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Chapter 29 : The Height of Youth

The Height of Youth

Even though the security captain and his six security team members were are all strong and well-trained veterans with solid martial arts skills, the number of the fishmen swimming around the ship were just too damn high.

Seven guys aren’t nearly enough to form an impenetrable defense line.

As more and more fishmen leapt onto the ship, the security captain and his men finally couldn't hold them all back. Groups of two or three fishmen broke through their line and charged toward Chu Tianxing, Qin Ling, and the others who were retreating toward the cabin.

"Monsters are getting through! Watch out!"

The security captain still had over a dozen fishmen surrounding him. He had no way to break free to deal with the ones that slipped past. The same went for his other team members.

He couldn't unleash another one of those paralyzing roars like when he first appear either since that move not only drained a ton of his internal energy but hit everyone indiscriminately.

If he roared again, half of those dozen students retreating to the cabin would probably get paralyzed by the blast as well.

So even though the security captain was frantic with worry, all he could do was keep hacking and slashing while shouting warnings.

Not that he needed to warn them.

Chu Tianxing's group had already spotted the approaching fishmen.

Seeing those short, stocky, hideously ugly creatures with their gaping maws full of razor-sharp fangs, red eyes, shrieking as they charged forward, several of the more timid girls in the group immediately screamed in terror.

Even top students like Qin Ling, Gao Yuan, and Chen Musheng couldn’t help but feel their mouths go dry and their scalps tingle with fear.

Only Chu Tianxing remained completely calm and composed, casually flicking his wrist to throw his flying needles.

But just as he was about to release them, he had to pull his hand back.

Because an especially tall and sturdy figure suddenly burst out from the side, positioning himself in front of Chu Tianxing and the others like a guardian facing down the aggressively charging fishmen head-on.

If Chu Tianxing threw his needles now, they'd hit that sturdy figure right in the back.

The figure, with his back to Chu Tianxing's group, is holding a wrist-thick octagonal steel rod upside-down in one hand.

Facing the fishmen, he bellowed, "Eastern Tyrant Xiao Hu is here! You monsters better not get cocky!"

His voice cracked a bit and broke on some of the words, but he still managed to shout with an imposing air.

But...

Chu Tianxing blinked, staring at Xiao Hu's back. What's the deal with "Eastern Tyrant"?

While he was still puzzling over this, Xiao Hu had already hefted that steel rod and charged toward the fishmen. "Everyone, get going! I'll cover the rear!"

BOOM!

Wind howled as the steel rod swung in a devastating horizontal sweep.

Whether it was the fishmen' weapons, their scale armor-thick hides, their powerful muscles, or their tough bones, everything crumbled like rotten wood under Xiao Hu's heavy steel rod.

For a moment, the air was filled with the unending sounds of death wails and the tearing of flesh and bone. With just three sweeps of his staff, Xiao Hu had completely cleared away the several monsters that had charged them.

Watching this display, Chu Tianxing couldn't help but think, "A general who wields a club or hammer is not to be met with force. The ancients truly did not lie!"

Normally, he'd be a little pissed if someone stole his hero moment like that.

But since it was Xiao Hu...

Well, forget it then.

Standing six-foot-six with bulging muscles and monstrous strength like some ancient legendary warrior, Xiao Hu definitely deserved the praise.

Just as Chu Tianxing was silently admiring him, Xiao Hu, who had just easily dispatched several fishmen and looked absolutely intimidating, suddenly planted his steel rod on the deck with a thunk to bent over and threw up.

Yeah, this was his first time killing anything.

What's more, because the killing power of the steel staff was too strong, the resulting impact was a little too graphic. The flying flesh and brain matter, and the pungent, fishy stench that rushed into his nostrils made the man who was as fierce as the ancient Dian Wei just moments before vomit on the spot.

Right in the middle of his retching session, more fishmen broke through the defense line.

"Uh, wait a second!"

Xiao Hu was puking so hard that he could barely stand. He panicked and actually tried to tell the fishmen to "wait."

But the fishmen sure as hell weren't going to wait for him to finish throwing up; they kept shrieking and charging at him.

Xiao Hu had no choice but to lift his steel rod again, take a deep breath, and prepare for another round.

But when he inhaled, he sucked more of that monster blood and gore coating his face right up his nose. The stench hit him again and he immediately started puking once more...

Fortunately, Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng had been inspired by Xiao Hu's brave fighting. They both shouted battle cries and charged past Chu Tianxing and quickly took down the fishmen heading for the still-retching Xiao Hu.

In fact, in terms of pure martial arts cultivation, Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng were stronger than the six security guards.

After all, those six were just ordinary military veterans.

Sure, they were much older than Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng and had developed internal energy during their army days, but their cultivation still couldn't match the martial arts prodigies from City No. 1 High School who had developed internal energy starting back from middle school and were now close to opening all Twelve Principal Meridians.

No. 1 High School was the best high school in Canghe City. Whether in academics or martial arts, its students were the cream of the crop.

And Chu Tianxing's class had the highest concentration of these top students in the entire grade.

