Chapter 328 - Palm Strikes

The environment within the first floor of the Jade Pagoda is completely different from before. It's land encompasses nearly ten times that of earth and split into continents. 

Caelum is able to sense it as this place directly connected to his mind where he is essentially the god. 

It contains lifeforms that have been nourished by a variety of Qi and energy completely dominating the land.

Passing through the vast grassland finally arrived where the boundless herbs were planted. 

Caelum was unable to use them for pills but would help temper his body further by creating medical baths. 

The spaces and time were completely distorted where Caelum every step felt similar to ten step shifting and causing his perception to be in disarray. 

He had a hard time coping with the new dimensional space but didn't mind the minor difference and focused his attention in training himself. 

"Hope this one will help my technique."

Finally having a place where he won't need to hold back letting loose his muscle and emanating an aura that is overbearing yet still. 

He performs a series of footwork maintaining a level of fluidity and solidity throughout despite the burden that his body endured. 

Those lifeforms within his Training Grounds only watched from a distance having their instinct telling them to not think of fighting him.

The aura shrouding him gradually melted into his body, appearing ordinary like any people but only those equal or higher would be able to sense his overflowing essence.

His body and mind perfectly encapsulate the essence of every Martial to their very core. He fundamentally revises and changes every single known technique browsing his Library of Heavenly Path guiding him from combining the techniques. 

….Twelve Divine Heavenly Destruction Techniques .

…..Sword Art of the Demon God.

….Gathering of Ten Thousand Shadows.

...etc.

Caelum mixing extremely powerful Martial art technique does not weigh heavily in Ki or Qi only the essence of the Martial art and the technique. 

The once dispelled energy returned that was more dense producing a miasmic darkness that shroud everything yet within the darkness came a light.

An extremely bright light that blinded everything appearing as if he was the sun itself rapidly his physical strength that ended to around 1,050,000 Jin of strength.

At that moment the miasmic darkness and blinding light began to circulate into one fusing yet not. They created a line between themselves perfectly balancing the light and darkness.

"To be a Paragon, one must begin with nothing, then turn to something and obtain everything. Darkness gave birth to light and light within darkness, darkness through light shall give birth to everything."

He placed his basic principles into his Martial art giving a new life than a piece of  fancy movement. His forming his technique a Martial art essence while absorbing it into his being.

After a few hundred years of continuous training finally exhaled being overflowed with power consciously stirring the energy through his body to maintain a level of control.

Once he was able to move without consciously thinking about the flow took a stance.

He went towards a nearby tree and lightly tapped if instantly exploded into smidirin leaving splinters of wood. 

The force itself was a true force without the natural energy of the world. It was the essence of his Martial art. 

"Hahaha this is what I like! Now I should try!"

He had yet to reach the Large Success of his Martial art but it had made a solid foundation and path to follow than before. His durability could take a hit even from a speeding train and obliterate small boulders.

This did not include applying Martial Art and only the raw strength that his body holds. Caelum quickly took a stance that was far different than his usual stances.

He normally is in a taekwondo stance where his leg is prepared to sign but now his palm slightly open that appeared harmless. 

However, it was far from being harmless when in front of him slowly manifested the greatest Swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi wielding his two blade intently glaring towards Caelum who barely evaded his swing then reached out his hand and twisted it. 

"Singularity Vortex palm."

His two palms produce an effect that replicates a black holes center where infinite mass is located. 

To his amusement, the legendary swordsman only moved aside Avoid the attack and took his two blades and tried slicing Caelum. 

It would have been a loss right there if not for the fact that Caelum had experience an exploded growth that allowed him to dodge the slash and returned the attack by getting close beside him then took a stance and struck him to the side. 

However, the phantom easily evaded the strike and was about to slash his hand only for it to turn into a palm placing his body to the side then twisting it. 

"Yin Wheel palm strike!"

It sucked the phantom's body creating a vacuum between his palm and the body of his own opponent. 

Caelum exhaled then reversed with his palm back flinging the phantom several dozen feet yet behind him obliterated a whole part of the forest .

"Yang Wheel palm strike!"

Caelum finally revised and changed every technique creating a set of movements. It currently only has a palm that is divided by two the Yin Wheel and Yang wheel palm strike as well as the Singularity Vortex Palm. 

His legs focus on the concept of recoilless while his palm contains the concept of absorbing and repelling force. or Internal and external force.

"As expected! You would be an appetizer for the real deal."

Caelum could not help both fear and admire this opponent of his that even only the phantom was still capable of evenly fighting him disregarding his sudden growth.

The phantom appeared to smirked, gripping it's two weapons tightly and vanished in the blink of an eye barely dodging the slash directed around his neck leaning back before twisting his body and kicking him to the side.

This fling his opponent over another dozen feet yet Caelum winces in pain after his legs were sliced by the phantom. Though, it was not really sliced but everything felt real.

Two of them stared off at each other and acknowledged each other's strength as Caelum had continuously fought Miyamoto yet lost, not lasting for a single minute.

"You think I'm done with you!? This is only getting started!"

Caelum planted his feet into the solid ground before vanishing and appearing in front of the phantom who evaded the attack, striking the ground instead. 

This destroyed a large mass of the land, deforesting the whole place forming a cloud dust. However, it was instantly sliced to pieces creating a clear view as the two excitedly took a stance.

The two began to flare their individual aura with their eyes appearing glowing menacingly containing the intent to bring down their opponent. They smirked at the same time before vanishing into thin air.

Boom!

Whoosh!

Boom!

Slash!

Strike!

Caelum strike parried the phantom's blade redirecting the force into the surrounding cleaving the remaining trees while his palm strikes barely landed a direct hit. 

Their battle kept raging on with none getting the upper hand, however, Caelum was learning, becoming faster and precise. He moved as if he had done it over thousands times.

Along the way, he was making more variants of his attack in hopes of defeating his opponent. 

"Yang wheel spear hand!"

Turning his hand into a spear manifesting an illusion of a massive spear that was spinning at a high velocity pushing the air around them. 

It was able to dismember his left hand trying to evade his attack yet he was unable to control the technique and unable to move for short duration allowing the phantom to slice him into pieces using his other hand.

"Gaaah!!"

Caelum screamed from the pain falling into his knee out of breath. This resulted in his imagination training to dispel bringing him back to reality seeing the surrounding devastation and sitting down on his butt.

He turned around to see the phantom still standing with a smile before disappearing. They had relentlessly fought for over 2000 years giving enough time for Caelum to mature and grow further.

If he were to apply what he acquired from his training once gaining everything back then it would be leaps and bounds in terms of prowess. 

The power of an illusion wasn't worth mentioning to the real deal. It was nothing more than a vague guess of his power and it appears that Caelum's imagination of him is already powerful but he is certain that this phantom was only a child compared to a real person.

Caelum never felt that tired and used the opportunity to circulate his blood to further temper his already durable body.