Chapter 79: Breaking the Enemy with Linked Moves

Zhou You stepped into the Shan Shen Miao once again, thinking he had gone to the wrong place.

The scene before his eyes was like a ghost realm; corpses covered the ground, and there was not a single living person.

The hunters, who had been noisy and boisterous before, now lay in every corner of the floor, peaceful and silent.

"You've come?"

A voice rang out, startling Zhou You into looking up.

A vast, overwhelming bronze light filled his vision; at some point, a massive Bronze Bell had appeared inside the Shan Shen Miao.

The owner of the voice was a middle-aged scholar, holding an inkstone in one hand and a brush in the other, copying something.

At his feet lay the mangled corpses of the hunters, scattered in disarray.

Zhou You noticed that the wounds on these corpses were strange: fist-sized holes with the flesh curled outward, as if they were traces left by something inside the body drilling its way out.

"Are you Zhou You?"

The middle-aged scholar glanced at the inscriptions on the Bronze Bell and asked in a flat tone.

"How do you know? Have we met before?"

The middle-aged scholar shook his head. "We have not."

"But I have met Li Hao, and I exchanged one move with him. You are not him, so naturally, you are Wang Laohu's other student, Zhou You."

Zhou You subconsciously looked around; not seeing Li Hao's corpse, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He then heard the other man say, "Your companion has excellent Hard Qigong; he was able to escape while injured after taking my Marrow-Drilling Force."

Taking advantage of the moment the man was speaking, Zhou You squinted at the dense inscriptions on the Bronze Bell. What was he copying? The script of these inscriptions was not the everyday writing, but some kind of more ancient script.

Therefore, he could not tell what content was recorded on the Bronze Bell.

He suddenly realized that this Bronze Bell was the massive stone bell that had been embedded in the ground; judging by its outline, it was identical.

He had not expected that such a large purple-bronze bell was Zang inside.

Judging by its volume alone, this Bronze Bell weighed tens of thousands of catties, which translated to the wealth of several thousand taels of silver.

This group of hunters probably never imagined that such a huge treasure was hidden right beside them.

"Did you kill all these hunters? Who exactly are you?"

The middle-aged scholar's brush moved like a dragon or snake, not letting it hinder him from speaking. "I am the one they call Second Master."

"Pan Laoda and his gang occupied the Shan Shen Miao. I feigned joining them with the goal of using their manpower to unearth the Bronze Bell and obtain the treasure inside."

"I did not expect that after a trip out, the world would have changed upon my return."

"Pan Laoda is dead, his men are scattered, and without manpower, going to seek refuge with the Mo Yun Stronghold would just be asking for trouble."

"I want to monopolize the wealth of the Bronze Bell, so these hunters cannot be left alive; I simply killed them all."

The wealth of tens of thousands of catties of purple bronze was enough for him to kill to silence them and claim it for himself.

Zhou You nodded; this explanation was reasonable and logical.

Li Hao had arrived a step earlier, was defeated after exchanging moves with him, and now he was left to fight this battle alone.

"Don't be in a hurry. Wait until I finish copying the inscriptions on the Bronze Bell, then I will send you on your way."

While 'Second Master' said this, his hand suddenly flicked, and ink splashed out, piercing toward Zhou You's eyes.

What a cunning thief, intentionally letting Zhou You lower his guard to launch a sneak attack.

But Zhou You was not easily fooled; he remained vigilant at all times. Seeing this, he twisted his waist and took a step, dodging the splashing ink.

A few drops of ink splashed onto the windowsill, snapping the wooden frame directly.

The next moment, 'Second Master' wrapped himself in a gale and reached out to strike at Zhou You's chest.

"His force is skilled; this guy is definitely skilled in force."

Zhou You raised his hand and threw a punch, but just as the force reached under his skin, it was brushed aside by Second Master with a light, effortless motion.

Immediately following this, the opponent curled his index finger joint and knocked down toward Zhou You's right shoulder.

A heart-piercing pain struck; a walnut-sized lump bulged on Zhou You's right shoulder, moving rapidly under the skin and tearing the flesh.

