Infinite Fighting

Chapter 63: Chapter 56: In the Sea

Officials searched the shipwreck site with mechanical equipment.

They found many severed limbs and pieces of flesh, much of which had already been eaten by fish.

Most were damaged beyond recognition, and they couldn’t determine if Zhang Ji was among them.

Soon after, the authorities announced that pirates were responsible for the incident. Then, they broadcast a report on the news about the Five Elements Sect.

"At dawn on December 18th, Member of Parliament Xiao Ning was attacked by terrorists... According to the investigation, the assailant was Li Long, a True Disciple of the Five Elements Sect... An arrest warrant has been issued for the upper echelons of the Five Elements Sect... The wanted list includes: Sect Leader Yan Ruifeng, Tiger Hall Elder Zheng Chengze, Crane Hall Elder Liu Shan, Leopard Hall Elder Wang Quan, Snake Hall Elder Chen Anhe, True Disciple Li Long, True Disciple Zhou Hao, True Disciple Gu Shuangshuang, True Disciple Shen Han, and True Disciple Zhang Ji..."

Not a single member of the Five Elements Sect’s leadership was spared; they were all put on the wanted list. Even those who were already dead were included, with a considerably high bounty placed on their heads.

The authorities were releasing misinformation, hoping that Chen Anhe and the others who were overseas would mistakenly believe that Li Long and the rest were still alive, merely wanted.

If Chen Anhe and her group saw the news and decided to return to provide support, they would walk right into the authorities’ trap.

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On the boundless sea.

A turbulent wave crested, lifting a male body covered in scorch marks and missing its right leg. In its right hand, it tightly gripped a small, golden cup inlaid with a blue gem.

No, to call it a body was not entirely accurate.

For his chest still seemed to be rising and falling, ever so slowly.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes.

His eyes held a mixture of confusion, doubt, indignation, and anger...

Zhang Ji’s body drifted with the waves as fragmented memories surfaced in his mind.

He remembered the final moment when Liu Shan and Wang Quan pushed him into the sea, yet he still suffered considerable injuries.

Then he had squeezed out the last of his Spiritual Power to manipulate the water currents, pushing himself some distance away.

After that, he had lost consciousness completely.

Now, he had no idea where he was.

He could only feel excruciating pain all over his body, especially in his right leg.

’Something’s wrong...’

"Where’s my right leg?"

Zhang Ji could no longer feel its presence.

He struggled to reach down and touch it. It was gone, severed cleanly about five inches above the knee.

Zhang Ji was a little dazed. He seemed to recall being struck by a huge piece of metal sent flying by the shockwave, which had sliced it off.

SPLASH!

A wave washed over Zhang Ji’s face, jolting him back to his senses.

’A lost leg isn’t so bad. In this world, there are many ways to fix it.’

’I could get a prosthetic limb, use biotechnology to regrow it, or even recover with certain special martial arts techniques. There’s also Alchemy Technology, Magic, high-level elixirs, treasures from the Ruins Realm...’

Zhang Ji composed himself, shaking off his daze.

’The priority right now is to find a way to survive.’

Zhang Ji took stock of his condition.

Pain wracked his entire body. The slightest exertion sent waves of agony through him from the outside in. It felt like every inch of him was injured.

And that was indeed the case.

’The shockwave, the intense heat, the radiation from that thing...’

It was a miracle that a C+ grade martial artist like him could take two hits from it and not die.

Just losing a leg and being left on the brink of death was already a stroke of immense luck.

Zhang Ji closed his eyes slightly, stopped struggling, and tried to manipulate the surrounding water currents.

’The *Profound Heart Stream* is very limited by its environment, but in the right conditions, the benefits are immense.’

For example, right now. Although Zhang Ji’s vital energy was depleted, his stamina was nearly gone, and he was on the verge of death, he could still think. With even a sliver of Spirit, he could still use the martial arts of the Flowing Water Sect here in the ocean, and with almost no energy consumption.

As the frequency of Zhang Ji’s Spirit changed, the surrounding seawater resonated with it and began to fall under his command.

With a mere thought, a fish swimming past was impaled by an undercurrent, then sliced into fillets by the water and pushed to Zhang Ji’s lips.

Zhang Ji opened his mouth, slowly chewed, and swallowed a piece of fish.

Even this movement was painful.

As the muscles in his face moved, he could feel pain radiate across it.

He had done his best to shield his head with his arms, but the lower half of his face still seemed to have been hit by the aftershock.

’At least my eyes are fine.’

’If something had happened to my eyes, the difficulty of surviving this would have increased by several orders of magnitude.’

After eating something, Zhang Ji recovered a little bit of stamina.

He moved his limbs slightly, using a Dragon-form power exertion method to extract wisps of vital energy from his flesh and blood.

’Extracting vital energy in this state might seem suicidal, but it wasn’t.’

Once he had obtained some vital energy, it was transformed within Zhang Ji’s body, then instantly converted into a warm current that flowed into him using a Snake-form power exertion technique.

*Five Forms as One—Celestial Serpent Stance.*

It did more than just restore stamina; it also enhanced his body’s natural Recovery Power.

Nourished by the converted Celestial Serpent vital energy, Zhang Ji felt the pain in his body subside slightly, and his injuries were brought under control.

He breathed a sigh of relief. With this, the probability of him dying was likely much lower.

Closing his eyes, Zhang Ji began to meditate to recover his Spirit.

Fish that approached him, hoping to feast on his flesh, were easily killed by Zhang Ji’s water manipulation technique and became his sustenance instead.

