Starry Sky Professional Directory 19
Chapter 19: Practical Combat and Abilities (Seeking Recommendations)
“Your spirit… I sense it…”
Faced with such an opponent, Fang Xing couldn’t help but express his respect. Then, he brought his five fingers together, his body resembling a drawn bow, and leaped forward, covering several meters in a single bound to preempt Phoenix’s arrival. “But if spirit is useful, what’s the point of physical matter?”
Boom!
A loud explosion echoed through the air.
Bow Stance Cannon Fist! A shot worth a king’s ransom!
After Fang Xing got slightly serious, Phoenix flew backward at a speed even faster than her initial attack.
This time, she flew directly off the ring, falling unconscious to the ground.
“Damn, Fang Xing from Class Two is inhuman! He actually knocked Phoenix unconscious…”
“I remember you. See you on the ring!”
As a beautiful girl, Phoenix had quite a few admirers, and this immediately caused an uproar.
Fang Xing always ignored such buzzing flies.
‘Hmph, if I hadn’t won decisively, given her personality—her tendency to self-harm to force a victory—she would have lost even worse and suffered even more severe injuries…’
He coldly snorted in his heart and left the ring.
At this moment, a greater cry of surprise came from the adjacent ring.
“So brutal!”
“This… Refined Skin perfection? And not just ordinary tough skin, but a Copper Skin Martial Artist?”
“Is that Cole from Class Two? Class Two is truly lucky, continuously producing Martial Dao powerhouses!”
…
“Hmm?”
Fang Xing walked toward the adjacent ring and saw Cole roaring with raised fists, with a classmate lying unconscious at his feet.
The classmate looked terrible, as if they had been run over by a road roller.
After listening to the audience’s discussion, he understood that Cole had displayed terrifying strength in the fight, remaining completely unmoved by his opponent’s attacks.
Such defense undoubtedly indicated Refined Skin perfection, and not just ordinary tough skin!
Even more frightening was that after gaining an overwhelming advantage, Cole was extremely brutal!
“Roar!”
Cole raised his fists, roaring like a beast.
His slightly bloodshot eyes turned to Fang Xing, and he let out a ferocious laugh, making a throat-slitting gesture.
‘Truly… arrogant.’
Fang Xing folded his arms, his expression cold, completely unaffected by the provocation.
After all, to him, Cole was no different from an ant on the road.
One doesn’t get angry with ants; one simply crushes them without a second thought!
He quickly faced his second opponent, classmate Qian Xun.
Qian Xun, wearing her training uniform and still sporting her pumpkin-head hairstyle, said, “Fang classmate, please go easy on me!”
She clearly knew how much Xia Long favored Fang Xing and that she was no match for him.
Even so, she still wanted to challenge her limits.
“Please.”
Fang Xing slightly raised his hand. He saw Qian Xun leap up, her legs moving in a series of rapid kicks—the ‘Double Snake Legs’ from the twelve-style military fist.
He subtly shifted his hands, opening them wide, and grabbed her ankles.
With a slight exertion of force, he threw Qian Xun off the ring.
“You…”
Qian Xun’s face flushed slightly, then she couldn’t hide her surprise, “Refined Skin perfection?”
Only such a level of defense could allow him to effortlessly receive her attack.
“If that idiot Cole has achieved Refined Skin perfection, it’s perfectly normal for me to reach this level, isn’t it?”
Fang Xing replied with a smile.
“But you don’t know that Cole’s family is deeply in debt supporting his martial arts training…”
Qian Xun got up, patted the dust off her clothes, and answered with a chuckle.
“Don’t tell me his mother quit her job to take care of him full-time, and they took out a loan to buy a house…”
Fang Xing’s expression immediately turned strange.
These two things, combined with the insane investment in their child’s education, were the classic three middle-income traps in his previous life.
“That’s impossible! Louise was originally a full-time housewife, but later, because Cole’s martial arts expenses were too high, she had to go out to work…”
Qian Xun clearly didn’t understand Fang Xing’s allusion and answered seriously.
“That’s a pity.”
Fang Xing shook his head. A voice reached his ears, causing his expression to change.
“Ring 9, Liu Wei versus Cole!”
“Hmm?”
He quickly went to the edge of the ring and saw Liu Wei walk onto the stage, facing Cole, who was wearing only a tight-fitting vest and looked much more muscular.
“Liu Wei… just right, you’re Fang Xing’s best friend, aren’t you?”
Cole calmly clenched his fists, the bones rubbing together with a grating sound. “Perfect, let’s take care of you first, then I’ll deal with him!”
“A Xing didn’t cripple you last time, he really went easy on you…”
A cold glint flashed in Liu Wei’s eyes.
“Cough… the two classmates can begin.”
A teacher in charge of the ring coughed awkwardly.
