A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 94 A Special Challenge

After resolving the Tao Zhu Group issue at the end of August, the Shenzhou Brotherhood Society, in September, seemed to outsiders to have entered a stable state of rapid development.

Full of youthful vigor, like the rising sun, it is truly admirable.

In places unseen by most people, Guan Luoyang never became complacent or relaxed about this.

Besides reading various materials every day to enrich his own cultivation, he also paid special attention to increasing the number of modified martial artists in the Divine Land Brotherhood Society.

Because of the Southwest Council, and the subsequent purge of the stubborn forces of the Tao Zhu Group, a large number of people were arrested, and some hospitals that could perform rehabilitation surgery also cleared out a large number of appointments. During this period, everyone was serving the Shenzhou Jieyi Society.

The first batch of martial arts training programs under the Shenzhou Brotherhood Society aims to gather at least 150 people.

However, only twenty-three people have completed the modification surgery and passed the observation period. Guan Luoyang gathered these twenty-three people together to prepare to guide their training.

After hearing about this, Kong Qingyun also sent some people over, saying that he wanted to strengthen communication with Guan Luoyang.

Compared to the Shenzhou Brotherhood, whose members all wore short hair, green vests, and camouflage pants, the people sent by the Ghost Cry Team had a much more diverse range of attire.

Especially the vice-captain Xu Ziping, whose public identity is the lead singer of a band that is well-known in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and whose whole demeanor is really like that of an idol singer.

With his tousled hair, delicate features, diamond earring in his left ear, and even the components of his mechanical arms, which were exceptionally slender and long, he didn't look ferocious at all.

The arms are painted in light gray, and there are bright silver band logos near the shoulders, making it look very cool.

The training ground prepared by the Shenzhou Brotherhood Society is very spacious, surrounded by a three-meter-high wall. The reddish-brown running track is 800 meters long, with a green plastic strip disguised as artificial grass in the middle.

Besides the running track, there are shooting ranges, sandpits, basketball courts, and more.

The group of people who had just undergone the modification surgery were now lined up on the artificial lawn, curiously looking around.

After the Ghost Cry Team arrived, Guan Luoyang sent everyone else there first, leaving only Xu Ziping behind.

"I've looked at the materials Kong Qingyun sent over. Among these people, you are the most qualified. You're not suitable for the training methods I've prepared for them, so please wait here for a while."

Xu Ziping nodded, one hand in his trouser pocket, and waited to the side.

As Guan Luoyang walked toward the grassland, his eyes followed Guan Luoyang's figure.

Xu Ziping knew that Guan Luoyang's strength far surpassed his own, but having strength did not mean he knew how to train others.

Currently, there are three main types of training methods for transforming martial artists.

The first is physical training, which involves practicing martial arts combat skills, combined with modifying the martial artist's body to operate various firearms and bombs in combat. This is the most common training method and has the most significant effect on improving individual combat capabilities.

Secondly, there is willpower training. The standards for this are rather vague. It is generally conducted through extreme methods such as deep diving and breath-holding, enduring dizziness, and bungee jumping to stimulate a person's spirit and hopefully achieve some growth.

Thirdly, there is meditation and drug training. In many countries around the world, there are ancient spiritual practices such as fasting, visualization, and mindfulness to regulate the mind. One can choose one of these and then use drugs taken regularly over a long period of time to regulate the secretion levels of various hormones in the body, thereby stimulating the brain and enhancing the true spiritual energy. This is the most dangerous, and the effect is hard to say.

For the vast majority of people, meditation is ineffective.

The ideal training method naturally involves a combination of three main categories, but regardless of the type, it requires a long period of training to achieve growth.

Kong Qingyun had them all come over to be instructed by Guan Luoyang, as if just one instruction would guarantee definite progress. This was something that greatly puzzled Xu Ziping.

"Arrange the line in a semi-circle from left to right and from low to high to make sure everyone can see my face."

After Guan Luoyang walked over, he only said one sentence. After they had adjusted their formation, he took out a pocket watch from his pocket.

The forgotten pocket watch of the math master has expired and is now just an ordinary watch.

