Chapter 921

Duan Tianya placed the broken blade at his waist and struck the opening stance of a draw-cut.

Although the Phantom Sword originated from the Central Plains, for some unknown reason Duan Tianya had now fused this Phantom Sword with You Dongying's draw-cut technique.

An indescribable aura kept accumulating on Duan Tianya's body.

General Chilaowen acted as if he saw nothing and continued stumbling forward.

Ma Shou watched from the side, feeling utterly baffled,

yet he feared that any movement of his would draw the attention of these two madmen.

So he stayed put on the spot, not moving a muscle.

As General Chilaowen drew step by step closer, Duan Tianya let out a great shout, his gathered momentum reaching its peak.

His whole person once again transformed into a streak of flowing light, slashing toward General Chilaowen.

This blade gathered the draw-cut technique and the Phantom Sword into a killing strike!

Just as this blade was about to cleave General Chilaowen, that same yellow light which had dealt with Snow-Drifting Mortal World earlier suddenly appeared as well.

It attached itself precisely to the flowing light Duan Tianya had become, and in the next instant was about to spread.

When Ma Shou saw this, his eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets.

His own Snow-Drifting Mortal World had been broken in exactly this bizarre way just now.

Although this strike was not aimed at him, it was a perfect chance to observe.

Just as Ma Shou thought this yellow light would, as before, rapidly spread and pin down the flowing light Duan Tianya had become—

suddenly a mysterious aura surged.

The next instant, that yellow light abruptly shattered apart.

With the shattering of the yellow light, the madman-like General Chilaowen also instantly sobered up,

"What is going on?"

This yellow light was in truth the reward bestowed by the Heavenly Dao upon General Chilaowen when he ascended the Heavenly Dao Golden List—Yellow Calamity!

This martial art, though called a martial art, was in truth no different from a divine ability.

Since obtaining this martial art, General Chilaowen had also diligently cultivated it.

He discovered that when Yellow Calamity struck, even opponents a realm or two minor realms above him could be caught off guard.

Just now, Ma Shou's all-out Snow-Drifting Mortal World had been easily broken by General Chilaowen's Yellow Calamity.

How could Duan Tianya, compared to Ma Shou, possibly be spared?

Who would have thought that the surge of that mysterious aura would actually break Yellow Calamity.

The tremendous shock to his mind instead jolted General Chilaowen back to his senses.

Only at this point had Duan Tianya's blade already arrived before his eyes.

In the critical moment, General Chilaowen could only once again employ the Dog-Imitation Fist to meet the attack.

After several barks, General Chilaowen unleashed three killing moves of the Dog-Imitation Fist.

With his cultivation nearly a major realm higher, he finally just barely managed to receive Duan Tianya's blade.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Duan Tianya, on the contrary, had now gone mad; though his killing strike had been broken, he still did not retreat.

Instead he brandished the broken blade and attacked General Chilaowen at rapid speed all around his body.

General Chilaowen also did not understand why such a minor martial artist who had just entered the Heavenly Being Realm would dare to strike at him like this.

But he was never any kind of gentle soul to begin with—he was a battle-hardened general who had taken countless lives with his own hands.

Without further thought, he once again deployed the Dog-Imitation Fist.

One fist blocked all of Duan Tianya's attacks, while the other shot out again, driving straight at Duan Tianya's vital core.

Since that last fist had not taken Duan Tianya's life,

with this fist, General Chilaowen was determined to slay Duan Tianya for good!

Therefore, with this fist, General Chilaowen almost mobilized all of his true essence.

"Boom!"

After striking Duan Tianya's vital core, the imagined scene of Duan Tianya being smashed into a pulp of flesh did not appear.

Instead, from somewhere on Duan Tianya's body, an inexhaustible surge of mysterious aura welled forth.

Meeting General Chilaowen's fist, it rapidly gathered and then directly surged back against him.

