Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
A little after eight in the morning, Xiao Ziyi awoke from her slumber as she crawled out of bed. She saw Xiao Chen’s loving gaze and immediately felt energized. She hopped into his arms, clutching his neck with her arms.
“Daddy! Daddy!”
Xiao Chen squished her cheeks.
“Hungry? I’ll take you to eat some delicious food.”
“Okay!”
Xiao Ziyi fiercely nodded. She kissed Xiao Chen on the cheek, causing his spirits to soar!
“Come on, Daddy will help you change into new clothes.”
After dressing up his daughter, Xiao Chen brought Xiao Ziyi to a high-end restaurant in the city for breakfast.
Xiao Chen wasn’t the type to spoil his children, but she had suffered so much in the last few years that he didn’t have the heart to discipline her and only wanted to treat her well.
After breakfast, he took his daughter to Jiangbei’s best medical hall—the Tang Medical Center!
The Tang family was famous throughout the Yan Kingdom. Grandfather Tang, Tang Qingshui, was lucky enough to receive medical knowledge from Hua Tuo’s medical classics, which made their foundations in Chinese medicine very profound. They had treated many of the top officials in the Yan Kingdom.
With living advertisements, the Tang family’s medical business was endless.
It was only eight in the morning, but the medical center was already bustling. Someone would approach or leave the hall every second with medicine in hand.
At the pond next to the medical center, beneath a yellowing weeping willow, an old man and a young girl were leisurely practicing Five Animals Play, a kung fu form.
The old man was about eighty, full of vitality and energy. Between his movements, his limbs were smooth and full of life.
The smaller girl was around twenty-three. Her features weren’t considered beautiful, but her skin was fair as snow and crystal clear, looking like a charming girl of humble birth.
She and the old man had the same moves, with the only difference being that she was lacking the old man’s sense of naturalness and ease. Obviously, she was missing some heat!
“Huff, huff! Grandpa, I can’t do it anymore. This Five Animals Play seems to be slow, but it’s really tiring to practice!”
The girl plopped down on the grass and wiped the sweat from her forehead. The old man immediately stopped and chuckled, eyes full of consideration.
“Nianyao, you’ve only practiced once, how could you learn it so fast? You must practice, practice, and practice to perfect a skill. Don’t think that it’s tiring, because afterward, you will feel powerful, and your meridians will open and flow more thoroughly. When you’re forty or fifty, you can even maintain your appearance!”
Hearing this, Nianyao’s eyes lit up.
“Grandpa! Is kung fu really that magical? Although I know you’re very powerful, even you have a head of white hair!”
“Hehehe… Silly girl. Grandpa does not care about appearances. But if your grandpa wanted to, I can refresh myself to have a head of luscious hair. In less than two months, I can look like a man in his mid-forties!”
“Hsss~! That’s a godlike trick!”
The old man stroked his beard and smiled.
“Hahaha… Silly girl, what do you mean a godlike trick? Grandpa is just a beginner. A genuine master could end a life just by raising his hand. If he so wishes, cannons and guns wouldn’t get past him. Furthermore, one can topple mountains and overturn seas as easily as a hand’s turn! Now that’s a godlike!”
Nianyao felt a longing for that power that was revealed in her eyes.
“Does a being like that exist on this earth?”
The old man sighed.
“Those individuals are too distant from us. You should keep practicing martial arts with grandpa first. In the future, you might have that fate.”
“Okay!”
The two once again began to formally practice. From the side, a child’s voice can suddenly be heard.
“Daddy, kung fu!”
Nianyao couldn’t help but glance back and saw a pleasant-looking girl who looked thin and sickly but wearing a very expensive dress. Beside the little girl was a man, perhaps twenty-seven or twenty-eight. He was handsome, with a unique aura about him, causing her to look at him more than once.
These two people were, naturally, Xiao Chen and Xiao Ziyi.
The father and daughter arrived at the medical center to buy some herbs to refine Xiao Ziyi’s marrow and repair her heart.
Coincidentally, they had run into the grandfather and his granddaughter practicing martial arts.
Xiao Chen had actually noticed ahead of his daughter. Anything that happened within ten miles could not escape his eyes.
Their kung fu looked to be normal and no different from a regular person, so Xiao Chen was not interested.
“Let’s go, we have to get your medicine!”
Ziyi was slightly reluctant to leave.
“Ziyi likes kung fu!”
The girl was very excited about this kind of activity that brought a sense of security, so Xiao Chen patted her on the head.
“If you like kung fu, Daddy can teach you. Their kung fu is garbage. If you learn it, it’ll only hold you back.”
Nianyao was just admiring the two earlier, but hearing them speak now, Nianyao immediately regained her composure and looked at Xiao Chen disapprovingly.
The Tang family’s Five Animals Play was a genuine handed-down technique from Hua Tuo’s collections! Although it didn’t have the magical effects that her grandfather said, even in all of Huaxia, it was unparalleled!
Yet, their technique was called garbage by Xiao Chen. How could she tolerate that?
“Hey! What did you say? Say it again!”
Xiao Chen looked at her calmly but didn’t acknowledge her. He pulled his daughter and headed to the medical center.
The old man pulled on Nianyao’s sleeve.
“It’s okay! Nianyao, don’t start trouble!”
Nianyao clenched her pink fists and struggled free from her grandfather’s grasp. She was not going to let it slide.
“No way, our Tang family’s Five Animals Play that was passed down for generations cannot be ridiculed by the likes of him. I’m gonna make him apologize!”
With that, she ran off after Xiao Chen.
“Hey! That guy, stop!”
Her turbulent attitude scared Xiao Ziyi, who clutched onto Xiao Chen’s leg. Xiao Chen turned around, his eyes shooting two flashes of light toward the back.
The light shot through like an electric flash, arriving in an instant. Nianyao never felt so close to death in her life before.
The cold flash whooshed past her ears and shot toward the back. Accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, the willow tree behind Nianyao—with a diameter of one meter and was over a hundred years old—was broken on the spot.
At this moment, the air was deathly calm and as terrifying as stagnant waters.
Both Nianyao and Elder Tang could hear their heartbeats. They didn’t even dare to breathe loudly!
“I’m not trying to cause trouble, but… don’t provoke me!”
“You… can’t afford to anger me!”
Afterward, Xiao Chen took his daughter and headed for the medical center. He left Nianyao and the elder frozen in place.
When Xiao Chen disappeared inside the medical center, Tang Nianyao opened her eyes. She looked at the willow tree that had its roots ripped out.
In this moment, she began to believe in the magical existence her grandfather had just spoken of.
She looked toward her grandfather. The Tang elder smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“Don’t look at me. This is my first time seeing this kind of stranger person, too. Fortunately, he was in a good mood, or else, both of us would have died on the spot.”