Romance of Dragons and Snakes

And to the south of the lake was a red wall as tall as four people encircled by trees. Within this red wall was a single villa.

The Lake Tianxing district was S Province’s largest residential area. Villas filled the area with their own electrical gates, alarm and monitoring systems, and even a 24 hour patrol. There was even a specialized hospital, supermarket, and even a specific branch of the Bank of China all catered for the usage of the residents.

Rumors had it that foreign investors had invested several billion dollars in order to establish this area. Not only was the insides of each villa spacious, but there were even gardens specifically made to resemble the Netherlands.

This type of residence and environment was something that only a wealthy person could have.

Tang Zichen rode along the road on her own silver racing bike before going past the automatic gates where four guards stood nearby.

The avenue she was traveling on was expansive and even though there had been a heavy snowfall recently, not a single pile of snow or drop of rain could be seen. Not even mud could be seen on the road.

After several minutes of biking past a few villas, she had finally stopped at a villa with three buildings. The middle one was four stories tall and the buildings on both sides were evidently the garage and servant living quarters.

The three buildings had a single large lawn that was fenced with a single white painted fence and the lawn itself was based off of the medieval European times.

With the use of her remote control, the sluice gates to the garage began to open for her to enter. Suddenly, from the pitch darkness from within, a light could be seen.

“Eh?” Tang Zichen’s ears trembled, “Three of you, come on out then.”

Pa! Pa! Pa! Suddenly, the sound of applause could be heard as the lamp within the garage was fully turned on, illuminating the entire garage.

Standing not too far away from Tang Zichen was a black robed youth with a straight nose and black hair. His eyes were of a blue color, indicating that he was of mixed blood.

He was rather handsome and carried about a frivolous smile.

This type of man could get any of the girls he wanted without any slip ups.

Pa, as the handsome male clapped his hands together, a revolver could be seen in one of his hands.

“Violent Bear, Evil Wolf, come on out. Our whereabouts have been spotted.” The male spoke as he spun the revolver quickly around his finger.

At the same time, two figures could be seen walking out of nowhere, blocking the way out of the road.

Opening the door, Tang Zichen walked on over, allowing her to see the two men. One of them was a black male around 1.9 to 2.0 meters in height and had muscles that were bulging out of his shirt. All over his body, a doughty aura could be felt exuding from him.

The other person was a blonde caucasian who wore camouflage clothing. While his physique wasn’t as terrifying as the other, he was still well proportionate and on one of the camo legs, the sheath to a black dagger could be seen.

“Oh my god, what a miracle. Who would had known the instructor who has trained countless of killing machines for the Black Mamba, Rattlesnake, Poisonous Scorpion, BBN and Chinese Dragons coalition would be such a beautiful young lady? Miss Tang, Miss Tang Zichen!”

The mixed blood male shrugged his shoulders as he whistled, addressing Tang Zichen with a gentleman’s etiquette.

“Allow me to introduce myself, my code name is Spirit Fox’. My friends in the killing world have given me another name, ‘Reaper’s Bullet’. That’s because each time I shoot from my revolver, it will take the soul of another.’

“My real name is John, John Maliweinski. But since we’re in China, I’ll have to use a Chinese name. So I’ve taken up Yang Yingming. How about it? Miss Tang Zichen, isn’t it a good name?”

Yang Yingming was extremely refined almost as if he was inviting a girl to dance at a drinking party. “The black guy is Violent Bear, in the past, he used karate to break the neck of a polar bear. In the underground market of New York, he has beaten several boxers and even killed 30 of them by snapping their necks. The white guy is codenamed Evil Wolf. He specializes in stealth kills using his knife to slit the throats of his enemies without a single sound being made!”

“Are you from the CIA?” Tang Zichen spoke without moving an inch.

“No no no….” Yang Yingming shook his head with a smile, “We are from another organization. But the CIA did pay a hefty price for us to come to China. Miss Tang’s organization has disturbed the USA’s plans in Africa, and since miss Tang is a high ranking official in your organization, we were naturally very interested. Was it possible that something was happening within China? According to our intel, Miss Tang’s organization had no relevancy to China.”

“So how about it? Miss Tang, why don’t you take a trip with us? We’ll transport you to the seaside in secret and then ship you off to the CIA personnel. Miss Tang shouldn’t disobey us, I’m quite the quick shooter, and I’d hate to pollute your pretty blood with my bullet.”

“Spirit Fox, don’t talk so much, hurry up and do it.” The caucasian male spoke up in English. He was becoming impatient and slowly circled around them with the black male.

