Chapter 107 : Chapter 107

Chapter 107: The Golden Arhat Clashes with the Blood Python

“Die!”

Tie Ke lunged savagely at Cheng Yu, his Vital Blood terrifyingly intense. Even from a distance, it gave off a scorching heat.

Yet Cheng Yu not only felt no fear—there was even a trace of fervor burning in his eyes instead.

He swung the Thousand-Forged Ice-Thunder Xiuchun Saber in his hand, unleashing layer upon layer of tightly interwoven saber light.

“Petty tricks!”

Tie Ke roared and shot his right hand forward like a shuttle.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In an instant, Cheng Yu brought his Xiuchun Saber down dozens of times, yet every strike felt as though it were landing on hard Profound Iron.

Sparks flew in all directions, and the blows rang out like metal being hammered at a forge.

The shock made Cheng Yu’s hands tremble slightly.

What powerful Hard-Body Training!

Sensing an opening, Tie Ke directly reached out and viciously seized the Xiuchun Saber, forcibly enduring the pain of lightning and frost.

With a harsh shout, he hurled his other fist toward Cheng Yu’s chest.

“Let this little thief get a proper look at the body forged by the Blood-Burning Frenzied Force of my Heavenly Fate Lineage!”

The Blood-Burning Frenzied Force, a Low-Grade Earth-Rank technique!

An inheritance of Prince Qing, comparable to the sect-defining martial arts of the Nine Great Sects!

In the Jianghu of the Great Qian Dynasty, where Heaven-Rank techniques were impossibly out of reach, it was already an immensely powerful existence!

Today, Tie Ke would use it to crush Cheng Yu!

“And a loser’s inheritance dares to boast?”

Cheng Yu did not dodge at all. He merely lifted a brow and let out a cold laugh.

This was the perfect chance to see just how domineering the Shaolin Indestructible Vajra Body really was!

Tie Ke’s enormous fist carried the terrifying might of his Vital Blood.

It transformed into a savage blood-colored python lunging toward Cheng Yu.

The closer Cheng Yu drew to that fist, the more unbearably scorching it felt.

But he showed no fear whatsoever. Not only did he refuse to dodge, he actually released one hand from the Xiuchun Saber and met it head-on.

His refined and purified Internal Energy surged madly as he drew upon the terrifying body forged through all his accumulated Hard-Body Training.

An Arhat’s wrathful visage appeared on his face, and in an instant, his eyes turned gold.

A breath of turbid air left his mouth.

The hand he thrust toward Tie Ke’s fist opened into a palm and shone with dazzling golden light.

Heaven-Rank Hard-Body Training—the Shaolin Indestructible Vajra Body!

Waves of solemn Buddhist chants rang out as the majestic golden radiance condensed into the phantom of a wrathful, glaring Arhat.

One hand high and the other low, the Arhat drove forward in a cauldron-lifting stance, striking directly at the onrushing blood-colored python.

Boom!

The collision between the two erupted with terrifying force.

The golden Arhat and the blood-colored python clashed head-on.

The crimson glow of Vital Blood and the resplendent golden light tangled together, each suppressing the other, blurring the figures of Cheng Yu and Tie Ke.

The impact of that monstrous force sent out a violent shockwave that actually overturned the table beside them.

“That Hard-Body Training—how is this possible?!”

Zuo Hong was still blocking Ma Minnong. When he saw this scene, he stood there dumbfounded. The strength those two had unleashed was not far below his own.

The other martial artists were even more stunned, their mouths hanging open.

What kind of terrifying power was this?

If any of them were caught between two Hard-Body experts clashing head-on like this, they would be crushed on the spot.

The more they thought about it, the more lingering fear filled their hearts.

One of them was the Imperial Hound they had all joined forces to deal with.

The other was someone they had deliberately taken advantage of because they thought him slow-witted.

And yet only now did they realize—

Either one of those two could crush them to death with one hand!

What shook them even more was this:

Tie Ke was a disguised remnant of Prince Qing, so it was still understandable that his inherited Hard-Body Training was extremely powerful.

But what was going on with Cheng Yu?!

Was the Arhat phantom that had appeared beside him something formed from externally projected Internal Energy?

Someone muttered to himself, “Has Cheng Yu already entered the Upper Three Ranks?”

At this moment, however, Ma Minnong said calmly, “His Internal Energy is still only at the level of the early Sixth Rank. That phantom comes from a high-grade Hard-Body technique cultivated to an extremely high level.”

The more the crowd heard, the more shaken they became.

