Chapter 43: Devil Slaughter Five Styles

  In the heart of the Forest of Death, no one had expected that in the depths of the forest where death was said to reside, there existed a region filled with the songs of birds and the fragrance of flowers. Here stood a towering mountain peak, which seemed to pierce through the clouds and into the sky. A waterfall cascaded down from the summit, its flow unbroken as it plunged straight down. When Zhang Huaming first laid eyes on this waterfall, he was deeply moved by its majesty, and a line of ancient poetry came to mind: "A waterfall plunges three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way had fallen from the ninth heaven."

  At this moment, under the waterfall, a figure sat quietly on a huge rock at the bottom of the waterfall, letting the waterfall hit him.

  "The One Breath Mixed Yuan Gong is an incredibly powerful attacking technique. To cultivate this technique, you must first train your body to be as hard as refined iron; otherwise, if you attack an enemy and fail to land a hit, you will face death, because the attacking power of this technique is three times that of techniques of the same level." Zhang Huaming recalled his master's words in his mind, enduring the pain transmitted through his body from the waterfall impact.

  In the middle of the mountain, Xuan Tianba looked at Zhang Huaming who was being hit by the waterfall with a relieved expression. Then he turned around and roared at Karyn behind him: "You little brat, what time is it? You still haven't gone to prepare lunch, are you going to starve me to death?"

  "Yes, Grandfather!" Karyn's face turned pale with fear as Xuan Tianba's angry roar seemed to suck the air out of her.

  Xuantian saw Karyn leave, a faint smile appeared on his face: "This kid, is indeed the descendant of the White Tiger, and he has actually grasped one or two things about spatial laws. Not bad."

  In the dead of night, Zhang Huaming sat quietly in the stone house, operating the "One Qi Hunyuan Gong" introductory mind method passed down by Xuantian Bao. He had been cultivating for five whole days and only then did he feel the overbearing nature of this technique. No wonder Xuantian Bao repeatedly warned him that unless he cultivated his physical body to a hundred times that of an ordinary person, he could not cultivate it, because this technique was simply inhumane, similar to the "Seven Injuries Fist" on Earth, which used the tactic of hurting oneself before hurting others.

  Only to see Zhang Huaming's whole body misty, the entire stone house suddenly surged with a shocking killing intent. After a moment, his bare upper body skin seemed to be slowly cut by some sharp object, and fine cracks appeared on the skin surface, blood gushing out from the cracks. In an instant, he was like crawling out of a pool of blood, and the expression on his face confirmed that he was suffering inhuman torture at this moment.

  At this moment, a gentle and soft true energy surged out of Zhang Huaming's dantian to repair the torn veins in his body caused by the One Qi Mixed Yuan Gong. The One Qi Mixed Yuan Gong true energy that was originally tearing apart the veins suddenly lost control of its master and rushed towards the Longsheng Jue true energy, as if it had met an opponent. The two true energies were like sworn enemies, their eyes turned red, and they began to fight each other, as if they wanted to compete with each other.

  "My grass! What's going on?" Zhang Huaming secretly exclaimed in his heart, and the next moment he quickly wanted to withdraw his power. Unfortunately, these two strands of true energy seemed to be against him, and they collided with each other uncontrollably, which was a disaster for the owner of the body.

  "Ah!" Zhang Huaming let out a miserable cry and fainted.

  Bang! Just as Zhang Huaming fainted, the stone door of his residence was kicked open by someone, and Xuan Tianba rushed in from outside.

  "My goodness! What is this kid doing? Hmm? Two different martial arts colliding? How is this possible?" Xuan Tianba examined him up and down, then his face showed a surprised expression, followed by a serious look as he stretched out his hand to tap several acupoints on Zhang Huaming's body.

  Pffft! Zhang Huaming, who had been slapped around by Xuan Tianba, spat out a mouthful of black blood while unconscious and then fell into a coma again.

  "Grandma's tears, this is terrible." Xuan Tianba muttered with a gloomy expression. He had never seen an auxiliary martial artist take the lead in attacking a dominant martial artist before, and it was his first time seeing such a thing after living for countless years.

  "Brother!" Kayan's figure also appeared in Zhang Huaming's stone house at this moment. Seeing his brother's miserable appearance, he immediately asked anxiously: "Old man, is my brother okay?"

  "For now, let him rest for the night and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Xuan Tianba said with a serious expression, then he left the stone house immediately, seemingly to go to a quiet place to think about some issues.

