Chapter 218: Chapter 118: The Enhancement to the Vajra Undying Body from Entering the Realm of Strength, and Can I Kill Duan Tianhong with a Single Palm Strike...

The morning sun rose, its golden brilliance washing over the courtyard walls and quietly melting away the lingering chill in the small yard.

Chu Fan stood in the courtyard, his eyes slightly closed, his awareness sinking deep into his body. He wanted to carefully examine the new changes that had arisen within him after his breakthrough to the Entering the Realm of Strength.

This Realm was far more than a simple multiplication of his brute strength. It felt more like a subtle, refined evolution in his very being—a new beginning for his understanding and control of power.

With a mere thought, a docile yet condensed stream of Powerful Qi began to flow smoothly along his meridians.

This was Force!

Unlike his old Qi Blood Power, which relied solely on brute impact, the Powerful Qi he now commanded was contained and exceptionally malleable. It went wherever he willed it, moving with the ease of a limb obeying a command.

Chu Fan could perceive the thickness and speed of every wisp of Powerful Qi, even the tiny eddies swirling within them. They felt like extensions of his own fingertips, yet sharper and more agile than any normal finger.

He slowly raised his right arm and gently pointed his index finger forward.

There was no whoosh of displaced air, not even the slightest current, yet the air just before his fingertip seemed to twist. A soft "TSS" sound drifted out, as faint as a mosquito’s buzz, as if the air had been pierced by an invisible needle.

This was the true essence of Microscopic control: all the power was focused on a single point, not an ounce of it wasted. Yet, its penetrative ability was far greater than the brute Fist Force he had used before.

’What a marvelous sensation...’

Chu Fan marveled inwardly. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

He tried guiding a wisp of Powerful Qi to envelop his palm. A faint luminescence, almost too dim to see, immediately coated his skin, yet his sense of touch became astonishingly acute.

He could clearly perceive the slight tremor of a single mote of dust from the air landing on his palm.

However, these new, subtle perceptions within his body needed to be honed and tested against external objects before they could be truly mastered and applied in actual combat.

Chu Fan strode out of the small yard, heading toward a nearby area piled with Lying Bull Green Granite.

The massive stones were incredibly hard. Master Cao had them specially delivered for his training. They were the perfect tools for testing his new Force and honing his control.

His awareness remained focused inward.

The Powerful Qi flowed like a small stream along his meridians, circulating smoothly without the slightest obstruction.

Before long, he was standing among the giant boulders.

Lying Bull Green Granites of various sizes were scattered about. Even the smallest was taller than a man, and each was wrapped in several layers of cowhide.

Chu Fan didn’t rush to strike. He first walked up to a boulder twice his height and gently placed his palm on the cold, rough cowhide.

He closed his eyes and focused. A wisp of Powerful Qi as fine as a silk thread seeped from his palm, passing through the layers of cowhide and silently sinking into the stone.

In that instant, the fine fissures within the rock, its areas of density and sparseness, even some deeply hidden weak spots, were all faintly transmitted into his perception.

This ability to "see" through solid objects was something he could have never achieved before entering the Entering the Realm of Strength, when he could only rely on the brute force of his Qi Blood Power.

’First, control.’

Chu Fan withdrew his palm and took two steps back.

His gaze locked onto the center of the giant boulder. He lightly clenched his right fist, mustering only an amount of Qi Blood Power comparable to a Martial Artist at the initial stage of the Blood Refining Realm, and threw a punch.

THUD!

With a muffled thud, the outer layer of cowhide instantly sank, forming an indentation.

The cowhide didn’t break, but the Green Granite underneath had clearly been smashed, leaving a shallow crater.

Chu Fan could even hear the faint rustle of stone fragments trickling down inside.

He had controlled the force perfectly, achieving the exact effect he wanted with no wasted energy.

It was important to remember that with the strength of a Blood Refining Realm cultivator, it was difficult to even damage the Lying Bull Green Granite, let alone when it was wrapped in several layers of cowhide that would have already dissipated most of the impact.

And yet, the punch he had just thrown had easily penetrated the cowhide, delivered its Force into the rock, and smashed a crater!

The penetrative power was far greater than he had imagined, and a thrill of joy washed over Chu Fan.

Before breaking through to the Entering the Realm of Strength, he had been able to clash head-on with experts of the Mortal Transformation rank and slay those in the Entering the Realm of Strength as easily as slaughtering dogs. But this didn’t mean the Entering the Realm of Strength itself was weak.

It was simply that his Vajra Undying Body was absurdly powerful.

But before his breakthrough to the Entering the Realm of Strength, he had no way of controlling the immense power of his Vajra Undying Body with such fine precision.

Chu Fan nodded slightly. He then brought his fingers together to form a sword-finger. The Powerful Qi in his body instantly converged at his fingertips, exuding a razor-sharp aura.

With a light flick of his wrist, his fingertips brushed against the cowhide on the boulder before him, as light as a dragonfly skimming the surface of water.

SSSHHHK—

A sharp tearing sound erupted. An inch-deep gash had appeared on the cowhide, the cut perfectly smooth, as if made by a razor-sharp knife.

This was the result of concentrating his Powerful Qi to its absolute limit, transforming a blunt force into a cutting edge.

Back when he was in the Bone Marrow Forging Realm, he could also have broken through these layers of cowhide with a single punch, but never with such ease.

’Second, variation.’

Chu Fan took a deep breath. He turned slightly and struck a large stone to his side with his palm.

This time, the Powerful Qi enveloping his palm suddenly turned soft, yet it carried a lingering power, like a hidden undercurrent.

The moment his palm touched the stone’s surface, no violent force was released. Instead, it transformed into a resilient, vibrating power that penetrated deep into the rock.

HUMMM...

The surface of the great stone remained completely unscathed, but a low hum emanated from within as fine cracks began to creep outward from its core.

A moment later, a corner of the great stone crumbled soundlessly, scattering rubble of all sizes across the ground.

This was the beauty of blending hard and soft, the wonder of making Powerful Qi penetrate an object’s very core.

Finally, Chu Fan turned his gaze to the largest piece of Lying Bull Green Granite in the area.

It was a massive boulder that would take several people with linked arms to encircle.

He was going to unleash all his power at once, to test the absolute limits of this new Powerful Qi now that he was in the Entering the Realm of Strength.

The aura around him suddenly grew heavy. The great river of his Qi Blood seemed to come to a boil in an instant. From it, the refined Powerful Qi separated and condensed, gathering furiously in his right fist like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.