Chapter 456: Chapter 231 Six Forms (2)
“Charging Step, a technique whereby Ghost Energy is externally emitted through the body, is stacked under the soles to form a short-lived high-pressure energy. Under high pressure, the leg muscles perform stepping more than ten times in an instant, and the physical strength combined with energy bursts out through the soles, using the reaction force to create an instantaneous storm of impact. Characteristic: Power eruption.”
This time, the shadow didn’t engage in self-duplication combat but instead turned toward Mu Fan, bending over, and their legs suddenly began to tremble at a speed beyond visual response.
They stayed in place for merely a fleeting moment.
Bang!
Like the roar of a cannon being fired, the next second, the shadow had disappeared!
No, not disappeared, but formed an afterimage on the retina, charging directly at him.
“Derivative Skills, Charging Step Assault.”
The shadow suddenly crossed its arms, and Mu Fan, with his dynamic vision, caught the movement, but his body barely misaligned less than an inch when the shadow brutally smashed into his embrace.
Crack!
Mu Fan could hear the sound of his own breastbone and ribs shattering, and even the blood in his heart halted briefly from the impact, causing his vision to black out.
Mu Fan’s body uncontrollably soared high, the shadow having dashed past him, but the attack wasn’t over yet.
Reaching about ten meters behind Mu Fan, the shadow’s legs rapidly stomped the ground again, the compressed energy causing abnormal muscular ripples and distortions at the calves.
“Derivative Skills, Charging Step Parabola!”
Bang!
This time it truly launched like a cannonball, frighteningly fast.
With fists clasped above his head, the shadow struck Mu Fan, who was still mid-air and not yet landed, like an enraged anti-aircraft shell.
Crack!
Pain tore through his lumbar region, his spine shattering in an instant.
Before losing consciousness, Mu Fan’s last thought was, if only he knew the Soft Body technique…
The only psychological shadow Mu Fan had on the Battle Net PO was at the training base 341. Every time he saw the Fighter Instructor, he hadn’t had a complete training unless he experienced the variety of brutal defeats at least a dozen times.
Familiar dizziness returned along with the consciousness.
Mu Fan’s body resumed normalcy, and he instinctively touched his lower back, still terrified.
“Charging Step, training movement, imprint.”
This time, the process had shortened slightly, with just 84 lines of Ghost Energy concentrated in the legs and soles, but it explicitly raised a physical fitness requirement—those not meeting the standard had a high risk of being disabled from training.
This aggressive impact method, honestly, attracted Mu Fan far more than the previous two.
It almost reached the speed of Blessed Relief!
And it wasn’t as harsh on the body!
A thrilling thought suddenly emerged in his mind, his eyes frighteningly bright.
What if… he used Charging Step under the state of Blessed Relief?
What kind of scene would that be!?
However, reality didn’t give Mu Fan much time to ponder, as Mohandas’s calm voice continued to resonate.
“Fourth Form, Choking. Ghost Energy pathways, 244.”
“Choking, using Ghost Energy to bind one’s muscles and forcibly altering them into a spiral structure for a short duration of muscle ripping torsional storage, releasing the twisted compression force in an instant when the muscles recover, causing damage beyond limits. It is advised to practice this after mastering the Soft Body.”
Seeing the shadow turning towards him again sent chills through Mu Fan.
Haven’t you always been demonstrating with clones? Are you going to use this move on me now?
Remembering the scene where his spine was broken mid-air, Mu Fan desperately shook his head.
No more waiting, if it comes, I’ll counterattack!
Absolutely can’t just sit and wait to be beaten.
Mu Fan’s eyes hardened, and he slightly spread his toes, standing firmly.
Arms crossed.
“Cross Arm Guard!”
Then the shadow, with a piercing wind, charged directly at Mu Fan.
Arms reached forward and then bent backward.
At this moment, Mu Fan’s pupils suddenly constricted to the size of pinpoints.
He thought he suddenly saw wave-like tremors on the shadow’s black arms, cascading from the palms to the shoulders.
The upper arm muscles doubled in an instant!
