Chapter 21: Tempering (First Update)

  "It's actually Big Sister!"

  Lin Xi saw this scene and was overjoyed. The one who came was none other than Su Zi Xuan, the most skilled martial artist among the Wu Lei Pai disciples and his senior sister.

  Lin Xi had a very good relationship with her since childhood. However, the senior sister was mostly outside the mountain. It's been more than a year since they last saw each other.

  "Senior sister, take one of my moves!"

  Lin Xi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly let out a loud roar, immediately turning into a whirlwind, charging towards his senior sister Su Zixuan.

  "Huh?"

  Su Zi Xuan was instructing a few core disciples of Wu Lei Sect when she suddenly heard the loud shout and couldn't help but raise her head.

  "Little brother?!"

  Su Zi Xuan's beautiful eyes flashed a hint of surprise. However, she quickly reacted and put one hand behind her back, standing still on the spot, beckoning to Lin Xi with a wave of her hand, indicating that he should only use one hand to deal with him.

  "Master sister, I'm going to make my move!"

  Lin Xi showed no fear, and with just a flicker of his eye, he rushed to Su Zixuan's side. His right fist swung out, and the move "Divided River Broken Flow" immediately thundered forth.

  Su Zi Xuan's body remained still, her right palm stood upright, and she only stretched out five fingers to block this mountain-collapsing and sea-storming fist.

  Boom!

  His fists collided, and Lin Xi felt his fierce power, as if he had crashed into a thick and solid mountain wall. Not only did he fail to shake his opponent, but a strange and powerful force rebounded back at him.

  "Master sister is indeed master sister, she's really awesome!"

  Lin Xi secretly clenched his teeth. This punch of his could smash through copper walls and iron fortresses, but it couldn't even budge Su Zi Xuan's five fingers. It was as if those were no longer fingers, but rather pillars supporting the heavens.

  "Come again!"

  Lin Xi's eyes flashed with a hint of light, undaunted, and immediately launched another punch after another, attacking consecutively.

  "The White Ape Presents Peaches!"

  "Yu the Great is opening up the mountains!"

  "Drill Kick!"

  "Python wrapped around waist!"

  …………

  Lin Xi's feet trod the Yu step, his body changing unpredictably with each punch shaking heaven and earth, his aura unmatched. However, Su Zi Xuan was just too powerful. She was like a mountain, standing there unchanging amidst all changes, her five fingers disappearing and reappearing in an instant, immediately dissolving Lin Xi's offensive into nothingness.

  "Little junior brother, your realm and strength are far inferior to mine. I'm using only one arm, and you're already having a hard time dealing with me. Now, I'll stand here motionless; if you can force me back from this spot or make me use my other hand, then you win!"

  Su Zi Xuan shouted. She never showed mercy when she struck, even if it was just a sparring match, her moves were always full of power.

  "Alright! Master sister be careful. I may not be able to beat you, but to say that I can't even make you take a step back is impossible."

  Lin Xi heard this and also stirred up a strong sense of determination in his heart.

  The master sister almost returned to the faction, didn't stay for a few days and hurriedly left. Such an opportunity to recruit is not common.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Lin Xi suddenly let out a loud shout, transforming into a storm, and once again clashed with Su Zi Xuan. The two exchanged blows, their fists meeting flesh without any fancy moves. The intense aura was so overwhelming that the surrounding core disciples of the Wu Lei Sect retreated in disarray, and even the ground was covered in a layer of yellow sand.

  Lin Xi Yue was increasingly astonished, he possessed rich combat skills, experience, awareness and reaction from another world. Compared to the disciples of this world's sects, it was unknown how much stronger he was.

  He can challenge the ranks one after another, with superhuman combat skills, experience and consciousness. But this thing is greatly inferior when dealing with Su Zi Xuan.

  The fighting consciousness and experience that Su Zi Xuan showed, as well as his reaction and awareness, were not much worse than Lin Xi's. Lin Xi often tried to create artificial weaknesses, but was always seen through by Su Zi Xuan, and returned without success.

  However, Lin Xi did not know that Su Zixuan was even more shocked in her heart.

  "Unbelievable! This little brother is so formidable!"

  Su Zi Xuan was shocked in her heart. She originally thought that with just a few moves, she could solve Lin Xi, but unexpectedly, Lin Xi not only caught up, but also reacted continuously.

  Although his strength is still inferior to mine, the consciousness and reaction shown in that battle are simply breathtaking. It doesn't look like an ordinary sect disciple at all, but rather a general who has fought on the battlefield.

  Su Zi Xuan even thought that she was competing with a top-notch strongman who had gone through hundreds of battles. It's worth noting that Su Zi Xuan's skills were all honed in the Beast Mountain Range, where she had fought for her life time and again.

  She has always believed that true strength can only be honed in the face of life and death, so she has a wealth of combat experience.

  The core disciples of Wu Lei Sect were quite skilled, but in Su Zi Xuan's eyes, they were full of flaws. Without even using the power to blow away dust, she could easily defeat them.

  Lin Xi's strength was still inferior to those sixth and seventh rank true disciples, but the feeling he gave Su Zixuan was that he was even more difficult to deal with than those disciples.

  "I've only been away for a short while, how did this little junior brother become so formidable!"

  Su Zi Xuan was secretly shocked in her heart. Apart from strength being inferior to hers, in other aspects, he wasn't much worse than her.

  Lin Xi had been fighting for a long time without falling back, and suddenly an idea popped into his mind:

  "Master sister's martial arts are powerful, why don't I use her fist strength to temper the skin on my body. This is much better than the walls in the main hall!"

  Lin Xi had this idea in mind, and his tactics changed accordingly. He originally defended against the water leak, but when they clashed again, intentionally or unintentionally, he revealed many weaknesses.

