As Matt dropped to his knees in the training hall, the entire place fell deathly silent, as if time itself had frozen. The short-haired, long-legged woman in particular had her mocking expression freeze on her face. She stared fixedly at Matt, who could not utter a word for a long while.
"That's impossible!"
"What happened to Matt?"
The members of Illusory Myth were completely dumbfounded by the sudden turn of events.
They knew Matt's strength and defenses better than anyone. As for Matt's temperament, that went without saying. Yet the scene before them looked utterly staged.
Shi Feng's palm strike had clearly been incomparably gentle, as though he had merely pushed Matt. Let alone an expert in external martial arts like Matt, even an ordinary person should not have been injured by it. Yet Matt had collapsed to the ground, his face livid and his expression twisted, clearly having suffered a serious blow.
At this moment, not only Fang Shihan and the others, but even Thunder Leopard and the rest in the hall were left staring in astonishment.
"What did Master Shi do? How could Matt fail to block it?"
Everyone from the Heavenly Combat Training Center was utterly baffled by what they had witnessed.
They had seen Matt's strength with their own eyes. He had defeated Thunder Leopard in three punches, and even Thunder Leopard's full-force attack had failed to harm him in the slightest. Yet now, Matt had been unable to withstand Shi Feng's gentle palm strike.
It was like a truck failing to injure a cow, only to be heavily damaged by a falling leaf. It was simply unbelievable.
"Vice Guild Leader, could Shi Feng have used some kind of concealed weapon? Otherwise, how could someone with Matt's physical constitution possibly be injured?" a similarly burly young