Chapter 508: Extremity Leads to Softness, Dancing Hammers Like Grass

"Trial Project (Six-Star): Challenge Gaoyang Ruoqiang and the Shaman people alone, escape unscathed completed, Experience Points +75,000."

"Trial Project (Six-Star), breakthrough to Intermediate Martial Master, Experience Points +60,000."

"Name: Zhou You.

Qi and Blood: 5200.

Lifespan: 112.

Occupation: Martial Master.

Experience Points: 472300.

Level: Intermediate Martial Master (Tiger-Crane Dual-Action Fist, Black Cloud Spear).

Skills: Tiger-Crane Dual-Action Fist Lv49, Zhou Family Fist Lv3, Feather-Stepping Sky-Ascending Walk Lv29/Lv45, Pipa Lv13, Seal Script Lv23, Totem Lv3, Alchemy Lv23.

Cultivation Method: Tiger-Crane Jiaodie Technique Lv11 (Gold), Secret Art of the Transcendent Profound Heart Lv1, Heaven-Supporting Yuan-Nurturing Technique Lv2.

Ultimate Moves: Tiger Aura Lv6, Primordial Iron Garment Lv3.

Talent: Hunger Lv2.

Armory: Void Mask (Flesh Magic Treasure) — False Identities: First Lu Zhigang, Second Yan Ping, Faceless Copper Kui (calculating), Baile Tianluo."

This is a simplified version of the personal status; separating the contents of the two avatars makes it look much cleaner.

Especially the four large characters "Intermediate Martial Master," they are truly pleasing to the eye, and no matter how one looks at them, they are likable.

This breakthrough was not easy!

Zhou You crossed his fingers and twisted them slightly, his wrist joints knitting together like a twist of dough.

From bones and tendons to skin and flesh, the extensibility was surprisingly good; even with the joints twisted beyond their limits, there was still no tearing or spraining.

With a crisp "snap," the joints of his fingers and wrists returned to their original state.

Although the previous practice of Poison Sand Palm had led to a breakthrough and the signs of "Snake Transformation," making his bones and joints flexible enough to twist and deform at will, his skin, flesh, and tendons had remained at the Primary Martial Master level.

Specifically, his physical body could not perform overly complex or wide-ranging stretches or twists, otherwise, he would suffer fascia contusions or skin and flesh ruptures.

A true Peak Martial Artist is like a rubber person; every part of their body can compress and expand, capable of withstanding such torment.

Now, Zhou You has also reached the Intermediate Martial Master level and can let go and verify the quality of his physical body.

"Snap, snap!"

The sound of joints rubbing and colliding rang out; Zhou You twisted his head, rotating it a full one hundred and eighty degrees until his chin faced his back, yet he felt not the slightest discomfort or suffocation.

Immediately after, his elbows and knees bent in reverse, his entire posture as strange as a puppet.

Such flexible limb joints directly increased the human body's range of motion and operational limits.

No wonder many fist technique classics contain many strange moves for levels beyond the Intermediate Martial Master.

These moves violate the common sense of human mechanics; if an ordinary person dared to attempt them, the outcome would be either broken bones and tendons or lifelong paralysis.

Thinking about it now, these moves require the physical quality of an Intermediate Martial Master to unleash their power.

"Lu Zhigang's Seven Step Poison Sand Palm, performed with this body, can break through to the 'Poison Flood Dragon' realm."

Zhou You took a deep breath and swung his palm with great force; although there was no poison aura, this palm carried the stance of the Seven Step Poison Sand Palm.

In the blink of an eye, his entire arm was like a waking Poison Flood Dragon, its body winding and expanding rapidly, the palm striking out like the biting head of a flood dragon.

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed, a wild wind whipped up on flat ground, and the "Poison Flood Dragon" flickered in and out of the gale, its trajectory difficult to grasp.

*Snap*, the palm force struck the ground, instantly collapsing a crater the size of a water vat.

Merely practicing the form of the Poison Sand Palm, without the lethality of any poison aura, had already allowed him to grasp the power of the "Poison Flood Dragon" level of poison palm, showing just how high the physical quality of an Intermediate Martial Master is.

"A pity." Zhou You thought again of Gaoyang Ruoqiang, that descendant of a Shaman clan grandmaster, a favored son of heaven.

