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Chapter 55, Section 70: Overpowering Mei Chaofeng! [Seeking monthly votes! Seeking first-day subscriptions!]

Instead of being pulled away, Mei Chaofeng was pulled away herself, a turn of events that greatly shocked her.

She follows the path of external martial arts, specializing in hard and physical training. Her hand skills are also remarkable; she can easily pierce a skull with a casual grab.

Therefore, although she was thin, she had great arm strength and could easily toss burly men weighing one or two hundred pounds around like scarecrows.

Yet, with such strength, he couldn't even defeat a boy whose voice sounded extremely young?
Shocked, Mei Chaofeng dared not be negligent. Just as she was dragged in front of Lu Chen, before her feet even touched the ground, her left claw, the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw," suddenly lashed out, its five fingers like five iron rods, piercing straight into Lu Chen's forehead.

Lu Zhong's heavy sword was entangled by the white python whip. Although Mei Chaofeng was pulled over, she did not let go of the whip. When she used her left hand to claw out, her right hand still tightly gripped the white python whip, trying to twist away his heavy sword.

Lu Chen did not let go of the sword. He gripped the hilt with one hand and wrestled with Mei Chaofeng, while his other hand formed a sword with his fingers pointing at each other, directly confronting the Nine Yin White Bone Claw.

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Lu Chen's sword fingers moved with lightning speed, flicking and pointing with a whooshing sound, colliding with Mei Chaofeng's powerful claws. Amidst the dense, crisp sounds, the two exchanged several blows with their fingers and claws. Suddenly, Mei Chaofeng's hand trembled, she let out a soft groan, and a look of pain appeared on her face.

Lu Chen did not unleash the invisible sword light.

Even so, his fingers, infused with sword energy, were sharp and resilient, like steel cones.

After several hard clashes, Mei Chaofeng felt excruciating pain in her five fingers. Her Nine Yin White Bone Claw, which had always been invincible, suffered a silent loss for the first time in a bare-handed confrontation.

It was fortunate that she had mastered hard physical skills and her fingers and claws were strong enough; otherwise, those hard blows would have probably cracked her finger bones.

"Just who is this kid? How can he have such amazing skills at such a young age?"

Mei Chaofeng was greatly shocked.

At this moment, her wisest choice would be to abandon the whip and retreat, distancing herself from Lu Chen and avoiding close combat with him.

But she was unwilling to give up. She had only recently mastered the White Python Whip Technique and this was her first time fighting an enemy. How could she so easily abandon her weapon?
So she endured the excruciating pain in her five fingers and continued her relentless attack with her left hand, sometimes using the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, and sometimes unleashing a Heart-Shattering Palm strike.

Lu Chen also countered her attacks with one hand, sometimes using his sword to flick and stab, and sometimes unleashing a move called "Frost-Treading Ice-Breaking Palm Technique." This not only neutralized all of Mei Chaofeng's attacks but also caused her excruciating pain in her fingers and palms, making her feel as if her hand bones were gradually cracking.

Just as Mei Chaofeng was gradually losing her grip on the attack...

Liang Ziweng, who had just been kicked away by Huang Rong and was bleeding from his head, had somehow sneaked up behind Lu Chen again, leaning on his cane. Seeing Lu Chen and Mei Chaofeng exchanging blows with lightning speed, Liang Ziweng thought to himself:
"good chance!"

He immediately launched a flying kick with his crutch, his body soaring into the air, his powerful leg slamming into Lu Chen's back.

Although Lu Chen appeared to be focused on exchanging finger and palm strikes with Mei Chaofeng, he actually didn't even use his sword aura and didn't go all out at all.

Therefore, Liang Ziweng's seemingly perfect aerial kick was already detected and understood by Lu Chen as soon as he took off.

A sliver of sword light suddenly flashed from his fingertips, slicing into Mei Chaofeng's palm and causing her to groan as she quickly withdrew her hand. Lu Chen then countered with a palm strike, a move called "Divine Dragon Tail Swing," which landed with incredible precision on Liang Ziweng's flying kick.