Suddenly, Tang Zichen made a start. But Evil Wolf and Violent Beat were both veterans of hundreds of battles and each had countless of kills under their belts. Any move that Tang Zichen would make, they would be aware of.

Evil Wolf was true to his name as he abruptly sprung outwards. In one fluid motion, he was already at her neck with his knife aimed at her main artery on her neck.

Slightly tilting her body an inch, Tang Zichen allowed for the knife to stab into her shoulder.

Evil Wolf specialized in being a killing machine however. The strength in his arm was at its max; and even if he were to cut into the shoulder, he would still be able to completely dismember the joint.

But having her arm cut off wasn’t a part of Tang Zichen’s plans, causing her to invert her shoulder.

Hidden Jin activate!

Suddenly, Evil Wolf’s face revealed a look of pain as if he was just shocked. His entire body seemed to have become paralyzed for that split second.

Encapsulating on this opportunity, Tang Zichen strode forward and swung her arm sideways. This was a move from Taichi, “Step Forward, Deflect, Parry and Punch”.

Tang Zichen’s clothes wafted through the air, creating a firework like popping sound!

This “Deflect, Parry and Punch” was almost as if a stick had struck against Evil Wolf’s chest.

Evil Wolf’s 100 kilogram body was sent flying through the air like a bullet before slamming against the wall of the garage. His stuck to the wall for a good two seconds before slowly falling to the ground.

When he fell, his eyes were wide opened as a droplet of water escaped from his open mouth as he tried to breathe.

“Ha!” In that moment when Evil Wolf had lost all of his fighting strength, Violent Bear had immediately responded. Without blinking, Violent Bear snorted through his nose as he extended his arms so as to enwrap Tang Zichen in his arms with a bear hug.

He was prepared to use his entire strength to make Tang Zichen knock out.

His muscle mass was terrifying. Any regular attack would be like a mosquito bite on him, and in the past, he had caused the bones of five different people to fracture in a single hug.

Within the ring, Tang Zichen crouched downwards and rotated her waist. Swinging her entire body, both her arms suddenly spread out wide as she made use of Bagua’s “Rotating Body Palm” to swing at him.

Pa! Suddenly, Violent Bear’s 100+ kilogram body was dropped to the ground as if he was a ragdoll.

Bang, bang, bang, bang! Straight away, the muffled sounds of gunfire could be heard as Tang Zichen’s legs was pushed against the ground as if ice skating. Blood could be seen as it dripped down her white clothes and stained it red.

Yang Yingming had fired. While Tang Zichen had dodged three of the bullets, she had still been hit.

“You fight as if you’re drawing a picture!” When Yang Yingming had seen Evil Wolf get plastered against the wall for two seconds, he had immediately fired his revolver. Seeing that a bullet make contact with Tang Zichen, he instantly grew relaxed, “To think your martial arts has already reached the Transforming Jin stage. You’ve long since passed the Clear Jin and Hidden Jin stage if you can dodge three of my shots.”

Yang Yingming’s marksmanship had underwent such a specialized training regime that he could be recognized as a top notch sniper, but Tang Zichen had somehow managed to evade three of his shots.

But even after getting shot, Tang Zichen had no change in her expression. Squeezing her shoulder, the blood soaked bullet had managed to shoot out from her muscles with a clanging sound as it hit the floor.

The bullet should have entered into her flesh deep enough for surgery to be needed to extract it.

But at this moment, Tang Zichen had managed to extract it as easily as hitting a fly out of the air.

Even the wound had managed to stop bleeding.

The single bullet wound had no effect on her at all. With a single step, the soles and her five toes pressed against the ground with a considerable amount of force.

In the next moment, her entire body was flying as if a snake weaving through the grass.

“Grass Weaving Snake” was one of the stances to the snake branch of Xingyi Quan. This was something that Tang Zichen had a complete mastery over.

Seeing how Tang Zichen had managed to pop out the bullet in her body, his face looked as if he had seen a ghost. “Your martial arts has even affected your bones?!”

But even as the words left his mouth, Tang Zichen had already approached up close to him.

But even Yang Yingming knew martial arts. His right leg shot outwards with a horizontal sweep, a crisp sound following it.

Without hesitation, Tang Zichen bent her body in a snake like fashion and allowed the kick to sweep over his face.

Seeing his kick miss, he managed to try and back up before fishing out his gun to shoot, but Tang Zichen gave him no chance.

Crouch and grab, this was the “Monkey Stealing the Peach” move that Tang Zichen had taught Wang Chao.

Yang Yingming’s senses were too sharp, so Tang Zichen had been unable to grab him. The back of his body felt a whooshing sensation as he realized that he was up against the garage wall with no room to retreat.