Just high school students, yet their words were so aggressive, talking about killing and fighting. Did they think the Martial Dao teachers were dead?
They knew that momentum was important in a martial artist’s clash, but there had to be limits.
“Die!”
Cole charged forward like a tank, or a rabid brown bear.
His steps and punches clearly showed a different fighting style, completely unlike before, incredibly brutal!
Coupled with his Refined Skin perfection, he could definitely compete for the top spot in Yucai High School’s first year!
“Hmm? This Cole is not bad!”
A Martial Dao teacher pushed up his glasses. “Refined Skin perfection, and he also learned ‘Black Snake Fighting Technique.’ He’s a shoo-in for the practical combat champion this year.”
“Hmph…”
Xia Long’s ears twitched, picking up a faint sound from afar. He dismissively said, “To my knowledge, Cole took ‘Black Mamba Extract.’ Although this drug isn’t banned, it’s almost there… It seems his coach is short-sighted, only focusing on short-term progress and ignoring his future potential and development…”
While the two teachers were talking, on the ring…
Liu Wei had already engaged Cole, both pulling back their arms and punching simultaneously!
The surface of Cole’s fists was rough, with a faint bluish-black color, like an iron hammer.
Before the fists even arrived, the force of the punches was already extremely fierce.
Liu Wei also brought his five fingers together, punching out!
But as he threw this punch, the muscles in his right arm seemed to come alive, frantically writhing and expanding…
Bang!
A loud bang!
Cole screamed, his right arm breaking into several pieces!
Moreover, he flew off the ring like a cannonball.
“Hmm?”
Fang Xing was somewhat surprised. “Liu Wei actually defeated Cole?”
Although they hadn’t been in contact much recently, the progress he had made was too terrifying!
Whoosh!
Several figures, moving too fast for the naked eye, arrived at the ring’s edge to check on Cole’s injuries.
“His arm is broken, and his ribs too… He’s seriously injured, but treatable.”
A female teacher examined Cole’s injuries and spoke.
Xia Long stared at the writhing muscles on Liu Wei’s right arm, his eyes gleaming slightly. “An Ability user? Liu Wei… you awakened an Ability?”
“Yes, a strength-type Ability—Muscle Activation!”
Liu Wei answered calmly.
“Not bad. Although this Ability has limited potential, it allows you to unleash most of your body’s strength… Besides, it has a huge advantage in refining flesh and skin… Looking at your level, you should be almost at Refined Skin perfection, right?”
Xia Long didn’t hesitate to praise him. “Work hard… My class finally has a student with a chance of getting into university.”
Clearly, in Xia Long’s eyes, Fang Xing, who had been hiding his strength, might not yet meet the criteria.
But Liu Wei, who awakened the ‘Muscle Activation’ Ability, had reached the standard!
“Please rest assured, teacher, I will work hard.”
Liu Wei became much calmer, slowly walked off the ring, and seemed to glance towards Fang Xing.
“Cole, that idiot… said he was going to teach me a lesson, but he got eliminated first.”
Fang Xing muttered, looking at his next opponent—Ouyang Qianqian.
In his third round, he was unlucky enough to draw another classmate, continuing the internal war.
“Fang classmate, please give me your best!”
Ouyang Qianqian was full of energy, having clearly undergone rigorous training. Her attack was a flurry of swift and precise finger strikes, containing a subtle and powerful force, a significant improvement from before.
“Ouyang classmate has made great progress…”
Fang Xing sighed, directly withdrawing his defenses and taking her eighteen finger strikes head-on.
Zhing! Zhiing!
The finger strikes, powerful enough to dislocate joints, landed on him, but were blocked by an extremely resilient force.
Fang Xing felt as if someone was massaging him; the areas hit by the fingers felt a tingling numbness, quite comfortable.
‘Hmm? Is this also a unique effect of ‘Jade Skin’? Force dissipation?’
Normally, if it were Bull Skin or Copper Skin, although they could also withstand Ouyang Qianqian’s finger strikes, they would inevitably suffer some penetrating and counter-shock injuries.
But Fang Xing felt his skin tremble slightly at the points of impact, dispersing the extremely concentrated force of the finger strikes.
Ouyang Qianqian’s killing move failed, and she looked at Fang Xing as if he were a monster. “I’ve worked so hard, yet I’m getting further and further away from you…”
She felt a little disheartened.
Both Fang Xing and Liu Wei had achieved leaps and bounds in their martial arts progress at a speed she couldn’t imagine!
In comparison, she, a naturally born human, felt like trash!
“I give up!”
Ouyang Qianqian raised her hand to signal the referee teacher, then looked at Fang Xing. “I will definitely surpass you.”
(End of Chapter)
Previous Chapter | TOC | Next Chapter
0 Comments