lovenovelstory #178 - No. 100 Buttocks
#178 - No. 100 Buttocks
Chapter 177: One Hundred Stabs to the Buttocks
The heart of the Qilin was not an intelligent object; instead, it unleashed energy proportional to the external threat.
If the energy it proactively released when Zhang Chen fought the Southern Qilin was like a torch, then the energy it passively released now was at most a small candle.
However, even this candle-like energy still possessed earth-shattering power.
Rocks melted into lava, and Zhong Xiang sank directly into the depths of the earth along with the lava. Zhang Chen, wrapped in ice, closely followed behind, with the ice forming a palm that grabbed a talisman and stuck it onto Zhong Xiang's body.
As Zhang Chen affixed the new talisman, the talisman that had been melting within Zhong Xiang's body instantly transformed into a stream of light and was recalled by Zhang Chen. The new talisman replaced the old one.
Although the recalled talisman had been melted within Zhong Xiang's body, it quickly regained its original appearance after returning to Zhang Chen's mana, revitalized by the mana.
At this point, Zhang Chen's mana consumption was one-tenth.
“My Qi Refining level is too low, and my mana consumption seems to be falling behind,” Zhang Chen thought as the ice he transformed into followed closely behind the flames, constantly calculating the ratio of mana consumption to talismans.
[Skill 7 (Entry): Qi Refining Stage Three (2500/4000)]
[Points: 27400]
“My cultivation progress is already considered fast at fifty points a day, but compared to directly grinding points, it seems like snail's pace,” Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
Then, Zhang Chen watched as the points within his body disappeared, adding them without hesitation:
…
[Skill 7 (Entry): Qi Refining Stage Five (2500/16000)]
[Points: 15400]
Zhang Chen looked at the points before him and exclaimed in his heart, “What a coincidence! There aren't enough points left to upgrade with fifteen thousand, but adding the two thousand five hundred is just enough to upgrade one level.”
With a thought, Zhang Chen directly advanced from Qi Refining Stage Five to Qi Refining Stage Six:
[Skill 7 (Entry): Qi Refining Stage Six (0/32000)]
[Points: 1900]
Zhang Chen directly made a triple jump, from Qi Refining Stage Three to Qi Refining Stage Six. With the improvement of his Qi Refining realm, the cyan lotus within Zhang Chen's spiritual world underwent another change. A petal of the lotus gradually solidified, appearing less illusory.
At the same time, Zhang Chen's mana quantity increased, and the talisman consumption ratio directly decreased to one-twentieth.
According to this analysis, each recovery consumption of the gold and silver talismans is one-twentieth of the total mana.
“In other words, I can perform twenty more replacements and supplements, each lasting about thirty breaths…” Zhang Chen stopped thinking, because when the talisman was replaced for the third time, the heart of the Qilin, no longer sensing an external threat, withdrew its flames. At this point, Zhang Chen had already descended with Zhong Xiang to a depth of thirty meters into the rock.
Zhang Chen quickly stuck a new talisman on Zhong Xiang and turned to look back at the scorching lava. Everything in sight was fiery red. The next moment, the Water Control skill was activated, and underground river water was summoned.
Having reached thirty meters underground, spring water had already been dug out. Zhang Chen directly drew on the water flow to activate thrust, pushing the lava within the cave to gush outwards.
Outside
Chen Xu was standing at the pit, restless, his eyes fixed on the scorching lava inside the pit, revealing a hint of anxiety.
He was afraid that Zhang Chen, being so unrestrained, would really kill Zhong Xiang. But just as he was muttering in his heart, he suddenly saw the underground lava gushing out like a spring, and soon the dozens of meters of tunnel were cleared of lava.
“Your Excellency, are you alright?” Chen Xu stood outside the pit and shouted remotely.
“I'm fine…”
Zhang Chen manipulated the water flow and climbed out of the pit, taking a breath of the cool air outside.
“Where is Zhong Xiang?” Chen Xu looked at Zhang Chen with a nervous expression.
“He's still alive. Don't worry, even if I really kill him, all the responsibility will fall on me, and I will never implicate you.”
Zhang Chen looked at the flowing hot lava, its bright color very conspicuous in the dark night. Zhang Chen quickly mobilized his Water Control technique to continuously extinguish the lava.
“Your Excellency, it's not as simple as saying you won't implicate me. The Zhong family won't listen to my explanations! Now that we've used him, why don't we just let him go? Saving his life would leave some room for reconciliation…” Chen Xu looked at Zhang Chen with a tangled expression, cautiously asking.
