The Legend of Min Hong

The onlookers saw Min Hong with a holding the golden staff over his shoulders as he walked over to Tong Tian and asked;

"Are you okay?"…

"Again!"

Tong Tian blurted before pouncing at Min Hong once again…

Min Hong smiled and grabbed Little Bing with both arms as he took a defensive stance against the incoming Tong Tian…

Boom!

Grunt!

Min Hong grunted as he felt all his bones and joint vibrate from the impact of the strike…

He retreated about six steps before stabilizing himself with a seventh…

"My Turn!"

Min Hong spoke as he approached Tong Tian with devastating momentum…

He jumped into the air and with two arms grabbing the end of the golden staff, he swung it mercilessly at Tong Tian, as the crowd saw the Imperial shadow behind him mimic the motion…

Tong Tian who had braced himself as it was his turn to defend could already feel the pressure booming off the golden staff in Min Hong's hand…

Pressing him to the ground like it was mandating he faced the attack head on…

"Arhh!"

Tong Tian and the Ape-like Monkey behind him bellowed in unison as the brought their staffs over their head to defend the apocalyptic strike coming from Min Hong;

Boom!

They both clashed as Tong Tian felt his feet sink about an entire feet into the ground as his bones quaked, clattered and squealed signaling the peak of their endurance…

But the shockwave from this collision blasted the barrier sphere around them into smithereens, sending shard of its hurtling towards the crowd, and stabbing into their force field of unique auras…

The three mid-grade spirit stones within the slot in that barrier turned to dust instantaneously, as it seemed that the stage had guzzled all the energy within them and still couldn't defend just an aftershock of the duo's clash…

Mu Li didn't even need to be told before sending over three dozen mid-grade spirit stone into the stage, as they saw Tong Tian prepare for his own strike…

Tong Tan removed his feet from both holes and Min Hong was similarly stunned to see that he also had inhumane healing speed [After all, that was one of the Body Cultivator's OP abilities… An Awakening Stage one, at that…]

"Receive this!"

His eyes turn red, as the eyes of the monkey behind him also blazed with rage;

Boom!

Tong Tian erupted from the stage leaving a spider web of cracks in his wake as he descended and smacked his staff at Min Hong…

But just in that moment when the staff was about to land, and due to him having pushed himself to the limits of his power output, The monkey spirit behind him fused more perfectly with the ape spirit and roared as it slammed into Min Hong sending rock debris flying in every directions and dirt and dust covered clouded the area…

But to Min Hong, the power behind that strike was so great and agonizing that he received a bout of enlightenment on his 'Willow Leaf Palm' technique…

The moment the staff landed and the vibration and force surged into the palms he was using to hold the golden staff, Min Hong felt the flow of how the force which was transformed into agonizing pain spread from his palm into the joints on his wrist, and after containing all of the force it could, the wrist joints then passed it onto the bones within his hand which creaked and even cracked in the process….

It was in that moment of pain that Min Hong understood that, as these forces were coming from both of his arms, if they should connect with each other at the center of his body, he would be thrown backwards, and any organ within that region would receive significant damage…

Though, he had hid his large and easily pierced organs within another pocket of space, there were still nerve endings within his body and other organs like his veins and the likes…

Then he thought to himself;

"If I use the concept behind the willow leaf palm focus it on a smaller output area, the strength of the strike should be much powerful…"

He had once experimented this before, when he created the 'Imperial Willow Fist' technique…

The fist covered a much smaller area, compared to a full palm, and that was why the force behind its strike were stronger, because all that force he absorbed were concentrated around a small release area…

It was then that the thought crossed his mind;

'Then how strong will it be if I use a finger?,

and it was then that he decided to test his experimental hypothesis on Tong Tian, and though everything took a while to write, they all happened within the time it takes to process a thought…

Min Hong channeled every ounce of the force from Tong Tian's strike and directed it towards his left arm as he released Little Bing from his grip…

As soon as the force passed through from his right hand, he funneled it towards his left arm, combining both forces together, as they stalled in his left arm…

Then Min Hong began to sense immense danger…

As soon as the forces combined and stalled within his left arm, they began to vibrate and Min Hong knew that if all that force explode within his left hand, there was no doubting it that his hand would be blasted into bits and pieces;

"Push it with your own energy!"

