Becoming a Martial Saint: Starting with the Mountain-Breaking Fist

"Haha, he starts running away before even fighting, what a coward!"

"Congratulations in advance to Master Bai He for winning all the elixir shop business in the surrounding counties of Huangshe County!"

The repeated congratulations made Bai He arrogant and caused him to lose his judgment.

His lips twitched and then he laughed out loud: "Duan Xu is an arrogant man, how come his cousin is a cowardly insect?"

"I really don't understand why Renhetang would choose him to fight my Baiyutang. Are they just giving up?"

"This achievement belongs to everyone present. After the fistfight ends, whoever controls Renhetang's three major medicinal gardens will be rewarded with two Qi and Blood Pills!"

"Thank you, Master!"

……

Renhetang was naturally just as worried.

As the saying goes, when the general flees, the soldiers scatter.

Duan Xuan represents Renhetang, and now he's run away before the fight even starts.

The family members behind Renhetang naturally deflated like punctured balloons, their eyes dull and devoid of any hope.

At this moment, a female disciple of the family pushed Ren Yu's wheelchair slowly to the front of the crowd.

He has been in great pain for the past ten days since he lost his ability to move.

But when he heard that Old Master Zhou had invited Duan Xuan as a candidate for the boxing match, he actually laughed to himself.

His expression was still quite serious today, but then he saw Duan Xuan dash off into the jungle, and he couldn't help but laugh: "It's safe, it's safe!"

"Master, Young Master, Ren Yu, he..."

The higher-ups nearby thought Ren Yu had gone mad. When they glanced at the two of them, they were shocked to find that both of them and Old Zhou had a look of... confidence in their victory.

……

Flying into the deep forest, Duan Xuan used the Azure Wolf Concealment Step.

They vanished almost instantly. Feng Xiu and Xiao Xiangbei were surrounded from the left and right several times, but each time they missed their target.

"What's this kid up to? Is he trying to wear us down physically?" Feng Xiu clasped his fists together. "Doesn't he know that we are both late-stage Inner Strength martial artists, and with the pills given to us by the Hall Master, our stamina is inexhaustible?"

Xiao Xiangbei's eyes darted around, unable to guess what Duan Xuan was up to with all that speed: "Anyway, as long as the two of us stay together, they won't be able to find any openings."

  

"People say that the Scale Python Martial Arts School has always been known for its ruthlessness and viciousness, and your master Jiang Zhongkun is a clever and ruthless person."

Why are you being so cautious?

"Do you really think that peasant is Duan Xu?" Feng Xiu was eager to claim credit, so he naturally didn't want to use the slowest method to find Duan Xuan.

However, when Xiao Xiangbei glared at him, Feng Xiu immediately felt the pressure of being a cut above him.

"Hmph, considering we both serve Lord Bai He, I won't hold it against you!"

The chase continued until noon, as the snow fell heavier and heavier, obscuring the sun's rays and blurring the surroundings.

Xiao Xiangbei and Feng Xiu grew increasingly angry and frustrated as they walked.

A fair and square fight turned into a low-level cat-and-mouse game.

If I had known this would happen, wouldn't it have been easier to just hire a master of internal strength from the government office?

"If we go any further, we'll reach the boundary of the boxing match. If we can't find that kid by then, we'll go back and declare this match over..."

Xiao Xiangbei remained rational, but before he could finish speaking, a snowball came flying from nowhere.

With his keen senses, he slightly turned his head, and the snowball hit the furious Feng Xiu in the face. In that single blow, Feng Xiu felt utterly humiliated and enraged.

"Duan Xuan, you get out here!" Feng Xiu roared at the top of his lungs in the blizzard, but what awaited him was several more snowballs coming one after another.

Feng Xiu immediately parted the snow, trying to see the direction the snowball was thrown. But something happened that left him completely bewildered.

This snowball wasn't thrown from just one direction; it fell precisely from countless directions, following a perfect parabola.

"Duan Xuan, you're cheating! Did you hide accomplices in the snow? I'm going back to tell..." Although Feng Xiu was angry, he wasn't stupid.

If there were really a dozen or even dozens of experts with both visible and hidden strength hidden around, even if Xiao Xiangbei were by his side, or even if his senior brother Lin Zhennan came, he wouldn't be able to handle it!

pat!

No matter how fast the martial artist with internal strength reacted, the snowballs were dense and overwhelming, and one of them slammed into his mouth.

