Mastery-Level Fist Technique Defeated Wei Zhe
"I challenge you."
Those three words were like three boulders hurled into a stagnant pool, raising a thousand waves, only to plunge the entire training hall into utter silence an instant later.
The ecstasy and mockery on Wei Zhe's face froze, then gave way to a fierce flush of red.
"Fine! Very good!"
He stomped forward, and the polymer shock-absorbing floor gave a muffled thud under the strain.
The power of qi and blood within him, far exceeding 15 calories, surged forth without the slightest restraint. Like a flood bursting through a dam, it swept toward Chen Fan in an almost tangible wave!
The air seemed to grow thick and heavy.
Students standing at the back of the group felt their chests tighten and their breath shorten in the wake of that imposing aura. Their faces turned pale, and they instinctively stepped half a pace back.
Liu Haifeng and Wang Zhen exchanged a glance, both growing utterly grave.
Their bodies sank almost imperceptibly, qi and blood quietly circulating within them as their muscles tensed. They were ready to force their way in the instant Chen Fan could no longer endure it.
In their eyes, Chen Fan's move was far too impulsive.
Going head-on against 15 calories of qi and blood, even if it was only the pressure of its aura, was enough to inflict internal injuries on an eight-year-old.
"Little bastard, you're courting death!"
Wei Zhe grinned viciously but did not strike immediately.
He enjoyed the feeling, the thrill of watching his prey tremble and break down before his absolute power.
He wanted everyone to see clearly that even among geniuses, he was the undisputed number one in class one of sixth grade!
"Kneel down and kowtow to me now," he said, looking down at Chen Fan. "I might just break one of your legs!"
Yet in the face of an oppressive aura powerful enough to knock an ordinary student unconscious on the spot, Chen Fan stood utterly unmoved, like a boulder rooted deep in the earth amid a raging gale.
He merely raised his eyelids slowly and looked calmly at Wei Zhe with eyes as still as an ancient well, as though looking at a dead man.
"You talk too much."
Those casually spoken words instantly ignited all the rage and killing intent in Wei Zhe's heart.
"Roar!"
A roar suppressed to the utmost exploded from deep in his throat. Wei Zhe pushed off violently, shooting forward like a cannonball and leaving an afterimage in his wake!
His Five Elements Fist, which had reached the minor mastery realm, hurtled straight for Chen Fan's chest with a muffled explosion of air!
He put all his strength into that punch!
He was determined to blast this boy, who knew neither the height of heaven nor the depth of earth, to death in a single blow!
Faced with this thunderous strike, Chen Fan did not retreat. He advanced.
His feet shifted through the Five Elements Stance Footwork, and his body tilted slightly at an exceedingly strange angle, narrowly avoiding the fist capable of smashing monuments and splitting stone.
The old force was spent, and the new force had yet to arise.
Now!
The 13.9 calories of qi and blood in Chen Fan's body gathered in his right fist in an instant. Though he struck later, his blow arrived first.
A seemingly ordinary straight punch, without the slightest flourish, struck the inside of Wei Zhe's punching elbow with precision at an exceptionally tricky angle!
Bang!
A muffled impact rang out.
Wei Zhe felt a treacherous, concentrated burst of short-range force seemingly bypass his qi and blood defense and bore viciously into his joint like a steel needle.
His entire right arm went numb and tingly in an instant, and the violent force that followed was forcibly cut off halfway through!
He staggered back two steps, his face filled with incredulous shock.
"Impossible! You actually broke my punching form?"
Wei Zhe was both shocked and furious.
Holding nothing back, he drove his 15 calories of qi and blood to their limit. His fists rained wildly down on Chen Fan like a raging storm, forming an airtight net of punches as he tried to drown this slippery loach in absolute power!
The wind of his fists howled, and force swept out in all directions!
Yet amid that storm of fierce attacks, Chen Fan moved.
He was no longer merely dodging and blocking.
His small, slender body unleashed a complete set of the Five Elements Fist.
The technique was seamless and natural, flowing like clouds and water, without the slightest hitch.
Within the net of punches, he was like a butterfly weaving through flowers, or a fish swimming in the deep sea, always avoiding every deadly blow with the smallest possible movement.
Even more terrifying, every punch he threw produced a crisp crack of air at the leading edge of his fist!
It was no longer the muffled sonic boom of the minor mastery realm, but proof that his highly concentrated force was tearing through the air!
The force of his punches remained concentrated without dispersing, carrying a spiraling power invisible to the naked eye!
"That's... mastery-level Five Elements Fist!"
In a corner of the training hall, Liu Haifeng and Wang Zhen could no longer keep their composure. They cried out in shock at the same time, their voices filled with astonishment that overturned their understanding!
Five Elements Fist, mastery realm!
An eight-year-old child had cultivated the technique to the mastery realm in less than a month after first encountering it—a realm that even many first-year junior high students could not reach!
On the floor, the battle changed from one instant to the next.
Wei Zhe's attacks grew ever more violent, but without him noticing, their form had fallen into disarray.
Every all-out assault he launched was easily neutralized by Chen Fan's superior technique. It felt like punching cotton: he had strength but nowhere to use it, and the frustration nearly made him cough up blood.
Just as Wei Zhe turned, exposing a fleeting but fatal opening from his all-out assault.
A trace of cold killing intent flashed in Chen Fan's eyes.
He seized the opportunity.
He slipped inside Wei Zhe's guard like a ghost and planted a seemingly weightless punch squarely on his chest.
Bang!
The spiraling hidden force of his mastery-level fist intent erupted the instant it touched Wei Zhe's body!
It swept everything before it like dead branches and rotten wood!
The protective qi and blood Wei Zhe was so proud of proved as fragile as a sheet of thin paper before that incomparably pure spiraling force, and was torn to shreds in an instant!
Wei Zhe's eyes bulged, blood vessels webbing their whites, and the vicious expression on his face froze into one of utter terror and bewilderment.
He felt as though he had been struck head-on by an interstellar train traveling at high speed.
His whole body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, tracing an arc through the air before crashing heavily to the ground more than ten meters away, where he was knocked unconscious on the spot.
One move.
Once again, just one move.
The entire hall fell silent enough to hear a pin drop.
Everyone stared blankly at the eight-year-old boy as he slowly withdrew his fist, his breathing never once having faltered from beginning to end.
Almost at the same time, Liu Haifeng and Wang Zhen flashed in front of Chen Fan like ghosts.
The looks they gave Chen Fan were no longer ones of appreciation or satisfaction, but of utter shock and fervor, as though they were looking at a deity walking among mortals.
Liu Haifeng's voice trembled violently with extreme excitement, barely forming coherent tones. He stared fixedly at Chen Fan and swallowed with difficulty.
"You... your Five Elements Fist... when did it reach the mastery realm?!"