Chapter 411: Martial Arts Challenge 2

The four-star body art had four styles – fist, palm, kick, and defence.

At this time, Shen Xu chose to test the waters with the palm style and didn’t hesitate to rush at Wang Kunpeng.

“Four-star palm.” He muttered, raised his hand, and struck his opponent’s chest.

Seeing the attack, Wang Kunpeng narrowed his eyes, and an illusory robe appeared around him.

This robe was the physical manifestation of the iron cloak technique. When the palm struck it, a metallic ’clang’ echoed around the square, giving the illusion that two metal objects had collided.

However, aside from the clang, nothing else happened, and Wang Kunpeng was completely unharmed.

“I didn’t expect junior brother Shen is also a body refiner.” Wang Kunpeng observed with a surprised expression.

He was not the only one!

After all, excluding martial artists, few cultivators chose to refine their bodies.

Most importantly, Shen Xu was a double skilled in weapons refining, spiritual food arts, and spiritual planting. How could he also be a body refining martial artist?

Even if the divine ascension grass saved Shen Xu many years of cultivation time, it was still unbelievable that he mastered so many arts in just one thousand years.

’Is this the difference between an ordinary genius and a monster?’ Wang Kunpeng wondered but didn’t think of giving up.

On the opposite side, Shen Xu looked at his palm with a thoughtful expression.

Each attack-type style of the four-star body art had its advantages and disadvantages.

Of the three, the fist style was the heaviest and most powerful, but it was slow compared to the other two.

In the same vein, the palm style was moderately fast and powerful, but it lacked penetrative power and was especially weak against full-body defences like the iron cloak technique.

As for the kick style, it was extremely fast and had penetrative power, but lacked the heaviness of the fist and palm styles.

After seeing the effect of the palm style, Shen Xu didn’t immediately change his attack method. Instead, he unleashed a few palm attacks and watched how Wang Kunpeng reacted to each.

However, from his observation, Wang Kunpeng’s iron cloak technique was an armour without chinks.

No matter how it was attacked, it didn’t waver and remained as heavy as a mountain.

’The palm style is completely ineffective against the iron cloak technique.’ Shen Xu thought and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.

’I need to either find a flaw in the iron cloak or create one.’ He thought.

Unlike Zhen Yuan, Shen Xu couldn’t see laws and didn’t immediately spot the cloak’s weak points.

However, he had level eight soul power and had refined countless drops of clarity.

As a result, his perception was higher than that of ordinary cultivators, and he believed he would be able to decipher the weak points after attacking the iron cloak a few times.

“It’s my turn.” Wang Kunpeng suddenly shouted, and a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

A moment later, he rushed towards Shen Xu with his hands stretched out like eagle talons.

“Eagle clamp.” He shouted and simultaneously tried to grab Shen Xu’s right shoulder.

However, Shen Xu reacted quickly, and just before he was grabbed, he activated his four-star body defence.

A moment later, Wang Kunpeng grabbed the shoulder, but he didn’t hear the sound of breaking bones as he expected. Instead, he felt pain in his fingers and subconsciously frowned before hastily retreating.

At the same time, he glanced at Shen Xu and saw the double’s shoulder looked like crystallised jade.

“Diamond jade defence…” He muttered in a shocked voice.

Diamond was the hardest material in the cultivation world, while jade was the toughest.

Because of this, many defence techniques inferred from the hardness of diamonds and the toughness of jade.

However, this was the first time that Wang Kunpeng encountered a technique that so perfectly incorporated the hardness of diamonds and the toughness of jade.

’It’s going to be difficult to break that defence.’ He thought, his eyes narrowed into slits.

As Wang Kunpeng inferred, the four-star body art’s defence style was based on the hardness of diamonds and the toughness of jade.

When practised to the extreme, a martial artist would be able to cultivate an infallible defence that was invulnerable to weapons and other attacks.

Unfortunately, Shen Xu was a beginner.

Although his diamond jade shoulder looked impressive, he knew it wasn’t without flaws and could be broken with a more powerful attack.

However, Shen Xu wasn’t too worried.

