Chapter 575 - 252: Not Bad
Chapter 575: Chapter 252: Not Bad
BOOM!!!
A violent roar suddenly thundered across the docks.
Tyrannical True Qi spread out in all directions, forcing the grass and trees to bow and sending shockwaves across the sea.
Saint Mother Chaoyin’s followers retreated one after another, their figures flickering like candles in the wind.
The expressions of Suhe Lan and Luo Shuqing changed drastically. Before Suhe Lan could even react, Luo Shuqing grabbed her by the shoulder, and they shot backward in a flash.
"You!"
Suhe Lan stared in disbelief at the usually harmless Luo Shuqing.
Luo Shuqing ignored her. With a single wave of her arm, she swept aside the powerful gust of wind, then fixed her gaze on Fang Shuwen and Suhe Zhen.
A large crater had been smashed into the ground. Amidst the flying rubble, Suhe Zhen was pinned inside the pit by Fang Shuwen.
"Hm?"
Fang Shuwen raised a slight eyebrow. From within the crater, Suhe Zhen suddenly twisted, his legs coiling like a dragon around Fang Shuwen’s arm.
Fang Shuwen simply swung his arm, bringing a palm down in a flash.
But in the instant before it could strike Suhe Zhen, the palm’s momentum and the blur of the kick suddenly slipped past each other.
"Oh?"
Fang Shuwen was a little surprised.
Just then, their energies had been locked together, yet his was naturally guided away. The subtlety of the force was truly a rare sight.
Suhe Zhen seized the opportunity. He slapped a hand on the ground, flipped himself upright, and landed gracefully on his feet.
He took a wide horse stance, guiding his palms from left to right. As his Palm Technique shifted, the whistling sound of ocean waves gradually grew louder.
A deep, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, like muffled thunder, pressed down on the area.
This was the very same Sea-Overturning, Heaven-Swirling Palm he had demonstrated in the square before Bolan Hall!
This Palm Technique was one conceived amidst the raging waves of a furious sea. When used, even in the initial stage of gathering Palm Power, it stirred up a tempest within a ten-zhang radius.
But the Suhe Zhen of today was different. He had somehow received an immense benefit from Suhe Chen.
His Inner Strength was actually growing with every passing moment. The oppressive aura he emanated had already doubled, and now, as he wielded this Palm Technique, vortexes suddenly erupted within a thirty-five-zhang radius!
The ground was a storm of flying sand and rolling stones. Never mind an ordinary person; even an expert with profound Inner Strength would find it impossible to remain standing.
The men in black from Saint Mother Chaoyin’s side were caught in the pull of this True Qi. Their bodies lifted involuntarily from the ground and were dragged toward the vortexes at the center of the field.
Cries of alarm and screams of pain rose and fell in succession.
The surface of the sea was no calmer. The thirty-five-zhang area covered a corner of the ocean, stirring up vortexes and ripples. Water was drawn from the sea by the Palm Power, coalescing in midair into pillars that radiated a biting wind.
Suhe Zhen’s mind was focused. He paid no mind to these changes, his eyes fixed only on Fang Shuwen in the distance.
The wind stirred the corners of Fang Shuwen’s robes and lifted strands of his hair, but that was all.
Suhe Zhen looked away, his consciousness gradually sinking into his Martial Arts.
An emerald-green, translucent orb suddenly materialized behind Suhe Zhen.
This was an Azure Pearl of the Green Wave, condensed by Tingtiao Pavilion’s Sect’s Divine Skill, the Nine Heavens Green Wave Divine Technique!
One, two, three... seven!
Seven Azure Pearls of the Green Wave floated behind him, endless waves churned beneath his feet, and his palms swirled with the power of a tsunami!
At this moment, Suhe Zhen had used every trick up his sleeve.
Today, he intended to use this ultimate art of Tingtiao Pavilion to test the Martial Arts of Fang Shuwen, the Human World Demon God.
Fang Shuwen stood with one hand behind his back, letting the surrounding whirlwind buffet his robes.
His other hand, without any fancy flourish, simply clenched into a fist!
VMMMM!!
The instant his five fingers tightened, all the whirlwinds gathered within the thirty-five-zhang radius seemed to pause for a moment.
Suhe Zhen’s head snapped up. He immediately brought his palms together before his chest, and all the surrounding wind, along with the seawater from the ocean, converged between them.
The next moment, he thrust his palms forward.
The seven Azure Pearls of the Green Wave behind him released streams of True Qi that connected to Suhe Zhen’s acupoints!
Mixed with the roar of a tsunami, it kicked up a world-shaking wave, hurtling toward Fang Shuwen with crushing force.
Sea-Overturning, Heaven-Swirling Palm—Sea Rises and Heaven Pales!
At that same instant, Fang Shuwen’s fist shot out.
Sea-Shaking Divine Fist—Eight-Direction Burst!
The wind and rain from all eight directions, all contained in a single punch!
BOOM!!!
The two colossal forces collided.
Through the eyeholes of her mask, a look of horror flashed in Luo Shuqing’s eyes.
Without a second thought, she once again grabbed Suhe Lan’s shoulder. With a pivot of her foot, a cyan light flared like a sunset glow, and in an instant, the two of them were over thirty zhang away.
Suhe Lan gasped.
"Qingxiao Pavilion’s ’A Leaf Across a Thousand Miles’?"
That was an ultimate technique of Qingxiao Pavilion, recorded only in their Sect’s Divine Skill, the Upper Celestial Treasure Record. In other words, only the Pavilion Master of Qingxiao Pavilion could cultivate it.
Luo Shuqing actually knew this Lightweight Technique?
’She’s hidden herself far deeper than I ever imagined.’
But as fast as "A Leaf Across a Thousand Miles" was, it still couldn’t outpace the explosive clash between these two great masters.
A terrifying force swept out in all directions. Sand and stones flew as the sheer power peeled the ground up, a layer of earth rolling outward like a carpet.
But Luo Shuqing suddenly stopped.
"Something’s wrong... that’s only your father’s Inner Strength."
Suhe Lan froze. ’Something about that doesn’t sound right,’ she thought.
Just then, a loud BANG! erupted.
It sounded as if something had been abruptly blown apart, followed immediately by a VMMM.