Chinese Superman

Chapter 199 The Great Sun Burns the Heavens, Reversing the Five Elements

"team leader!"

Everyone was shocked.

Cao Linghui, however, remained unfazed.

He let out a low shout, and a blazing golden flame suddenly appeared in his palm, radiating a scorching heat wave. The light was so intense that it was almost impossible to look directly at it.

"The Great Sun Burning Heaven Palm!"

Wei Gang blurted it out.

Golden flames enveloped the entire palm, sweeping upwards and engulfing the roots.

The roots twisted and burned in the flames, making a series of crackling sounds, and turned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Cao Linghui withdrew his hand; the skin on his palm was slightly red, but there was nothing seriously wrong.

Simply by circulating qi and blood to replenish the withered flesh, within a few breaths, the withered hands of an elderly person can be restored to their original state.

However, Cao Linghui was not happy; instead, he frowned.

Tian Shu leaned close to Xia Xinghan's ear, lowered his voice, and said with a hint of smugness, "Isn't the captain I chose great? Quick reflexes, strong skills, and even the Martial Arts Divine Eye. With someone like that in the team, our safety factor doubles."

Xia Xinghan nodded slightly.

Looking at the shimmering, iridescent specks of light, he said, "This thing should be a mutated spore."

Everyone looked at him.

"The moment it comes into contact with the human body, it feeds on flesh and blood, takes root and sprouts, and is ubiquitous, impervious to even the toughest skin and bones," Xia Xinghan calmly analyzed. "It can drain the host's nutrients in a very short time, so it should not be touched, and you should stay as far away as possible."

Achieving the innate state is a complete transformation, with the physical body becoming fragrant and free from impurities, but it is not without flaws.

These tiny spores are extremely terrifying; they can even instantly shatter the physical body of a Five Elements Realm expert, which speaks volumes.

Cao Linghui glanced at him and nodded: "Xinghan is right."

He paused, then glanced around.

The points of light ahead became increasingly dense, almost forming a misty fog of spores.

The points of light drifted in the mist, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, multicolored, eerily beautiful.

"Let's go around it." Cao Linghui made the decision. "The spiritual energy in the world outside the wall is thin, so let's use martial arts as little as possible to conserve our spiritual energy. Let's find an edge and go around it."

The team changed direction, attempting to bypass the edge of the spore area.

But they soon discovered that the area was far larger than they had imagined.

Three kilometers to the left, the spore mist still stretched endlessly.

I walked five kilometers to the right, but still couldn't see the end.

Cao Linghui stopped in his tracks, his expression somewhat grim.

"We can't go around it," he said. "This spore area is too big. If we completely bypass it, we'll deviate from the planned route by at least ten kilometers and fall outside Genglian's mission area."

A brief silence fell over the crowd.

We can definitely find a way around it, but we can't deviate from Geng Lian's route.

You can't possibly go south through Laos and end up in neighboring Vietnam.

Moreover, the entire Southeast Asia is a world shrouded in a fog-like apocalypse; other places may not have the strange spores, but they will face other crises.

Simply avoiding danger is not the solution.

Just then, several swaying shadows suddenly appeared in the spore mist ahead.

Everyone immediately went on alert.

The shadows drew closer and became clearer—it was five people.

They emerged from the spore mist, dressed in combat uniforms similar to everyone else, their clothes tattered and their exposed skin a strange grayish-white. Their bodies were somewhat swollen, resembling early forms of giants.

Leading the way was a middle-aged man, his face pale and his eyes unfocused.

He saw Cao Linghui and the others, his lips moved, and he uttered a hoarse voice: "Help—help me—"

"Help—help me—it's dangerous ahead—"

"This group should be like us, they're Geng Lian's people," Cao Linghui said.

"team leader."

Xia Xinghan cautioned, "It's best not to approach rashly."

Cao Linghui narrowed his eyes.

He activated his Martial Arts Divine Eye again and looked at those people.

Upon seeing this, his expression changed drastically.

The faces, hands, and all exposed skin of those people were covered with tiny bumps.

Those bumps wriggled under the skin, like countless worms crawling.

Thin vines peeked out from their eye sockets, swaying gently in the air, and as their mouths opened and closed, one could see that their throats were also filled with plant roots.

They've been parasitized!

From the inside out.

Cao Linghui raised his hand and shouted sternly, "Back off! Don't go near them!"

Upon hearing this, the "people" all stopped in their tracks.

Then they looked up.

A strange smile appeared on his face at the same time.

That smile was as if it had been carved from the same mold; the curve of the corners of the mouth was exactly the same, and the light in the eyes was exactly the same.

"Help----"

The person at the very front mechanically repeated the same thing.

next second.

His already swollen body expanded violently and suddenly exploded.

It wasn't a metaphor; it really exploded.

Countless vines burst forth from beneath his skin, tearing through flesh and bones, and in the blink of an eye, ripped him to shreds.

The vines grew wildly in mid-air, their tips blooming with dazzling flowers that spewed forth a dense fog of spores.

"蓬", "蓬", "蓬"

The other "people" also exploded at the same time.

In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and vines danced wildly.

Spores, like a volcanic eruption, poured out from the shattered bodies, sweeping over everyone!

"not good!"

Cao Linghui roared, raised both palms, and pushed them forward simultaneously.

