A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1670

After demonstrating the first form of Invoke the Celestial Sky, Chu Zhengliang wasted no time in following up with the second form in his eagerness to eliminate Ye Fan. Irksome as he may be, the boy has proven his worth for me to give it my all like an equal. Crash!

The mountains trembled as the ground split open.

Upon the execution of Tumble of the Majestic Mountain, Chu Zhengliang brought a fist with unfathomable power behind it, crashing down onto his foe.

The immensity of the fist was such that it threatened to obstruct the sun.

With the weight of an entire mountain behind it, the onlookers found themselves suffocated from merely being in the vicinity.

"It's the second form."

"I recall Chu Zhenghong only managed to attain up to the third."

"Good point. I'm not even sure if Zhengliang has mastered the third form."

Within the castle, the warriors of the Chu family had put up a force field to defend the onlookers against the imminent blast.

The Chu elders watched the fight closely because it had been many years since the Chu Sect were involved in any altercations.

To be able to witness their patriarch defending the family name with a show of force of the family's ultimate technique was a glory many of them hoped to live vicariously through Chu Zhengliang.

The man was not done after executing the two forms. With another almighty grunt, he propelled himself even higher.

Suddenly, the onlookers noticed the battleground turning dark from the shadow of a giant palm that obstructed everything in sight.

"Earthshaking Palm!" they screamed. "That's the third form!"

"The old man has indeed chosen his successor well," the elders proclaimed, near tears of excitement.

"Despite being the patriarch of the family for a comparatively short duration, Zhengliang has perfected the third form! Such talent is equal to the old man himself in his prime!"

At that point, the outcome of the battle did not matter to them anymore. Instead, they were more interested in finding out how far Chu Zhengliang had managed to push the limits of their ancestral technique. Chu Tian fan will not stand a snowflake's chance in hell against Invoke the Celestial Sky. This very move was what the old patriarch employed to quell all who dared to challenge the prestige of our family all those years ago!

The crowd's relentless gushing of its admiration for Chu Zhengliang's martial prowess seemed to spur him on as he showed no signs of stopping.

The immense palm seemed to push off the earth as Chu Zhengliang rose to even greater heights as soon as the palm touched the ground.

Just when the crowd could bear the suspense no more, the speck high above the ground began channeling again.

"Could there be a fourth move?"

This time, the usually stoic Chu elders lost their composure as their eyes grew wide with disbelief.

Even the leaders of the other nations gasped as one.

The third form had literally turned day into night. What other horrors could the fourth form bring?

Up in the skies, Chu Zhengliang extended a menacing finger.

"Fourth form: Red Flame Finger!"

Boom!

The clouds parted, revealing the massive shadow of a single finger descending from the sky.

Initially, it did not seem so big from a distance. As it rushed toward the earth amid a roaring gale, it grew to the size of a column.

As the deadly finger rushed toward the earth like an enormous dragon, it seemed to burn with the fury of its owner as the finger glowed bright red.

Its overwhelming power threatened to obliterate the

world.

"The kid is done for!"

"Without a doubt. He's a goner if he stands there for another second longer!"

"Without being in the top five of the Sky Ranking, there is no chance of him surviving this strike."

"Chu Tianfan is finished!" Aaron exclaimed. "The monster of China will finally be subdued!"

"The monster of China is going to meet his end today."

The members of his entourage were so frightened by the spectacle that they dared not speak.

Even the Dragon Slayers, Ye Fan's most staunch supporters, felt doubt for the first time.

Hang on, Dragon Master. The Chu family patriarch will be completely ruined if you can endure one more blow. After thirteen long years of planning, victory is within your reach! The effort of thirteen long years of planning is coming to fruition! Dawn is almost upon us. Hang on!

Angie clenched her diminutive fists as she watched with bated breath.

Every eye in the audience was glued to the spectacle which was nearly lost behind a dense wall of thunderous clouds.

The only thing that was visible to them was the eye of a cyclone within which a tempest raged.

Under Chu Zhengliang's fearsome demonstration of power, the figure of the younger man appeared hopelessly small and frail in the middle of the storm.

There was little doubt left in the onlookers. The furious power that threatened to obliterate everything within sight would crush the tiny figure.

Even Chu Qitian and his kin smirked with satisfaction at Ye Fan's inactivity. They were under the assumption that he had frozen with fright and had accepted his fate.

The Sword Saint and Tang Hao shut their eyes tightly. They could not bear to witness their fearless leader vaporized into a handful of ashes.

To everybody's complete shock, Ye Fan suddenly leaped into action.

The movement was so forceful that it left a small crater where his feet were a moment ago.

"Invoke the Celestial Sky, first move! Cloud Sun Kick!"

As Ye Fan soared to the skies, he seemed to propel himself off the clouds with weightless grace and ease.

"Second move! Tumble of the Majestic Mountain!"

The air crackled with electricity as the storm he conjured raged around him.

Ye Fan swung a mighty fist above his head. The momentum he had gained from the gesture carried him even further upward with such force that his ascent broke the sound barrier and sent a ripple throughout the airspace into the horizon and beyond.

"Third move! Earthshaking Palm!"

"Fourth move! Red Flame Finger!"

With a rumble that increased exponentially in volume and intensity with every subsequent move channeled, the clouds around Ye Fan dispersed.

Extending his foot, fist, palm, and finger, respectively, he swiftly delivered all four moves in one fluid

motion.

"What?"

"Invoke the Celestial Sky?"

"Four moves as well?"

"D*mn it!"

"I can't believe this little sh*t made it to the fourth move too!"

Ye Fan's dominance raised the standard of the crowd's expectations once again.

Members of the Chu family were most affected. Their eyes were bloodshot with fury as they screamed blasphemies and insults at him. Shaking their fists at their common enemy, they were numb to the pain of their nails digging into their palms from the intensity of their clenches.

I don't understand! How is a b*stard birthed by a village woman blessed with talent like that?

"No, it can't be! It can't be Invoke the Celestial Sky!" Chu Qitian exclaimed all of a sudden, looking delighted. "The b*stard has been practicing a

counterfeit version of the move, after all! It's not the same as what Dad practices. It's the abridged version. How else could you explain that a mere b*stard has managed to attain mastery up until the fourth move?"

The crowd leaned in for a closer look. To their surprise, they noticed both combatants had channeled the same moves in slightly different ways.

That explains it! Since it's not the complete version, our family secret remains safe!

The Chu family members heaved a sigh of relief.

Boom!

At that moment, the two figures encased in identical swirling masses of energy finally collided with the force of a bomb.

After veering apart, the two figures dashed toward each other again.

From afar, it looked as if the black clouds had taken the form of dragons that snapped and snarled at one another against a stormy sea.

As the battle was about to come to a close, the onlookers kept their gaze fixed upward as they

awaited the outcome of the fight.

"I did not expect the young man to be able to last this long."

"Me too! I'd thought that he would be disintegrated early on!"

"It's a counterfeit copy," Aaron mumbled under his breath. "How can it be compared to the original?"