Dragon Ball: I Can Absorb Energy to Get Stronger
Chapter 5

Sparring with Sun Wukong

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On the plain, two young figures faced each other, both radiating powerful auras.

Sun Wukong and Li Feng both took fighting stances, carefully searching for openings in each other's guard.

"Tap!"

A stone drifting down with the wind became the signal for the battle to begin.

"Hah!" Wukong struck first, his figure flashing as he arrived in front of Li Feng in an instant.

Li Feng could clearly see Wukong's movements, and calmly blocked with his right hand.

"Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!" Wukong's attacks grew more and more intense, his fists striking at Li Feng like machine-gun fire.

Li Feng checked Wukong's current combat power: 800.

Sure enough, just like in the original work, Wukong did not like using his full strength at the start.

Although his own combat power was as high as 3,000, he could not bully the weak with strength. Besides, this was a spar, a good opportunity to train his martial arts.

Through their constant probing, Li Feng also raised his combat power to around 800, but because his combat experience was not rich enough, he still fell into a disadvantage.

"Heh!" Wukong feinted an opening, and when Li Feng attacked, his figure turned illusory. Then he appeared behind Li Feng and kicked him flying.

"What move was that?"

Li Feng pulled back, asking in surprise.

"Heh heh, that's Afterimage Fist! It took me a long time of fumbling around before I learned it!" Wukong said proudly, rubbing his nose.

"Oh? Interesting! Use it a few more times and let me see!"

Li Feng wanted to learn this technique.

"This move isn't that easy to learn! Watch closely!"

"Whoosh!" Wukong's figure appeared in front of Li Feng again, then turned illusory, while the real attack came from above.

"Bang!" Li Feng took the hit head-on with his sturdy body.

This time, Li Feng no longer relied solely on his eyesight to observe. He also used his perception of qi.

Although his eyes saw that there was indeed a figure of Wukong ahead, along with a portion of qi, the qi he actually sensed was not in front of him, but above!

"Again!" Li Feng had already grasped the principle behind the Afterimage Fist. After a few more times, he should be able to use it.

"Hahaha! Here I come!" Wukong was just as excited.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The two continued exchanging blows, the energy of their punches surging through the air and stirring up waves of dust.

If there had been a scouter testing their combat power at this moment, it would have discovered that both of their combat powers were constantly rising.

From 800 to 850 to 900...

"So that's how it is!"

Li Feng understood the principle behind the Afterimage Fist.

In fact, the Afterimage Fist was also an application of qi.

At the instant of attack, one split off part of one's original qi and left behind an afterimage, then quickly moved to another position. That way, it was as if the person had suddenly appeared there.

After understanding the principle, Li Feng also tried using it himself.

"Hah!" Wukong used the Afterimage Fist again, his right fist punching straight toward Li Feng's chest.

Li Feng already knew this was Wukong's Afterimage Fist, so he also used a portion of qi to create an afterimage.

When Li Feng's afterimage struck Wukong's afterimage, Wukong's real body appeared behind Li Feng, his right elbow thrusting toward Li Feng's back.

Wukong had thought Li Feng would be hit just like before, but who knew this was actually Li Feng's afterimage? He hit nothing, and then his back suffered a violent impact, sending him crashing straight into a small hill.

Li Feng's true body had appeared behind Wukong! And he had successfully deceived Wukong!

"You actually managed to use it so quickly. You're really incredible!" Wukong said in surprise.

"Again!"

Li Feng wanted to familiarize himself further with using the Afterimage Fist, and he grew even more excited.

Although he had a system, and his combat power would keep soaring, his actual combat experience and fighting techniques were far from enough. He needed to temper them properly.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

The two figures moved faster and faster, the sound of them tearing through the air growing louder and louder. Later on, their bodies could no longer be seen at all; the sky was filled with afterimages!

Before he knew it, Li Feng had grasped the rhythm of the battle. During one acceleration, Wukong failed to react in time and was struck again.

"Bang!"

A human-shaped crater appeared in the ground.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Wukong emerged from the pit, covered in dust and dirt.

Wukong felt very puzzled. At first, he had thought Li Feng was an unparalleled expert, but many of his fighting techniques and practical combat experience were far inferior to his own, and his fighting was very unpolished.

What was even more astonishing was that Li Feng had an extremely high talent for martial arts. He could basically understand the principles behind many of Wukong's moves after seeing them just once, and after a few more tries, he had learned them.

The fight had gone from Wukong suppressing Li Feng at the start, to the two of them being evenly matched, and finally to Li Feng turning the tables and gaining the upper hand over Wukong!

Of course, everyone's combat power had stayed around 900, so there was no case of Li Feng using brute force to suppress Wukong.

"All right, in that case!"

Wukong made up his mind. Since he had already tested him with fists and kicks, it was time to switch to ki attacks.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Wukong braced his right hand against the ground and used the momentum to fly up, firing several yellow energy blasts from his left hand at Li Feng.

Li Feng's perception of ki was extremely sharp. The moment he saw Wukong attack with ki blasts, he immediately dodged.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three craters appeared in the ground once again.

Wukong used the flight technique again and flew into midair. He gathered energy balls in both hands once more and used Prince Trick, the blasts pouring from Wukong's hands like a machine gun!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

At first, Li Feng only dodged, but when the range grew too wide, he could only take them head-on with his body.

Seeing that Li Feng seemed to be at a loss, Wukong sped up the barrage of ki blasts again, hoping to defeat Li Feng then and there.

After adapting to the rhythm, Li Feng was no longer passive either, shifting from defense into a stalemate.

At first, he still used both arms to block. Later, he used both hands to knock away the excess ki blasts, and after that, he also fired white ki blasts in retaliation!

As ki flowed and gathered in his hands, Li Feng became more and more familiar with its use. The ki blasts he fired grew more numerous, and their speed grew faster and faster!

The scene went from a one-sided yellow flash machine gun at the start, to white starlight flickering later, to white shells flying all over the sky!

Wukong was once again astonished by Li Feng's martial arts talent!

With a flash, Wukong broke away from the battlefield just now and flew to an even higher place.

"Ka!"

Wukong stopped using ordinary blasts and began using the Kamehameha.

"Me!"

Seeing this, Li Feng also brought both hands to his waist at the same time and gathered a Kamehameha.

"Ha!"

In the sky and on the ground, two figures were gathering vast amounts of energy.

"Me!"

Two azure energy waves shot out!

In an instant, they lit up the dark night!

"Ha!"

The two energy waves collided, condensing into a blue energy sphere at the center, and the energy it gave off made the air tremble!

Boom!

"Ha!"

Wukong was sweating as he increased his output.

Clashing beams with someone from the Son family was a first, but he would not lose!

Even stronger ki erupted from Li Feng's hands, and the blue beam became even thicker!

"Push through for me!"

Wukong shouted and unleashed his full strength!

The Kamehameha in the sky instantly pressed down toward the ground!

"Fight back for me!"

Li Feng also shouted and erupted with his own ki!

Boom!

Even though Wukong's energy had now reached as high as 1,500, Li Feng's ki at full strength was as high as 3,000!

Li Feng's energy was still superior!

His Kamehameha pushed back and directly struck Wukong!

Thud!

A massive explosion rang out, and the figure in the air fell powerlessly!

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