25 Two Vs One(2)

-Two Vs. one(2)-

After his face being grabbed, the dark-cloaked man suddenly felt being locked down by an extremely powerful force. That force was so powerful that even if he uses all his cultivation base, he still couldn't budge a single muscle on his body. Not long after he was locked down like that, the man suddenly felt his back; being intimate with the solid ground below. That didn't hurt him a little bit, but it was another matter when the follow-up punches rained on his face.

After slamming into the ground, Jie knew that wouldn't hurt this cloaked man, so he used his fists to make up for the loss of damage. Locking the man to the place with his telekinesis, he punched him on the face. Earlier, it was said that Jie only had the physical strength of an average teenager. Later when he 'cultivated' after coming to this world, his power had increased to the level of a 9th stage Body Tempering layer cultivator. Although he could puncture holes in concrete with that amount of strength, it wouldn't even be like a mosquito bite for this cloaked man.

From the way, psions move around his body and the control had over them, and of course, the way the psions interacting with the surrounding, distorting it slightly, Jie knew this man's strength was higher than those old men from yesterday. But, he still lacked something that didn't make him stand at the equal footing with the beautiful sect master. He didn't know what it was that this man lacked, but it made him stand in the middle of the bridge between the oldmen's level and the sect master's level.

'If I go by cultivation stages, the old men from yesterday are all middle stage Core formation realm cultivators. The Sect master was Nascent soul cultivator, so that leaves a whole realm between. Peak stage Core formation realm!' Jie recalled the cultivation stages and deduced the possible realm of the old man.

A 9th stage body tempering realm cultivator could never hurt a late stage Core formation realm cultivator even if the later let him, but Jie wasn't a cultivator in the first place. Sure he tried it once, but that was only because he was a little curious about it. Coating his fists in pure psionic power, he simulated the power of a Peak Stage Core formation realm cultivator.

In this world, the striking strength was measured in jins or kilograms. Generally, a 1st Stage body tempering layer cultivator would have 10 Jins of power, with each higher stage the power would increase by 5 jins. By contrast, when one steps into Soul Tempering realm, although the physical strength wouldn't improve; due to the ability to use qi to strengthen one's body, a normal could strength his body and exert anywhere between 90jin to 180 jins. That the upper limit of a Soul Tempering realm cultivator.

But, once a person breaks through to Core formation realm, his/her strength was no longer counted in simple kilograms. From then one, their power was calculated in HP or horsepower. In this world, they had another term for that. It's called 'Horse Pulling Force' which was explained as the strength required to pull a horse from behind.

So anyway, a Core formation realm expert's striking force would be anywhere between 0.5HP(horsepower, Jie decided to stick with HP as calling it Horse pulling power was mouthful) to 20 HP, depends upon the realm. With the usage of secret medicines and treasures or Martial skills, they could double or triple that striking force. If a body could exert that much amount of striking energy, then it must have strengthened enough to handle that much amount of power's recoil per second.

How could a mere 9th stage Body Tempering realm brat whose power output was still counting in Jins, could hurt a peak stage Core formation realm cultivator whose power output was 90HP? So, Jie had to use his psions to brach the gap and strike with force greater than the man's defensive ability, which was the force of 92 HP.

In once second Jie managed to land more than 5 punches. Five times of 92 is 460. That means, the man endured 460 Hp of power every second or converting it to electrical units, it would be like, the man suffered 0.3 megawatts per second. When that much amount of electrical current surge through body per second, even he(Jie) would feel uncomfortable, not to mention this person.

The man's face was already bloody and mangled, with blood and teeth splattered everywhere and he was on the verge of losing consciousness. Just before Jie stroke him once again, he saw a black colored lotus petal coming at him in a speed faster than the speed of sound. Upon closer inspection, he noticed the petal was enshrouded with coils of violent antimatters and unstable psions. If that petal touches any matter of this world, it will cause a violent explosion with enough force to wipe out a small building in an instant.

'This must be the so-called treasure of this world!' Jie marveled it for a second before, wrapping it with his psions and throwing it back towards the lady.

"What!?" the lady shouted with her eyes wide as dinner plates and mouth hung like someone had dislodged her jaw. She had used a secret treasure that she was nourishing with her qi and blood for a year. Unexpectedly, it was easily caught and thrown back to her like a ball?

"How!!" she screamed loudly while doing her hardest to dodge it, but how can something that travels faster than the speed of sound be evaded by her? Before she even took her first step, the petal arrived in front of her face. Using last minute survival tactics, she brought a small jade locket and broke it with her force. At the same time a golden colored transparent film formed around her.

BOOM!!!

When the leaf touched the barrier, the antimatters responded and exploded violently. With the explosion of antimatter, the berserk psions enhanced the exploding power. As a result, a simple blast became powerful enough to wipe out a small building.

"Lady Ru Xue!! You bastard what have you done!? Do you know who she is? Her background is enormous! Even if you are strong, you can't hope to match them in this lifetime! You will die! You will die a miserable death!! Not only that, all your family members would die with you! Even this kingdom is finished!!" seeing the explosion, the nearly unconscious man suddenly started to rave as if he had taken some steroids, spouting some bullshit nonsense.

"Calm down! She isn't dead. Just a little injured that's all." Jie getting irritated by the man called Qianjin's shouts snapped at him and glared in anger. That broken and distorted voice was very irritating and nerve-wracking to hear, it would make one's skin crawl in disgust. Waving his arms, Jie cleared the debris and smoke, to reveal the Lady Ru Xue in pretty bad shape. Her clothes were torn here and there, with as many as thousand scratches and bruises all over her body. Her hair was undone, making her look like a witch. Her white face was dirty with mud.

Right now, she was kneeling on the ground, taking deep breaths to stabilize her breathing. Both her blood and qi were in disarray from that explosion. That single black petal would kill even a Nascent soul expert if used in ambush, the fact that she was still alive after that explosion was a testament to her accumulations of treasures and other secret means.

Pointing his index finger at her, he said, "See!"

Seeing the lady was totally fine though with some wounds, the man took a breath of relief and then looked Jie with a look of fear and apprehension. Suppressing a mouthful of blood, he stammered "Who-W-who are you?"

"Me! I am just your friendly neighborhood ESPer!" with a bright smile, Jie introduced himself.