Lu Chen hadn't practiced his other fist and palm techniques seriously. He had only practiced "Treading on Frost and Breaking Ice Palm" a few times with the Ancient Tomb Sect Leader when he first learned it, and he only used it in actual combat when fighting Ouyang Ke. Liang Ziweng even commented that his fist and palm skills were "very ordinary".

Liang Ziweng's assessment wasn't entirely wrong; Lu Chen's fist and palm skills were indeed very ordinary.

However, this one palm strike, "Divine Dragon Swings Its Tail," was one he had practiced diligently.

Even during his spare time from sword practice, he would practice this move, "Dragon Tail Swing," as a way to relax.

now.

When Lu Chen unleashed that backhand palm strike, the air behind him seemed to detonate an invisible bomb, exploding with a deafening roar and creating a powerful shockwave that swept wildly in all directions.

Seeing Lu Chen unleash this backhand strike, Liang Ziweng's eyes widened, and he cried out in horror:
"The dragon swings its tail!"

His greatest fear in life was Hong Qigong, and he had a severe psychological trauma related to Hong Qigong's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

Seeing Lu Chen unleash the "Dragon Tail Swing," he was utterly horrified. But it was too late. His flying kick had already been launched, and he had exhausted his strength. He couldn't even retract his leg in time!

Bang!
With a dull thud, Lu Chen's palm slammed hard into Liang Ziweng's foot. Liang Ziweng's legs trembled, and he was sent flying backwards involuntarily, his legs cracking with a series of soft, cracking sounds.

Lu Chen's palm strike was incredibly powerful and explosive, shattering his right foot and even half of his lower leg into a comminuted fracture!
Liang Ziweng was originally only hemiplegic; his right hand and right leg were still intact, and he could still use hidden weapons and flying kicks.

But this time, his right leg was also ruined. He could no longer even kick with flying kicks and could only use hidden weapons from a wheelchair.

Liang Ziweng screamed and fell backward, coincidentally crashing down on Lingzhi Shangren who was lying on the ground.

Master Lingzhi quietly opened his eyes and glanced at him, then moved aside. Liang Ziweng then fell to the floor with a thud, lying side by side with him...

the other side.

At first, Ouyang Ke was caught off guard by Huang Rong's superior weaponry and diverse sword techniques. However, he was ultimately taught by Ouyang Feng, one of the Five Greats. Except for not practicing "Toad Stance," he had received Ouyang Feng's true teachings in all other martial arts. Moreover, he was old and experienced, so he gradually stabilized the situation and even reversed the disadvantage.

Even so, he only managed to fight Huang Rong to a standstill, and there was no hope of gaining the upper hand in the short term.

Now let's look at the situation on the field.

Master Lingzhi lost an arm and lay on the ground pretending to be dead.

Although Liang Ziweng was brave, his right leg had been broken, and he was truly powerless to get up again.

Wanyan Kang's "female master" also had her weapon cancel each other out with Lu Chen's weapon.

The two were now locked in a close-quarters battle, their hand skills seemingly extremely dangerous. However, judging from their expressions, the blind woman in black looked solemn, occasionally revealing a hint of pain, while Lu Chen had a smile on his lips, clearly in complete control. It even gave the impression that he was simply enjoying the fight, or even using the blind woman in black to hone his hand skills.

As for Wanyan Kang...

This young prince's martial arts skills are considered excellent among his peers, except for Lu Chen and Huang Rong, but in this kind of battle between masters, he doesn't even have the chance to intervene.

Seeing the situation on the field, Ouyang Ke knew that the game was lost and began to look for a way out.

Just now, Lu Chen and Huang Rong laughed at their scheme on the painted boat in the lake, saying that they had trapped themselves in a deadly situation and would have nowhere to run after they were defeated.

That's true, but not entirely true.

