A Deadly Battle on the Long Street!

A Deadly Battle on the Long Street!

At last, Xu Zhen cast aside every last shred of wishful thinking and devoted himself wholly to facing this unprecedented Great Enemy!

His legs bent slightly, his arms hanging naturally past his knees, making him look like a great ape that had attained sentience!

His body rose and fell like a small boat on a lake. Far from seeming strange, it instead carried an utterly natural air.

At a glance, he seemed full of openings from every direction one moment, then utterly without openings the next!

He had trained the art of White Ape Through-the-Back into every inch of his body, turning it into instinct. Every direction was his most advantageous angle of attack.

Xu Zhen was known as one of the Three Tigers of Guangdong, called the "Saint of Small Arms." Though his character was vile, his martial arts were truly formidable!

Once he cast away all wishful thinking, the fighting stance he had honed over decades indeed did not disappoint Gu Shaoshang!

What pure Tongbei Fist! Gu Shaoshang silently praised.

Though he had never studied Tongbei Fist, Ba Liming was, after all, one of the strongest giants in Dragon and Snake. Having absorbed what he saw and heard, Gu Shaoshang naturally understood many styles of martial arts.

Gu Shaoshang raised his fist and stepped forward, naturally containing multiple techniques of exerting force. Like a dragon in motion, like a snake slithering, he shot forward and arrived before Xu Zhen in a flash!

His shoulders and hips surged, his arm whipping out like a galloping horse bursting from its stable, vast and mighty.

The howling wind it raised tore a white streak through the rain!

It was neither Xingyi nor Bajiquan! It was not any one style of boxing—it was Gu Shaoshang's own fighting style, built by gathering the strengths of three worlds!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Xu Zhen's eyelids twitched. He raised his hands to block, like a huge stone plunging into a lake and stirring up wind and waves that swept forward with an awe-inspiring momentum!

Bang! A thunderous crash of colliding flesh rang out.

Xu Zhen staggered back sharply, his expression changing dramatically! It felt as though his punch had struck a speeding cannonball. His entire right arm crackled, nearly fractured by that single blow!

I can't clash with him head-on! I have to circle around him and wait for a chance to kill him with Hidden Force! Xu Zhen finally understood why his two disciples had been unable to withstand even one move. Such terrifying brute strength simply was not something a human could possess!

Having made up his mind, he lunged forward again!

Like a nimble monkey climbing a tree, like an old ape leaping across a ravine. His two arms arched like bridges; as they opened and closed, they seemed to embrace mountains and rivers. Veins bulged along his arms like pythons twisting and writhing!

He circled Gu Shaoshang, never meeting force with force. His agile footwork was breathtaking.

"Childish!" Gu Shaoshang sneered. His outstretched fingers became a blade, cleaving through the curtain of rain toward Xu Zhen with the piercing, ear-splitting boom of Pierce the Void!

This strike was not a hard chop. It was more like a blood-slick steel saw, determined to saw everything blocking its path cleanly in half.

Just like Guan Gong dragging up the Green Dragon Crescent Blade of legend!

"Excellent Bagua!" Xu Zhen's spirit surged. At this moment, he was like a true martial artist.

Facing Gu Shaoshang's Bagua hand blade, all the force in his body burst forth. Like the Handsome Monkey King diving into the Water Curtain Cave, he feared neither life nor death. Without dodging or evading, he threw a straight punch at Gu Shaoshang's chest!

He had trained both arms until they were hard as steel yet supple as vines. Whenever he struck, they cracked sharply against clothing; whenever they whipped, even raindrops could not draw near!

"Good!"

Gu Shaoshang could not help shouting his approval. He drew his hand blade back to his waist and neither dodged nor evaded that straight punch! He forcibly took Xu Zhen's heavy punch, brimming with Hidden Force!

The Hidden Force erupted. Like an electric current, it hammered wildly at Gu Shaoshang like floodwaters released through opened sluice gates!

Gu Shaoshang felt as if he had been viciously stabbed by a cactus, then jolted by lightning. A stabbing pain ran through him, making him tremble violently, as though ten thousand needles were raining down upon him!

The tendons and muscles in Gu Shaoshang's chest quivered madly. His cowhide-tough periosteum weakened the internal force layer by layer. His body merely shuddered, yet he emerged completely unscathed!

Then the sinews and bones throughout his body immediately rang in unison, explosions bursting forth one after another. He sank his waist and dropped his hips, stomped fiercely, and drove his fist out half a step, striking Xu Zhen squarely in the chest!

