Tieniu's Heaven-Defying Talent!

Lin Bei was stunned by Tieniu's words and, for a moment, said nothing.

At that moment, a strange thought rose in his mind.

As the eldest senior brother, Zhang Teng possessed heaven-defying comprehension of the path of immortal cultivation.

But Tieniu's talent for combat and techniques clearly ran even deeper.

"Tell me what you have in mind," Lin Bei asked.

He understood that by sharing his ideas, Tieniu was actually seeking his opinion.

In the past, Lin Bei truly had no real ability and could only have brushed him off.

But now, his Tai Chi had undergone two Limit-Breakings, his Tai Chi Breath-Absorbing Art had undergone four, and he himself had reached the sixth tempering of the Dao Body.

He was more than qualified to guide Tieniu.

Upon hearing Lin Bei's question, Tieniu immediately explained his ideas.

"Master, Tai Chi balances hardness and softness, but my fist technique pursues ultimate hardness and ultimate yang."

"With that in mind, I want to use softness as a supplement and create a fist technique of ultimate hardness, while ensuring its extreme hardness and yang remain intact."

Lin Bei listened quietly, deeply astonished.

Tieniu looked simple and rough, but beneath that rough exterior lay a fine mind. He even understood that excessive rigidity made things prone to breaking, and that hardness needed a touch of softness to reach its ultimate state.

No wonder he had said he would use Tai Chi as his foundation... he was taking its essence and weaving it into a unified whole.

Tieniu understood perfectly well that what suited him was best.

"Since you've grasped the principles of Tai Chi, blazing a different trail is certainly possible."

Lin Bei gave Tieniu his approval.

Tieniu brightened slightly, then continued, "Master, I also have a technique to complement this fist technique. I'd like your guidance."

A technique?

The moment Lin Bei heard those words, he understood.

Had he created a technique to match martial artists' combat skills?

"What sort of technique? Something like your Senior Brother Zhang's Acupoint Sealing?"

Tieniu shook his head. "Senior Brother Zhang's Acupoint Sealing is a martial skill derived from Tai Chi, and my Extreme Yang Fist Technique is also a martial skill derived from Tai Chi."

"I'm talking about a technique, not a martial skill!"

Interest showed on Lin Bei's face.

Just as I thought! I wasn't wrong about Tieniu.

In certain areas, this boy had extraordinary talent that even Zhang Teng could not match.

"Tell me the thinking behind your technique."

"Yes!" Tieniu immediately said. "Master, while comprehending the Zhou Tian Acupoints Breathing Method, I realized that although my body has three hundred and sixty-five aperture points, those points form major and minor circuits."

"The major circuit encompasses all three hundred and sixty-five aperture points! And those points can be combined into nine minor circuits!"

Lin Bei nodded with apparent nonchalance, but inwardly, he was profoundly shaken.

Had his Tai Chi Breath-Channeling Method not fully integrated the Zhou Tian Acupoints Breathing Method and undergone its fourth Limit-Breaking, he would not even have understood Tieniu's words.

He knew Tieniu was describing the very essence of the Aperture Points breathing method!

Even Zhang Teng had failed to comprehend this.

Seeing Lin Bei nod, Tieniu grew even more confident.

"Master, the Breath-Absorbing Art draws heaven-and-earth spiritual power into every inch of flesh and blood to temper the Dao Body."

"I think that, besides drawing it into our flesh and blood, we might also store heaven-and-earth spiritual power in our aperture points. If we activate the power within those points during battle, our strength will multiply."

"Moreover, I've discovered that the aperture points of the nine minor circuits progress layer by layer. If all nine major aperture points are filled completely with heaven-and-earth spiritual power, then activated one after another through a special method, perhaps a full release could unleash nine times our combat strength!"

Hiss...

Lin Bei inwardly sucked in a breath of cold air. Nine times the combat strength? Isn't that far too outrageous?

He knew perfectly well that Tieniu's proposal was entirely feasible. In the plainest words, Tieniu had described the most heaven-defying technique!

"It's feasible."

Lin Bei said no more. After confirming it was feasible, he gave Tieniu an encouraging look.

"Have you thought of names for the fist technique and technique you plan to create?"

