Quickly conquer the martial arts world, and let your fists dominate the heavens!

Lu Shouyi moved his right wrist to withstand Chen Zhan's force, allowing him to feel pressure again after a long time.

His gaze was even more focused than before: "Excellent Xingyi, excellent boxing intent, you certainly didn't disappoint me."

Chen Zhan smiled, already losing interest. Lu Shouyi was too arrogant, hardly taking anyone in the world seriously.

Even she herself was used as a touchstone, a stepping stone to take another step forward.

But the question is, does he really have that ability?
There are indeed very few masters who have reached the level of being indestructible upon seeing a god, but it's not like there haven't been any in the last few decades. As far as Chen Zhan knows, there is at least one still alive, and perhaps even at his peak.

Lu Shouyi lunged forward again.

This time he switched to fists. The fist techniques of Kongtongquan are fundamentally different from Xingyiquan. Xingyiquan follows the center line, while Kongtongquan follows the side line.

Lu Shouyi's punches came from all sorts of tricky angles, some slashing upwards, some sweeping horizontally from the side, and some chopping down from the upper diagonal. Each punch was not launched from the front, but rather cut into Chen Zhan's line of sight from the edge.

Moreover, his attack rhythm is uneven.

The rhythm of Xingyiquan is stable, with each punch delivered with a distinct rhythm, like the beat of a drum.

The rhythm of Kongtong boxing is sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Sometimes the interval between two punches is very short, as fast as a machine gun. Sometimes it pauses for half a breath before striking again, disrupting the opponent's prediction.

Chen Zhan responded using the principles of form and meaning and the Five Elements.

The chopping fist counters his attacks from above, the collapsing fist deals with his straight-line attacks, the drilling fist blocks his path from below, the horizontal fist intercepts his side sweep, and the cannon fist counters during his pauses.

The advantage of the Five Elements Fist is evident at this time. The five fist techniques correspond to five directions, so no matter what angle Lu Shouyi attacks from, there is always a fist technique that can deal with it.

The Five Elements of Xingyi are like a fortress, simple yet rigorous. No matter how you change, I only use the mutual restraint of the Five Elements.

The two exchanged more than twenty glances on the gravel ground.

Lu Shouyi's Kongtong Fist attacks were fierce, with a dense and impenetrable barrage of strikes, but Chen Zhan's Xingyi Five Elements defense was more stable.

Every time Lu Shouyi thought he had found an opening to cut in, Chen Zhan's fist was already waiting there, as if he knew in advance where Lu Shouyi would strike.

Lu Shouyi stepped back and took a breath.

He also saw that Chen Zhan's Xingyi Quan was extremely pure, with each of the five elements punching to its extreme, and the transmission of power was almost without loss, making him far superior to the Qin brothers.

He naturally knew about Chen Zhan's background: a genius who suddenly rose to prominence in the lineage of Liu Lanqi of Xingyi School, and later even obtained the sect leader's ring and became the grand sect leader of Xingyi School.

But simply being good at Xingyi Quan is not enough!

Lu Shouyi charged forward again. This time, he wasn't just using his fists. His shoulders, elbows, knees, hips, and even his forehead—every protruding joint on his body became a weapon.

Kongtong martial arts are close-quarters combat, characterized by chaotic, close-range attacks.

His body was almost pressed against Chen Zhan's, so close that his breath could reach the other's face.

At this distance, punches are no longer useful, as punches require space. In close combat, one uses "short weapons" such as elbows, knees, shoulders, and hips.

Lu Shouyi swept his right elbow across Chen Zhan's neck, while his left knee simultaneously thrust upwards into Chen Zhan's abdomen, and his right shoulder slammed forward into Chen Zhan's chest.

Three attacks were launched simultaneously, from three directions and at three different heights.

Chen Zhan did not back down at all, and confronted him head-on.

His right elbow sank, colliding with Lu Shouyi's right elbow in mid-air—elbow to elbow, bone to bone, with a dull thud.

At the same time, he raised his knee, blocking Lu Shouyi's upward left knee.

As for the shoulder bump, he used a very simple countermeasure: he shrank back two inches, letting Lu Shouyi's shoulder slide past his chest.

The two men's elbows and knees were intertwined, and they fought in close combat for five or six rounds, neither able to gain the upper hand.

Lu Shouyi has extremely rich experience in close combat, and his use of every short weapon is precise to the bone.

He's practiced these things for decades, to the point where an elbow strike has the strongest penetrating power, where a knee strike is the hardest to defend against, and how to deliver a shoulder strike to generate the greatest impact force over the shortest distance—these are things he's mastered to the point of instinct.

But Chen Zhan is no less impressive.

His close-quarters combat style wasn't as varied as that of the Kongtong School, but every move he made was executed to perfection.

Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, neither dodging nor flinching, but meeting head-on with the same body parts.

After more than a dozen hard-fought moves, Lu Shouyi became increasingly surprised and incredulous.

Chen Zhan was like a machine without feelings; every collision did not elicit a human-like reaction. No matter how tough his muscles and bones were, he could not be completely immune to pain.

He felt soreness and pain in the muscles and bones of several key areas.

