Chinese martial arts: From being shot and killed by the armed police during a mountain search to bec

Just as Chen Hongwu was about to continue descending, a muffled "thump" came from above.

The water rippled violently, and a dark shadow fell from above, slowly sinking.

Strands of dark red blood drifted in the seawater, particularly glaring in the shallow water where moonlight filtered through.

The man had a heavy iron ingot tied to his body, which was being dragged down by the ingot, his limbs hanging limply.

The wounds on his body continued to bleed, the blood trailing a winding red line in the seawater.

Chen Hongwu pushed off with his legs and swam up close to the current.

The man was dressed in a black suit, his face was ashen, his lips were purple, and there were several wounds of varying depths on his chest and ribs, as if he had been cut open by a sharp weapon.

Chen Hongwu's gaze lingered on his face for a moment, and he was stunned.

Li Cunyi?

The top assassin in Guangdong and Guangxi shares the same name as that Xingyi master.

A few months ago, he accepted the bounty offered by Mo Laohu and sneaked into Foshan to take Chen Hongwu's life.

Later, after witnessing Chen Hongwu kill two Japanese men on the ring, he admired him and gave up the assassination attempt. He even stepped forward to remind Chen Hongwu.

This man was proud and arrogant, and worked alone. He was extremely famous in the assassin industry in the South.

I never expected to meet him underwater, especially not in this way.

He who kills will be killed in return. It's not uncommon for assassins to die a violent death in the end. However, this man is a principled and reputable fellow.

Without thinking much, Chen Hongwu reached out and grabbed Li Cunyi's arm, about to swim upwards, when suddenly a chill ran down his spine.

Goosebumps rose on my skin, and a dangerous instinct surged from my tailbone to the back of my head.

He released Li Cunyi's arm and turned around abruptly.

In the darkness ahead, two pale white eyes, larger than fists, stared coldly at him, slowly approaching through the flowing water.

A mako shark, over four meters long, darted towards them. It is one of the most ferocious predators in coastal waters, known for its speed, aggressiveness, and extremely sensitive sense of smell.

Its massive body presents a streamlined silhouette in the water, with its dorsal fin slightly protruding from the depths, resembling a black sail.

It slowly circled Chen Hongwu, its tail fin swaying gently, assessing the strength of its prey.

Chen Hongwu's body, submerged in the water, sank slightly, his knees bent, and his center of gravity lowered.

He dared not relax for a moment; no matter how good his skills were on land, they would be diminished in the water.

Sharks are the apex predators of the water, possessing strength and speed far surpassing those of land-based beasts.

The shark launched the first attack.

With a sudden flick of its tail fin, its entire body shot out like a torpedo at an extremely high speed.

The water was squeezed apart by its massive body, forming a sharp gust of water in front of it, rushing straight towards Chen Hongwu.

Chen Hongwu slid his body to the side in the water, kicked with his feet, and used the force of the water flow to move half a body length away.

The shark's sharp teeth grazed past him, and the force of the powerful current spun him around halfway.

He caught the shark as it slid past him, and with a sudden thrust of his right palm, his five fingers like hooks, he gripped the gap in the shark's gills.

Baguazhang - Eagle Catch!

The eagle captures the essence of a falcon's talons gripping its prey's vital points, with its five fingers bent like iron hooks, the force penetrating from the base of the fingers to the fingertips.

However, a shark's skin is covered with an extremely tough layer of scutes, as rough as sandpaper, and when you try to scratch it with your fingers, you can only break through the surface of the skin.

The intense pain triggered the shark's ferocity.

It suddenly twisted its body, swept its tail horizontally, and its huge tail fin fanned up a powerful stream of water, crashing into Chen Hongwu like a wall.

Chen Hongwu had no time to dodge, so he could only cross his arms in front of him, lower his center of gravity, and take the blow head-on.

The tail fin slammed against his overlapping front walls, sending him flying several meters backward, his chest heaving with blood and qi.

In water, this pure physical impact is far more difficult to dissipate than on land. Because there is no reaction force from the ground to draw upon, one can only rely on the strength of their own muscles and bones to withstand it.

The shark, having succeeded in its attack, immediately turned and pounced again.

Its mouth opened wide, revealing two rows of serrated teeth, which bit directly at Chen Hongwu's waist and abdomen.

Chen Hongwu pushed off with his feet and lunged at the shark.

The shark's snout came within three feet, and a stench assaulted our senses.

Chen Hongwu suddenly reached out with his left hand, supporting the shark's upper jaw from below, his five fingers gripping the tip of its snout.