Marrow-Drilling Force! 'Second Master's' ultimate technique: striking force into the enemy's body, drilling into the bones and marrow, with immense destructive power.

Only by experiencing it himself did Zhou You understand why the hunters' corpses looked like that. This force rampaged inside the body like a starving, crazed rat, desperately drilling through the flesh to break out of the body.

If the Marrow-Drilling Force truly destroyed his bone marrow and internal organs, his life would certainly be over. "How did Li Hao escape?"

A thought flashed through Zhou You's mind.

He immediately circulated the force within his body to suppress the Marrow-Drilling Force, pinning the walnut-sized lump onto his arm.

'Second Master' raised his hand to strike again, the force in his palm stirring restlessly.

"Awoo!"

Zhou You immediately unleashed the killing move of the Tiger-Subduing Fist, his force striking out straight with a piercing sound of breaking air.

A blur appeared before him; Second Master used his movement technique to dodge the Tiger-Subduing Fist, intending to strike another Marrow-Drilling Force into his back.

Two Marrow-Drilling Forces attacking from front and back—even a master with perfected force could not withstand it and would die from the force breaking through their body.

"Ride the Wind!"

Zhou You exerted force through his feet, and a sudden gale rose around his body.

The first move of the Wind-Chasing Triple-Layer Technique caused his body to turn into an afterimage, spinning crazily inside the Shan Shen Miao.

'Second Master's' eyes darted rapidly, attempting to capture Zhou You's trail.

"Hard Lean!"

Swish—the afterimages from all directions suddenly retracted, and Zhou You's trail vanished abruptly.

A warning of danger rose in Second Master's heart; he raised his hands, rotating them like fan blades to strike out a defensive layer around his body.

The air around him grew steaming hot as he pushed his force to the limit, causing the pebbles on the ground to jump frantically.

This even affected the Bronze Bell, which was blown by the gale, vibrating incessantly with a wailing sound.

"Great Blazing Kill!"

Yet even so, it still could not block Zhou You's pervasive intrusion.

The final move of the Wind-Chasing Triple Technique, Great Blazing Kill, was struck from an imperceptible blind spot.

The Second Master suddenly discovered that the opponent's voice was coming from beneath his own armpit.

The defensive layer he struck out did not play the slightest role, and he was still approached by Zhou You, who took advantage of the gale.

"Boom!"

Zhou You continued the power of the three consecutive moves, slamming it all at once onto the Second Master.

After he stepped into Intermediate Force, he further refined and polished it with the Tiger Tendon Pipa, taking the lethality of his force to a higher level.

Consequently, the power of the Wind-Chasing Triple Technique also rose with the tide.

"Puchi!"

The Second Master was directly struck into a stagger, retreating several steps, and collapsed half a wall of the Shan Shen Miao.

Zhou You followed closely behind, pushed down the remaining half of the wall, and stepped outside.

The two of them, one after the other, rushed out of the Shan Shen Miao.

The Second Master swallowed the blood in his mouth; he had only been caught off guard, not lacking in strength.

The Triple Technique had immense power, but the steps to build up force were too many, so it could only be used to catch someone by surprise.

He had been unprepared just now, but now that he knew of such a move, he only needed to guard against it in advance.

"Kid, let's see what other abilities you have!"

As soon as the Second Master's voice fell, Zhou You took five or six steps in succession, accelerating with every step.

By the time he arrived in front of him, before the Second Master's palm, imbued with Bone-Drilling Force, could strike his body, Zhou You leaped upward violently.

In this leaping motion, the force rapidly switched from the fierce pounce of a tiger to the lightness of a great bird.

"This is not the path of the Tiger-Subduing Fist!"

The Second Master was greatly shocked; before he could react, a strong wind came from behind his ears.

Using the circling counterattack of the Yanxing Quan, Zhou You circled behind him and threw a punch toward the back of his head.

This punch not only contained full force but also carried the Lv1 Tiger Aura.

The Second Master's head exploded like a ripe watermelon with a squelch, juices splashing everywhere.

(End of chapter)