Chapter 395: Chapter 280 3rd-Tier Blue Equipment: Centipede Bee Bag! 5th Realm Peak: Lion Roar! Top Green Equipment: White Horn Trumpet!
Yan Chuan, empty-handed, with his arms as the shaft of a spear, and his fists and sword fingers as the spear tip, fully demonstrates the essence of the "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill".
Roll, pull, chop, hang, slice, unload, shear, pluck, seize, expel, extend, retract, touch, probe, flick, smash, pound, fiercely!
Every move and every style!
Formidable and forceful!
It seems as though it’s reached the pinnacle of ferocity.
But only Zhuge Zhen knows that while Wang Zhengyi may be pure force, pushing to the extreme, reckless in his might, Yan Chuan has added various changes, with all kinds of mysteries hidden within, diverse and versatile techniques, a variety of unstoppable forces, making it impossible for others to defend against, rendering them helpless.
A long spear shakes.
A barehanded martial artist.
Zhuge Zhen deploys "Heaven and Earth", swordsmanship like it came from beyond the heavens, as if an immortal descended, reaching the peak of grace, yet it seems as though two earthly brutes are pinning him down for a beating, the long sword trembles uncontrollably, each strike forced into a collision of strength against strength, body against body.
As if caught in a vortex.
Truly inextricable.
"Yes!"
"Just like that!"
"’Heaven and Earth’ claims to be the ’Immortal Sword’, but we mortal martial artists have to pull the immortals down from the heavens, when immortals fall to the mortal realm, they’re not immortals anymore, and then it’s easy to handle!"
"The Eight Diagrams, Qian three unbroken, Kun six broken, Zhen upright cup, Gen inverted bowl, Dui lacking above, Xun broken below, Li empty inside, Kan full inside, using the elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth."
"Starting from Qian, ending at Kun, yin and yang alternately wax and wane, cycling endlessly."
"We must not let it connect, to break ’Heaven and Earth’, to break this ’Immortal Sword’, first break its cycle!"
"Movement and stillness, opening and closing, inhaling and exhaling, attack and defense, hard and soft, illusion and reality!"
"’Heaven and Earth’ is indeed exquisite, incorporating the impressions of Eight Diagrams, Five Elements, and more, working internally and manifesting externally, sealing one’s own Five Elements to overcome the opponent’s Five Elements."
"Brilliant!"
"Old Wang, internally use ’Elephant Throwing Skill’, externally hit with ’pigua Palm’!"
"Use ’pigua Palm’ to hit him!"
"The splitting and slashing method belongs to gold, gold as sharp as an axe, can conquer wood, from top to bottom, momentum like splitting bamboo, vertically breaking horizontally!"
"Upwards flaring strikes belong to fire, fire can overcome gold, with the force of upward flames to counter chopping strikes."
"The method of circling and intercepting belongs to water, water can overcome fire, using suppression, deflection, and circling to horizontally control vertically."
"The horizontal strike method belongs to earth, earth can overcome water, horizontally pushing and directly colliding to regulate flow."
"The method of collapsing, striking, and grappling belongs to wood, wood can overcome earth, using diagonal force to break horizontal power."
"Change, change, change!"
"Conquer, conquer, conquer!"
"Defeat him completely!"
...
Yan Chuan spoke loudly, and when he got excited, he unconsciously took out the ’White Horn Trumpet’ and held it in his hand, speaking from Wang Zhengyi practicing the "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill" to Zhuge Zhen practicing "Heaven and Earth", and then from "Heaven and Earth" to "Pigua Fist".
The benefits of learning and mastering a lot become apparent at this moment.
After Yan Chuan comprehended the nature of "Heaven and Earth", he searched within himself and easily found the mutual generation and inhibition in martial arts to counter it, with "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill" combined with "Pigua Fist", precisely suppressing "Heaven and Earth" completely.
Although Wang Zhengyi mainly practices "Xingyi Boxing" and the "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill", he is also familiar with the "Pigua Fist" created by Yan Chuan. Under Yan Chuan’s guidance and Zhuge Zhen’s ’feeding moves’, he cleverly combined the two skills—
Using the Rao Step from the stepping technique of "Pigua Fist", the arc-shaped step, and the movement technique of flashing and diagonal advance, combined with the divine power developed through the "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill", and the various techniques of force exertion and energy movement from this divine skill.
Each complements the other.
In no time, the skill level is frighteningly high, every move suppresses Zhuge Zhen, even Wang Zhengyi himself finds it absurd.
This is the wonderful use of boxing!
Even though "Pigua Fist" is only ’Xin Martial’, just a Xin level one-star martial art.
But the fundamental principles of boxing are consistent, always applicable to various advanced scenarios.
Ever since Great Yan Buwu, why do all academies require New Martial Artists to start learning martial arts with various boxing techniques?
Because all sorts of martial arts, countless weapons, no matter how they change, remain at their core, even "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms", "Six Meridian Divine Sword", and other divine skills and absolute skills, when traced back, cannot be separated from boxing principles.
At this moment, Wang Zhengyi has already gained insight.
"Punch without hesitation, with the momentum of a thunderbolt, not allowing any defense, not allowing any counterattack, using speed to attack slowly, gaining an advantage with speed."
"Illusions and realities, using illusion as reality, and reality as illusion, its clever changes, attacking the east while striking the west, pointing up to hit down, luring to approach, smoothly responding, comfortably adapting, then victory is assured."
"Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill" is skill!
"Pigua Fist" is a tactic!
The former is technique!
The latter is strategy!
The combination of the two, with endless wonderful uses.
Originally, due to the vast gap in cultivation and inner strength, Wang Zhengyi at most could match Zhuge Zhen in a few dozen rounds, barely holding out for a hundred rounds.
But now, under Yan Chuan’s guidance, combining "Shakyamuni Elephant Throwing Skill" and "Pigua Fist", Wang Zhengyi fights more and more bravely, unconsciously already having passed a hundred rounds.
Inhale and exhale, extend and retract, reach far and strike from afar, cycles and folds, illusion and reality alternating, a seamless chain of moves, attacking aggressively!
The battle is intense.
Whenever falling into a disadvantage, Yan Chuan is there to give advice and guidance—
"Old Wang!"
"Use speed to attack sluggishness, control length over shortness, advance with a flash attack!"
"When coming high, hang; when coming low, chop; when coming horizontally, block; when coming along, hit!"
"Relax and naturally mobilize all joints, arm, shoulder, chest, waist, back, hips, knees, wrists; combining stored energy, the force is strong and supple, with soft containing hard, like a serpent’s winding movement, used effortlessly, with the mind like iron and stone."
"Inhale, exhale, open and close, rise and fall, twist and turn!"
"The torso opens and closes like a bow, the chest and back collapsing like a string, the force launched like an arrow as quick and shadowless as a departing string!"