Chapter 505: Advantage! (3/10, Autumn Subscription)

He let out a muffled grunt.

Fang Yue staggered back more than ten steps before barely steadying himself!

His right fist was slightly numb, the tiger's mouth aching with pain.

Just now, he had met Horse Seat head-on with a Fire Fist.

The result proved he had been somewhat overconfident.

With that one punch, he once again fell on the losing end.

But that single absolute head-on clash also let Fang Yue roughly gauge what level Horse Seat's strength was at.

He could fight!

Horse Seat wasn't as strong as he had imagined!

And in front of Fang Yue, Horse Seat—who had just exchanged punches with him—was staring at Fang Yue with shock and uncertainty.

From that last punch, Fang Yue had indeed staggered back more than ten steps, but Horse Seat had also been forced back a full three steps by Fang Yue's strength!

Three steps!

For a powerhouse who had lingered in the Xiantian Second-Rate Realm for a long time, being driven back three steps by a junior who had just entered the Xiantian Realm was nothing short of an immense disgrace!

Even a lion uses its full strength to catch a rabbit!

He had to admit it—he had been careless! He had underestimated the foe!

"That move just now… that kind of flame—you actually stole the heart method of the Blazing Fire Sect! What outrageous nerve!"

"What are you talking about? I'm a member of the Blazing Fire Sect! The eighteenth-generation disciple of the Blazing Fire Sect, Niu Niu, is me!"

Horse Seat said nothing, only letting out a cold laugh.

That kind of lie couldn't fool him.

"More words are useless—leave your life behind!"

He kicked off the ground, and Horse Seat charged forward on his own initiative.

The faint silver glow emanating from his body gradually condensed, forming a faint silver Innate Qi Shield!

This was a technique exclusive to the Xiantian Realm, yet it was one Fang Yue did not possess.

Because the Innate Qi Shield could only be used by employing an Internal Energy Heart Method of the Xiantian Realm.

Horse Seat's speed was fast, but still within Fang Yue's acceptable range.

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly condensed a two-meter Fire Blade.

"Petty tricks!"

Horse Seat's figure instantly became erratic, darting left and right, approaching like he was bouncing from side to side.

"Dodge?"

Fang Yue let out a cold laugh, his internal breath flowing, a wave of qi rising on its own!

A raging, blazing-white wave of fire spread toward Horse Seat in layer upon layer, scouring the thickness of his Innate Qi Shield.

By the time Horse Seat charged up to Fang Yue, the blazing-white fire waves had already piled up in surging layers.

The violent flames immediately locked down Horse Seat's movement, creating the suppressive effect of a cage of fire.

However…

"Melting Silver Fist!!"

Horse Seat actually ignored the cage of fire, wasn't restricted in any movement, and charged straight up to Fang Yue, slamming a fist toward Fang Yue's chest.

His expression darkening, Fang Yue raised his left hand to block, while his right hand swung out a blade!

"Nine-Turn Chain Blade!"

Following Horse Seat's movement, the heat waves surged up, transforming into a fiery tornado—but before the blade could fall…

Crack!

Horse Seat's tremendous force directly shattered the bones of Fang Yue's left hand used for blocking; his wrist bent in a twisted direction, curving down.

And Horse Seat's fist, after breaking Fang Yue's hand bone, continued driving into Fang Yue's chest—the breastbone shattered on impact, the chest caving inward with the imprint of a fist!

The surface layer of flesh on his chest, under that single punch, rippled outward in concentric waves.

As the waves spread, internal force invaded his body, and the originally bright red blood, at a speed visible to the naked eye, transformed into silver liquid mercury!

"Trading injury for injury? I won't even let you get a move off! Die!"

Horse Seat let out a cold laugh.

No one could still be alive beneath this move.

The blood turned to mercury, and the deadly poison of the mercury ravaged the entire body.

As long as one took this move of mine squarely, even a powerhouse of the same realm would suffer a fatal Heavy Injury—let alone a mere junior who had just entered the Xiantian Realm?

That was what Horse Seat thought, and that was what he believed.