Tieniu nodded. "Master, I'd like to call my fist technique the Extreme Yang Fist Technique. As for the other technique, I'd like to call it the Nine Yang Dao Art."

"Excellent!" Lin Bei smiled and nodded. "Good names."

Elsewhere.

On the road to the Martial Arts Grounds.

Inside a carriage.

Mu Qingyue asked, "Xiao Liuzi, why didn't your master stop Zhang Teng from challenging the Zhang Clan?"

"Why would he stop him?" Xiao Liuzi looked puzzled. "Master really encouraged him to settle his grudges!"

Mu Qingyue was lost in a fog.

What on earth?

With Zhang Teng's strength, wouldn't challenging the Zhang Clan be throwing his life away? Why would Lin Bei encourage him?

Her face full of confusion, she asked, "Field Master Lin encouraged him to take revenge? Once a Challenge Letter is issued, it's a fight to the death!"

Xiao Liuzi looked as though this was perfectly natural.

"That's right. Precisely because the rules require a fight to the death once a Challenge Letter is issued, Senior Brother Zhang asked the Central Hall to serve as an impartial witness."

Mu Qingyue was even more confused. She could not understand why Xiao Liuzi also considered Zhang Teng's actions perfectly reasonable.

Didn't he know that, against the Zhang Clan's strength, Zhang Teng was courting death?

Questions filled her heart!

"Miss Mu, do you think Senior Brother Zhang is courting death?" Xiao Liuzi asked in return.

"A little," Mu Qingyue answered honestly.

"The Zhang Clan is a prominent family in Nanyang. They have dozens of martial artists at the martial intent level. The strongest is Zhang Conglong, and I've heard his martial true intent has already reached major accomplishment."

"If you recklessly send them a Challenge Letter, Zhang Conglong will probably return from the border."

Xiao Liuzi looked utterly unconcerned. "What's there to fear? Senior Brother Zhang can defeat Zhang Yong now, and in ten days, he'll be able to defeat Zhang Conglong."

"Zhang Yong? Who is he? Did people from the Zhang Household go to capture Zhang Teng?" Mu Qingyue asked.

Xiao Liuzi immediately recounted everything that had happened with Zhang Tao and Zhang Yong.

When she heard that Zhang Teng had defeated Zhang Tao, Mu Qingyue was shocked, but still found it reasonable.

After all, during her assessment, she had used Early Elixir Sea Stage strength, which was comparable to an ordinary martial artist's middle Elixir Sea strength.

Since Zhang Teng could defeat her, it was not inconceivable that he could defeat someone at the late Elixir Sea stage.

But when she heard that Zhang Teng had defeated Zhang Yong, she was utterly astonished.

Zhang Yong was an expert at the manifestation level of the martial intent realm!

This was not someone who had just entered martial intent, but someone who could already wield it with practiced ease.

Although Zhang Teng had disrupted her sword intent manifestation back then, she knew in her heart that he could not possibly match an expert in the martial intent realm.

At that thought.

Mu Qingyue immediately asked, "The gap between body refining and martial intent is like the gulf between clouds and mud! How exactly did he do it?"

Xiao Liuzi smiled confidently.

"Because he's Senior Brother Zhang! By the time he defeated Zhang Yong, he'd already reached the fifth tempering of the Dao Body!"

"The fifth tempering of the Dao Body?" Mu Qingyue was shaken to her core!

She knew about the Dao Body's nine temperings.

Zhang Teng had mentioned them when they fought.

The third tempering of the Dao Body was equivalent to indestructible vajra.

Mu Qingyue had originally thought that the third tempering of the Dao Body could be regarded as a martial artist's Dantian Sea Realm.

But now, it seemed that was not the case at all.

At the fifth tempering of the Dao Body, Zhang Teng could actually defeat an expert at the manifestation level of the martial intent realm?

This was...

Far too outrageous!

"Back then... when Zhang Teng fought me, which tempering had he reached?"

Mu Qingyue asked.

"Oh!" Xiao Liuzi smiled. "Senior Brother Zhang had only just joined us then. The first tempering at most, I suppose."

At those words.

Towering waves surged through Mu Qingyue's heart!