  After Xuantian left, Karyn looked at his brother with a worried expression and left, because he knew that his brother would never be in trouble, if something really happened, then his brother's master would not ignore him.

  Just as Xuan Tianba and Ka Yan left, Zhang Huaming, who was in a coma, underwent a change. The true energy of the Longsheng Jue that had originally retreated to his dantian suddenly burst out, directly enveloping him. At this moment, a circle of cyan light appeared on the surface of his body, and the torn skin quickly healed. The meridians that were torn apart by the expansion of the One Qi Hunyuan Gong also quickly recovered. However, no one sensed this scene.

  The sun had just risen, and Zhang Huaming opened his eyes from his daze. The moment he opened his eyes, he was stunned for a second, then immediately jumped out of bed to check his body's condition. He looked at himself in shock - how was this possible? Hadn't he been seriously injured last night after practicing the introductory chapter of the One Breath Mixed Yuan Technique? Not only had his injuries healed overnight, but he had also broken through to the first level of the technique? Grandma's... had Master Zhu awakened?

  "Zhu Lao, Zhu Lao, are you awake?" Zhang Huaming silently called out in his heart. Half a moment later, he was disappointed because he saw that the Hunyuan Pearl in his mind still had no movement at all, which meant that Zhu Lao was still trapped in deep sleep. This also meant that his injuries were not healed by Zhu Lao's help. Then who was it?

  "Little guy, you're awake. What happened to you last night...?" Just as Xuantian Ba was about to finish speaking, he seemed to be startled and quickly came to Zhang Huaming's side, sizing him up from head to toe, and exclaimed in surprise: "You little guy broke through the first layer of the One Qi Mixed Yuan Gong? What exactly happened, tell me."

  Zhang Huaming smiled wryly and said: "Master, I don't know how I broke through either. After fainting, when I woke up, I became like this."

  Xuantian's face showed a look of depression, Grandma drop, where have you heard that someone said they broke through their kung fu after fainting and waking up? If it were that easy, wouldn't the Wulin continent be filled with masters already?

  "Alright, since you've come this far, let's just go with it. Now that you've broken through the first layer of Gong Fa, I'll teach you the second layer of Xin Fa and my signature move, the Demon-Slaying Five Styles."

  "Master still has a famous move? Ah!" Zhang Huaming held his head in both hands, looking at Xuan Tianba with a wronged expression, not understanding why he was knocked on the head.

  "You silly kid, do you really think your master is someone to be trifled with? Back in the day, Master's Demon-Slaying Five Styles made countless experts tremble with fear. Consider yourself lucky, kid." Xuan Tianba said with a displeased expression.

  "Yes, yes, Master is formidable."

  "Go, I'll teach you the first move of Demon Slaughter. Watch closely." In a spacious area on the mountain waist, Xuan Tian Ba instructed with a serious expression.

  "Yes, Master." Zhang Huaming put away his usual nonchalant expression, because he felt the power of Master's move, even though he hadn't seen Master make a move, he had already sensed that overwhelming strength from Master's body radiating an intense fighting spirit.

  "Dao Mie Wu Shen" Xuan Tian Ba let out a loud roar, and the branch in his hand, which was substituting for a sword, chopped out accordingly.

  BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! The ground shook violently, and terrifying spatial cracks suddenly appeared in the surrounding space.

  "Damn it! I only used less than a layer of power and it's already like this, unbelievable." Xuan Tianba couldn't help but curse as he saw the scene, then immediately waved his hand, and the spatial cracks that appeared around him disappeared without a trace. If not for the deep pit left on the mountain waist, Zhang Huaming and Karyn would have suspected that they were both hallucinating just now.

  "Kid, I'm afraid I won't be able to use Wu Yuan to teach you, so for now, I'll just teach you the hand movements of drawing a sword and how to use Wu Yuan."

  "Yes, Master." Zhang Huaming suddenly put away his original appearance and became a well-behaved child, because he saw that Xuan Tianba was not just bragging, but had real goods in his hands. Although it was only for an instant, he saw some of the mystery, but now he has an unsolved puzzle in his heart, which is that since Xuan Tianba's cultivation is so powerful, can be said to be a existence against heaven, how can this space still accommodate his existence? Even with just one layer of power, it would cause spatial cracks, and if he used all his strength, wouldn't this space be shattered into pieces?

  Xuantian Ba seemed very satisfied with Zhang Huaming's attitude at this moment, nodded his head in relief and said: "Young man, listen carefully, the key to this move is that your fighting spirit is the main driver, after that..."