Chapter 42: Dropped Item: Hong Qigong’s 30 Years of Power!

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Dropped Item: Hong Qigong’s 30 Years of Power!

On Peach Blossom Island, the four figures momentarily stood perfectly still.

Hong Qigong, Huang Yaoshi, and Ouyang Feng stared at the young man who had retreated several steps. Standing tall and imposing, he abruptly thrust out a fist and wrapped his other hand over it.

This posture closely resembled the traditional fist and palm salute used by people in the Jianghu.

However, the moment Chen Sha assumed this starting stance, the blood, meridians, muscles, and skin throughout his entire body were instantaneously subjected to a violent, pulling tension.

With the formation of this Fist Seal, all the Power, moves, as well as Essence Qi and Spirit of his entire body were focused entirely into his palms and fingers!

This was exactly the Dao Yi Seal!

"With this punch!"

Chen Sha extended his long arms, looking as if he were drawing a bow to shoot down the sun. He threw a straight punch directly at the three men.

"I will end this Chapter!"

BOOM!

In an instant, the three ultimate Grandmasters from the World of Legend of the Condor Heroes felt as though everything in the world had completely changed the moment this punch was thrown.

The pink Peach Blossom Forest unexpectedly lost all its color beneath the force of this strike. The earth, the blue sky, the woods, the green grass, and everything else were reduced to a desolate, grayish-white wasteland.

A single punch encompassed Myriad Phenomena, causing the very world to lose its color!

A massive, pulsating, blood-red word instantly appeared in the minds of the three ultimate Grandmasters: East Evil, West Poison, and North Beggar.

"DANGER!!"

They could clearly sense that within Chen Sha’s punch, the profound mysteries of over a dozen types of Superior Martial Arts were flowing and pulsating, all converging upon this young man’s body.

This kind of phenomenon was virtually unimaginable. Even with the vast experience of the three ultimate Grandmasters, they had only ever heard of a similar existence from over a hundred years ago.

It was a Nameless Sweeping Monk from the Early Song Dynasty.

That monk hailed from the Shaolin Temple. The Shaolin Temple was the Zen Sect of all Martial Arts in the world, and its seventy-two Ultimate Skills were famous throughout the Jianghu.

Among them, every single Ultimate Skill was a Superior Martial Art comparable to Huang Yaoshi’s self-created Luoying Divine Sword Palm or Ouyang Feng’s Spiritual Snake Fist Technique.

Legend had it that these seventy-two Ultimate Skills were personally created by the Shaolin Ancestral Master, Dharma. But ever since Dharma Ancestor created them, no subsequent Martial Monk had ever been able to master all seventy-two Ultimate Skills.

Even the head monks and Elders of the Shaolin Temple, dedicating their entire lives, could perhaps only deeply study a single Ultimate Skill.

Yet, during the Early Song Dynasty, a monk appeared in the Shaolin Temple who had mastered twenty-three Ultimate Skills. And this monk of twenty-three Ultimate Skills was incredibly just an entirely unknown elderly Sweeping Monk within the temple.

Since Dharma created the seventy-two Ultimate Skills, aside from this Sweeping Monk who had mastered twenty-three of them, no one in the Shaolin Temple had been known to master more than five over the following two hundred years!

The reason was very simple.

Any Superior Martial Arts inherently reached an extraordinary height in a specific field. Therefore, the seventy-two Ultimate Skills represented seventy-two conflicting types of Martial Arts True Qi and Heart Method philosophies.

For a Martial Arts practitioner in the Shaolin Temple, mastering an additional Ultimate Skill would naturally multiply their Inner Power True Qi. However, the ensuing conflict of Exotic True Qi from different Martial Arts within the body, along with the divergent Heart Method philosophies behind them, taught the Shaolin Martial Monks a harsh truth.

That truth was: without the support of a profound Buddhist Technique Realm, every time they practiced an extra Ultimate Skill and increased their Power, they would step one step closer to succumbing to qi deviation.

Only by thoroughly studying Buddhist Technique while practicing Martial Arts could one resolve the conflicts of Heart Methods and True Qi between the different Ultimate Skills.

Rumor had it that during the Early Song Dynasty, two Grandmaster Level experts repeatedly stole the Shaolin Temple’s Ultimate Skills. In the end, they practiced until they suffered from the Five Injuries and Seven Wounds. They only managed to keep their lives because that Sweeping Monk stepped in to save them.

As the eighteenth Sect Leader of the Beggar Gang, Hong Qigong knew that these events had occurred during the time of their tenth Sect Leader, which was why the Beggar Gang possessed some records of the matter.

Yet right now, Chen Sha’s body had achieved the Fusion of at least seven or eight of their Ultimate Skills and Martial Arts without showing any signs of qi deviation. Furthermore, he had comprehensively integrated these Martial Arts to form a Fist Seal that encompassed Myriad Phenomena.

