The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 216 - 0216: A Friendly Sparring

Chapter 216: Chapter 0216: A Friendly Sparring

Li Zhenni looked at Lu Buping, full of admiration.

She addressed Long Fei, "I always hear Chu Feng say how impressive you are. You were indeed amazing at diving last time, but I wonder if you’re up for this climb?"

Long Fei laughed, "Just average, but more than enough to compete with this Lu Buping."

"You seem quite confident."

Li Zhenni’s eyes sparkled with excitement; she wasn’t one to shy away from stirring things up.

She grabbed a megaphone and gestured to Lu Buping, calling out, "Lu Buping, come down for a moment."

Hearing this, Lu Buping looked back, then, with his arms propped against the rocks on both sides, he relaxed his feet and, with a series of taps, jumped down the cliff.

From the midpoint of the cliff, which was at least a hundred meters high, it took him only three breaths to reach the bottom.

With a final release, he jumped from five meters high to the ground without even bending his legs.

Zhou Zhenglong, watching from the side, was tense and asked Long Fei, "Are you really going to compete with him?"

Long Fei nodded.

Zhou Zhenglong expressed his concern, "But our Eight Trigrams School doesn’t have this kind of light-body skill, does it?"

Long Fei reassured him, "Brother, worry not, I have my ways."

Zhou Zhenglong, seeing his confidence, said no more.

He was just worried that if Long Fei lost, he would disgrace the Eight Trigrams School.

Lu Buping came over, wiping the sweat beads off his forehead with a towel.

He glanced at Long Fei and asked Li Zhenni curiously, "President Li, do you need something?"

Li Zhenni introduced him, "This is my friend, Long Fei. He’s also highly skilled in martial arts. I especially invited him today to exchange skills with you."

Lu Buping stared at Long Fei and frowned, "You’re Long Fei?"

"You know me?"

Long Fei was a bit surprised.

Lu Buping said, "I’ve heard Shun Ganzi mention you, saying you’re impervious to blades and bullets, that even being shot by Bald Nie didn’t harm you."

"That was just luck."

Long Fei didn’t modestly demur but rather spoke the truth.

At the time, he had not yet cultivated his Inner Strength; it was entirely due to a physical mutation that had created a patch of blue, hardened skin on his chest.

If the bullet had hit anywhere else, he truly didn’t know what would have happened.

Lu Buping saw his calm demeanor and thought he was being mysterious, looking down on his Sect.

Feeling slightly irritated, he challenged Long Fei, "Are you sure you want to challenge my light-body skill?"

Long Fei corrected him, "It’s not a challenge, just a coincidence. It’s a good opportunity for us to spar."

"Isn’t that the same thing?"

Lu Buping gave him a disdainful look, took a drink of water, and confidently said, "Let’s not compete in anything else but this mountain. You can choose any route you like, and whoever reaches the top first wins."

Li Zhenni said excitedly, "Great, let’s do it that way. But since this is a competition, shouldn’t you have a wager?"

"Betting money?"

Long Fei glanced at her, remembering how she loved to watch the excitement the first time he met her.

"Betting money is boring. Let’s bet something else."

Li Zhenni narrowed her eyes slightly.

Lu Buping suggested, "How about this—the last time, Shun Ganzi was defeated by Brother Long. Today, I’ll take back that face. If I win, Brother Long you just need to join under my wing and call me ’Master’ once."

Zhou Zhenglong raised his brows; Long Fei was a disciple under his father, and the outcome concerned his father’s honor.

If he were to become a disciple under the Thief King, that would be unthinkable.

However, when Long Fei had first become a disciple, he’d said he could willingly join under anyone else in the future.

Old Master Zhou had agreed to it.

Zhou Zhenglong was not pleased inside, but he did not voice his concerns.

Yet Long Fei remained calm and asked, "And if I win?"

Lu Buping laughed arrogantly, "Impossible, in today’s martial world, when it comes to lightness skill, no one can surpass our Swallow Sect."

"There’s always an exception!"

Long Fei stared at him, his body also exuding a sense of confidence.

Lu Buping said, "If you win, I’ll also call you ’Master’ and let you order me around as you please."

Long Fei smiled, "Fair."

Li Zhenni, delightedly from the side, said, "Good, then it’s settled!"

She pulled over Zhou Zhenglong, urging him, "Brother Zhou, please be the referee for them!"

Zhou Zhenglong nodded, his face dark as he glared at Long Fei, as if to say, don’t you dare lose.

A corner of Long Fei’s mouth curved up, and he walked with Lu Buping to the base of the mountain to look up.

Since it was a competition, naturally, Lu Buping didn’t dare to show off his lightness skill and chose a simple route.

Long Fei knew nothing about rock climbing and merely glanced before signaling Li Zhenni to start.

Li Zhenni frowned and went over to remind him, "Long Fei, the route you’ve chosen has a section of about fifteen meters of sheer rock—it’s considered one of the hardest parts in rock climbing."

"Is that so?"

Long Fei smiled briefly and calmly said, "Since it’s chosen, let’s stick with this one!"

Lu Buping stared at him, wondering what skills he actually had.

The two were about the same age, and Lu Buping was considered a direct disciple of the Sect Leader in the Swallow Sect, one of the elites among elites.

He didn’t expect to meet such an arrogant person here.

Daring to compete in lightness skill with him!

Zhou Zhenglong’s face grew even darker, really wanting to give Long Fei a good beating.

Fat Wang stared at the mountain peak and thought to himself that it was so high, he definitely couldn’t climb up even ten meters.

It seemed necessary to train here often in the future; money wasn’t that easy to earn.

In his mind, he thought this cheap brother-in-law was foolish; there were easier routes, yet he chose the hardest one just to show off.

After the two were ready, Zhou Zhenglong shouted into the megaphone, signalling the start.

Lu Buping stepped onto a rock and truly was as light as a swallow, grabbing with his hands, and sprang up the mountain as if walking on level ground, rapidly advancing in giant leaps.

Long Fei was on a completely different path; he used the rocks at his feet to propel himself, leaping into the air and ascending over ten meters high in two or three steps, reaching halfway up the mountainside.

Zhou Zhenglong, who was worried for Long Fei down below, furrowed his brows upon seeing this.

"Is he flying?"

Li Zhenni was shocked and exclaimed, her face filled with disbelief as she witnessed the scene.

Lightness skills were quite common, and Li Zhenni had seen several lightness skill masters before.

But nobody could leap upward over a dozen meters high in a single bound like Long Fei could.

Even the Ladder Cloud Vertical from Wudang, leaping three or four meters high, was considered a record-breaking feat.

A dozen meters was equivalent to the height of four or five floors.

At a glance, it indeed almost seemed like flying.

Regarding that piece of steep overhanging rock, the surface was smooth, and it protruded outward, leaving no place to find purchase.

Long Fei kicked beneath him and ’thump’, left an indentation in the granite.

His legs filled with power, and the blood within his body oddly boiled, both releasing a sky-breaking sound that startled Long Fei himself.

Initially, he just intended to kick a small notch, but now, with one kick, he had sunk ten centimeters into the granite.

Using this kick to propel himself upward, his body unfurled like a divine ape; using his hands to climb the protruding rocks, he soared another dozen meters high. After surmounting the precipitous rocks, with a couple of taps of his feet on the rock, he ascended to the mountaintop.

Zhou Zhenglong checked the time and called out in amazement, "Fifteen seconds, this kid only took fifteen seconds!"

A hundred-meter-tall peak, the best rock climbing record kept, also took over fifteen minutes.

And that was following the easiest route.

Long Fei had chosen the most challenging path and had only taken such a short time, startling everyone in attendance.