A thin, golden metal chain was wrapped around Guan Luoyang's index and middle fingers. The copper-colored pocket watch case hung down from the end of the chain, swaying slightly in mid-air before coming to a stop.

"Everyone, look at this clock. When it starts to shake, your focus should shift accordingly..."

what?

The expressions on everyone's faces varied, and there was a slight commotion.

Using a pocket watch to hypnotize someone is such an old trick; everyone present has seen similar operations in movies and TV shows.

Some people, when they were young, foolishly followed the rhythm in the movie, staring intently at the swaying pocket watch, only to end up with sore eyes and nothing else.

Xu Ziping's expression was also somewhat subtle, and he felt that such a move was rather frivolous.

But at that moment, Guan Luoyang clenched his teeth, snorted through his nose, and uttered two words.

"Quiet!!!!"

The two words weren't loud, but they seemed to carry a strange frequency, leaving a buzzing echo in everyone's ears on the playground.

"start--"

The following two characters, following the lingering sound of the first two, seem to blend and become confused in this lingering resonance, transforming from four tones into one.

The pocket watch began to shake rhythmically, its copper-colored circular reflection imprinted in everyone's eyes, and it seemed to make a very slight sound with each shake.

The atmosphere on the playground became unified. Xu Ziping suddenly felt a jolt and reached for his waist.

"hiss!"

He forgot that his usual knife was destroyed and he hadn't brought a new one yet. This movement aggravated the shoulder wound that Liu Jingtang had given him that day.

The stinging sensation brought him fully awake. He blinked and then remembered what was happening.

He wasn't fighting anyone; he was merely observing the training methods of the Divine Land Brotherhood Society.

That's hypnosis.

It is an exceptionally powerful form of hypnosis.

"How could this be? Is hypnosis really that amazing?"

Xu Ziping was still shaken by his momentary lapse in concentration. His gaze flickered for a moment before he cautiously looked over again, first at the hypnotized people, and then at Guan Luoyang, his eyes sweeping across the grass before rising upwards.

During this process, he discovered a detail.

The grass beneath Guan Luoyang's feet, made of green plastic, was constantly undulating outwards from his feet.

Xu Ziping looked up and, sure enough, the rhythm of the pocket watch's swinging was consistent with this undulating motion.

Guan Luoyang's hypnosis technique didn't primarily rely on the pocket watch; that was merely an aid. The real reason they were put into a hypnotic state was the subtle vibrations.

call out--

Guan Luoyang flicked his finger, retrieved the pocket watch into his palm, and gave the order in a deep voice.

"Heart and lungs of iron, fists of raging fire, battle-hardened veteran, Arhat's Divine Fist, strike!"

"drink!!!!"

The twenty-three members of the Shenzhou Brotherhood shouted at the same time, quickly spreading out their formation, stomping their feet on the ground, and practicing their punches.

To Xu Ziping's surprise, the Ghost Cry team members he brought followed behind those people almost without hesitation, forming a rectangular line and imitating their movements, and started fighting together.

He was certain that these team members had never learned any Luohan Fist, yet they managed to imitate it quite well on the spot.

The synchronized steps and postures of dozens of people, stomping their feet heavily, quickly fostered a powerful and imposing aura, forged through countless trials.

Guan Luoyang watched their movements become increasingly deliberate and measured, nodded slightly, turned and walked towards Xu Ziping, saying, "Sorry to keep you waiting."

Xu Ziping asked hesitantly, "Your hypnosis... is very powerful, but why hypnotize them before training them?"

Guan Luoyang truthfully replied, "People have too many distracting thoughts, and very few people can truly be focused. I might as well hypnotize them and train them to be more efficient."

"Then why practice Arhat Fist?"

Xu Ziping recognized this style of boxing, although he felt that some of the movements were not quite right. "There are many fancy moves in the Luohan boxing routines that have no practical value in combat. Instead of helping them immerse themselves in this state, it is better to let them learn efficient fighting techniques directly."

"My Arhat Fist is different."

