Ace of the Dragon Division

Chapter 393: The Essence of Shadow Fist

Killing intent burst out of Satan’s cold eyes. “Second-generation Dragon King? I think you are the Second-generation Dog King!”

Then he moved, leaving behind a black after-image, dashing forward, and appearing in front of Xu Cheng.

“Move away!” Xu Cheng shouted in a deep voice, and the Dragon Division members behind him immediately moved away. Bei Shan and the other two Sky Kings all charged to the remaining four devils, and both sides began engaging in a fierce battle.

From the monitoring screen, those substitute team members and other research scientists all couldn’t capture the attacks of the two bosses at all with their naked eyes. From the screen, it was very difficult for them to see exactly what was happening between Xu Cheng and Satan.

Both of them were using Shadow Fist, and after the 58th round, Xu Cheng fell behind by a split second and was kicked in the stomach by Satan. Then, he flew right into the revolving glass door of the building, shattering the door!

This scene resembled a striker suddenly kicking the ball into a net from super far away, and Luo Yi and Li Wei and the others were all shocked.

It turned out that a battle between masters could be this thrilling!

Luo Yi instinctively began searching for Xu Cheng in the crowd, and when he noticed Xu Cheng wasn’t here, he immediately pulled on the corner of Li Wei’s clothes and said, “Did you see Big Brother Cheng?”

Li Wei shook his head. “I haven’t seen him for a while now! When everyone gathered, he was already gone, and now I’m just scared Big Brother Cheng already went out there to fight them already…”

Luo Yi immediately stood up and said, “Crap, we gotta go and save him!”
Li Wei immediately nodded. Just as the two of them stood up, the advisory elder immediately scolded the two of them, “What are you two doing, sit back down!”

Luo Yi clenched his teeth and said, “We need to go and save a friend!”

Li Wei also nodded. “He’s very important to the two of us! Even if we have to die, we will die together!”

“Xu Cheng, right? I know about you three, but you guys can rest assured right now, he’s very safe and you two don’t need to go out. If you go out right now, you will only expose the entrance of the underground base and place all of the data and personnel here at risk!”

Luo Yi and Li Wei were finally dragged back down to their seats by the other senior brothers. Those two said with red eyes, “We already abandoned him once, this time, the three swordsmen must fight together!”

The senior brothers didn’t have the heart to tell them that Xu Cheng was the Dragon King. Before the substitute members were officially admitted into the official 52-card ranking, they weren’t allowed to know who the Dragon King was. It was a very serious topic, and the moment the info on the Dragon King gets leaked, it will be detrimental to the Dragon Division.

From inside the heaps of shattered glass, Xu Cheng blasted out with his knee ready to strike. After Satan captured his speed, he slapped down on Xu Cheng’s knee and neutralized most of Xu Cheng’s power. But, Satan still underestimated Xu Cheng’s explosive strength.

It was three full tons of force, the explosive power was no less than getting hit by a truck. No matter how powerful Satan was, he also lost balance after getting hit by Xu Cheng and flew out.

Xu Cheng seized the opportunity and propelled himself up into the air as well, trying to deliver another kick. After Satan regained his balance in the air, the two were both in the air briefly for a few seconds and already exchanged over 20 attacks!

When both of them landed, Xu Cheng punched forward at Satan’s face, and Satan quickly dodged to the side, grabbed his wrist, and borrowed the momentum to elbow him in the chest.

After a deep groan, liquid spewed out from Xu Cheng’s mouth. Satan then struck forward with two palms and landed them on Xu Cheng’s abdomen area. Xu Cheng was sent flying again, and this time he flew out onto the field and hit a basketball net.

Satan slowly walked towards and said in disdain, “I learned from the same master as Zhang Chenfeng. Although I don’t know how you learned Shadow Fist, I just want to say, you didn’t learn the essence at all. Using Shadow Fist against me? Where did you get the confidence from? Just take your mask off, you are embarrassing it!”

Xu Cheng suddenly pulled up the basketball net’s pole and swung it over, Satan tried to dodge to the side but was still caught in the slap. Like a tennis ball, he flew very far away and landed on the grass.

Xu Cheng panted as he ran after him and replied, “Without Shadow Fist, I can show you some other tricks of mine!”

Then, from his gloves came out two sharp blades. Like an assassin, he dashed right in front of Satan, but the latter immediately swung his cloak forward, interfering with Xu Cheng’s vision. When Xu Cheng cut through the black cloak with his blades, he already lost track of Satan.

He was able to immediately lock onto a palm strike coming from his back, but it was already too late when he tried to dodge. After getting hit in the back, Xu Cheng flew forward and slid against the grass for over 30 meters, bringing up the grass and dirt with him.

Satan sneered. “Do you want to know what’s the realm of the true Shadow Fist? Back then, the biggest difference between us was that he understood the essence of Shadow Fist, and the essence is, like-real-like-fake!”

Xu Cheng immediately got back up and tightened his mask, not letting it fall down.

Seeing this gesture, Satan sneered. “You are trying so hard to keep it on, but you don’t deserve it at all! Its birth is in fact very closely-related to Shadow Fist, only when one’s Shadow Fist technique has entered the realm of real and fake coexisting would they deserve the title of being the Joker! But you, you are just garbage, your understanding of Shadow Fist is even worse than mine back then! I wasn’t qualified to be the Dragon King back then, and you are even more so!”

“What’s real and what’s fake? You can trick my eyes but not my heart!” Xu Cheng said as he tore off a corner of his cloak and covered his eyes. “Everyone, including you, can’t trick their heart! You have always been deceiving yourself. In fact, you have a stronger inferiority complex than anyone and you are scared of being denied by people! Your junior sister didn’t love you, and the Dragon Division kicked you out; all of this was out of your control, and that’s why you made yourself to be so complicated when in fact, you are very simple.”

When he blindfolded his eyes, the whole world became quiet. It was pitch black, but it was as if there was also light.

It felt almost like back when he was at the 8th Military Region, shooting targets with a blindfold on but with full ultrasound coverage activated.

Why did Xu Cheng cover his eyes? It was because he realized from what Satan said that all he did was create illusions and mix real attacks within. If you were to use your eyes to fight, you would only be tricked by the illusions. If that was the case, you might as well close your eyes and forget about the illusions. Then, you will realize that Satan, in fact, was just there and didn’t do anything. He just tricked the eyes of the world, and that was all!
This was the same principle Zhang Chenfeng used to test Xu Cheng. After showing him Shadow Fist, he would always ask, “How much did you remember?”

Why did Xu Cheng say at last, “I forgot them all.”

It was because, at that time, the old man already told Xu Cheng the essence of Shadow Fist. In fact, the old man didn’t practice any fist techniques, he just created a visual fantasy!