Swoosh! Wu Li pounced in Tiger Form towards Zhao Lixin, who was five ters away.
Five ters, that was Wu Li’s current limit.
It wasn’t that Wu Li’s Tiger Form could only strike at 5 ters; after all, one could keep pouncing forward step by step if they wished. However, during a montary burst, Wu Li’s limit was 5 ters. Past that distance, his speed would begin to decline. Therefore, it was best to strike with a punch at the instant when his speed was at its peak, transforming all kinetic energy into potential energy. Only then would his Tiger Form display its most formidable power.
Faced with Wu Li’s ferocious Tiger Form assault like a tiger bursting out of the gates, Zhao Lixin pushed his palms upward in a deceptively slow yet swift motion, as if he was pushing a large millstone. The muscles in his arms intertwined, and the sleeves of his clothing were stretched taut until they finally tore apart with a ripping sound.
Bagua, Big Stone Breaking Hand!
This was a Bagua Palm technique that was extrely rigid and masculine, representing one extre of Bagua’s spectrum of yin and yang, just like the extrely soft and yielding Ox Tongue Palm.
When one first practiced the Ox Tongue Palm, they would repeatedly strike the surface of water. After a while, soil would be added to the water, turning it into mud, and the practice would continue. As more mud was added and the mixture beca thicker and harder, the practitioner’s palm force would beco increasingly supple until they reached a level of yin force that was both slight and potent.
In contrast, to practice palm force, fad Bagua practitioners of the past would place a massive stone millstone in their hos and then push it with their palms, spinning it rapidly. Sotis they would spin it so fiercely that they could even tear off the wooden axle and hurl the millstone out. This explosive palm force that manifests extre rigidity and intensity was dubbed "Big Stone Breaking," and applied within the Bagua grinding palm technique, it beca the current Big Stone Breaking Hand.
Whether it was the Ox Tongue Palm or the Big Stone Breaking Hand, for most people practicing Bagua Palm, these were simply two thods for training palm force, a category of training thods. To utilize them in actual combat, to turn them into a fighting technique, one would need to have at least reached the Master Level realm.
At this mont, faced with Wu Li’s ferocious Tiger Form, Zhao Lixin—the newly promoted Bagua Master—countered with rigidity, pitting his extrely rigid and masculine Big Stone Breaking Hand against the domineering Xingyi!
Crack! The air burst as Wu Li, in Tiger Form, leaped in front of Zhao Lixin, swinging down a Splitting Fist from midair like a colossal axe that could cleave mountains. Even if there was a mountain before him, he would shatter it!
Zhao Lixin’s palms t Wu Li’s fists.
Bang! Crash!
The sleeves of their clothing tore apart, scattering in the air.
The ground beneath Zhao Lixin’s feet bore the imprint of two footprints, as if he had been nailed to the spot, his body suddenly appearing shorter; Wu Li’s body, on the other hand, trembled slightly as if he had been electrified.
Both had been affected by the other’s fist power, becoming rigid on the spot. To put it in layman’s terms: one’s legs were numb from the shock, the other’s hands were numb from the shock, each immobilized...
However, a second after Wu Li’s arms went numb, they began to naturally swell. Once blood and qi circulated again, he recovered first and imdiately threw a Drilling Fist at Zhao Lixin’s neck.
Zhao Lixin’s legs had not yet fully recovered, and he was a beat too slow to dodge with footwork; he could only flip his hands downward, attempting to neutralize Wu Li’s Drilling Fist with Coiling Silk Force.
But since the two were nearly on the sa level, being one step slow ant being slow at every step, putting Zhao Lixin at an imdiate disadvantage.
After another dozen moves, Wu Li gained the upper hand and went all out in his attack, giving Zhao Lixin no chance to turn the tables. Finally, Wu Li shattered Zhao Lixin’s inadequately powered Mian Palm with a Beng Fist and followed up with a Snake Form Drilling Fist that struck the opponent’s throat, killing him.
Swoosh! The defeated Zhao Lixin vanished in an instant.
In the room, Wu Li opened his eyes and exited the Virtual Reality.
That’s right, the battle that had just taken place occurred within the Virtual Reality, with Wu Li using an A-Grade Virtual Battle Card.
Originally, Wu Li chose an A-Grade Virtual Battle Card to simulate a fight with an A-Grade opponent. He had intended to use this card to simulate a fight with Basong, but the designated target for a Virtual Battle Card had to be soone the host had seen in person. Wu Li had never seen Basong, only photos and videos; hence, he couldn’t use the Virtual Battle Card on him.
Wu Li had also inquired with Zhao Lixin and Chen Zhengyang about the possibility of eting Basong in advance, even a glimpse from afar would have sufficed. However, Basong’s whereabouts were also elusive to Fenglin Group, and so this idea was shelved.
In the end, Wu Li decided to use the A-Grade Virtual Battle Card on Zhao Lixin, as the latter was also an A-Grade expert, and so it wasn’t a waste.
The Virtual Battle Card had a usage ti limit of 2 hours, with an unlimited number of uses until the ti ran out. Once employed, it had to be bound to a target, aning that after Wu Li used it on Zhao Lixin, the Virtual Battle Card’s opponent would perpetually be Zhao Lixin.
