I Can See Your Combat Power-Chapter 1004 - 298 All Failures Can Make You Stronger

Chapter 1004: Chapter 298: All Failures Can Make You Stronger

Chapter 1004: Chapter 298: All Failures Can Make You Stronger

As a martial arts scholar, Ji Chen was naturally full of curiosity about this unprecedented style of boxing. However, there are many ways to satisfy one’s curiosity, and experiencing it with one’s body is certainly the most direct yet also the most dangerous method.

Yet, as an emissary of the Lingxiao Sect, he truly couldn’t refuse such a request. As a Han Family disciple who had already used a secret technique and invoked the Undying Battle Body, lacking the courage to face a punch would not only bring shame upon his sect but also disgrace the Han Family.

Therefore, even though he knew the danger involved, Ji Chen still nodded and replied, “Since the Saint Child has requested it, Ji is pleased to comply with such an esteemed challenge!”

Ji Chen, transformed into a blood-red giant, focused his strength on his thick right arm. The crimson energies, like blood serpents, once again erupted, coiling around his waist; the Blood Dragon, as if hearing a call, slithered to Ji Chen’s right arm, wrapping tightly around it.

Through his right arm, a surging blood qi seeped in through the pores. The dragon turned into a red glow, imprinting itself on Ji Chen’s right arm, which then swelled even larger. A dragon pattern coiled around its length, its head resting on the back of Ji Chen’s hand, mouth wide open, revealing chillingly sharp Dragon Fangs.

Raising his right arm, patterned like a dragon totem, the blood-red giant took a step forward onto the climbing platform, the Blood Dragon on his side hooking into action like a hurricane, sweeping toward Tang Luo. The Blood Dragon roared, and the Zen vibrations scattered in every direction. This punch, which was a powerful fusion of martial strength, physical power, and Spiritual Power, left Ji Chen’s face neither sad nor happy as he delivered the unstoppable strike toward Tang Luo’s location.

Already prepared, Tang Luo met the punch with a smile, raising his right fist to greet it.

The blood-colored arm with the dragon pattern and Tang Luo’s divine ape long arm met in mid-air. Their power exploded on impact, creating a fierce vacuum from their colliding forces. All Spiritual Power and Primary Qi were expelled, and the mighty energy blew away all insufficiently skilled Lingxiao Sect disciples near the climbing platform, even affecting the Lingxiao Sect elders watching from afar.

Just one exchange of punches on the platform whipped up a storm, with stone tables and pavilions toppling over. The onlookers were dumbstruck, about to cheer for the victory of their sect’s emissary, when suddenly they saw the mighty Blood Dragon arm twist grotesquely, like a pig’s heart bursting open.

Torn muscles and a mist of blood scattered everywhere, and Ji Chen was sent flying by the surging power, slamming into a mountain wall and rendered motionless.

“How could this be!?”

The disciples of Lingxiao Sect were horrified and glared angrily at Tang Luo on the platform. Everyone knew that no matter the combination of powers, it was all released in one burst.

Even if there were secret techniques involving multiple bursts, in the end, it was just dividing a single force into several bursts. Since it was a promise of one punch and Ji Chen, in his form of a blood giant, had already met one punch, he should have won.

What was the meaning of this second burst!

The disciples of Lingxiao Sect thought Tang Luo had played foul, and were about to curse when they heard the sound of rocks falling from the mountain wall. Ji Chen, holding his twisted right arm, returned smiling bitterly through the air, saying, “Saint Child’s punch embodied the profound change of ‘extremes of yang producing yin,’ for which I am truly thankful for the lesson. In this bout, Ji admits defeat, thoroughly convinced!”

The principle that strength cannot be maintained forever is well known— the more forceful the power, the more one must be mindful of the potential to be left powerless afterward, as even young martial arts students can expound. The same is true for masters specializing in powerful physical techniques. If masters of soft techniques take an endless and persistent path, then masters of forceful techniques tread a path of swift, combined strikes.

When grandmasters of rigid techniques clash, they usually know the gap between them after just one punch, whereas masters of soft techniques often exchange dozens of moves before discerning the subtleties of the other’s skills.

Although both are physical techniques, with intensive study, they diverge greatly. Through the ages, many have tried to integrate the yin and yang, to balance hardness with softness, yet most grandmasters end up empty-handed. Some even fall into unshakable melancholy for not finding their way forward.

However, amidst the crisscrossing of punches just now, Ji Chen clearly sensed a fusion of yin and yang in Tang Luo’s fist. Beyond the sturdy strength, there was also a sense of unending softness.

The reason he was sent flying wasn’t due to a second burst of power from Tang Luo, but because his own power was depleting rapidly upon the clash of fists, while his opponent’s strength grew stronger. If he had retreated with the surging power, he could have withdrawn safely, but they had agreed to a fair exchange of punches; retreating would mean defeat, so he chose to infuse Spiritual Power and persevere, leading to the outcome at hand.

But the greatest advantage of using the body to “listen” to the power is that Ji Chen also understood the reason why Tang Luo was able to achieve the union of yin and yang.

Just now, when he was thrust into the mountainside, his dumbfounded state wasn’t due to being shocked by the strength, but after completing the punch, Ji Chen vaguely felt that the softness in the opponent’s punch wasn’t derived from soft power but had evolved from hard power.

It could be called soft power but was actually hard power; described as hard power, yet it somehow carried the attributes of soft power. This force, seemingly yin yet not and yang but not, appeared to open a doorway to a new world for him, clarifying many issues that had long troubled him.

The true transmission is a single phrase; the false transmission fills thousands of books. For someone as perceptive as Ji Chen, just a clue is enough for him to unravel a whole world.

Although he lost the contest, what he gained was even more than victory, so despite the severe injuries, he remained calm and immensely grateful.

Astute as Tang Luo was, he naturally understood that their recent exchange of punches had led to some insight for Ji Chen, though not yet to the level of the essence where yin and yang are one, still within the realm of yin and yang changes.

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But to see someone who could improve just from a brief encounter was a first for him: “Ji Chen has an exceptionally high capacity for comprehension, to gain insight from a single exchange is truly admirable. I believe it won’t be long before another breakthrough. I offer my congratulations in advance.”

After a few courteous words, Tang Luo retreated to the spectator platform. As soon as he sat down, he heard Ji Fu’s transmission asking, “How does Lingxiao Sect’s enforcer compare to the Sacred Land Sects’ Dao Child enforcer?”

“Stronger than the sect’s, yet weaker than the Sacred Land’s,” Tang Luo replied without a change in expression, transmitting back, “Ji Chen’s level of martial prowess is roughly equivalent to Qilin Mountain’s Dao Child Bu Lin, only slightly older in age.”

“I understand,” Ji Fu responded with a calm exterior, but his heart was stirring with waves. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a transmission from a spy behind him.

“Reporting to the Saint Child, we have found Ji Yongchen in Mang Mountain territory. He has been turned into a white zombie. From the techniques seen, it greatly resembles the unique Corpse Refining art of the Corpse Monk Gu Han, protector of the Ancient Blood Tower.”