CHAPTER 399: CHAPTER 282: MIXED ELEMENT FINGER POWER! THE 4TH ULTIMATE! [VOTE FOR MONTHLY PASS!]

Time passes.

Yan Chuan remains busy.

Twelve arenas, 256 teams, over a thousand contestants, among whom there are at least three hundred with the strength of the "Hidden Dragon" and "Chufeng" two lists!

Therefore, almost every round has a highlight, every moment presents intense battles.

The second day of the Sword Discussion.

After the hour of Zi.

After the hour of Chou.

Time reaches the hour of Yin.

The highlight of this round is again at the ’Si Character’ arena, featuring Peng Fannian once more.

And his opponent is the Third Prince of Great Yan, "Hidden Dragon" rank nine ’Little Vajra’ Ying Jifeng, who was recently driven off the arena by Ban Xianfu!

"This will be a good show to watch!"

"Although Ying Jifeng lost to Ban Xianfu, he is ranked ninth among the ’Hidden Dragon’, and his team includes ’Hidden Dragon’ fortieth rank ’Silver Hook’ Xiao Ti, and ’Hidden Dragon’ eightieth rank ’Giant Spirit Axe’ Chang Shuang."

The same unfortunate Chang Shuang who was beaten down from the cliff by Wei Lingshan.

He didn’t die either.

After climbing back to the top, he wielded the ’Giant Spirit Axe’ and followed Ying Jifeng to defend the arena, but unluckily encountered Ban Xianfu again, and his ’Giant Spirit Axe’ was smashed by Ban Xianfu’s ’Avici Blade’!

His weapon was destroyed!

Chang Shuang’s strength greatly reduced!

But with the cooperation of Ying Jifeng and Xiao Ti, dealing with a Peng Fannian who has battled for an entire day shouldn’t be a problem.

"Peng Fannian!"

"Si Character arena! It’s time for a change of owner!"

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"Strike first with full force, the face heating up like flying sand!"

"Steps press forward with swaying head and swinging tail, using double bridges to break the arm, lifting and hooking up, firm stance and clear mind, fear not."

"Peng Fannian clearly knows that Ying Jifeng and the others come with ill intentions, starting the fight with initiative, valuing the element of surprise!"

"Watch his Judge’s Pen!"

"Stepping forward, turning and pressing first, mixing a push and rub with a whip!"

"Linking hands to pull and bind, the technique of striking and grabbing muscles is boundless!"

"Tapping, stabbing, striking, pressing, grabbing, slashing, pushing, rotating, squeezing!"

"Peng Fannian goes all out, showing his true skills!"

"Guiding Qi with intent, moving force with Qi, pay attention, Peng Fannian channels his inner Qi to the Judge’s Pen through a swift wrist flip, Qi following intent, integrating intent, Qi, and force to unleash the sharp, supple, inch-focused Mixed Element Finger Power!"

"Right hand with Judge’s Pen, executing the Twelve Acupoint Striking Skill!"

"Left hand forms an Eagle Claw, grappling and locking, severing tendons and dislocating bones, also wielding ’Mixed Element Finger Power’, where intent goes, Qi follows, where Qi follows, force aligns!"

"Double fists counter four hands!"

"Qi freely channels outward to unleash the Mixed Element Finger Power’s ability with sharp, supple, inch-focused strength, for where force is abundant, Qi is bountiful, with rapid effect, achieving inner and outer unity!"

"Peng Fannian can be described as remarkably courageous."

Yan Chuan continues to explain Peng Fannian’s moves, his tone intense, his heart pounding with excitement.

This is already the second time he’s commentating on Peng Fannian’s fight in the ’Si Character’ arena, unlike last time when the Zhou Family Sisters couldn’t cause any substantial threat to Peng Fannian; this time, led by Ying Jifeng, three Heavenly Pride from the list and two other teammates close in strength from the two list are adding great pressure immediately.

The greater the pressure, the more is revealed.

Peng Fannian twists and turns, unable to hide his skills any longer, exposing more of the intricate skills of the "Twelve Acupoint Striking Skill" to Yan Chuan, through "Mutual Teaching and Learning", Yan Chuan keeps analyzing and thus continuously improves his own accomplishment.

Unbeknownst——

[Your ’Twelve Acupoint Striking Skill’ has improved, Fourth Realm Slightly Accomplished → Fifth Realm of Mastery.]

"Twelve Acupoint Striking Skill"!

Yan Chuan has already mastered it!

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"Wang Zhengyi has the ’Mirage Pearl’, Liu Xin the ’Chasing God Blade’, and Zhuge Zhen the ’Centipede Bee Bag’!"

"But Ying Jifeng, as a prince and the foremost Heavenly Pride of Ju Ye Academy, and having learned from the head of the ’Eight Great Vajra of Eight Phases Mountain’, the ’Wind God’, Lv Xuan!"

"Such strength!"

"Such a background!"

"Yet he is without a single exotic treasure?"

There was surprise both on stage and off stage.

Ying Jifeng led the Ju Ye Academy heroes in a fierce assault on Peng Fannian, yet was defended against by a single Judge’s Pen in a one-against-five situation, still without defeat. Peng Fannian was indeed unexpectedly strong, but did Ying Jifeng truly have no treasure at his side?

"Ah indeed!"

"If he had an exotic treasure, would he have lost the arena? He should have used it when Ban Xianfu challenged."

Someone realized.

Yet it still seemed inexplicable.

Even for a respectable Third Prince, with such a formidable background, to have no fitting treasure was equally perplexing.

The Heavenly Masters oversee.

They knew more clearly——

"Wealth and pleasure dull the fighting spirit."

"Exotic and strange treasures undermine willpower."

"Possessing one treasure, one always relies on it in battle, hindering one’s own honing and easily forming dependency. Over time, the progress in martial arts is slow, and accomplishment hardly improves. Once the treasure is destroyed, countered, lost or outdated, one finds it hard to adapt."

The Minister of War Huang Ye kept nodding, looking towards ’Stone Breaking Hand’ Xin Zhuang, one of the Eight Great Vajra of Eight Phases Mountain: "Does the Third Prince not use exotic treasures because it’s Mountain Master Lu’s directive?"

"Martial Artists fight for life!"

"Man triumphs over heaven!"

Xin Zhuang responded clearly: "Mountain Master believes martial arts are the essence for martial artists; all other external items are ephemeral and are better discarded from the start. The Third Prince possesses many treasures, but for this Sword Discussion, he was asked by the Mountain Master to rely solely on his martial skills."

Indeed so!

’Wind God’ Lv Xuan is worthy of being the fifth Grandmaster on the ’Heavenly List’, with unfathomably profound martial arts understanding and a deep philosophy of martial arts.

Completely abandoning exotic treasures and other external objects seems too extreme, yet not incorrect.

Aside from Ying Jifeng, among the younger generation within Eight Phases Mountain, several others are strong and also do not rely on exotic treasures.

Not just at Eight Phases Mountain.

Among the Six Great Sects and several top Jianghu sects, including Qinghu Manor, most disciples are renowned for their excellent sect martial skills, seldom heard of relying on exotic treasures for dominance.