All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 261 - 122 Martial Arts Play (3/3)

Chapter 261: Chapter 122 Martial Arts Play (3/3)

——"I was just habitually using this technique during the demonstration ... and he figured it out right away?"

"Did you really understand?"

After listening to An Jing’s narration, Mingguang Dust settled his spirit. Suppressing the doubts in his heart and keeping his expression unchanged, he said to An Jing, "Come, recreate it for me, and let me see how much you have grasped."

"Yes, Master."

After witnessing the ’Humming Sword Stance,’ An Jing willingly addressed him as master.

However, what followed — An Jing’s attempt to reproduce the ’Humming Sword Stance’ Mingguang Dust had just demonstrated — almost made this Divine Repository True Person unable to maintain his composure.

Because not only did An Jing see it, but he had also mastered it completely!

Yet, he did not use a sword, but instead stood still, formed a fist frame, and executed a set of punches.

An Jing performed this set of punches very slowly, retracting a fist from in front of his chest to behind his waist and then lifting it from his waist to strike forward, requiring twenty moments to do so.

But as slow as a tortoise crawling, slower than what a seventy or eighty-year-old man could outpace, his punches still managed to ripple the air like water waves.

The visible Qi Force centered around An Jing’s fist burst forth in all directions, forming ripples like those created by raindrops falling on a calm lake surface.

This was An Jing consolidating his Inner Breath, strengthening his own body, then exerting force through vibration, shaking both his own flesh and blood and the air around him.

Throughout the entire punching process, An Jing masterfully controlled his soul and spirit and his physical body, integrating them as one.

This stance exhausted a significant amount of strength. This single punch consumed one-third of the Inner Breath in An Jing’s body, which was twice more than what he had used to kill four Inner Strength martial masters from the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect!

This punch was not swung in vain either; An Jing’s target was a big tree at the edge of the forest. The tree was neither old nor young, around twenty years in age. An Jing slowly punched the trunk, then exhaled, and withdrew his fist.

After that, where An Jing’s fist landed, the bark rustled and fell off, turning into powder, while the wood inside crumbled and melted, becoming a viscous sappy resin that flowed out from a fist-sized hole.

When the sap finished flowing, one could see that the tree had been punched through, leaving a hole clear from front to back.

With An Jing’s strength, unleashing Inner Breath with Armor-Piercing True Strength to make such a hole was not difficult, but the punch he had swung was incredibly slow; such power was not a burst of physical strength but purely accomplished with Inner Breath!

[The punch rumbled like thunder, seemingly light but immensely heavy].

This was purely ’Internal Clan martial arts’!

That was not the end.

After throwing such a punch, An Jing seemed to have had an epiphany. He swung a palm toward another tree without stirring even the wind, yet a gradual invisible Qi Force extended toward it, leaving a palm print on the tree trunk.

[Air-Cleaving Palm]

He went to the riverbank, struck the water with a fist, and though the water surface remained undisturbed, the pebbles beneath shattered into dust.

[Mountain-Separating Force]

An Jing plucked a leaf, infused it with Inner Breath, and threw it. Amidst a shrill whistling, the leaf cut through a series of branches like an iron dart before shattering.

[Flying Leaf Sword]

The youth now seemed like someone who had found a new toy, or rather rediscovered an old partner.

The more he practiced, the happier he became, the more punches he threw, the more joyous he felt. It hardly seemed like he was practicing martial arts, learning martial arts, or using martial arts, but rather playing with martial arts, testing martial arts, enjoying martial arts!

An Jing was having fun, but the more Mingguang Dust watched, the more solemn he became.

For the various techniques An Jing displayed were all the ones he had originally planned to teach An Jing in the coming days, embodying the secret martial skills he was to impart!

Exerting Force, Gentle Force, Hidden Strength.

Stone-Breaking Force, Iron-Carving Force, Iron-Transforming Force.

Thunder Spice Strength, Armor-Piercing Force, Air-Strike Force.

Various methods of using Inner Breath, commonly or uncommonly used by martial artists, were now employed by An Jing as if he were playing——he used the Iron-Transforming Force to turn a blade of grass into a carving knife, smoothing down a pebble, then utilized the Gentle Force to skip the pebble on water, making it fly hundreds of meters away.

He then used the Air-Strike Force to strike the lake surface, causing the water to ripple and stun a large fish. When he lifted the fish, An Jing touched its body, and immediately the whole body of the fish turned limp, and a pink fluid oozed from beneath the scales, evidently because the Thunder Spice Strength had shattered the flesh and bones of the fish, turning them into a mush.