"Bear Bear Bear"

In an instant, raising his hand was like the rising sun, pushing his palm was like a great river of fire, and brilliant golden flames suddenly burst forth, turning into a rolling river of fire that burned all the way!

The surging stream of spores collided with the flames, hissing as they instantly turned to ash.

"boom"

The humid and hot Southeast Asian climate suddenly and drastically increased in temperature, making people feel as if they were in a high-temperature oven. Even those present who had already achieved natural immunity to heat and cold still felt unbearably hot, and their skin burned painfully.

A golden river of fire surged past, turning everything in its path to ashes.

The river of fire surged forward for six or seven hundred meters before gradually dissipating.

As everyone looked, a strip of scorched earth, more than six or seven hundred meters long and about thirty or forty meters wide, suddenly appeared before them.

The ground was charred and steaming, the soil was burned to a vitrified state, and the dreamlike spore mist that had enveloped the jungle, along with the lush and eerie plants, were all burned to ashes.

Holy crap!

Xiong Ba opened his mouth wide, unable to close it for a long time, and could only utter the four words "Captain is mighty".

Wei Gang gasped in astonishment: "Grade A martial arts, is it really that powerful?"

Wu Dandan looked at the scorched earth with a complicated expression.

Although she also possessed a legendary martial art, it was a movement technique, and in terms of destructive power, it was far inferior to Cao Linghui's palm strike.

Hong Xueyi and Zhao Yunsu were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a long time.

Tian Shu swallowed hard and muttered under his breath, "If this were to hit someone—"

Refined in an instant!

"Captain," Wei Gang said, regaining his composure, "that attack must have taken a toll, right? The spiritual energy outside the wall is thin, making it difficult to replenish. We've only just set off—"

Cao Linghui waved his hand, looking quite proud: "You think this is the full power of the [Great Sun Burning Heaven Palm]?"

"The true [Great Sun Burning Heaven Palm] unleashes the blazing flames of a magnificent sun, turning everything to ashes. My palm strike just now was merely at the level of [Solar Wind], far from the true [Magnificent Sun]."

Everyone was startled again.

Is this just "solar wind"?

How terrifying must the real "Great Sun" be?

Seeing their surprise, Cao Linghui offered a rare explanation: "The reason I can unleash such power is not because my palm technique is particularly strong, but because I cultivate the Five Elements Realm."

He raised his hand, and a faint glow of fire flickered in his palm.

"To reach the Five Elements Realm, one must gather the Qi of the five elements from the five internal organs. The first one I gathered was the heart fire."

"The fire of the heart enters the dantian, igniting the true yang. From now on, the power of any fire-based martial art I use will be greatly enhanced."

Everyone suddenly realized.

It turned out to be the case.

No wonder, even though they are both top-tier martial artists, the power he unleashes is so much stronger than others.

Just then, a voice came from the back of the group.

"There is a specific order to cultivating the Five Elements Realm."

Everyone turned around and looked at the person who had spoken.

It was that handsome and dashing young man who had always been taciturn and had a very low profile.

Xia Xinghan looked at Cao Linghui, raised an eyebrow and said, "To cultivate the Five Elements Realm, one must first absorb the earth energy of the spleen to solidify the foundation."

"Then gather the metal energy from the lungs. Metal can be used to forge a cauldron, creating a vessel to contain spiritual power."

"Then draw water from the kidneys. Water can cleanse and refine, washing away impurities."

"Then gather the wood energy from the liver. Wood serves as fuel, helping to ignite the true fire."

"Finally, gather the fire energy from the heart. Use the true yang fire of the heart to refine the various energies within the cauldron."

"The five elements rotate and generate each other endlessly, which can form a perfect internal cultivation cycle in the body, which is self-sufficient and inexhaustible."

"Finally, after being tempered in the cauldron with the true yang fire for a certain period of time, removing the dross and retaining the essence, and undergoing a qualitative change, the supreme golden elixir of immortality and perfect clarity of true nature can be refined."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Cao Linghui and asked, "You first cultivate the Heart Fire, which is a reverse refining of the Five Elements, beneficial to the dantian and cultivation—"

This might not be a good thing.

quiet!

The line was silent for a few seconds.

Everyone stared at the young man before them, their eyes filled with a mixture of surprise and confusion.

How could a Grand Martial Master at the Innate Realm be so knowledgeable about the cultivation methods of the Five Elements Realm?

Cao Linghui was also looking at him.

A moment later, he smiled.

"I never expected that you, Xinghan, would know so much about the Five Elements Realm."

Xia Xinghan remained expressionless: "It's all taught in school textbooks."

"School?" Xiong Ba scratched his bald head. "What school teaches this? I've never learned this before?"

"Me too," Hong Xueyi whispered in agreement.

Wu Dandan rolled her eyes, saying, "You academic underachievers, how can you compare to the top students? Even if they're martial arts students, they must have put in a lot of effort in their academic subjects!"

Zhao Yunsu asked softly, "Sister Dandan, are you a top student?"

"I--"

Wu Dandan was speechless, and couldn't help but glare at her. To save face, she snorted, "Who wasn't a top student? Back in the day, I was a model student, with certificates covering an entire wall!"

"Ha, there's no point in arguing with you academically challenged students who aren't even model students."