Chapter 712: To the Rescue

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Both their movements were blindingly fast, their silhouettes fleeting and blurry. If they were any faster, Chu Li would have missed their exchanges completely.

There was a constant flurry of palm and claws. The Shura Palm rapidly fired out, always missing the young man by a hair. During every close call, the young man would suddenly speed up and evade the attack, such that not a single palm managed to hit.

Even after over a hundred moves, only the young man had managed to sink his claws into the Asura, the Shura Palm could not touch him. If not for the Asura’s tough physique, the demigod would have already been defeated.

Nevertheless, the Asura was still at a disadvantage.

The young man’s claws were swift and vicious but still pleasing to the eye as he repeatedly scratched the Asura’s shoulders, leaving ribbons of blood all over his body.

Chu Li knew how difficult it was to do this.

The force exerted by the young man’s fingers was equal to that of a treasure sword. Despite the Asura having a tough body that rendered most swords useless, he had managed to lightly wound him.

After watching the young man closely and scrutinizing his channeling route through the Omniscient Mirror, Chu Li tried circulating in his body and felt a fine force gathering at his palm, shaping his hands into claws similar to that of the young man. This instantly connected the force in his body like nothing he had previously experienced.

His hands suddenly felt strong as if it could tear anything apart, much less mere human flesh.

Chu Li was amazed, this Claw Technique was certainly uncommon. However, the key to it was still in its movements. There was no use in merely possessing the Claw Technique, without the movements to match, Chu Li would rather use his sword.

As he learned more about martial arts, he slowly understood that the point of learning various martial arts was not to replace those that he had already cultivated, but to integrate the strengths of each martial arts and enhance his own.

The young man’s Claw Technique was powerful but was not greater than what Chu Li already knew. Thus, integrating this technique with his own skills was the right way to go.

This skill could have an unexpected function during key moments and was worth the extra time taken to cultivate.

“Mmph!” The Asura suddenly let out a muffled grunt.

The young man’s right claw grabbed the Asura’s shoulder as his formidable power instantly intensified, allowing his claw to sink deep into flesh to leave five clear puncture wounds from his fingers. A split second later, blood started to spurt out. The Asura might have an iron-like will, but he could not hold back a groan from escaping from the back of his throat.

The Asura immediately went into a fit of fury as his flesh quickly shrunk, transforming his body into that of a skeleton. His red eyes flashed as he lunged at the young man with his new, demon-like figure.

The young man snorted before leaping behind the Asura and slamming his fist into the demigod’s back.

His speed was strangely fast and caught his enemy off guard. Although the Asura tried to avoid it, he could not fully evade the young man’s quick strike.

“Boom!” The Asura flew away.

The young man leaped into the air and landed another punch right at the center of the Asura’s back.

Chu Li could see that it was a soft punch, however, as his fist landed, it sunk deep into the Asura’s body, as if a pestle had been pressed into a block of tofu. With that blow, his enemy’s muscles were heavily damaged. After this, he inserted an odd force into the Asura’s body, such that the Asura’s inner force was disturbed.

“Ahhh...” The young man’s face suddenly paled as he let out a long sigh and landed lightly on the ground.

Chu Li squinted.

This young man’s body movement technique shared some similarities with his. It was close to reaching the level of Shrinking Ground, just as how he could move with great ease because he had cultivated Imminent Skyline.

The young man’s Fist Technique was bizarre as it condensed his inner energy, then circulated it within his body using a strange heart technique. After this, it was transformed into an extreme-Yin, or extreme-cold force, that was a lot more vicious than Shura Palm. It was definitely worth learning.

However, the Fist Technique consumed a great amount of inner energy as the young man lost almost all of the inner energy within his body with just those two punches.

This could only be used as a last resort because if he could not incapacitate the enemy with the two punches, he would have no energy left to fight back.

Chu Li shook his head. Although it was still lower than his, the boy had a profound cultivation level that made him believe that this young man had an elite background. Unfortunately, Chu Li could not figure which sect he was from.

