How could Ye Yuanwu not be surprised? Although he had never met that notorious young man from Yao City named Ye Chu, he had heard of him. Back when he first heard that the other party had dared to attempt something improper against his cousin Ji Die, who was as beautiful as a flower and stunningly gorgeous enough to topple cities, he could not help but secretly admire Ye Chu’s audacity.
However, in his impression, Ye Chu should have been a useless weakling with no strength to even truss a chicken. So when had he become this strong? He actually possessed the strength of the Innate Realm. Ye Yuanwu looked Ye Chu up and down. The young man before him did indeed resemble the one from the rumours in appearance. It was undoubtedly Ye Chu!
“This really surprises me. You actually dare to show up in the imperial city?” Ye Yuanwu suddenly laughed. The anger from earlier vanished completely, replaced instead by delight.
If he could capture Ye Chu and drag him in front of his cousin Ji Die, surely she would be grateful to him!
“Ye Chu! Honestly, I rather admire you. To be hated to that extent is quite an achievement in itself,” Ye Yuanwu said with a smile. “But today, I am going to clean house for the Ye family.”
Ye Chu did not bother wasting words with him. He simply stood quietly in front of Ye Yuanwu, gazing straight into his eyes. When Ye Yuanwu swept a kick horizontally towards him, Ye Chu met it with a cunning angle of his own foot.
“You’ve only just reached the Innate Realm. Do you really think you’re my match?” Ye Yuanwu laughed loudly. His legs continued to deliver chopping kicks, forcing Ye Chu to retreat again and again.
As Ye Chu clashed with him, his legs began to feel numb. The opponent cultivated using a Spirit Moulding technique, granting him exceptionally powerful strength. Ye Chu could steadily overpower ordinary peak second-layer Innate Realm cultivators, yet right now he was clearly a step behind Ye Yuanwu.
“Not bad! To block several of my moves, it seems this trash has had some fortunate encounter,” Ye Yuanwu said coldly, his eyes fixed on Ye Chu as his sweeping kicks grew even fiercer. “Even so, today you are still coming back to the Ye family with me.”
“You cannot do anything to me,” Ye Chu said while looking at Ye Yuanwu. “Although your strength is currently a notch above mine, I can still deal with you.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Chu unleashed a domineering punch from the Vajra Fist technique. The strike erupted outwards, aimed straight at the opponent’s chest. It was fierce, powerful, and extremely tricky. The moment the blow came out, Ye Yuanwu’s pupils contracted sharply. He quickly retreated several steps to dodge Ye Chu’s attack.
The Vajra Fist was mighty and relentless. Ye Chu spared no effort, sweeping strike after strike, forcing Ye Yuanwu to keep backing away.
When Pang Shao and the others saw that Ye Chu had finally gained the upper hand, they grew excited one after another.
“Ye Chu! Take him down!”
“Is he bullying us Star Slash people because he thinks we have no one? Let him see what we’re made of!”
“…”
The roars from Pang Shao and the rest enraged Ye Yuanwu. “Do you really think these little tricks can do anything to me?”
Ye Yuanwu’s attack style suddenly changed. His hands turned into claws, lunging fiercely towards Ye Chu. His fingers were sharp and cold, like an eagle’s talons, incomparably keen. Ye Chu met the claw with a punch. Instead of breaking the opponent’s fingers, his own hand received a bloody gash from the grab.
“Innate-grade martial technique!” Seeing the stinging bloody mark on his arm, Ye Chu became more cautious.
“You still have some vision!” Ye Yuanwu snorted. “I thought someone from the countryside like you had never seen such techniques.”
Hearing Ye Yuanwu’s mockery, Ye Chu exhaled lightly. The fierce and domineering fist intent from earlier disappeared entirely. Against the Innate-grade martial technique displayed by Ye Yuanwu, his Vajra Fist was simply no match.
“Do you think only you know Innate-grade martial techniques? Today I will show you what a real Innate-grade martial technique looks like.” Ye Chu suddenly smiled and looked at Ye Yuanwu. “I wonder how many moves you can last.”