Qin Ling's martial arts cultivation was second to none in the whole school, with Xiao Hu ranking second.

Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng, who ranked just below those two in their class, could still make the top ten in the entire school.

So as long as they overcame their initial panic, they should be able to easily dispatch those monsters even if they could only muster up to fifty percent of their usual ability. The creature had tough bodies and powerful muscles, but they had no internal energy and didn't seem too bright.

Of course, this only applied when there weren't too many of them.

Once the fishmen' numbers increased, these suicidal creatures became much harder to deal with. Even the security captain, who had reached the pinnacle of the Inner Force Realm and had rich combat experience, was tied up by the continuous waves of fishmen boarding the ship and couldn't spare a moment to help the students. If Gao Yuan and the other high schoolers got surrounded by a horde of fishmen, their fancy skills wouldn't mean squat.

So after Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng finished off those few fishmen, Chu Tianxing immediately said in a calm voice.

"Now's our chance—get back to the cabin, fast!"

Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng quickly dragged the weak-kneed, still-puking Xiao Hu back with them. Under the command of the ever-calm Chu Tianxing, they led the group in a rapid retreat toward the cabin.

This time, Qin Ling was covering the rear.

When several more fishmen came charging after them, Qin Ling kept her expression stern and said nothing, unleashing a barrage of kicks with her long, seemingly delicate legs. Those slender limbs packed explosive power, sending the pursuing fishmen flying with just a few strikes.

Xiao Hu looked back and complained.

"How can we let Qin Ling cover the rear? I should—hurk!"

He couldn't even finish the sentence before throwing up again.

Chu Tianxing's expression didn't change.

"Don't cause trouble. Just a few fishmen, my Ling'er can handle them. She's the Little Joker of No. 1 High, even stronger than you."

Xiao Hu protested indignantly:

"She's obviously the Big Joker, I'm the Little Joker... But hey, why is everyone listening to your commands?"

Just then, a new monster appeared. This one is much larger and more muscular than the others. The scales on its body were tinted in blue and gleamed with a metallic luster. It had slipped past the guards and was now making a silent, deadly run at their flank.

The weapon in its hands was a small four-pronged iron anchor that looked like it weighed over a hundred pounds.

Clearly, this was an "Elite Monster."

Qin Ling was at the rear of the group, fighting off five fishmen who had broken through the line, while Gao Yuan and Chen Musheng were fighting barehanded. If they tried to take on this new monster head-on, someone could easily get seriously hurt.

Seeing this, Xiao Hu forgot about his poor condition and tried to muster his remaining strength to face the threat.

But just as he started to lift his steel rod, he felt it go light in his hands and the octagonal steel rod had somehow vanished.

He looked around in confusion and was stunned by what he saw.

The steel rod was now in Chu Tianxing's hands.

Chu Tianxing, who had always been physically weak and supposedly not strong enough to truss a chicken, was now gripping the tail end of that steel rod with one hand and swinging it like a sledgehammer.

His form made it look like he was holding a hollow plastic tube instead of a hundred-plus-pound steel rod.

Chu Tianxing had taken two Lesser Marrow Cleansing Pills, consumed the Precious Serpent Blood Spirit Pill, swallowed seven Body-Strengthening Pills specially supplied to Inner Force Realm elites of the Eastern Depot, practiced the Muscle-Transforming & Bone-Tempering Chapter day and night, and cultivated the Xiantian Art that was best at stimulating the body's potential.

Under the combined effects of marrow cleansing, muscle and bone tempering, body strengthening, and potential stimulation, not only had his height increased considerably in just a few short days, but the strength of his physique was no longer what it once was.

Even though his internal energy cultivation had only opened four meridians, and his height didn't match Xiao Hu's, nor were his muscles as bulky and developed, his pure physical strength now rivaled that of the naturally monstrous powerhouse that is Xiao Hu.

BOOM!

With a sharp whistling sound cutting through the air, the octagonal steel rod came down with a force that cleaved Mount Hua, carrying the majestic aura of vanquishing demons as it chopped down toward the elite monster’s head.

Demon-Subduing Staff Technique!

The fish monster shrieked and swung its four-pronged anchor upward to meet the attack head-on.

Judging by the way it swung the iron anchor up with a single hand, its raw muscle and bone strength was clearly no less than Xiao Hu's or Chu Tianxing's.

In a straight power clash, with two "heavy weapons" colliding at full force, neither side would come out unscathed. Both would probably get stunned by the recoil.

But Chu Tianxing's seemingly unstoppable downward strike impossibly shifted just an inch to the side at the last moment, barely grazing past the anchor as it smashed down.

As the elite monster's upward swing missed and the recoil disrupted its stance, causing it to freeze momentarily, the steel rod crashed into the fish monster's left shoulder, completely pulverizing its entire shoulder and half its chest.

In the same moment he killed the elite fish monster with one strike, Chu Tianxing also stepped sideways behind Xiao Hu, using his tall body as a shield to block the splashing monster blood and gore...

And so, poor Xiao Hu got another face full of monster guts.