One Punch to Kill a Bone-Refining Expert! The Human Body's Limit: The Strength of an Elephant!

Qin Yu finished regulating his breathing and finally steadied his internal injuries. Slowly, he brought his practice to a close.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a "massive" corpse on the ground. Two bodies, one large and one small, like iron towers, lay before him. They were truly an eyesore.

"Junior Brother Qiming?! What happened to you?!"

The appearance of this additional massive corpse meant there had been a fierce battle!

Then he saw Li Qiming lying nearby, and Qin Yu couldn't help looking flustered.

Fortunately, Li Qiming slowly came to. He first sucked in a sharp breath, a strange look in his eyes, and seemed to be in great pain...

"Junior Brother, are you injured?" Qin Yu asked with concern.

The massive corpse beside them was clearly no easy opponent. He really couldn't imagine how his junior brother had dealt with such an enemy.

"No." Li Qiming shook his head and got to his feet.

Qin Yu reached out to support him. The next moment, his whole body was sent stumbling backward, and with a smack, he fell flat on his back!

?

Li Qiming blinked innocently, a trace of bewilderment slowly appearing on his face.

"What incredible strength! Junior Brother, your body..."

Qin Yu scrambled to his feet, staring at the boy, whose frame had visibly grown a size bulkier. His eyes were full of disbelief.

He'd thought his junior brother was injured, but when he'd reached out to help him, the other boy's body had unconsciously released an astonishing force. It had caught him completely off guard... Well, even if he'd been prepared, it would've been hard to withstand!

Li Qiming stared at the massive corpse on the ground and said absently, "I was fighting him just now. When it came down to life or death, my strength suddenly surged..."

Before he could finish, Senior Brother Qin spoke with conviction:

"Looks like you've awakened some kind of talent, one related to the Human Body Secret Treasury."

Seeing the boy look at him with a trace of surprise, Qin Yu continued solemnly,

"As far as I know, martial arts are about unlocking the secrets of the human body. People carry a treasure within themselves without even realizing it. The Pavilion Master once said that even if you combined every martial arts manual in the world today, what they'd reveal about the Human Body Secret Treasury would be no more than a drop in the ocean."

Hearing that the other boy had found a good explanation for his immense strength, Li Qiming nodded in satisfaction.

He also gained a better sense of the tremendous force he could barely control.

A moment ago, he hadn't even felt himself exerting any strength, yet Senior Brother Qin had nearly been sent "flying."

He had little grasp of his own strength, but the panel had gained a new status entry:

Talent: [Strength of a Tiger] + [Strength of Two Oxen and a Tiger].

Before his eyes, the two talent entries merged, ultimately becoming a single talent—[Strength of an Elephant].

Ten thousand catties of force!

No wonder he'd sent Senior Brother Qin "flying" with a touch. If he'd used even a little force, he might have seriously injured him...

Well, the Blood Qi growing inside him was still violent, but within this "Steel Body," already upgraded and strengthened to its limit, that little Blood Qi was no longer a threat.

Maybe I can add even more Blood Qi and cultivation power...

Li Qiming pondered slowly.

"Junior Brother, this isn't the time to zone out..."

Qin Yu suddenly spoke. He'd noticed that this junior brother often had a vacant look in his eyes, his thoughts drifting who knew where. And with his honest, guileless nature, everyone around him thought he was simple-minded...

Yet Qin Yu clearly remembered how, when danger had struck twice, the other boy had timed his escape to perfection, leaving him in the dust.

When Qin Yu had thought he was certain to die, his junior brother had disguised himself, shrunk his bones, and lured the little Iron Tower into a trap. While guarding him, he'd unlocked the secrets of the human body, then killed the Big Iron Tower.

The more he learned about this junior brother, the more he felt there was far more to him than met the eye.

Each thing, taken on its own, seemed unremarkable. But put together, they were more than a little intriguing.

Could his junior brother really be a true genius?!

How many rising stars throughout history had stunned the world with a single brilliant display?

At that thought, Qin Yu felt it was almost certainly true.

Li Qiming came back to himself and naturally understood what the other boy meant. The battle was raging, after all. The important thing was to join the fighting quickly and help secure victory.

