Chapter 2836 — The Bramble Divine Art
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"We had no choice..." Feng Shi Pian smiled bitterly and recounted in detail to Wei Zhao everything that had happened on this side after he left. Just as he got to the part where Zhang Nai Pao struck Dongfang Bushu with a single punch, sending Dongfang Bushu charging out of the Safe Zone like a madman, only to be finished off by a spirit beast—Zhang Nai Pao's scolding voice came from behind them!
"Enough, Wei Zhao. You've had your reunion with your little underlings. So—are you coming into the Safe Zone or not? I thought you meant to be a turtle hiding in its shell and never dare show your face!" Zhang Nai Pao emerged from the Safe Zone and looked at Wei Zhao, his words dripping with mockery.
"Zhang Nai Pao, I hear your martial art is something like the Great Shift of the Universe—and yet not quite the same. If I'm not mistaken, your technique can't reflect an opponent's moves back in full the way the Great Shift does. Part of the force is reflected, and part of it you bear yourself, isn't that so?" Wei Zhao had just heard Feng Shi Pian's account of Young Hero Yang's case, and combined with the scene he had witnessed earlier in the dining hall, he had roughly deduced the nature of Zhang Nai Pao's martial art.
"Haha, not bad at all. But Wei Zhao, so what if you've guessed it?" Zhang Nai Pao was slightly taken aback that Wei Zhao had actually worked out the characteristics of his martial art, but he could not have cared less. He burst out laughing. "Go on, keep guessing?"
"I can keep guessing, but the one thing I'm still unsure of is this: when Young Hero Yang and that local tyrant of the Loess Plateau Sect struck you, part of the force must have been added to your own body, while only another part was reflected back. But now it seems that isn't quite the case—because that other portion of force wouldn't have been enough to kill them outright!" Wei Zhao said, analyzing as he spoke.
"Wei Zhao, I have to admit you're cleverer than those reckless cultivators. But what good does it do you? Why don't you come and bite me?" Zhang Nai Pao regarded Wei Zhao with a provoking look. "I don't mind telling you—my martial art is called the Bramble Divine Art. When you strike me, twenty percent of the damage is borne by my own body, and eighty percent is passively reflected back, driven by my mental technique and oral formula. But with the support of my mental formula, it isn't eighty percent at all—it's three times eighty percent, which is two hundred and forty percent! That's why those fools died themselves after striking me!"
The Bramble Divine Art was one of the mysterious martial arts of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect. Like the Bee-Drawing Divine Art, it could be cultivated only by those who had practiced the Chrysanthemum Treasure Manual. This was no secret—the ancient sects all knew of it. So once the trial ended and word spread, Zhang Nai Pao's Bramble Divine Art would be a secret no longer. Any expert of mid-heaven rank or above who carried a Great Return Pill and hit him twice in a row would finish him off. RS