Quickly conquer the martial arts world, and let your fists dominate the heavens!

Chapter 200 Ox Tongue Herbs! Obtain the true meaning, transform into a true dragon!

Li Chunran's striking technique is very calm!
He was quieter than anyone Chen Zhan had ever met before.

His fists slid through the air without causing even the slightest ripple.

Silent and still, yet urgent and fast.

Relax and sink your energy!
Use a heavy hammer with care!

The core of combining relaxed and sinking energy with Tai Chi hammer techniques is that "the hammer has weight, yet it must be light and agile." This is achieved by relaxing the whole body and lowering the center of gravity, allowing the weight of the hammer to merge with the body's "relaxed and sinking energy."

The hammer is heavy but the movement is light and graceful. When the hammer falls, it drops naturally without the need for the arm to press down, yet it has the striking force of a "thousand-pound weight".

The two attacked as soon as they stepped onto the stage without exchanging a single word, much to the surprise of the onlookers.

Moreover, everyone knows a master like Li Chunran, and Chen Zhan just showed off his skills, which were also quite impressive.

I had expected a fierce and domineering battle, but the fight was unexpected and silent. The two seemed less like adversaries and more like friends sparring.

But laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the door.

Ma Fengtu and Wang Xiangzhai immediately recognized the danger of Li Chunran's hand-pounding technique.

They could tell that Chen Zhan would not underestimate his opponent. He lowered his hands, unleashed his inner strength, and delivered a powerful punch.

“Bang!!~”

A powder keg!
The explosion caused chaos and destruction.

Li Chunran felt the force from the double hammers and had no choice but to retreat. Chen Zhan's current kung fu didn't need fancy fighting techniques; his sharpness was concealed and his spirit was restrained.

All the onlookers saw was Li Chunran gently throwing out both fists, and Chen Zhan responding simply.

But they separated as soon as they touched each other, the sound so loud it made everyone's eardrums ring. Both of them retreated, and even more miraculously, the wooden arena beneath their feet was completely undamaged.

The two have a tacit understanding.

If you lose your footing, a large section of the wooden ring will crumble under your weight, and after only a few moves, the ring will be gone.
Li Chun then took a few steps back. He was wearing a moon-white Tai Chi uniform, his hands hanging down, his feet seemingly standing casually, yet like the roots of an old tree, his body surrounded by a faint but powerful aura, even the red silk hanging from the edge of the platform seemed to swirl around him gently.

It was released and flung into the air, causing the red silk to swirl around.

Chen Zhan's was completely different. He was dressed in a black outfit, with broad shoulders and a thick back. As he stepped back, a subtle force emanated from him, making a "hissing" sound. Small wooden splinters on the table vibrated and jumped up.

Li Chunran was shocked. Chen Zhan's technique of deflecting force was terrifying. He transformed the force of his double hammers into small, fragmented bursts of energy, which he then poured onto the wooden board, actually sweeping a layer of small splinters out of it.

How subtle is that force?
In an instant, he was able to achieve this kind of force release, just like Yang Luchan.
Chen Zhan stood in a three-body stance, left fist and right palm. His fist was like cast iron and his palm was like a knife. In an instant, his aura changed drastically, like a lurking tiger gathering its strength. Even the air seemed to be tense because of the intent of his fist.

Li Chunran made another move, gently extending his right foot forward and slowly pushing out his hands as if holding a ball, which was the "peng" force of the Tai Chi "Grasp the Sparrow's Tail".

This seemingly slow push actually condensed the energy in front of him into an invisible wall, enveloping Chen Zhan.

Tai Chi Silk Reeling Hammer!

The Tai Chi "silk-reeling energy" combines with hammer techniques, creating a spiral trajectory, like "wringing a towel" with a winding force.

A glint flashed in Chen Zhan's eyes, and instead of retreating, he advanced.

With a sudden stomp of his left foot forward, his right fist cleaved out like a mountain-splitting axe, the wind howling as he unleashed the Xingyi Five Elements Chopping Fist!

The Pi Quan (劈拳) belongs to the metal element and emphasizes "power originating from the waist and penetrating to the fist tip." With this punch, the wall formed by Li Chunran's surging energy was instantly torn apart.

The chopping fist broke the silk-reeling force, and Chen Zhan turned his fist into a palm, his inner strength powerful, pressing down like the collapse of Kunlun Mountain.

Li Chunran's face suddenly turned deathly pale, goosebumps erupted all over his body, and the hair in every pore clumped together.

Densely packed, patches of fleshy lumps.

If someone saw the skin under the white clothes, they would find it terrifying and disgusting.

