66: Chapter 65 Taoist Secrets

"Heh, I've looked into you. You're suffering from a terminal illness and have also experienced despair. Although I don't know why you're still alive, perhaps it has something to do with the changes in you over the last few months, right?"

"Interesting, very interesting! The neighbors say your changes started a few months ago. Looking at it this way, you and I are really very similar!! From the inside out, the Five Elements are united! Not even the King of Hell can claim you or me! Haha! Haha!"

Upon hearing this, Li Changsheng shook his head, feeling that this person was already terminally ill.

"What a pity! Someone like you is going to be beaten to death by me!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, his eyes suddenly narrowed. In the next instant, his legs kicked off rapidly, and he lunged toward Li Changsheng with lightning speed.

"Swish! Swish!"

Huh?!

Suddenly, two or three sounds of air being pierced struck rapidly.

Jiang Wenqiang jerked to the side, even rolling to the side regardless of his image, his speed extremely fast.

A look of suspicion and uncertainty appeared on his face. His eyes stared fixedly at the young man's empty hands before him, and then he glanced out of the corner of his eye toward a corner of the wall.

There, three brand-new playing cards were embedded in the wall!

"This kind of speed and force-generating technique, this is a hidden weapon skill! You actually know such little tricks!" Jiang Wenqiang snorted coldly. If it hadn't been for so many years of stress training, he would have been hit just now. If it had hit a vital point, he feared he would have met his end right there.

Li Changsheng just shook his head and sighed, "At this distance, I can't use them anymore, so don't worry, I will beat you to death with my bare hands."

Indeed, for true experts, beyond five steps, those skilled in hidden weapons and long weapons have the advantage; within five steps, unarmed combat, Grappling, and short weapons are optimal!

Using Plucking Flowers and Flying Leaves was just a test; if it could be effective, naturally that was better.

But it was very clear that this person had trained his unarmed combat and movement techniques quite well.

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Meanwhile, at the Nanshan Branch, several auxiliary police officers responsible for watching the surveillance footage had their eyes widened in shock.

"Brother Zhang! Did you see clearly? Was that person the one who attacked just now?!"

"Yes! There's no mistake, it was playing cards! Could it be that there's a major discovery in the case? Could it be that from start to finish, this was never just one case, but two separate, different cases?!"

Police Officer Zhang Wei was also greatly shocked. Of course, he was sitting there not because he was an auxiliary police officer, but mainly because the bureau chief wouldn't let him do field work, so he could only stay behind to watch the surveillance.

"Brother Zhang, should we call the bureau chief first?"

"Let's watch a bit more! Let's watch a bit more!"

Police Officer Zhang Wei waved his hand, mainly because his gaze was once again drawn to the intense fight in the footage.

The case was now a fog. They had originally thought this was a serial case, but they hadn't expected it to actually be two different cases.

In fact, the police station had discovered some unreasonable points some time ago, but because of a lack of more evidence, they could only temporarily attribute it to one case.

"Boom!"

Two fists collided, emitting a sound of muscle and bone impact. Jiang Wenqiang's fists were very broad and thick, looking like iron hammers. In comparison, Li Changsheng's fists were somewhat less broad and thick.

However, the muscles in Li Changsheng's arms were twisted very evenly, and the extreme explosive power contained within them was not inferior in the slightest.

In this instant of fist-on-fist collision, Jiang Wenqiang's fist had a larger coverage area, but Li Changsheng's was more lean and fierce, like using a point to break a surface. The force was more solidified.

After one head-on clash, Li Changsheng's Xingyi Trinity Stance remained completely unchanged, though his shoe soles emitted a creaking friction sound against the ground, and subsequently, some cement chunks on the ground were scraped out into a white scratch like an iron ox plowing the earth.

Li Changsheng gathered his Qi into his Dantian and stomped his legs violently. The Integrated Force exploded into his legs, the force of the kick rapidly vibrating. Subsequently, a layer of fine cracks seemed to ripple across the concrete ground beneath his feet, and dust rolled outward.

It was evident just how fierce and powerful this leg-generated force was.

In the next instant, Li Changsheng's body was like a Dragon, his fist momentum like a fierce tiger!

Baji Quan generates force from the heels, travels through the waist, and penetrates to the fingertips, so the explosive power upon striking is immense!

Moreover, this Move of stepping into the center point to attack was both offensive and defensive, with a majestic Aura and a stable lower stance.

