Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World

Chapter 1683: Chapter 854: He Actually Dares to Say ’Come at Me Together’? (Part 2)

At this moment, Gu Sheng seemed to be doing a trivial task. He even had the leisure to slightly turn his head, looking at the dumbfounded Situ Qingfeng beside him, with a hint of teasing in his voice as he asked.

”Qingfeng, do you understand now what I meant by ’five-five split’ earlier?”

Situ Qingfeng snapped back to reality, looking at the fourteen long spears that couldn’t move an inch, then at the seemingly relaxed Gu Sheng, his expression becoming extremely complex, with shock, confusion, and ultimately, a faint bitter smile.

He understood that Gu Sheng’s ’five-five split’ probably wasn’t the evenly matched force that he previously comprehended...

The fourteen martial artists from the Prince Mansion were clearly unwilling. They exchanged glances, a fierce look flashing in their eyes, shouted out simultaneously, then pulled back their spears fiercely, gathering all their True Qi, and stabbed out once more in a more violent and focused manner!

This time, they held nothing back!

Buzz —!

Crack!

A soft yet incredibly clear sound of shattering rang out!

One of the martial artists’ spear tips, condensed from pure True Qi, developed a slight crack the moment it touched Gu Sheng’s skin! Yet, Gu Sheng’s skin remained intact!

Just as the spearhead shattered, Gu Sheng’s calm voice once again clearly reached everyone’s ears, carrying a kind of despairing nonchalance.

”Actually, when I said ’five-five split’...”

His figure started to blur and dissipate like a bubble at the moment his words sounded.

”...I meant, with fifty percent strength, in five breaths, make you...”

Nangong Yue Xia’s heart rang with warnings! An unprecedented sense of deadly crisis came from behind!

Without thinking, almost as an instinctive reaction, her True Qi burst forth from within, gripping the slender purple sword, she flipped her wrist like a serpent darting out, stabbing with all her might toward the source of danger sensed behind her! This stab was fast, accurate, and fierce, gathering her full strength of Sect Realm cultivation, with the sword tip’s purple glow seemingly able to pierce through the void!

However—

Ding!!!

A crisp sound, akin to jade chimes clashing, rang out!

Nangong Yue Xia only felt her slender sword strike an unmovable invisible barrier, an unimaginably tremendous counterforce traveled along the sword body, numbing her wrist and almost splitting her tiger’s mouth! Shocked, she turned to look in the direction she had stabbed.

Gu Sheng’s figure, somehow like a ghost, had appeared behind her, within less than three feet!

And the high-quality slender purple sword in her hand, the sword tip...was precisely pointing at Gu Sheng’s Danzhong acupoint on his chest.

But that sword tip, which could easily pierce through Sect Realm Protective Gang Qi, not only failed to puncture Gu Sheng’s body, but due to the terrifying counterforce and Gu Sheng’s unimaginably resilient flesh...caused the highly elastic slender sword to bend into an alarming arc!

The sword tip against Gu Sheng’s chest, the sword body bent, seemed to be lamenting.

Gu Sheng looked down at the sword tip against his chest, then raised his eyes to meet Nangong Yue Xia’s eyes filled with shock, fear, and a hint of panic, calmly finishing the latter half of his sentence.

”...break apart.”

Nangong Yue Xia looked at her bent slender sword, felt the counterforce like striking an iron wall, then looked at Gu Sheng’s chest without any marks, her shock was beyond measure! Her full-force strike hadn’t even broken through the defense?!

This was far beyond ordinary Heavenly Martial Realm capabilities! It even surpassed most Sect Realm martial artists’ physical strength!

In her heart’s violent shock, as old forces depleted, and new ones hadn’t formed yet, Gu Sheng moved.

He didn’t perform any earth-shattering move, simply raising his right hand casually, with index and middle fingers together, forming sword finger gesture.

He didn’t even look at Nangong Yue Xia, his gaze calmly ahead, lightly uttering a word.

”Break.”

Buzz—!

