Chapter 148: Stepping into Transforming Jin! (1/2)

Chapter 148: Stepping into Transforming Jin!

“Thank you for allowing me this victory!”

Song Anran had been like a mountain when he had fainted. There was no movement besides the faint oscillation of his heart in his chest. At this moment, he did not seem like a master of martial arts, meaning that the wound he had been dealt was surely a tremendous one.

With a crackling sound as he disentangled himself, Wang Chao made use of his arms and legs to leap up as if by the tail of a snake and the leap of a monkey to fly four meters away. Readjusting his breath, his eyes flickered to look at the remaining three, Bai Xianyong, Wang Yunlian, and Dai Nu.

“Who is next? I will accept you all.” Wang Chao smiled and laughed. It seemed as if he was still filled with energy without losing a single iota of it even after all this fighting.

In the beginning, there had been eight experts gathered here. But in the time span of several exchanges, Xu Benliang had been thrown aside.

Yin Manchuan had been knocked unconscious by the Seafloor Smash.

Ma Huajun had his arm snapped and thrown up onto the roof in humiliation.

Chen Tianlei had his internal organs damaged by the competition between hammer fists.

And now Song Anran had been choked to the point of unconsciousness. In less than half an hour, five experts had been defeated one after another. Wang Chao’s victory had risen along with his momentum to an entirely unprecedented peak.

The killing move Wang Chao had just used, “Constriction of the Python”, had one arm pressed against Song Anran’s neck while the other was forced against his chest. At the same time, their bodies were pressed against each other, he had his hip bone slam into the acupoint on his opponent’s waist while his legs forced the joints in place. As a final touch, he would emit Jin throughout the enemy’s body evenly.

This wasn’t a fighting move meant to hit, but something secretive and sinister. This display of dexterity was completely different than the head on approach Wang Chao had done earlier. As a bonus, it had caused the remaining three men to feel an overwhelming amount of pressure. In their eyes, Wang Chao had grown even more dangerous.

Song Anran was highly skilled in martial arts and his body was unnaturally strong. When he used his “Dual Form of Bear and Eagle”, then his body would resemble that of a bear. Any regular act of Jujutsu or contortionism would easily be shaken and thrown off. But somehow, Wang Chao’s physical strength had been a step higher than his own. When he coiled around Song Anran, even a tree wouldn’t fail to have its bark damaged, let alone the skin of a person.

“Splendid.” Wang Yunlian bent over to take a look at the unconscious Song Anran before pressing against several crucial points on his body with a finger. A coughing fit could be heard from within Song Anran’s throat before he spat out a wad of phlegm. Even the expression in his eyes had begun to clear up.

“Brother Wang, do not fall for his bravado. His move just now was beyond furtive, but when he coiled around my body, not even a bit of Hidden Jin could be felt before he leaped away. It is clear that when challenging master Chen, all of his energy was used up.”

As soon as Song Anran awakened, his throat rumbled and spoke out those three sentences.

“Not necessarily.”

Wang Yunlian spoke in a small whisper, “No matter what, he is still younger than us. His body is better and even more robust. Even if he is injured, it won’t be any major obstruction to his life. We are old, 20 years past our prime age. And even now, his vigor is even higher than ours. If we continued, the outcome would not be as hopeful.”

“Ai! Just where in the world did such an expert come from? At such a tender young age, his martial arts has already reached perfection. Perhaps. Just perhaps a hundred years later, another Yang the Invincible has appeared?” Song Anran sighed.

“His martial arts may be high, but he is still far from being invincible. However, we cannot strive against him today either.” Wang Yunlian spoke as he advanced towards Wang Chao with wide open eyes.

Seeing the master of Yiquan come close, Wang Chao’s face had twitched inadvertently. “Yes? Does master Wang wish to push hands and test my skill as well?”

“There’ll be no need for that. I recognize your strength in martial arts. You are qualified to even open up your own school.” Wang Yunlian waved his hand. “The fist fears the youth, but it seems that we elders cannot accept our age. Why don’t we conclude things here? Master Wang, you need not be so overbearing. When you come to be of our age, our disciples will come to you to push hands and test your skill then.”

“That is fine, I will wait for them.” Wang Chao shut his eyes. Wang Yunlian’s words had been airtight and had put the blame of their defeat solely on their age.

Wang Chao had fully understood in his mind that each one of the experts gathered here weren’t even in their fifties. Meaning that they were still robust in strength and not yet closed to an age where they would have to accept their age as a delimiter to their strength.

The peak range of a practitioner was from their twenties to their forties.

As long as one wasn’t in the sixties range, they could at the very least preserve their physical strength and fight. Some practitioners in their forties were rich in experience and were far more terrifying than a youngster even.

On the other hand, if one were to come across a grandmaster who had nourished and cultivated his health by not smoking, not drinking, no impulse eating, no lecherous desires, and rose and fell with the sun and moon for dozens of years in order to cultivate their health, they would be a different story.

It wouldn’t be strange for these grandmasters to still maintain their peak physical strength from their fifties to their sixties. Throughout history, there had been many masters in their sixties and even seventies that were able to fight fiercely.

Although he knew that Wang Yunlian was looking for an excuse to save face, Wang Chao did not refute him. There had been an even deeper meaning behind Wang Yunlian’s words, “Sooner or later, our disciples will come to retake the face we lost here today.” But Wang Chao wasn’t too worried.

Today’s battle didn’t end with any deaths, but with the high statuses of the experts here, their situations would not be as good as it was before the fights.

“I’ve offended far too many people here today.” Wang Chao sighed deep within his heart.

“Chief Ma, I came here today to talk business and take my records, not to test my strength against yours. I did not mean or plan on being overbearing at all. We are all working for the sake of our nation, so I hope that today’s matters will remain a personal grudge and not leak into our official affairs. If any master wishes to test my martial arts, then they are free to come find me or have their disciples test me in their stead. I will receive them all.”

“I’ve no interest in keeping the files of you or your comrade. Today’s business will indeed be a personal grudge, but I know when to keep my personal and public life separate.” Ma Huajun’s face had been calm as he dropped his hand.

“Xiao Tan, take lieutenant colonel Wang to the records, here’s the key.” Ma Huajun tossed a key over and began to command several of the members of the bureau.

“I give my thanks!” Wang Chao took off the military uniform he had been wearing due to the broken down state of his clothes from the fight. In its current state, the uniform was no better than the clothes of a beggar.

His shoes were most especially destroyed. It was absolutely offending to the eyes, but Wang Chao’s bare feet could be seen, and there was not much he could do about it.

“I’ll come on over later this afternoon.”

With those words, Wang Chao turned around to leave. The 30-40 men and women near the gates had involuntarily made room for the seemingly god of war of a man to walk away and disappear from their sights.