According to his estimation, after breaking through to Intermediate Martial Master, although he could fight him, there was absolutely no possibility of winning.

Outsiders only think that Gaoyang Ruoqiang and Liu Fengji are second-generation heirs relying on family status and ancestors, but in fact, the fist and martial strength of these two are the absolute peak of the peak.

Conservatively estimated, the strength of these two is comparable to the Hating Overlord Yan Shan before his breakthrough.

Besides their own powerful strength, they carry various disaster-charm treasures, body-protecting armors, strong martial amulets, and so on.

This leads to the fact that even if Liu Fengji and Gaoyang Ruoqiang encounter enemies at the level of the first or second heaven of Strong Martial, they can escape unscathed and even launch a few attacks to win fame.

Such opponents are too formidable, transcending many Peak Martial Artists, and cannot be treated with common logic.

If Zhou You wants to fight them on equal footing, he needs at least to break through to a Senior Martial Master to be certain.

His solo challenge to Gaoyang Ruoqiang this time was not a reckless act, but a move to find life in the midst of death.

Gaoyang Ruoqiang values his status and certainly would not step forward directly; the many Shaman experts around him were enough to give Zhou You a hard time.

The development of events was indeed as Zhou You had predicted beforehand: a group of heroes surrounded him, forcing Zhou You into a desperate situation.

At the moment of desperation, Zhou You fought his way out of the encirclement and, in a state of exhaustion, challenged Gaoyang Ruoqiang, finally seizing the opportunity.

The harvest of this trip was so great that Zhou You was very satisfied; he could even boast that the one with the greatest harvest in this battle was the Hating Overlord Yan Shan, who broke through from Senior Martial Master to the Strong Martial realm, and the second was he, Zhou You.

Because of the characteristics of his fist techniques, Zhou You's breakthrough is more difficult than others, but the harvest after the breakthrough is also unparalleled.

Conservatively estimated, the difficulty of Zhou You breaking through to Intermediate Martial Master would be enough for others to break through to Senior Martial Master.

Besides the breakthrough in realm...

Zhou You took two large hammers from his Hunger Pouch; these were spoils of war he had snatched while leaving in the chaos.

Previously, when the two sides confronted each other, a customary rule was formed: the corpses of the defeated were collected by their own side, and their belongings were taken away along with them.

The winners had no spoils, only empty fame.

By the time Zhou You separated from the main force and went alone to find and challenge Gaoyang Ruoqiang, surrounded by Shaman people watching like tigers, it was even more impossible to loot bodies under the siege.

These two large hammers looked like extraordinary items; the Iron Spear had poked at them for a long time without leaving a mark.

Zhou You spent some effort to take them into his Hunger Pouch during the chaos, which was the second harvest of this trip.

"Good hammers!"

Zhou You crossed his hands and swung the two large hammers with great vigor; whether in weight or feel, they were of the top-tier grade.

The weapon technique he first came into contact with was the Tiger Head Hammer, and he had always used bone hammers to perform the flying hammer technique, achieving numerous battle results.

The flying hammers made of skulls were limited by their material and could not be repaired once damaged, so later on, Zhou You never used a hammer that felt right again.

Not until now, having obtained two large hammers, did the familiar feeling return, and no matter how he used them, they felt handy.

"Woo-woo-woo!"

The large hammers tore through the air, the sound like a Hungry Tiger whimpering, possessing a magical power to subdue people's hearts.

The large hammers in Zhou You's hands swung ever more urgently, yet his footsteps remained steady and rhythmic, not raising a speck of dust beneath his feet; for a time, his figure was everywhere across the wilderness, the two large hammers circling around him, combining both offense and defense.

"Hit!"

He swung them over a hundred times in one breath, whipping up a gale and chaotic dust all around, making it difficult to see clearly.

Zhou You suddenly let out a loud shout, and the large hammer in his right hand flew out—it was none other than his signature skill... the flying hammer.

The large hammer fell like a meteor, striking a small hill directly ahead; the mountain body was smashed open, exploding with a large cloud of lime, first shattering into large chunks, then the large chunks shattering into small pebbles, which clattered and pattered all over the ground.

(End of chapter)