High Martial Arts: One Punch Equals a Hundred
Chapter 41

Yang Sheng! Invincible!

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"What?!"

"He's also at Great Completion of Bright Force!"

Boss Wang roared the words.

He grabbed his communicator and called someone.

"Didn't you say all those Lower Registry students had only reached Lesser Completion of Bright Force? You lied to me!"

"I'm telling you, if it isn't ten to zero, I'll remove every last one of you when I get back! What's the point of keeping you around?!"

The other party hurriedly explained that, according to their latest intelligence, Yang Sheng was only at Lesser Completion of Bright Force.

But Boss Wang refused to listen. In a fit of rage, he smashed the communicator onto the ground.

The communicator shattered into pieces.

"Those useless bastards!"

As he spoke, Boss Wang hurried over to Chairman Xu, hoping he could come up with something.

Only to find Chairman Xu pale-lipped and despairing.

Chairman Xu turned to Boss Wang and said tremblingly, "Actually, I placed a bet too. I wagered my entire fortune on the Upper Registry students winning, but now..."

If Li Ya lost, Chairman Xu would be bankrupt in an instant.

Boss Wang hadn't expected Chairman Xu to have gambled even bigger than he had.

"Madman. He's completely insane."

Zhou Mohai walked back to the announcer's platform and sat down calmly.

He questioned Principal Tang beside him.

"How come nobody told me beforehand that a Lower Registry student at this school had reached Great Completion of Bright Force?"

Principal Tang could only shake his head with a bitter smile.

"Principal Zhou, it wasn't that I didn't tell you. I didn't know either. Who would have thought Yang Sheng had reached Great Completion of Bright Force too? Even Teacher Jiang didn't know."

Zhou Mohai snorted. "If he had known, he wouldn't have lowered himself to come beg me in person."

Li Ya stared at Yang Sheng as though he had seen a ghost. Terror spread through his entire body as he kept scooting backward.

"How much have you been hiding? How much strength do you still have?!"

He roared hoarsely, as if doing so could bolster his courage.

Yang Sheng did not answer. He sank into a horse stance and delivered an exceptionally standard stomp.

A ring of dust billowed beneath his feet as he shot toward Li Ya.

Straight Punch!

Li Ya could not see it at all.

Yang Sheng was too fast.

Li Ya tried to raise his arms to block, but Yang Sheng's fist was faster. The punch landed squarely in Li Ya's stomach.

That single punch caved in his abdomen.

His internal organs were instantly crushed and displaced.

Li Ya opened his mouth and sprayed blood, trying to retreat farther.

But Yang Sheng was faster. He threw another punch, this one striking Li Ya's shoulder.

With a crack, Li Ya's shoulder blade shattered instantly, bone fragments piercing through flesh.

As Li Ya instinctively reached for the shoulder blade wracked by excruciating pain—

Yang Sheng threw his third punch. This time, it hit Li Ya's thigh.

Li Ya's incomparably hard femur was as brittle as a cucumber beneath Yang Sheng's fist.

Another horrifying crack rang out.

Li Ya's femur shattered as well.

Yang Sheng's punches came faster and harder with each strike.

After three punches, Li Ya had lost all ability to move, barely managing to remain standing on his other leg.

But Yang Sheng's assault did not stop.

He stomped, twisted his hips, turned, and bent his elbow.

Heart-Piercing Elbow!

This strike was aimed at Li Ya's head.

If it landed, Li Ya would die on the spot.

And now that he had lost the ability to move, Li Ya would surely die if Yang Sheng did not stop.

Among the moves of the Six Openings, the Heart-Piercing Elbow was the most powerful and the hardest to master.

Even with the Martial God Soul aiding his training, Yang Sheng had practiced day and night without pause to bring the difficult Heart-Piercing Elbow to Great Perfection.

Before the elbow even arrived, Li Ya felt a powerful gust rushing at him.

The fierce wind was like a blade, actually cutting open the skin on his face.

He felt that he was going to die.

At that critical moment—

Li Ya shouted.

"I surrender! I surrender!!"

Bang!

Yang Sheng's Heart-Piercing Elbow stopped one centimeter from Li Ya's face.

But though the elbow stopped, its force did not.

A terrifying power like a flood crest exploded out of nowhere.

The elbow strike compressed the air so intensely that the temperature spiked to over a hundred degrees in an instant.

Scorching airflow slammed into Li Ya's face.

The flesh on his face was scalded by the heat and battered by the tremendous force.

Nearly half the skin on his face peeled away.

His appearance was horrifying.

Li Ya could no longer endure it and dropped to his knees.

He raised the right hand he could still lift.

"Please, spare me. I surrender."

Yang Sheng took a step forward.

Li Ya could only crane his head all the way back to look at him.

"Are you sure?"

Yang Sheng's words sounded icy and bone-chilling to Li Ya, each one carrying overwhelming pressure.

"I... I'm sure. I surrender. I give up."

He slowly bent down and pressed his forehead to the ground.

Yang Sheng's gaze turned cold. He lightly kicked Li Ya's right hand, knocking it upward.

Then he threw a punch.

Crack!

Li Ya's right hand broke completely.

"Ah!" Li Ya wailed.

Yang Sheng moved to his other intact leg and smashed down with another heavy punch.

At that point, all four of Li Ya's limbs had been completely ruined.

Fearful and resentful, he said, "Why?! Why did you do this? I already surrendered!"

Yang Sheng turned and walked away.

"With me, there is no such thing as surrendering and only losing half. Letting you keep your life is already generosity. I broke your limbs only to stop you from changing your mind and launching a sneak attack. There was no other reason, so don't overthink it."

Li Ya grew dizzy, collapsed to the ground, and lost consciousness.

Li Yan, who had been waiting in the preparation room and had witnessed everything, turned and left after seeing the final outcome.

Others might not understand Yang Sheng, but he did.

He knew Yang Sheng's cultivation best. After all, the day before he had driven Yang Sheng out of school, he had even used him as a sparring partner.

He knew clearly that Yang Sheng had still been an unnoticed student who had not even reached Lesser Completion of Bright Force that day.

Yet in just two weeks, he had grown to Great Completion of Bright Force.

All contempt for Yang Sheng had vanished from his heart.

In the private room, Boss Wang flipped over the table.

He stormed out in a rage.

Chairman Xu, who had lost his family fortune, merely stared numbly at everything happening in the arena, lost in thought.

In another private room, Liu Jianming finally unclenched his fists.

"I knew I hadn't misjudged Yang Sheng. He really did it. It's a miracle."

Liu Chang also let out the breath she had been holding.

"I really didn't expect my junior brother to improve so quickly."

Jiang Tian, meanwhile, turned and left without a word.

"Eh? Why is Teacher Jiang leaving?" Liu Jianming asked.

Liu Chang shook her head.

But she knew that Jiang Tian had faced no less pressure than Yang Sheng during this time.

He had practically staked his reputation on recommending Yang Sheng. Now, it seemed he had made the right bet.

As Yang Sheng walked step by step past the stands—

All the Lower Registry students and residents in the stands erupted.

They shouted and cheered to vent the resentment they had long suppressed under the Upper Registry people.

"Yang Sheng, invincible!"

No one knew who shouted it first.

But after the first person called out, everyone began shouting along.

"Yang Sheng, invincible!"

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