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Although the elixir used by Shangguan Tianling might seem unremarkable, its potency was indeed formidable, able to stop the bleeding of such a wound so quickly.

Lei Peng, who stood aside, watched the gradually vanishing elixir with an intensely fervent look in his eyes.

This type of elixir was an extremely rare healing sacred medicine that could quickly stop the bleeding for almost any injury that wasn't fatal, and it could even facilitate the rapid healing of wounds.

Ordinary people in the Martial World wouldn't even know of such healing medicine's existence. It was something that only centuries-old major sects like the Heavenly Pool Sect possessed, and only a very few elite disciples were qualified to have it.

The Shangguan Family was a very influential family within the Heavenly Pool Sect, and Shangguan Tianling was an important figure in the Shangguan Family; naturally, he was qualified to hold such a medicine. As for Lei Peng, even though he was greatly favored by Shangguan Tianling, he wasn't qualified to have it. After all, his status in the Heavenly Pool Sect wasn't that high, was it?

Perhaps once he officially entered the realm of a grandmaster-level expert, Shangguan Tianling might help him apply to the Heavenly Pool Sect for such an elixir, though it wasn't certain that he would get it...

It was precisely because this elixir was so precious that even Shangguan Tianling was reluctant to waste it like this. For instance, when Lei Peng was previously controlled and made to cough blood by Qin Fang using his acupuncture secret technique, Shangguan Tianling wasn't willing to use it to save Lei Peng...

However, it was this time that Shangguan Tianling himself felt an urge to vomit blood; the wound was too deep, and the bleeding was difficult to stop, so he had to reluctantly use the elixir. His heart harbored an even greater hatred for Qin Fang!

But just as he thought about how Qin Fang had been struck by his near-full-strength palm and had almost no chance of survival, he felt a bit better. At least it hadn't been a total waste; there was some gain.

"Uncle, look..."

But it seemed Shangguan Tianling celebrated too early. His smile had not fully spread across his face when he suddenly heard Lei Peng beside him exclaim in utter surprise, his hand tremblingly pointing not far away.

Shangguan Tianling immediately looked over and saw Qin Fang, whom he thought he had killed with a single palm strike, sitting up again, smiling at the nephew and uncle...

Despite the crimson blood still present at the corner of Qin Fang's mouth, his complexion wasn't the pallor of someone with grave injuries; rather, it appeared somewhat rosy, almost as if he had just taken some kind of healing sacred medicine!

"This... this... this is impossible!"

Even though Shangguan Tianling was a master level fighter, faced with such a bizarre scenario, his eyes widened in shock, the disbelief in his gaze growing even thicker, and he stuttered the words out as if he found them incredibly hard to accept.

If Qin Fang's ability to stand up last time was attributed by Shangguan Tianling to Qin Fang's willpower forcibly holding on, intending to take Qin Fang down with him in his last breath, then this time... it was truly something Shangguan Tianling couldn't accept!

Lei Peng was hardly less shocked than Shangguan Tianling. Shangguan Tianling, his uncle, would spar with him from time to time, and he considered himself not much weaker than Qin Fang. But when he himself sparred with Shangguan Tianling, it was almost without any power to fight back...

Naturally, he thought Qin Fang would be about the same against Shangguan Tianling!

But the reality was hard for him to accept. Qin Fang had withstood two palm strikes in a row. If it were any other expert below the grandmaster level, they would have been down long ago. Even Song Qingshan, with his Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training Golden Bell Shield, would likely have been severely injured if not dead. This was the vast gap between a master-level fighter and those below that level.

But now, Qin Fang had somehow made such an improbable fact reality... If it was indeed true, didn't that mean he, Lei Peng, was far weaker than Qin Fang?

"I already told you, there's no such thing as impossible..."

Qin Fang naturally saw all the astonished, incredulous, and disbelieving looks, expressions, and words from the nephew and uncle. His face showed a touch of a smile, and he spoke with great composure, sarcasm evident as if his strength had indeed become formidable enough to hold his own against Shangguan Tianling.

What about the reality, though?

Qin Fang had his own pains to bear.

The gap between the grandmaster level and non-grandmaster level wasn't simply a numerical difference like between Level 5 and Level 6; it was a qualitative transformation.

Actually, Shangguan Tianling's first palm strike almost took Qin Fang's life. The hit was heavy and landed squarely on Qin Fang's back. At that time, Qin Fang needed to intercept Lei Peng to chase after Li Yuerong, and he had no way to guard against Shangguan Tianling. The robust palm energy penetrated his body; the violent force could even shatter Qin Fang's heart...

