Chapter 178: Man and Monster
"What happened afterwards?"
Even though he wasn't there in person, just listening to Su Chen's narration had Joker so nervous he felt his heart might leap out of his chest.
After all, the situation was so perilous!
And for the Hall Master to survive under those circumstances was truly unimaginable!
"The result was that I killed three at the Qi Refinement Peak and about eleven or twelve at the eighth or ninth layer, while my own dantian was shattered, and I was forced to jump off a cliff. Fortunately, I managed to save my life."
Su Chen smiled lightly, as if he were talking about someone else's story.
If this had been half a year ago, he definitely wouldn't have been able to speak so casually, but in the recent months, as he returned to the path of cultivation, he had let go of the past.
Although he had let go, it didn't mean that he would forgive those who had betrayed him; it was just that he wasn't strong enough yet, so he could only wait quietly...
"What! Dantian shattered?!"
Joker was greatly shocked, being a martial artist, he naturally understood what the dantian meant to a person, and even more so what a shattered dantian meant to a cultivator!
"Then you now...?"
Joker asked Su Chen with immense anxiety, considering Su Chen was the pillar of their hearts and the symbol of the Nether Temple!
"Don't worry, I have already repaired my dantian, and my cultivation is almost at the level of an average cultivator's Qi Refinement eighth or ninth layer."
Su Chen's face showed a warm smile as he looked at Joker.
He wasn't afraid to reveal his cultivation level among the old brothers of the Temple. He believed that even if he had no cultivation at all, they wouldn't entertain any other thoughts.
These old brothers were different from Tang Gang. Although Su Chen had also considered Tang Gang a brother, he had always been somewhat wary of him.
It could be said that Tang Gang never fully gained Su Chen's trust, at most, possessing only eighty percent of it!
But even that eighty percent was enough to cause Su Chen great pain, for it marked the first and only time someone had betrayed the Temple so far!
The taste of betrayal was truly unbearable, almost enough to break Su Chen's will.
The reason Su Chen fell for the trap and got injured at the time was partly because he was genuinely interested in the so-called miracle, which made him let down his guard; and partly because he was too arrogant, believing his strength could crush everything.
He could never have imagined that Tang Gang could bring so many absolute experts!
When Joker, who sat at Su Chen's left hand, heard Su Chen's words, he was filled with shock!
The Hall Master is indeed the Hall Master!
To be able to repair a shattered dantian was something Joker had never heard of before!
And for the Hall Master to recover to a realm equivalent to the eighth or ninth layer so quickly, that pace was just too astonishing!
"Don't look at me like that; I can't even beat you now," Su Chen joked casually.
"Hall Master is joking, even with ten times the courage, I wouldn't dare!"
Joker chuckled sheepishly, then glanced at Su Chen and said teasingly:
"But whether Eniel has that kind of courage, I don't know." Explore more at empire
Upon mentioning Eniel, Su Chen couldn't help feeling wistful:
"How has she been lately?"
"Well, after knowing that you, the Hall Master, were not dead, she first cried a lot, then cursed you in her room for an entire day, all of which the Demon overheard unintentionally."
The Clown glanced at Su Chen and seeing him make a bitter face, continued:
"She was about to come kill you immediately, but she had some matters to take care of and couldn't leave right away. However, she is coming next month."
"Hall Master, you better pray for good luck!"
The Clown said with schadenfreude:
"She's already dying to kill you now. If she finds out that you're married, uh uh uh, I really can't bear to think about it!"
As he spoke, the Clown shivered as if he'd thought of something terrifying.
Actually, what gave Su Chen a headache was exactly this matter, but there was no solution at the moment, and he could only play it by ear when the time came.
"By the way, Hall Master, do you know why Tang Gang betrayed the Temple?"
After making a couple of jokes, the Clown steered the conversation back to serious matters.
"It's still unclear, but if I'm not mistaken, he wasn't later bought off by someone; he was planted there from the beginning by some mysterious force."
Su Chen slightly furrowed his brow and said.
"So, their purpose was just to eliminate you, Hall Master?"
"That's just one of their goals, but the most important should be the human genetic experiment data from the lab."
"Human genes, what's that? How come I don't know about it?"
The Clown asked in surprise.
"Not only you, but even the Demon and Eniel don't know. Only I know about this," Su Chen sighed, "The project hadn't been going long before I stopped it. I realized then that if these experimental results were used by people with bad intentions, it would be catastrophic, so I stopped it quickly."
"Last time, didn't Military Blade encounter some of the Skull Society in America, people who fought recklessly, healed incredibly fast, and whose blood was blue? Those were created using human genetic manipulation."
"You mean to say that the Skull Society was founded by that traitor Tang Gang, and that those creatures were created using the human genetic experimental data stolen from our lab?"
The Clown asked hurriedly, his face filled with shock!
He hadn't expected that the Skull Society was established by that traitor Tang Gang, nor that those monsters were created using the experimental results that had leaked from the Temple!
"That's likely the case." At this moment, a solemn expression also appeared on Su Chen's face, "That's why I've had Shadow gather information on this. After all, this incident is due to me, so I have to destroy it no matter what, or else the consequences are unimaginable!"
"Hall Master, is it really that severe? I've heard Military Blade say that although those blue-blooded freaks are a bit tricky to deal with, they can still be taken care of."
"That's only the second generation. What if they develop the third, fourth, fifth generation? He definitely won't stop his research like I did."
Su Chen glanced at the Clown and said:
"But the crux of the problem is not even that; these creatures were all normal people, all transformed by them into this. This is too inhumane! If we don't destroy it, how many people will be implicated!"
"I understand now; this is indeed a big trouble!"
Hearing Su Chen say this, the Clown finally realized the severity of the problem!
Such atrocities were too inhuman, and he didn't need to think to know how terrible it was to turn people into monsters!