Every Move was a kill shot. Li Changsheng struck horizontally and charged straight, attacking the side gate and stepping on the sideline. Once he struck with ferocity, it was earth-shattering—a sure-kill Move.

Bang!

It was as if an explosion rang out in the air.

However, Jiang Wenqiang was not intimidated at all. He saw the corners of his mouth slightly curl up. His body was like a nimble monkey, his back arched like a slingshot. He dodged the punch with a side step while simultaneously throwing a punch of his own.

When he threw this punch, his five fingers quickly spread open, and the airflow shuttled through the gaps between his fingers. As he got close to Li Changsheng and saw the opponent quickly dodge by tilting his head, he remained unhurried.

But the next moment, Jiang Wenqiang suddenly clenched his five fingers together. The airflow was rapidly expelled in an extremely short time, as if a balloon had been instantly squeezed and popped. The air pressure generated in that short span of time was particularly astonishing.

"Huh? What is this?"

Li Changsheng saw Jiang Wenqiang's attack from the corner of his eye and squinted, feeling a bit confused. His understanding of the martial arts of various schools was still too little; he might have heard of many Moves, but he had never seen them.

And the moment Jiang Wenqiang suddenly clenched his fist, the sound wave emitted by the expelled airflow was like a bolt from the blue, like a clap of thunder.

It felt like lightning being generated in the palm; that deafening sound instantly caused Li Changsheng's brain to fall into a state of buzzing.

Almost the instant the sound wave rang out, a term popped into Li Changsheng's mind: 'Palm Thunder!'

Of course, this was not the kind from Daoist legends; in fact, this was a martial art called Palm Thunder that originated from records in ancient Daoist texts.

By exerting force suddenly and using Integrated Force to rapidly expel air pressure, it achieved an effect where the sound was as thunderous as a clap of thunder.

It was like a phenomenon called 'cavitation' on the level of atmospheric pressure, where by rapidly expelling air waves in a short time, the power generated was extremely terrifying.

However, the human body's speed and strength clearly have limits and cannot perfectly replicate that phenomenon, but the sound wave it produced still caused Li Changsheng to experience a brief moment of trance.

One could only say that this person's learning was too eclectic; he had actually even learned this kind of exotic martial art.

In the next instant, Jiang Wenqiang seized the opportunity and quickly closed in, shouting loudly as he kicked his leg, locked his knee, closed his hip, and twisted his waist—storing power first, then releasing it with a fierce strike.

It was clearly the Horse Fist of Hung Ga, with both fists like horse hooves. If this hit someone, it would be like being kicked violently by a wild horse, shattering bones and tendons.

Li Changsheng naturally knew how powerful this Move was. In the video, this person had used this Move to kill with a single blow, perfectly demonstrating the "Fen Ding Cun" in Hung Ga!

Whoosh!

The whistling sound of the fist edge scraped Li Changsheng's cheeks, causing pain. His brain reacted quickly, and disregarding everything else, he hurriedly sank his Qi into his Dantian, treating his body as a furnace to quickly stir up his Liver Fire.

A tinge of blood-red quickly surfaced in his eyes.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, using Crushing Fist to overcome the hardness!

With such instantaneous force, Baji Quan was clearly a bit too slow, whereas Crushing Fist focused on short, sudden attacks, being both fast and fierce.

Almost instantly, every pore on Li Changsheng's body closed tightly; his abdominal breathing became an internalized cycle, his hairs stood on end, and even his fingernails and tongue seemed to tighten.

This was clearly a sign of having attained success in Internal Martial Arts. Internal Martial Arts emphasize: clear the three joints, align the four extremities, and close the Five Elements.

The Five Elements are the internal organs, and the four extremities are the hair, nails, teeth, and tongue. The nails are the extremity of the tendons, the teeth are the extremity of the bones, and the tongue is the extremity of the flesh.

When some Internal Martial Arts experts are enraged, it is like their hair standing on end in anger; their nails can pierce bone, their teeth can bite through steel, and their tongue can act like a door bolt.

Furthermore, because of the effect of Foundation Establishment, Li Changsheng's body unconsciously and rapidly completed subtle adjustments to his posture, managing in a short time to store force like drawing a bow and release force like shooting an arrow.

He threw a punch, and the momentum was not inferior to Jiang Wenqiang's strike in the slightest.

Bang!

Fists collided, and both men simultaneously retreated several steps. When Jiang Wenqiang looked at Li Changsheng again, a look of astonishment already appeared on his face.

"Unintentional release?! Minor Achievement in Internal Martial Arts?"