Chapter 194: Chapter 189: Breaking the Pot and Sinking the Boat
Under the pressure of Xiang Ji’s aura, a smile touched the corners of Ye Jian Mountain’s lips. "We’ve known for a long time. Your Breaking Extreme Intent is merely an incomplete version, and the power of your Heavy Pupils has yet to be fully awakened. Legend says that when the Ancient Overlord fixed his gaze, he could make a thousand-man army retreat in fear. If I were facing the Overlord himself, I’d have no choice but to withdraw. But you... are not him."
Hearing Ye Jian Mountain’s words, Xiang Ji’s eyes narrowed slightly.
’Neon Nation’s investigation into me really was thorough.’
Indeed, through countless periods of chaos in history, and compounded by the hasty fall of the Ancient Overlord, the Celestial Dragon Extreme Breakthrough he had inherited was now severely flawed.
Celestial Dragon Body, Breaking Extreme Intent.
The training method for the Celestial Dragon Body had been passed down intact, but as for the Breaking Extreme Intent, no successor had ever managed to reproduce the will of the Overlord.
In truth, the Breaking Extreme Intent was the most powerful aspect of the Celestial Dragon Extreme Breakthrough.
To dominate the Spirit of heaven and earth, to absorb and release the Qi of all living beings.
And with this aura, it would feed back into the user, allowing their Physical Ability to temporarily and drastically surpass their body’s limits.
Back then, when the Overlord raised his halberd, fixed his Heavy Pupils, and his aura erupted, a thousand-man army would scatter. But the Heavy Pupils Xiang Ji had cultivated could no longer compare to the Overlord’s of that age.
HRAAAGH!!
Xiang Ji let out a sudden, mighty roar. He took a single step, and the arena stage shook. His body surged forward as if he were astride a charging warhorse.
Dark clouds swirled around him, battlefield Qi in his wake!
His Qi and Blood surged, like a thousand-man army on the charge!
Xiang Ji raised his right arm and brought it down in a vicious chop toward Ye Jian Mountain.
SSSHHHHKK!!
The air itself was sliced open as a massive Qi Blade, nearly twenty meters long, materialized and swept through the sky.
The power of this one strike seemed to be no less than Cangtian Yishi’s Unreturning Strike!
Yet, in the face of such a terrifying attack, a cold sneer tugged at the corners of Ye Jian Mountain’s lips.
GRRRMBL GRRRMBL!!
The flesh on his legs, already as thick as an elephant’s, suddenly writhed and swelled another full size larger.
He crossed his arms over his chest, crouched, and then explosively generated power from his legs.
BOOM!!
The explosion of terrifying power propelled him to an incredible speed. It was hard to imagine that such a massive frame could move so fast.
The air around him seemed to detonate. The resulting airflow spread like an ocean tide, forming a shockwave so dense it was almost tangible.
The Qi Blade unleashed by Xiang Ji collided with the terrifying shockwave from the man’s explosive charge. After a brief stalemate, both shockingly detonated and vanished, having no effect whatsoever!
BOOM!!
Xiang Ji and Ye Jian Mountain’s bodies collided violently. Xiang Ji’s chopping arm crashed against Ye Jian Mountain’s crossed forearms.
The terrifying power from both sides radiated outward, the force of the impact stunningly canceling each other out!
’What terrifying power and physique! To actually dare to block my strike with his body?!’
Xiang Ji’s pupils constricted. What his opponent displayed was not as simple as mere strength. He felt as if his strike hadn’t landed on a human body, but on a piece of steel, a massive boulder, or even a mountain peak!
The solidity and weight of his opponent’s body simply defied logic.
SWOOSH!!
At the same time, the Qi and Blood in Xiang Ji’s body surged. His Celestial Dragon Body activated, instantly neutralizing the vibrational force from the collision and allowing him to gather strength for another attack.
HAH!!
With a cry, he swung his left hand in a Hand Blade, chopping violently toward his opponent’s head.
’Celestial Dragon Body? My Soul-Suppressing Body is nothing to scoff at either!’
Despite the violent collision, Ye Jian Mountain seemed largely unaffected and was able to react in an instant.
The sheer weight of his frame and the stability of his structure were beyond imagination. His flesh—impossibly thick, tough, and durable—acted like a natural shock absorber, allowing him to instantly dissipate the aftershocks from most attacks’ Force!
In a way, it achieved a similar effect to the Celestial Dragon Body through a different method.
The Soul-Suppressing Body.
The fundamental technique of the Soul Suppressing Sumo Way.
Sumo is the art of the Neon Warriors, revering the most terrifying physiques and the most formidable strength.
To the Soul Suppressing Sumo Way, technique is merely an accessory; power and the body are the foundation of everything.
The goal of this School’s Secret Transmission is exceedingly simple: to attain the most durable, massive, heavy, and powerful body and mind possible. Through continuous tempering via Secret Techniques and near-cruel Meditation training, they increase the density of their muscles, tendons, skin, and bone far beyond that of a normal person. At the same time, their Spirit and aura become incredibly condensed. For the same body size, their weight can reach over three times that of an ordinary person!
These resilient muscles provide a terrifyingly extreme defense, as well as the most powerful explosive force!
Legend has it that when a practitioner of the Soul Suppressing Sumo Way reaches the highest stage of cultivation, a single stomp on the ground in the shiko stance can make the earth tremble for hundreds of meters. Evil spirits flee in terror—this is the origin of the name "Soul-Suppressing."
And now, the ultimate Secret Transmission of the Soul Suppressing Sumo Way, when combined with an ability that had incredibly demanding prerequisites, has undergone a complete, transformative rebirth.
If the use of this Secret Medicine didn’t demand such immense innate talent and have such a low success rate, it would have long been absorbed by the Neon Military Department, never to remain in the civilian Martial Arts Realm.
However, as the successor to the Soul Suppressing Sumo Way and a man of exceptional talent, Ye Jian Mountain had undoubtedly mastered that Secret Medicine Ability.
GRRRMBL GRRRMBL!!
The flesh on Ye Jian Mountain’s arms, shoulders, and back suddenly writhed, and his already terrifying physique instantly swelled and changed once more.
’No, "swelling" isn’t the right word. It’s more like... growth?!’
HRAAAGH!!
Ye Jian Mountain’s terrifying body suddenly charged forward. His palms, now swollen to be larger than Xiang Ji’s head, thrust out with sudden force.
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