A Sixth Rank fighting a Seventh Rank head-on?

Meeting the descendant of Prince Qing’s greatest specialty—Hard-Body Training—with Hard-Body Training of his own!

They had to remember that other martial arts were heavily influenced by talent, and people with different aptitudes naturally saw very different results from cultivation.

It was not as though prodigies who achieved great success at a young age did not exist.

But Hard-Body Training was the fairest of them all. Talent mattered the least in it.

All that mattered was whether you were willing to spend the time and effort tempering your body, and how bitter your cultivation had been.

So how could a young martial artist barely in his twenties like Cheng Yu possess such formidable Hard-Body Training?

“Is... is this even legal?”

When Ma Minnong heard the martial artist’s muttered question, he smiled faintly.

“How ignorant. The human body is a marvelous thing.”

Everyone stared wide-eyed, vaguely awed and deeply unnerved.

Ma Minnong shook his head disdainfully. Not only were this group hypocritical and shameless, their knowledge was pitifully shallow as well.

For the moment, Cheng Yu was not yet in immediate danger, so Ma Minnong was not in a hurry to help.

Although even he did not understand why Cheng Yu possessed a Hard-Body technique with such profound accumulation,

the moment he remembered that this was Cheng Yu, it suddenly made sense again.

Could a man who could not be predicted or measured

have wiped out a power on the level of Sword-Forging Manor while still only at the Fifth Rank?

The only issue Ma Minnong noticed was this:

He could tell that Cheng Yu’s Internal Energy was inferior to Tie Ke’s at the Late Seventh Rank. Running his Hard-Body Training at full force consumed an enormous amount of energy, and he was already beginning to show signs of falling into a disadvantage.

“When the time comes to save this young man, I suppose this old man will have to bring out something real. Sigh... how did a physician like me end up constantly thinking about fighting and killing...”

Meanwhile,

just as Ma Minnong had expected, the confrontation between the golden Arhat and the blood-colored python was already beginning to show a difference in strength.

The crimson python of Vital Blood had coiled tightly around the Arhat phantom.

Its scorching Vital Blood squeezed the Arhat until cracks spread across its golden body.

The golden light gradually dimmed.

The tangled mass of blood-red and gold slowly parted as well, revealing the figures of Cheng Yu and Tie Ke.

Tie Ke’s fist was driving Cheng Yu backward!

“Boy! I acknowledge your talent! If you were one of my Heavenly Fate descendants, toppling the false dynasty would be effortless!”

Tie Ke laughed savagely, his eyes growing sharper and sharper.

“But unfortunately, you are not! I cannot let you live!”

“Die!”

The blood-colored python suddenly roared and coiled tightly around the Arhat.

Cheng Yu was being forced back until his whole body trembled, sweat pouring from him like rain.

A great deal of his Internal Energy had already been consumed.

Even so, he still gritted his teeth and held on, refusing to give the other side a chance to completely suppress him.

A strange feeling flickered through his heart.

Why was it that whenever he mobilized Internal Energy together with the Shaolin Indestructible Vajra Body, he always felt an extremely powerful sense of blockage?

Even the technique’s grade advantage had failed to show itself clearly.

“Cheng Yu is about to lose!”

Someone suddenly shouted.

The others also realized that Cheng Yu’s Hard-Body Training was no match for Tie Ke’s!

And at that very critical moment, something utterly unexpected happened.

Zuo Hong suddenly sprang up again and lunged at Ma Minnong beside him.

Ma Minnong’s attention had been completely fixed on Cheng Yu and Tie Ke, and for a moment he failed to react in time to defend himself.

“Zuo Hong! What are you doing?!”

“Divine Physician Ma, forgive my offense! Afterward, I will personally beg your pardon!”

Zuo Hong grabbed Ma Minnong by the shoulder and suddenly produced a dark-red rope, binding both of his hands.

After seeing that Ma Minnong was struggling bitterly yet unable to resist, he looked toward the other Jianghu martial artists nearby.

“Once these two are both wounded, we will all strike together and kill them both!”

“When the Imperial Hound and Prince Qing’s Remnants are both dead, the Jiannan Circuit will still belong to us people of the Jianghu!”

Most of the martial artists immediately agreed.

This was the best opportunity!

If they missed it, neither Cheng Yu nor Tie Ke would spare them!

A smaller portion of them had already been frightened out of their wits.

They could only hide in corners and keep shaking their heads.

Those were two Seventh-Rank Hard-Body experts.

Rushing in now was simply courting death!