It wasn't that Chen Zhan's palm strike was too powerful for him to withstand; what horrified him was that Chen Zhan's chopping fist turned into Bagua, and the force in his hand resembled a "cow tongue curling up grass." The "cow tongue curling up grass" technique in Bagua Palm is already an advanced power-generating skill, but this wasn't the end of it!
Chen Zhan's energy swirled out and collided with his 'silk-reeling energy'. The two forces were not evenly matched, and neither side overpowered the other.

The 'ox-tongue curl' accepts all comers, even drawing in their coiling energy and instantly turning it into its own.

"Your Tai Chi is..."

He could naturally see that Chen Zhan's Baguazhang move also incorporated Tai Chi's "diversion and transformation" technique, and this move actually used all three major internal martial arts styles.

Generally speaking, you can't bite off more than you can chew.

No matter how many martial arts you have, it's better to specialize in one. Each of the three major internal martial arts styles is profound and complex, and you could never reach the pinnacle of it in a lifetime.

But he wasn't stupid. Chen Zhan's success in achieving the Dantian (a martial arts technique) couldn't be due to a lack of refinement or mastery. Those who practiced martial arts in that way would never reach the level of Huajin (another martial arts technique), let alone become a grandmaster of the Dantian.

This only shows that Chen Zhan has mastered all three major internal martial arts styles to a very high level.

Before I could think any further, this force was already upon me.

Li Chunran suddenly took a step back, using his arms to deflect the left sword to the left and the right sword to the right with the cloud hammer, and then twisting his waist to "scoop up" the right hammer to the upper right!

Cloud hammer swirls in circles! Trying to catch the moon from the sea!
Although he handled the situation well and had the momentum to conquer the world, it was all very rushed.

Chen Zhan's ox-tongue curly grass, carrying the force of Li Chunran's own punch, pressed down.

Double fists against double palms!
On the contrary, the fierce punching technique was at a disadvantage and collapsed at the first touch, but Li Chunran was prepared and took a few steps back.

He backs down! Chen Zhan follows!

Withdraw, retreat quickly! Advance fiercely, strike hard!

Li Chunran's retreat was a continuous retreat, because Chen Zhan never gave him time to gather his strength and counterattack. He was always forced to make a hasty move, only to be met with Chen Zhan's powerful strikes.

So he could only fight and retreat, looking for an opportunity.

On the arena, figures rose and fell, tumbling and flying about.

The two moved quickly, and those around them had no idea what was going on.

"Holy crap, that's fast! Who's got the upper hand?"

"What's going on? He was moving so slowly just now, how come his eyes can't keep up?"

Cheng Yong, Bai Wu, and the others were all around Wang Xiangzhai and Ma Fengtu.

"The alliance leader has an absolute advantage, suppressing Li Chunran, but it seems that the outcome will not be determined for a while." Ma Fengtu's eyes narrowed slightly. He could see the process of the two fighting, but he could not see the result.

For experts of their caliber, even the slightest difference can be fatal; no one can judge the outcome until the very moment when the battle is decided.

Wang Xiangzhai pointed to a spot a little further away.

The group looked over and saw someone taking pictures. They appeared to be Chinese, not foreigners. They wondered who had instructed them to do so.

“Go ask your master’s wife if we should drive the people taking pictures away,” Wang Xiangzhai said to Bai Wu. Bai Wu agreed and went to do so. Ye Ningzhen listened without hesitation and said, “It’s fine, let them take pictures. They should be people from the Beijing newspaper.”

Chen Zhan had already instructed that the arena was meant to be seen by the whole world, and the wider the dissemination, the better.

It doesn't matter to the Japanese if they know.

Kill one by one!
"Look, it looks like the competition is about to end!"

Gasps of surprise rippled through the crowd as Chen Zhan and Li Chunran froze, the two exchanging a sharp blow.

The man who smashed the monument gained the upper hand.

Li Chunran took three steps back in succession. This time, Chen Zhan did not follow and watched quietly. Li Chunran's first two steps were very light, and it seemed that the point of force was not on her feet. The jujube wood floor did not make a sound.

If you can't release the force with your feet, you have to use another method. Your hands tremble slightly, and you swing them backward, as if a whirlwind has swept behind you.

The ribbons on the pillars on both sides of the arena rattled loudly.

But when he took his third step back, thinking that the force had dissipated, he suddenly frowned. A force, which he didn't know where it came from, surged into his right foot and landed with his third step.

"Click~"

A section of the jujube wood flooring was cracked from being stepped on.

Although it was only a small crack, it was indeed because he couldn't control his strength. According to their tacit understanding, he had lost.

Li Chunran's face turned ashen.

Looking at Chen Zhan again, it was clear that his last punch had concealed its power, deceiving him and causing him to fall into the trap without realizing it.

He is not a person who lacks manners, refuses to admit defeat, or is unwilling to give up.

But today's competition came at a great cost.

He lost, and the entire Wu clan had to obey Chen Zhan's orders, including his own.