Although Ouyang Ke was not a good swimmer, some of his concubines were good swimmers, and they were lucky enough not to be killed by Lu Chen.

After glancing at Lu Chen again, Ouyang Ke dared not delay any longer. He used his iron-boned folding fan to deflect Huang Rong's sword attack, then suddenly unfolded the fan and shot out several bone-piercing needles.

As Huang Rong parried the bone-piercing needles with her sword, he flicked his wrist and threw out several medicine packets, scattering medicinal powder everywhere.

These packets of medicine were potent sedatives that Liang Ziweng had prepared for him.

However, Huang Rong had drunk the blood of the precious snake and was now immune to the drug. Ouyang Ke didn't expect to be able to drug Huang Rong either. At this moment, he was just using the drug powder to create an opportunity to escape.

Seeing the medicinal powder flying everywhere and smelling a sweet and strange medicinal scent, Huang Rong instinctively held her breath, turned around and flew away, getting out of the range of the medicinal powder. For a moment, she forgot that she was no longer afraid of sleeping pills or poisons.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ouyang Ke unleashed his full power with "Instant Thousand Miles" and dashed toward the hall door.

Seeing him retreat, Huang Rong immediately came to her senses and wanted to chase after him, but Ouyang Ke had already created some distance, and at the same time, four Hu women rushed forward to block her.

After she stabbed the four Hu women to death with a series of sword strikes, Ouyang Ke had already grabbed a concubine dressed as a musician and rushed out of the hall to the foredeck.

His family's inherited lightness skill was quite remarkable.

Although the "instantaneous Thousand Miles" technique was not as agile as the Peach Blossom Island's lightness skill in terms of small-range movement and dodging, its straight-line burst sprint was even faster than the Peach Blossom Island's lightness skill. Seeing that she could not catch up, Huang Rong put all her strength into it and flicked three copper coin darts at his back.

Hearing a strong gust of wind behind him, Ouyang Ke swung his iron-boned folding fan backhand, trying to deflect the copper coin dart by sound.

Unexpectedly, the three copper coin darts collided with each other in mid-air. Two of the darts bounced off and lost their aim, but the last dart miraculously curved around Ouyang Ke's folding fan and struck his wrist, embedding itself deeply into his wrist bone!
"Magical power at the snap of a finger!"

This sudden change of direction during the mid-air collision of hidden weapons greatly shocked Ouyang Ke:

"This is the Finger Flicking Divine Skill! You are a disciple of the Eastern Heretic... no, your surname is Huang, you are the daughter of the Eastern Heretic!"

As he spoke, he didn't stop for a second. He led his concubine to the bow of the boat, and with a leap, they landed with a thud in the icy lake water.

Huang Rong never intended to actually kill Ouyang Ke—although Lu Chen had once again made great progress in his skills and felt confident in facing Ouyang Feng, and was no longer afraid of Ouyang Feng's poison, Huang Rong dared not gamble with his life.

As long as Ouyang Ke doesn't die, even if he's injured or crippled, she can still ask her father to intervene and prevent Ouyang Feng from easily bullying the weak, so he can personally take revenge for Ouyang Ke.

But if Ouyang Ke were to die, no one could predict how Ouyang Feng would react. It's important to understand that if a master of the Five Greats were shameless, unscrupulous in bullying the weak and resorting to sneak attacks and assassinations, even the combined might of the Eastern Heretic and the Northern Beggar might not be able to protect a junior.

So when she saw Ouyang Ke jump ship to escape, Huang Rong didn't chase after him relying on her swimming skills. She just smiled and said:
"Young Master Ouyang, it's only natural for us to suffer minor injuries during friendly sparring. Please don't be angry!"

"..."

As Ouyang Ke was leading his concubines to swim to the shore, he heard Huang Rong's call and felt a surge of frustration.

But he also knew that since Huang Rong was the daughter of the Eastern Heretic, Lu Chen was very likely a disciple of the Eastern Heretic.