“Stop being delusional. That kid is an aristocrat and sees us as ants. Why would he leave us a way out? You're thinking too much. Now that you're on my pirate ship, you still want to jump off? You're dreaming!” Zhang Chen said unpleasantly.
Hearing this, Chen Xu slumped to the ground, sighing deeply, “What a sin! What kind of sin have I committed? Why is God punishing me like this?”
Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Xu, who was full of sorrow, and silently recovered the mana in his body. In just half an hour, his mana had recovered to about seventy or eighty percent, and then he continued to drill into the tunnel.
The tunnel was wide, about two meters, so Zhang Chen didn't feel cramped at all when he came down.
At this time, there was the sound of water flowing in the tunnel, the gurgling sound of spring water echoing continuously in the air, with spring water constantly pouring into the pit.
When Zhang Chen came to the bottom of the pit, he saw Zhong Xiang floating in the water, his face full of humiliation. Fortunately, Zhong Xiang's face was up, otherwise Zhang Chen really couldn't imagine whether this kid would drown.
Zhang Chen lightly tapped his toes and landed on Zhong Xiang's body, “I say, your protective flame is really powerful. In just one hundred and twenty breaths, it melted a cave more than thirty meters deep. If you were to use your full power, wouldn't a mountain be instantly refined away? What level is your flame?”
Zhong Xiang glared at Zhang Chen, his eyes wide, not speaking, his eyes seeming to spew fire.
“If you don't want to say, then don't say, it's nothing great.” Zhang Chen looked at the quartz stone in the cave and simply sat on Zhong Xiang's waist, recalling the structure of the great tomb.
“I haven't entered the great tomb yet, so it's not easy to confirm my location. If I can enter the great tomb and find my coordinates, maybe I can find a way to determine the coordinates of the great tomb.” Zhang Chen thought for a while, and the next moment he activated his skill. He saw the water flow underground rapidly decreasing, and soon it had returned to the bottom of the pit.
Zhang Chen looked at Zhong Xiang, slowly took out a dagger from his sleeve, and then went forward to turn Zhong Xiang over, “Young Master Zhong, I'm sorry!”
Zhong Xiang looked at Zhang Chen's movements, his eyes turning red, and tears streaming down again.
“I say, you're a grown man, why are you crying for nothing? It's just a stab in the butt, right? You have an immortal body, a stab won't kill you.”
Zhang Chen nimbly patted Zhong Xiang's butt. The guy's butt was fleshy and looked quite perky, with a pretty good feel.
Then, in the next moment, Zhang Chen mobilized the water flow to freeze himself, and then the ice at the joint of one arm cracked, making it easier for his entire arm to move. Immediately, the dagger in his hand nimbly stabbed into Zhong Xiang's butt.
The dagger melted into molten iron in an instant, and the familiar red light burst out again. At this time, the immobilization talisman loosened under the scorching of the flames. Zhong Xiang cursed in the lava, "Zhang Chen, you despicable and shameless villain, don't let me break through the seal, or I will scatter your ashes."
The rock melted quickly, began to become scorching hot, and then Zhong Xiang sank rapidly along with the lava, while Zhang Chen was also wrapped in ice, following closely behind him, shuttling through the lava.
At this time, Zhang Chen was much more skilled than before. After all, he had dug out a spring, and the spring water flowed down with a crash, which not only increased the convenience of Zhang Chen's water control technique, but also greatly helped in cooling down.
Zhang Chen kept shooting out talismans. Seeing that the "Suppress" character talisman on Zhong Xiang's body was about to be melted, he directly pasted a new one to replace it.
At this time, in order to save mana, Zhang Chen no longer used the immobilization talisman, but allowed Zhong Xiang to move freely in the lava.
"Peasant! You despicable and shameless villain, how dare you insult a nobleman like this! I'm not finished with you!" Zhong Xiang cursed loudly, but as a nobleman, he only knew a few words like 'despicable villain' and 'shameless scoundrel'. He couldn't utter even one more vulgar word.
"I say, your cursing skills are not very good." Zhang Chen looked at Zhong Xiang with a smile. Fifty breaths later, the flames around Zhong Xiang stopped, and Zhang Chen pasted another "Suppress" character talisman on him.
This time, he didn't waste the immobilization talisman. At this time, in the deep pit, Zhong Xiang couldn't escape even if he wanted to. Moreover, now, along with going deeper into the rock, three more springs had been dug out.
