Book 4, Chapter 160: Returned To His True Self Cloaked In Gold

Yao Zhiyi and Xiao Wan watched Wei Guochan get sent flying. Even if they were in a stalemate against Zhao Zhenye, they couldn’t look away.

They saw everything clearly. The new martial arts master was the young man they saw earlier.

They couldn’t quite believe it.

Since they had gone through it, they knew that those who just became martial arts masters weren’t able to control and stabilize their strength and aura. Spirit sense would be spilling out of their bodies, and they would be considered pretty skilled if they were able to at least protect themselves. It was practically impossible for them to deliver powerful attacks.

Usually, the disparity was so large that new martial arts masters were treated as cubs. This meant that Chen Chuan shouldn’t have been able to fight against a powerful and mature martial arts master like Wei Guochan.

Yet reality shattered their beliefs. The light coming out from Chen Chuan was so strong that it was like liquid. Forget being a martial arts master who just reached the Fourth Limit, even they couldn’t match the intensity of his light.

The smoke from the crater ahead had yet to spread out when Wei Guochan shook his head and climbed out. There were cracks all over his armor. The slight movement caused shattered bits to fall off along with dirt and sand.

This was especially so for his vambraces and breast plate. Large chunks of them were missing. Golden sparks were scattered around the damaged parts, and wisps of smoke rose to defend the body.

After standing up, Wei Guochan saw a striking figure standing tall beside the crater. Even though the rising smoke blurred his face, it was clear that the person was staring at him.

Light shone fiercely from Wei Guochan’s eyes, and black smoke spread outward. The light furthest away from him distorted slightly, and the rocks several meters away were pushed back by an invisible barrier. Then, after lowering his center of gravity a bit, he charged at the person.

“Careful!” Xiao Wan cried out.

He recognized this skill as the Three Tier Golden Stage. Wei Guochan’s mental attack would reach the target first, swiftly followed by the body. Then, once both the mind and body merged together again, they would form a three tiered force.

Wei Guochan could even stack them and release them together, which would result in an attack several times his usual power. It was practically unblockable when it came at someone directly, and it was best suited for fighting at a close distance. It could be said to be an attack that could destroy everything in its wake.

Chen Chuan remained standing at the edge of the crater as he watched Wei Guochan rush up. He didn’t try to avoid the attack or even to parry it. The mental attack arrived and crashed into his biofield, which caused a sparkling see-through barrier to appear around him.

Then, the physical attack came. Chen Chuan leaned forward and pushed a hand forward. In an instant, Wei Guochan’s black, smokey biofield collided with Chen Chuan’s white biofield. Condensed cracks appeared at the point of contact and continued spreading.

Wei Guochan merged with his mental attack and pushed forward with all six arms to release his three-tiered attack.

Even so, Chen Chuan showed no intention of avoiding him. He charged forward and slammed into Wei Guochan like he was a ball of golden molten lava.

Without holding back whatsoever, they clashed, and the one who was stronger was obvious from the get go. Wei Guochan’s biofield shattered with a loud crack, and he was knocked off his feet by Chen Chuan’s unyielding force.

Chen Chuan stared at Wei Guochan’s suspended body with a calm gaze. He clenched a hand behind his back and used the momentum to generate power.

Boom!

An incredibly powerful attack shot forward.

Wei Guochan sensed that something was about to go terribly wrong and crossed four of his arms, but the punch was stronger than he expected. It pushed back against Wei Guochan’s arms until they touched his chest. Then, he was sent tumbling back again.

Chen Chuan tilted forward because of inertia, but kept his eyes trained on Wei Guochan rapidly disappearing from view. Then, he stomped on the ground. A shockwave shot out, just as a deep pit formed on the ground.

In an instant, Chen Chuan caught up to Wei Guochan. With a sweeping kick, he slammed his leg into Wei Guochan’s ribs. Wei Guochan curled up and flew away even faster than before. After bouncing off the ground dozens of times, he crashed into a hill full of loose rocks. They fell, and dust shot into the sky.