Yet, Qin Fang grimly held on. In a critical moment, he suddenly thought of a cheating skill that even he found extremely perverse - Move Flowers and Join the Trees.

The specific principle remained a mystery to Qin Fang himself, but as for the effectiveness, he was extremely surprised and excited this time.

It claimed to be Move Flowers and Join the Trees, but that wasn't entirely accurate; it didn't actually remove or dissipate Shangguan Tianling's palm energy. That powerful force still impacted Qin Fang's body. However, in that instant, it spread evenly across every part of Qin Fang's body, or was directed to a specific part...

If the force of Shangguan Tianling's palm strike was as much as two thousand kilograms and hit a vital part of the body, it could almost instantly claim someone's life... Transferred to other, less critical parts, such a force could still cripple that area.

But if these two thousand kilograms were distributed throughout the entire body, then each area would suffer much less from the attack. Thus, it could achieve a process of diminishing from large to small, and finally to nothing...

There was a drawback to this method, though: the force couldn't be too great. After all, parts like the heart, brain, Dantian, and genitals couldn't withstand too much trauma.

For instance, with Shangguan Tianling's two palms strikes, while two thousand kilograms of force might have been weakened when dispersed, areas like the genitals and Dantian would still be problematic. Qin Fang wouldn't dare to take that risk, so this time he redirected all of Shangguan Tianling's palm energy to a single location on his body—his other idle left arm!

Such a move wouldn't have been particularly effective for ordinary people, because such terrifying force, regardless of where it landed, would cripple a part of the body. Take the arms, for example; Qin Fang's left arm was almost instantly shattered, despite his considerable defensive strength.

But there was a significant difference for Qin Fang between being hurt in the chest and in the arm...

A chest wound would have resulted in a loss of Life Points that absolutely exceeded Qin Fang's maximum Life Points. It was a vital area and naturally sustained more damage.

An arm wound, even if the entire arm was completely ruined, wouldn't be considered a fatal injury by the System. While the loss of Life Points was still high, with blood loss exceeding 30 points, it wasn't fatal... The System classified it as a severe injury, with remaining Life Points below 20%.

Qin Fang wasn't concerned with whether the loss of Life Points from such a severe injury was large or small; as long as one strike couldn't kill him, he could catch his breath, eat baozi, and quickly restore his Life Points.

It was during the time Shangguan Tianling was using Healing Pills to stop his bleeding that Qin Fang also took the opportunity to restore his Life Points back to full...

With Life Points fully restored, the injured arm naturally healed. Although the pain nearly made Qin Fang break into a cold sweat, compared to losing his life, this wasn't really a big deal.

"Hmph... I refuse to believe you still have the strength to fight!"

Of course, Shangguan Tianling wasn't so easily fooled. He was very confident about the palm strike he'd just delivered. Even a grandmaster-level expert would have been seriously injured by it.

Although Qin Fang was already considered virtually invincible below the grandmaster level, the gap to a master-level fighter was still significant. It was impossible for him to be completely unharmed after taking two palm strikes, so Shangguan Tianling thought Qin Fang was just putting on an act...

"If you don't believe me, let's fight again!"

Yet, Qin Fang didn't end up as Shangguan Tianling assumed, unable to even stand. Instead, he leapt from the ground with a bound, and even performed some stretches in front of the uncle and nephew, looking so relaxed and comfortable that it was impossible to associate him with someone severely injured and nearly dying; he appeared to be completely unharmed...

"This... this... this is absurd!"

Shangguan Tianling's eyes were wide open, looking stunned, while Lei Peng was in an even worse state, stammering for a while with a ghost-seeing expression, involuntarily rubbing his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.

But the reality disappointed both the uncle and nephew. Qin Fang indeed seemed to be completely uninjured, not only possessing the strength to fight, but it also appeared as though he was intending to gradually wear Shangguan Tianling down...

Such a scene was too bizarre, completely beyond the comprehension of the uncle-nephew duo, or to put it another way, it contradicted everything they knew and understood... It was like facing a Xiao Qiang that could not be killed!

Xiao Qiang!

A term suddenly popped into Lei Peng's mind.

As a young person, he knew full well what Xiao Qiang meant. He never thought someone could survive with such a huge disparity in strength like Xiao Qiang...

But the Qin Fang before him had done just that, not only appearing entirely unharmed but even seemed to be growing stronger as the battle went on!

With strengths waxing and waning, although Shangguan Tianling was much stronger than Qin Fang, such a bizarre turn of events cast a shadow over the heart of this grandmaster-level expert...(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to cast your recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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