The Asura fell to the ground with a solid thump and laid there weakly, without moving. The outcome of the battle between the fist force and the Asura Power Technique was still temporarily undecided.

The young man sat down somewhere close to the Asura and started meditating and channeling. His breathing was long and deep, as he took an exceptionally long time to both inhale and exhale. Surprisingly, his inner energy swiftly recovered due to the use of such an odd Breathing Technique.

It was another rare Mystical Art, too bad it would not be useful for Chu Li.

As the young man was still in the midst of recovering inner energy, a howl suddenly rang out as another Asura appeared before him like a demon and pounced on him without saying a thing. The demigod immediately transformed into a skeleton as his eyes lit up with a similar red glow. This all happened in record time.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!” The two of them were exchanged a series of consecutive tough blows. This Asura’s speed was unimaginably fast and was far quicker than its predecessor such that it now matched the young man’s movements. It did not take long for the latter to start feeling out of his depth.

Furthermore, the Shura Palm’s palm force was unusual and kept harassing him.

He would be no match for this Asura even in peak condition, much less now when his inner energy was weak. It was already impossible to restore his inner energy instantaneously with drugs, so after about twenty tough exchanges, he slowed down significantly.

“Thump!” A Shura Palm struck the young man’s shoulder with substantial force. He staggered backward and retreated diagonally to avoid the next hit.

Although he was injured, he was still able to maneuver fluidly with his swift body movement technique.

His body movement technique was getting slower, but he could still evade the Shura Palm during critical moments managed to endure another ten moves.

“Thump!” He finally reached his limit and was hit with another Shura Palm. This time, it landed on his chest and caused him to spit out a whole mouthful of dark blood.

With a soft whoosh, Chu Li came between the two of them and sent out a Divine Light Fist.

“Boom!” The Asura took the heavy blow and was shot twenty feet away.

Chu Li went to the young man and looked him over. “Are you alright?”

The young man quickly shook his head. “I’m alright, thank you, brother!”

Chu Li replied, “There’s no need for formalities when fighting against Asuras, you should rest for a while, leave this to me!”

“Okay!” The young man nodded.

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Although Chu Li’s back was facing the fast-approaching Asura, he clenched his fist before sending it backward.

“Boom!” The clash between the Shura Palm and Divine Light Fist sent gusts of strong wind in every direction.

Chu Li’s punch was fueled by an exquisitely refined Cloud Slashing Power. On top of that was the accuracy of the Divine Light Fist, which together culminated in a fist force of substantial power.

As the Shura Palm faded away, Chu Li’s Divine Light Fist’s force was unfazed and managed to strike the Asura.

“Boom!” He flew into the air again.

Chu Li sent another punch into the air.

“Thump!” The Asura was propelled further away.

“Thud!” The Shura Palm and the Divine Light Fist met again mid-air. This time, the Asura was tumbled into a loop-the-loop from the impact.

Chu Li stood in place as he punched consecutively into the air. Using the spiritual energy that was surging in from his surroundings, he spun them in a full circle with the Cloud Slashing Power and instantly transformed them into the fist force of the Divine Light Fist, thus gaining a bottomless source of energy for his continuous punches.

This was why despite the Divine Light Fist being similar to the young man’s Fist Technique where a single punch could use up a person’s inner energy, with those of profound cultivation levels being able to sustain a few more punches, Chu Li was able to send out his punches non-stop.

He was utilizing his advantage of having the Life and Death Scripture – there was no way others could guess that this was the Divine Light Fist if they saw it.

As the sky filled with Chu Li’s fist force, the Asura was pushed further and further away. Eventually, with a final look at the first Asura lying on the ground, the second demigod flew away like a demon.

Chu Li turned around and threw another punch.

The Asura on the ground flew back and crashed into a tree.

Chu Li withdrew his fist and smiled. “I didn’t seem to catch your name, brother?”