Although he was of the same generation as the two, he was older than Lu Chen and Huang Rong combined. He bullied the younger ones and suffered losses repeatedly. If his uncle found out about this, he didn't know what kind of punishment he would receive.

With Huang Yaoshi, the Eastern Heretic, as a figure of respect, his uncle probably wouldn't personally help him avenge the severed finger. Instead, he would only make him practice martial arts diligently so that he could take revenge himself.

But Lu Chen is clearly a monster; at such a young age, his martial arts skills are actually...

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly realized that the concubines who had been leading him on the excursion were gradually coming to a stop. Although they could now see the lake shore, they were still about ten feet away from the land. He exclaimed in surprise:

Why did you stop?

The concubine's face was deathly pale, her lips were bluish-purple, and she trembled as she spoke:

"Young master, the water is too cold... I... I have no strength left!"

After saying that, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"..."

Seeing his concubine sinking into the water, Ouyang Ke panicked and flailed his arms and legs involuntarily, but his body continued to sink to the bottom of the lake.

"It's over. Am I, Ouyang Ke, going to drown here today?"

Just as he was about to despair, his toes suddenly touched the bottom of the lake. Overjoyed, Ouyang Ke quickly grabbed the concubine, using her weight to steady himself, and walked step by step towards the shore.

On the boat.

Huang Rong chased Ouyang Ke away, then looked at Wanyan Kang and said with a grin:

"Young Prince, I told you that your crippled and disabled skills are unreliable, didn't I?"

Seeing her approaching him with her sword, Wanyan Kang looked at Lingzhi Shangren and Liang Ziweng with a look of fear, only to find that the cabin floor where the two had just been lying had been torn open at some point, and Lingzhi Shangren and Liang Ziweng had disappeared without a trace.

Looking at his female master again, he saw that the female master, whose martial arts were far superior to Ouyang Ke's and who was extremely powerful in his mind, had abandoned her long whip at some point. She used both hands to unleash the Nine Yin White Bone Claw and the Heart-Shattering Palm in turn, but she could only struggle to hold on under Lu Chen's sword finger.

Lu Chen even used only one hand to defeat Mei Chaofeng, who was attacking with both hands, leaving her helpless and unable to defend herself!
Gudong.

Wanyan Kang swallowed hard, then suddenly turned and rushed toward a window, attempting to jump out and escape.

Seeing this, Huang Rong flicked her finger, and a copper coin shot out and embedded itself in the back of his knee with a soft thud. Wanyan Kang immediately screamed and fell to the ground.

Just as he was about to go over and break Wanyan Kang's legs first, he suddenly heard Mei Chaofeng say:

"Junior sisters, were you sent by Master to clean house?"

She also heard Ouyang Ke's shout and knew that Huang Rong was her master's daughter. Lu Chen's sword finger technique also had some resemblance to the Falling Flowers Sword Technique, so he was probably also a disciple of the Peach Blossom Sect.

She was already no match for Lu Chen, and now, realizing Lu Chen's background, she lost all fighting spirit, sighed sadly, and stopped attacking.

"Fine, I have failed my master. Take my head!"

To be honest, Lu Chen hadn't had enough of the fight yet.

Mei Chaofeng's martial arts skills were not stronger than those of the Ancient Tomb Sect Leader, and she was even slightly inferior in terms of the exquisiteness of her moves. However, although the Ancient Tomb Sect Leader's martial arts skills were exquisite, they were light and weak, and he especially liked to make contact and leave immediately. He never competed with Lu Chen in terms of strength during sparring.

Mei Chaofeng's kung fu was full of ruthless and deadly moves, with great strength, and she was also very resilient due to her physical strength.

By fighting her, Lu Chen could not only unleash his full potential and engage in a thrilling head-on clash, but he could also hone his skills by fighting her.

In just that brief moment of close-quarters combat, he felt that his skills had improved significantly.

Because he was having so much fun fighting, he didn't even care that Ouyang Ke had run away—given the speed at which his martial arts had improved, anyone who had ever been defeated by him once would never have a chance to turn the tables again.