First, he didn’t intend to stand there and let his opponent attack him without fighting back.

Second, although his cultivation was lower than Wang Kunpeng’s, Shen Xu had transformed his body with immortal marrow.

If it came to it, he would trigger the power derived from this transformation to boost his body’s defence and offence.

’This game is mine.’ He thought, clenched his right hand into a fist and attacked Wang Kunpeng.

As before, Wang Kunpeng activated his iron cloak to block Shen Xu’s fist, but the attack was more powerful than he had thought.

Although the defence was not broken, Wang Kunpeng was pushed back, and he retreated eight metres before he forcibly stopped himself.

Seeing this, the spectators couldn’t help but be shocked.

“Am I seeing things?” Someone asked in a shocked voice.

“How can a double be so powerful?” Another asked.

“I heard junior brother Shen is deadly with a hammer. I didn’t expect he would also be deadly without a weapon.”

“I suddenly feel that I have lived a worthless life.” A male cultivator sighed and quickly continued.

“I have lived three hundred thousand years, but I have only cultivated to the late stage of the Mahayana realm and barely become a level eight weapons refiner.” He said, and the surrounding people fell silent.

They understood the male cultivator’s confusion and helplessness.

After all, they had lived thousands of years but hadn’t achieved a fraction of what Shen Xu had in his less than one thousand years of life.

“We shouldn’t compare ourselves to Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan. Those two are monsters.” Another male cultivator said in a whisper.

However, these words immediately invigorated the surrounding cultivators.

“This fellow Daoist is right. We really shouldn’t compare ourselves to fellow Daoist Zhen and junior brother Shen.”

“We are just ordinary people. What are we doing comparing ourselves to monsters?”

“Exactly! It’s not our turn to compare ourselves to those two. In fact, we shouldn’t feel pressured. Those extraordinary geniuses should be the ones who feel pressured when they encounter monsters like fellow Daoist Zhen and junior brother Shen.”

“Now that you mention it…” Someone whispered and looked around before continuing.

“Do you think the two fellow Daoists Xuanyuan will be alright?”

“What do you mean?”

“Although I have never heard that either fellow Daoist Zhen or junior brother Shen can draw inscriptions or refine pills, we have previous experience to infer from. The two are probably very good at drawing inscriptions and refining pills.”

“Brother Tang is right. The Xuanyuan young sect masters may not have a good time when facing these two.”

“Maybe it will be the other way around, and the Xuanyuan siblings will somehow manage to redeem themselves.”

“Young master Xuanyuan is a prodigy in drawing inscriptions, and young miss Xuanyuan is an unparalleled alchemist. However, I have more faith in fellow Daoist Zhen and junior brother Shen. These ten challenges are nothing more than their own exhibition.”

“I also feel like we came here, not to watch a challenge but to watch those two show off.”

“Regardless of whether they win the remaining challenges, they can enter the treasure house to choose resources.”

“They have seven wins, which means seven treasures. Seven treasures are enough to help junior brother Shen break through to the Mahayana realm and for fellow Daoist Zhen to advance one or two small realms.”

“I am so envious.”

“What’s the use of being envious?” Someone asked and quickly continued.

“Fellow Daoist Zhen and junior brother Shen are at a level that we can’t reach even if we work like mules and run like horses.”

“It’s true. It’s really useless to envy them.”

After that, the surrounding spectators lost interest in talking and shifted their attention to the stage.

At this time, Shen Xu was attacking with a barrage of fists while Wang Kunpeng had shifted from defending and returned each fist with an attack of his own.

Wang Kunpeng’s Eagle Claws art had two moves.

The first move was the eagle grab that could clamp an opponent, immobilising them and causing serious damage to the grabbed part, while the second was the eagle tear.

Unlike the eagle clamp, the eagle tear turned the talons into sharp blades that could cut skin and bones.

For all intents, the eagle tear was a deadly move, and as he fought, Wang Kunpeng felt he would soon have no choice but to resort to a full-power eagle tear.

’Only a full power eagle tear can break junior brother Shen’s diamond jade defence.’ He thought.

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