Chapter 691: Vast as a River, Profound as an Abyss! (Part 2)

The browless Vajra, Zhao Lei, crossed several dozen feet in just a few steps to appear before Su Mu, his steel-like heavy fist descending fiercely without any flourish towards Su Mu.

The furious power tore through the sky, turning into exploding turbulent flows. A punch was hurled like a crushing small mountain!

Zhao Lei and Wang Heng both trained in cross-training martial arts. During Wang Heng’s initial advancement to a Half-Step Grandmaster, Zhao Lei had challenged him on the island due to dissatisfaction. Naturally, Zhao Lei lost that battle, but in terms of cross-training martial arts expertise, Zhao Lei could still hold his ground above Wang Heng, showcasing his mastery in the field.

Five Animals Qigong: Wild Bear Shakes the Mountain!

The Qi and Blood surged within Su Mu, facing this punch fiercer than that of the old villain Gongyang, Su Mu couldn’t help but feel exhilarated at the hunt. He restrained some Profound Demon Gang and responded upfront with a punch without dodging!

“Roar!”

This punch made no distinct sound, yet Zhao Lei heard an extremely violent roar of a wild bear explode in his ears. The fairly lean-looking person before him seemed to truly transform into an enraged wild bear, with a momentum so intense it overwhelmed Zhao Lei’s first striking punch!

“Boom——!”

Two heavy fists collided fiercely, the intense explosion like thunder from a clear sky, whipping up gales all around them. The ground beneath them sank and caved in, as if hammered into a deep pit by a weight of a hundred thousand catties.

Off the stage, Quan Feng, who was retrieving a Divine Arm Crossbow inscribed fully with inscriptions, and an arrow with a ghostly green tip, was taken aback, his expression moved. It was hard to imagine this was the power erupted from two flesh and blood bodies!

In the pit, both of their bodies trembled simultaneously. The first collision seemed to be evenly matched, with neither party gaining the upper hand.

“This person’s mastery in cross-training is almost comparable to mine!”

Zhao Lei sensed every inch of his flesh, especially the fierce feedback from his right arm, hit with alertness but was more delighted. The person before him was incredibly tough; his nearly full-force blow was taken head-on.

Su Mu lightly shook out his right fist from the clash, his whole body a little trembling, not from panic or fear, but excitement!

Previously in the Cyan Fish Hall, he had directly challenged the advancing Half-Step Grandmaster Gongyang Jue and violently crushed Gongyang Jue, who cultivated extremely fierce martial arts, to death.

Since then, Su Mu had made considerable progress, mastering the second turn of the Three-Turn Dragon Elephant Skill and condensing the second complete dragon-elephant inscription, increasing his Qi power by forty thousand catties.

This was just the regular increase in Qi power. If the dragon-elephant inscription was fully activated, the additional forty thousand catties could even be doubled!

Moreover, during that period when Su Mu was preparing pills for the auction, he did not neglect cultivation. He consumed each top-grade Three-Turned Qi and Blood Pill like candy.

In recent times, Su Mu made significant advancements in aspects of Qi blood and Flood Dragon Shocking Skill!

The strength of Su Mu’s flesh was so great that even Cyan Fish Gang’s Great Elder, Qiu Mountain, was astonished, declaring that Su Mu’s flesh completely surpassed the category of Fourth-Grade Martial Artist and had already entered the Half-Step Grandmaster Realm.

To be above Fourth-Grade, but below Third-Grade Grandmaster!

For a true Martial Arts Grandmaster to give such high praise, it’s obvious Su Mu’s physical prowess was formidable.

“This person has considerable expertise in cross-training martial arts…an unexpected delight.”

A gleam of joy flashed in Su Mu’s eyes, intending to exchange a few more moves with the person in front. In the Cyan Fish Gang, Great Elder Qiu Mountain was already depleted, making Su Mu reluctant to seek practical guidance and fearing to delay his eldest brother Baili Feng’s Little Yellow Court.

Today was a perfect time to assess, before entering the Little Vajra Secret Realm, to see what state his own fleshly body had reached.

At this moment, both people were secretly delighted, Su Mu unfalteringly continued after the clash, his left hand fingers merged into a sharp knife, fiercely stabbing towards Zhao Lei’s abdomen.

Five Animals Qigong: Mysterious Sparrow Opens the Governing Vessel!

Su Mu still hadn’t used any Grade-Entering Martial Arts, only employing the Five Animals Qigong’s basic moves, which he had long since mastered and didn’t stick strictly to the form but emphasized the intention over the form!

“Puff!”

The hand blade hitting the abdomen, which had a heavy metallic luster and was covered with the Fourth-Grade Ink Scale Profound Armor, didn’t have the hard impact sensation of metal strike as imagined.

