Chapter 136 - Qin Fen’s Becoming More and More Freakish (2/2)

Such a skill possessed extremely high requirements for one’s muscular control. Not any average Joe Schmoe could learn it. Muscles can be stretched taut when exerting force, but it was a totally different realm to do compress muscle to the point of changing shape. This was like how some people could control the movements of their ears and how others couldn’t control their ears at all.

Before the drill instructors could finish nodding their heads, the room rang with the sounds of bones popping.

Under these circumstances where Butcher had yet to guide Qin Fen in how to engage in the transformation, Qin Fen copied Butcher’s actions. His hand slowly changed shape, and the muscles around the bones of his palm slowly wriggled.

Butcher didn’t say anything, and the other drill instructors were all stupefied just by watching.

The same voice rang in everyone’s minds. “This fellow really is Qin Zhan’s little brother! The older brother is peerless and breathtaking, and the little brother is in no way lacking. Wait, that’s wrong! The kid may even be more freakish than his older brother!”

Qin Fen’s expression was just as rich ass the others’. He furtively glanced at Butcher as he diligently trained in the Heart Excising Hand. He admired secretly from his heart. This is way more than just a bit of pain. This level of pain was the same as placing one’s hands under the tires of a car, then having the car crush them, right? No! The sensation of being crushed by a car lasts only a second, this pain is the same as being crushed over and over again.

Twenty-one minutes passed, and Qin Fen completed the final stage of the Heart Excising Hand. He was much slower than Butcher, who could complete it instantaneously. It wasn’t even a matter of seconds.

Twenty-one minutes of torture. Even with his strong endurance, Qin Fen’s forehead was covered with glistening sweat. It was the sweat of pain!

The drill instructors’ shock was greater than Qin Fen’s pain. They originally thought that Qin Fen would get near the completed form of the Heart Excising Hand, which was already quite amazing enough. They never thought that Qin Fen could actually iron out all the dozen or so mistakes he made to become the perfect form of the Heart Excising Hand.

Butcher’s shock was greater than everyone else’s. He had researched and developed this ultimate skill for an entire year before completing it, yet it was copied by a child in an instant.

He didn’t know whether to be proud to have such a great apprentice or to be frustrated by the fact that a year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears had been instantly copied by someone else.

Qin Fen dispersed the Heart Excising Hand. He shook his wrist over and over without end. His five fingers clenched and spread apart. The pain had truly been far too much!

“Great. Excellent.” Butcher clapped his hand gently. “Then all I need to do is demonstrate how to use this technique to kill.”

Butcher arrived before two sandbags that hung from the ceiling. He raised an arm quite casually, walked past a sandbag, and a metal ball the size of a human heart appeared in his hands.

It was only until he was five steps away from the sandbag did the sandbag make a puffing sound. Gold colored sand slowly and endlessly flowed out from it.

Butcher pointed at the remaining sandbag. “There’s a metal ball inside this one too. Get it out from there.”

Qin Fen lacked the ability to be like Butcher, able to idly talk and instantly complete the Heart Excising Hand as he walked. Qin Fen had to stand in place to form the Heart Excising Hand.

This time it took him merely seven minutes, and Qin Fen walked toward the sandbag with the completed Heart Excising Hand.

Bam…

Golden sand flowed out from within, and Qin Fen held a metal ball within his hand as he pulled his hand out from the sandbag.

“Take some time to reflect and think about it.”

Butcher patted Qin Fen on the shoulder, and the drill instructors left the room together.

Qin Fen sat quietly on the ground. He raised his head to look at the two sandbags, which continued to have sand flow out of them.

The move was the same, the Heart Excising Hand, but why was there such a big difference when excising the hearts? Qin Fen propped his chin up with one hand and smiled. He faintly said, “It looks like the true completed state of the Heart Excising Hand doesn’t lie in its formation but rather when one reaches the stage of being able to steal an opponent’s heart without making a sound nor causing even a drop of blood to come out.”

Qin Fen spent his entire afternoon in silence in the secret room. He had tried a few experiments with the open sandbags, and his results were getting much better than before. However, he was still incapable of executing the skill as perfectly as Butcher.

“What remains should be purely skill and proficiency.” Qin Fen faced the two sandbags, which were riddled with holes, and spoke to himself. “I’ll ask Butcher to teach me some more tomorrow. I should be able to get it perfect for reals when that happens.”

As he pushed open the door and walked out, his cellphone rang out in a series of text message notifications. A dozen texts came before the cellphone quieted.

It was only now that Qin Fen discovered something about the training room he was just it. It was built with special materials that blocked off all communications.

“Hurry up and come back, Old Qin!”

“Hurry up, Old Qin! Dragon Hall is about to be annihilated!”

“Hurry up, man! This time it isn’t a sect-challenge. It’s a sect-annihilation! We’re really screwed if that happens!”

“Hurry up! Any slower, and you will need to reapply for a sect.”

Sect-challenge? Sect-annihilation? Qin Fen looked at the texts and suddenly realized that he really didn’t know as much as he thought about the Sky Battle Net.