A punch must be fierce, but the force must remain loose!

Though Gu Shaoshang had not cultivated Hidden Force, his Clear Force was absolutely unparalleled throughout the ages. He forcibly delivered the supple quality of Hidden Force!

His fist was like a hammer, like a cannon!

Bang!

Xu Zhen immediately flew straight away like a kite with its string cut.

His mouth and chest crackled as his bones collapsed. Crimson blood sprayed across the ground, only to be washed away by the rain until not a drop remained.

"What divine strength! What a fine Crashing Punch!"

Xu Zhen shouted his praise twice, then breathed his last!

Xu Zhen, one of the Three Tigers of Guangdong and a master of Hidden Force, had fallen beneath Gu Shaoshang's iron fist, losing his life!

Years of struggle, all gone up in smoke! What use was wealth worth billions?

"In your next life, be a pure martial artist. Be a good man."

Gu Shaoshang stepped forward a few paces and looked at Xu Zhen, blood flowing from all seven orifices. He sighed faintly to himself.

He casually removed his baseball cap and covered Xu Zhen's face with it.

Gu Shaoshang shook out his clothes and walked back into the torrential rain.

Leaving the corpses of master and two disciples lying beneath the downpour, washed clean of every trace.

"Murder!"

Only after a long while did the security guards who had heard the commotion let out shrill cries!

Mirror Master killed Hidden Force Xu Zhen, gaining 10 points of Source Power. (Source Power gained from killing is doubled)

"...Is this encouraging me to kill?"

Gu Shaoshang returned to the small inn, changed into a fresh set of clothes, then sat cross-legged on the bed, somewhat speechless as he looked at the battle information.

"Master Ba Liming is likely close to becoming a One-Star expert, with a foundation at least at the Legacy level! Xu Zhen, on the other hand, is at most Elite level! He might even be merely Ordinary!" Gu Shaoshang pondered carefully.

Dragon-Snake Romance was a One-Star World, which meant its highest level of combat power could reach the One-Star Level!

"In the future, Wang Chao, Tang Zichen, God—the leader of the world's number one assassination organization—and Master Ba Liming, who broke through the 'God' level, should all possess One-Star Level combat strength! That is, combat power reaching the Myriad Heavens Mirror's evaluation of one hundred! But the same star level doesn't mean the same evaluation!"

Gu Shaoshang's eyes gleamed.

The Myriad Heavens Projection Mirror divided the Myriad Heavens and Worlds into ten stars, with each star further divided into five grades: Ordinary, Elite, Legacy, Perfect, and Supreme.

A One-Star Level ranged from 100 combat power to 1,000 combat power.

Gu Shaoshang did not yet know about Two-Star and above, but they were surely simply another stage.

Yet the disparities between the grades within each star level were immense!

What Gu Shaoshang cared about most were precisely those five grade evaluations for each star level!

Take the Dragon-Snake World, for instance.

Ordinary, as the name implied, was the achievement of most people. Countless unknown, ordinary fighters fell into this category—even regular people who had learned a move or two of Sanda could be included.

Elite surpassed the achievements of most people, such as masters who had made a name for themselves in the martial arts world—the Three Tigers of Guangdong, Southeast Asia's Number One Expert Chen Aiyang, and the like.

Legacy meant that one's achievements were enough to be passed down through the ages! Like Yang Luchan from several centuries ago, and senior masters such as Sun Lutang and Li Shuwen! As well as people like Ba Liming and Tang Zichen.

Perfect meant reaching the most perfect state attainable at that star level!

In the legends of the Dragon-Snake World, Shakyamuni and the many sages were suspected to have stood at realms above Perfect! In modern society, only Wang Chao had reached it! At most, God could be added as someone suspected of being Perfect level!

Zero-Star Legacy- and Perfect-level figures were enough to attain the combat power of One-Star Ordinary!

Across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, those capable of tempering their foundations to perfection were all absolute geniuses!

What that represented was fighting above one's level!

And Supreme represented reaching an entirely new realm within that star level!

Surpassing the limit! The unprecedented pinnacle of history! The strongest! Crushing all opponents of the same rank!

They could even defy the current and slay immortals! Challenge foes across major realms!

Ordinary, Elite, Legacy, Perfect, Supreme!

Gu Shaoshang suspected that these five grades carried more than one meaning!

They likely represented both combat power and foundation!

A Zero-Star Ordinary person might be evaluated as Legacy level after acquiring a divine weapon!

But his foundation would still be Ordinary!

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