Guan Luoyang patted him lightly on the shoulder, and after a moment's thought, said, "The set of boxing techniques I taught them has the effect of strengthening the body and improving strength. Even if they are just flesh and blood with an average build, as long as they are willing to work hard in their youth and practice for ten or eight years, they can use their physical body to generate the force of a thousand pounds."

"For those who have undergone transformation, there is no need to go to great lengths to enhance their physical strength. However, this kind of martial art is also very beneficial to a person's mental sensitivity and brain development, far surpassing ordinary training methods."

The martial arts system of the Four Great Trainings, while seemingly based on the physical body, actually also involves the mysteries of the mind.

Any great boxer's keen senses are enough to detect lurking dangers in advance and avoid traps, ambushes, arrows, and even firearms.

After Guan Luoyang obtained that notebook, he skipped several stages in just over a month, from single-minded concentration to possessing his own "momentum." It can be said that it was precisely because of his previous martial arts training that he had sufficient mental foundation, which allowed him to accumulate strength and unleash his potential.

Actually, his mastery of the fourth level of training was somewhat of a shortcut. He relied on the snake gall of the demon snake to break through the third level and on the medicine from the Reincarnation Base to make up for the fourth level. His physical body reached this level, but his mind lacked some refinement.

If he were to delay his contact with the Reincarnators for one or two decades, and instead of relying on external aids, reach the fourth level of mastery before returning to this world, he probably wouldn't need any notes at all. He could simply touch the existence of the True Spirit Machinery and instantly gather his own power, soaring into the sky.

Of course, that kind of life actually wastes more time. Combining different paths in different worlds is the most effective way, so Guan Luoyang has nothing to regret.

In the short time they were talking, the people practicing on the playground were already starting to get steamy from their heads.

Wisps of white mist rose from above everyone's heads, adding to the atmosphere of triumphant progress under the sunlight.

Xu Ziping was deeply moved. He couldn't question Guan Luoyang's boastful words in the slightest. Instead, he felt a surge of hope, wishing that he could also make unexpected progress here.

"So, what kind of practice should I use?"

He asked his questions directly, and the way he looked at Guan Luoyang was quite different, with a hidden passion in his eyes.

"You..."

Guan Luoyang looked him up and down and said, "I've heard you have a unique skill called Electromagnetic Sword Drawing Technique. Tell me about it first."

Xu Ziping nodded and began to explain the key points of the electromagnetic sword-drawing technique. There was nothing to hide about it; he had learned it directly from the Youth Palace and had also explained it to his teammates when he was in the Ghost Cry Team.

But when it came to actually practicing, he was indeed the only one who succeeded.

Ultimately, it's because mastering this move requires a kind of almost innate intuition.

The first requirement of electromagnetic sword drawing is that the initial velocity of the sword ejected from the scabbard must be faster than the speed at which it is drawn.

If someone isn't faster than you, there's no need to go through all this trouble; you can just draw your sword from a regular scabbard.

But since it's faster than your own hand, the role of your hand becomes rather awkward.

If you reach out too slowly, the hilt of the knife will hit your hand directly. If you grip the hilt tightly beforehand, it will slow down the speed of drawing the knife.

Only by seizing that perfect moment—neither too early nor too late, neither too tight nor too loose—can the palm become the guide of the blade, allowing the blade's speed to rotate from the hilt to the tip under the palm's guidance, thus further accelerating the blade's slashing motion.

To be precise, this thing is actually a bit of a mystical operation; it's something that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words. Even if you understand it intuitively, you may not be able to do it.

Guan Luoyang listened, nodding occasionally as if he understood, and said, "Isn't the direction you should be practicing obvious?"

Xu Ziping asked, puzzled, "What?"

Guan Luoyang said, "The enemy can never be wiped out in one move. After one strike, you must sheath your sword and wait a moment before you can unleash another such attack. If you don't have teammates to help you, you could easily be shot dead during this process."

Xu Ziping had to admit this: "I know about this flaw, but it's something that can't be helped. I can't possibly master other ordinary sword techniques to the same level as my ultimate move. And as long as I don't give up on this ultimate move, it will definitely have this weakness."

"No!"

Guan Luoyang swung his pocket watch and said, "All you have to do is keep yourself moving."

