Chen Shi jumped off the rock, cautiously observing the woman without approaching her.
For some reason, the woman was severely injured, lying motionless on the ground. Her clothes were soaked crimson with her own blood. She lay with her face to the side, revealing only half of it. Yet even that half made Chen Shi’s heart skip a beat, as if a string was plucked, evoking an unfamiliar feeling.
However, he quickly calmed himself, picked up a small stone, and tossed it at the woman.
Chen Shi picked up a fist-sized stone and threw it again, still no reaction.
He considered using a stone larger than a human head, but after some thought, he refrained, thinking to himself, "She must truly be unconscious."
He put down the stone, turned around, and lifted the large stone that knocked the woman unconscious earlier, weighing about ten to twenty thousand pounds, holding it high above his head, thinking, "This feels like I’m in the third round of the imperial examination, a martial contest between scholars. Yes, this woman ought to be a scholar!"
He muddled through yesterday and today, with thoughts filled with the Ghost God Domain’s Wind and Thunder Transformation and Water and Fire Transformation, leading to a chaotic perception of the outside world, vaguely remembering that he was participating in a martial contest.
Before the martial contest began, there were even examiners who explained the contest rules, suggesting severe action was encouraged, preferably to kill the opponent, as a higher evaluation would be given for the contest. It seemed they also mentioned killing someone on the martial field wouldn’t matter, as it wasn’t a real death.
"Miss, I shall help you revive!"
Chen Shi slammed the stone onto her head with force. With a resounding thud, the stone cracked in half.
The woman lay motionless on the ground, not even a layer of skin on her head was broken.
Chen Shi was startled, "Such a formidable physical body? Has she cultivated the Vajra Body? Could she be a scholar from the Buddhist sect? Her physical body is much stronger than the Holy Daughter Xuan."
He couldn’t help but worry, this girl was gravely wounded yet not dead, unable to use the revival powers of the Immortal Bridge Blessed Land, enduring unnecessary agony. free𝑤ebnovel.com
"Practice a good deed a day, I’ll help the Buddha to the West, helping this girl on her way!"
Chen Shi activated the newly comprehended Wind and Thunder Transformation, enveloping an acre and seven fen into his Ghost God Domain of Wind and Thunder!
Within this domain, fierce winds howled, and lightning flashed and thundered.
The blood-covered woman involuntarily floated up. In an instant, bolts of lightning struck her head, crackling incessantly!
This lightning was no ordinary lightning, but one mixed with Gentle Wind, where the wind accompanied by lightning coursed through the body, eroding the cultivator’s limbs, dispersing the internal organs, dissolving Qi-Blood, disintegrating muscles, softening bones, making them as brittle as glass!
Chen Shi’s Wind and Thunder Transformation even had a touch of evil spirit, possessing an incomprehensible power!
Yet, the woman floated within the realm of Wind and Thunder Transformation, having endured countless attacks, her body entirely without additional wounds!
Chen Shi couldn’t help feeling disheartened, then formed a sword technique with his hand, stepped on the stepping clouds, driving the Sword Qi, and with a swish-swish-swish, Sword Qi pierced through the air toward the woman’s body!
Unexpectedly, his indestructible Sword Qi vanished upon contact, failing to injure the woman in the slightest!
Chen Shi transitioned from Wind and Thunder Transformation to Water and Fire Transformation, using the forces of water and fire to scour and incinerate, erode the bones, burn the primordial spirit, ignite her essence, and cleanse the Dao root!
Self-assured, Chen Shi believed that once his Water and Fire Transformation unfolded, the woman would surely die beyond resurrection!
Yet, within his Water and Fire Transformation domain, the woman remained unscathed, not even the bloodstains were washed away a bit.
Chen Shi’s eye twitched violently, evolving Water and Fire Transformation into Mountain Marsh Transformation, as his palms rose and fell, mountains descended from the sky, pressing upon the woman!
He clapped his hands heavily, and the mountains from both sides closed in, trapping the woman in the center!
Chen Shi withdrew his hands, looking over expectantly, yet the woman remained as before, unscathed, not even slightly!
Chen Shi lunged forward in one swift motion, performed the Double Dragon Pearl Snatching, thrusting into the woman’s eyes, half-gripping a tiger claw, striking her throat, driving his right elbow to her heart, left fist pounding the sternum, lifting his left knee to her abdomen, stepping forward, striking his right knee to her lower abdomen, turning to whip a punch to the back of her head, twisting his waist and hips, moving behind her, clapping his hands with Wind and Thunder over her ears!
Chen Shi withdrew his stance, and the woman remained motionless.
After a moment, Chen Shi knelt on the ground, eyes vacant, utterly devastated.
"This top scorer, what’s the point of taking the exam at all? I can’t even kill a wounded unconscious person. What do I have to contend with the young master..."
He thought of the Wind and Thunder Transformation, Water and Fire Transformation, and Mountain Marsh Transformation that he painstakingly comprehended, yet couldn’t even scratch this woman’s hair, proving their power to indeed be pitifully weak.
Surely, it was his own inadequacy, comprehending wrongly.
Chen Shi thought of his father, full of expectations, going to court every day with utmost toil, even sparring with him each night, feeling deeply guilty.
He then thought of his grandfather in the underworld, waiting for him to become the top scorer, to send some young ghost brides, and felt even more ashamed.
Chen Shi recalled the hopeful looks of Grandma Sha, Uncle Qing Yang, and Uncle Hu, as well as the boasts made before Hu Feifei, Tian Yue’e, and others, and the fierce words spoken before the young master and Zhang You, feeling utterly humiliated.
Even the blow dealt by Chen Tang was nothing compared to today.
Chen Tang had competed with him using a cultivation level higher than his, losing a few times didn’t shake Chen Shi’s Dao Heart, but this woman was merely a scholar, and after being injured by others, Chen Shi used all his might yet couldn’t harm her in the slightest, this was too great a blow!
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