I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 75 - 69: Instant Kill with One Strike

Qin Yuesheng, unarmed, naturally did not intend to take it head-on. Feeling the fierce power of the opponent’s blade, he quickly executed the Spiritual Swallow Body Skill, dodging frequently among the numerous blade shadows, not allowing a single blade to touch even the edge of his clothes.

Moving swiftly, he came behind Wang Meng. Qin Yuesheng silently unleashed a Tiger-Crane Plum Blossom Hand, intending to seize the opponent’s spine and forcibly bend it.

Wang Meng had not expected Qin Yuesheng to be so fast. He couldn’t react in time. When he felt powerful fingers pressing on his back, Wang Meng hastily directed his energy to activate the muscles on his back.

Instantly, his entire back swelled crazily like a mountain ridge rising, soon looking like he was carrying a thick turtle shell, even tearing through his clothes due to the tension.

"Hmm?" Qin Yuesheng raised an eyebrow. Wang Meng’s counter-move instantly neutralized his offensive. At this moment, Wang Meng’s back was as hard as iron. Even though Qin Yuesheng had the additions of the Vajra Iron Form and Profound Celestial Treasure Mirror, he could barely break through Wang Meng’s skin, unable to injure the bones beneath.

"Turtle Shell Body Refining Skill?" In a flash of inspiration, Qin Yuesheng suddenly recalled that when he previously reviewed the "Hundred Jiangnan Bandit Records," there was a recorded external forging skill with just such an effect.

Looking again at Wang Meng’s appearance, Qin Yuesheng immediately recognized him.

"You are Wang Meng, the Dragon Crossing the River."

Wang Meng let out a cold laugh and countered with a backhanded palm strike.

Qin Yuesheng hastily used the Tiger Form Fist from the Tiger-Crane Plum Blossom Hand to block it, but unexpectedly, Wang Meng’s palm was fierce and formidable, with a surge of overwhelming Palm Force behind it.

Qin Yuesheng felt his arm go numb, and his entire body involuntarily retreated seven steps, carving two long trenches in the ground with his feet before he barely came to a stop.

"Hiss!" Looking at his hand, Qin Yuesheng couldn’t help but be secretly astounded.

He saw that on the palm and back of the hand that had just collided with Wang Meng, there were two large patches of deep bruising, with blood threads congealing into lumps, directly swelling into a large bump.

"What fierce palm technique," Qin Yuesheng frowned.

The "Hundred Jiangnan Bandit Records" did not list Wang Meng as proficient in palm techniques, yet this move he used now had surpassed most martial arts.

While Qin Yuesheng was surprised, Wang Meng himself felt even more shaken. No one knew better than he the power of his palm strike.

The Great Vajra Palm, a top-tier skill from the Damo Temple.

Although he had not mastered it fully and had learned only the first form that circulated outside, it was enough for him to dominate over the years with just this one move.

Relying on this Great Vajra Palm to launch surprise attacks, Wang Meng had slain numerous experts of equal power to himself. Even someone at the level of Outer Forging Perfection like Xiao Jiaolong couldn’t withstand his palm strike.

Yet the young man in front of him only retreated seven steps under the Great Vajra Palm?

Was it Wang Meng’s poor condition, or was there a mistake with the Great Vajra Palm? 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Unwilling to accept this, Wang Meng immediately brandished his blade with wild slashes. The Five Tigers Breaking Gate in his hands roared like the wind, with the slightest carelessness risking being caught in it, sliced to a thousand pieces.

Qin Yuesheng, with full exertion of the Tiger-Crane Plum Blossom Hand, sometimes smashed aside the blades with the Tiger Hand, occasionally attacking Wang Meng’s face with the Crane Hand, and sometimes used Plum Blossom Binding Hand to neutralize the force, pushing the blade aside.

Making Wang Meng’s full strength feel like hitting a stone in the sea, soft and utterly ineffective.

This left Wang Meng, who was used to wide and open moves, quite discontented. He immediately changed his blade style to the second form of the Five Tigers Breaking Gate, ’Flying Stream Tail Swing.’

Bam!

As soon as Qin Yuesheng touched the Flood Dragon Saber’s blade body, Wang Meng twisted the blade in his hand, striking with the handle, right on Qin Yuesheng’s wrist. Taking this gap, the blade edge once again spun silently towards Qin Yuesheng.

The handle was like a tiger’s tail, the blade like a claw, an exceptional Flying Stream Tail Swing.

In a flash, Qin Yuesheng quickly clasped both hands together, accurately catching and gripping the Flood Dragon Saber, halting its forward momentum.

But at this moment, Wang Meng raised a high kick and hit Qin Yuesheng in the abdomen, sending him flying backward. Qin Yuesheng spun mid-air multiple times to unload the impact before landing steadily, but the faint pain in his abdomen made him rage inwardly.

He leaped out, grabbing an iron blade from the hand of a nearby Qin family Hospital Guard corpse, and charged towards Wang Meng with the Mountain-Crushing Tyrant Saber opening stance.

Mountain-Crushing Tyrant Saber, specifically counters External Forging Martial Artists.

With Qin Yuesheng’s power at 20.0 and agility at 20.0, the Mountain-Crushing Tyrant Saber, though not known for speed, was executed with blinding quickness, as if stars were falling, reaching extreme swiftness.

Wang Meng was not weak either, wielding his blade in response to Qin Yuesheng’s attacks with a resounding clatter, making ears tingle from the noise.

