Chapter 1927 — The Challenge, Part Two
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"You attack me. Use whatever moves you like—I'll fight you with military combat boxing alone!" Chen Yuxuan said mildly, pretending he had not seen through Huang Mao's strength.
Huang Mao sneered inwardly. Playing the fool with me? You don't even know what a cultivator is, and you actually dream of beating me with military boxing? Even if you had trained those forms to perfection, you would still be nothing but an ordinary man. The gulf between you and a cultivator is the gulf between heaven and earth.
"You said it, not me!" Huang Mao wasted no words and threw his fist. He was afraid of killing Chen Yuxuan outright and having to answer for it, so he drew on only the strength of the early Yellow rank—just enough to teach the man a lesson.
"Bang!" Huang Mao's fist slammed into Chen Yuxuan's arm, and Chen Yuxuan's move was precisely one of military boxing's defensive techniques.
Huang Mao had assumed that even if his punch did not break Chen Yuxuan's arm, it would at least send him flying. Yet Chen Yuxuan stood as immovable as a rock, while Huang Mao himself, thrown back by that block, staggered several steps and landed flat on his backside.
"Ha ha ha..."
At the sight of Huang Mao sitting on the ground, the assembled students burst into laughter. This fellow had swaggered about like a big shot, demanding that the instructor excuse them from military training—and on top of that, that they be given extra credits. Who did he think he was?
Chen Yuxuan had no wish to hurt Huang Mao, so he kept his strength at the peak of the early Profound rank—just enough to overpower him. Among cultivators below the Earth rank, a single rank's difference was enough to cut one's opponent down, so Chen Yuxuan confined himself to defense with military boxing, launching no attack, hoping Huang Mao would back off of his own accord.
But Huang Mao had been careless. Had he struck with his full strength, he could not have hurt Chen Yuxuan—but neither would he have fallen in such a sorry, sprawling heap.
"Peak of the early Profound rank..." Huang Mao stared at Chen Yuxuan in disbelief. Since when were cultivators so common? He himself came from a hidden clan, and only thus did he possess Profound-rank power—yet Chen Yuxuan, a mere military instructor, was actually stronger than he was?
"Yes!" Purple Hair nodded. He was a skilled fighter of the mid Profound rank, solidly a cut above Chen Yuxuan, so he agreed without hesitation.
"I never expected Instructor Chen to be such a capable fighter. In that case, allow me to take two of your moves on my brother's behalf." Purple Hair stepped forward and regarded Chen Yuxuan coolly.
"Oh? Since you've stepped up, come on then. Watch closely, classmates—whenever you run into little thugs like these two in the future, handle them the way I do, and you'll be spared their bullying!" Chen Yuxuan began using the pair as a live demonstration for his students.
Purple Hair was seething. I am a skilled fighter of the mid Profound rank, not some little thug! But this was no time for a war of words, and Chen Yuxuan had not named anyone directly, so Purple Hair could only swallow his anger for the moment. Knocking Chen Yuxuan down—that would be the best retort of all.
"Ha ha ha, yes, Instructor Chen! We're watching closely!" the students chorused.
"Peak of the early Profound rank—very impressive, is it?" Purple Hair sneered at Chen Yuxuan and began circulating his inner-energy cultivation method, laying bare the full power of his mid Profound rank.
"Come on, keep attacking me!" Chen Yuxuan glanced at Purple Hair, inwardly more astonished than ever. Another mid Profound rank? What kind of class was this? Truly a den of hidden dragons and crouching tigers! And yet, beside a skilled Earth-rank fighter like Wei Zhao, these people were still far too weak.