"Could it be that he was born with extraordinary talent?"

Lu Shouyi spent many years searching for various martial arts techniques from all over the world, and he also saw some people with extraordinary innate phenomena, such as those with innate divine strength, those born as prodigies, and those with naturally strong bones and muscles.

At this point, he regarded Chen Zhan as that kind of person.

Otherwise, it cannot be explained.

Lu Shouyi had just taken two steps when his gaze suddenly snapped to attention. Chen Zhan was already in front of him, activating the Great Dragon Bone.

The force originates from the coccyx, travels up the spine, and then through the Mingmen point, Jiaji point, and Dazhui point, with each vertebra vibrating in turn, channeling the power of the entire spine into the right fist.

This punch was completely different from the previous Beng Quan. The previous Xingyi Wuxing was "normal" power, but after the Great Dragon Bone was activated, it was on another level.

Before the fist even arrived, the gust of wind had already hit, causing Lu Shouyi's old cotton robe to be blown backward violently by the force of the punch.

Lu Shouyi crossed his arms in front of his chest and took the punch head-on.

His expression changed the moment they made contact.

The quality of this force far surpassed any of the previous punches; it was heavy, dense, and layered, like a surging wave. Before the first wave subsided, the next wave followed, one after another, endlessly.

His arms were pushed towards his chest, and his heels dragged two long tracks on the gravel ground. He was pushed several feet away before he came to a stop.

When he stopped, his arms were numb, and a cut had split open between his thumb and forefinger, from which blood was seeping out.

Before he could react, Chen Zhan caught up with him again.

The second punch.

Lu Shouyi didn't have time to reorganize his defense, so he could only dodge to the side. The punch grazed his ribs, and the wind from the punch swept across his old cotton robe, tearing a hole in the fabric.

The third punch.

Lu Shouyi took a step back, lowered his waist and hips, and pushed forward with both palms to try to deflect the force of the punch. As his fist and palm collided, his body slid back two feet, and the gravel under his feet was kicked and scattered everywhere.

The power of the Great Dragon Bone is on a completely different level compared to before.

The Five Elements Fist uses conventional force, while the Great Dragon Bone Fist uses the entire spine as a lever to concentrate the power of the whole body into a single point for explosive release.

The continuous heavy blows almost pushed Lu Shouyi to his limit.

With a change in posture, his entire body underwent a fundamental transformation. His center of gravity shifted two inches higher, his arms went from being tightly bound in the Kongtong style to being stretched out and open, and the distance between his feet widened, with his front foot slightly loose and his back foot firmly planted, like an old pine tree rooted in the ground.

The Twelve Stances of Emei.

Tianzhuzhuang (Heavenly Pillar Stake)

Chen Zhan's fourth punch came, the force of the dragon bone penetrating through his fist, heading straight for Lu Shouyi's chest.

Lu Shouyi took the punch within the structure of the Heavenly Pillar Stake.

With arms spread apart, one hand resting on Chen Zhan's fist, and the other hand against his own ribs, his back was slightly arched, and his legs pressed down and bounced up like springs.

The force of the large dragon bone entered, guided by the structure of the Heavenly Pillar Stake in an arc, entering from the point of contact, passing along Lu Shouyi's arm to his shoulder, from his shoulder to his spine, from his spine to his hips, from his hips to his legs, and finally passing through the soles of his feet into the ground. The entire body became a channel for dissipating force, channeling the power of Chen Zhan's punch from top to bottom.

The force of the impact sent several pebbles flying from the ground beneath his feet. Lu Shouyi took a half-step back, but he caught the punch.

Chen Zhan's brow twitched slightly.

He had never seen this method of neutralizing force before.

He had figured out the pattern of Kongtong's hard block, but the way this set of stance training neutralized force was a completely different system, similar to Tai Chi's Grasping the Sparrow's Tail. However, Grasping the Sparrow's Tail could not absorb his force and then transmit it into the ground.

It can only guide, directing the force astray.

Surprised, he continued his attack without stopping.

With alternating punches and palm strikes, the Great Dragon Bone was fully activated, each strike carrying the power that penetrated through the spine, each punch heavier than the last.

Lu Shouyi started cutting the stakes.

The Heavenly Pillar Stake couldn't withstand the force of the Great Dragon Bone; the capacity of the energy dissipation channel had its limits. After several consecutive punches, Lu Shouyi's feet had already created two shallow craters in the gravel ground.

He transformed into a Di Sha Zhuang (a type of earthly spirit).

His body suddenly shrank by half a foot, his center of gravity plummeted, and he squatted down, tucking his arms in front of his chest and curling his body into a ball.

Chen Zhan punched the taut surface of the ball, but his fist slipped.
The beauty of the Earthly Fiend Stance lies in the fact that after the body is folded into a spherical shape, all attacks will be deflected at an angle by the curved surface, making it impossible to find a point of direct impact.

The force of the large dragon bone was deflected two inches, missing its direct impact and sliding past Lu Shouyi's shoulder.

Chen Zhan followed up with a punch, the second punch coming down from above. This was the most direct way to deal with a crouching target.

Lu Shouyi switched stances again before the punch landed.