If he were truly inferior in skill, he would simply accept defeat. However, this slight difference in skill, achieved through Chen Zhan's clever trick of allowing him to break the wooden plank, made him extremely resentful.

"Brother Li is not convinced?" Chen Zhan naturally saw what he was struggling with.

"Hmph, such strange and ingenious tricks, I certainly won't accept them!"

"Then let's continue, but let's fight offstage. I set up this arena in two days, so I can't let it be destroyed!"

"Can!"

Li Chunran leaped off the stage.

There was no one at the foot of the ring, because from this angle you couldn't see the ring, so it was an open space.

Chen Zhan also stepped down from the stage, and Wang Xiangzhai and Ma Fengtu asked everyone to make way for them.

Li Chunran was by nature competitive and combative; otherwise, he wouldn't have swept away all the old men in his own family who had suppressed him before, even after successfully achieving the Golden Core stage.

He looks like a refined scholar, but he's a ruthless fighter.

Fueled by anger, he didn't waste any words and immediately started fighting.

With a quick cross of the hands, the left fist and right palm move in an arc, while the palms move with a circular force; this is the "Banlan Chui" (Parry and Strike) technique in Tai Chi Chui.

This punch, though seemingly slow, contains the subtle beauty of "combining softness and hardness." The punch sweeps by with a fierce whooshing sound. The Banlan Chui is not uncommon; it is a standard move in the Five Star Pyramid.

However, when used by a master like Li Chunran who has mastered the Dan technique, it is completely different.

The hammer shattered the void. Unlike the first hammer blow, this time the air exploded with a loud bang, as if it shattered the air around Chen Zhan.

Chen Zhan dared not be negligent.

He twisted his waist suddenly, and his energy exploded all over his body. His right hand became a claw and his left hand a fist. His body twisted like a dragon or a snake, and he was transformed into a dragon by the Teng Snake. His Dazhui (GV14) vertebrae drove the power of his fist.

A direct confrontation with the massive sledgehammer!

"Oh!"

The impact dissipated directly under their feet, and the blue bricks beneath their feet shattered three feet away like a spider web.

In this way, there was no need to retreat at all.

However, Chen Zhan reacted even faster with the Xingyi Great Dragon Form, which emphasizes maneuvering!
With a light touch of his left toe on the ground, the spiderweb cracked even more! His body suddenly rose half a zhang higher, dodging the blocking punch like a dragon exploring the sea. The snake-like main body coiled around him, and his right claw slid down smoothly, the fingertips carrying sharp force, directly grabbing Li Chunran's wrist pulse point.

Turn strength into skill!

The transitions are seamless.

Li Chunran let out a muffled groan and actually took the initiative to rush forward, crashing into Chen Zhan's claws.

Just as Chen Zhan was about to clench his fists, Li Chunran suddenly exerted force, unleashing his inner energy, and flipped his hand over with a Tai Chi "vibration force"!
Actually, "vibration force" doesn't distinguish between different schools; there's no real difference.

Both involve forceful exertion, a dual explosion of internal and external strength, with wrist flips and arm shakes.

But as Li Chunran shook his arm, he also took the "brush knee and twist step" step, following the previous momentum. He first shifted his weight to his right leg, then touched the ground with the toes of his left leg, and slowly twisted his waist and hips to the left.

With both hands retracted from the forward pressing posture of "playing the pipa", the right hand rotates inward and draws an arc from the chest to the lower left to the outside of the left knee, with the palm facing diagonally forward, as if "holding a ball".

This move combines defense and offense, involving grabbing the knee to protect the lower body, taking a twisting step to advance, and then striking the enemy with a palm strike.

From wrist flip to arm slap, and then to the subsequent connecting movements, Li Chunran had already calculated everything in his mind, even calculating the amount of force and the effect.

The power surging from his dantian was unleashed without reservation.

However, he overlooked one thing!
Is that arm-shaking technique enough to shake off Chen Zhan's dragon-like claw attack?

Under normal circumstances, even if Chen Zhan's martial arts skills were superb, it would be impossible for him to hold onto one of Chen Zhan's arms with just one claw and make him completely immobile.

He might pay the price of a minor injury by taking a step forward and striking Chen Zhan in the chest with his palm.

This palm strike can penetrate even a solid iron plate!
But he was facing Chen Zhan, the youngest Grandmaster in history.

Moreover, it's Chen Zhan's dragon form!

The Great Dragon Form is his strongest form at this moment, apart from the [Burning Blood] talent.

To attain the true meaning is to transform into the form of a true dragon.

A smile appeared on Chen Zhan's lips as he exerted force from his Dazhui acupoint, transmitting it segment by segment until it reached all five fingers.

With this claw strike, the dragon floats on the water, exploring the deep sea!
"Trying to leave? Stay there!"

(End of this chapter)