Chapter 401 - Strength of Ten Elephant and Wu Zun (2/2)
Wu Zun’s joint crackled at once as if more than a dozen people were rubbing and striking mahjong tiles with each other at the same time.
For a short while, Wu Zun’s every bone and muscle fiber drew a complete circle on their own axis, yet there seemed to be a faint connection and coordination with each other. He had reached the realm of extreme softness.
Nevertheless, it was still impossible to avoid the collision of bones and muscles the moment of Wu Zun’s palm and Qin Fen’s fist collided!
BANG!
The deafening sound of cannon fire rang in everyone’s ear. The ground on which the two people were fighting sank before a cloud of dust was blasted into the air. Immediately, everyone felt a tremor far fiercer than before running through the ground. The stumps rooted near the center of the battlefield could no longer bear the collision of these two forces and shot into the air like the cork stopper of champagne at a party.
Owing to the collision, the two figures flew out of the cloud of dust quickly. Before anyone could react, the two planted their feet on the ground to halt their retreat before flying into the cloud of dust almost at the same time. Immediately after, the thunderous explosions resounded once again. However, this time it wasn’t an explosion just one clash but several thunderous explosions in successions. It was soon followed by earthquakes and uprooting of tree stumps from the shock.
Having returned to the cloud of dust and noticing Wu Zun coming back, he pushed his left hand out as he clenched his fingers, blasting the air in between. It was still the most simple straight punch, smashing towards Wu Zun’s head.
Wu Zun didn’t even spare a glance at the oncoming punch. He bent his neck slightly before he crossed his hands and pressed them down on Qin Fen’s stance of Hidden Dragon Palm which Qin Fen had learned from Young Dragon King, Yang Lie and subsequently modified.
The hidden dragon turned corporeal; the might of this palm disappeared instantly. Meanwhile, Wu Zun’s crossed arms wrapped around Qin Fen’s arm left and right like a giant python coiling around a cow and rotating, again and again. Much to everyone’s surprise, he wanted to break that thick as leg arm of Qin Fen!
Qin Fen’s eyes bloomed with a fierce gleam as he raised his lone arm up promptly! He lifted Wu Zun’s body high! Whether Wu Zun weighed a thousand kilograms or was an iron bridge, everything was nothing in the face of the strength of ten elephants!
Raising Wu Zun high, Qin Fen fiercely flung his arm fiercely towards the ground! He wanted to smash Wu Zun into the ground.
Wu Zun loosened his palms around Qin Fen’s arm with a shock and landed on the ground by borrowing the strength of this shock. At the same time, his waist and legs turned like a loach as he slipped to Qin Fen’s right side. Meanwhile, he made a crane’s beak with his five fingers before he pecked under Qin Fen’s armpit with a twist of his wrist.
Qin Fen jumped back with a twist of his legs as the Dragon Guard avoided Wu Zun’s Crane’s Beak. His left arm’s fist changed momentarily as his four fingers pierced through the air like the tip of a blade, giving rise to a whistle which sounded as if a steel spear was piercing through the air.
Vermillion Bird Spear Shot!
Wu Zun’s recognized Qin fen’s attack as a martial arts of Mars at once. It was a shaking spear art created by Vermillion Bird. Spear had always been used for a long-distance attack but Vermillion Bird had created a very closed-range spear technique. Qin Fen had learned it from Mourad, modified it and changed it into a spear technique suitable for bare-hand combat. Although it had changed a lot, the charm of Vermillion Bird’s shaking spear technique was still there.
This move was an attack using the entire strength at the smallest point; it was the best method to break the soft force.
Wu Zun furrowed his brows slightly as he sunk his waist in completely harmony with his legs as he used the Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail to push the spear body aside. Although this grasp wasn’t pressing on Qin Fen’s weak point, it still used the softness to mitigate the sharpness of Qin Fen’s shaking spear technique. When this thrust struck Wu Zun, instead of hurting Wu Zun he was hit by Wu Zun’s attack; it was as if Wu Zun’s entire body was like a rubber ball.
As the power of the shaking spear technique was completely mitigated, Qin Fen retreated half a step before he used the Tiger Lunge with the roar of a tiger, once again.
Wu Zun’s eyes were all smiles. Whether it’s using advanced martial arts or basic-level Arhat Fist, this kid uses them at the most appropriate place and time. He is indeed a good seedling.
As Qin Fen attacked, again and again, Wu Zun’s eyes radiated with more and more excitement. He was completely determined to win this match by suppressing Qin Fen using only the strength of ten-star martial artist.
In the small space, the two were attacking faster and faster. None of the two were bound with hardness and softness style; they were interchanging between hardness and softness as per the situation. It didn’t matter as long as whatever worked.
In just a short period of a few seconds, the earthquakes grew stronger and stronger. Dust, rocks, stumps all flew off the ground. The thunderous collision between their kicks and punches sounded like hundreds of lightning bolts had gathered at one place and exploded.
The young martial artists outside the cloud of dust were not able to see the battle clearly. Sakra Azia and the others had left the monitoring room a long time ago. They too weren’t able to make out anything from the rigid screen before them.
The heads of the departments stood on the higher floors, gazing at the fierce battle taking place inside the cloud of dust and smoke with rapt attention. Shockwaves of true energy spread in every direction. This was the strongest battle Qin Fen had ever fought since he started walking on the road of martial arts; his every combat cell was cheering in excitement.
