Bang!
As Li Hai’s steel whip shattered the ten-foot ground, he instantly soared into the sky, propelled by the recoil, shooting several hundred feet high in the blink of an eye.
Then, guided by his Level 3 Wild Intuition, he turned to face the southeast, his pupils contracted to pinpricks as he gazed ten miles away.
There, a blurry figure, back turned to Li Hai’s position, was rapidly fleeing into the distance at dozens of feet per second.
This frantically escaping figure was undoubtedly Zhou Hu.
“Heh, quick movements indeed. He ran so far in such a short time, but unfortunately… it’s meaningless.”
With a sneer, Li Hai spread his arms and wielded his whip, once again employing Dragon Overturning Water.
Boom!
Amidst a violent sonic boom and rolling Qi waves, he shot towards the direction of Zhou Hu’s escape like a swift arrow.
… …
“Faster, faster, faster!”
Zhou Hu glared, gritting his teeth, and ran frantically, not daring to look back even for a second, terrified that the slightest delay would cost him all hope of survival.
“Thousand Army Grade, it’s definitely Thousand Army Grade. Such a fierce and overbearing aura, only a Thousand Army Grade Martial Artist can achieve it! But that… that’s a Realm only my master possesses!”
He roared in his heart while desperately fleeing, “Li Hai… he’s so young, how could he Cultivate to such a terrifying Realm?! I must, I must quickly escape to my master. Now, only he… can deal with that fellow named Li!”
Whoosh—
Just as Zhou Hu was still fleeing, a long, crimson steel whip shot rapidly from behind, instantly piercing through his steel-hard back and chest, pinning him firmly to the ground.
“Ahhh! Li Hai!”
Zhou Hu, pinned like a pathetic grasshopper on the long steel whip, struggled to twist his head to look at the approaching person behind him, his legs completely numb, and roared ferociously, “You’re ruthless, Li Hai! You crippled half my body right away! Just you wait, my master will avenge me!”
“Your master?”
Li Hai, strolling casually from behind, asked unhurriedly, “Listening to you, he sounds very powerful.”
As he spoke, he looked up at Zhou Hu’s personal interface—
Character Name: Zhou Hu
Rank: Zhengchuan Martial Arts → Steel Tendons Iron Bones
Skills: “Four Directions Fist,” “Poison Imbuing Finger,” “Mystic Turtle Treasure Body,” “Wuxiang Sealing Technique,” “Spring Autumn Blade Arts”
Attribute Entries: 【Strong Soul Level 2】 【Strength Level 2】 【Toxicity Level 1】 【Iron Body Level 2】 【Technique Level 1】
Strongest Fragments: None
Zhou Hu had learned quite a few Cultivation Techniques, but among them, only “Mystic Turtle Treasure Body” and “Wuxiang Sealing Technique” were truly valuable.
The former was somewhat similar to “Iron Bucket Clockwork Manual,” a Cultivation Technique primarily focused on defense, but it was more profound and went further on the Martial Dao path. If Cultivated to Peak, it could even reach the Thousand Army Grade Realm that Li Hai was in.
As for the latter, it was a Cultivation Technique that neither enhanced attack nor defense, nor agility.
This Cultivation Technique was Throughout with the meaning of formlessness against form, formlessness through form, form through formlessness, and formlessness without color. And it had, and only had, one effect.
That is, when fighting others, the Cultivator of this Technique could, through the collision of fists, feet, and weapons, forcibly interfere with the opponent’s internal Qi circulation routes at various levels, thereby causing the enemy’s Qi operation to become chaotic and disordered, leading to a significant loss of combat power, or in severe cases, even a drop in Realm.
It is worth mentioning that after this Martial Dao secret Technique was Cultivated to Peak, it could also reach the Thousand Army Grade Realm.
However, Zhou Hu, who possessed these two Thousand Army Grade Cultivation Techniques, had not yet reached the Thousand Army Grade.
Therefore, it could be inferred that the person who taught him these two Cultivation Techniques should be the master he mentioned.
“Pah!”
Zhou Hu spat fiercely and sneered, “Li brat, do you think I’ll tell you? Just wait to be beaten to death by my master.”
Upon hearing this, Li Hai instantly crossed a dozen feet to Zhou Hu’s front, slapped him hard, and then coldly smiled:
“Zhou Hu, oh Zhou Hu, you’re in such a sorry state and still acting fierce. Who are you acting fierce for?”
Zhou Hu, with half his face swollen, spit out half a mouthful of teeth and cackled coldly:
“Hehehe~ I’ve been fierce for half my life, it’s more than enough. Do whatever you want, kill me if you please. If I so much as frown, I’ll take your last name.”
“Alright, you’re impressive!”
Li Hai gave him a thumbs-up, grinning, “But I’m always magnanimous, so I’ll give you a chance. As long as you disclose all information about Zhou Ruigen, I’ll spare your life.”
“You want to know about that old man?”
Zhou Hu was first stunned, then sneered, “Heh, don’t be delusional. Although I’m not on good terms with him, I can’t help an outsider. Go eat shit!”
“Alright, alright, you don’t want the last chance to live, do you?”
Li Hai’s smile vanished, and he said chillingly, “Then I’ll ‘entertain’ you in my own way.”
Listening to these words, an inexplicable fear rose in Zhou Hu’s heart.
It felt as if something terrible was about to happen to him.
“First, I have to cripple your Cultivation.”
Saying this, Li Hai slowly raised his right hand in front of Zhou Hu, bending his fingers and rotating his palm to form a hand seal that was extremely familiar to him, and subtly emitted an extremely mysterious fluctuation.
“Wuxiang Sealing Technique! How is that possible?!”
Zhou Hu shouted in shock, “This is my master’s ultimate Technique! Only he and I have learned it in this world! Where did you, you brat, learn it from?!”
“Where else could it be from?”
Li Hai smiled frankly, “Of course, I learned it from you. I just learned it. Anyone who appears before me, I can learn all their ultimate Techniques at a glance.”
“Impossible!” Zhou Hu roared, his eyes bloodshot, “What nonsense are you talking?! What the hell are you saying?!”
“It’s already good enough that I’m telling you this much.”
Li Hai chuckled, “As for the rest, you can guess it yourself.”
With that, he pressed a palm onto the opponent’s shoulder.
Buzz—
Instantly, Zhou Hu felt a cold and strange power penetrate his body, and in a short time, it spread through his fascia, muscles, and bones, shattering and severing all the trickling rivers of Qi flowing through these internal areas, turning them into chaotic, disconnected clumps of various sizes, like underground chicken coop coal.
Thus, a catastrophic chain reaction, like falling dominoes, immediately spread throughout Zhou Hu’s body.
And so, in an instant, Zhou Hu was severely wounded.
“Wah!”
Spitting out a large mouthful of almost boiling blood, Zhou Hu looked at Li Hai with bloodshot eyes, roaring in disbelief:
“You… completely sealed my Martial Dao Foundation with one move?! This, this is a miraculous ability only possessed by the highest Realm of Wuxiang Sealing Technique! Only my master has reached this Realm! You, you said you just learned it… How is that possible?!”
His mind was completely in chaos.