"Senior Brother, can you still fight?"

"I've got half my strength left."

Li Qiming nodded, then headed with Qin Yu toward the sound of fighting.

They came across plenty of corpses along the way. Whenever Li Qiming saw one of their own, he reached out to check if they were alive. If it was an enemy, he gave them a kick too.

They picked up quite a few Entries along the way, but they all came from low-level Blood Refining Realm warriors. Nothing valuable dropped. It even seemed as though his luck had run out; he didn't find a single useful Entry.

Li Qiming had almost forgotten that he himself was also a Blood Refining Realm warrior. Even at the peak of the realm, if he didn't enter Bone Refining, he was still just a mortal with a flesh-and-blood body.

"Brother Wang? A Bone-Refining warrior!"

Qin Yu suddenly stared into a shadowy forest. Inside, Brother Wang, a Bone-Refining warrior from the Weiyuan Escort Agency, was locked in fierce combat with a black-clad warrior from the Demon Sect.

The black-clad warrior wielded a Full Moon Scimitar, its swift dance dazzling the eye.

"What fast swordsmanship!" Qin Yu couldn't help exclaiming.

Then he saw Brother Wang's face, pale as gold leaf, and seven or eight gashes across his body, their flesh peeled open. He was already on the brink of death!

"Junior Brother, hide somewhere safe. I have to save Brother Wang."

On the journey, Qin Yu and Brother Wang had hit it off at first sight. How could he stand by and do nothing now?

More importantly, if Brother Wang died, there'd be one less person to keep the Demon Sect's Bone-Refining warrior occupied. The scales of battle would surely tip. Once the enemy had a free hand, no one would make it out of the mountains alive.

Qin Yu had just started toward the battlefield when a thick arm barred his chest. He bumped into it by accident and felt iron-hard muscle in the arm. His chest hurt.

"Senior Brother, your internal injuries haven't healed. Let me handle this."

As soon as he spoke, Li Qiming, dressed in gray, shot forward, the gusts of wind around him seeming to pack a powerful punch.

"Junior Brother..." Qin Yu stared at his departing back, stunned.

Then he came to his senses. This was a life-and-death struggle between Bone-Refining warriors. Even he would have to tread carefully and look for chances to harry the enemy. How could his junior brother charge in so brazenly?

Wasn't that the same as throwing his life away?

Sometimes this junior brother was shrewd, but at other times he was so guileless and foolish!

He hurried after him, hoping he could pull his junior brother out of the fight at a critical moment.

"Kid, don't come any closer! You're no match for him!"

The moment Li Qiming charged into the forest, Brother Wang caught sight of him from the corner of his eye and immediately shouted a warning.

Not just Brother Wang—even the Demon Sect's Bone-Refining warrior knew that anyone dressed in gray was a Blood Refining Realm warrior. No matter how strong they were, they couldn't break through his protective Gang Qi.

He glanced over and dismissed the boy with disdain.

"So, you're Brother Wang? Who do you think I'll kill first, you or this kid..."

He hadn't even finished speaking when he felt a tremendous danger swooping down from behind!

He turned, and a snow-white fist was reflected in his eyes.

The same gray robe, just one fist—but why did its force feel so wrong?

Smack!

The punch landed hard in the Bone-Refining warrior's back.

In his despairing gaze, the fist pierced through his protective Gang Qi. In front of it, even Gang Qi was nothing but a bubble.

The immense force tore through his body, shattering his internal organs in an instant. It sent the Bone-Refining warrior flying, and before he even hit the ground, he'd stopped breathing.

He crashed heavily to the ground, his face still twisted with disbelief.

Silence!

The fierce battles throughout the surrounding forest seemed to pause for a moment.

Even Brother Wang's ragged breathing hitched. He stared at Li Qiming as if he'd seen a ghost.

If he wasn't mistaken, wasn't this the deserter from earlier? He'd looked down on the boy, but now he'd seen him strike with such overwhelming force!

If the other boy hadn't stepped in, Brother Wang would surely have died beneath that swift blade. The boy... had saved his life!

Qin Yu, who had been following close behind Li Qiming, also stopped abruptly. He stood rooted to the spot, staring at his junior brother's back, utterly overwhelmed by shock!