In a moment between life or death, Yang Yingming crouched down as well. With his legs pressed together and his arms in a protective manner, his hands grabbed at Tang Zichen’s own hands.

The hand that had been scooped up against the ground suddenly slapped against the ground before striking outwards like the tail of a python.

The terazzo of the garage immediately gained several new cracks underneath where her hand had struck.

Crouch down and grab sand, but there was no sand. With Tang Zichen’s Hidden Jin, she could easily make sand from the ground.

Grabbing at the broken pieces from the terazzo, Tang Zichen rose up into the air and threw the stones like arrows, piercing into Yang Yingming’s face.

With the bits of sand that flew into his eyes, Yang Yingming had wanted to close his eyes, but thanks to his martial artist instincts, he had resisted.

With another move, “Rising Dragon Head”, her hand that had been outstretched for a grab had instantly curled up into a fist before rising up to strike at Yang Yingming in the chin.

Hearing the whistling sound below, Yang Yingming instinctively tilted his head up.

Tang Zichen’s movements instantly changed as her “Rising Dragon Head” had turned into “Twin Dragons Fighting over Pearl”, her fist extending two fingers to jab into Yang Yingming’s eyes.

With both eyes being jabbed, the eyeballs had instantly been forced out of the eye sockets as blood streamed down Yang Yingming’s face.

His entire body dropped to the ground as he began to howl into the air

“You….you were shot….just how….how could there…..be no effect??!”

Tang Zichen looked at her wound indifferently, “My martial arts has even entered my bone marrow. Your gunshot is the same as a person peeling the skin of a fruit. I don’t even need a bandage.”

“Guo…Guo Yunshen…..said that…Guoshu had three…three stages….Clear Jin….Hidden Jin….and Transforming Jin…..then there was….the three skills….Bone Change….Muscle Change….and….Bone….Bone Marrow Change….did you reach such….such a level? Te-tell me…how did you achieve…such a feat….?”

Knowing that Yang Yingming was going to die anyways, she replied, “After the Hidden Jin stage, you use sound to vibrate the bone marrow.”

Yang Yingming’s body spasmed as he gritted with pain, “Wh-what….what sound…?”

Tang Zichen spoke only the words, “The Tiger’s Thunder.”

“So it…it was like….that? Kill me…now then….”

“Hold on, just which organization are you from? How did you know I’ve arrived in China?” Tang Zichen questioned.

“Sorry…but that’s…business…for you…”

“Your kicking method and protective stances is of a standard style, but you use it in the manner of Wing Chun, who is your master?”

“Your….boxing has…already surpassed Li…Li Luoneng….Dong Haichuan….and even Yang Luchan….Cheng Tinghua had….had died by a gun….but my own bullet….didn’t even hurt you….my master would….definitely not be…an opponent….for you…..Ah….so this….this is what death feels like…………”

“Unfortunately, you only had one gun. During Cheng Tinghua’s death, he had 24 guns pointed at him.

Tang Zichen’s eyes grew dim as she stabbed into Yang Yingming’s heart. With a final spasm, Yang Yingming grew still and breathed no more.

“You can die now!” A gigantic shadow flew at her from behind.

Violent Bear who had been struck to the ground by Tang Zichen’s Returning Body Palm had managed to get back up for a chance to strike.

At last, he had managed to grab the knife from Evil Wolf and lash out at her like a leopard fighting an antelope.

Without even turning her head, Tang Zichen stood up and got into a stance!

“Body Throwing Blow”, elbow strike! Lifting Yin Palm!

Bang! A dent could be seen in Violent Bear’s chest as his sternum was shattered!

Even his testicles had become a mangled flesh of red and white as it was ripped apart from his body and falling to the ground a meter away.

He died too.

Meanwhile, while Evil Wolf had lost the capability to fight, he was still alive and capable of thought. Seeing Tang Zichen walk closer to him, he began to struggle to move his body.

Tang Zichen’s hand touched upon Evil Wolf’s chest, and almost as if he had received a shot, Evil Wolf could suddenly breathe well again.

Tang Zichen had used Hidden Jin to enter through Evil Wolf’s pores and jump started his nerves as a form of an artificial pacemaker.

“Speak. Just what is your organization? What is your purpose with the CIA so that you were smuggled into China?” Tang Zichen grabbed at Evil Wolf’s throat before carrying him off the ground with both hands.

Tang Zichen’s words had been spoken in fluent English.

Evil Wolf closed his eyes. He knew that against such a formidable amount of power, resistance was futile.

With a small sigh, Tang Zichen gripped her hands tightly. With a cracking sound, she had shattered Evil Wolf’s windpipe and threw him to the ground.