Chapter 2335 - 2070: Another State

The moment Ma Chao regained consciousness, he jumped off the stretcher and swung his fist at Zhang Fei, but unfortunately, he completely forgot what Zhang Zhongjing had said before.

As a result, Zhang Fei punched him right on his bald head, driving Ma Chao’s lower body into the ground like a nail.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this shiny bald head really suits you." After pressing Ma Chao half into the soil, Zhang Fei rubbed Ma Chao’s gleaming bald head, laughing as he spoke.

"Shiny, shiny bald head," Zhang Fei said with a mischievous laugh.

"One day I’ll kill you!" Ma Chao roared with anger. This was simply a great humiliation.

"It’s okay, it’ll grow back in a few days," Zhang Zhongjing said rather casually, "The cell activity of Inner Qi Manifestation is terrifying, hair grows quickly too, and with the intrinsic memory function of Inner Qi cells, self-recovery is very fast. Eat more food to nourish yourself, and it’ll recover even faster."

"But before that, let me feel your bald head again," Zhang Fei laughed heartily as he said, completely disregarding whether Ma Chao could accept it, and he just kept rubbing Ma Chao’s bald head.

"Eventually, I’m going to kill you!" Ma Chao yelled furiously.

"Feel free to challenge anytime, the bald head is quite nice, hahaha!" Zhang Fei spoke with unrestrained arrogance, "Don’t just talk about killing me, come on, welcome to challenge."

"Go to hell!" Ma Chao swung his fist, looking for trouble with Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei stood in place laughing wildly, completely ignoring Ma Chao’s attack.

Currently in a weakened state, Ma Chao didn’t even have the capability to break Zhang Fei’s defense.

"I’ll stand here and let you hit me, if I move, consider it my loss!" Zhang Fei felt the lightning released by Ma Chao and mocked him with a strange laugh. In Zhang Fei’s view, this electrotherapy device is really nice, using it for a long time can increase body activity and physical strength.

"That’s enough," Zhao Yun couldn’t bear to watch anymore, after all, it’s his brother-in-law, so he reached out and pulled Ma Chao up, "You can’t possibly beat him now. Before, he at least held back some strength, otherwise, you simply couldn’t escape the spatial distortion. With mere force, space can be distorted, if you take it, you’ll get crushed."

"Hey hey hey, Zilong, I’m not done playing yet?" Zhang Fei enjoyed the massage from the lightning, feeling quite comfortable, but now being taken away by Zhao Yun with the massage device, he spoke in dissatisfaction.

Zhao Yun looked at Zhang Fei speechlessly, "Yide, enough of this. The kind of moves you use aren’t something Meng Qi can withstand. You should practice on the battlefield. This kind of attack can easily be lethal, and you’re not even sparing the wounded now."

"Uh." Zhang Fei looked at Ma Chao, "Alright, I’ll spare him, hm, lucky!"

Zhao Yun shook his head. He saw clearly that Zhang Fei was just teasing Ma Chao, more importantly, at the moment, there’s still a large gap between Ma Chao and Zhang Fei. If it was an ordinary spar, it wouldn’t have much effect on Zhang Fei, and if they went all out, Ma Chao simply couldn’t handle it.

However, because of this, Zhao Yun couldn’t understand the meaning behind Zhang Fei teasing Ma Chao. It couldn’t be to simply kill Ma Chao, could it?

"Ah, just wait, once I’m recovered, I’m definitely going to seek revenge against you, ah ah ah!" As Ma Chao was pulled away by Zhao Yun, he continued to shout at Zhang Fei, not losing his spirit.

"Welcome to challenge, as long as you can hurt me, I’ll teach you how to integrate Essence, Qi, and Spirit," Zhang Fei said with a look of welcoming challenge, though perhaps he also felt he went a bit too far, planning to compensate Ma Chao.

"Yide, can you manage the transformation of Essence, Qi, and Spirit?" After Ma Chao was dragged away, Huang Zhong stepped forward with slight curiosity and asked.

"No, but now I can already use Spirit to bind Inner Qi, then forcibly infuse into the body, making the body the foundation to unify Essence, Qi, and Spirit, unleashing ultimate power. So, General Huang, do you want to spar a bit?" Zhang Fei stroked his bushy beard, curiously inquired.

Huang Zhong is very skilled, but exactly how skilled is hard for Zhang Fei to determine. However, the troublesome nature of Huang Zhong’s son is something Zhang Fei is very aware of.

"Would be good to feel it, spar a bit, then we’ll go drill the soldiers. My legion doesn’t quite know how to proceed," Huang Zhong thought for a moment, deciding to feel Zhang Fei’s power.

The words from earlier were actually said offhandedly by Zhang Fei. Right now, he couldn’t continue sparring; his power, when not fully controlled, can easily deliver lethal strikes.

"Rest assured, I am not like Meng Qi, you can freely exert yourself," Huang Zhong, being inherently wise, instantly understood Zhang Fei’s thought process. Yet Huang Zhong was very confident in his own strength, although he’s been troubled by his son for twenty years, his capability is assured.

If someone else said it, Zhang Fei surely wouldn’t believe, yet Huang Zhong’s words and strength held a lot of persuasion, thus Zhang Fei immediately went out to spar with Huang Zhong.