Zhang Chen repeated his old trick, directly extracting the water flow to push the lava out of the deep pit bit by bit, and then directly used spring water to extinguish the lava. However, in the process of extinguishing the lava, thick smoke was generated in the mountains. Fortunately, Zhang Chen mastered water control and mixed the water mist and smoke to eliminate it in time, otherwise it would have been really easy to make people notice the abnormality.
"Your Excellency, have you dug into the great tomb?" Chen Xu asked.
"It's not that easy." Zhang Chen shook his head, and then said to Chen Xu, "Look at this solidified lava, it's a bit too conspicuous. Is there any way to eliminate it?"
Fortunately, it was night now. If it were daytime, I'm afraid the trouble would be great. As long as they weren't blind, they would be able to see that there was a problem here.
Chen Xu shook his head: "There is no way to do this. I only hope that we move fast enough, and before those people find us, we will step into the great tomb and take away the creation within."
Zhang Chen looked at the solidified and cooled lava, and after watching for a while, he couldn't think of a way to cover it up, but instead returned to the underground pit. He saw Zhong Xiang floating in the water at this time, quietly like a corpse, without any expression, his face full of despair, as if he had been ravaged.
Zhang Chen ignored Zhong Xiang, but landed opposite Zhong Xiang. Before he could open his mouth, Zhong Xiang had already struggled to turn over from the surface of the water, glaring at Zhang Chen, and pounced on Zhang Chen: "You brat, I'm going to fight you."
Zhang Chen directly used ice magic to freeze Zhong Xiang in the ice, leaving only his head exposed.
He felt that he had wasted the immobilization talisman to hold Zhong Xiang in place before. It was much simpler to directly use ice sealing.
"Boy, I'm considering whether to pee on your face, after all, your mouth is too hard." Zhang Chen stood on the ice. Only Zhong Xiang's head was exposed, and he looked at him stubbornly.
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Zhong Xiang raised his head and saw Zhang Chen's crotch. He saw the other party shaking his hips as if aiming at his head.
"You dare!"
Zhong Xiang panicked immediately. He knew that the peasant in front of him could do anything.
"What wouldn't I dare to do?" Zhang Chen smiled faintly: "Since you dare to question me, then I will pee for you to see."
While speaking, Zhang Chen went to pull his belt, calmly whistling in his mouth.
"Stop! If you have something to say, just say it, why be so vulgar." Zhong Xiang panicked immediately and quickly stopped Zhang Chen's actions.
Zhang Chen glanced at Zhong Xiang, slowly fastened his belt, then sat on the ice, and flicked Zhong Xiang's forehead: "I still like your unruly appearance."
Zhong Xiang didn't argue when he heard the words, so as not to stimulate this crazy guy in front of him, but tears began to flow silently from the corners of his eyes again.
Zhang Chen's cultivation time every day was fixed. After all, a person's energy, spirit, and spirit were limited, and the amount that could be converted into mana was limited. At this time, he wanted to restore his energy, spirit, and spirit, so he didn't mind chatting with Zhong Xiang and trying to find out Zhong Xiang's details: "By the way, where did you get the Qilin Heart back then? Is there really a Qilin buried in that great tomb?"
Zhang Chen wanted to go to that great tomb to see if there were any skills left behind.
Zhong Xiang looked at him coldly, with a cold face and tears flowing, tightly closing his teeth and not saying a word.
"If you don't speak, I'm going to pee." Zhang Chen began to threaten again.
"Aren't you talking nonsense? Since there is a Qilin Heart, of course there is a whole Qilin corpse." Zhong Xiang mocked unhappily.
"What is your tone? Don't tell me I really don't dare to pee?" Seeing that Zhong Xiang was not talking properly, Zhang Chen was about to lose his temper immediately and was about to stand up and untie his pants.
"You… you… I'll talk nicely, I'll talk nicely, don't lose your temper." Zhong Xiang shed more tears, his voice full of grievance.
He had suffered such great humiliation, did he not even have the right to vent his emotions?
"What is your attitude? I was almost killed by you. I am the victim, okay? Looking at your appearance, I almost thought you were the victim." Zhang Chen flicked Zhong Xiang's forehead again.
"You lowly… person, what you said makes no sense. I am a nobleman. What you lost was just a life, but what I lost was noble honor, noble dignity. I am ashamed of the ancestors of the Zhong family." Zhong Xiang's voice was full of sorrow, with a crying tone.
Zhang Chen was speechless when he heard this. This dog's thinking was really too skewed! What do you mean I only lost my life?
The most important thing was that the other party was crying, as if he had suffered a great grievance, saying it as if it were completely justified, as if it were completely his own fault.