CHAPTER 580: CHAPTER 544: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE

France, Paris.

A twelve-year-old boy was sitting on the sofa at home, watching an NBA game with rapt attention.

"Nice shot!"

"Three-pointer!"

Suddenly, the image on the TV changed to a scene between the Paris Twin Towers.

"Damn it!"

The boy was startled at first, then cursed loudly, very annoyed.

However, in the next second, he widened his eyes, "My God, what is this?"

He saw two men standing on a tightrope, hundreds of meters above the ground!

"Is this a movie?"

Curiosity made him temporarily forget about the game...

United States, New York.

Li San was attending a high-level meeting at the Zhiyuan Hall.

He rarely participated in such meetings before and didn’t manage much of the hall’s affairs, but he had gradually started getting involved, knowing that it was Sixth Master’s intention to slowly groom him into a managerial role and away from fighting and killing.

Although he knew that Sixth Master had good intentions, taking part in these affairs still bored Li San.

Just as he was playing with his phone, he suddenly received a message from his sister, Li Li:

"Bro, you have to see this!!!"

There was a link attached.

Li San was startled, thinking something had happened to his sister, and quickly clicked on the link.

The next second, the image on his phone changed.

"Holy shit!"

Even someone as composed as Li San couldn’t help but swear after seeing the image.

In the meeting room, the others looked at him in surprise, it was the first time they had seen Li San lose his composure.

"What’s wrong?" Sixth Master asked.

Li San sent the link to everyone...

Hua Country, Chuhua City.

Chen Dong and Wang Xuecheng were still in the same dorm room, both having successfully entered graduate study, still at Chuhua University.

The dorm room’s layout hadn’t changed much from before, but the absence of one person always made it feel like something was missing.

"I wonder what Old Wu is up to?"

Chen Dong lay on his bed, scrolling through short videos, and asked.

Wang Xuecheng was chatting with a girl online, smiling lewdly, and said nonchalantly: "Old Wu? He’s either fighting or on his way to a fight."

Chen Dong nodded: "Well said!"

He swiped the screen, moving to the next video.

"Holy crap, isn’t that Old Wu!"

"There’re plenty of videos of Old Wu, what are you making a fuss about?" Wang Xuecheng responded without looking up.

"Holy crap! This is not right, it’s the latest one, Old Wu is going crazy!" Chen Dong shouted in shock.

Wang Xuecheng immediately turned around and rushed over, "What’s up, let me see!"

The following conversation went something like this:

"Holy shit!"

"Holy shit, holy shit..."

...

When the live broadcast of Wu Li and Adam standing between the Paris Twin Towers began worldwide, the biggest response came from Hua Country, because Wu Li’s face was all too familiar to the people of Hua Country:

"What’s happening here?"

"Is Wu Li filming a movie?"

"Where is this?"

"Who’s the person facing him?"

"Are the two of them going to fight there?"

...

Hundreds of thousands of questions flooded the Hua Country’s internet.

Adam wasn’t bragging when he said he wanted the whole world to see this broadcast; at this moment, most countries’ televisions and networks were almost synchronously live-broadcasting this duel.

At this moment, ’Le Yuan’ fully demonstrated its immense secular power.

On the steel wire, between the Twin Towers.

With the abilities of Adam and Wu Li as top martial artists of the era, maintaining balance was actually quite easy. Their bodies seemed to shake, but as long as the steel wire remained unbroken, they could stand there all day, even practice a set of kung fu if they wished.

But now, they were about to fight on it, and that was a totally different concept.

"If you have anything to say, better say it now; many people are watching you, and once we start fighting, I’m afraid you won’t get the chance," Adam said to Wu Li.

Wu Li smiled, "I’m used to speaking with my fists and feet."

Adam spread his arms wide, a wild look on his face, "Then come on!"

Wu Li’s smile faded, and he made the first move.

He ran swiftly forward on the steel wire!

As he neared Adam, Wu Li’s right fist came chopping down, still using his most skilled ultimate move, Heavenly Punishment.

Adam raised his arms to block.

Bang!

When their arms collided, the steel wire under their feet instantly sank, the wire between the Twin Towers visibly dipped in the middle.

The scene made countless viewers watching the live broadcast gasp, though the two fighters in action paid it no mind.

The moment the wire sank, Adam struck, lifting a leg and aiming a kick at Wu Li’s knee!

Since the first day of learning martial arts, many masters will tell their students to have a stable lower body!

Because power starts from the feet.

Whether it’s a martial arts novice or a Great Grandmaster like Wu Li, all must follow this principle. If the lower body is unstable, the force is unstable too, and full power cannot be exerted.

Wu Li’s Heavenly Punishment strike was weak due to standing on a wire, and Adam easily blocked it. Moreover, the dipping wire made Wu Li unsteady, allowing Adam to catch a flaw and kick over.

Fighting in this environment was entirely different from the usual. If one couldn’t adapt quickly, even the World’s No.1 could lose!

Facing Adam’s kick, Wu Li didn’t respond in the usual way but, counterintuitively, leaped backward!

On solid ground, this would’ve been suicidal as Adam would surely catch up before Wu Li landed, but in this situation, it was a smart move.

As Wu Li’s body left the wire, it snapped back violently upward.

Adam, standing on one leg, was affected and became unstable, unable to pursue Wu Li.

As Wu Li was about to land, he forcefully performed a Thousand Pounds Fall technique, pressing the wire down again.

On the other side, as Adam steadied himself after retracting his right leg, Wu Li’s action made him wobble again.

Wu Li strode forward, lifting his spine, then spun abruptly, slapping a hand towards Adam!

Since he couldn’t borrow force from below, Wu Li used the rotation of his body to add power, executing a Dragon Form Palm Rotation.

Adam hadn’t expected Wu Li to adapt so quickly to the novel environment and even come up with an effective attack strategy.

Facing Wu Li’s Dragon Form Palm Rotation, Adam didn’t meet it head-on; he also leaped backward, dodging Wu Li’s attack in the same way, and then used the Thousand Pounds Fall technique to press down the wire again.

Wu Li, anticipating this, maintained a stable center of gravity. He could have taken advantage of Adam’s landing to attack, but as he was about to exert force, he acutely sensed that the wire beneath had tensed to its limit.

One more ounce of pressure, and the wire would snap!