Instead, when it struck the abdomen, there was a sensation of softness like a knife entering a quagmire, neutralizing much of Su Mu’s palm blade force, even rebounding some of it back.

Seizing this gap, a large hand, like a steel claw, boldly reached out to grab Su Mu’s wrist.

“Humph!”

Zhao Lei scoffed lightly, carrying a hint of arrogance and disdain, seeming to mock Su Mu’s youth. Zhao Lei had cultivated cross-training martial arts to a level far beyond common reach, his muscles moved by thought, hard as iron, invulnerable.

The muscles and bones at this time were as soft as a mass of cotton, able to transform fierce heavy blows, reaching the profound realm of combining hardness with softness. This was why Zhao Lei was able to retreat intact even after losing to the Half-Step Grandmaster Wang Heng in a challenge.

“Boom boom boom——!”

Su Mu was restrained by one arm but did not actively struggle to break free. Instead, he directly used his free right arm to punch out while Zhao Lei’s eyes blazed, also punching back fiercely.

Within a few breaths, the two exchanged no less than twenty punches.

Whoosh!

Just as the two were engaging in a heated physical battle, a ghostly green arrow tore through the air with a howl. It was the cold arrow from Quan Feng’s Soul-Shattering Arrow.

The arrowhead, ghostly green, was coated with a deadly poison personally concocted by Quan Feng, capable of bringing even a Half-Step Grandmaster to ruin if struck.

The poisonous arrow grazed past, embedding its arrowhead into the rocky ground, causing the brown rock surface to instantly reveal a trace of worry.

“What a pity… Why must you force me!”

Having dodged the arrow and sensed the fierce poison on the arrowhead, even Su Mu frowned slightly, letting out a faint sigh despite himself.

“Dodge as much as you can. Let’s see how many arrows you can evade!”

Having missed the shot, Quan Feng quickly drew five more arrows. The Divine Arm Crossbows in the hands of the four beside him were already poised to strike. At this moment, in his eyes, Su Mu’s exquisite body technique was difficult to fully utilize with one arm restrained by Zhao Lei.

To dodge one arrow was already by luck. Now he was like fish on a chopping board, only waiting for Quan Feng to butcher it.

“Hell Prison Skill·Bone-Shattering Pulse!”

Zhao Lei suddenly exerted force, choking Su Mu’s left arm, then raised his bare right hand, its fierce aura chilling to the core, striking down from above once again.

In that instant, the Divine Arm Crossbows fired simultaneously, and Quan Feng’s bowstring trembled as his wrist flicked quickly. Five venom-dripping arrows shot in a sly, sinister angle simultaneously.

With Sea Tide Gang Leader Zhao Lei in close-range restraint, four Divine Arm Crossbows, and Quan Feng’s five sequential arrows attacking simultaneously, the pupils of two wretched sea pirates in the storage room contracted sharply. This was undoubtedly the biggest formation they feared they had ever witnessed.

The two swallowed hard, despair filling their eyes. From their perspective, in such a situation, even among the top three of the Thirteen Great Pirates, anyone who fell into this plight likely couldn’t endure and would meet their end alone today.

Once Su Mu died, Quan Feng would inevitably kill them both to avoid responsibility.

“Damn it!”

“It’s over, everything is ending!”

Just as the two sea pirates believed Su Mu was doomed, Su Mu felt the blood in his veins boiling, his battle intent ablaze, and his warm-up about to conclude!

He suddenly opened his mouth, releasing a long roar from his throat, like a thunderbolt descending from the nine heavens upon Profound Turtle Island, instantly spreading over ten miles, even reaching the auction hall far away, where the battling parties heard it!

“What’s that noise?”

In a moment, the combat teams, blinded by fury in the ruins of the auction hall, were subconsciously thrown into trance together, instinctively turning to look in the direction of the long roar.

“Rumble!”

Su Mu’s long black hair billowed wildly, and from every inch of his flesh and blood, each pore, a tumultuous surge of Qi blood and Profound Demon Gang gushed forth, like colossal waves engulfing the entire dark chamber.

A heavy and violent pressure crushed everyone in the secret chamber!

Everyone seemed like lone boats amidst the monstrous waves.

The Qi blood vast as rivers, the Profound Demon Gang deep as an abyss!

Zhao Lei and Quan Feng’s expressions completely changed, now like cats whose tails have been stepped on, their unease and trepidation escalating to the extreme in an instant.

This caused them to feel a crisis more intense than facing any single one of Liu Sha, Dugu Lie, or Wang Heng!

The two couldn’t imagine that a Martial Artist, who had not displayed the Three Flowers throughout, could have Qi blood and Gang Force so vigorous and unfathomable!