The two men came into close combat right at the start. Ye Honghui did not dodge or evade, but used his head, an absolutely weak part of the human body, to meet Xue Jing's fist. However, this caused a crack in the fist that was powerful enough to shatter tungsten steel. This scene shocked most of the audience.
"How can it be!"
"That's Xue Jing... a super genius who swept all the way through the 46,000 floors of Jiwu Dengtian Palace, and all his opponents were unable to stop him from making a second move!"
"Ye Honghui actually used his head to take the attack, and actually caught it!"
"Although the skull is one of the hardest parts of the human body, you can't play with it like this!"
"Even if the bones are fine, the brain inside will probably be shaken out..."
An experienced expert crossed his arms and shook his head, saying, "Ordinary people would indeed seek death by doing this, but Ye Honghui is different."
"This person is able to project all of his consciousness into his own jade bones. The rest of his body, whether it's skin, blood, muscles, brain, nerves... are all unnecessary to him."
"He is like the undead in fantasy works. As long as he has the bones, he can carry out all life activities. The rest of the flesh and blood are all unnecessary things used to supplement the nutrients of the bones."
On the ring, Xue Jing retracted his fist.
During the process of retracting, his mind moved, and his vigorous vitality was ignited. The cracked bones in his palm immediately healed together, and the flesh and blood recovered after a while of squirming.
At this moment, the skin on Ye Honghui's forehead where Xue Jing hit him cracked, revealing his extremely smooth skull inside, which was as smooth as white jade. It emitted a clear glow and had no scars at all, like a finely crafted work of art.
Xue Jing's expression remained unchanged. He quickly turned his hand and struck out with a palm, hitting Ye Honghui's chest and abdomen.
"Normalization."
Thousands of Qi forces merged together and turned into a visible Qi vortex in the center of Yu Xuejing's palm, which hit Ye Honghui with a bang.
"puff--"
With a muffled sound, Ye Honghui's back suddenly exploded, and countless pieces of flesh and blood gushed out, soaking a large area of land behind him.
But he still stood there motionless, with no change in the expression on his mummy-like face, staring fixedly at Xue Jing in front of him.
After one blow, all the flesh and blood on Ye Honghui's torso was cleared away, and the clothes on his upper body were completely shattered, revealing his bones.
The spine, ribs, sternum, sacrum...all the bones have a texture like white jade, slightly transparent, glowing, and have an extremely smooth surface.
"trouble."
Xue Jing whispered upon seeing this.
After several contacts, he had basically figured out Ye Honghui's background.
This person must have used his mental power at the second level of breaking the limit to forcibly lock his own consciousness within his bones. The flesh and blood on his body are no longer important to him.
If you can't break his bones, you can't really hurt him.
Very extreme...but this is precisely the opponent that Xue Jing is most difficult to deal with at the moment.
The 'All Flows Return to One' that he created based on the myriad things in the universe can make almost all martial arts masters unable to defend themselves and can only swallow it headlong.
But Ye Honghui is the one who can eat it whole.
The Jade Bone Skill he practiced made his bones reach an incredible level of strength, so hard that it was unbelievable.
Xue Jing punched it, but was actually injured by the reaction force.
This proves that when Ye Honghui was hit by Xue Jing's fist, his bones did not deform at all, and the maximum reaction force was returned to Xue Jing.
The legendary 'unchangeable jade bones', one of the five realms of the precious body, is just like this body of jade bones. Because it is extremely hard and sharp, the hardness itself represents lethality.
"It's a pity... If you had given me another year or two, I might have become a small character that you could easily destroy in your eyes."
Ye Honghui spoke.
There was no flesh or blood on his entire torso, and half of his throat was gone, leaving only a portion of his larynx exposed. He should have lost the ability to speak, but miraculously he was still able to speak clearly.
"But time didn't wait for you."
"I have felt your punch... it is very strong, but it is still far from breaking my jade bones."
Xue Jing smiled and said, "It looks like this... Can I use weapons?"
Ye Honghui bowed his head slightly: "Please go ahead."
The rule of Jiwu Dengtian Palace is that all cold weapons are allowed and you can bring your own.
Of course, it must be a real cold weapon, such as a magic lightsaber made of special materials. Although it has no high-tech content and is not considered a "hot weapon", it cannot be used because of problems with the material itself.
The burning red color in Xue Jing's hair and pupils suddenly faded away, and then he stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of drawing a sword towards the empty space next to him.
He slowly pulled out an old, beautiful long sword from the void.
This scene surprised almost everyone present.
