CHAPTER 391: CHAPTER 171: CHANGE IN VITAL ENERGY, LIFE AND DEATH IN A MOMENT!_2

What the hell is going on? Could he have gotten a defective product? Zhang Beixing pondered. He set the plate in his hand aside and picked up another.

The result was the same.

CRACK—

The sound echoed again.

Zhang Beixing was baffled. The first plate breaking, he could have understood if it was poor quality. But the second plate too? The situation was definitely starting to seem off.

He reached for the chopsticks. The moment his two fingers pinched them, they snapped into two pieces. When he grabbed a porcelain bowl, he somehow crushed a corner of it.

The nearby medical orderly was completely flummoxed by this. However, he soon regained his composure. He walked over, patted Zhang Beixing on the shoulder, his face still showing the remnants of shock, and said, "Comrade, please wait! Don’t touch anything else. First, tell me what’s going on with you. What happened? Why does everything you touch break?"

Zhang Beixing, completely bewildered, replied, "I have no idea. I just wanted to eat, but somehow, everything I touch breaks."

Hearing this, the medical orderly didn’t say anything, just silently looked at the plate and bowl fragments and the snapped chopsticks that Zhang Beixing had damaged. Then, he looked back at Zhang Beixing with an incredibly strange expression.

Zhang Beixing could obviously understand the look and felt utterly helpless. For heaven’s sake, he really hadn’t done it on purpose! He was so hungry he felt delirious, barely having the time to eat, let alone the inclination to cause such a commotion. But what was done was done. This made Zhang Beixing feel extremely frustrated!

Just as he was pondering how to convince the medical orderly, Huo Honghao, who was outside the cafeteria, learned about the incident from his men. He was shocked after seeing the trail of destruction Zhang Beixing had left. After asking about Zhang Beixing’s current location, he rushed over immediately.

He found Zhang Beixing standing in the cafeteria, holding fragments of tableware, and staring blankly. Taking in the broken chopsticks, shattered bowl, and ruined plates scattered around Zhang Beixing, Huo Honghao raised an eyebrow.

He walked up and exchanged a few words with the medical orderly. Upon learning that Zhang Beixing had come into the cafeteria not to eat, but to wreak havoc on the tableware, Huo Honghao’s expression became rather peculiar. He then said a few words to dismiss the medical orderly.

Huo Honghao then looked at Zhang Beixing and said, "Brother Zhang, you really know how to make an entrance. One moment you’re in quiet seclusion, the next you emerge and you just *have* to give me a big surprise, don’t you? So, what’s going on? Even if our cafeteria food isn’t to your liking, that’s no reason to destroy the tableware, is it? And what about your walk here? Why on earth did you have to go around cracking the pavement? Was the ground too hard on your feet?"

Hearing these obviously teasing words, Zhang Beixing’s expression turned rueful. However, he caught a clue from Huo Honghao’s words, asking with surprised uncertainty, "I broke the ground too?"

"Yeah," Huo Honghao affirmed. "I’m telling you, kid, you’re really something. From the mountain to here, no place you’ve walked on is undamaged. It’s either left with white footprints or directly cracked. I remember you weren’t like this two days ago. So, what now... have you broken through to Great Grandmaster?" he asked curiously.

He could tell that Zhang Beixing wasn’t doing this intentionally at all; it was completely unintentional. That was rather terrifying! And he also knew that Zhang Beixing’s strength hadn’t been this frightening before! Huo Honghao looked at Zhang Beixing, his eyes gleaming sharply.

Zhang Beixing nodded, not hiding anything. "Yes, I’ve broken through to Great Grandmaster!"

Upon hearing this, although Huo Honghao had already suspected it, he couldn’t help but be astonished when he received confirmation from Zhang Beixing himself.

Indeed, he hadn’t misjudged the man or made a bad investment. Zhang Beixing was just too extraordinarily gifted! A Great Grandmaster in his early twenties? Unprecedented, throughout history! If this news got out, wouldn’t it cause an uproar in the national martial arts circle?

Meanwhile, after responding to Huo Honghao, Zhang Beixing furrowed his brows and began to ponder the day’s events.

Something was wrong! Terribly, utterly wrong! Earlier, when he was handling the tableware, whatever he touched broke. That had already felt very odd. And now, Huo Honghao said that he had cracked the ground on his way here. His already furrowed brow tightened even more. What on earth was going on? He was sure that when he was coming here, he’d simply walked normally, without deliberately doing anything. Yet, this was the result.

A memory suddenly flashed in Zhang Beixing’s mind—words Elder Chen had once spoken to him: "After breaking through to Great Grandmaster, not only can one extend their lifespan, but their Vital Energy will also undergo a special transformation! However, since the Great Grandmaster realm has been lost to history for hundreds of years, the specific details are unclear."

Initially, when Zhang Beixing realized his Vital Energy could be projected out from his body, he had assumed this was the special transformation his Vital Energy underwent upon becoming a Great Grandmaster. At that time, although he found it strange, he hadn’t given it much thought due to his exhaustion from being awake for two days and two nights. But today, recalling Elder Chen’s words, the more he mulled it over, the more it felt wrong! Projecting Vital Energy from the body—this was already beyond the capabilities of a normal human. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say he had one foot in the Transcendent realm. If the ancients had possessed such an ability...