Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 861 - 106: Fierce Battle

Chapter 861: Chapter 106: Fierce Battle

Two hundred years ago, Yang Mengying’s boxing technique had become more proactive.

Even though from that era, Xiang Shan had always emphasized the principle of "preserving life," among many contemporaneous heroes, Xiang Shan’s martial studies leaned towards a conservative style. Using Xiang Shan’s own boxing techniques as a foundation, Yang Mengying developed her own personal style, which was more of a "actively revealing vulnerabilities to lure the enemy in" type.

At this moment, however, Xiang Shan read entirely different experiences from Yang Mengying’s punches.

Even amidst such a storm-like offensive, even while carrying the momentum of numerous companions, Yang Mengying’s martial arts had become extraordinarily smooth, almost touching and going immediately.

In fact, she was actually doing just that.

Yang Mengying released the bomb in her hand, detaching from the offensive directly.

Then, Xiang Shan immediately swung his longsword sideways, deflecting the deepwater bomb away.

One of Xiang Shan’s prosthetic legs had already clamped onto the buoyancy device’s connecting chain. At this instant, he flipped his body, turning onto the top of the buoyancy device.

The deepwater bomb similarly created a bubble with a two-meter diameter. The bubble instantly burst. Under the pressure difference between the deep sea and the inside of the bubble, the minute pressure difference of seawater at different depths caused a terrifying effect. The gaps between the bubbles turned the seawater into a high-pressure water blade from bottom to top. One side of the buoyancy device was twisted and shredded.

Yang Mengying almost got caught in it!

The violent shaking overturned the buoyancy device, almost throwing Xiang Shan off as well.

Amidst the spinning and turning, Xiang Shan, momentarily dazed by the shockwave, regained consciousness to find something resembling a fishtail in front of his eyes.

Kanhara Kotoba came rushing first. Knowing Xiang Shan’s terrifying inner strength, she shut down external signal inputs while desperately avoiding contact with his prosthetic eye. She used her tail to block Xiang Shan’s line of sight while circling behind him.

——Sorry... Ah!

In the imbalance triggered by the deepwater bomb, Xiang Shan reversed the longsword upwards. The miniature serrations clashed with Kanhara Kotoba’s armored arm, tearing the metal, bringing out a scorching trace of metal fragments like sparks in the seawater. The current pushed Kanhara Kotoba half a meter away.

In this half meter, Xiang Shan gained some room to struggle.

Xiang Shan hooked one hand onto the buoyancy device’s wreckage, using the rotational force of the buoyancy device’s debris to sway and chase after Kanhara Kotoba.

Kanhara Kotoba had to swing her fish tail, clashing forcefully with Xiang Shan.

The immense roar sounded like an explosion.

And at this moment, what Kanhara Kotoba felt was a nimble hidden power, unmatched by such colossal force.

With a twist of that power, a malfunction was induced in Kanhara Kotoba’s prosthetic hand.

"I knew it, these guys, to move freely in the seawater, have hollowed out not just the lower half but even the upper half of their bodies, reducing weight, and outputting inadequately..."

"Even though Kotoba and Mengying have a definite center of mass in their bodies — probably the reactor, they still fall short in power due to these compromised designs."

——If only they seize the chance...they can escape!

Xiang Shan’s heart thought rapidly, already swinging amidst a group of Six Dragons Sect members.

The Sonicon Blade was unsheathed at this instant for the first time.

Originally as swift as lightning, the Electromagnetic Draw Sword slowed in the seawater. Xiang Shan flicked the sword handle, catching the blade shot electrically from the sheath. Subsequently, countless dense bubbles appeared on the blade out of thin air, almost enveloping half of the blade.

Then, a disc-shaped trajectory appeared around Xiang Shan.

Due to the characteristic of the Sonicon Blade’s blade being fixed by magnetism, when the blade collides head-on with an object, the blade retreats backward, pivoting on the center of the fixed magnetic field, resembling a folding knife. The trajectory of this bubble-formed sword is not perfectly circular, but like bubbles squeezed and deformed by stones, randomly scattered.

However, on the upper bodies of three Six Dragons Sect members, the cracks extended on their own, with high-pressure seawater rushing inside, expanding and stretching the fissures, mixing with protective liquid.

Xiang Shan swiftly retracted the blade back into its scabbard while complementing a punch.

"The lower half, at least the caudal fins and dorsal fins, use flexible materials, so the Sonicon Blade won’t be very effective; the serrated sword can easily shred. However, the upper body lacks this design, allowing the Sonicon Blade to still cause considerable damage after tearing through the external armor..."

Xiang Shan moved like a leaping monkey, darting back and forth several times among the debris of the buoyancy device, in this process severely injuring several Six Dragons Sect martial artists, knocking them out of the combat sequence.

Kanhara Kotoba had also quickly resolved the malfunction, engaging Xiang Shan in two rounds of confrontation.

She was secretly astounded. Xiang Shan was rapidly assimilating previous experiences.

In Kanhara Kotoba’s memory, Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan had never pushed martial studies in water to the limit during his lifetime.

All water battle martial arts were born in the early days of Cyber Martial Arts’ inception. At that time, the "Gang Qi Weapon System" was still just intended to inject metal dust into the cooling systems of machinery and electronic equipment, and all martial arts used straightforward routes. The true era of martial arts advancement exploded during the secret war’s mid-to-late stages, when warfare was about to spread from the ground into space.

Aside from a few "underwater bases", in the early days, Xiang Shan rarely fought in water, mostly conducting assassinations in urban environments, military fortresses, etc. Later, he simply left the Earth’s surface.

Not to mention Martial Ancestor himself, even Martial God lacked much experience in underwater combat.

But just observing this guy’s performance, no one would believe he "lacked experience in underwater combat."

He is absorbing experience at an astonishingly rapid pace, growing quickly.

If allowed to keep fighting like this, he might just invent a specialized martial art for "using land combat prosthetic bodies to overcome underwater battles."

And now, over a dozen elite Six Dragons Sect members, plus Kanhara Kotoba and Yang Mengying, two experts who have crossed the First Layer Heavenly Land, encircling here, have only managed to chip away at half of this enemy’s footing.

The buoyancy device itself had two pieces, attached to both sides of the prosthetic body’s lower back.

And until just now, only Yang Mengying’s unexpectedly effective deepwater bomb had barely blasted away one side. Just this little bit of result almost got Yang Mengying caught in the explosion range of the deepwater bomb.

In contrast, Xiang Shan has inflicted damage on almost everyone. He consciously aimed to shred the Six Dragons Sect martial artists’ caudal fins and dorsal fins, reducing their underwater movement technique precision.

But just at this moment, a gigantic commotion—a figure utterly different from all Six Dragons Sect martial artists suddenly erupted.

In the distance, the "Shooter" clenched his fist.

"Still no chance to transmit this intelligence...he’s in for a tough time."

——After all, that guy...

——Is very likely also a Xiang Shan!