Refining the Fake into True: From Guoshu Bao Dan to Mythical Da Luo
Chapter 8

A Head-On Clash, a Breakthrough in Battle, Shattering the Void to See the Divine

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"What the hell is that? Is that even a person?!"

"Stop! Which prison are you from? How did you get out?!"

"Too fast! I can't see him at all..."

Liucheng Prison was thrown into chaos as the guards shouted one after another. Unfortunately, their opponent was a Transforming Strength Great Boxer at the pinnacle of physical capability. He came and went like the wind; if he wished to hide, ordinary people simply could not discover him. Such boxers had already begun to step beyond the bounds of normal humanity. Their Essence Qi Spirit was perfectly rounded, and their premonition of danger was incredibly sharp. Unless they were in open terrain with nowhere to hide, they could only be dealt with using wide-area destructive weapons such as artillery shells.

Even if they were shot, bullets would at most pierce their skin before being stopped by the Internal Force within their bodies. The injury would be like an ordinary person getting nicked while peeling fruit with a knife—a mere flesh wound. Yet when they ran, a single step could carry them more than ten meters, making them hard even to aim at with a gun. One punch could blast through reinforced steel plates. Like humanoid monsters, one person could kill a hundred.

In less than ten breaths, a towering figure stepped onto the five-meter-high prison wall, silently crossed the electric fence, and landed on the ground. His lightning-sharp gaze fixed on Li Hansha thirty meters away.

The Transforming Strength Great Boxer hidden within the prison was named Wang Tianba. He was the most formidable one in Gu Chen's Refine Falsehood Into Truth. According to his script setting, Wang Tianba was a martial arts fanatic, proficient in every school of Chinese and foreign boxing. His body was also at its peak, his sinews and muscles tremendously powerful. Making him the final sparring opponent for Li Hansha's Pill Embracement Gang Qi incarnation was undoubtedly the perfect ending.

"Hahaha... Good. It's been a long time since I've seen such a pure boxer. Wang Tianba, your boxing is learned to perfection—you know a little of both internal and external martial arts. There's nothing more to say."

Wang Tianba raised a hand in a martial salute, his blazing gaze fixed upon Li Hansha as excitement filled his face.

"I have long heard of the martial arts fanatic's name. Li Hansha, please enlighten me!!" Li Hansha returned the salute as well. The Internal Force in his body stirred his blood and qi, and his clothes fluttered despite the absence of wind.

Thirty meters away, the Streamer Sun Na and her Best Friend Pan Xiaoli also readied their livestream equipment, aiming the camera at the two figures facing one another in the field.

Because they had announced it in advance, quite a few Stream Friends had already been waiting in the livestream room. As they watched the two through the camera, dense Bullet Comments flew across the screen.

—"Wang Tianba? That Expert's name is seriously badass!" "Damn! He jumped out of a prison? This place actually had a National Martial Arts Master hidden in it?!" "Holy shit! This time it's outside a prison? Aren't the cops going to do anything?!" "You're kidding. If an Expert like this really wanted to leave, even a hundred people couldn't stop him!" "If an Expert at this level wanted to commit a crime, I'm afraid no one could catch them!" "Everyone, guess how long Grandmaster Li will need to take down that boxer?!"...

Amid the piercing blare of the prison sirens, Wang Tianba and Li Hansha moved almost simultaneously. The former lifted a leg and stomped down, then charged forward like a tank. The muscles on his arms were twisted and knotted, his palms glowing scarlet—this was the external hard-training art, Iron Sand Palm. With one strike, splitting steles and shattering stones was nothing out of the ordinary. His other hand formed a Vajra Hand Seal of esoteric Buddhism, carrying the imposing might of an enraged Vajra.

Feeling the dull, whistling wind pressure rushing toward him, Li Hansha refused to yield. He took a deep breath, and every bone in his body rang in unison. His body suddenly swelled as the Internal Force and blood qi within him erupted in an instant, like a volcano exploding, and he charged directly forward.

The two left behind a flurry of afterimages before colliding in the blink of an eye, stirring up a wild gale. Wang Tianba's Iron Sand Palm struck Li Hansha's body, yet it produced a resounding peal like a golden bell being struck—as though a hammer had smashed into a great bronze bell.

Dong!!

"Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield? What formidable hard training!!" Wang Tianba laughed loudly. His left hand changed from palm to fist, and he swung his arm down. His Iron Sand Palm had transformed into Three Emperors Cannon Punch, his fist incomparably heavy, like a giant hammer weighing a thousand jin crashing down.

Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield was an external hard-training art. It feared neither punches nor kicks from external martial arts, but it was vulnerable to the fierce, jolting force of heavy hammers and the like.

Li Hansha exhaled like an arrow. Without dodging or evading, he activated his Gang Qi and punched forward. Wang Tianba's Three Emperors Cannon Punch halted before it could touch the incoming fist, as though an invisible force had blocked him.

Bang!!

The fist crashing down with Three Emperors Cannon Punch collided with the Gang Qi activated through Pill Embracement, triggering a sonic boom and a ring of distorted air. In their first exchange, Wang Tianba retreated a full three steps, the force he discharged leaving a clear trail of footprints in the concrete.

"Pill Embracement Gang Qi, One-Inch Strike in Midair? Good!!" Wang Tianba's eyes lit up as if he had spotted some rare treasure. He drew a deep breath, and the muscles across his body swelled by another full circle. His fists smashed out, creating a dense storm of fist shadows. "Perfect—I know Dragon's Roar Iron Shirt! Come, come, come! Let's see whose fists are stronger!!"

Before his words had faded, the two collided again, like two Fierce Beasts engaged in a savage deathmatch, fighting from the road into the nearby woods.

With their Internal Force activated, coupled with such violently powerful external hard-training arts as Dragon's Roar Iron Shirt and Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield, every punch and kick erupted with terrifying force. The trees nearby, each as thick as a thigh, could not withstand the force produced by their clash, as though a tornado had swept through.

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