After several exchanges, Qin Yuesheng’s iron blade suddenly fractured, sending the tip flying up, causing Wang Meng to laugh out loud.

But at this moment, though Qin Yuesheng’s blade was broken, instead of retreating, he advanced, increasing his strike speed to the limit.

In a fleeting moment, the blade shadows bloomed like a lotus.

With Wang Meng’s eyesight, he couldn’t discern which of the incoming blade shadows was the real one.

Confident in having the upper hand weapon-wise, he did not retreat, choosing to take on the Flood Dragon Saber directly.

In an instant, the two blades crossed.

But they didn’t collide with each other, each slicing towards the opponent’s blade wielder.

"Ha!" Wang Meng couldn’t help but scoff.

The edge of his blade was crafted from expensive fine iron, capable of piercing External Forging Martial Artists’ bodies; if struck, it would be fatal.

While Qin Yuesheng wielded an ordinary iron blade picked from the ground, already half broken, what could he possibly do?

Success or failure is already apparent, the outcome can be predicted early!

In Wang Meng’s delighted eyes, his Flood Dragon Saber struck Qin Yuesheng’s chest, but... it could not advance any further.

"Hmm?!" Wang Meng’s expression froze.

For some reason, he felt a warm sensation on his neck, as if someone was pouring hot water on it.

He reached out to touch it—it was blood.

Bright, thick blood.

"How, how is it possible, your broken saber, how could it penetrate my body."

Wang Meng stared in shock at Qin Yuesheng.

Qin Yuesheng reached out and grabbed the back of the Flood Dragon Saber, pulling it out of his chest in one swift motion.

The saber had indeed struck his chest, but it had only penetrated about an inch deep, not even reaching the bone, let alone the inner viscera, though the several-foot-long bloody saber wound looked rather terrifying.

"How, how is it possible, not even a body at Outer Forging Perfection could do this." Wang Meng clutched his neck, his body already beginning to wobble.

The Profound Celestial Treasure Mirror is divided into sections: the External Forging Skill and the Inner Strength Heart Method. Unlike ordinary External Forging Skills, the Profound Celestial Treasure Mirror includes a training method known as ’muscle control’ in its External Forging Skill section.

As long as a martial artist can master this method, they can control all their muscles. Qin Yuesheng had just used this method to clamp down on Wang Meng’s Flood Dragon Saber with his chest muscles, preventing it from advancing.

In terms of physical strength, Qin Yuesheng, with a strength of 20.0, was far superior to Wang Meng, so regardless of how sharp Wang Meng’s saber was, it could not cut into Qin Yuesheng’s body.

Qin Yuesheng gripped the handle of the Flood Dragon Saber, "It’s a good saber, a fine weapon."

"What is your blade skill, why can you unleash such power with just an iron saber?" Wang Meng stared at Qin Yuesheng.

"Mountain-Crushing Tyrant Saber, specialized in breaking External Forging. You won’t last long. Quickly explain why you came to my estate to cause trouble; the Qin family seems to have never had dealings with your kind."

Wang Meng’s throat gushed blood, as he spoke unclearly, "Stop pretending, you killed my disciple, of course I came for revenge. You are quite the man, both my disciple and I have fallen to your hands, it’s not entirely a loss."

With that, Wang Meng fell to the ground.

"What did he just say?" Qin Yuesheng asked, puzzled.

Due to his throat being cut, Wang Meng’s speech was very difficult to understand.

Seeing the mess everywhere, Qin Yuesheng shouted to a maid hiding behind a fake mountain, "Stop hiding, go find the head steward, tell him to quickly bring some people over to clean this up promptly."

"Yes, yes." The maid trembled as she emerged from behind the fake mountain and quickly ran away.

Looking around to see no one, Qin Yuesheng dragged Wang Meng directly into the half-collapsed hall, which seemed on the verge of falling.

Finding a corner, Qin Yuesheng started searching Wang Meng’s clothes, hoping to find something valuable.

After a thorough search, Qin Yuesheng found only three items.

A token, with the character ’Tiger’ on the front and a descending fierce tiger on the back.

A small jar containing two brown pills the size of longan.

A solid gold insole found in Wang Meng’s right boot, likely his private stash.

After ensuring nothing was missed, Qin Yuesheng disassembled Wang Meng’s corpse right there.

Two light clusters fell out.

Crushed them,

Obtained ’Turtle Shell Body Refining Skill’ x1

Crushed them,

Obtained ’Great Vajra Palm (First Form)’ x1

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"Great Vajra Palm?" Qin Yuesheng pondered this Great Vajra Palm with only one form and felt its profoundness, far surpassing civilian palm techniques.

If mastered to perfection, its power would be beyond imagination.

However, Qin Yuesheng had no interest in Turtle Shell Body Refining Skill. Firstly, he already had the Vajra Iron Physique and Profound Celestial Treasure Mirror for External Forging cultivation techniques.

Secondly, the Turtle Shell Body Refining Skill’s completed effect was incredibly ugly, with the back muscles thickly bulged and rock-hard after constant pounding and grinding, resembling a turtle shell, which was very unattractive.

On the Jiangnan Rogues Records, only Wang Meng seems to have chosen to train this External Forging Skill, indicating its significant unpopularity.

With the three items obtained from Wang Meng, Qin Yuesheng returned to his residence, intending to further study these items he had found.

As for the chaos and ruins in the hall, once Housekeeper Qin arrived, he would surely handle it, leaving no need for Qin Yuesheng’s concern.