"Ah!" Feng Xiu's lips were split open from the impact, and his tongue was also cut in several places as if it had swallowed a nail. He spat it out violently.

"Iron filings? You actually put iron filings in the snowball?" Feng Xiu cried out in pain, ignoring Xiao Xiangbei's advice, and sped up through the snow that was already up to his calves.

"Come back, don't fall for the trap. This kid might be buried somewhere around here!" Xiao Xiangbei was quite troubled. If it were a normal mountain forest, with his observation skills as a martial artist, he could easily pinpoint Duan Xuan's location.

Unfortunately, the weather turned against us; the heavy snow fell fiercely, carried by the howling wind, severely disrupting our sight and hearing.

As Feng Xiu ran further and further away, gradually becoming a black dot in his eyes, Xiao Xiangbei became increasingly convinced that the kid might be falling into Duan Xuan's trap.

With no other option, he could only exert force with his feet, moving like a python. Just as he had taken a hundred meters and leaped down a high slope,

Whoosh!

A sharp arrow flew swiftly through the wind.

With a snap, Xiao Xiangbei caught the arrow with his backhand, and the venomous snake's claws immediately snapped it in two.

"Hmph, such a petty trick might fool a child, but you think you can..."

pat!

Taking half a step forward, Xiao Xiangbei felt an urgent warning from the soles of his feet, and he exerted force from his waist and abdomen.

He narrowly avoided the animal traps hidden beneath the thick layer of snow. He frowned slightly and stomped his foot heavily.

His vital energy surged forth, like a shockwave, shattering the half-meter layer of snow around him.

Seven or eight small, scattered traps were revealed.

There were only three small snowballs lying on the ground. Xiao Xiangbei stepped forward and kicked them to break them up.

But the snowball exploded under the force, and the strong body odor was swept into the air by the storm, rushing into Xiao Xiangbei's nose.

The smell was both foul and pungent, so Xiao Xiangbei had to rub his nose.

At that very moment, the snow behind him stirred, and Duan Xuan's black figure burst forth from the snow.

He was less than three steps away from Xiao Xiangbei. He strained with his left hand and picked up three snowballs with his right, but didn't throw them.

Instead, when it's thrown into the air, the force is used to break the snowball apart, and the mixed iron filings scatter in all directions with a "plop".

Xiao Xiangbei immediately sensed the sound behind him and became alert, his figure moving like a venomous snake poking its head out.

But it was this very act of looking up that led him to discover that what flew towards him was not a person, but a dense mass of iron filings.

Hiss!

There were many iron filings, and although Xiao Xiangbei closed his eyes in time, a small portion still pierced his eyes.

"Oh, my eyes!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Duan Xuan pressed forward, his stance as stable as a mountain, chest in, back out, muscles and bones taut, like a long spear, making a creaking sound.

A groundbreaking strike, simple and unadorned, directly attacked Xiao Xiangbei's heart.

Although Xiao Xiangbei's eyes were injured, he had been practicing internal energy cultivation for many years and was very experienced.

Sensing Duan Xuan's inner demon fist, he tightened his abdomen and his back, like a snake's spine, managed to evade the punch.

On the contrary, those two hands clasped together, one in front of the other, and precisely grabbed Duan Xuan's wrist.

Then, the snake-python technique was activated, and an invisible coiling force rushed straight to Duan Xuan's shoulder joint.

Duan Xuan knew that if he tried to break free, his arm would be broken off.

He pressed on with all his might, generating power from the soles of his feet, focusing it into his right fist, transforming the fist into a cone, and thrusting the cone forward.

The style of cutting through mountains and breaking through walls!

Xiao Xiangbei used his own "snake skin" to detect the direction of Duan Xuan's force, then stepped back and exerted force backward.

He wanted to pull Duan Xuan's arm away and release his strength into the air.

After his first strike failed, Duan Xuan followed up with his left fist, delivering a powerful horizontal punch that unleashed a dazzling light.

Xiao Xiangbei's ear twitched slightly; at such close range, his ears were more effective than his eyes.

He was about to loosen his grip on Duan Xuan's right arm and change his move.

Duan Xuan gripped his sleeve tightly and pulled sharply, causing Xiao Xiangbei's center of gravity to shift slightly from what he expected.

The two, though unable to clash with each other's left fists and right fangs, both sensed each other's weaknesses.

