I Can See Your Combat Power
Chapter 1357 - Chapter 1357 Chapter 649 Reward

Chapter 1357: Chapter 649: Reward Chapter 1357: Chapter 649: Reward For martial artists, an example is there to be surpassed.

Yet, in Tang Xing’s heart, Tang Luo, this towering mountain, was just too hard to climb.

Perhaps he had chosen the wrong example, as the young man regretted in the quiet of the night more than once.

In the younger generation of the Tang Clan, there was no one he could not defeat, even Tang Qingshan, who had awakened the Steel Body bloodline, he could fight to a draw, with equal chances of victory or defeat.

Logically, with such achievements, his belief in his invincibility should have been established long ago, but damn it, every time he visited Aran Mountain, he would find himself on the verge of a Dao Heart collapse, losing his focus for days before he could recuperate.

Of course, this was not because his Dao Heart was unstable, but because anyone would be mentally unbalanced if their proud techniques were easily broken by others.

So, unless necessary, he would not go to Aran Mountain to seek abuse, but he couldn’t help it as he had recently made a breakthrough!

Actually, besides discussing the Elder Council’s decrees with his brother, he had also intended to spar with him.

It was just that he hadn’t expected Tang Luo to bring it up and offer such favorable conditions.

What was there to hesitate about? He immediately displayed his strongest state.

The activated Undying Battle Body caused Tang Xing’s strength to surge and his physique to expand, transforming him into a two-meter-tall giant.

The Spirit Flame Body Illustration, tightly wrapped around his muscular body, resembled the golden body of an Arhat.

The full activation of the Burning Spirit Art made the Spiritual Power within Tang Xing explode even stronger, adding a divine force to his prowess.

If Tang Xing had his current strength during the martial arts competition, even if Buchen employed the Sacred Martial Body, he would be hammered into a fool.

“This is truly a pleasant surprise.”

Tang Luo looked the golden giant up and down and sighed, “It seems your first victory is today.”

Without using the Undying Battle Body, Tang Xing’s body, enhanced by several divine techniques, had already surpassed Tang Luo in strength.

In the realm of physical combat, having a lead in strength almost represented an absolute advantage, as the saying goes, ‘brute force can overcome any trick.’

“Hehe, today marks the beginning of this prodigy’s victories!”

Filled with immense excitement, Tang Xing waved to his brother and said, “I can surely last three hundred moves!”

Understanding the gesture instantly, Tang Luo casually stretched his limbs and grumbled, “How disgraceful. You already surpass in strength considerably, yet you still adopt a defensive stance. Take the initiative and attack!”

“I’m not listening, just attack quickly, I’m starting to count the moves!”

“It seems today I’ll have to thoroughly teach you a lesson about how constant defense leads to failure!”

Force rising from the ground, Tang Luo stepped out, creating a spider-web patterned semicircular crater beneath him, pressing his dragon-like figure directly above Tang Xing’s golden body.

The strength of yin and yang converged in his fists, and the tiger and leopard’s thunderous sounds in his bones resounded like bamboo joints in a fierce fire, with his double fists that passed his knees creating an illusion of white-armed shadows that immediately covered the Dharma Aspect of the Vajra.

Merely a beginner in rigid strength, Tang Xing had not expected his brother’s attack to come so ferociously and could only counter with the purest palm techniques.

His palms danced tightly in front of him, yet punch shadows still penetrated through gaps in the palm techniques; were it not for his radiant and durable body, he might have been blown away hundreds of times already.

“Offense is the best defense, even if your martial arts are inferior, as long as you have the courage to charge forward relentlessly, you can still achieve extraordinary effects. Merely defending and thinking about lasting three hundred moves will cause you to miss the opportunity to win. Just now, you had at least four chances to break through the shadow punches and press on me, but because of your strategy, those chances were lost.”

While suppressing the Vajra with his punching techniques, Tang Luo also managed to comment, using his ability to project his voice like a bell, ensuring the words floated unerringly into Tang Xing’s ears.

But the latter didn’t care at all, Tang Xing had already realized that his body, enhanced with various secret techniques, was significantly stronger.