"Huh? Magic? How does he do that?"
"I didn't see him carrying a knife... Could it be that Xuan Ling used the four-dimensional movement to transfer the knife to his hand?"
"That's not right. Xue Jing is not even a floor master yet. How can he have the authority to order Xuan Ling to do this for him?"
"I have heard that people who are identified as having great potential will get Xuan Ling's attention in advance, even if they are not layer masters..."
Xue Jing held the unsharpened blade Zhaoye in his hand, made a beautiful knife flower, and pointed the tip of the knife diagonally at the ground.
Ye Honghui did not recognize this divine relic, but with his eyesight and intuition as a warrior, his eyes lit up immediately when he saw the knife, and he sensed some threat.
"Good knife."
Xue Jing stood there for a while, and seeing that Xuan Ling didn't say much, he roughly understood how tolerant this super AI was of him.
Whether it is using the non-existent beast to get things, or using this somewhat cheating "unsharpened blade", Xuan Ling believes that it is allowed.
Of course, this should not be Xuan Ling's favoritism, but what Xue Jing did was really within the rules.
In Xuan Ling's opinion, the ability of the beast that does not exist is innate to Xue Jing and is possessed naturally. The unsharpened blade does not deviate from the definition of a cold weapon. Although it is a divine relic, its ability is only equivalent to that of an extremely hard weapon.
“If that’s the case…”
Xue Jing had an idea and already had a way to break Ye Honghui's jade bones.
He whispered something in a voice that no one could hear clearly. Then, a scorching red light flickered between his hair and pupils, and Xue Jing entered the [True Red] state again.
"Ok?"
Many experts with extraordinary eyesight looked at Xue Jing's shoulder with some confusion.
"Something seemed to have appeared there just now... was it an illusion?"
On the ring, Ye Honghui, with his bones exposed, seemed to feel that Xue Jing was ready, and stepped forward.
Then, he clenched his right hand, and the skin and flesh on his skinny arm, from the fingertips to the forearm and upper arm, suddenly seemed to be corroded, and quickly shrank, contracted, and wrinkled...
Finally, all the skin and flesh disappeared, completely absorbed by his hand bones. The remaining debris was blown away by the wind, and the jade-like bones of the entire arm were completely exposed.
“——Withered Ashes.”
The jade-like hand bones clenched into a fist and punched towards Xue Jing.
Wherever the fist passed, the air was forcibly squeezed away, creating circles of wind pressure visible to the naked eye, which seemed to be slowly but actually quickly penetrating towards Xue Jing.
This is an unavoidable punch.
It was not that he was physically unable to avoid it, but the strong spiritual aura emanating from Ye Honghui enveloped Xue Jing and bound him firmly in place.
If he really dodged out of fear at this moment, he would be at a complete disadvantage on the mental level.
In battles above the limit-breaking level, the confrontation of spiritual aura is also an important part. Once suppressed by the opponent, one's own 'dynamic energy' will inevitably be greatly weakened, and then one's hands and feet will be restricted, affecting the performance of the physical level.
However, Xue Jing had no intention of hiding.
He held the hilt of the knife with one hand, held Zhaoye horizontally in front of him with the blade facing forward, and used the other hand to support the back of the knife.
The fist and the blade intersected together.
In an instant, an unprecedented huge force was transmitted from the blade. Xue Jing's eyes focused, and his whole body began to run at high speed like an extremely precise machine.
"Return to nothing."
Corresponding to the "return to oneness" of invincible attack is the "return to nothingness" of unbreakable defense.
When the opponent attacks, he will analyze the opponent's moves instantly and cancel them out with completely opposite strength. As long as the force is not of an absolutely overwhelming level, it will melt and disintegrate in front of "Return to Nothingness".
Although it is a defensive move, its essence is the same as 'Return to Oneness' which instantly releases thousands of Qi forces, and both are the ultimate application of martial arts techniques.
The combination of the two can be described as a 'tactic that never changes'.
"呲-"
The punch made a huge noise, but after it collided with the blade, strangely, there was no big noise, only a teeth-grinding hissing sound, which sounded like the sound of an electric circular saw cutting stone.
And beneath the calm surface, Xue Jing's whole body was moving madly at a speed never seen before since he started practicing martial arts, constantly dissolving the tremendous force surging from Ye Honghui's fist.
At this moment, he felt like a ship with a big hole in it. Although he kept scooping out the water that was pouring in, the huge amount of water still continued, and the speed of scooping water could no longer keep up with the speed of the water pouring in.
