Giant Elephant Skill

Qin Sheng was defeated, and his junior brother Li Ming stepped forward to challenge him.

With the mindset that fighting one was fighting and fighting two was also fighting, Lu Chengchuan accepted the challenge and walked to the other side to wait.

"Senior Brother, I'll fight him."

Li Ming came forward and had Qin Sheng step down first before facing Lu Chengchuan. Qin Sheng was helped up. Before leaving, he glanced at Lu Chengchuan, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Be careful. He's very strong," he quietly warned his junior brother before leaving.

Lu Chengchuan was indeed powerful. No matter how proud he was, a loss was a loss. He would not stubbornly deny it just to save face.

Li Ming nodded. His senior brother was very fast. When the two of them had sparred before, neither had been able to gain the upper hand. Since Lu Chengchuan had defeated his senior brother in a single move, his strength was certainly no joke.

"Please!"

Once Li Ming was ready, Lu Chengchuan raised a hand and gestured for him to begin.

As soon as he spoke, energy burst from Li Ming's body. It turned his skin iron-blue, as though he were wearing a layer of iron armor, yet it did not hinder his agility in the slightest.

Li Ming walked toward him step by step, seemingly intending to engage him in close-quarters combat.

Lu Chengchuan was not afraid of him. With the Eagle Claw Iron Body Skill at perfection, his physical strength had doubled and his defense was even stronger than before. With the boost from Inner Energy, he truly did not fear a head-on clash.

Li Ming charged forward and threw a punch at Lu Chengchuan.

He had practiced martial arts for over ten years. Though his realm was not high, his moves were extremely polished. Every stance and technique showed that he had trained properly.

But training did not necessarily mean strength. In Lu Chengchuan's eyes, his movements were far too slow.

He merely shifted his body slightly aside, easily dodging the punch, then drove a backhanded fist into Li Ming's chest.

When his fist struck Li Ming's chest, Lu Chengchuan felt as though he had hit an iron plate, the impact making his knuckles ache slightly. But Li Ming had it worse. Lu Chengchuan had used fifty percent of his strength in that punch, sending Li Ming flying.

Li Ming fell to the ground, but quickly got back to his feet.

His iron-blue face was filled with shock. Lu Chengchuan was strong enough to seem inhuman. His ability strengthened his defense and slightly increased his strength. He could even withstand bullets from a small handgun.

Yet that punch had made his organs churn. He found it hard to believe that, in this day and age, someone could truly train martial arts to such a level.

He could not figure it out, but Lu Chengchuan gave him no time to keep thinking and lunged straight at him.

Li Ming snapped back to his senses and fought back, but speed was his weakness. Lu Chengchuan's reactions and speed far surpassed his. Before he could even raise his arms to block, Lu Chengchuan punched him in the chest again.

This time, he used ninety percent of his strength. Since fifty percent had not been enough to knock him down, he would use more force. As long as he did not kill him, crippling him was fine.

The punch carrying ninety percent of his strength sent Li Ming flying backward again. Before he even hit the ground, blood had already splattered across it.

After coughing up blood, Li Ming suffered a blow to his spirit and could no longer maintain his ability. By the time he landed, he had returned to his previous appearance, utterly listless.

Lu Chengchuan defeated Li Ming with two punches. No one nearby found it surprising anymore; the gap between them was obvious to the naked eye.

"Thank you for letting me win." Lu Chengchuan walked over and repeated what he had said to Li Ming's senior brother.

He had knocked both of them down. There should be no problem now, right?

Zhao Chuanshan stepped forward. After confirming that his disciples were unharmed, his gaze immediately shifted to Lu Chengchuan. The excitement in his eyes was nearly impossible to suppress.

"Xiao Sheng, help your junior brother up. I want to have a talk with young friend Lu."

Both of them had lost. They had said themselves that as long as Lu Chengchuan proved his strength, they would not object. Now that the results were clear, neither was a match for Lu Chengchuan.

With things having reached this point, the two had nothing more to say. They could only let their master teach Lu Chengchuan the martial art.

