80: Chapter 80 Cognitive Collapse: You call this physical combat?

“It can't even cook a steak.”

These words were like a heavy blow, violently smashing into the hearts of a hundred thousand people.

After a brief, dead silence,

the entire giant holographic simulation Arena was like an active volcano that had been completely detonated, suddenly boiling over!

“Uproar—!!!”

At this moment, a hundred thousand spectators actually stood up from their seats in unison, completely uncontrolled by their brains!

No one could remain seated.

On the stands, in the VIP boxes, and on the rostrum, everyone craned their necks in unison, staring at the half-naked figure on the big screen, who was covered in a mysterious black luster.

Shock.

An unprecedented, cognition-shattering extreme horror!

“He survived... He actually walked out of a three-thousand-degree sea of fire?!”

“No burns, no injuries, not even a single hair is missing! How the fuck did he do that!”

“What is that black layer? Is it armor? Or some kind of lost high-grade Spiritual Artifact?”

Doubt and exclamations interwoven into a noisy wave of sound, almost lifting the roof off the Arena.

On the rostrum,

the admissions directors of various martial arts universities and the leaders of major Families had all lost their usual composure and profundity at this moment.

Lin Qinghan's father, Patriarch Lin Zhen of the Lin Family, gripped the alloy railing in front of him tightly. His eyes widened as he stared closely at Su Chen on the screen, crying out in shock, “What kind of defensive Spiritual Technique is that black armor? No Protective Aura was released, and there isn't a single trace of spiritual energy fluctuation! How could he survive such extreme temperatures? This completely violates the common sense of the Laws of spiritual energy!”

Not only Patriarch Lin Zhen, but several Great Grandmaster-level experts beside him were also frowning deeply, completely baffled.

“There is indeed no spiritual energy. And that's not physical equipment either.”

A white-haired admissions director swallowed hard. “Could it be some extremely rare Innate mutated Physique that doesn't require spiritual energy to activate? But no matter how much it mutates, this is the S-rank Radiant Gold Flame! With the fire poison entering the body, even steel should have melted!”

“What the hell... What kind of freak is this kid?”

Amidst the chaotic speculation,

Major General Lei Wuji of the Zhenyuan Army sat in the very center of the rostrum.

He did not cry out like the others. His eyes, which had experienced the flames of war and were like those of a falcon, were wide open, and bloodshot veins even appeared on his eyeballs.

His breathing became extremely heavy, and his chest heaved violently. His large, fan-like hands were trembling slightly from extreme excitement.

“You bunch of fools who only know how to study theory...”

Major General Lei Wuji gritted his teeth and growled in a low voice.

He suddenly turned around and snatched the microphone from the hands of the commentator, who was already dumbfounded.

“Shut up, all of you!!!”

Lei Wuji used a trace of the vitality power of the Grandmaster realm, and his roar was like a clap of thunder, exploding over the heads of a hundred thousand people through the Arena's hundreds of super loudspeakers!

This roar drowned out all the noise.

The hundred-thousand-person Arena instantly fell silent. Everyone turned their heads to look at the rostrum, at this military heavyweight who was usually serious and unsmiling.

Lei Wuji held the microphone and strode to the very edge of the rostrum.

He pointed at the pitch-black, demon-god-like youth on the big screen.

“Open your eyes and look closely! That's not some bullshit Spiritual Technique!”

Lei Wuji's voice cracked slightly due to extreme fanaticism, and he was almost roaring at the hundred thousand people in the audience: “That is the pure Physical Body!”

“What?!”

“Physical Body?!”

The entire venue once again erupted into unbelievable gasps of cold air.

Patriarch Lin Zhen was also astonished: “General Lei, you mean...”

“I mean, he has polished his Physical Body to an abnormal level that you self-proclaimed Geniuses cannot comprehend at all!”

Lei Wuji ignored Patriarch Lin Zhen completely. Holding the microphone, he hoarsely deconstructed the miracle before him.

“He doesn't have any spiritual energy shield!”

“He used his own flesh and blood to forcefully withstand the three-thousand-degree heat and fire poison! And he is completely unharmed!”