Sakra Azia’s face grew uglier than before; his entire face was as livid as copper. To his surprise, Qin Fen’s combat ability was far better than what he had shown during the fog bell.
His control might be terrifying; having reached the peak of the ten-star level at such a young age may be terrifying, but it wasn’t as terrifying as his current combat ability. At this moment, Qin Fen really seemed as if he had been possessed by the God of War. Any move displayed by him was at the master level. Even Sakra Azia had no choice but to admit that Qin Fen’s combat stances were as natural as they could be.
“Mastery…” Ferrero couldn’t be any happier at this moment. He too had been taken aback by Qin Fen’s combat ability. To his surprise, a ten-star martial artist, who was no different than last in line, had really entered the realm of mastery.
Mastery!? A ten-star martial artist had entered the realm of mastery!? Ferrero shook his head again and again. Even a fifteen-star martial artist would be called a genius if he had entered the realm of mastery, but what to do with this kid?
Wu Zun’s eyes shone continuously. He had never been happy as he was in today’s fight, he had never been as helpless as he was today either. He had not won a single advantage in today’s fight. On the contrary, he seemed to be falling leeward slightly. It wasn’t that Qin Fen’s combat level had gained the upper-hand, but rather his strength!
Wu Zun was feeling a little miserable. Not only did he have to bear the pure brunt of the ten-star true energy of the opposite party but also had to bear the full brunt of Qin Fen’s strength which could kill an elephant easily with a single punch.
In the same ten-star level, Wu Zun didn’t practice an internal art of bitter work like Dragon Elephant Prajna Art. As such, his physical strength was far weaker than Qin Fen’s. Soon, it would become quite apparent that he had suffered losses by lowering his comprehensive quality to Qin Fen’s level.
“Since you are fighting with all your strength, I will not be hiding anymore either.” Wu Zun made up his mind in the blink of an eye. The true energy he had been hiding from the start erupted suddenly!
“Qin Fen lost…” Before Sakra Azia could finish speaking, a series of thunderous clashes resounded after a deafening explosion on the battlefield.
Several heads of departments exclaimed in low voice at the same time. Qin Fen, who had been at a disadvantage, erupted with a tsunami-like momentum. Suddenly, his palms turned into monstrous waves of tsunamis as he withdrew from the fight before launching a final counterattack under the disadvantage.
“Qin Fen indeed lost.” Ferrero shook his head in disbelief, again and again. “But Sir Wu Zun also seemed to have suffered a small loss. Can this be considered as Qin Fen’s complete defeat?”
Outside the cloud of dust, Qin Fen’s dispersed that fiend-god physique and gave a thumbs-up as he praised, “Thank you, you won.”
Wu Zun sized up Qin Fen with a strange look in his eyes. The final counterattack was indeed surprising. That was absolutely not an ultimate skill that could be created by a ten-star martial artist. Even this kid can’t create it with the foundation of his martial art.
“What’s the name of that move?”
“Raging Berserker Tide.” Qin Fen shrugged his shoulders. “That was my final ace in the hole but I still lost.”
“Raging Berserker Tide… what a good name! What a good combat skill.” Wu Zun nodded his appreciation. “Unfortunately, your current foundation is inadequate, your strength is also lacking. This fight wasn’t interesting!”
“It’s alright.” Qin Fen smiled happily. “I learned many things from this fight. Let’s fight again after I have digested it.”
“I guess, you are right. All the best, I am waiting for you to give me more surprises.”
Having said this, Wu Zun immediately turned around and made his way outside the lecture hall in a natural and elegant manner. Only, his sleeves and trousers of his martial attire broke this elegance; they were already tattered like a beggar’s clothes.
“He is strongest among the young ten-star martial artists.” Sakra Azia’s jaw moved unconsciously, his voice very low.
Ferrero heaved a sigh. “Be honest, can even an eleven-star martial artist beat him?”
The heads of various departments shook their head, smiling wryly. Let alone eleven-star martial artists, it would be difficult to find anyone in the twelve-star level who could be Qin Fen’s opponent. His martial arts foundation was so strong and unique that he could roam freely even in Sacred Martial Hall where geniuses were like clouds.
All the young martial artists were dumbfounded. Who could have thought that when the two young martial artists attending the lecture made their moves, they would have such fierce and terrifying destructive power?
Ren Tiansheng could not help but shake his head, again and again. It would be not a problem to beat Qin Fen if I fought using the strength of the fourteen-star level. But if I lowered my level to ten-star level and fought with Qin Fen!? No! Even if I lowered my level to eleven-star level, I would not be his opponent.
Others might not be able to see the fight clearly but Ren Tiansheng saw it clearly. In the fight, Qin Fen could turn any rotten technique into godly techniques. Whether it’s the Twenty-Four Simplified Tai Chi Fists or the Arhat Fists, he has used them quite frequently.
Samuele stared straight at the battlefield after the fierce fight. The ground seemed to have been plowed by a plowing machine. The stumps were lying on the ground. But why does it seem that it had weathered an air-strike?
How could a young martial artist who had just joined the Sacred Martial Hall be so powerful? Samuele kept asking himself the same question over and over again. Has he really just joined the Sacred Martial Hall? Is he really a basic-type Outer Sacred Martial Hall? I’m an eleven-star martial artist, but I’m afraid that I, too, will be defeated by him if I’m against him!
Qin Fen moved his shoulders as he turned his head towards Samuele and asked indifferently, “Excuse me, are you looking for me?”