The Earthly Fiend Stake transforms into the Swimming Dragon Stake, and the body changes from a crouching posture to a low-profile movement, sliding horizontally along the ground like a snake slithering across the gravel.

Chen Zhan's punch missed again.

With his feet firmly planted on the ground and his body in a semi-squatting stance, the dragon-shaped stance maintains a stable center of gravity and can switch to any stance to launch a counterattack at any time during movement.

Chen Zhan turned to give chase, but Lu Shouyi slid around him in the dragon-shaped piles, like a snake coiling around its prey.

The two of them walked halfway around when Lu Shouyi suddenly stopped.

The Dragon Stake has been transformed into the Leopard Hidden Stake.

His moving body suddenly stopped, and all his muscles tensed up in an instant, like a leopard poised to pounce.

All the kinetic energy was converted into elastic potential energy, which was compressed in the muscles and bones of the limbs and torso.

The moment Chen Zhan caught up, Lu Shouyi was ready to strike from within the Leopard Hidden Stake.

Kongtong Covering Earth Seal!
A punch that had gathered all the springy energy of the Leopard Concealment Stance, combined with the crispness of the Kongtong Fist, resulted in the superposition of two different systems of power.

This punch truly demonstrated the prowess of a martial artist at the level of "seeing the divine without being destroyed."

Lu Shouyi started off with overly high expectations, claiming he hadn't met his match in decades and couldn't find a path forward. Chen Zhan assumed his boxing skills were exceptional, but after a few dozen moves, he was utterly disappointed.

The only word to describe it is "exquisite".

For an ordinary master of the Dan realm, "exquisite" would be sufficient, but for someone of Lu Shouyi's caliber, merely "exquisite" is clearly insufficient.

Ingenuity can only be a supplement; ruthlessness is the essence.

What kind of spirit must one possess to be a master of martial arts, unharmed even when facing a deity?
Naturally, I want to be like him!
Lu Shouyi had cultivated his inner energy for too long, and his killing intent had almost disappeared. For someone who cultivates to become an immortal, this is a good thing, but for a pure martial artist, it is a huge flaw.

Now, this punch finally has a bit of power.

Chen Zhan slightly raised his eyes, and his figure suddenly shifted, appearing in front of him. Just a hair's breadth from Lu Shouyi's punch, their fists and palms met!
"boom!"

With a loud crash, the rocks beneath their feet shattered, and they both staggered backward.

Chen Zuyan, watching from a distance, squinted and only then realized the terrifying force.

Step back three steps, and stand firm on the road.

He looked down at his right hand; the cut on his thumb was still bleeding, and his entire arm felt heavy from the residual force. It took him several breaths to recover.

decades.

For the first time in a long time, he truly felt pain, and for the first time in a long time, he also felt something even more terrifying: the person in front of him was different from all his opponents.

This person can kill him.

Just now, he had regarded Chen Zhan as a touchstone, a stepping stone, and a stubborn stone for sharpening knives.

Lu Shouyi immediately sensed the murderous intent emanating from him.

His hair stood on end, and he instinctively trembled.

This sudden shudder startled even himself.

For so many years, nothing has been able to make his body react before his thoughts can even process them.

The killing intent was so intense it was almost tangible, seeping into his mouth and nose. He stared at Chen Zhan in disbelief.

This murderous intent...

"how is this possible?"

"Killing a hundred or a thousand people? Absolutely impossible. Ten thousand? Even more impossible!"

Ten thousand people.

He almost dared not think of those two words. In a world where tens of thousands were slaughtered, it was a catastrophe that would change dynasties and leave corpses lying for miles. How could one person, or even just two hands, possibly accomplish such a thing?
That's impossible!

On the distant rocks, Chen Zuyan suddenly felt a strange palpitation, a tightness in her chest, and her breathing became heavy.

Even from such a distance, the murderous intent still reached the corner of his face, turning him deathly pale instantly.

However, Lu Shouyi didn't have time to think any further.

Because of Chen Zhan, things have changed.

They were several feet apart, but could be seen very clearly in the moonlight.

The Chen Zhan who used to be dressed in a loose long gown and stood tall and straight like a pine tree is gone.

The long gown first tightened inch by inch, then the seams burst open from the shoulders and back, the fabric tearing to both sides, and a body rapidly swelled and stretched in the moonlight, the joints cracking as if someone were breaking and reconnecting them one by one inside his body.

He was over two meters tall, with arms and legs that were unusually thick, and his whole body was covered in bulging muscles, like cast iron.

Their flesh and blood body stretched out to form a small mountain.

A giant spirit god.

The legendary barbarian god who split Mount Hua in two with a single palm strike, creating three peaks, now stands vividly in the moonlight on this coastline.

The giant spirit twisted its neck, making a cracking sound. "Dao Lord, I am indeed a worthy opponent for you, but unfortunately, you are not."

Chen Zhan lowered his eyes and looked down at Lu Shouyi, "Your body is too well-maintained. You haven't encountered any real masters, so you can't unleash your full power."

"To be able to see God without being corrupted is not how you should be."

"This is getting a bit boring. I'll kill you in ten moves." (End of Chapter)