I Can See Your Combat Power - Chapter 255
Chapter 255: Chapter Two Hundred Fifty-one: Madman
Translator: 549690339
Accessing the treasury of the Han Family’s Minor Spiritual Realm is a challenging task, especially when the owner is present.
If the Han Family of today were like the Han Family a thousand years ago, even if Tang Luo held the Boundary Breaking Stone, he wouldn’t dare to threaten them.
The gap between the first holy land in the world and the Tang Family in Xihng is like comparing a divine dragon to a wild dog. There’s no room for resistance.
But a thousand years later, the divine dragon has been stripped of its power, its horns cut off, its scales peeled away, and its limbs torn, left without the ability to fly or burrow. It’s no different from a giant python.
Although the python can still swallow the wild dog, the dog’s howls can attract snake hunters. And snake hunters will kill the python.
Even if their strengths were to clash, resulting in mutual destruction, they can sit at the same table and negotiate, regardless of the disparity in power.
To Ji Fu, the Tang Family is just a remote clan, hardly worth mentioning. Let alone laying claim to the resources of the treasury, it would be sacrilege for him to so much as glance at it. Much less to share in the Han Family’s secret technique hidden within.
But as for Tang Luo, he could do without the divine armor and divine medicine that serve as the basis of their power. However, the techniques and secret arts, he must possess them all.
The Tang Family is quite dedicated to studying techniques, contributing all their resources, however, the gap between them and the holy land keeps expanding.
The most desperate form of falling behind isn’t being overtaken by someone else because you’re idle and stagnant. It’s watching others pull further away, even as you exhaust every effort to catch up.
Sometimes, the reason for falling behind is not lack of progress, it’s that your progress is not fast enough.
The Tang Family’s Tongtian Domination Scroll was last updated a year ago by Tang Luo’s Martial Path Pointer. If you look further back, the last innovation was made by Tang Guangyu on Wind Arrangement eight years ago.
As a profound technique, Heavenly Pathway Technique still has a lot of room for improvement. The difficulty in progress is due to the Tang Family running out of reference materials.
They couldn’t plunder from those sects that possess powerful profound techniques, let alone from those that have Earth Level techniques. Even though great gains are made with each trip taken by the Wancheng Treasure Ship, the excellent techniques they bring back are far inferior to the Heavenly Pathway Technique. At present, the techniques brought back by the Wancheng Treasure Ship are not even considered by researchers at the Secret Arts Pavilion. Thus, they could only rack their brains to develop improvements with no external references.
In Tang Luo’s view, if they continue to grow at this pace, even after fifty or a hundred years, it will still be too difficult for the Tang Family to protect themselves in times of chaos.
The most crucial step in his life plan is to travel outside and bring back enough secret techniques to strengthen his family.
The foundation of secret techniques lies in the great wisdom of the ancients who created them during a time when human bodies were no match for them. They were based on the innate supernatural powers of various beast clans.
Each secret technique corresponds to the innate supernatural power of a certain beast clan from ancient times.
After obtaining countless secret techniques, even without the beasts, the holy land could still find patterns in them, research, and continuously create secret techniques.
To the Xu Clan, a secret technique that an ordinary family would crave for, is nothing more than one of the countless pieces of material piled up their secret storehouse.
Xu Lao, born in the holy land, wouldn’t understand Tang Luo. Because since birth, there had been a sea of secret techniques waiting for him to pick and choose. The trouble for the descendants of the Xu Clan was not the lack of secret techniques, but rather that there were too many powerful and mysterious secret techniques that, even if one spent their whole life practicing, they still couldn’t master all of them. They could only painfully give up some, and select a few.
Before the appearance of the single fusion technique, the holy land maintained its dominance over the families and sects by possessing countless powerful secret techniques.
Even till today, when martial arts is flourishing, secret techniques are still treasures beyond the reach of clans.
If you want to surpass something, you have to understand it first. If you don’t even know the gap, how can you talk about surpassing it?
Therefore, the secret techniques in the Han Family’s treasury are key to the rise of the Tang Family.
Dressed in a golden-patterned robe, Tang Luo stood at the gate of the mansion, watching Ji Fu and Xu Lao coming side by side.
The face of the Han Family’s Saint Child had regained its calm. Along the way, he had many opportunities to try and escape but retrained himself.
Right now, the key issue wasn’t whether he could escape but how Tang Luo could be persuaded to let go of that terrible idea in his mind.
When a person calms down, they begin to think. Does a man who could be called a reviver of a dynasty seem like a tenacious simpleton?
“To negotiate about the Minor Spiritual Realm treasury.”
Initially, when Tang Luo said this, Ji Fu saw it as proof of Tang Luo’s insatiable greed. But after further thought, it seemed more like a bargaining chip, a condition to prevent the exposure of information about the Han Family.
In an instant, Ji Fu understood many things.
Why Tang Luo didn’t kill him, why he came to negotiate about the treasury despite having the advantage.
Tang Luo had completely caught him!
Humiliation. Ji Fu felt intense humiliation. The sensation of being manipulated stirred a near-insane anger in him.
Feeling Ji Fu’s mood, Xu Lao comforted him, “Brother Ji, I, on behalf of my younger cousin, apologize to you.”
“Take good care of such a relative! A mere treasury in the Spiritual Realm can’t satiate the appetite of your cousin.” Ji Fu coldly said, feeling resentment towards himself for impetuously challenging Xu Lao, and resentment towards the person Xu Lao had brought, putting him in such a situation.
Xu Lao shook his head with a bitter smile, not knowing how to respond. The recent events made it impossible for him to view his cousin, Tang Luo, the same way.
Perhaps, as Ji Fu suggested, there might come a day when his cousin would challenge modern holy lands. Then, what should he do?
“Ji son, your attempt to sow discord makes me unhappy.” Tang Luo arched an eyebrow, taunting, “I am a good-natured young man who knows his limits. How did I become ambitious in your mouth?”
Ji Fu glared at him, “A good ‘one who knows his limits’, aren’t you afraid that I will fight to the death? Even if the Han Family is exterminated, your Tang Family will not benefit!”
“Wow! If you’re willing to gamble the accumulated wealth of the Han Family over the course of a thousand years on a mere treasury, I would have no objection.” Tang Luo waved his hands, smiling, “After all, it would be an honor for the Tang Family to perish alongside the once first holy land.”
“What right do you have to speak for the family in such a manner!” Ji Fu glared in disbelief. He couldn’t believe the man before him was so frivolous. These were the lives of hundreds of thousands of clan members. Did they carry no weight in his heart?
“Speaking of qualifications…wait a moment.” Tang Luo rubbed his chin and rummaged around in his wide-sleeved robe. He pulled out several badges and introduced them.
“This is the Elder’s badge, this is the Sect Head’s badge, this is the Clan Head’s badge Oh, and this one, the badge of the Clan Chief. And the man standing next to you is the Great Elder of my Tang Family. They’ve entrusted complete authority in this matter to me. So, what do you think of my qualifications?” “If you don’t believe me, let’s proceed to mutual destruction ” Tang Luo waved the badges, grinning as he spoke.
Ji Fu looked blankly for a moment, then exploded in anger, “Madman! You Tang Family, are all Madmen!”
