When system cheat becomes rampant!

Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Rapid Flame

"This flame is not an attribute enhanced by the system, but one that I have ignited through burning my Spiritual Power. I've named it 'Rapid Flame.' Distribute your Spiritual Power over your fist, and as long as the speed of your punch is fast enough, the air will friction violently with the Spiritual Power and directly ignite it."

"This kind of attack is quite overbearing but not easy to master. Firstly, you need to control your Spiritual Power well, not allowing it to diffuse too much or too little. Otherwise, the air will carry away your Spiritual Power, and no combustion will occur."

"After you've managed to ignite your Spiritual Power, you must learn to control the flames and compress the flames within a certain area. If you can't compress the flames, then their effect will merely be for show, burning for a bit and then disappearing, completely meaningless."

"To make the flames lethal, you must use your own Spiritual Power to lead the burning flames, then compress them on your fist, creating a high-temperature point near your fist. When you hit your opponent, instantly detonate the flames. The high temperature will generate a fierce tearing force, causing fatal damage to your opponent!"

Lu Hong detailed the key points of the Rapid Flame Technique to Xiang Beifei and demonstrated it a few times as well.

Every time Lu Hong threw a punch, the air around seemed to twist.

"At first, you'll be unfamiliar with controlling Spiritual Power and will need to swing your fist over a certain distance to ignite the Spiritual Power. Once you've mastered the use of Spiritual Power, you won't even need to swing your fist, just a slight movement will ignite your Spiritual Power, like this—"

Lu Hong extended his index finger and gently pressed down. The movement was minuscule, but flames danced at the tip of his finger and burst forth with a tremendously powerful jet of flame, piercing through the sandbag in front of him.

Releasing Spiritual Power requires only one finger, with the force generated comparable to a gun!

"Don't think that it just looks like my finger bent a bit. In reality, my finger is vibrating at extreme speeds, something you are probably unable to see with your current realm," Lu Hong explained.

"So that's how it is."

Xiang Beifei covered his fist with his own Spiritual Power and began to attempt to ignite it.

The process was indeed not so easy to grasp, mainly because his punching speed wasn't fast enough to ignite the Spiritual Power.

But Xiang Beifei didn't lose heart; he started to swing his fists at the sandbag.

With every punch, he adjusted the speed of his punch, striving to deliver sufficient explosive force.

Lu Hong stood by patiently, continuously helping Xiang Beifei correct his punching posture.

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Two hours had passed, and Xiang Beifei was still tirelessly practicing his punches. His muscles ached, but fortunately, Lu Hong used his own system to exchange for a muscle soreness recovery ointment to help Xiang Beifei recover from the muscle damage.

"Dad, you're really generous with him. That stuff must have cost you quite a few system points, right?" Lu Zhiwei muttered.

Lu Hong, looking at Xiang Beifei not far away, said, "It doesn't matter how much it consumes. If it weren't for Beifei yesterday, I probably would have lost my life."

Lu Zhiwei was taken aback, "What? Why haven't you told me about this? What exactly happened yesterday? How did Beifei save you?"

Lu Hong shook his head slightly, "You don't need to ask about that. Just remember, Beifei is not an ordinary person. In the future, don't always criticize his N-rank system. Even if he is an N-rank talent, in my view, his future achievements will definitely not be inferior to an S-rank—"

Or perhaps, he is inherently an SR-rank talent!

"Dad, do you really think so highly of him?"

Lu Zhiwei was quite astonished at her father's evaluation of Xiang Beifei. She glanced over at Xiang Beifei, who was focused on practicing his punches, and found it incredible.

Because Lu Hong had never given such a high appraisal to any System Awakener with an N-rank system before.

Lu Hong nodded slightly, "He has that potential in him, I believe in him. By the way, in the future, if he needs help, give him a hand. Don't go looking for trouble with him without a good reason."

"I haven't been troubling him."

Lu Zhiwei pursed her lips, but the look in her eyes at Xiang Beifei turned even more puzzled. Her eyes rolled around, seemingly deep in thought.

"It's best not to trouble him; otherwise, the trouble might come hunting you."

Lu Hong shook his head slightly, knowing his daughter's temperament well.

Having awakened an S-level talent and been accepted into Liangzhou University, she was extremely proud and competitive. If she knew someone was that outstanding, she'd definitely be discontent.

The reason Lu Hong thought highly of Xiang Beifei was because of what happened at the mall yesterday.

After returning home yesterday, he had carefully reviewed the events, growing increasingly horrified the more he thought about them.

Chen Gang had shown him no mercy, striking with extreme speed, and Lu had nearly been seriously injured due to his carelessness. Yet, the patch of mud had arrived just in time, and even he hadn't noticed when it had covered him.

If that mud had not been there to protect him, but to kill him instead, he wouldn't have stood a chance of blocking it!

Most importantly, Chen Gang's expression before he died was clearly one of shock, as if something had happened that he hadn't anticipated.

His "Investigation System" could analyze various details; Lu Hong speculated that Chen Gang's final strike had been prepared with the certainty that it would kill him.

But that strike had been as if the rug had been pulled out from under it, losing the power it should have had, otherwise Chen Gang wouldn't have looked so surprised before his death.

This made him wonder whether Xiang Beifei really was just a kid who had recently awakened his system.

After all, just a few days ago, when Xiang Beifei was attacked by a demon dog, he emerged unscathed!

This was simply not something a child who had just awakened his system could have managed.

However, this morning Xiang Beifei had called, saying he wanted to learn combat skills from him, which made Lu think he might be overthinking things.

He had also seen for himself just now, Xiang Beifei was indeed only at the early stages of Qi-Controlling.

Lu Hong's current understanding was that Xiang Beifei was definitely not as simple as an N-level system; perhaps like his father, Xiang Tianxing, he owned an SR system but chose not to reveal it.

If it was an SR system, then everything would make sense.

To know how to deal with demon dogs, to discern Lai Wuying, whom even the S-level prophet Xue Mo hadn't identified, to deduce that Lai Wuying was in fact Chen Gang, let alone just now when he casually glimpsed and identified Wan Qiu's accomplice.

It wasn't unusual for an SR Awakener to do these things.

But what piqued his curiosity was, if Beifei had an SR system, supposedly endowed with powerful cultivation methods, why would he come to him to learn?

"Could it be that he awakened a literary Dao system but wanted to follow the martial path like his father?" Lu Hong pondered to himself.

Xiang Tianxing was a pioneer; could it be that the kid intended to emulate his father and grow up to be a pioneer too, but sadly awakened a literary Dao system, which meant his system couldn't provide him with the means to cultivate, so that's why he had come to him?

Yes, that was the only explanation!

Having figured this out, Lu Hong felt as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.

"Regardless, since you've chosen to trust me, I can't let you down," Lu Hong thought to himself.

He did not know Xiang Tianxing well; Tianxing was a pioneer who often dealt with matters even more dangerous than Lu Hong's cases. Tianxing had once done him a great favor, and they got along well, so whenever Tianxing came back, they would sometimes get together with their kids.

He had a great respect for pioneers like Xiang Tianxing.

Though Tianxing was now gone due to an accident, if Tianxing's son wanted to pursue the martial path, Lu felt it was his duty to help.