As his words fell, the originally thin layer of Protective Gang Qi around him suddenly seemed endowed with life and spirituality, abruptly condensing, compressing, transforming into an invisible yet supremely sharp sword aura!

This invisible sword aura instantly breached the boundaries of space upon its appearance!

Nangong Yue Xia only felt a slight chill in front of her throat, an ice-cold, piercing sharpness closing in! She couldn’t even make any defense or evasive action, forced to watch her Protective Gang Qi, able to withstand mid-stage Sect Realm’s full-force strike, easily pierced and shredded like fragile window paper by the invisible sword aura!

The sword aura stopped precisely before her snow-white neck, only half a cun away from her skin!

That condensed sharpness, even without actual contact, already caused fine blood beads to seep from her tender neck, like blood red plum blossoms dotting snow, shocking to behold!

The shadow of death had never so clearly enveloped Nangong Yue Xia’s heart.

Her whole body froze, even her breathing stalled in that instant, beautiful eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

She had no doubt that if Gu Sheng’s mind slightly moved, this invisible sword aura could instantly pierce through her throat!

Gu Sheng then slowly turned his head, his gaze calmly looking at her, with eyes deep like an ancient well, devoid of any ripples.

”Do you believe now?”

His voice remained calm.

”If I wished, taking your head would be as easy as turning my hand.”

After speaking, his joined sword fingers casually dispersed, the invisible sword aura that had been against Nangong Yue Xia’s throat quietly vanished, as if it never existed.

Gu Sheng stood with hands behind his back, speaking again, his tone carrying a hint of inquiry yet more like a proclamation.

”How is it, Elder Yue Xia, do you still need to continue testing?”

Nangong Yue Xia remained frozen in place, taking several breaths of time as if recovering from that near-death suffocating feel.

She instinctively reached out and touched her neck where blood beads had seeped, the warmth and sting at her fingertips reminding her of everything that had just happened in the most real way.

She slowly withdrew the slender purple sword, which had already returned to normal but seemed dimmed with fear, her expression fluctuating, ultimately taking a deep breath, as if using all her strength, waved her hand towards the thirteen equally aghast martial artists from the Prince Mansion who dared not move, her voice hoarsely and exhaustedly.

”All...stand down.”

Upon hearing this, the thirteen martial artists seemed to be granted amnesty, immediately withdrawing their aura, retreating rapidly to the far corners of the courtyard like a tide, eyes still tightly fixed on Gu Sheng, filled with awe and vigilance.

Seeing this, Gu Sheng also completely dispersed his Protective Gang Qi, reverting back to his harmless and ordinary appearance.

He looked at Nangong Yue Xia with a complex expression, his tone somewhat mellowed.

”Being cautious is a good thing. I won’t hold this test against you.”

His words shifted, gaze becoming profound and oppressive.

”But I hope this is the last time. My patience is limited.”

Nangong Yue Xia’s delicate body trembled slightly, speaking in a low voice.

”I understand.”

She lifted her head, reassessing Gu Sheng, eyes completely devoid of previous disdain and doubt, replaced by deep apprehension and inquiry.

”You...are you truly in the Heavenly Martial Realm? But your power...especially your physical body...”

”Heavenly Martial Realm Ninth Layer, Peak.”

Gu Sheng directly admitted, without concealment.

Looking at Nangong Yue Xia’s puzzled gaze, he supplemented with a sentence.

”As for the physical body...you can consider it as my Body Refining Techniques reaching minor success, regarded as...Half-step Glazed Golden Body.”

”Half-step...Glazed Golden Body?!”

Nangong Yue Xia gasped coldly. As the core of the Southern Prince Mansion, she had naturally heard of such legendary top-level Body Refining realm! It’s said that once achieving the true Glazed Golden Body, the physical body is comparable to Divine Weapons, impervious to all techniques!

”No wonder...no wonder you could withstand the combined strike of fourteen Sect Realm martial artists without a scratch! With such a physical body, it truly would be difficult for martial artists below Sect Realm Seventh or Eighth Level to pose a deadly threat to you...”

She muttered to herself, her heart’s shock going on wave after wave.