Published at 24th of November 2024 10:02 am

Chapter 270: What is a Martial Arts Grandmaster

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The fallen Xu Fan slowly stood up on the ground.

From this moment on, Xu Fan’s temperament had instantly transformed.

If the former Xu Fan was just a dim star in the vast night sky, now he had become the bright moon that illuminates all realms.

Xu Fan slowly extended his finger, forming a sword-finger gesture.

The sharpness of his aura had instantly become incredibly powerful.

Elder Sun had a similar quality about him, the sharpness characteristic of a martial artist of the Qi Drawing Realm, but when facing Xu Fan, everyone could see that Elder Sun was like a small stream in front of a rolling river in comparison.

“Be careful, elder,” Xu Fan said indifferently as he quickly pointed his sword finger at Elder Sun.

A beam of golden light shot out from Xu Fan’s hand with a “swoosh,” streaking towards Elder Sun like lightning.

Elder Sun’s pupils shrank sharply; he had already been startled when Xu Fan released his martial artist’s aura, Xu Fan’s strength was indeed as unfathomable as he had imagined.

The mere sight of Xu Fan’s sword finger shocked Elder Sun even more.

Although it is said that Martial Arts Grandmasters can manifest Qi Force externally, generally, those grandmasters release their True Qi through punches and kicks.

For example, the middle-aged man from the Black Blade Organization who had his Blood Bodhi snatched by Xu Fan, he was of the Martial Dao Grandmaster Realm and during the battle with the Flame Dragon Organization, he had blasted out a huge fist condensed from True Qi manifestation.

Since True Qi is not a physical substance, condensing it is like compressing a gas; the smaller you want to condense it, the more difficult it becomes.

If a Martial Arts Grandmaster’s manifested blade of True Qi is several meters to tens of meters long, then there’s no cause for concern. For an ordinary person, such a degree of True Qi attack may be catastrophic, but for a true martial artist, especially one in the Qi Drawing Realm, it’s not considered a deadly attack.

Even for Martial Arts Grandmasters, there is a limit to the amount of True Qi that can be released at once, so within the realm of the grandmaster, the more one can compress the True Qi to be small and refined, the more it proves the person’s strength.

The middle-aged man from Black Blade could condense True Qi into a huge fist, which was already a decent level of True Qi compression among grandmasters.

A typical martial artist who has just stepped into the Martial Dao Grandmaster Realm would probably manifest True Qi larger than a person.

Such an attack is big but not strong, scattered and not condensed. In actual combat, it is impossible to accurately hit the enemy’s real weak points.

It’s better to break one of their fingers than to injure all ten; only those who can condense their True Qi as if it were a solid, and control its manifestation with ease, can be considered to have stepped beyond the boundary of Quasi-Grandmaster and become a true Martial Arts Grandmaster.

And Xu Fan’s performance now, was not just a mere Martial Arts Grandmaster.

While others use fists and feet to release True Qi, or at worst can use weapons to release blades of True Qi, the degree of compression of True Qi usually doesn’t reach the theoretical limit.

Now, with just his sword fingers, that is, his index and middle fingers, Xu Fan was releasing True Qi—clearly, this meant that Xu Fan’s True Qi compression had already surpassed that of most Martial Arts Grandmasters.

This martial art that releases True Qi from the fingertips was said to exist only amongst the royal family of an ancient dynasty in Yunnan Province, and with the change of dynasties and the passage of time, this miraculous skill had been lost for almost two hundred years. Elder Sun had never expected that the young Xu Fan could wield such a tyrannical technique.

What’s more, the Golden Qi shot out from Xu Fan’s sword-like finger was already rocketing towards Elder Sun.

Elder Sun almost had no time to react; the muscles all over his body instantly trembled fiercely, and then his explosive power peaked at that moment.

With a “Lazy Donkey Roll,” performed faster than lightning, he managed to avoid the golden streak of Qi that Xu Fan had shot out. Despite its lack of elegance, this move was incredibly practical, allowing Elder Sun to narrowly dodge the otherwise sure hit.

With a loud “Bang!”, the Golden Qi missed Elder Sun and instead struck a decorative rock some ten meters behind him.

The hard surface of the bluestone shattered into flying pieces under the impact of Xu Fan’s Golden Qi, leaving a bowl-sized hole as if it had been hit by a high-caliber sniper bullet.

“Wow! What kind of skill is this? It’s too amazing, isn’t it?” Elder Lin was so astonished by Xu Fan’s move that he almost dropped his jaw.

Xu Fan’s fingers were simply more formidable than a machine gun, capable of shooting out a golden Sword Qi. And the power of this Sword Qi was so tremendous that it could leave a huge, bowl-sized hole on a sturdy bluestone.

If this Golden Sword Qi were to hit a person, it would be a terrifying thing indeed.

Could the power of a Martial Arts Grandmaster really be this great?

Elder Lin slowly shook his head, as if pondering whether he should have chosen to cultivate ancient martial arts with Elder Sun rather than pursue a career in medicine.

At his side, Lu Chenbing revealed a slight smile. He had previously sparred with Xu Fan at his brother Lu Chennong’s home and had witnessed Xu Fan’s miraculous “One Yang Finger!”

However, he remembered that the True Qi Xu Fan wielded at that time seemed nowhere near as powerful as it was now.

Could it be that within just a few days, Brother Xu’s Martial Dao Realm had made new progress?

The look Lu Chenbing gave Xu Fan was now tinged with shock and admiration.

“Grandpa, am I not watching TV? Could the martial arts from novels really exist in the world?” Lin Shutong almost began questioning her own life after seeing Xu Fan’s Golden Qi.

In the twenty years she had lived, her life had always been utterly normal, but just in the course of one day, Xu Fan had nearly shattered her world view of more than two decades.

Science claims there are no such things as ghosts, yet Xu Fan personally demonstrated a grand exorcism right before her eyes.

Medicine states that the human body is complex and fragile, yet Xu Fan personally showed her how to heal an old man on the brink of death into a feisty and combative elder.

And even more impressive was the strength Xu Fan displayed in his contest with Grandpa Sun.

His speed, power, and agility were all nearly surpassing that of world-class athletes by a mile, but most importantly, Xu Fan could emit a laser-like True Qi from his fingertips, and its destructive power was not the least bit inferior to that of an actual laser.

Lin Shutong felt that ever since meeting Xu Fan, she would have to completely rebuild her entire world view.

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