With his brother’s sealed powers, even if he had a punch stronger than the Martial Ancestor, he wouldn’t be able to shred his pseudo-golden body quickly.

“All I had to do was hold steady, and I could have endured over three hundred moves. Why take the risk of attacking?”

So I wouldn’t listen, wouldn’t listen, stubborn as a mule reciting scriptures!

“Thirty moves… Forty-five moves… Seventy moves… Ha, one hundred moves!”

Feeling the Spiritual Power still surging vigorously within him and his golden body as solid as ever, Tang Xing was filled with confidence, feeling that victory was within his grasp. However, the tide of battle turned abruptly.

Because Tang Luo had moved, his ghost-like steps nearly exceeding Tang Xing’s limit of reaction. This sudden pulling assault inflicted severe damage on the golden body consecutively, and the situation changed in an instant. The battle that seemed securely in his control suddenly turned him into a punching bag.

The Spirit Drawing Golden Body, reeling from continuous heavy blows, attempted to augment itself with the Nirvana Annihilation Seal, but Tang Luo gave no opportunity for that.

“Dong, dong, dong!”

Like the temple bells ringing at dawn and dusk, Tang Luo’s fists weighed heavier, each strike targeting the Spiritual Power nodes of the disintegrating golden body.

With no spiritual seal to bind, the Subduing Demon Vajra Dharma Aspect transformed, and during its re-expansion, it was at its most vulnerable.

“Bang, crack!”

With bent arms and clenched fists, he executed a crouching dragon strike.

The fists that shattered the golden body burst through Tang Xing’s palms, finally stopping at his chest.

The fierce force of the punches made Tang Xing squint his eyes and drop his trembling palms. The “Spiritual Fire Pride” cursed in frustration, “Dammit, I was only a few dozen moves short!”

Withdrawing his fists, Tang Luo snorted lightly, “A prolonged attack will surely break through, and a prolonged defense will surely fail. Did you think you were practicing some kind of righteous fist? If you had taken the offensive from the start, overpowering with strength, I would have been forced to flounder, unable to launch a counterattack to shatter your golden body.”

“Huh, can it really be like that?”

Tang Luo said helplessly, “If not this way, are you supposed to use the potentially limitless Golden Body Technique just to take beatings?”

“Hmm… makes sense.”

Touching his chin in thought, Tang Xing murmured, “That said, I need to enhance my offensive capabilities.”

“It’s not entirely up to you to figure this out. The Precious Lotus Heart Mantra, the Three-Headed Six-Armed Heart Mantra, and the Maha Parinirvana Mantra that Yanshan once showcased are not exclusive secrets of the Zen sect. Find a Buddhist Sect faction and do some benefit exchange, and you can supplement your lacking offensive techniques.”

Creating techniques is wisdom, and learning techniques is to share the wisdom of the predecessors. Martial arts have flourished for a thousand years; the era of a martial artist taking everything upon themselves has been long surpassed. Tang Luo did not want his young brother to follow another misguided path.

“Oh, I get it now!”

Though defeated, Tang Xing’s Dao Heart was scarcely shaken, for this was his closest approach to success yet.

And from Tang Luo’s words, he also realized his significant progress, seeing several integrated techniques in the golden body, which indeed seemed promising.

Now that their sparring was concluded, it was time to consider how to make the Elder Council retract their orders.

Quite resolved, Tang Xing organized his thoughts and proposed an idea, “Big brother, you’re now among the top martial arts masters in our clan. Why don’t you speak with the Elder Council, argue that this technique is all harm with no benefit, and see if you can persuade them to reconsider their views?”

Smilingly listening to Tang Xing’s suggestion, Tang Luo spread his hands and said, “So, you want me to deny my own creation?”

“What!?”

“I created the ‘Bitter God Detachment Skill.’

Tang Luo pointed at himself, confirming Tang Xing’s guess, then said, “You can see that this technique is of no use to the Mortal Realm and beyond, and it’s good that you raised objections. But this judgment, based on a Martial Hall instructor’s stance, is far from sufficient.”

“Here’s a task for you: if you can understand the importance of this technique, I will prepare a unique reward for you!”