“Damn, he mastered the first fist so quickly?”
Elder Ox was utterly shocked.
However, this was only the beginning.
“Boom!”
Ye Qiu continued punching. Explosive sounds rang out one after another as fist imprints struck the void.
Another nine punches.
“Bang!”
The nine enormous fist imprints gathered in the air, then exploded like a nuclear bomb, shaking heaven and earth.
“Heavens, he has mastered the second fist too?”
Elder Ox’s bell-like eyes nearly popped out. His face was filled with astonishment and horror.
Whoosh!
Elder Ox raised his large hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously, seriously suspecting he had seen wrong.
But the result forced him to believe it.
“Has Brother Ye really mastered the second fist?”
“In less than a quarter of an hour, he learned the second fist and brought Vigorous God Fist to the great accomplishment realm?”
Elder Ox stared blankly at Ye Qiu, feeling his entire worldview overturned.
As the patriarch of the ox clan, he knew very well that over tens of thousands of years, those who could master the second fist of Vigorous God Fist could be counted on one’s fingers.
Each one had been a genius of the ox clan.
Moreover, almost every one had spent over a thousand years.
Yet Ye Qiu achieved great accomplishment in less than a quarter of an hour.
Elder Ox would never dare dream of such a thing.
Too terrifying.
“No wonder Old Monkey said Brother Ye is a once-in-an-eternity genius. It seems Old Monkey did not exaggerate. Brother Ye’s talent is truly unmatched through the ages.”
Just as Elder Ox was reeling in shock, the aura around Ye Qiu surged once more. The ten great cave heavens floated behind him, frantically absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth.
“Bang!”
Ye Qiu threw a punch towards the firmament.
This punch appeared ordinary, slow in speed, with no imposing momentum whatsoever. Yet the instant the fist was thrown, a sudden deafening roar erupted, like the bellow of an ox, resounding across ten thousand li.
Immediately after, the fist imprint abruptly accelerated, shooting towards the vault of heaven like a rocket before exploding with a boom.
“Crack, crack, crack…”
The void continuously fractured, as if on the verge of disintegration, emitting terrifying noises. It seemed as though all heavens and myriad realms would be shattered by this single punch.
“Heavens, Unstoppable Force!”
“Brother Ye has brought Vigorous God Fist to the perfected realm!”
“How, how is this possible?”
Elder Ox stared dumbly at Ye Qiu, shocked beyond words.
Over tens of thousands of years, no one had ever mastered the third fist of Vigorous God Fist. Yet Ye Qiu, in less than a quarter of an hour, achieved perfection.
Such talent, if described as perverse, would certainly need two more words prefixed: extremely!
Extremely perverse!
“Thud.”
Suddenly, Ye Qiu collapsed straight to the ground.
“Brother Ye!” Elder Ox snapped back to his senses, rushed quickly to Ye Qiu’s side, and asked, “Brother Ye, what is wrong?”
“I have no strength left.” Ye Qiu said weakly.
At this moment, he was panting even while speaking. Although Vigorous God Fist had only three moves, it consumed more physical energy than his days-and-nights battle with Yun Xi.
Especially the third fist. If not for Ye Qiu using the ten great cave heavens to draw in spiritual energy from heaven and earth, he could not have executed that punch at all.
The core of Vigorous God Fist was actually to concentrate all the body’s power into one supreme strike.
It was not only a fist technique of utmost rigidity and ferocity, but also one of putting one’s back to the wall, leaving no retreat for oneself.
Simply put, if facing an enemy, failing to kill them with Vigorous God Fist would put oneself in danger.
Of course, physical consumption was directly proportional to the punch’s power.
Though Vigorous God Fist was extremely taxing on stamina, its might was equally ferocious. Ye Qiu now had a strong intuition that with Vigorous God Fist, he could blast to death cultivators at the early Nascent Soul stage.
If using the third fist, even against mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, it would be an even match.
In other words, from now on, Ye Qiu could kill across realms without needing the divine whip.
Only at this point did he understand why Elder Bear had described Elder Ox with those two sentences.
“Below saint, he is invincible. Against a saint, it is one for one.”
“It seems Elder Bear’s evaluation was very apt.”
“If I were a half-saint using Vigorous God Fist, I too could challenge saint-level powerhouses.”
Seeing Ye Qiu so weakened, Elder Ox scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly and said, “I forgot to tell you. Vigorous God Fist consumes stamina enormously. Even with my cultivation, after two punches, half my stamina would be depleted.”
Ye Qiu quickly pulled several spirit pills from his cosmos bag and popped them into his mouth. After a moment, with Elder Ox’s support, he stood up.
Ye Qiu asked, “Elder Ox, how was my fist technique?”
“Far more than just passable. It was simply outstanding.” Elder Ox said, “I thought it would take you decades to master the second fist, but I never imagined that in less than a quarter of an hour, you would even learn the third.”
“In all these years, this old ox has admired no one, but I admire you.”
“Brother Ye, you truly are a genius!”
Ye Qiu smiled faintly. He did not tell Elder Ox that the reason he could master Vigorous God Fist so quickly was because he cultivated the Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Art.
The Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Art not only accumulated power for him but also enhanced his comprehension by a hundredfold.
Others’ divine abilities he could roughly imitate after seeing once. How much more so when Elder Ox had transmitted the complete cultivation method to him.
“Sigh…”
Elder Ox looked at Ye Qiu and suddenly let out a long sigh.
“Elder Ox, why the sudden sigh?” Ye Qiu asked in puzzlement.
Elder Ox said, “It is a pity you are human.”
“If you were of the ox clan, I would willingly hand the patriarch position to you right now.”
At this point, Elder Ox’s eyes lit up. “Brother Ye, why not stay and become patriarch of our ox clan?”
Ye Qiu said, “Did you not just say I am human?”
Elder Ox replied, “Brother Ye, as long as you are willing to stay, I will persuade the clan members to elect you as patriarch.”
“And as for the young demons of the ox clan, whichever you fancy can serve you in bed.”
“Our ox clan has several million members, with a million females. Those in their prime number hundreds of thousands. You could have two a day, without repetition for ten years, a new bride every night…”
Ye Qiu shuddered at the thought of the massive frames of ox demons and quickly said, “Elder Ox, stop right there.”
“You can say this to me in private, but if the little white fox hears it, you will be in trouble.”
Elder Ox slapped his forehead hard. “I almost forgot you and the National Lord are a pair.”
“Thank you for the reminder, Brother Ye.”
“In future, this old ox will certainly be careful. By the way, are you willing to become our patriarch?”
Ye Qiu smiled. “Elder Ox, I came to learn your supreme technique, not to seize your patriarch position.”
Elder Ox said, “I am willing to give the patriarch position to you. I believe that under your leadership, our ox clan would certainly become stronger…”
“Enough, Elder Ox. Thank you for your kindness, but I will not become patriarch of the ox clan.” Ye Qiu refused directly.
“What a pity!” Elder Ox looked regretful.
Ye Qiu changed the subject. “Elder Ox, although Vigorous God Fist is extraordinary, it has one drawback.”