With no more obstruction from his disciples, Zhao Chuanshan led Lu Chengchuan into a small room. At last, Lu Chengchuan could obtain the martial art he had been longing for.

"This Giant Elephant Skill is the supreme martial art of my school. Our school has been passed down for six hundred years... Sigh. By my generation, our disciples have already dwindled away, and my own strength is nothing remarkable.

"People call me a master out of respect, but I have truly failed my forebears."

Zhao Chuanshan took out a brand-new black-covered book. This was the Giant Elephant Skill manual, and it looked freshly printed.

"The original was too old, and I was afraid of damaging it, so I printed a new copy." Seeing Lu Chengchuan's curiosity, Zhao Chuanshan explained why the book was so new.

That old manual had been stored for too long. After centuries of patching and repairs, he feared that if he took it out, a gust of wind might tear it apart.

"Let the body be like an elephant, let qi serve as the pillar... When cultivated to great success, one's body gains the strength of an elephant. When the skill reaches perfection, one returns directly to the innate..."

Zhao Chuanshan handed him the manual and had him read it while offering guidance from the side.

A Mystic-Rank Martial Art, Giant Elephant Skill, has been detected. Learn it?

Learning requires 30 days of lifespan.

After Lu Chengchuan read through it once, the system's voice rose in his mind. He could learn the Giant Elephant Skill directly, as long as he paid thirty days of his lifespan.

Lu Chengchuan had not expected the Giant Elephant Style to be so well-off that it had actually preserved a Mystic-Rank Martial Art.

Yellow Grade martial arts had already allowed him to surpass ordinary people. How powerful would a Mystic-Rank Martial Art be?

He still had decades of life to spend. Without hesitation, Lu Chengchuan directly used his lifespan to learn the Giant Elephant Skill.

Thirty days of lifespan vanished instantly, and the words Giant Elephant Skill appeared on his panel.

...

Life-Sacrificing System

Host: Lu Chengchuan

Realm: Qi Refining

Martial Arts: Giant Elephant Skill, Mystic Rank, can be upgraded; Everspring Skill, Yellow Grade/Level 3; Eagle Claw Iron Body Skill, Yellow Grade/Level 3.

Current Lifespan: 31 years, 214 days.

The host's bodily functions have recovered. The unknown illness has not been cured.

...

The Giant Elephant Skill was now on the panel, though he had not even cultivated its first level. That did not matter; he could use his life to upgrade it.

Zhao Chuanshan was still watching, so he could only suppress the urge to improve the martial art.

Thinking of the Giant Elephant Skill, Lu Chengchuan suddenly stood up. He walked before Zhao Chuanshan and gave him a deep bow.

"Thank you for your guidance, Senior!"

A Mystic-Rank Martial Art was surely not cheap, not to mention it was a secret martial art passed down through the school. Zhao Chuanshan had given it to him for free, so this bow was well deserved!

"You needn't do this. I do not want our school's martial arts to decline further. You have talent for martial arts. Even if you are not my disciple, as long as you grow stronger in the future, the Giant Elephant Style will still become famous."

Zhao Chuanshan had his own selfish motives as well. He wanted the world to know of the Giant Elephant Style, rather than having it remain unknown beyond Anyang City.

"I will let the world know the Giant Elephant Style!" Lu Chengchuan promised him.

"Hearing you say that is enough for me. Sit. Let me tell you more about this."

He pulled Lu Chengchuan down to sit and continued instructing him in martial arts. Lu Chengchuan had already learned the Giant Elephant Skill, but to avoid shocking Zhao Chuanshan too much, he still pretended not to understand and continued learning from him.

While they spoke inside the room, the people from the Investigation Bureau and Zhao Chuanshan's two disciples also began chatting outside.

"Where did he come from? He's so strong. How could he have had no reputation before?" Qin Sheng approached Chen Long, wanting to know more about Lu Chengchuan.

Both he and Junior Brother Li had awakened abilities, yet together they could not even withstand three moves. Qin Sheng found it astonishing.