Ye Yuanwu treated Ye Chu’s words as mere bravado. His attacks continued to tear forward fiercely and viciously. Under the dance of his claws, Ye Chu’s clothes were shredded into strips.
Wang Yan, watching from the side, breathed anxiously, her full chest rising and falling dramatically with each breath, drawing many eyes.
“If this continues, Ye Chu might not hold out. Does Ye Chu even have an Innate-grade martial technique? If he doesn’t use it soon, he’s going to suffer,” Liu Shaoyang thought, his heart tightening when Ye Yuanwu’s claw nearly caught Ye Chu’s face.
“Use hardness as the square, use softness as the circle. Square and circle interweave to repel strong enemies!”
Ye Chu’s hands moved in a dance. Between his movements, a surging intent of hardness burst forth, yet it did not last long before it suddenly shifted into a soft and supple intent. The two intents alternated. His legs swept out continuously in a seamless flow.
Hardness and softness were both contained within Ye Chu’s hands and feet. As they moved, square and circle took shape, and waves of forceful wind were continuously drawn out by Ye Chu. His offensive power more than doubled.
“Innate martial technique: Drawing Ground into Prison!”
Ye Chu shouted. The two intents of hardness and softness, square and circle, fully overlapped. With the dance of his feet, an endless barrage of leg shadows surged forward. The whistling wind was clearly audible. Wherever his feet stepped, the bluestone beneath turned to powder.
Pang Shao swallowed hard, staring at the patches of bluestone crumbling to dust under Ye Chu’s feet, finding it unbelievable. With such layered intent, Ye Chu’s strength had more than doubled.
Ye Yuanwu’s expression changed greatly. He exploded backwards, trying to avoid Ye Chu’s strike.
But he had underestimated the terror of this technique. The leg shadows swept out and trapped him within a confined square and circle. He could not break free at all. It truly felt like drawing a line on the ground to form a prison.
Ye Yuanwu had no choice but to meet the legs head-on. Only after clashing with Ye Chu did he realise how terrifying it was to face both hard and soft intents attacking at the same time.
He could block the hard intent, but then the soft intent rushed in. He had no time to defend and was sent flying.
Before the retreating Ye Yuanwu could even react, Ye Chu’s relentless attacks surged forth again. Ye Chu’s offensive was like ocean waves, one after another crashing in.
A single wave might be something Ye Yuanwu could withstand, but with this endless succession of power continuously shaking outwards, how could he possibly hold? He was forced back step by step. Under this move from Ye Chu, he actually had no power to counterattack.
Pang Shao and the others swallowed hard, staring blankly at Ye Chu and at Ye Yuanwu, who had no way to fight back. Their throats kept moving involuntarily!
Such endless attacks meant that even if another Ye Yuanwu appeared, Ye Chu could still handle it.
“I knew this guy was hiding something. He’s never used this move before. Even Ye Yuanwu has no way to fight back against him. And he’s still just an Innate Realm cultivator without a Spirit Moulding technique. If he gets one, how terrifying will he become?” Pang Shao found it unimaginable.
Drawing Ground into Prison was the Innate-grade technique Ye Chu had practised most seriously while training in Qingmi Mountain. Back then, he cultivated by facing the river waves. Using his endless intent, he forcibly severed the flow of the river. The rushing water was held back by him alone for a full ten seconds.
That was the terror of Drawing Ground into Prison. Although Ye Chu had not unleashed ten-tenths of its intent this time, it was more than enough to deal with Ye Yuanwu. However, this move consumed an enormous amount of true qi.
“Get lost!” Ye Chu struck out again, aiming to land on Ye Yuanwu. Ye Yuanwu’s face twisted dramatically. He retreated frantically, trying to dodge a blow that could seriously injure him.
But how could such a strike be so easily avoided? The attack descended, about to land on Ye Yuanwu. Pang Shao and the others could not help but cheer excitedly.
“Bang…”
The sound of collision rang out as expected. Yet what left everyone wide-eyed was this: the one sent flying was Ye Chu. He staggered backwards several steps, his feet trembling.