his grip and even helped Lu Wenxuan straighten out his dishevelled collar, saying, "If only you agreed sooner, there would have been no need for violence. I prefer to win people over with virtue, not force. Master Lu, clean yourself up, and follow me. "
Lu Wenxuan’s mouth twitched.
"The two of you, I have some urgent matters that require me to leave for a decade. Take good care of the Martial Food Building for me, and when I return in ten years, I hope to see it safe and sound."
"Furthermore, if the Tuoba Clan asks, tell them that I’ve gone travelling with a Grandmaster."
Lu Wenxuan instructed his two disciples.
"Gr...Grandmaster?"
The two disciples shuddered, looking at Lu Yan with awe.
Lu Wenxuan went back to his room to pack, taking his gold and silver tickets, and then left Martial Food Building with Lu Yan.
The two strolled leisurely on the street. From time to time, people greeted Lu Wenxuan who responded with a nod and a smile, but he didn’t say a word.
Lu Wenxuan had lost the will to resist.
Lu Yan was too powerful. Even if he cried loud enough to alert the people of Tuoba Clan, they might not be able to kill Lu Yan, whereas Lu Yan could easily kill him.
So be it, for ten years.
He just had to bear it, and it would pass.
After a while, the two left Baiyue City, accelerated their pace, and when they had distanced themselves enough from the city, Lu Yan used the shapeshifting technique and recovered his original appearance.
"My real identity is Lu Yan, under the banner of the Li Family, the city lord of Changfeng City."
Lu Yan said.
"So it’s you."
Lu Wenxuan was stupefied.
Recent news about the Liu family had stirred up quite a sensation, everyone knew about it.
And the news of Lu Yan taking over after the Liu family escaped was also commonly known.
The rumour that Lu Yan was only a Martial Marquis Level Two was severely mistaken.
It seemed that Lu Yan had hidden his real cultivation level.
"In the future, you too need to disguise yourself so as not to give away your identity and cause a conflict between the Tuoba and Li clans."
Lu Yan said.
A Martial Chef of this calibre wouldn’t be easy to abduct. If the incident were to be known, the Tuoba Clan would not let it go.
Though the Tuoba Clan also had a Martial Chef, who wouldn’t want more?
Lu Wenxuan nodded.
When they arrived at the next city, Lu Wenxuan bought some materials and disguised himself, appearing much younger. Unless one knew him well, they would hardly recognize him.
Two days later, the two of them returned to Changfeng City.
Lu Yan had prepared a professional chef’s room for Lu Wenxuan to use, and then delivered two pieces of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat and auxiliary materials to him.
Upon seeing the precious materials, Lu Wenxuan felt slightly better.
After all, cooking precious martial food could sharpen his culinary skills.
Immediately, Lu Wenxuan dove into the cooking of the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat.
Lu Yan returned to his practice room, and in a flash of light his Avatar using the Cloud Walk appeared, donned a black robe, and stationed near Lu Wenxuan’s chef’s room to keep an eye on him.
After all, within a five-mile radius, the Avatar was not restricted.
Maybe it was because Lu Wenxuan was ’invited’ forcefully by Lu Yan that his state was affected, and he only successfully cooked one of the two pieces of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat.
Lu Yan didn’t find it surprising and directly gave him another piece of Mutated Heart Meat and auxiliary materials to continue crafting.
As for the first successful piece, Lu Yan handed it to Wen Yuan first.
"Thank you, Master."
Getting the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat, Wen Yuan was beyond excited.
"You’re my first personal disciple. I won’t let you suffer. Cultivate well and strive to master the Vajra Indestructible Skill to a transcendent level soon. I will teach you a second top-class martial art then."
Said Lu Yan
Lu Yan didn’t plan on letting Wen Yuan cultivate an Acquired Martial Body.
The Acquired Martial Body might actually increase the difficulty of breaking through to the Grandmaster level.
Wait until after becoming a Grandmaster to cultivate it, even though the progression would greatly slow down then.
Wen Yuan took the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat and went into seclusion.
As for the experience of breaking through to Martial Marquis, Lu Yan had given explicit instructions.
With Wen Yuan’s talent, he had at least an 80% success rate.
Sure enough, a few days later, Wen Yuan successfully broke through, stepping into the realm of Martial Marquis, and stabilized his cultivation level by consuming martial food.
Meanwhile, Lu Wenxuan had successfully cooked the second piece of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat.
Lu Yan didn’t hand this piece to Wang Lin, instead he gave Lu Wenxuan another piece of Mutated Heart Meat and auxiliary materials.
Wang Lin’s talent was still lacking.
With just one piece of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat, the success rate of breaking through was only about 50%.
The chance of failure was high.
So, Lu Yan planned to give him two pieces of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat.
With the support of two pieces, the success rate would definitely increase significantly.
Since there was a surplus of Mutated Heart Meat, he might as well flaunt it.
"Another one?"
Lu Wenxuan was surprised, but his mood started to lighten up.
If he frequently got to cook such precious martial food, then he didn’t mind working for free for these ten years.
Feeling better, his state improved, and the success rate of cooking the martial food also increased considerably.
The fourth piece of Mutated Heart Meat was successfully cooked in one go.
Ten days later, Wen Yuan had completely stabilized his realm.
Lu Yan took Wen Yuan to the second-tier Hidden Blood Land Vein, letting Wen Yuan take over the guard duty from Wang Lin so that Wang Lin could go and attempt to break through to Martial Marquis.
With two pieces of Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat in hand, Wang Lin trembled a little.
