Chapter 117: You, a Country Bumpkin, Know Body Refinement Techniques?

“Brother, in our circle, we live by a code of honor. I’ve told you everything you wanted to know, so just surrender quietly.”

Seeing Zhang Chu’s expression of frustration and regret, Lu Yishan waved his hand, and the butcher and Bailu, along with a few others, closed in slowly.

“You think you can take us, you bunch of losers?”

Zhang Chu grinned widely.

“Looking for death!”

The butcher grabbed his two gleaming butcher knives and lunged at Zhang Chu.

He was a level 5 martial artist.

The butcher’s blade technique looked fierce, with sharp crackling sounds slicing through the air.

Several times, the knives came close to brushing Zhang Chu’s clothes—though “close” still meant about a meter away.

Zhang Chu was just worried he hadn’t had a chance to test his “Diamond Body Armor” technique—now it was being handed to him on a silver platter.

In the eyes of a six-star dual-force warrior, all martial artists were trash.

Zhang Chu didn’t even bother using his basic martial skills.

Watching the two butcher knives come down, he simply met them head-on with a punch.

Bang!

With a heavy blow, the level 4 equipped butcher knives shattered instantly into a pile of scrap iron on the ground.

Only the handles remained, lodged in the butcher’s hands.

The butcher was stunned.

Before he could react, Zhang Chu closed in quickly and punched him flying.

A mouthful of blood spat out. The butcher cried out in alarm, “Brother Lu, watch out! This kid is using Body Refining Technique!”

“Body Refining Technique? Are you from the Armory Department?”

Lu Yishan and the others were on the verge of losing their minds.

They had taken on a dark web mission and ended up tangling with the Binzhou Armory Department.

“I didn’t expect your little inn to have some real skill, recognizing Body Refining Technique too.”

Zhang Chu hadn’t anticipated these country bumpkins had such good insight.

At this moment, Lu Yishan’s head felt like it was about to explode.

Crossing the Armory Department was a dead end.

But letting this kid go was also a dead end.

“Brother Lu, it’s now or never. If we work together, we can definitely take him down.”

Bailu said.

“You woman, you’re pretty ruthless.”

Zhang Chu didn’t expect that the gentlest person in the daytime would be the cruelest in battle.

“This kid drank tea laced with a force suppressant. If he uses martial power, he’ll instantly lose his strength.”

“Charge!”

Lu Yishan suddenly snapped back to reality, gaining confidence.

He nearly forgot that the tea they had just drunk contained a martial power suppressant, a drug specifically designed to target martial artists.

If the dosage was right, even a spiritual realm cultivator would be dazed for a while.

“What’s a martial power suppressant?”

Zhang Chu panicked.

He had calculated everything but never expected that Lu Yishan would be so ruthless as to drink the same tea with the suppressant.

Testing the waters with his own body—a reckless gamble!

* * *

The remaining few were all martial artists.

At Lu Yishan’s command, they charged forward.

In desperation, Zhang Chu quickly began testing whether his martial power and mental strength still functioned.

“Electric Vine Bind!”

With a thought, a tingling sensation spread through his palm.

An energy vine quickly shot out, crackling with electricity, binding the four charging martial artists tightly like bundles.

This time, Zhang Chu didn’t use the Tengyao Seed skill’s enhancement.

Pure electric shock alone caused the four martial artists to foam at the mouth and collapse, convulsing on the spot.

Within moments, only Lu Yishan and Bailu remained—one a two-star dual-force warrior, the other a four-star dual-force warrior.

“Martial power suppressant, what a joke!”

Seeing the fallen martial artists, Zhang Chu grinned widely.

He had been terrified just a moment ago.

But now, calmness returned, and he realized he had risen to his current cultivation by taking drugs step by step.

Even a half-finished “Breaking Armor Pill” couldn’t kill him.

A martial power suppressant was nothing.

Moreover, such an unrefined drug didn’t even qualify to enhance martial power or mental power.

The system should have automatically filtered it out.

“You’re a dual-force warrior!”

Lu Yishan saw the situation and turned pale with fear.

Natural battle skills.

And Body Refining Technique.

Even in the Armory Department, this was a top-tier expert.

The martial power suppressant had no effect.

If Zhang Chu escaped, their inn was finished.

“Bailu, let’s attack together and take him down!”

