Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint-Chapter 516 - 126: Close Combat, Terrifying Inner Breath! (Vote for Monthly Tickets!!)_2

Chapter 516 -126: Close Combat, Terrifying Inner Breath! (Vote for Monthly Tickets!!)_2

Just moments ago, Li Hong, who was weak and unable to bear even a single blow, was now terrifying to such an extent that even Hong Minghu couldn’t face him directly.

On the other side,

“It seems… he’s not as strong as the Wind God Envoy?” Jiang Ning’s expression was somewhat surprised.

He had just seen Li Hong transform into a more advanced Blood and Flesh God and had thought it would be very formidable.

Now, seeing the speed at which Li Hong moved, he instantly discerned Li Hong’s true capabilities at this moment.

They were still not as strong as the Wind God Envoy in the state of being a Six-Armed Divine Descendant.

“However, it makes sense!” Thinking of the Wind God Envoy of that day, Jiang Ning felt it was very normal and reasonable.

The Wind God Envoy belonged to the Fifth Grade Internal Strength Realm.

Whereas Li Hong was merely at the Sixth Rank Xuan Bone Realm, far below the Wind God Envoy in terms of levels.

Their strengths completely incomparable.

In his regular state, the Wind God Envoy seemed to Jiang Ning to possess strength not inferior to Hong Minghu’s.

Not to mention the Wind God Envoy in the state of a Six-Armed Divine Descendant.

It was at that moment.

“Tiger—” Hong Minghu let out a loud shout.

Jiang Ning suddenly saw a tiger about the height of a sheet appearing within the county government.

“Is that… Inner Breath materialized?” A slight look of surprise appeared on Jiang Ning’s face.

At this moment, he saw that as Hong Minghu shouted, he threw a punch.

A fierce tiger, looking like a wisp of white mist, instantly materialized and rushed towards Li Hong, who was attacking head-on, in the manner of a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey.

Boom—

The explosion of Inner Breath led to a fierce wind that swept through the county government, stones and bricks flew around, and the surrounding wall collapsed with a loud crash.

“Is this the application of techniques?” Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

Subsequently, he saw that Hong Minghu, fully unleashing his Inner Breath, sometimes blasted out disembodied tigers materialized from Inner Breath.

It bore some resemblance to his tiger-like momentum.

As Hong Minghu unleashed his Inner Breath, Li Hong, towering like a giant, looked like a boat in a storm, seemingly on the verge of collapse. He was being beaten back step by step by Hong Minghu.

But at that moment, a mocking smile appeared on one of the heads on top of Li Hong’s head.

“Hong Minghu, indeed you are strong when you burst forth with your Inner Breath, but how long can you keep it up?”

“I, on the other hand, possess a body comparable to a God’s, an immortal body.”

“When your Inner Breath is exhausted, it will be my turn.”

Upon hearing this, Hong Minghu spoke while he continued to attack, his voice deep and powerful.

“Ghosts and goblins dare to claim they’re divine?”

“Knowing the God Worship Sect’s uniqueness, how could I come unprepared?”

As his words fell,

Jiang Ning saw a glint of gold pass through Hong Minghu’s hands.

The next moment,

He moved like a ghost, instantly appearing above Li Hong, his fingers like eagle claws, landing on one of the dormant heads atop Li Hong’s head.

“Break—”

With a fierce shout from Hong Minghu, one of the newly grown heads on Li Hong exploded in an instant.

Afterward, gold powder sprinkled from his hands, falling into Li Hong’s wound.

In that instant,

The flesh that had been budding like maggots suddenly lost its vitality, as if falling into a deep slumber,

and the swiftly healing wound also instantly became quiet.

“A method that can be solved with a handful of gold powder dares to claim it grants an immortal body?!!” Hong Minghu scoffed with scorn.

But at this moment, he was inwardly pained.

The gold powder he had just sprinkled was a substance refined from gold.

Spreading that handful was the equivalent of throwing out an item worth thousands of taels of silver.

Such consumption was hard for even him to bear,

and that was only the cost for a single wound. To completely take down Li Hong, there was no telling how much more gold powder would have to be used.

But such expenditure was already proving too much for him to handle,

not to mention he was also aware that the gold powder, though it could temporarily disable the activity of the Blood and Flesh God’s Divine Descendant’s body and suppress his immortality,

this measure was not a long-term solution and would gradually lose its suppressing power after a while.

Regardless of whatever thoughts were running through Hong Minghu’s mind at the time, his expression still confidently showed he held the upper hand.

This sudden change immediately caused Li Hong to panic,

If his immortal body lost its effect, it was as if he had lost his greatest reliance.

Otherwise, he could completely exhaust Hong Minghu by relying on the special effect of his immortal body, but now it was clearly not possible.

Subsequently, Li Hong’s six arms moved, and in an instant, like a windmill, they guarded the vitals atop his head and also repelled Hong Minghu.