“Do you see that black layer of substance on him? That is not equipment, much less spiritual energy! That is the ultimate manifestation of him forcibly compressing the vitality in his body and an extremely domineering spiritual will to the absolute limit, finally materializing it on his body's surface!”

The more Lei Wuji spoke, the more excited he became. He felt as if he were witnessing the birth of a new era of martial arts history.

“Ignoring elemental Laws!”

“Ignoring high-temperature fire poison!”

“What a terrifying and domineering peerless Taijutsu! This kid has walked a divine path of Body Refining that no one in the Great Xia has successfully traversed for hundreds of years!”

Boom!

Lei Wuji's words were like throwing a bomb into a boiling pan of oil.

A hundred thousand people in the venue were dead silent.

No one dared to refute the judgment of a Grandmaster-realm general.

Not using spiritual energy, but purely relying on the Physical Body to resist the sea of fire? Even compressing his will into a physical black armor?

This completely overturned the high-martial education theory of the Great Xia for hundreds of years! In everyone's common sense, Taijutsu was only the foundation of martial arts. At high levels, one had to rely on the Laws of spiritual energy to undergo a qualitative change.

But today, this youth, who was judged to be F-rank, used his arms to forcefully smash this so-called 'truth' to pieces.

In the VIP seats,

Liu Ruyan slumped in her chair. Looking at the big screen and listening to Lei Wuji's evaluation, her face looked worse than a corpse.

“Pure Physical Body... Taijutsu that transcends common sense...”

She muttered to herself, a trace of deep fear and regret flashing in her eyes. She finally understood what a terrifying monster she had actually given up on.

And at this moment,

on Holographic Ring No. 2,

Lei Wuji's earth-shaking commentary also clearly entered Zhao Kuang's ears.

Zhao Kuang slumped on the ground.

He looked at Su Chen in front of him, who was covered in a black luster and completely unharmed.

Listening to the military heavyweight's fanatical, definitive commentary,

“Taijutsu... pure Physical Body...”

Zhao Kuang murmured in a low voice, his eyes gradually covered by a layer of crimson blood.

“Impossible... This is impossible!!!”

Zhao Kuang suddenly grabbed his head and let out a hysterical, shrill scream.

His Dao Heart, his pride, and the absolute self-confidence he had built over eighteen years were completely shattered by this cruel truth at this moment.

He did not accept it!

He could not accept it!

He was a noble S-rank elemental Genius! The successor trained with all the resources of the Zhao Financial Group! He possessed the world-destroying Radiant Gold Flame!

How could he be crushed by a 'Taijutsu Martial Artist' who didn't even have spiritual energy and only trained muscles?!

What was this?

Was his sky-covering sea of fire from just now, which was like a punishment from the gods, really just a joke used to 'cook a steak' in this monster's eyes?!

“I'll kill you! I must kill you!!!”

Zhao Kuang had completely gone mad.

His sanity was completely burned away in humiliation and despair.

He suddenly stood up from the ground.

“Beep—! Warning! System overloaded by 200%! The unit is about to collapse!”

An extremely ear-piercing red alarm sounded from inside the Brilliant Gold Battle Armor.

But Zhao Kuang could no longer hear it at all.

Tears of blood flowed from his eyes as he frantically squeezed out the last trace of potential in his body.

“Boom!”

The metal on the surface of the battle armor finally could not withstand this terrifying energy and began to crack in large areas. Beams of dazzling blood-colored flames sprayed out from the cracks.

This was not the Radiant Gold Flame; this was Zhao Kuang burning his last Origin essence blood!

“Die for me!!!”

Zhao Kuang let out a desperate roar like a dying beast.

He did not release any more fireballs.

He turned his entire self, along with the battle armor that was about to be scrapped, into a dark-gold meteor burning with blood-colored flames.

His speed broke the sound barrier.

With a shrill shriek that tore through the air,

Zhao Kuang's punch, which gathered all his strength and all his life, smashed fiercely toward Su Chen's face with a determination to die.

This was his desperate, all-burning strike!

Facing this world-destroying, crazy counterattack,

Su Chen still stood quietly in place.

He looked at the blood-colored meteor getting closer and closer to him.

Finally,

he slowly pulled out his hands, which had been in his pants pockets all along.