Chapter 196 - The Ultimate Power of Martial Arts (1/2)

Chapter 196: The Ultimate Power of Martial Arts

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Kaboom!”

Chen Fan’s landing on the water sent a shock wave that swept across the entire West Lake, breaking up its calm surface.

Everyone watched as the young man darted out like a loosened arrow, leaving a tail of whitewash in his wake. Under his feet, the water was split in half like a sheet of ice under the weight of an icebreaker. Huge waves suddenly appeared on both sides behind the young man.

The white trail extended from the junk boat all the way to Lei Qianjue, like a Flood Dragon that clashed against the current and grappled with the power of the wind.

Chen Fan covered a few hundred-meter distance in a blink of an eye. The Tai Chi Grandmaster Chen Jiuyang had also walked on water, but his speed was much slower.

“Bang!”

Lei Qianjue flew up into the air right before a blaring explosion that blew up the wooden boat in which he had spent over three months. It was dealt a blow by Chen Fan’s powerful punch.

“Chen Beixuan, you didn’t disappoint me. I knew the waiting was worth it.”

Lei Qianjue let out a peal of laughter. He fanned out both arms like an eagle as two winge shaped mist formed on his back. The white-haired old man glided in the sky like a large bird of prey and landed on the water a few dozen meters away.

The spot where he had been was a pile of floating broken planks.

Chen Fan stood still and slowly pulled back his fist. He turned around to face the old man as two azure flames burst out from his eyes. “Lei Qianjue, this punch is to teach you to think again before challenging me.”

“Chen Beixuan, I hope you know that at my level, I don’t give a swat about my disciples. My only goal was to reach the Immortal State.” The misty wings behind Lei Qianjue back unfurled and flapped gently, carrying the Grandmaster’s weight gracefully above the water. The old man carried a lightness about him that made Chen Beixuan doubt that the old man was at all disheartened by his disciple demise.

“Losers such as Lu Tianfen would never comprehend the ultimate desire of a true Martial Artist. He had reached the Grandmaster Level for well over ten years, yet he was still at the early stage of the Transcendent State. His contentment was his downfall. Me, on the other hand, I reached Transcendent State seventeen years ago and by now, I have already reached the peak of the Transcendent State. There is not a lot of people in the world who could rival my abilities.”

“Oh? So if that’s the case, are you still going to avenge your disciple?” The green flame in Chen Fan’s eyes dimmed slightly.

“Haha! Linhu was just one of my many ordinary disciples. There are well over a few dozen disciples who are as powerful as him. Why should I be so bothered by a weaklings death? It’s none of my business.” Lei Qianjue laughed again. “However, I simply couldn’t pa.s.s up the opportunity of fighting you before I face off against my nemesis: Ye Nantian!”

His face grew harder as cold light glinted in his eyes. “I will kill you in front of everyone to prove that I am finally worthy of challenging Ye Nantian again.”

So saying, Lei Qianjue’s misty wings flapped heavily, lifting the Grandmaster up and forward. Lei Qianjue tapped the water with the tip of his toes repeatedly; with each tap, he bounced off the rippled surface as he darted forward. When he was finally close to Chen Fan, he folded his hands.

“Boom!”

Water was drawn out of the lake by a powerful force and formed two large palms. Then the two liquid palms folded together as Lei Qianjue’s hands just did. Lei Qianjue’s True Qi was so powerful that he could bend the water and reshape them into two hands that were as hard as steel. These water palms were so tough and so powerful that it was able to crush a car into a flat metal sheet.

“Break!”

Chen Fan extended two fingers from which a blade grew out. Chen Fan swung the blade in a sidearm sweep.

Everyone watched as an azure Blade Aura flashed across the middle of the liquid palm, severing it into half. However tough and strong these True Qi infused palms were, they could not withstand the deadly Blade Aura. Without the True Qi to hold the palms in shape, water spilled out and fell into the lake as the palm melted away.

However, Lei Qianjue had already unleashed his second attack.

He clenched a fist and punched from afar, sending out an invisible Qi Energy. It was still raining, so as the invisible force stormed through the curtain of raindrops, letting splashes of rain droplets outline its shape and its trajectory like the trail of a bullet.

“Bang!”

Chen Fan charged up his energy again and he hacked at the invisible Qi with a three meter long scintillating Blade Aura. The Fist Qi was able to hold up for a brief second before it was cut through by the blade.

“Uh?” Chen Fan grunted under his breath. Lei Qianjue seemed to be more powerful than he had expected.

The Internal Force of a normal Martial Artist was usually crude, a far cry from the cultivator’s refined True Essence. The difference between the two was as drastic as the effectiveness between a wood practice sword and sharpened steel blades. This was the reason that despite Chen Fan’s early stage in his cultivation, he was able to overcome so many seemingly powerful Martial Artists, including the Grandmaster, Lu Tianfen, who he killed with bare hands.

However, Lei Qianjue’s Fist Qi Energy was not crude at all. It was condensed and refined, so much so that it was nearly substantial despite its unsubstantial nature. It was not that much different than the True Essence of a cultivator. In other words, the only edge that Chen Fan possessed over Lei Qianjue was his five hundred years of combat experience as the Celestial Lord, as well as his wealth of knowledge in Divine Powers.

“I have never expected you to have achieved such a level of attainment in your Internal Force refinement. I think you are very likely to enter the Immortal State given time.” Chen Fan nodded and said.

“Normal Martial Artists only focus on increasing the ma.s.s of their Internal Force, however, they have missed the point. The potency of the Internal Force is much more important than anything else. I have read too many case studies, and have never seen a Martial Artist who has entered the Immortal State without an extremely potent and sharp Internal Force.” Lei Qianjue cracked a smile and said.

“Well said! Try to counter this attack!”

Chen Fan stepped forward as Blade Auras formed at the tip of his fingers again. A green glow suddenly came up and was growing more intense by the second. In a blink, the light had reached a few meters long.

Lei Qianjue waved his hands and sent out a pulse of energy to the lake, stirring up huge waves. He held these waves in place using his True Qi and formed few sections of walls made out of pure water. Each water-wall was as tough as metal reinforced concrete. However, these walls quickly crumbled and were reduced to gushes of water after Chen Fan’s attack went through them.

“What kind of technique is that?” Lei Qianjue’s face changed colors as he pulled back a few meters to get out of harm’s way.