This aura was neither the primeval force of heaven and earth, nor true essence.

Yet its power was terrifyingly extreme.

General Chilaowen felt as if he had become a single leaf-boat amid raging seas and furious waves, one that could be swallowed by that aura at any moment.

"No, what on earth is this?"

Sensing something was wrong, General Chilaowen immediately tried to withdraw his true essence and pull back to escape.

But this aura gave him no chance whatsoever, surging over him all at once.

Crack!

And so the General Chilaowen who had been invincible moments ago—breaking Snow-Drifting Mortal World with a single thought and sending Duan Tianya flying with two fists—

the arm that had struck Duan Tianya's vital core let out a sharp snap and broke clean in two.

720: Not a single blade can break this old man's defense!

Ordinary martial artists, upon first entering the path of martial arts, must choose between two paths: internal cultivation or external training.

Internal cultivation focuses on practicing profound arts and essential techniques, the inner-sect heart methods.

It speaks of harmonizing yin and yang, merging dragon and tiger, and ultimately opening the two bridges of heaven and earth to enter the Innate Realm—this is the Grandmaster Realm!

External training, on the other hand, is for those who have no sect to rely on and can only depend on the hard-tempering martial arts passed down in the jianghu.

Such as the external Wu Gong like the Horizontal Training Thirteen Taibao, Golden Bell Shield, Iron Cloth Shirt, Iron Sand Palm, and so on.

First, one must train the physique to be incomparably robust and powerful, using external force to stimulate the internal breath into being.

Ultimately, like the internal school, one can reach the Grandmaster Realm.

Once external training enters the Grandmaster Realm, one can also transform the internal breath within the body into Innate True Qi.

Whether external training or internal cultivation, they all reach the same goal by different paths.

Starting from the Great Grandmaster Realm, martial artists all cultivate both internal and external.

It may look like a mortal flesh-and-blood body, but a Great Grandmaster's body is already harder than metal.

Ordinary, common weapons cannot wound it in the slightest.

This is also why martial artists of the Nine Provinces pursue divine weapons.

After all, the physical-body strength of the Great Grandmaster Realm is truly too terrifying.

If the Great Grandmaster Realm is already so terrifying, then there's no need to mention the Supreme Mythical Realm, which is countless times higher.

Theoretically speaking, it is very difficult for anything below a Profound-grade divine weapon to cause damage to a Supreme Mythical Realm expert.

Needless to say, Chi Laowen's current punch was no minor injury.

It was a clean break at the elbow, utterly gruesome.

On top of that, he was the one who struck first, yet was the one rebounded and injured instead.

Chi Laowen was utterly shocked, and then saw Duan Tianya, carrying his broken blade, rush right before his eyes.

Swish swish swish…

Seizing the chance, Duan Tianya unleashed every blade technique he had learned in his life.

In the blink of an eye, he had already struck an unknown number of times.

Shocked, Chi Laowen did not dare to clash head-on with Duan Tianya, only thinking of dodging.

But with his mind shaken, his dodging speed was ordinary.

So much so that Duan Tianya's blade techniques struck Chi Laowen several times.

Yet taking these few strikes only made Chi Laowen even more astonished!

The punch he had just thrown not only employed the essence moves of the Imitation-Dog Fist, but also used the cultivation of the Supreme Mythical Realm.

A punch like that — to say nothing of a mere nobody like Duan Tianya who had just entered the Heavenly Being Realm.

Even an expert who had just entered the Supreme Mythical Realm could not have rebounded and broken Chi Laowen's arm the way Duan Tianya did.

But the few strikes he had just taken — though Duan Tianya clearly looked like he was gnashing his teeth, full of fury, and obviously going all out.

Yet apart from tearing Chi Laowen's clothes, these few strikes could only leave a few white marks on his skin.

The True Yuan attached to the broken blade surged in endlessly, yet still could not break through Chi Laowen's body-protecting Wu Gong.