Three Extremes Spirit Fist

At the mention of the Martial Arts world, Lin Chao recalled the woman he had seen that day.

Back then, he had saved Qi Xueyan after she fell from the third floor. Later, after leaving the hospital room, he had caught a fleeting glimpse of a short-haired woman with well-developed chest muscles.

Based on his experience simulating lives, that woman should have been a trained fighter—one of those people from the so-called Martial Arts world.

Still, Zhao Xiaoyi was right. The Martial Arts in this world were indeed limited in strength.

They were far inferior to what was portrayed in TV dramas.

Beating up ordinary people was no problem, but against a few knife-wielding punks, they might very well capsize in the gutter.

"You're right." Lin Chao no longer refuted Zhao Xiaoyi's guess.

At that moment, Zhao Xiaoyi was clearly swept up in an overwhelming urge to talk.

"Still, even if Heize couldn't hold off ten thousand men alone, he must have been an unparalleled powerhouse of his time.

I'd guess he was a powerhouse on the level of Gun King Liu Xiu!"

At the mention of Gun King Liu Xiu, Zhao Xiaoyi's eyes lit up, just like when she spoke of Heize.

Clearly, she was deeply interested in the Martial Arts world—or rather, Martial Arts itself.

"Probably." Lin Chao recalled that not long after entering Kyoto, his master, Gun King Liu Xiu, had already ceased to be his match.

His master Liu Xiu's spear skills really had some substance to them.

However, this grandmaster of a generation had been far more human than the historical records described.

Of course, calling him human might not have been quite right either.

If Lin Chao remembered correctly, Liu Xiu often took a whole crowd of disciples out drinking with courtesans.

Heize naturally had not chosen to go.

But Lin Chao knew that his junior brother, the Crown Prince, had rather enjoyed such outings.

"Gun King Liu Xiu's Liu Family Spear has been passed down to the present day and counts as one of Great Xia's great martial arts techniques.

Unfortunately, over the course of a thousand years, the Liu Family Spear's inheritance was once severed.

The essence of techniques such as Gun Rain Flower can now only be found in ancient books.

Although later generations have continued refining it, and today's Liu Family Spear remains extraordinary, who knows whether it is stronger or weaker than the Liu Family Spear of old?"

Zhao Xiaoyi sighed. Whenever she mentioned such things, she became especially animated.

Lin Chao knew of Gun Rain Flower. It was a technique that used a lifting spear to deflect force, carrying something of the feeling of using four ounces to move a thousand pounds.

When the spear was lifted and moved, it flowed on without end, forming blossoms of spear light. Thus, it was called Gun Rain Flower.

Heize had learned this technique back then as well.

Given Heize's strength at the time, he had only found it flashy and impractical, less convenient than simply swinging his spear.

Yet Lin Chao understood that this was because Heize had been born with divine strength.

For anyone else, mastering Gun Rain Flower would indeed raise their strength by a great deal.

Gun Rain Flower could be considered an ultimate technique.

"How do you know so much?" Lin Chao asked in surprise.

After all, these things were all extremely obscure.

Modern society was a world of modern technology.

The Martial Arts world was already small, let alone spear arts, one branch within it.

"I'm especially interested in Martial Arts." Stars seemed to shine in Zhao Xiaoyi's eyes. "Naturally, I know a little more."

Lin Chao glanced at Zhao Xiaoyi.

Sure enough, Zhao Xiaoyi looked far healthier than ordinary people.

She was still some distance from being a trained fighter, but she was already quite impressive.

No wonder she knew so much.

"Brother Lin Chao, don't let my smaller build fool you. If we fought, I might not necessarily lose to you."

Zhao Xiaoyi spoke as she clenched her little fists, a smile on her face. She was joking.

"Heh heh, we're living together. If you start getting handsy with me, just watch how I beat you up."

Lin Chao smiled as well.

After eating with Zhao Xiaoyi, she put her things in her room and went to Tianhai Jiaotong University for a look around.

Lin Chao had originally wanted to go with her, but Zhao Xiaoyi said she had friends there.

Lin Chao naturally stayed home.

There were still several hours until the Simulator opened again.

When the Simulator began, his entire body would not disappear.

Or rather, no matter how long the simulation lasted, in reality it was only an instant—or perhaps no time passed at all.

Therefore, even with Zhao Xiaoyi around, he was not worried about exposing himself.

