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Chapter 221 - 221 155 Northern Mystery Martial World Visitor

Chapter 221: 155 Northern Mystery Martial World Visitor (4100)_1 Chapter 221: 155 Northern Mystery Martial World Visitor (4100)_1 Casio patted his chest and picked up his clothes from the metal rack beside him. Glancing at the plethora of exhausted muscular men, he immediately stepped out of the gym filled with the sour smell of sweat.

A dozen or so days later, he was back at the Iron Fist Gym.

Casio and another slightly shorter figure stood in the middle of the rectangular field, divided into large grids by light yellow floor tiles.

“I appreciate the help.” Casio greeted his opponent with a fist salute, as always.

The man across, a muscular man in his 30s, returned the salute. He was the master of the Iron Fist Gym and a fifth-rank practitioner of the Federation Fighting Technique. In the boxing circle, being a fifth-rank practitioner was quite an accomplishment, the kind that could win prizes in county level competitions.

“Please.”

Casio subtly assumed a combat stance.

“Alright.”

The gym master did not become angry. It was a belittling act for one to allow the other to attack first during a spar. Essentially signaling that you’re weak, you should attack first, I’ll let you have the first move. Normally, the gym master would be extremely irked by such opponents, and this spar would most likely escalate.

What was initially a touch-and-go could potentially evolve into serious physical harm.

But the situation was different this time. This martial artist, known as Dusk, was not from the outer world but from the inner world, among the experts. Over the past dozen or so days, the gym master had witnessed Dusk being beaten by more than 20 of his disciples, each wielding a variety of heavy blunt weapons, for hours on end. And yet Dusk always appeared unfazed at the end.

Faced with such a sparring partner, the gym master naturally placed himself on the weaker side. The spar was initiated by Dusk, who wanted to practice a particular technique and had already paid a sufficient fee. There were no grounds for the gym master to refuse. Even without the fee, he was willing, hoping to witness the robust martial arts of the inner world. This spar was beneficial for him.

“I’ll try my best to hold back, I apologize if I accidentally hurt you.” Casio slightly steps back.

“Come.”

The Iron Fist Gym master adopts a combat stance similar to boxing. His feet push off the ground with strength, and his silhouette quickly shoots out, his footsteps rapidly accelerating, swaying left and right.

He quickly approaches Casio, who is standing still, and suddenly throws a side punch. His long-practiced muscles power his arm to swing out.

Shhh!

A lingering image of an arm flashes before his eyes.

The right fist he throws suddenly hurts, the elbow going numb, as if hit with a small hammer.

He groans and quickly retreats a few steps. He quickly shakes his right shoulder, allowing his muscles and nerves to recover.

The Iron Fist Gym master squints his eyes and charges again. His hands swiftly waving, his footing agile as he shifts left and right.

Shhh shhh shhh…

Directly across, Casio’s arms blur with speed and his fists slice through the air. The speed and strength of his punches are comparable to the gym master’s, and he does not exploit any tricky attack angles. He simply counters every one of the gym master’s punches.

Their fists meet, and the path of the punches thrown by the Iron Fist Gym master continually deviates from the original trajectory, weakening in strength and shifting off course.

He is secretly amazed and immediately changes his punching to elbow strikes, even occasionally executing whip kicks, body checks, and the like. But all parts of his body, upon contact with Casio’s fists, are hit at the balance point by a mysterious force, causing the trajectory to shift, and the strength reduces by at least 50%. He poses no threat to Casio at all.

The Iron Fist Gym master feels extremely stifled, as if he had strength but nowhere to exert it. He lets out a soft shout, his feet muscles contract and expand, and with his neck shrunk and shoulders hunched, he rushes forward diagonally.

Swish swish!

Two punches land swiftly on his body, causing a tightness in the chest of the gym master, and unbelievably, he loses his balance instantly. He deviates from the direction towards Casio and falls towards the ground at a high speed.

Thud.

A large hand suddenly reaches out from the side, steadily supporting the chest of the gym master, suspending him in mid-air.

His eyes wide open, his nose only two centimeters from the rough ground, he could even see the dust in the cracks of the floor tiles.

The hand exerted slight force, and the gym master was pulled up by the strong arm, an expression of novelty on his face.

“Is this some unique kind of force dissipation technique?”

Casio looked at the intrigued gym master and shook his head.

The gym master didn’t ask any more questions seeing that Casio didn’t want to explain.

He stood by the side, adjusted his breath for a while, and then re-entered the field, whispering, “Again…”

An hour later, even though Casio had held back, the gym master had been flustered and beaten, his body showing not a few bruises.

Finally, the two saluted each other with fists, marking the end of this spar.

Casio was practicing the balance disruption technique of the Decayed Knight that he had obtained and was attempting to integrate this skill into his boxing methods. The spar with the gym master was nothing more than a small experiment, which seemed to yield good results.

The balance disruption technique of the Decayed Knight came from the second level minor accomplishment of the Cross Sword of Decayed Knight. It was a skill that rapidly found the balance point of the opponent’s blade and broke it. Casio had initially modified the balance disruption technique of the Decayed Knight for use in his boxing, which was somewhat useful. But it was not yet sufficient to use against strong enemies.

His vision was to attempt to utilize the Decayed Knight’s balance disruption technique throughout his body. Every part of his body could execute the balance disruption technique, like a kind of special force circulating throughout the body.