When sparring with Ma Chao, Zhang Fei was unarmed; however, with Huang Zhong he couldn’t play like that, switching to the Eighteen-foot Long Serpent Spear. After exchanging dozens of moves, both went at full intensity, after surpassing a hundred moves, all the masters of Ye City gathered on the city walls to watch.

Subsequently, Zhang Fei decisively performed his strongest strike with no reserve, the Eighteen-foot Long Serpent Spear practically unleashed a black dragon that tore through the Sky Dome.

The moment when Huang Zhong, locked on by Zhang Fei, launched his strike, he was directly twisted into a funhouse mirror state, and then flew backwards like a meteor.

"Was I like this before?" Ma Chao’s eyelids twitched twice as he asked.

"No, you were much better. At least you broke free from that twisted space, whereas General Huang took the hit directly." Zhao Yun said with a serious expression.

"Uh, he should be able to dodge, right?" Ma Chao said incredulously.

"He can’t dodge." Zhao Yun shook his head and said, "When it was your turn, Yide did hold back, but against General Huang, he used full force, the space where General Huang stood had already twisted into a vortex like a water stream, the power of that vortex alone was enough to cause you fatal injury."

"Is the gap really that big?" Ma Chao said, shocked.

"This already belongs to a true Breakthrough Level attack." Zhao Yun said with a solemn expression.

"Then General Huang won’t..." Ma Chao found it hard to continue.

"He’ll be fine, my father is very strong!" Huang Xu interrupted Ma Chao’s words without hesitation, and said with great confidence, just like Lyu Bu’s daughter, he had absolute invincible confidence in his father.

As the black light that shot into the sky turned into a small dot in everyone’s eyes, a kind of icy radiance suddenly exploded, and then, before anyone understood what happened, the originally white-haired Huang Zhong flew back in a different form.

If it weren’t for everyone knowing that Huang Zhong’s set of armor and weapon were cherished treasures unchanged for decades, they would have all doubted if this was really Huang Zhong.

The young man who flew back bore a nine-tenths resemblance to Huang Xu, carrying the Red Blood Knife in his right hand, his youthful and robust body exuded a cold aura, and his eyes were no longer normal black pupils but turned into a frosty transparent color, the surrounding air seemed to have solidified.

"Are you Huang Hansheng?" Zhang Fei looked at the middle-aged man in front of him in disbelief, who seemed only 24 or 25 years old, Huang Zhong’s age was instantly halved.

"Without this state, I couldn’t withstand your move, yours was not a friendly duel, it was a killing strike." At this moment Huang Zhong was extremely indignant, he was extremely confident in his own strength, but was nearly knocked out by Zhang Fei in one move.

"I didn’t want to either, but when using full force it’s hard for me to retract my power." Zhang Fei said awkwardly, but he had already mentioned before that he couldn’t control it, Huang Zhong invited him for the duel.

"Forget it, I’m not fighting anymore." Huang Zhong said with a black face, and flew away directly, if he hadn’t released his complete Breakthrough state, he would have been shattered in that instant, more importantly, Zhang Fei using the Union of Essence, Qi, and Spirit had no reference value for him.

"Hey, hey, hey, don’t leave." Zhang Fei chased after him.

"Zilong, what is General Huang’s situation now?" Chen Xi asked puzzled.

"Hmm, General Huang is currently in a Breakthrough State, and it seems that there’s no problem in his control of power or other aspects, he seems to be completely stabilized at this level like Marquis Wenn." Zhao Yun said, observing Huang Zhong with some confusion.

"Henghengheng, I knew my dad was amazing." Huang Xu said, crossing his arms, he’d seen his father’s state like this before.

"Come back with me, you little brat!" No sooner had Huang Xu finished speaking, Huang Zhong appeared behind him, slapping him on the back of the head, taking him away directly.

"I always feel like something’s not right." After jumping onto the city wall, Zhang Fei scratched his head and said.

"Huang Hansheng severed his path for his offspring, but as he was once the strongest, his talents and insights were beyond imagination." Hann Qiong slowly emerged from Chen Xi’s shadow.

"What, Uncle Master, do you know what’s going on?" Zhao Yun asked curiously.

"Hmm, after cutting off his own path, only a few years later he found another way. By relying on his once abandoned Ice Attribute Inner Qi, he completed another kind of Union of Essence, Qi, and Spirit breakthrough but it’s unclear what type of breakthrough, it should be considered a Qi Burst Boundary." Hann Qiong spoke with a certain thoughtfulness.

"I understand." Zhao Yun quickly reacted, "No wonder he wants to spar with you, because your method is also a union of three paths, but he has injected the Divine Attribute into the Ice Attribute Inner Qi, and then sealed his body with Ice Attribute power."

"However, saying so, it’s still somewhat not quite right..." Zhao Yun frowned and said.

"Actually it’s correct, Wang Yue and he likely referenced the methods of immortals, they should both have restrained their body’s vitality, erupting into a youthful state when needed, and relying on the explosive power of their youthful bodies to tear open the barrier of Inner Qi Manifestation and directly enter Breakthrough Level. Nevertheless, it’s obvious that Huang Hansheng’s method is more perfect, worthy of being the most talented of our generation." Hann Qiong said with reverence.