While Yao Zhiyi and Xiao Wan were fighting against Zhao Zhenye, they were also paying attention to Chen Chuan’s fight against Wei Guochan. Upon seeing this, they felt their eyebrows shoot up. They knew very well just how strong Wei Guochan was. He had exchanged a few blows with them earlier, but now, he was being overpowered. Didn’t that mean that if they fought against Chen Chuan, they would end up in the same state?

Chen Chuan landed and steadied himself, then walked forward slowly. The golden light started settling down, but the thick, white smoke continued drifting about him. When it got further away, it turned into a faint, white light.

Chen Chuan had done some reading about what would happen after he became a martial arts master.

The barrier around him was actually his biofield, but it was slightly different from before. This biofield had physical substance and possessed great defensive capabilities.

In other words, it was a protective barrier formed by a martial arts master’s powerful life force. As long as a martial arts master was alive, it would surround them without any deliberate actions to keep it that way. The stronger anyone’s life force was, the sturdier their biofield.

Firearms had a hard time destroying such biofields. As for martial artists, even if they attacked the barrier, they wouldn’t be able to destroy it.

When two martial arts masters fought, their biofields clashed first.

Inside them was a power similar to spirit sense. Chen Chuan’s power manifested in the form of the dazzling molten lava and the wisps of white smoke.

This power came from within the martial arts master. While it was similar to the spirit sense borrowed from the other world, it was an independent power. In the old era, it was known as spirit flames or true power.

In the new era, martial arts masters simplified it to pure force.

True power contained the martial arts masters’ determination and unique refined force. It was highly destructive and even impacted the recovery of the target’s mutated tissue.

Hence, when two martial arts masters fought, they needed all sorts of techniques and other advantages to break the biofield. Then, they could send their true power through and destroy their mutated tissue.

Wei Guochan was buried deep within the hill, and some parts of his helmet had sunken into his face. Three of his arms were broken, and his ribs were also severely injured. A large part of his torso had sunken in.

Smoky, white light rose from his body. Even though the black smoke was fighting against it, Chen Chuan’s true power had infiltrated his body, so he wasn’t able to completely get rid of it.

Since he was a general of the imperial army, he could no longer be considered a human. He had fused with a vitalized creature and had more forms of power.

White mutated tissue extended from his body to cover up the damaged parts of his shattered armor. His broken arms were reset, and he was brought upright.

He stared at Chen Chuan walking over, but suddenly, Chen Chuan vanished. Wei Guochan’s eyes widened in shock, and he flipped around. A fist was coming down at him. He brought his recovered arms up to block it.

Bang!

Their biofields slammed into each other, but perhaps due to the vitalized tissue strengthening him, it didn’t shatter in an instant, even if plenty of cracks formed on his biofield.

However, the force coming from above didn’t go away. The fist kept pushing down, and the ground under Wei Guochan collapsed as he slowly sank into it.

He was using all of his power to fight back. His entire body was tense, and he clenched his teeth tightly. The veins on his forehead and neck bulged, and the white vitalized tissue swelled up. He grew larger, and his metal armor cracked occasionally.

Even so, he couldn’t stop the fist coming down at him. After just a short while, even his calves sunk into the ground.

Chen Chuan kept his arm outstretched as he brought his other arm up, clenched his fist, and had golden white light shine around it. It was so bright that half of his body and the area around him became dazzlingly bright.

Xiao Wan exchanged a few blows with Zhao Zhenye before retreating. When he saw this, he exclaimed, “Hey, that’s a bit—”

Before he could finish, the shining fist came down.

Boom!

The ground trembled, and a pillar of smoke rose up. At the same time, a loud explosion and a shockwave spread outward.

The three stopped fighting and retreated.

Xiao Wan turned to the pit. By now, it looked like it had been blasted by repeated artillery fire. The dirt around it was dry, barren, and crumbly, as if all the moisture had been drained from it. Finally, Xiao Wan finished his sentence.

“—Over the top!”

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