Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist

Chapter 97: Chapter 8: A Despairing Gap

The crowd erupted in cheers!

However, Hong Qianhai, being a Viscera-Refining expert, his voice was loud and clear, spreading across most of the area.

Swish!

The new batch of martial arts hall students, including the senior students who came to watch the match, were all stupefied.

Did they hear it wrong?

Was Hall Master Hong saying that Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm had reached Perfection?

That’s impossible?

Even Gu Shan, one of the seed disciples, couldn’t maintain his previous composure.

If Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm achieving Great Success already made them wary, and took him seriously, then if it was Perfection...

There’s no point in fighting!

Gu Shan’s mouth twitched continuously. He had just been saying he wanted to see if Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm was sharper, or his Iron Bone Skill was tougher.

Now there’s no need to see. If Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm was truly Perfection, he’d slice through him like vegetables.

The power exploded tenfold from one’s own strength, and it’s no exaggeration to say that someone with five acupoints opened could contend with someone with eight, let alone Lin Chen with six.

So, is Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm really Perfection?

All the seed disciples turned their eyes intently towards Qi He.

”Liang’Er, what is Perfection?” Mrs. Lin asked curiously after her initial excitement.

”Mom, I’ve never practiced martial arts, so I don’t know either,” Lin Liang shook his head.

”Instructor, what does Perfection mean?”

On the Kaohe Town Martial Hall side, some students asked Instructor Liu and Instructor Chen.

Martial Hall students, except for a few with martial artists in their families, knew little about the subsequent paths of the Martial Path. Many students from villages, like Lin Chen back then, had practically no knowledge of the subsequent realms of the Martial Path.

”Perfection is the mark of a cultivation technique mastered to its highest level.”

”Instructor, have you mastered your cultivation technique to Perfection?” a student naively asked.

Instructor Liu and Instructor Chen’s faces froze, but then they calmly admitted, ”No. But you’ve seen; your senior brother mastered the technique to its highest level, so disciples, you’re not necessarily inferior to Instructor.”

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On the scene, Qi He had never felt such enormous pressure, especially when he sensed the angry gaze of Junior Martial Uncle Xia from the left side area.

Junior Martial Uncle Xia was a Grade-Entering Martial Artist from the Clear Wind Martial Arts Hall. Despite his declining Qi Blood making his current strength possibly inferior to Qi He’s, Qi He dared not be careless before Junior Martial Uncle Xia.

Not to mention the Xia family’s influence in Poyang City, just the fact they have three Viscera-Refining Martial Artists in the Xia family, and Junior Martial Uncle Xia’s connections as a Grade-Entering Martial Artist, it was beyond his Refining the Viscera realm.

He very much didn’t want to admit Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm was Perfection, but under the public eye, he wasn’t the only one who practiced the Clear Wind Palm, and his denial was futile as many could ascertain Lin Chen’s mastery.

”Judging by Lin Chen’s move, it indeed looks like Clear Wind Palm mastered to Perfection. Giving Lin Chen the Opening Acupoints Pill and teaching him Clear Wind Palm was indeed a wise decision back then.”

Qi He spoke, not forgetting to mention that it was he who had brought Lin Chen into the Clear Wind Martial Arts Hall, claiming credit for his own.

But on-site, other martial arts halls directly ignored his latter remarks. The entanglement between Lin Chen and the Clear Wind Martial Arts Hall was already clear to all major halls after yesterday.

Qi He couldn’t wash it clean.

Hearing Qi He speak it himself, Gu Shan and others looked extremely grim.

Faced with the Perfection-level Clear Wind Palm of Lin Chen, how could they compete?

They simply couldn’t win.

As seed disciples of each martial arts hall, they had their pride and wouldn’t easily concede.

But Lin Chen had clearly transcended the limits of what they could withstand unless, at this moment, someone could breakthrough to opening nine acupoints, otherwise no one could possibly be Lin Chen’s match.

This competition had prematurely ended.

For Gu Shan and others, their goal was first place, but now with no chance, whether it’s second or third place meant little to them.

Watching Lin Chen walk off the stage, they really wanted to ask, are you even human?

Did you grow up soaking in the Clear Wind Palm?

In Jingshui Martial Arts Hall, Lin Chen basked in the attention of all the senior sisters and junior sisters. Fu Jingya was the first to couldn’t help but speak: ”Junior Brother Lin... no, now it’s Senior Brother Lin, you’ve hidden quite deeply.”

Kong Yinglei also wanted to say this.

What a kid, achieving Clear Wind Palm Perfection without revealing it, only saying it’s Great Success. Had you told me earlier, I wouldn’t have embarrassed myself in front of Junior Sister Shen just now.

”It was also luck, a sudden realization last night that broke through to Clear Wind Palm Perfection.”

Lin Chen smiled slightly. Sensing Hall Master Kong’s somewhat resentful glare, he explained, ”I intended to showcase it today, so I didn’t inform you in advance, Hall Master.”

”Lin Chen, you did right, revealing strength before a duel is a taboo; hiding your prowess is wise.”

Shen Lin quickly chimed in, smiling at Lin Chen. If it had been disclosed to Senior Sister Kong earlier, it would have given her a step up again.

Kong Yinglei rolled her eyes silently, but regardless, Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm Perfection brought her a pleasant surprise.

Previously, she just thought Jingshui Martial Arts Hall had three students who could make it into the top ten. Now, she could confidently declare the champion of this generation is Jingshui Martial Arts Hall’s.

The first place would only be between Lin Chen and Jiang Qing.

Thinking that the battle for the first place this generation would be an internal strife of the martial arts hall, Kong Yinglei was overjoyed.

It’s a pity the senior sister wasn’t here. Had she known Lin Chen’s Clear Wind Palm reached Perfection, she would not miss this excitement, and given her temperament, she would ridicule Qi He to death.