With those diagonal-like waves, the right arm became a giant screw.
“Derivative Skills, Four Styles Strangling Impact Drill!”
Mu Fan chose to defend head-on, he wanted to see how strong the impact was when he was in full defensive mode.
The fist came closer and closer.
When the fist was right in front of his cross-arm guard, Mu Fan suddenly saw that the previously frozen threads on the opposite’s right arm started rapidly spinning in reverse.
Diagonal wave patterns shook from the shoulder down to the forearm, muscles instantly returning to their original shape, but an unprecedented sense of crisis arose in Mu Fan’s heart.
The shadow’s fist finally made contact with Mu Fan’s arm.
It was a head-on clash!
His figure abruptly halted, stepping backward on the ground, he caught it!
The smile had barely started to bloom on Mu Fan’s face when it froze because the explosive power from that fist contact surged instantly.
His own arm was like a wall, and the opponent’s fist was like a full-speed impact drill.
And then it was instantly drilled through.
The intersection of the crossed arms showed an abnormal dent, bones completely shattered.
Mu Fan was punched over ten meters away, crashing heavily to the ground.
There was also a deep pit at his chest, unbroken, but Mu Fan could no longer speak, his eyes bulging lifelessly.
Heart dead.
The shadow returned to its place, and Mu Fan’s body solidified again.
Now clearly in a world of spirit, why did it feel almost no different from reality? That real sensation of death made Mu Fan experience pain from bones to blood vessels to nerves every time he was severely injured.
“Strangling, training action, imprint.”
This time it took longer than last time, Mu Fan could clearly see those life-like energies surge into all the muscles of his limbs, yet that impact drill just used the right arm.
The pain of being branded with patterns in spirit was endured by Mu Fan clenching his teeth, he looked forward to the complete appearance of the Six Forms!
“The fifth form, Steel. 40 Ghost Energy circuits.”
Only 40 circuits, how could there be so few?
“Ghost Energy infused into the heart, speeding up blood flow, forcibly enhancing muscle strength, achieving short-term durability increase, body like steel, capable of counterattacking when damaged. Characteristic: difficult to move during use, ultra-strong defense.”
The shadow looked at Mu Fan again, this time Mu Fan shouted through gritted teeth, “Come on.”
But after he spoke for several seconds, the shadow did not move, just quietly standing in front of him.
What’s happening?
At that moment, the shadow produced an iron rod in its hand and handed it to Mu Fan.
Then it crossed its arms in front of its chest, standing firmly.
Holding the rod, Mu Fan was a bit puzzled, was it his turn to attack this time?
But looking at the posture of the shadow left no doubt.
Defensive skills needed to be tested by offense.
Thus, Mu Fan held the rod with one hand behind his back, took a step forward, raised the long rod high, then smashed it down forcefully.
“Derivative Skill, Steel Mechanical Arm.”
After hearing such a plain phrase, Mu Fan saw the muscles on the opponent’s arm completely tense up.
They expanded to a limit, then eerily smoothed out.
Under the force of level 21 strength, the iron rod heavily smashed onto the shadow’s arm.
With a thud.
Mu Fan truly felt like he had smashed the rod onto a Mecha, the force was so fierce it even made his palms ache.
What about the opponent’s arm?
It had not deviated at all.
An arc rose then vanished, the shadow’s arm returned to normal.
Mu Fan even wanted to grab the opponent’s arm and check it, but the shadow did not give him the chance and retreated to its original spot.
“Steel, training action, imprint.”
When the voice sounded again, those flowing scenes were forcibly imprinted in his mind, and Mu Fan clenched his teeth as he felt the details within.
Through Ghost Energy infusion into the heart to speed up blood flow to strengthen muscles, not by forcibly compressing the body, this was almost a non-harmful weakened version of the Blessed Emancipation related to enhanced durability.
Strong, unexpectedly strong!
This was already the fifth form, Mu Fan took a deep breath, under Mohandas’s calm instruction, truly persisting to the peak of the world’s Fighting prowess, his fighting spirit was now incredibly high!