Jiang Xiaoyu was still one step short of the peak Great Grandmaster realm, after all, and his palm techniques had yet to reach the transcendent level.
His Heaven and Earth Great Shift simply could not redirect Xiao Feng's palm force.
Caught by Xiao Feng's palm force, he landed from midair and kept stumbling backward, leaving seven footprints in the courtyard's flagstones.
Xiao Feng went over and caught Jiang Xiaoyu. "Thank you for the match. When I was your age, I was nowhere near your level."
"But I know you're determined to compare yourself with Brother Lin, so you'll have to work even harder."
"Your palm techniques seem to share some similarities with the Murong Family's Star-Shifting Change, borrowing my strength to attack me. Add your own strength, and the counterattack becomes even fiercer."
"But when you can't redirect all my strength, naturally, you lose."
In fact, he had used only thirty percent of his strength in his first strike. Even if Jiang Xiaoyu had redirected all of it, it would hardly have hurt him.
He genuinely admired Jiang Xiaoyu's palm techniques, too, which was why he was willing to explain the intricacies of his own.
The Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms were exceptionally hard and fierce, but Xiao Feng knew that excessive rigidity invited breakage, so he was now considering how to unite hardness and softness in his palm techniques.
He had seen Wudang palm techniques and other soft, yielding palm techniques, gaining considerable insight into this aspect, and had also fought both Murong Fu and Murong Bo.
Moreover, after meeting his father, he had learned many principles of Shaolin palm techniques. Having once studied martial arts at Shaolin himself, he had easily incorporated them into his Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms. His palm techniques had long since surpassed their former level.
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