If it were an ordinary martial artist, even if his physical strength was the same as his, he would not be able to hold on for long under such high-load and crazy use of strength before his whole body collapsed and blood burst out. However, he had the body of a true martial artist, and his body's adaptability to the use of strength was the best in the world, reaching an extraordinary level, which allowed him to support such behavior that was abusing his body.
After a stalemate of nearly twenty seconds—
"boom--!!"
With a loud bang, the wind pressure spread with Xue Jing and Ye Honghui as the center, forming a brief vacuum zone, and the two were separated.
Ye Honghui took seven steps back. Although the ground was intact because it was protected by the SC force field, the heavy thud made by each step on the ground showed everyone the extent of the force used.
Xue Jing did the same and retreated a full thirteen steps. The Zhaoye sword in his hand was intact, but the skin on his palms had cracked, and sticky blood like rubies flowed out, staining the Zhaoye sword.
"……sharp."
Ye Honghui clenched his hand bones and spoke.
A shallow dent appeared on the originally smooth surface of the metacarpal bone of the fist.
That was where the blade just touched Zhaoye's.
Just as he was about to say something else, suddenly, a sharp light approached rapidly.
"Chong-"
Ye Honghui flew backwards off the ground in an instant and hit the wall of the SC force field with a bang.
A long knife was stuck in his throat.
Light the night.
Although his throat was pressed against the sharp tip of the knife, Ye Honghui, whose cervical vertebrae were basically intact, frowned and said:
"This is……"
Before he finished speaking, Zhaoyedao suddenly moved without anyone holding it, as if it was wielded by an invisible swordsman, and slashed towards Ye Honghui's collarbone.
"Chong-"
The blade bounced off.
"Strange sword flying technique, but it's meaningless."
Ye Honghui shook his head and ignored Zhao Ye who was flying back and forth in the air, slashing and stabbing him from time to time.
He felt that Xue Jing was probably testing whether he had any "weak points".
But it was a futile effort.
Conventional horizontal martial arts do have their so-called weaknesses, but Jade Bone Skill has no flaws at all.
At the cost of giving up everything, he almost went crazy in search of a way to keep his bones from getting rotten, only to gain this indestructible skeleton.
Unreasonable training methods will naturally produce unreasonable results.
This young man named Xue Jing is so outstanding, he shouldn't have failed to think of this.
But he still carries out this meaningless test... What on earth does he want to do?
...(End of chapter)
"How can it be!"
"That's Xue Jing... a super genius who swept all the way through the 46,000 floors of Jiwu Dengtian Palace, and all his opponents were unable to stop him from making a second move!"
"Ye Honghui actually used his head to take the attack, and actually caught it!"
"Although the skull is one of the hardest parts of the human body, you can't play with it like this!"
"Even if the bones are fine, the brain inside will probably be shaken out..."
An experienced expert crossed his arms and shook his head, saying, "Ordinary people would indeed seek death by doing this, but Ye Honghui is different."
"This person is able to project all of his consciousness into his own jade bones. The rest of his body, whether it's skin, blood, muscles, brain, nerves... are all unnecessary to him."
"He is like the undead in fantasy works. As long as he has the bones, he can carry out all life activities. The rest of the flesh and blood are all unnecessary things used to supplement the nutrients of the bones."
On the ring, Xue Jing retracted his fist.
During the process of retracting, his mind moved, and his vigorous vitality was ignited. The cracked bones in his palm immediately healed together, and the flesh and blood recovered after a while of squirming.
At this moment, the skin on Ye Honghui's forehead where Xue Jing hit him cracked, revealing his extremely smooth skull inside, which was as smooth as white jade. It emitted a clear glow and had no scars at all, like a finely crafted work of art.
Xue Jing's expression remained unchanged. He quickly turned his hand and struck out with a palm, hitting Ye Honghui's chest and abdomen.
"Normalization."
Thousands of Qi forces merged together and turned into a visible Qi vortex in the center of Yu Xuejing's palm, which hit Ye Honghui with a bang.
"puff--"
With a muffled sound, Ye Honghui's back suddenly exploded, and countless pieces of flesh and blood gushed out, soaking a large area of land behind him.
But he still stood there motionless, with no change in the expression on his mummy-like face, staring fixedly at Xue Jing in front of him.
After one blow, all the flesh and blood on Ye Honghui's torso was cleared away, and the clothes on his upper body were completely shattered, revealing his bones.
The spine, ribs, sternum, sacrum...all the bones have a texture like white jade, slightly transparent, glowing, and have an extremely smooth surface.