"I can teach you how to use this sword-drawing technique while in motion to improve your agility and buy yourself some time to recover.

He led Xu Ziping to a corner of the training ground.

Here, close to the high wall, there was a swimming pool. The water level was low; the pool was 1.8 meters deep, but the water was only about half a meter deep, so from a distance, you couldn't tell there was water.

The pool's walls and bottom were covered with tiles, and many wooden stakes of varying heights stood inside the pool.

The buoyancy of the water makes these wooden stakes very easy to sway and slip over.

Guan Luoyang was about to teach the Plum Blossom Step here, but before he could even start demonstrating, he heard several strange wind sounds from hundreds of meters away.

Turning my head, I saw a large red hot air balloon floating in the distance, heading this way.

Several figures were hanging below the hot air balloon.

"stop!"

Guan Luoyang gave a soft shout, "All of you, return to the living quarters."

The place where these modified martial artists lived was an underground facility with a concrete ramp as the entrance.

After they take refuge inside, someone might suddenly drop bombs from the sky, but they won't be hurt. There are also warehouses inside containing a large amount of weaponry.

Just as these people ran down, the hot air balloon had already floated over the training ground and gradually descended. When it was still six or seven meters above the ground, several figures jumped down.

The four men fell to the ground one after another, their feet creating shallow craters on the training field as they bent over to absorb the impact.

The only man among them, a deep-set green-eyed man with a briefcase tucked under his arm, stood up, took two steps forward, and said with a smile.

"Please don't be nervous, everyone. We have come here unannounced, simply to deliver something to President Guan of the Shenzhou Brotherhood Society."

As he spoke, he strode towards Guan Luoyang, pulled a piece of cardboard from his briefcase, and said, "This must be President Guan. Please accept this."

Guan Luoyang glanced at it; there were only two words on the red cardboard.

"A challenge? A challenge with only one sheet of paper and two words, how concise!"

The green-eyed man shook his head and said, "This is just the cover; the actual contents of the challenge are here."

He reached out and made a gesture of demonstration, then stepped back to the side.

The three men behind him, dressed in tight-fitting combat suits, with blank expressions and similar heights, all looked at Guan Luoyang at the same time, and suddenly each threw a punch.

Three right fists were thrown from different directions, and the fists slammed together.

Amidst the clanging of steel, a violent buzzing sound, accompanied by a tearing flash of light, erupted from the three men's fists.

The three of them attacked together.

The ground suddenly cracked open, the cracks were straight, and it rushed towards Guanluoyang.

Guan Luoyang neither dodged nor avoided, and a layer of green aura rose around him.

The tearing, sharp edge in the air, gleaming faintly, disintegrated upon contact with the layer of azure energy.

As the azure air currents twisted, the figure inside seemed to distort and blur for a moment, as if it were stretched horizontally before returning to its original shape, leaving no sound around it.

The green-eyed man had deep-set eyes and high cheekbones. Seeing how easily Guan had blocked the attack, his eyes narrowed slightly. He then smiled and said, "President Guan, you can only be considered to have accepted this challenge if you can accept our president's invitation."

With a wave of his hand, three taciturn men, from left to right, began to speak in turn.

The first person said, "September 19th."

The second person said, "President Yan Du extended an invitation."

The third person said, "The ground..."

The third person stopped abruptly before finishing their sentence.

The green-eyed man looked over in confusion, and when he saw the three most loyal and brave modified warriors, his expression suddenly became lively.

Vivid surprise, vivid panic.

What's there to panic about?

The three men simultaneously raised their hands to cover their necks, but could not stop the blood gushing from their necks.

A few drops of blood splattered on the green-eyed man's face. In shock, he watched helplessly as the three men fell to the ground.

"On September 19th, Yan Du challenges us to a duel..."

Guan Luoyang's voice rang out.

The green-eyed man stiffly turned his head, as if afraid that blood would spurt from his own neck. In his line of sight, the person seemed not to have moved at all.

Guan Luoyang shook his right hand and added the last sentence.

"I'll choose the location."

He smiled and said, "Guests who have trespassed into my heartland, you may leave now."

(End of this chapter)