Chapter 44: Trapped Beast's Fight

In midair, after Yan Buji and the Kūn Gate Master exchanged blows dozens of times, both landed and stood firm, staring at each other, both shocked in their hearts!

What formidable inner strength, unfathomable!

What formidable external training, impregnable!

The Kūn Gate Master originally thought that with his Heavenly Human Realm strength, even facing several peak Grandmaster masters surrounding him would never result in such an evenly matched situation.

Remember, at twenty years old he could still don armor and charge into battle, breaking out of a thousand-strong iron cavalry with his stamina not diminishing in the slightest!

Yet this brief battle of less than a minute made the Kūn Gate Master feel for the first time that he had truly grown old by a great deal...

Setting aside other things, just this minute left him feeling unable to catch his breath; if not for his deep inner strength, he probably couldn't even draw that breath!

The key is, if this person has activated Blood Essence Skill to multiply his strength several times, why does he also have a demonic inner energy boosting it further?!

Otherwise, subduing him would be only a slight hassle even with that external training!

Yan Buji took a deep breath, staring at the Kūn Gate Master before him, feeling for the first time the pressure from a formidable foe.

According to his past experience, he had never encountered someone who could survive three of his punches, but the opponent's inner strength was unfathomable, deep as an abyss, vast as the sea, seeming to anticipate his moves—dodging, deflecting, or neutralizing—rendering his attacks void, smoother than a loach!

When his strikes missed, he naturally suffered the opponent's counterattack; in a moment of carelessness, Yan Buji's clothing was already in tatters, and beneath the ragged garb his sturdy body was covered in bluish-black bruises, not fatal but showing his combat experience was sorely lacking.

"But he's just an old man; even as a Heavenly Human Realm cultivator, relying on that inner energy will eventually run out, whereas my qi and blood are not so easily exhausted!"

Yan Buji weighed the pros and cons; although his experience was lacking, he would not be misled by the opponent's deliberately exposed openings. Several times this old fellow revealed a flaw that almost provoked Yan Buji to strike, but he restrained himself at the crucial moment. Waiting for the Kūn Gate Master's next move, he realized that if he followed the opponent's pattern, he would likely have been slain on the spot.

"Old fool." Yan Buji shook his neck, his fingers cracking, and smiled: "You've ruined my plans—compensate with your life!"

The Kūn Gate Master snorted coldly: "You? You're not worthy of taking my life! Take this!"

Only to see the Kūn Gate Master stride forward with a healthy step, then thrust forward with his leading leg, launching a body slam!

Yan Buji sensed this strike was no trivial matter; even if he could see that the opponent's move was hard to change and truly exposed a weakness, he dared not lightly clash with this collision.

At that moment, Yan Buji thrust both palms forward, his inner energy exploding, blood and qi surging, unleashing a Mighty Vajra Palm thrust sideways.

Boom!!

In an instant, the collision of their limbs produced a terrifying roar like mountains splitting and stones shattering.

Yan Buji's face changed dramatically, his leg muscles tensed, his feet dug into the ground as the Kūn Gate Master's impact sent him retreating over ten meters, carving two deep pits in the earth before he finally stopped.

Meanwhile, the Kūn Gate Master had already gained the upper hand; this collision was not merely an attack but the opening move for his offensive!

The instant Yan Buji steadied himself, the Kūn Gate Master surged forward again, hand with two fingers extended, aiming for Yan Buji's vital points all over his body!

Yan Buji, confident in his perfected external training, feared no ordinary gang-breaking techniques, but the Kūn Gate Master, as a peak Heavenly Human Realm expert who has spent years fighting in the jianghu and on battlefields, certainly knows the weaknesses of finger techniques against external practitioners.

Since he dares to use it, he naturally has his confidence!

As expected, Yan Buji could see the substantial inner energy coiling around the Kūn Gate Master's fingers, but having lost the initiative, he could only forcibly block or dodge!

Yan Buji chose to meet it head-on, knowing dodging was useless; better to find a way to turn the tide.

Crack!

Pfft!

The Kūn Gate Master thrust a finger-sword; his fierce, terrifying inner energy, as easily as a knife cutting tofu, pierced a blood hole in Yan Buji's steel-forged body—though not a vital spot, that acupoint happened to be one of the hubs of his inner energy circulation.

In the ensuing battle, that strange demonic inner energy of Yan Buji could certainly no longer be circulated!

Yan Buji, wounded, hastily retreated several steps, stared at the blood hole on his body, and took a deep breath:

"Good, good, good—indeed worthy of being one of the two chief masters of the Iron Tiger Guard. Old fool, I'll let you have this move!"

"Ridiculous—die!"

"Wanting me dead isn't that simple!"

Yan Buji immediately pulled out the bottle hidden on his person, popped the cap with his thumb, and poured a pill into his mouth!

"You actually dare to take the Blood Killing Pill! Hahaha, a trapped beast's fight, a trapped beast's fight!" Seeing Yan Buji swallow the pill, the Kūn Gate Master burst into laughter.

His earlier strike, which avoided vital points and shattered the hub of his inner energy circulation, wasn't it meant to force him to take the Blood Killing Pill and then deal with him?

With the Blood Killing Pill, for a martial artist who relies on robust qi and blood, even without inner energy he can temporarily boost his strength severalfold; otherwise he couldn't withstand my assault.

But the pill's medicinal power cannot compare to my own century of inner energy!

Yan Buji's expression turned grave: "How do you know I have the Blood Killing Pill? Could it be that the Ling family is also here?"

"Correct!"

"Traitor of the Blood Flow Sect, die!"

Suddenly, numerous Grandmaster masters appeared all around, blocking Yan Buji's retreat.

They dared not approach lightly, for just now, after exchanging blows with the Kūn Gate Master, they had already regarded Yan Buji as a peak Heavenly Human Realm expert; but with the Kūn Gate Master present, why would they worry about that?

Yan Buji surveyed his surroundings; a pack of wolves eyeing an injured tiger—quite normal.

"Alas, since you all insist on seeking death, don't blame me!"

In an instant, seemingly from the medicinal power erupting, a tiger's roar burst from within Yan Buji's body!

Tiger's roar shakes the mountains and forests; beasts flee!

The surrounding Grandmaster masters exclaimed in disbelief, eyes unable to comprehend: "Is this the Tiger Roar Iron Cloth Shirt perfected? No wonder this scoundrel possesses such external training...."

Before he finished speaking, Yan Buji's body suddenly emitted another howl, unlike an ordinary beast's, the sound shaking nearby martial artists to the point of ruptured eardrums and unbearable headaches!

The Kūn Gate Master widened his eyes: "Dragon Chant Golden Bell Cover—you've also perfected it?!"

After the howls subsided, the surrounding Grandmaster masters completely changed their expressions.

In the Jianghu of the Kun Realm, the two most renowned external trainings have both reached perfection in a single person—this is a sight rarely seen in a thousand years!

Yan Buji snorted coldly; even with both external trainings activated, to him it's merely a consumption of qi and blood.

At this moment, the faint dragon chants and tiger roars lingered in the air, and the gazes of the onlooking Grandmasters and the Kūn Gate Master grew increasingly solemn.

It's likely that relying solely on the Kūn Gate Master, a single Heavenly Human Realm cultivator, he cannot defeat Yan Buji in a short time!