After repelling Hong Minghu, Li Hong no longer hesitated and turned to flee.

“Trying to escape!!” Hong Minghu uttered a low shout, his legs moved, and he instantly crossed a distance of thirty feet.

At that moment, Hong Minghu’s speed was clearly a notch faster than Li Hong.

With sufficient speed, a large body will encounter huge wind resistance, and the speed will be severely affected.

“Changkong, stop Li Hong!” Hong Minghu called out instantly.

At the same time, the Inner Breath surged within his body.

The Inner Breath that leaked from his body formed a powerful wind pressure, scattering the accumulated snow around, collapsing houses, and breaking trees.

On the other side.

Li Changkong, seeing that County Lord Li Hong was heading in his direction, immediately showed helplessness on his face.

But being a man who cared about his reputation, he had already made an appointment in front of his colleagues, and he couldn’t do anything as disgraceful as fleeing without fighting.

Then, watching Li Hong charging straight at him.

He drew the sword at his side.

Clang—

The sound of the sword was clear and pleasant to hear.

Immediately, he attacked Li Hong with his sword.

At the critical moment of the confrontation, Li Hong swatted the sword coming at him as if it were a toothpick.

Li Changkong suddenly felt a vast and mighty force transmit from the sword to his palm.

He felt a tearing pain in his hand gripping the sword and could no longer hold the long sword.

The long sword emitted a whining tremble as it was instantly swatted away.

“So strong??” Li Changkong was shaken and lost color in his heart.

Even though he had just witnessed Hong Minghu being blown away with a punch from Li Hong before the latter erupted with Inner Breath, he was mentally prepared.

But when he actually crossed hands with him, he realized he had underestimated Li Hong’s strength in such a state.

This power was not of a mortal, but of a wild beast, an inhuman strength.

The next moment.

Li Hong’s fist rapidly enlarged in Li Changkong’s pupils, almost filling his entire field of vision, and then he was blown away like a punching bag.

However, this brief exchange also halted Li Hong’s momentum.

Hong Minghu was already closing in from behind.

Li Hong, feeling the terrifying pressure coming from behind like the eye of a storm, was instantly alarmed.

When he turned his head, he found that Hong Minghu was less than three Zhang away from him.

For powerhouses like them, this distance could be crossed in a single step.

At the same time, the tremendous Inner Breath bursting forth from Hong Minghu hit Li Hong like ocean waves. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

The accumulated snow in the courtyard was pressed by the Inner Breath to the corner, piling up together.

Looking at Li Hong’s drastically changed face, Hong Minghu’s brows concentrated, forming a “Chuan” character.

“Break—”

He bellowed loudly.

His right hand clenched into a fist and he blasted it out instantly.

“Roar—” The sound of a tiger’s roar exploded out of nowhere.

The sound was like thunder, with the power to move mountains and forests, echoing miles around.

With this punch, Inner Breath erupted, condensing into mist and forming a tiger of the same size as Li Hong.

This tiger, composed of clouds and mist, appeared instantaneously…

Meanwhile.

Jiang Ning, using his Heavenly Eye, saw this scene, his gaze also became sharp immediately.

Through the appearance of the tiger, he saw mysterious patterns emerging within it.

These patterns looked like characters and also like symbols, incredibly profound, circulating within the tiger’s body, seemingly bestowing extraordinary power on the tiger formed from Inner Breath.

“It looks like there’s new knowledge to learn, knowledge that I didn’t know!”

“Fifth Grade is indeed not so simple!”

“If I have the time, I should visit the Inspection Office in the County or the capital city, as it’s said that Martial Arts books are all stored in the libraries there.”

Watching the commotion at the county government, Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

He had learned from Granny Bai that Inner Breath had only the level of technique without martial arts.

As a result, he hadn’t thought about delving deeper.

Now, seeing Hong Minghu’s performance, he realized that he had underestimated the variety of “technique.”

Simultaneously, he had also underestimated the power of Fifth Grade Inner Strength.

At this moment, the Inner Breath Hong Minghu was erupting with roared like a tsunami. It wasn’t just a difference in the amount of Inner Breath but also a difference in the rate of release.

With the same amount of Inner Breath, Hong Minghu could burst forth at a rate ten times faster than him, emptying the breath in an instant.

The difference in release rate is the difference in the power revealed by the Inner Breath.

To put it another way, Inner Breath is like a pond, and the release rate is like the size of the water outlet from the pond.

If his current body’s water outlet is a ten-centimeter pipe, then Hong Minghu’s outlet is like a half-meter gap in the pond.

With the same amount of Inner Breath, Hong Minghu could, by virtue of Inner Breath alone, unleash several times the power in a short period.

Jiang Ning instantly realized that regarding Inner Breath, there were still aspects of knowledge he hadn’t yet understood.