Xiao Xiangbei's body was like a giant python, and his skin was as sensitive as a green snake. He would find an opening and strike at any moment, raising his two venomous claws.

With a whoosh, it opened its mouth wide, its flesh-colored waves swirling around it, and stabbed straight at Duan Xuan's ribs.

Duan Xuan suddenly unleashed the third move of the Mountain-Breaking Fist, Peak-Crushing. Since I am not as fast as you, I will increase my Qi and Blood.

In the blink of an eye, the poisonous fangs were close to Duan Xuan's sides, and the burst of blood and qi in Duan Xuan accelerated the digestion and absorption of the elixir in his body.

Almost instantly, the intensity of his Qi and blood reached the peak of his internal strength.

Alarm bells rang in Xiao Xiangbei's mind, and his eyes widened like copper bells.

It was precisely because he was overly sensitive that the image of the venomous fangs piercing Duan Xuan's ribs flashed into his mind.

However, he was destined to lose when Duan Xuan smashed his head with a single punch.

He froze as if struck by lightning, and was about to back away.

Duan Xuan's "Crushing Peak" style, which involved charging forward with both fists, completely abandoned defense.

Switch directly to full attack mode.

The left hand is a fist, and the right hand is a cone, just like the heavenly soldiers beating the heavenly drum.

Xiao Xiangbei's stance was broken in an instant, and the latter was taken aback, but he suppressed his fear.

He understood that his inner fear did not stem from Duan Xuan's rapid increase in strength, but from the loss of his eyes.

He relied entirely on his sense of touch to perceive the battle, which naturally elevated his assessment of Duan Xuan's strength.

At that moment, Xiao Xiangbei reverted to his venomous python fist stance.

Just as his vital energy erupted, the pills in his body began to dissolve, and the vital energy of both sides reached the same level.

Xiao Xiangbei slid his hands away.

Bang, bang, swish.

Two completely different voices clashed: Duan Xuan's voice seemed to shatter mountains and split the earth, while Xiao Xiangbei's voice seemed to devour everything.

In a flurry of blows, the two exchanged dozens of moves in quick succession.

In this world of cold winds and snow, a symphony of roaring mountain pythons resounded.

"Good lad, you've been hiding your true strength!"

For any martial artist who is fighting me for the first time, I will be able to entangle their arms and twist their spine and lumbar vertebrae within three moves.

On the contrary, you practice so fiercely, yet you're as slippery as an eel! Xiao Xiangbei was sweating profusely, becoming more and more excited as he fought: "Your Broken Mountain Fist is very strange."

He was able to continuously improve his qi and blood through repeated battles.

"I guess if you keep going for a few dozen more moves, you'll be close to reaching the Transformation Realm, right?"

Duan Xuan, unusually, replied during the battle: "Not bad, but you won't see it!"

"Arrogant!"

Duan Xuan took a deep breath, abruptly stopping the surge of qi and blood, and instead threw a heavy punch.

In Xiao Xiangbei's perception, this punch was both fierce and arrogant, because it completely cut off his defensive options.

The reason it was so powerful was because it was the most devastating attack Duan Xuan had ever unleashed.

With a whoosh, Xiao Xiangbei's hair and temples flew backward, and the skin on his cheeks was dented by the force of the punch.

But his body became slippery, a stark contrast to the previous frame that repeatedly threatened to break his hands and feet.

It's more like it has transformed into a silent yet deadly poisonous bamboo viper!

With a hiss, Xiao Xiangbei's pupils contracted sharply like a snake's, his sinister and cunning nature no longer concealed. He leaped and flipped over.

With a swift step, he had already reached Duan Xuan's chest in the blink of an eye, but Duan Xuan's punch, which contained the terrifying force of a mountain shattering, couldn't even touch him.

Duan Xuan realized that this was the same snake-python power technique that Elder Zhou had used against him before—the Green Snake Demon Kill!

When Ren Yu heard this title, he couldn't stop smiling.

Such a treacherous and ruthless technique, its killing move has a name that exudes feminine charm, and it's completely different from a snake or python.

This killing move not only failed to continue the python-like style of the previous moves, but instead condensed into a snake!

As the battle raged on, eight out of ten martial artists would become exhausted from using their techniques and would be unable to cope with the sudden and unexpected changes.

Xiao Xiangbei was full of confidence, convinced that this strike could capture the opponent's throat and sever their roots, and also inject the unique dark energy that only a dark force martial artist could possess into the opponent's meridians.