A shark's snout is a blind spot for its vision; attacking from there can avoid that ring of sharp teeth.

At the same time, he clenched his right fist and thrust it out from his waist, punching the shark's left eye.

The fist cleaved through the seawater, gathering all the hidden energy of the body into the fist at close range. Although the spiral penetrating power of the Crushing Fist was somewhat weakened by the resistance of the water flow, the power of the close-range strike was enough to shatter bones!

"Bang!"

The shark's eyeball shattered from the punch, and the fragments spread into a murky white liquid in the water.

In excruciating pain, the shark thrashed about wildly, its massive tail stirring up a violent current that swept Chen Hongwu around, leaving him disoriented.

Chen Hongwu's right hand was flailing wildly in the water when his fingertips suddenly touched a soft indentation.

Without a second thought, he brought his right hand together, fingers forming a cone, and forcefully plunged it into the shark's gill cavity, his fingertips frantically stirring the gill filaments.

The gills of a shark are its most vulnerable area, densely packed with nerves and rich in blood.

Chen Hongwu's fingertips dug into a handful of soft flesh deep inside the gill cavity and pulled it out, the excruciating pain making the shark roll even more violently.

Chen Hongwu held on tightly, his left hand gripping the shark's snout, while his right palm repeatedly yanked and tore at the gill filaments, his fingertips shredding a piece of gill filament, causing bright red blood to churn in the seawater.

Before half an incense stick had burned, the shark's rolling gradually slowed down, and finally it stiffened for a moment before its huge body began to slowly sink.

Chen Hongwu released his grip, held his breath, and with a burst of strength in his legs, chased after the sinking iron ingot.

The iron ingot dragged Li Cunyi to a deeper layer of water, and soon it would sink to the dark seabed hundreds of meters deep.

Chen Hongwu accelerated his descent and finally caught up with the iron ingot just before it hit the bottom, grabbing the rope attached to it.

He gripped the rope with his left hand, grabbed Li Cunyi by the back of his collar with his right, and waded through the water, desperately trying to float upwards.

The moment he surfaced, he couldn't help but gasp for breath, his lungs burning.

"Huff—huff—"

Fresh air enters the dantian through the mouth and nose, and then spreads from the dantian to the limbs and bones.

The pores on my body, which had been compressed by the seawater for the entire duration of an incense stick's burning, seemed to open up simultaneously in this instant, breathing in large gulps like lungs.

With each inhalation, a stream of air flows through the body, connecting the internal organs and the skin.

He felt as if his entire being had become a resonant musical instrument. The vibrations of his internal organs traveled along the fascia to his skin and hair, while the tactile sensations on his skin surface traveled back to his internal organs along the meridians, creating a unified whole, with no barriers between inside and out.

This was a feeling I had never experienced before, as if I had crossed some threshold, and all my strength, breath, and spirit merged into one at that moment.

He dragged Li Cunyi to the side of the ship, grabbed the dangling anchor chain, and climbed up the deck step by step.

The deck was deserted. The night wind blew in, and my soaked clothes clung to my body, feeling icy cold.

He carried Li Cunyi back to first class, locked the door, and laid him flat on the carpet.

Li Cunyi's face was already bluish-purple, his breathing was extremely weak, and blood was still seeping from the wound on his chest.

"There's still a heartbeat, she can be saved!"

Chen Hongwu immediately turned the man onto his side and pressed his palm against his back to force the seawater out of his stomach.

Li Cunyi coughed twice and spat out several mouthfuls of bitter, salty seawater.

Chen Hongwu had him lie flat, then placed his hands on top of each other on the middle of his sternum, pressing down with subtle force to encourage his heart to resume pumping blood.

When a person falls into cold water, their blood and qi stagnate. Even if they are rescued, most will die from heart failure if their blood and qi are not actively stimulated.

Chen Hongwu's hidden force penetrated from the base of his palm, passed through the sternum, and entered the pericardium, vibrating and stimulating it repeatedly.

After pressing down more than a hundred times, Li Cunyi's chest finally trembled slightly, and he let out a low, hoarse groan.

Chen Hongwu stopped and examined his abdomen.

There was no fluid buildup in the abdominal cavity, so it's likely that the patient didn't inhale too much water.

He then unbuttoned Li Cunyi's clothes and found several knife wounds of varying depths, but fortunately none of them had damaged his internal organs.

Chen Hongwu took out a small bottle of wound medicine from his luggage, sprinkled it on the wound, and bandaged it with a clean cotton cloth.

After completing the rescue and tucking Li Cunyi in with a blanket, Chen Hongwu stood up.

"Whether you live or die depends on your fate."