"No wonder those who learn cooking can also practice martial arts. Later, making shrimp and fish balls will be very convenient... So that’s how it is, this is the essence of the Armor-Piercing True Strength and the Mysterious Steps. They all involve the use of Inner Breath force!"

At this moment, An Jing was more than enlightened; he was utterly joyous.

He had already learned these force applications in the Imperial Heaven Skills and Houtu Skills. Armor-Piercing True Strength alone could be separated into at least five different methods of exertion force application, including Exerting Force, Thunder Spice Strength, Armor-Piercing Force, Iron-Transforming Force, and Stone-Breaking Force, while Mysterious Steps inherently include Gentle Force and Hidden Strength.

In the past, An Jing only used Inner Breath to enhance his physical body and maintain stamina, aside from considering it as a kind of energy to motivate martial skills, used only during the application of martial skills.

But now he realized that martial skills themselves were not whole entities; they were composed of many subtle exertion techniques, many of which involved Inner Breath, surpassing ordinary common sense.

It could manifest without physical contact and strengthen the originally fragile body to be hard as ironstone, allowing one to penetrate armor and harm others. It could manipulate the air, allowing one’s speed to be extremely fast without stirring a breeze...

Once all the exertion techniques were mastered, any martial skill could be quickly learned, the difference was merely a matter of proficiency.

This was why those geniuses could watch others perform martial skills just once and learn them directly!

"What kind of talent is this?"

Meanwhile, Mingguang Dust could no longer laugh but had a shocked expression on his face.

Right there in front of him, An Jing spent just over half an hour visibly figuring out all the standard applications of Inner Breath by himself, mastering them thoroughly, far beyond the skill level of a beginner.

If it weren’t for Mingguang Dust confirming that, just half an hour ago, An Jing had been very rudimentary in his application of Inner Breath, he would definitely think that An Jing had been hiding this capability from him and had only now chosen to demonstrate it.

"How is it, Master?"

An Jing turned around, his Inner Breath nearly depleted, but he was not at all tired and even felt comfortable throughout his body.

Turning his head back with a spirited expression, he said, "Having grasped these, I can probably learn any Divine Abnormality Dharma Gate... I should be able to advance to Inner Strength now, right?"

"Inner Strength? You are underestimating yourself... Do you have Innate Wisdom?"

After a moment of silence, Mingguang Dust cautiously spoke and only relaxed after seeing An Jing naturally nod in agreement. "An Jing, in your previous life, you must have been a very, very formidable martial artist, you might even be an Immortal God reincarnated!"

"Huh?"

An Jing raised an eyebrow, "You mean there are Divine Mandates not reincarnated from Immortal Gods?"

"There are not that many reincarnations." Mingguang Dust shook his head, "We, the Embracing the Void race, are descendants of divine citizens brought along by the Great Immortal of Embracing the Void during the ancient and vast ages, who does not have Immortal Gods among their ancestors? Those awakened to Divine Mandate mostly inherit the bloodline left by the Immortal Gods within their bodies."

"In a sense, this can also be considered as the resurrection of the ancestor’s divine power within their descendants, being a kind of reincarnation, but it’s absolutely not the same as a true soul-and-spirit reincarnation."

"Although I’m not clear about it, An Jing, your talent for martial arts could not possibly be that of someone who is learning martial arts for the first time; no matter how you calculate it, this is almost a talent akin to that of an Immortal God."

——That’s true.

An Jing thought. He indeed was a reincarnated martial artist.

However, he remembered that in his past life he was just an ordinary soldier training in martial arts; although he was hindered by his body, there were still a few people in the martial arts school who were better than him.

"Oh well, you indeed can attempt to break through to Inner Strength now."

Mingguang Dust was still silent and thoughtful at that moment.

He wasn’t shocked, but his entire plan for instructing and developing An Jing had been completely disrupted and needed to be entirely reconsidered.

That guy was like a monster. No wonder Mingjing trusted him so much... Mingguang Dust himself would only trust him more!

"Let’s head back."

Mingguang Dust lifted his head, it was also early morning at that time, he sighed heavily, then earnestly instructed An Jing, "Later, officials from Kanming City will likely come looking for you."

"Once you take care of that, I will pass on the True Transmission Secret Methods of my Visible Empty Mountain lineage to you."