Chapter 217 - 124: Embracing Pill Defeats Gang Force, Shocking the Entire Arena

Anyone else in this situation would have been utterly helpless.

His Fast Sword couldn’t pierce the Gang Force, and there was no time to retreat or dodge. The only option was to take the attack head-on.

But could an Embracing Pill Martial Artist truly withstand the swordsmanship of a Peak Gang Force Martial Artist?

The answer seemed obvious.

However, Zhang Su had no intention of dodging.

His eyes remained calm, without a trace of panic.

’My Wind and Thunder Sword Technique can’t pierce Gang Force?’

’I have more than just the Wind and Thunder Sword Technique.’

RUMBLE.

The next moment, the Pill Force within Zhang Su’s body erupted.

This was no ordinary eruption of Pill Force.

Instead, the Twelve-layered Dan Power burst forth with a roar.

The Twelve Layers Killing Sword had appeared once more!

This swordsmanship was one of the many Unparalleled Swordsmanship techniques he had cultivated back at the Guiyuan Sect.

The core of the Twelve Layers Killing Sword was to divide one’s Inner Strength into twelve layers. These layers were then stacked and unleashed simultaneously at the moment of the strike, creating a terrifying power far beyond the ordinary.

Previously, when Zhang Su cultivated the Great Three Yang Power and later the Yin Yang Mixture Strength, the Twelve Layers Killing Sword was already immensely powerful.

But now, the Inner Strength in his body had transformed into Pure Yang Force.

Pure Yang Force was the result of a six-in-one fusion, a perfect blend of yin and yang, with power that far surpassed the Yin Yang Mixture Strength.

The Shadow-Stealing Sword in Zhang Su’s hand instantly unleashed an utterly terrifying power.

Zhang Su’s Pill Force already possessed Hundredfold Power.

Adding the eruption of the Twelve-layered Dan Power on top of that...

The power of this strike was unimaginable.

In that instant, Chu Hanjiang felt a tremendous sense of crisis.

His Gang Force was vibrating.

This was what happened when it was struck by a force that far exceeded its limits.

Chu Hanjiang’s expression changed in an instant.

He wanted to retreat.

But it was too late.

Even his Gang Force, which had achieved the Unity of Inner and Outer, couldn’t block it.

Zhang Su simply put a little more force into the tip of his sword.

HISS.

A faint sound.

The sound was very quiet.

But to Chu Hanjiang’s ears, it was like a clap of thunder.

Chu Hanjiang’s expression changed drastically.

Because his Gang Force had been broken!

It had been directly pierced by Zhang Su’s sword.

The layer of Gang Force covering his throat was torn apart like a sheet of thin paper before the tip of Zhang Su’s sword.

The sharp edge of the blade instantly sliced open the skin on his throat.

A trickle of warm liquid seeped from the wound and ran down his neck.

The sword in his hand came to a halt.

The gleam of the sword dissipated; the spring rain ceased.

Blood seeped through the skin.

One drop, two drops, three drops...

It dripped onto the wooden planks of the platform, making a faint TAP... TAP... sound.

Chu Hanjiang didn’t dare to move.

Another twitch, and Zhang Su’s sword would pierce straight through his throat.

Chu Hanjiang could never have imagined that he would one day lose to an Embracing Pill Martial Artist.

He had roamed the Jianghu for over twenty years, seen countless experts, and survived innumerable life-and-death battles.

Yet the truth was right before his eyes.

Zhang Su truly had more than just his Fast Sword.

For a sword strike to unleash such terrifying power, especially from the hands of an Embracing Pill Martial Artist, was simply unheard of.

"I have lost..."

Chu Hanjiang let out a long sigh.

His voice was low, and a trace of dejection flickered in his eyes.

He knew that in today’s battle, his prestige, his reputation—everything—had been utterly lost.

A complete and utter defeat!

His painstakingly self-created Spring Rain Sword Technique, his prideful Gang Force, everything he had accumulated over twenty years of struggling in the Jianghu—in this moment, it all turned to nothing.

And Zhang Su, by stepping on his reputation, had just soared to the heavens!

An Embracing Pill Slash Gangjin—and against a Gang Force that had achieved the Unity of Inner and Outer, no less. He had never heard of such a thing.

It wasn’t that he’d never heard of it; it was that such a feat was simply too absurd. It was so absurd no one would believe it, so absurd that not even storytellers would dare to write it.

But now, this unbelievable thing had happened.

In the stands, the once-noisy crowd was now utterly silent.

The Martial Arts Arena, holding several thousand people, became as quiet as if it were completely empty.

Everyone stared at Zhang Su and Chu Hanjiang on the platform.

Their eyes were filled with utter shock.

"Chu Hanjiang... lost?"

A Five Elements Sect Disciple murmured to himself, his voice filled with disbelief.

"Zhang Su actually broke through Chu Hanjiang’s Gang Force? Is... is he still an Embracing Pill Martial Artist?"

The person next to him added, his voice trembling.

"Before this, Zhang Su had only ever used his Fast Sword, never any other swordsmanship. It wasn’t that he couldn’t, but that he simply never had to..."

A Medicine Valley disciple said slowly, his expression complex.

"First, as a Huajin, he slew an Embracing Pill. Now, as an Embracing Pill, he’s defeated a Gang Force... We were all wrong. Zhang Su didn’t get this far on luck. His strength is unfathomable!"

A Jianghu Cultivator let out a long breath.

At this moment, no one doubted the rumors that Zhang Su, as a Huajin practitioner, had slain an Embracing Pill practitioner.

A Huajin slaying an Embracing Pill.

An Embracing Pill defeating a Gang Force.

This was a feat that not even the Celestial Prides of the Three Sects had ever accomplished!