Chapter 198: Quickly Seeing Through
The expressions of the surrounding students of the Flowing Cloud Martial Arts Hall instantly became extremely strange.
As the only heir of the Xue family, Xue Zhengming had started to come into contact with the A-rank external martial technique, the Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm, from the beginning.
As for Chu Nan, everyone knew very well that he was only from an ordinary farmer’s family. No matter how outstanding his performance was in the past, it was an obvious weakness in cultivation methods and martial techniques.
The martial arts competition with his fellow disciples just now had even more obvious flaws in his external martial techniques. Apart from the Wind God’s Forest Crossing Leg Technique that he should have obtained from Mu Yutong, which was not bad, there was nothing special about it.
Now, Xue Zhengming wanted Chu Nan to give up the greatest advantage of the Nine Revolutions Technique and use an external martial technique that he was not good at to compete. Wasn’t this… a little shameless?
Chu Nan also looked at Xue Zhengming with a strange expression.
However, what he thought was completely different from the surrounding students.
He was originally worried about how to fight Xue Zhengming for a period of time without letting the surrounding martial arts students see that he was going easy on him. He did not expect that Xue Zhengming would actually make such a request.
Only using external martial techniques to spar?
That was simply the best!
“Could this guy read my mind?”
Seeing Chu Nan looking at him strangely, Xue Zhengming could not help but avoid his gaze and look at Curator Jiang.
The reason why he said this was because of what Curator Jiang had told him on the way.
However, looking at Chu Nan’s reaction now, he probably would not agree.
Seeing Xue Zhengming look over, Curator Jiang nodded at him. Clearly, he wanted him to persist in doing this.
Xue Zhengming could only helplessly retract his gaze and look at Chu Nan again.
“Cough… Chu Nan, you…”
“Alright.”
As soon as Xue Zhengming spoke, Chu Nan nodded with a smile and agreed.
Not only was Xue Zhengming stunned, but the surrounding martial arts students were also stunned.
Chu Nan actually agreed?
Did he not know that Xue Zhengming’s Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm was a powerful external martial technique that was rated as an A-rank?
No, he definitely knew. Otherwise, he would not have said that he wanted to challenge Xue Zhengming.
From the looks of it, Chu Nan might have specially come to challenge Xue Zhengming for the Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm.
This guy… should he be said to be confident or arrogant?
Under the gazes of the students, Chu Nan and Xue Zhengming took two steps back and assumed a posture.
After all, Xue Zhengming had practiced martial arts since he was young and had fought countless times. No matter how complicated his mood was earlier, he immediately calmed down as soon as the battle began. When he saw Chu Nan putting on a defensive posture, he slapped him without holding back.
As soon as he slapped out, palm shadows immediately appeared. The palm looked unpredictable, making it impossible to guess where his attack landed. It was obvious at a glance that it was a good palm technique.
However, Chu Nan glanced and frowned slightly.
His figure moved, and when Xue Zhengming approached, he threw a punch.
Slap!
Chu Nan’s punch actually found his true body in the countless palm shadows and accurately struck Xue Zhengming’s palm.
Neither side used their Internal Breath. When their fists collided, they could only rely on their physical strength to face it head-on.
After all, Xue Zhengming was a second-stage Internal Breath Martial Artist, and Chu Nan was only an initial-stage Internal Breath Martial Artist. Therefore, Xue Zhengming had the advantage in terms of physical strength.
However, Chu Nan relied on his powerful data ability to better unleash his physical strength. He was much stronger than Xue Zhengming in this aspect.
This way, the two sides were evenly matched, and their bodies shook slightly.
Xue Zhengming’s palm was blocked by Chu Nan and a trace of surprise flashed through his eyes. He flipped his wrist and his palm fell. He raised it in the opposite direction and slapped Chu Nan’s lower abdomen.
This palm strike did not produce thousands of palm shadows like the previous palm strike, but although it seemed to be aimed at Chu Nan’s lower abdomen, in fact, he could see countless subsequent changes with a glance.
“Alright!”
Chu Nan cried out in a low voice and calculated all the subsequent changes in his mind. However, he could not immediately guess Xue Zhengming’s intentions and could only take a step back and observe the situation.
Seeing Chu Nan retreat, Xue Zhengming took a step forward with his left foot and leaned forward. The palm that slapped at his lower abdomen rose again. Countless palm shadows appeared, causing others to be unable to guess where he was attacking.
Chu Nan could only retreat again.
Xue Zhengming pressed forward step by step and slapped again.
Chu Nan’s eyes focused as he raised his hand and threw a punch back.
Xue Zhengming’s palm quickly changed. It bypassed Chu Nan’s counterattack and slapped the empty space in his chest.
Fortunately, Chu Nan’s punch completely followed the principle of “if the momentum is not halted, the strength can’t be exhausted”. When he saw the change in the momentum of Xue Zhengming’s palm, he retracted his arm and counterattacked with another punch.
However, he did not expect that Xue Zhengming’s palm would change again when it was almost impossible. He no longer slapped Chu Nan’s chest but flipped his wrist and slapped his right arm.
This change was completely beyond Chu Nan’s expectations. If not for his extremely fast reaction and immediately retracting his right arm, Xue Zhengming’s palm would have slapped his right arm without any tricks.
If that was the case, he had undoubtedly lost.
Chu Nan took two steps back with a happy expression.
The Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm was indeed worthy of being an A-rank external martial technique. Its exquisiteness far exceeded the Wind God’s Forest Crossing Leg Technique.
When Xue Zhengming saw that he had forced Chu Nan back again, he was overjoyed and immediately slapped him again.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
The two of them exchanged blows, and in a moment, they had exchanged more than a hundred moves.
In the beginning, Chu Nan was only forced to retreat by Xue Zhengming and could occasionally counterattack.
However, after a while, the frequency of Chu Nan’s counterattacks clearly increased. He could even often find his true body in the palm shadows and punch his palm.
The surrounding martial arts students were all shocked.
Chu Nan was actually able to find the correct way to deal with Xue Zhengming’s Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm in such a short period of time. It was simply unbelievable!
Was this guy’s martial arts talent really that terrifying?
In comparison, Xue Zhengming, who was fighting, was much more direct than them.
In the beginning, he could still easily suppress Chu Nan and force him to retreat and dodge.
However, not long after, Chu Nan could already counterattack often.
Now, Chu Nan could actually perfectly find his true move hidden in the palm shadows and grasp his intention to attack as if he had completely seen through him.
Slap!
Chu Nan threw another punch and happened to hit Xue Zhengming’s palm.
After the fist and palm collided, Chu Nan retreated a few meters and looked at Xue Zhengming from afar before shaking his head.
“Xue Zhengming, other than you, is there anyone else in your martial arts hall who cultivates the Flowing Cloud Indefinite Palm?”