Although there were many restrictions, Wu Li discovered after using it that the Virtual Battle Card was indeed a great asset: it allowed him to create any battle environnt, any weapon for use, and everything was simulated with 100% accuracy to reality—the sensation of flesh and blood, the feeling and effects of injuries, the consequences of the environnt being damaged, and so on—all mirroring what one would experience in reality.
Such significance lay not only in the fact that Wu Li could simulate fighting against a high-level expert but also in that he could possess many combat experiences that were difficult or downright impossible to have in reality!
People always say that martial arts are killing skills, but in modern society, how many martial artists could actually have life-taking combat experience?
Without truly throwing a punch that breaks the throat, tearing off an arm, or delivering a kick that shatters the groin... how could one know the effects of these techniques on another person? How would one’s own arms and legs feel the recoil? What would the touch and the pain feel like?
Without truly understanding these details, how could one know if their training was correct?
And this was just considering hand-to-hand combat; with weapons, it was even more so. If you didn’t know what it felt like to chop soone with a blade, or the resistance felt when a weapon pierces flesh, or how much force is needed to chop through bone without getting stuck, how could you know whether you were training correctly or not?
It’s true that martial arts are killing skills, but in modern society, for the average person, they might as well be Dragon Slaying Skills. Without the chance to verify their authenticity. Even if they were true, they were just sothing conveyed by others, experiences passed down through generations. You could only understand and accept them, not truly experience and verify them yourself.
This was the tragedy of modern Traditional Martial Artists. Perhaps in terms of realm, people like Zhao Lixin might have hope in catching up with their predecessors, but in terms of practical combat, they could never compare with those forr masters who truly had been on battlefields, slain enemies, or road the world fighting and crippling many others.
To arduously train Dragon Slaying Skills, only to have no dragons to slay. How tragic is that?
However, now, for Wu Li, the presence of the Virtual Battle Card changed everything.
In Virtual Reality, Wu Li could freely take the lives of his opponents without bearing any burden. He could kill any way he wanted, practice any Killing Move he desired, and he could even experience what it felt like to be ’killed’ by others.
It’s said that great terror lies between life and death. Even though the Virtual Battle Card might not simulate true death, at the very least, it can simulate everything up to the very second before actual death occurs—the entire process from injury to impending demise!
Wu Li could experience both the sensation of breaking soone else’s bones with a punch and the feeling of having his own bones broken by a punch. He could feel what it was like to slash soone with a sword, and conversely, the sensation of being cut by one.
It could be said that, as long as Wu Li kept possessing the Virtual Battle Card, he would be the person with the richest real combat experience in the history of hand-to-hand and cold-weapon combat, without exception!
Even those past Grandmasters who had seen real battles and had taken lives could not be compared with Wu Li, as their lives were finite, whereas Wu Li could revive infinitely in Virtual Reality.
This discovery excited Wu Li trendously. In this period, he made full use of the two-hour limit of the Virtual Battle Card, experinting with all kinds of approaches:
He fought hand-to-hand with Zhao Lixin, trying each killing skill from Xingyi Fist, killing Zhao Lixin 27 tis, while dying himself 52 tis.
He experinted with Golden Bell Shield to feel the sensation of being struck at different parts of his body. It was practically courting death, a truly painful experience...
Using weapons, Wu Li sparred with Zhao Lixin, Xingyi Spear against Bagua Saber, Big Spear against the Yuan Yang Yue, blade against blade, blade against yue...
Finally, there were bouts of unard against ard and ard against unard.
Each fight lasted at most a minute and at the least, a re ten seconds or even just three to four seconds. Within this ti fra in Virtual Reality, Wu Li had engaged in almost 500 bouts with Zhao Lixin in various ways...
In short, without Zhao Lixin’s knowledge, in so Virtual Space, Wu Li had ford a very special bond with him. Wu Li was not only familiar with his Techniques, fighting style, and the use of weapons, but he had also beco intimately acquainted with his body...
Even so, Wu Li still wasn’t satisfied and hesitated to use the last minute of the Virtual Battle Card’s ti.
Two hours was far too little for Wu Li, even two hundred hours wouldn’t feel enough. Moreover, Wu Li still had many ideas he hadn’t realized. The content of Xingyi Fist he had exchanged, for example, included so Energy Transfer techniques and Body Training thods that existed only in the conjectures of his predecessors, such as the mysterious Alchemy Dao. He dared not attempt these in reality because it could easily cost a life, but with the Virtual Battle Card, it was different. He could experint within Virtual Reality; in other words, he could court death safely.
Then there were so high-difficulty force utilization thods that might require reaching Grandmaster Level to master, but he could attempt them in advance in Virtual Reality, which would also aid his future breakthrough.
One could say the Virtual Battle Card had boundless uses!
Now, Wu Li had one wish: he hoped the system would allow him to exchange for a Virtual Battle Card! Even the lowest level, an E-grade card, would be of great assistance to him.
If Wu Li now had fifteen million Fan Value and the system gave him the choice of breaking through to Grandmaster Level or exchanging it for an unlimited-ti Virtual Battle Card, Wu Li would undoubtedly, without hesitation, choose the latter!
Because with the latter, there would be endless possibilities!
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