  Su Zi Xuan and others, as long as Lin Xi showed a little weakness, it would be a finger touch, and the energy would burst out immediately. Although she only moved her five fingers, her own cultivation was really fierce, and every time she hit Lin Xi's body, it was like a steel hammer, striking with great force.

  "Ow! Eldest Sister's finger strength is incredible, it's even more powerful than a fist!"

  Lin Xi's whole body ached unbearably, feeling that Su Zi Xuan's fingers were only touching one point, but the pain was more than half. Half of his body was in severe pain. Fortunately, he had endured the first wave, and it got much better afterwards.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  The two exchanged blows, their battle intense. Lin Xi had initially only wanted to let his senior sister see his true strength, but he no longer thought that way now.

  Under Su Zi Xuan's attack, the dermal layer in Lin Xi's body became even more compact. It was as if he was being tempered like iron, with each strike of Su Zi Xuan's fingers making Lin Xi's body become increasingly refined.

  The only cost is pain!

  "Sparring with a master, tempering the skin membrane, indeed much stronger than my method of colliding with walls!"

  Lin Ximeng keenly felt that, in this exchange with Su Zixuan, the skin membrane on his body had toughened a bit. Although it wasn't much, having such an effect in such a short time was already quite astonishing.

  Lin Xi is now facing the fifth layer of "Tendon Refining Stage". His body crashes into walls to temper itself. After all, it's not as good as exchanging blows with a master.

  After all, walls are inanimate objects that can only passively accept attacks and cannot counterattack. A master, however, has no such restrictions. And the power is far from comparable to just hitting a wall.

  Su Zi Xuan started to notice that Lin Xi was full of openings, and thought it was because he was physically exhausted. After all, they had been fighting for a while. But gradually, she realized it wasn't the case.

  "You little junior brother, you're quite bold! You actually dare to use Big Sister as a sacrifice, I'll beat the skin off your bones!"

  Su Zi Xuan's two slender eyebrows twisted together, bluntly piercing through Lin Xi's motives.

  "Haha, who made Master Sister so fierce? Looking around our Five Thunder Mountains, there aren't many who can compare to Master Sister. Since we've met, of course, we won't let her go. Master Sister won't mind, right?"

  Lin Xi knew that her senior sister had a strong personality, so she quickly flattered her.

  On Mount Wu Lei, for those who questioned themselves, Master Sister would always treat them equally, regardless of their relationship, and beat them half to death.

  As expected, Su Zi Xuan heard Lin Xi praise her as awesome, and immediately beamed with joy, her eyebrows relaxing a lot:

  "Good boy, you know what's good for you!"

  However, in the next moment, Su Zi Xuan immediately raised her eyebrows and revealed a murderous aura:

  However, if you dare to practice with Master's sister, you must be prepared to be taught a lesson!

  Su Zi Xuan's demeanor changed, and the strength of her five fingers increased significantly. She let out a tender shout:

  "Get down on your knees!"

  Su Zi Xuan's move this time, the momentum is vastly different from before. The five fingers swung out in unison, and there was a faint sound of thunder rumbling, the airflow at the fingertips even condensed into swirling dark clouds.

  "This is Wind and Thunder Palm!"

  Lin Xi's face changed, Su Zi Xuan made a move, and it was actually the Wind Thunder Palm, the sect-suppressing ultimate skill of the Five Thunder Sect. The palm emitted the sound of wind and thunder, extremely powerful and fierce, created by Lin Xi's grandfather.

  Su Zi Xuan's fist strength had been practiced to the point of transforming the virtual into the real, revealing a shadowy image of wind and thunder. It was clear that she had already grasped the essence of this boxing technique and completely mastered it.

  "Sister, you be careful too!"

  Lin Xi's mind concentrated, this time he did not retreat. The master sister used the Wind and Thunder Palm to deal with him, obviously acknowledging his strength. Lin Xi also stirred up a strong desire to fight, his spirit moved, and immediately used the "Three-Link Strike" that had been building up power!

  Crackling and popping!

  Lin Xi's entire body crackled with energy, his spine seeming to come alive like a resurrected dragon as he suddenly raised his head. Immediately afterwards, the energy transmitted into Lin Xi's hands and exploded outward.

  Boom!

  Fists intersecting, a deafening crash shook the air. Lin Xi felt once again that an impenetrable wall of copper and iron had risen up before him. This punch was thrown out, and in an instant, a massive force rebounded back.

  Hmph!

  Lin Xi's feet floated in mid-air, and she took several steps back before finally stabilizing her body.

  "Master sister is indeed formidable, I couldn't even beat her like this!"

  Lin Xi secretly thought to herself.

  Lin Xi was still secretly admiring Master Jie's awesomeness, while the core disciples around her were already boiling with excitement.

  "I've heard that this kid is formidable, but I didn't expect him to be so formidable, he actually managed to hold his own against Master Sister for so long!"

  "Look quickly, Master Jie was actually beaten back! This is truly an unprecedented event. Lin Xi, this guy, is unstoppable!"

  "What's the big deal? Eldest sister has always gotten along with Lin Xi, showing mercy and retreating a few steps, what's so extraordinary about that?"

  "You idiot, when has Master ever shown mercy in a fight?"

  …………

  The surrounding core disciples looked at Lin Xi as if they were looking at a monster. Someone who dared to challenge the great master sister had been extinct for many years. Being able to force the great master sister to retreat was even more unprecedented.

  "Little brother, it's been a year since we last met, and you've actually become so powerful!"

  Su Zi Xuan gazed at Lin Xi, her beautiful eyes fluttering as if she was seeing him for the first time. In front of her, a line of footprints were clearly visible, which were actually the marks left by the person who had just been repelled by Lin Xi's power.