Lu Yishan and Bailu no longer held back and rushed toward Zhang Chu.

They unleashed their mental battle skills first.

Lu Yishan’s was an illusion technique, creating ten copies of himself before Zhang Chu’s eyes.

Bailu’s mental skill was similar to Zhang Chu’s—it was a binding technique.

Mental energy quickly gathered around Zhang Chu, forming a rope of energy that tightly shackled him.

They were about to succeed.

Suddenly, a powerful mental pressure descended from above.

Thud!

Both of them fell to their knees. One slid forward and knelt directly at Zhang Chu’s feet.

Their illusions were useless—Lu Yishan was the only one kneeling!

“Could this be a gravity field? How is this possible?”

Bailu was dumbfounded.

Even with her four-star cultivation, she couldn’t break free.

There was only one possibility: Zhang Chu was at least five-star.

“You country bumpkins do have some insight.”

Zhang Chu exerted a little force, consuming 500 martial power points and activating “Diamond Body Armor.”

His muscles tensed instantly, and the energy ropes shattered on the spot.

The powerful energy directly shattered the portable isolation array.

Bailu, being the closest, was blasted away and fainted immediately.

* * *

Meanwhile, upstairs, Zhang Xueying and the others, hearing the commotion, rushed downstairs.

“Brother Chu, what’s going on?”

“And why’s that fat guy here too?”

Looking at the unconscious martial artists scattered on the floor, Hu San rubbed his eyes, wondering if he was still half asleep.

“A two-star dual-force warrior—wow, they hid pretty well.”

Chen Long glanced at Lu Yishan, who was pinned down, and stomped on him.

“You bastard, how dare you attack us secretly? How many lives do you have?”

“Chen Long, don’t be too harsh. Let’s ask about the missing martial artists.”

Zhang Xueying didn’t even have to ask; she already guessed what had happened.

Just as they had suspected, this inn—from the boss to the staff—was no ordinary place.

But the presence of the fat guy and Bailu had caught them off guard.

“Since you’ve fallen into our hands, whatever. You know you can’t openly kill me.”

“That’s the rule set by the Martial Arts Bureau!”

Having been caught, Lu Yishan decided to throw caution to the wind.

Taking missions on the martial arts dark web meant at most ten years in prison.

For a dual-force warrior, ten years was nothing.

After release, just move to another city and start fresh.

“You only know the Martial Arts Bureau’s rules? Can’t kill you but can’t not hit you either?”

Chen Long pulled out a restraining bracelet, sealing Lu Yishan’s cultivation and dragging him aside for a savage beating.

The screams nearly attracted the attention of other customers.

Fortunately, Zhang Xueying activated the portable isolation array.

Chen Long tired himself out, but Lu Yishan remained unfazed, like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water.

“This old guy can really take a beating; I’m out of options.”

“I just love seeing the look on your face when you know you can’t kill me or do anything to me.”

Despite being beaten to a pulp, Lu Yishan still mocked them.

Without that kind of shamelessness, he wouldn’t have lasted so many years in Qingcheng Town.

“Wang Peng, it’s your turn.”

Zhang Chu sat in a chair, sipping tea.

Wang Peng rolled up his sleeves and approached Lu Yishan.

He quickly unleashed a Heaven-bestowed battle skill, and Lu Yishan felt a buzzing in his head as his body lost control.

“You... you’re a Heaven-bestowed? Is this a hypnosis divine art?”

The next moment, Lu Yishan’s eyes glazed over like a fool’s.

Zhang Xueying asked questions, and he answered each one mechanically.

Until he could no longer endure the mental control and fainted.

Only then did Wang Peng withdraw his mental power.

“Xiao Chu, it looks like this missing martial artists case in Qingcheng Town has quite a connection to you.”

“...”

Zhang Chu was speechless.

That name was indeed common—so common that even the Divine Fall Alliance had to capture large numbers of people.

Luckily, his looks were exceptional.

“Lu Yishan said that as long as they catch someone named Zhang Chu, upload their info to the dark web backend, someone will come to collect them the next day.”

“How about... turning the tables?”

Zhang Xueying pondered for a long time, then looked at Zhang Chu.

“Teacher Xiao Chu, we’ll have to trouble you a bit.”

??

Again, they wanted to use me as a human shield?