"trouble."
Xue Jing whispered upon seeing this.
After several contacts, he had basically figured out Ye Honghui's background.
This person must have used his mental power at the second level of breaking the limit to forcibly lock his own consciousness within his bones. The flesh and blood on his body are no longer important to him.
If you can't break his bones, you can't really hurt him.
Very extreme...but this is precisely the opponent that Xue Jing is most difficult to deal with at the moment.
The 'All Flows Return to One' that he created based on the myriad things in the universe can make almost all martial arts masters unable to defend themselves and can only swallow it headlong.
But Ye Honghui is the one who can eat it whole.
The Jade Bone Skill he practiced made his bones reach an incredible level of strength, so hard that it was unbelievable.
Xue Jing punched it, but was actually injured by the reaction force.
This proves that when Ye Honghui was hit by Xue Jing's fist, his bones did not deform at all, and the maximum reaction force was returned to Xue Jing.
The legendary 'unchangeable jade bones', one of the five realms of the precious body, is just like this body of jade bones. Because it is extremely hard and sharp, the hardness itself represents lethality.
"It's a pity... If you had given me another year or two, I might have become a small character that you could easily destroy in your eyes."
Ye Honghui spoke.
There was no flesh or blood on his entire torso, and half of his throat was gone, leaving only a portion of his larynx exposed. He should have lost the ability to speak, but miraculously he was still able to speak clearly.
"But time didn't wait for you."
"I have felt your punch... it is very strong, but it is still far from breaking my jade bones."
Xue Jing smiled and said, "It looks like this... Can I use weapons?"
Ye Honghui bowed his head slightly: "Please go ahead."
The rule of Jiwu Dengtian Palace is that all cold weapons are allowed and you can bring your own.
Of course, it must be a real cold weapon, such as a magic lightsaber made of special materials. Although it has no high-tech content and is not considered a "hot weapon", it cannot be used because of problems with the material itself.
The burning red color in Xue Jing's hair and pupils suddenly faded away, and then he stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of drawing a sword towards the empty space next to him.
He slowly pulled out an old, beautiful long sword from the void.
This scene surprised almost everyone present.
"Huh? Magic? How does he do that?"
"I didn't see him carrying a knife... Could it be that Xuan Ling used the four-dimensional movement to transfer the knife to his hand?"
"That's not right. Xue Jing is not even a floor master yet. How can he have the authority to order Xuan Ling to do this for him?"
"I have heard that people who are identified as having great potential will get Xuan Ling's attention in advance, even if they are not layer masters..."
Xue Jing held the unsharpened blade Zhaoye in his hand, made a beautiful knife flower, and pointed the tip of the knife diagonally at the ground.
Ye Honghui did not recognize this divine relic, but with his eyesight and intuition as a warrior, his eyes lit up immediately when he saw the knife, and he sensed some threat.
"Good knife."
Xue Jing stood there for a while, and seeing that Xuan Ling didn't say much, he roughly understood how tolerant this super AI was of him.
Whether it is using the non-existent beast to get things, or using this somewhat cheating "unsharpened blade", Xuan Ling believes that it is allowed.
Of course, this should not be Xuan Ling's favoritism, but what Xue Jing did was really within the rules.
In Xuan Ling's opinion, the ability of the beast that does not exist is innate to Xue Jing and is possessed naturally. The unsharpened blade does not deviate from the definition of a cold weapon. Although it is a divine relic, its ability is only equivalent to that of an extremely hard weapon.
“If that’s the case…”
Xue Jing had an idea and already had a way to break Ye Honghui's jade bones.
He whispered something in a voice that no one could hear clearly. Then, a scorching red light flickered between his hair and pupils, and Xue Jing entered the [True Red] state again.
"Ok?"
Many experts with extraordinary eyesight looked at Xue Jing's shoulder with some confusion.
"Something seemed to have appeared there just now... was it an illusion?"
On the ring, Ye Honghui, with his bones exposed, seemed to feel that Xue Jing was ready, and stepped forward.
Then, he clenched his right hand, and the skin and flesh on his skinny arm, from the fingertips to the forearm and upper arm, suddenly seemed to be corroded, and quickly shrank, contracted, and wrinkled...
Finally, all the skin and flesh disappeared, completely absorbed by his hand bones. The remaining debris was blown away by the wind, and the jade-like bones of the entire arm were completely exposed.
“——Withered Ashes.”
The jade-like hand bones clenched into a fist and punched towards Xue Jing.