But in the next instant, the expression that had bloomed on his face suddenly froze.

Because he sensed that the blood inside Fang Yue's body—which his own vicious internal breath had dyed into poisonous mercury—was recovering into ordinary fresh blood at an extremely fast speed!

It was as if Fang Yue's fresh blood possessed the ability to self-filter and self-repair, capable of Refining the mercury back into ordinary blood—completely beyond Horse Seat's comprehension.

How could this be?!

Horse Seat was stunned, raising his head in disbelief to watch Fang Yue lift the two-meter Fire Blade, baring his fangs in a savage grin as the blade came down.

"Who said I couldn't get a move off?"

Nine-Turn Chain Blade!

Boom!!

A blazing-white fire dragon surged skyward.

The Horse Seat scorched by the fire dragon had his Innate Qi Shield shatter with a roar, the extreme heat striking his body directly!

His flesh was scorched by the high temperature, his whole body burning hot and flushed red, but it hadn't yet reached the point of being unbearable.

The physical resilience of the Xiantian Realm was far beyond what any Postnatal Realm cultivator could compare to.

The only problem was, when Ma Zuo wanted to retreat and put some distance between them to think about how to deal with the issue of Fang Yue being able to purify his blood, he discovered that the flame tornado he had been handling with ease moments ago was now genuinely and truly binding his movements!

Without his Innate Qi Shield, he couldn't ignore the effects of the technique.

In that instant of shock, the blazing Fire Blade had already come slashing down.

Ma Zuo dodged the vital spot, but still took a slash across the shoulder!

Stung by the pain, Ma Zuo tried to grab the Fire Blade, but grasped only air—and instead his palm got burned.

His heart sinking, Ma Zuo kicked Fang Yue in the body, borrowing the force to retreat backward, but was forcibly sucked back in by the tornado.

"What kind of Blade Technique is this?! It doesn't seem like an ordinary Postnatal Martial Technique!"

Ma Zuo was greatly shocked in his heart. He gritted his teeth.

"Explode!!"

Boom!!

His Aura, at near-zero distance, detonated with a thunderous blast.

Caught off guard, the surging internal force blasted Fang Yue flying backward.

By the time he steadied himself in midair, his Blade Technique had already dissipated on its own from the loss of internal force support.

Looking at Ma Zuo again, he had long since retreated a great distance, staring at Fang Yue with a mixture of shock and uncertainty.

After several exchanges, he hadn't gained the slightest advantage!

One had to remember—he was at the Xiantian Second-Rate Realm!

What puzzled Ma Zuo most of all was that his Melting Silver Fist, which he had painstakingly trained for years, was actually ineffective against Fang Yue!

This meant his strongest attack had been directly halved.

The Melting Silver Fist was never known for its high-intensity offense, but rather for its sinister ability to dissolve blood and transform it into deadly liquid silver.

Stripped of that, the Melting Silver Fist might not even be as good as a slightly stronger Postnatal fist technique!

"You brat… what the hell is going on with your body? Why can you be immune to my Melting Silver Fist? Aren't you cultivating the Blazing Fire Heart Method? I don't recall the Blazing Fire Heart Method having any ability like this!"

"Just because you don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Fang Yue blew a breath across his burning Fire Blade, like a gunslinger who had just completed a quick draw, and glanced sidelong at Ma Zuo.

Through this exchange, Fang Yue's confidence had grown even stronger.

Ma Zuo was not worth fearing!

With the support of his super-high base attributes, his hard physical strength was basically no different from Ma Zuo's.

But in terms of soft power, he admittedly wasn't as formidable as Ma Zuo.

For instance, that kind of movement technique—Fang Yue didn't have it. And that vicious fist technique just now, 'Blood-to-Silver Conversion'—he didn't have that either.

Perhaps because Postnatal Realm Martial Techniques were relatively low-end, most of them emphasized wide, sweeping movements—using force to break through skill—rather than attaching all sorts of sinister, poisonous effects.

This chapter was botched—over a thousand characters wasted, deleted and rewritten, only now has it come out. The rest will flow smoothly.

(End of this chapter)