Lin Chao flipped through several history books, including Wild Forest Records, Three Stones Biography, and Han Book.

Lin Chao felt that reading these historical texts and letting his thoughts roam could teach him quite a lot.

Just then, there came a knock at the door.

Lin Chao stood and opened it.

Zhao Xiaoyi entered the room, followed by a woman dressed in short training clothes.

"Brother Lin Chao, this is my Sister Xiao Rou."

Zhao Xiaoyi introduced her.

Lin Chao looked at the woman beside Zhao Xiaoyi.

Her features were quite ordinary, but her eyes were bright and sharp. More importantly, unlike those slender women, her body was packed with muscles and radiated strength.

Her arms were thicker than Zhao Xiaoyi's thighs.

At a glance, she was clearly not someone to provoke.

"Hello." Lin Chao greeted the burly woman named Xiao Rou.

Xiao Rou smiled in response.

"Brother Lin Chao, I'm going to sleep at Sister Xiao Rou's place tonight, so I won't be coming back," Zhao Xiaoyi said, blinking at him.

"No problem." After thinking it over, Lin Chao agreed.

Zhao Xiaoyi was nearly an adult and had her own mind about what she did.

Lin Chao was merely her distant cousin, so naturally he would not restrict her too much.

"Brother Lin Chao, you're the best." Smiling, Zhao Xiaoyi returned to her room to get some things.

In the end, she said goodbye to Lin Chao and left the room.

In the elevator, Xiao Rou grinned. "Your brother is quite handsome. He looks slim in clothes but has muscle underneath—exactly my type."

"Hey, Sister Xiao Rou, my brother is still wearing clothes. How do you know he has muscle underneath?"

"A woman's intuition."

"Heh heh."

Zhao Xiaoyi followed Xiao Rou down in the elevator.

At that moment, Xiao Rou's expression turned solemn.

"Xiaoyi, your natural aptitude is excellent. You're made for practicing martial arts.

Would you consider joining our Three Extremes Sect?"

"Sister Xiao Rou, I don't want to practice martial arts." Zhao Xiaoyi refused emphatically.

She did not want to build a body full of muscles.

Couldn't she just be beautiful on her own?

"Sigh." Xiao Rou sighed. "I know what you're afraid of—afraid of becoming like me.

Actually... Martial Arts aren't that simple.

According to the records left by our ancestors, our Three Extremes Sect possesses not only Three Extremes Fist, but also Three Extremes Spirit Fist.

After practicing this fist art, not only is its power far greater than Three Extremes Fist, but it also won't affect our body shape."

"Huh? There's really such a fist art?" Zhao Xiaoyi found it unbelievable.

If one only trained in empty forms, then there was indeed no need to strengthen one's body much.

But after reaching a certain level, physical ability had to keep up if one wanted to break through.

Xiao Rou was the senior sister of the Three Extremes Sect. Her Martial Arts were formidable; five or six ordinary punks could not even get near her.

"There is, but unfortunately, only our Three Extremes Sect's founding patriarch ever succeeded in cultivating it.

Back then, after the patriarch mastered Three Extremes Spirit Fist, she became a Martial Arts grandmaster of a generation during the final years of Great Cang.

Unfortunately, no one has succeeded since then.

If you are willing to join our Three Extremes Sect, I can let you take a look at this martial art."

Xiao Rou wore a smile. This martial art was no longer much of a secret within the Three Extremes Sect.

People practiced it every year.

The moves were easy enough to learn, but as for the power?

It was not even as good as the random turtle punches thrown by street punks.

Naturally, the sect master of the Three Extremes Sect did not want others saying that the sect's ultimate art was useless.

So it became a matter of no one ever having succeeded in mastering it.

Still, when Xiao Rou practiced Three Extremes Spirit Fist, she too felt that something was off.

It seemed as though there was some discordance within it.

She had come to believe the claim that no one in the present age could master it.

Perhaps it required a special opportunity, or special natural aptitude, to succeed.

One's aptitude for martial arts could truly be called mysterious beyond mystery.

"Really? If that's the case, I'd like to give it a try.

What if I'm a once-in-ten-thousand martial arts genius?"

A smile appeared on Zhao Xiaoyi's face.

"Maybe once I master Three Extremes Spirit Fist, even if Heize came back to life, he still wouldn't be my match."