In the combat training room, Fu Hua, who was facing Li Xuan, suddenly blurred. It was an illusion caused by high-speed movement. A fierce gust of wind, carrying an aura of looking down on the world, appeared before Li Xuan.
'So fast!' Li Xuan helplessly raised his arms and crossed them in front of him. He was still a little surprised in his heart. He hadn't expected a Valkyrie's body to be able to reach such a speed. This speed was already half of what he could achieve using 'Gale Arts (High Tier)'.
"Bang!" Fu Hua's fist instantly appeared in front of Li Xuan. The fist, carrying a fierce gust of wind, directly collided with Li Xuan's arms, creating a dull impact sound. A huge force instantly transmitted from Li Xuan's arms, causing him to retreat a few steps uncontrollably before he could dissipate the force.
"How could this be..." Li Xuan looked at the expressionless Fu Hua standing not far away in astonishment. The slight numbness and pain from his arms stimulated his nerves. Li Xuan felt that his arms might be bruised....
"Sister Fu Hua is so strong!"
"As expected of Sister Fu Hua!"
Seeing Fu Hua force Li Xuan back with a single punch, the crowd of onlookers seemed to care little that Li Xuan was a boy, instead cheering continuously for Fu Hua.
"Classmate Li Xuan, your body is very strong..." Fu Hua said with some emotion. Li Xuan's physical strength was top-notch among the people she had seen. He could actually take a full-powered heavy punch from her and still be full of life...
"Again..." Fu Hua stood firm, her body like a vigorous pine tree. Fu Hua gently raised her arm, her fair palm lightly cutting through the air, revealing an indescribable charm.
"Is this... Huaxia martial arts?!" Li Xuan said with shock as he saw the other party's starting stance. In his previous life, as an ordinary person, he had never seen any real martial arts, aside from the elderly ladies and gentlemen who practiced Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword for fitness in the park every day... But as someone who grew up reading wuxia and xuanhuan novels, Li Xuan still greatly admired the martial arts that existed in books... killing people with a leaf, striking a cow from a distance, and the like.
"Yes... I was born into a martial arts family." Although Fu Hua still had a straight face, there was an inexplicable trace of pride in her tone. Her pair of azure eyes still looked at Li Xuan faintly through her glasses, making Li Xuan a little uncomfortable.
"Are you alright, Classmate Li Xuan?" Fu Hua finally noticed a slight bruise appearing where she had attacked Li Xuan's arm. She frowned and said with some embarrassment.
"....I'm fine." How could a man say he's not fine? Li Xuan gritted his teeth. He was a man who had defeated countless Honkai Beasts, how could he admit defeat at the hands of a girl.
"Alright then!" A hint of eagerness flashed in Fu Hua's eyes. As the inheritor of a martial arts family, she had trained since she was young, and her combat skills had long reached the top level. There were very few people of the same grade who could be her opponent, and classmates who could withstand her attacks were extremely rare.
She could already feel the Huaxia warrior blood in her body begin to boil.
"Hah!" Without waiting for Li Xuan to react, Fu Hua's figure instantly accelerated and appeared in front of him. Her hands formed fists so fast that they seemed to create afterimages, making them difficult to see.
'Too fast...' Beads of sweat couldn't help but form on Li Xuan's forehead. At this moment, Fu Hua attacked Li Xuan with a soul-stirring aura. The fast fist shadows even formed illusions, making it impossible for Li Xuan to block.
"..." Li Xuan pressed his lips together. If he was defeated by Fu Hua right here, it would be a huge loss of face... 'No choice...' Li Xuan sighed silently to himself.
"Jao Shingan..." Li Xuan murmured. The Honkai energy in his body began to flow, and warm currents trickled out from the depths of his body. On the back of his hand, the red mark—the 'Stigmata'—covered by the thin black leather gloves given to him by Liv, grew slightly hot. A large amount of Honkai energy surged into Li Xuan's right eye. The eternally inextinguishable Golden Eye, which had formed due to the integration of the 'Jao Shingan' emblem, lit up once again.
The golden eyes were brilliant, and complex patterns flashed within them.
'It's slowing down, it's slowing down.' The fists that were about to hit his body slowed down the moment Li Xuan activated his Golden Eye. The air waves from the punches moved slowly towards him in his right eye, like slow motion.
Li Xuan also knew that the ability granted to him by the 'Jao Shingan' mutation wasn't truly about stopping time... The reason he could slow down the opponent's movements was more about 'acceleration'. By accelerating his own thought processes, everything about the opponent naturally slowed down, as if the world's time itself had been altered.
The so-called 'in the world of martial arts, only speed is unbeatable' could be countered if the movements were slow enough for one to see the trajectory and know how to block. At least, he could break through Fu Hua's attack.
"I see it! I see it!" Li Xuan managed to catch all of Fu Hua's increasingly fast punches with his palms, creating dull sounds of flesh hitting flesh.
"Hmm? How can this be..." Fu Hua's eyes widened in shock, watching Li Xuan's heterochromatic eyes gaze at her faintly. How could he, without any martial arts training, directly catch her fists?!
"Bang!" With the dull thud of the last punch, Fu Hua finally retreated. Li Xuan stood before her like a city wall, completely impassable...
"You are strong..." Fu Hua said softly, her forehead also covered in sweat. Her black tank top stuck to her fair skin due to the sweat, outlining her somewhat youthful body.
"Please take this last move of mine!" Fu Hua said softly. Caught up in the excitement of the fight, she didn't mind Li Xuan's reaction and closed her eyes, taking a light breath in and slowly exhaling...
"..." Fu Hua made her move. Her clenched fist struck towards Li Xuan at only a normal speed.
"Too slow..." In Li Xuan's eyes, Fu Hua's fist moved as slowly as a snail... He estimated that he could have caught it even without using 'Jao Shingan'.
"Bang~" Fu Hua's light fist touched Li Xuan's hand, and then she opened her eyes...
"This kind of attack... What the-!" Just as Li Xuan was about to say something, a surging force suddenly erupted from the fist touching his palm, slamming into it with immense power. Unable to resist, Li Xuan was violently pushed back by the force and fell on his butt.
"..." The Golden Eye in Li Xuan's right eye slowly dimmed. He sat on the ground, his mind a little blank from the shock. His arm trembled slightly, and a sore pain shot through his muscles with every movement.
"What was that..." Li Xuan, having come to his senses, raised his head and asked Class President Fu Hua, who was still panting slightly in front of him.
".Huaxia kung fu." Fu Hua, who usually had a poker face, showed a rare smile. She took off her glasses, and her azure eyes looked at Li Xuan with a hint of pride as she said, ".Inch Force!"
A type of martial arts power that concentrates mental force, breathing force, and kinetic force is called 'Inch Force'.
(End of this chapter)