Wherever the fist passed, the air was forcibly squeezed away, creating circles of wind pressure visible to the naked eye, which seemed to be slowly but actually quickly penetrating towards Xue Jing.
This is an unavoidable punch.
It was not that he was physically unable to avoid it, but the strong spiritual aura emanating from Ye Honghui enveloped Xue Jing and bound him firmly in place.
If he really dodged out of fear at this moment, he would be at a complete disadvantage on the mental level.
In battles above the limit-breaking level, the confrontation of spiritual aura is also an important part. Once suppressed by the opponent, one's own 'dynamic energy' will inevitably be greatly weakened, and then one's hands and feet will be restricted, affecting the performance of the physical level.
However, Xue Jing had no intention of hiding.
He held the hilt of the knife with one hand, held Zhaoye horizontally in front of him with the blade facing forward, and used the other hand to support the back of the knife.
The fist and the blade intersected together.
In an instant, an unprecedented huge force was transmitted from the blade. Xue Jing's eyes focused, and his whole body began to run at high speed like an extremely precise machine.
"Return to nothing."
Corresponding to the "return to oneness" of invincible attack is the "return to nothingness" of unbreakable defense.
When the opponent attacks, he will analyze the opponent's moves instantly and cancel them out with completely opposite strength. As long as the force is not of an absolutely overwhelming level, it will melt and disintegrate in front of "Return to Nothingness".
Although it is a defensive move, its essence is the same as 'Return to Oneness' which instantly releases thousands of Qi forces, and both are the ultimate application of martial arts techniques.
The combination of the two can be described as a 'tactic that never changes'.
"呲-"
The punch made a huge noise, but after it collided with the blade, strangely, there was no big noise, only a teeth-grinding hissing sound, which sounded like the sound of an electric circular saw cutting stone.
And beneath the calm surface, Xue Jing's whole body was moving madly at a speed never seen before since he started practicing martial arts, constantly dissolving the tremendous force surging from Ye Honghui's fist.
At this moment, he felt like a ship with a big hole in it. Although he kept scooping out the water that was pouring in, the huge amount of water still continued, and the speed of scooping water could no longer keep up with the speed of the water pouring in.
If it were an ordinary martial artist, even if his physical strength was the same as his, he would not be able to hold on for long under such high-load and crazy use of strength before his whole body collapsed and blood burst out. However, he had the body of a true martial artist, and his body's adaptability to the use of strength was the best in the world, reaching an extraordinary level, which allowed him to support such behavior that was abusing his body.
After a stalemate of nearly twenty seconds—
"boom--!!"
With a loud bang, the wind pressure spread with Xue Jing and Ye Honghui as the center, forming a brief vacuum zone, and the two were separated.
Ye Honghui took seven steps back. Although the ground was intact because it was protected by the SC force field, the heavy thud made by each step on the ground showed everyone the extent of the force used.
Xue Jing did the same and retreated a full thirteen steps. The Zhaoye sword in his hand was intact, but the skin on his palms had cracked, and sticky blood like rubies flowed out, staining the Zhaoye sword.
"……sharp."
Ye Honghui clenched his hand bones and spoke.
A shallow dent appeared on the originally smooth surface of the metacarpal bone of the fist.
That was where the blade just touched Zhaoye's.
Just as he was about to say something else, suddenly, a sharp light approached rapidly.
"Chong-"
Ye Honghui flew backwards off the ground in an instant and hit the wall of the SC force field with a bang.
A long knife was stuck in his throat.
Light the night.
Although his throat was pressed against the sharp tip of the knife, Ye Honghui, whose cervical vertebrae were basically intact, frowned and said:
"This is……"
Before he finished speaking, Zhaoyedao suddenly moved without anyone holding it, as if it was wielded by an invisible swordsman, and slashed towards Ye Honghui's collarbone.
"Chong-"
The blade bounced off.
"Strange sword flying technique, but it's meaningless."
Ye Honghui shook his head and ignored Zhao Ye who was flying back and forth in the air, slashing and stabbing him from time to time.
He felt that Xue Jing was probably testing whether he had any "weak points".
But it was a futile effort.
Conventional horizontal martial arts do have their so-called weaknesses, but Jade Bone Skill has no flaws at all.
At the cost of giving up everything, he almost went crazy in search of a way to keep his bones from getting rotten, only to gain this indestructible skeleton.
Unreasonable training methods will naturally produce unreasonable results.
This young man named Xue Jing is so outstanding, he shouldn't have failed to think of this.
But he still carries out this meaningless test... What on earth does he want to do?
...(End of chapter)
