Chapter 147

Romance of Dragons and Snakes Chapter 147

With this keen observation of movement, Wang Chao had immediately deduced the situation. Immediately reigniting his spit, his legs spread out while he took in a deep breath. His Jin exploded once more with the sounds of thunder and arrived at Chen Tianlei’s front with a Force Punch ready to fire.

“The second hammer, Master Chen!”

His lungs were incredibly strong, and with him reaching a state of “Inner Sight” with it, Wang Chao could tell that his lungs hadn’t suffered any damage from the earlier collision.

Chen Tianlei resumed a tranquil look back onto his face and met out an “Under Elbow Punch”. With these two fists colliding once again, Wang Chao was sent back two steps while Chen Tianlei stepped back thrice.

“The third hammer!” Wang Chao was relying upon the incredible endurance he had built up from underneath the ocean combined with the robustness that came with his young age to deal out the first blow again.

The “Seafloor Smash” and “Lower Point Punch” had been used in conjunction by Wang Chao. Just briefly, the intent of the “Seafloor Smash” had brought out the the Jin of the “Lower Point Punch”. For that moment, Wang Chao was back on the seafloor with the invisible currents acting against him. It was only with this all-out effort that he was able to stabilize his body.

The empty air around him had transformed into the turbulent currents of the seafloor.

In the water, his body moved as freely as he would in air.

On land, his body was firm and stable while bearing the heavy weight of air as if it were water.

Genuine or artificial. Fake or true. In an instant, Wang Chao had reached a deep state of creativity.

Boom! Another collision of fists could be seen. While Chen Tianlei did not move a step this time, the creaking sound reminiscent to a pillar unable to bear any more weight could be heard from his backbone. His throat trembled once more, allowing Wang Chao to smell the heavy scent of blood.

“Enough, your martial arts is perfect and pure–enough to be a grandmaster. Do not be imperious.”

“For the next two fists, allow me to receive them then.”

Just as Wang Chao was preparing his fourth blow, two different voices rang out before a figure flickered in front of Chen Tianlei and pushed him behind.

At a glance, he could see the dark red clothing and big-eared man that was Song Anran of the Tianjin Song Style Xinyiquan. On the other side was the deep-set eyes of the host of this place, Yiquan master Wang Yunlian.

“Come then!” Wang Chao had known in that moment that these two men had come forward to stop the fight. But in the time they pushed Chen Tianlei back, Wang Chao called out to them before they could even speak. Before he could even take in a new breath of air, he struck.

The tremors of his body had resembled the snapping jaws of an alligator hunting its prey. With these tremors, he seemed ready to tear apart his prey.

Neither of the two had expected to see Wang Chao strike so decisively without hesitation. He had pounced forward with the force of a tornado even. The two fists coming at them had enlargened at a quick pace with the force being hard enough to ram a mountain.

“I’ll go, you stay back!” As he spoke, Song Anran’s torso began to shift before teetering and tottering with a cumbersome weight. It was as if his body had become as fat and heavy as a grizzly bear.

But the chop he had sent out had been as nimble and graceful as a bird–fast as well.

As Zhuangzi once said, “Bear by the Bird.”

A unison style of Xingyiquan, “Dual Form of Bear and Eagle”. This was the most esoteric and terrifying skill of the northern school of Xingyiquan.

Wang Chao had only felt that Song Anran’s body was immovable and heavy when his fist had been intercepted. At the same time, his opponent’s chop and claw had grabbed onto his fist.

“A good skill of Xingyiquan. The torso of a bear, but the arms of an eagle.” Wang Chao laughed out loud while his blood coursed with fighting spirit. His fist loosened and extended to form the head of a python while the other hand spiraled around. His waist gave a turn in following to get closer to Song Anran.

This intertwining killing skill was not the handiwork of the snake stance, but rather the close combat capturing skills of the Assault of Dragon and Snake. This was a wrestling move that Tang Zichen had synthesized to lock the joints and part the muscles in an act of contortionism. It had blended in the secret of “Strike man from within the circle, and push man from outside the circle” from Taichi.

The circle was the bones of man.

Wang Chao’s legs coiled around Song Anran’s body and immediately began to emit Jin, causing Song Anran to feel as if there was a man-eating python coiled around his body. Especially around his torso was the inexplicably heavyweight from Wang Chao, making it hard for him to breathe like he was in a vacuum without air. Likewise, his throat had been tightly constricted as well so that even the veins were being squeezed.

Boom! His eyes grew dark before crashing back down to the ground like a mountain.