This Fist Seal was undoubtedly exceptionally powerful.

But this young man was not a senior monk of the Buddhist Sect. How could he possibly possess a Buddhist Technique Realm akin to the Sweeping Monk’s, allowing him to mentally resolve the Rebound pain brought about by different Martial Arts?

Naturally, they couldn’t possibly know.

Chen Sha indeed lacked a Buddhist Technique Realm, but he was the Sect Leader of the head of the Four Great Daoist Sects from another world.

The Sweeping Monk was able to master twenty-three Ultimate Skills by relying on his profound Buddhist Technique Realm to neutralize the conflicts between different Martial Arts.

Chen Sha, on the other hand, relied on Daoist Technique. Simply put, it was the Heart Method of the Daoist Sect’s Great Yellow Court.

Whether it was Buddhist Technique or Daoist Technique, both were methods to clearly understand the world. The Buddhist Sect taught that all four elements were empty. The Daoist School taught that the Dao followed nature.

The Heart Method of the Great Yellow Court was rooted in the Dao generating the one, meaning the Dao followed nature. The Dao Yi sect ran entirely through this principle. Thus, when combined with the Dao Yi Seal, the True Qi of the Great Yellow Court could master thousands of Martial Arts across the world.

This was Chen Sha’s unique advantage, and also the unique advantage of Dao Yi Mountain.

BOOM!

Chen Sha’s punch smashed down upon the heads of the three ultimate Grandmasters, seemingly blasting apart ten feet of air around them.

Even though the three men joined forces to resist simultaneously, it was all to no avail.

BANG!

Upon a single contact, their vision went black. Their entire bodies felt as if they were being crushed, shaken, and blown apart by a terrifying level of force!

THUD! THUD! THUD!

With just one punch, an incomparably terrifying force crushed over them. Hong Qigong, Huang Yaoshi, and Ouyang Feng all dissipated, vanishing completely from the Peach Blossom Island Chapter.

"The Sect Leader has cleared the second Chapter, ’Three Extremes Meet at Peach Blossom Island,’ and unlocked the third Chapter, ’Five Extremes of the Jianghu, Hua Mountain Sword Discussion.’

"Items dropped in this scenario..."

Accompanied by the jumping text on the Southern Heavenly Gate in his mind, all the scenery surrounding Chen Sha began to rapidly contract, turning into the same appearance as when he cleared the first Chapter.

A vast expanse of pure whiteness.

CRACKLE!

Along with the collapsing sound of this second Chapter’s Cosmic Light Fragment following his victory, several items dropped down in front of Chen Sha.

"After three or four months, I have finally cleared the second Chapter. Fighting against three ultimate Grandmasters simultaneously, I defeated them without any doubt."

Chen Sha stood in place, taking deep breaths. Soon after, he looked at the few items before him.

He thought, "When I cleared the first Chapter, I obtained the Soft Hedgehog Armor, the Secret Manual of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and so on. This proves that the dropped items are related to the characters in the scenario. I wonder what kind of rewards I will get this time?"

He looked at these dropped items.

Five books.

A piece of human skin.

A folding fan.

A dagger.

A cluster of True Qi.

And a glass bead, exactly the same as the one-third of a Cosmic Light Fragment from last time.

"Four Secret Manuals?"

Chen Sha first inspected them one by one. The five books were respectively:

"The Lower Volume of the Nine Yin Scripture, the Toad Skill, the Void Clarity Fist, the Finger Snapping Divine Ability, and Rong’Er’s Recipe Book."

The first four were Martial Arts Secret Manuals. The last one made Chen Sha’s face darken.

"Huang Rong’s recipe book?"

To think it would actually drop such a thing. He casually tossed it aside and looked at the other four Secret Manuals.

The Lower Volume of the Nine Yin Scripture had dropped from Guo Jing. The Toad Skill, Void Clarity Fist, and Finger Snapping Divine Ability went without saying; they were items dropped from Ouyang Feng, Huang Yaoshi, and Zhou Botong in the cave after Chen Sha defeated them.

These four Secret Manuals were all Superior Martial Arts. Just like the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms that dropped last time, they all came equipped with Cultivation Routes and Heart Method Mantras, which would allow Chen Sha to genuinely cultivate the True Qi of these Martial Arts.

Moving his gaze away from the several Secret Manuals, Chen Sha looked at the newly dropped items that hadn’t appeared before. Annotations also appeared on the Southern Heavenly Gate:

[A folding fan dropped by Ouyang Ke: Contains a hidden weapon mechanism. A single flick will shoot out cold-star projectiles.]

Chen Sha shook his head; it was an uninteresting little trinket.

He then looked at the final dropped item:

[Thirty years of True Qi Power dropped by Hong Qigong: Upon consumption, one will receive a perfect empowerment, increasing their Grandmaster Skill by thirty years.]