Since Ouyang Ke was already a defeated opponent, he was not worth mentioning. With his current martial arts skills and resistance to poison, even if Ouyang Ke called his parents or Ouyang Feng came in person, he would not be afraid at all, and was even confident that he could break Ouyang Feng's Toad Stance.

Lu Chen knew very well that "Toad Kung Fu" was a skill that used stillness to control movement and clumsiness to overcome skill.

As Ouyang Feng crouched and gathered his strength, his body was enveloped in a dense network of powerful internal energy, resembling a high-voltage electric grid. In this state of gathering power, anyone who dared to touch Ouyang Feng would be triggered by the Toad Stance, automatically unleashing a devastating and violent counterattack.

Therefore, even Hong Qigong did not dare to use the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms to strike Ouyang Feng when he was gathering his strength.

Only with the One-Finger Divine Skill combined with the Innate Skill can one break through the surface with a single point and defeat the Toad Skill.

Coincidentally, Lu Chen happened to have a move called "White Rainbow Piercing the Sun," which concentrates all his strength to attack a single point...

Even more coincidentally, although he has not yet mastered the "White Rainbow Piercing the Sun" technique, it is only slightly better than before when he had to exhaust all his strength with each move. Now, after making a move, he can still retain less than 10% of his power, but he has already mastered the technique to the point where he can "instantly unleash" it without having to charge up his power.

Furthermore, he also possessed the power of sword energy, and could unleash it when drawing his sword.

The "White Rainbow Piercing the Sun" and "Sword Radiance," which require no charging, clash with the "Toad Kung Fu," which requires at least a moment of charging...

Anyway, Lu Chen is not confident in breaking Hong Qigong's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms and Dog Beating Stick, nor is he confident in breaking Huang Yaoshi's various strange martial arts.

He wasn't very confident against Shang Yideng's Innate Skill plus One-Finger Divine Skill, but against Toad Skill, Lu Chen felt that he could probably be called a "nemesis".

So when Ouyang Ke ran away, Lu Chen didn't care.

He even hoped that Ouyang Ke would call Ouyang Feng over so that this hidden danger could be resolved once and for all.

pity.

Just as the fight was getting intense and her skills were improving rapidly, Mei Chaofeng learned Huang Rong's identity and lost her will to fight...

Since that was the case, Lu Chen had no choice but to stop, and asked the question knowing the answer already:

"So you are Mei Chaofeng? And Chen Xuanfeng?"

"died."

Mei Chaofeng looked sorrowful:
"About ten years ago, he was killed by a child named Yang Kang."

The dagger that Guo Jing used to kill Chen Xuanfeng had the words "Yang Kang" engraved on it, so Mei Chaofeng thought the child's name was Yang Kang.

"He's dead? That's too good for him!"

Huang Rong pouted and snorted softly.

She felt no sympathy for the Black Wind Duo, the two traitors who stole the Nine Yin Manual and caused her mother's death from grief.

Upon hearing that Chen Xuanfeng was dead, she was already showing great kindness by not applauding; instead, she immediately asked without any politeness:

"Where is the Nine Yin Manual?"

Upon hearing Huang Rong's question about the "Nine Yin Manual," Mei Chaofeng hesitated slightly, sighed softly, reached into her robes, pulled out a leather suit, gently stroked it for a moment, and then handed it to Huang Rong with both hands.

"This is Senior Brother Chen's human skin. To prevent the scriptures from being stolen, he had the text carved onto his body. After he died, I peeled the scriptures off this human skin..."

Huang Rong was about to reach out and take it, but upon hearing that it was Chen Xuanfeng's human skin, she immediately withdrew her hand with a look of disgust.

"You can keep it for now. When we return to Peach Blossom Island, you can personally hand it over to my father."

As for the true skills in the manual, when needed, Mei Chaofeng can take them out and lay them out on the table, so that she and Lu Chen can read them remotely.

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