An unknown amount of time passed, and moonlight fell upon the sea.

The Moonlight Cup in Zhang Ji’s hand was lifted three meters into the air by a column of water. The surrounding moonlight vanished, drawn into the cup. After a long while, the cup was nearly half-full of moon essence.

He drank the small portion of moon essence.

The healing speed of the injuries all over Zhang Ji’s body increased, and he also recovered a fair amount of his Spirit and stamina.

About half an hour later, Zhang Ji sat up in the middle of the sea.

The seawater beneath him held him aloft.

Zhang Ji raised his hands and looked at them.

His arms were hideously burned and covered in scars, but thankfully, his Horizontal Training Power was high enough that his bones were unharmed. Only the flesh was severely damaged.

He looked down. His abdomen was also covered in burns and gashes. Some had scabbed over, while others still exposed raw flesh, where he could even see the fascia beneath moving.

As for his legs, his right leg was gone from the mid-thigh down. His left leg was better off, with only a few scorch marks.

He reached up and touched his cheek.

His forehead was fine, but the sensation from the lower half of his face was not optimistic. The damage felt even worse than the wounds on his abdomen.

Most of Zhang Ji’s right ear was also missing, torn off by God knows what kind of shrapnel.

’It’s a wretched sight, but at least I’m alive.’

’But Wang Quan and Elder Liu Shan are already...’

Before Zhang Ji could sink into grief, he suddenly felt something brush against his left foot.

A swirl of water sent a fish with a mouthful of sharp teeth flying out of the sea.

It had tried to eat Zhang Ji’s flesh, but it clearly couldn’t even break his defense. Now, it would become his food instead.

...

Just three days later, Zhang Ji had almost fully recovered.

The combination of the Celestial Serpent Stance and the Moonlight Cup was truly potent for healing injuries.

Now, aside from his missing right leg and the many new scars on his body, his overall condition was not much different from his peak state.

Of course, the missing leg had its impact. His combat effectiveness would be reduced by about forty percent.

Losing a pivot point for exerting force meant his Body Technique would be less agile, and the power of his strikes would be greatly diminished.

Extracting vital energy was also much slower.

However, Zhang Ji’s current concern wasn’t his combat power, but the question of where to go.

He had roughly determined his bearings by the positions of the sunrise and sunset.

But with no landmarks and no knowledge of this world’s detailed map, where to go was a problem.

’I can’t go back to the Eastern Extreme Country for now.’

’It’s not a suitable place for me to grow stronger right now.’

’If I go back, I’ll have to live like a savage, training secretly in the wilderness. I’d be better off just drifting at sea.’

"The Roman Country should be in this direction, right? Probably..."

Zhang Ji muttered to himself, and the seawater beneath his feet began to propel him forward at high speed, heading for the distant horizon.

His speed was incredible. Although it couldn’t match his top speed of nearly two hundred kilometers per hour on land, he was still moving at over one hundred kilometers per hour.

Even in this world full of black-box technology, most ships couldn’t keep up with him.

As he traveled, Zhang Ji also tried to practice his skills.

He found it difficult to practice the Five Elements Fist style for the time being. Missing his right leg made his power exertion disjointed. He could barely even perform the Five Forms as One, let alone cultivate all five forms simultaneously.

Therefore, he could only try practicing the *Iron Body Skill*.

The *Iron Body Skill* didn’t require the practitioner to have all their limbs. It only required the body to be able to recover from the injuries of training, and for the vibrational frequency and breathing method to be correct.

After this incident, Zhang Ji had once again become dissatisfied with his Horizontal Training Power, which was already far beyond that of an ordinary Grandmaster.

’If I had been tough enough, I wouldn’t have been so easily injured and nearly killed.’

’Just imagine, if I had mastered the Vajra Sect’s *Indestructible Vajra Body Divine Skill*, I could have faced that missile head-on, tanking it with my physical body and shattering it with a punch.’

’How could I have ended up in such a miserable state?’

Although moonlight was difficult to collect at sea, and Zhang Ji currently had no external aids, after drifting for about five days, he still managed to cultivate an essence of the *Iron Body Skill*.

His current talent was far, far greater than when he started.

He could practice such a martial art without the help of resources and suffer no lasting disabilities or side effects.

With resources, it would be normal for him to cultivate an essence in just over a day.

In less than twenty days, he could master a Grandmaster-level martial art like the *Iron Body Skill* and obtain a crystallization.

...

「Time passed.」

Zhang Ji counted the sunrises and sunsets, encountering all sorts of things in the sea.

Violent gales whipped up giant waves hundreds of meters high that slammed him into the water.

Torrential rain, like a waterfall stretching for hundreds of miles, caused him to lose his bearings for a time.

An Exotic Beast with teeth like steel fled deep into the ocean and disappeared after he struck it with [Waterfall Drop].

A gigantic whale, like a moving island, passed by him, spouting a column of water that shot into the sky, competing in height with the water column he formed with his own abilities. It then escorted him for a while and pointed him in the right direction.

"WHOOO~MM~!!"

Zhang Ji stood up from the whale’s back and looked ahead. The silhouette of land had appeared.

About five hundred meters from land, the giant whale turned and headed off into the distance.

"Whooo~ooo~ooo~!"

The deep, resonant call vibrated through Zhang Ji’s mind.

"Goodbye!"

He stood on one leg atop the seawater, waving to the departing whale. Then, the water propelled Zhang Ji toward the shore.

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