If they don't die, they'll be crippled; if they're injured, there's no way to cure them.

When Feng Xiu, who arrived late from afar, saw that Xiao Xiangbei had fully used this move, he felt a wave of fear.

Yet he remained seven parts relaxed. He had only heard of this attack but never seen it before; it was said to be impossible to defend against, and the more rounds of the battle went on, the more unpredictable it became.

At the time, the proud and arrogant Feng Xiu did not believe it. Every martial arts school has its own strengths and weaknesses, but if you say that the Scale Python Martial Arts School can do this, he thinks it is just people bragging.

Now that I have witnessed it with my own eyes, I am completely convinced and willing to admit defeat.

Unbeknownst to everyone, there was another dark spot watching the three from a distance—Zhou Wei, a master of internal energy transformation.

In order to save Duan Xuan, he also took Qi and Blood Pills.

He forcibly pulled his declining blood and energy back to one-tenth of its peak level, and his muscles and bones were also temporarily strengthened, making him no less than a martial artist who had just entered the Transcendent Realm.

Seeing Xiao Xiangbei unleash this deadly move, he broke out in a cold sweat, but then felt a little relieved.

Because Duan Xuan was able to break this move back then, although he was not as good as Xiao Xiangbei in terms of profound and subtle details.

The final result was only stronger, not weaker. And this time, he was equally confident that Duan Xuan was capable.

In the center of the battlefield, Duan Xuan was taken aback. Xiao Xiangbei's proficiency and speed exceeded his expectations.

However, he also affirmed his own abilities.

He had already rehearsed this move in his mind countless times!

Xiao Xiangbei was unaware of what was happening when he suddenly realized that Duan Xuan's fist had been pulled back in the opposite direction.

The speed at which he suddenly stopped in mid-air was even faster than the speed at which he had attacked Duan Xuan's ribs with his venomous fangs.

Xiao Xiangbei suddenly looked up, his mind reeling as if struck by lightning, and he understood everything.

This wasn't about having more control than oneself; rather, this punch was clearly intentional.

From beginning to end, his real killing move was not the Broken Wall Style, which contained the strongest blood energy and the momentum to break through mountains!

"Mountain Rift - Collapse!" Duan Xuan recalled the essence of the move when Master Chen Feng taught him, as well as the power of Chen Feng's Perfected Mountain-Breaking Fist!

The shattering was not just the enemy's attack, but also their offensive and stance, creating a stark contrast to the snake's deadly attack, the Green Serpent's Enchanting Strike!

If you were bombarded by an incredibly fierce and relentless attack, what would you fear most?

It's not about overwhelming force or inexhaustible power, but rather about suddenly feinting, which can trick the enemy into revealing their bank card PIN.

Duan Xuan stopped, then used a backhand strike to split the mountain and break the earth, launching a series of attacks.

Xiao Xiangbei realized he had been feinted and could no longer dodge, so he could only grit his teeth and try to find a way out from Duan Xuan's attacks.

boom!

Xiao Xiangbei's killing move missed its mark, while Duan Xuan's fist slammed into his face, sending Xiao Xiangbei staggering backward like a club.

Without hesitation, Duan Xuan followed with another step, aiming straight for the heart. A muffled sound rang out, and Xiao Xiangbei, bowing like a shrimp, was about to fall into the bloody abyss.

Duan Xuan took another large step forward, this time delivering a beautiful uppercut instead of a straight punch.

click!

Xiao Xiangbei kept waiting, even though he was beaten to a pulp, he still did not give up the chance to struggle.

Finally, they saw a glimmer of hope in Duan Xuan's delayed uppercut.

At that moment, his ear twitched slightly, as if he heard the sound of some kind of sophisticated mechanism turning.

Duan Xuan flicked his wrist, and three arrows hidden in his sleeve were suddenly fired in quick succession.

Xiao Xiangbei felt a chill run down his spine; the keen senses he possessed as a martial artist with internal energy were sending him a frantic warning.

However, the hidden weapon was moving extremely fast at such a distance, exceeding his reaction speed.

bass!

The snow seemed to have stopped, and the white world fell into darkness, quiet, ethereal, and soul-stirring...

The three hidden weapons were linked together, like a mountain-shattering cone, piercing through Xiao Xiangbei's jaw and emerging from the top of his head...