Little Fei's bellow rang within Min Hong's mind as he surged all of his current energy [A 2 Star Saint Stage power] towards the unstable and stagnant force within his left arm…

Min Hong's energy then pushed the force out of his left arm, making the resulting combine force to have a power of a 4 Star Saint Stage expert…

But when these forces now began to compress from the size of an arm into the size of an ordinary fingertip, its power began to multiply relatively to its shrinking rate, and by the time it was at Min Hong's fingertip, it's power had already risen to that of a 5 Star Saint stage expert, as Min Hong pointed the finger at Tong Tian...

Min Hong's eyes then landed on his forehead, and then his chest area [the heart to be more precise], and then his ribs where his lungs were located, and on and on and on…

Min Hong's eyes traveled through every part of Tong Tian's body where vital but fragile organs were located, and a part of him told him to use it, but there was also a part of him that looked towards the staff in Tong Tian's hand, and Min Hong finally pointed at it, as he instantly became enlightened with the name of the technique;

"Point Break!"

Min Hong whispered; Boom! The explosion that happened rocked everywhere…

The stage cracked open into four separate massive rocks, the barrier shattered like a freight train at high speed just ran through it…

The shockwave blasted everyone asides Gong Yi's group about ten meters away, as the four massive apartment structure felt the impact, before cracks appeared on them…

Tong Tian couldn't be found anywhere near the area, and Min Hong's index finger had actually been ripped off his palm…

Drip! Drop! Drip!

Blood dripped from where Min Hong's index finger used to be, as his face became pale…

He was panting really heavily, and he seemed to have been exhausted beyond measure…

He was forced to use every shred of physical body energy he had to push that stalling force out of his arm, and the result, though could cause self-destruction, its results far outstrips the cost by a margin of heaven and earth…

The Mu twins and the rest came out of the rubble they have been buried within…

All the relaxation area, trees and garden around the training area were gone, and the only thing that was left was a massive crater, the size of a football pitch, as well as several thigh-sized cracks in the ground that looked like the place had just been hit with a CAT-5 earthquake…

Min Hong tried to heal himself with the dragon tattoos, but got the shock of his life; not even a single one of them moved as they looked extremely drained…

He then released his Qi cultivation base as his body began to heal itself, albeit ten times slower than the dragon tattoos could…

Gong Yi's group and Min Hong's group all sent their mental and spirit sense outward as they tried to find Tong Tian, and before long, they saw him and got the shock of their life…

Tong Tian was about 100 meters away from the contact site, unconscious and bleeding, and in the arms of the sect leader who was looking at Min Hong with a stern gaze…

Fifth was also with him and was using his Water Dao to kind of put Tong Tian on a temporary life support, hinting at how grievously injured the boy was…

But that was not what shocked everyone, nope; what nearly made Gong Yi shit himself was the fact that Tong Tian's staff had snapped in half, and the sect leader was currently covering what seemed to be the weapon spirit within a lantern like treasure that was glowing with a greenish ghostly flame…

Gong Yi dashed over to the sect leader, whilst Little Ming simply expanded and scooped Min Hong towards them as he had asked her to…

The rest of the group also moved over as the Sect leader who was obviously seething with boiling rage bellowed;

"What were you thinking!"

"Are you trying to get your fellow disciple killed!?"

Gong Yi truly wanted to help Min Hong out of the situation, but he knew better than to try to interrupt when the sect leader is raging…

One must understand that the sect leader was a full fledge Saint stage exert who was stronger than Fifth; who in his own ability could snap Min Hong's neck like he was breaking dried twigs…

They were experts whose total battle prowess were rivalling those in Mid-Samsara/Nirvana stage…

His smoldering gaze alone was making them sweat bullets…