When system cheat becomes rampant!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Lu Hong truly felt the brunt of Xiang Beifei\'s punch as his body stumbled backward five steps!

"You—"

Lu Hong looked at Xiang Beifei in shock.

He wasn\'t shocked because Xiang Beifei had pushed him back, but because of—Rapid Flame!

This Rapid Flame seemed entirely different from the attacking style he understood; it wasn\'t even accurate to call it Rapid Flame!

This Cultivation Technique stemming from Lu Hong\'s system— he understood the power of Rapid Flame better than anyone else. However, in his mind, Rapid Flame was never executed this way. It was beyond his comprehension!

How on earth did Beifei do it?

Lu Hong looked at Xiang Beifei with astonishment. But without pausing, Xiang Beifei continued, "Uncle Lu, watch my next punch!"

Whoosh!

Xiang Beifei didn\'t give Lu Hong a chance to rest. Once again, he closed in for an attack, but this time his fist wasn\'t enveloped in flames; it appeared to be an ordinary punch.

Subconsciously, Lu Hong threw his fist forward to meet the blow head-on—his fist wrapped in flame. When it collided with what seemed to be Xiang Beifei\'s unremarkable punch, spiritual power on Beifei\'s fist took a different direction once more!

Hum!

The spiritual power changed its course, turning into a clever force that spiraled around Lu Hong\'s arm like a vortex, instantly suppressing the flames that Lu Hong had just conjured.

Immediately after—

Boom!

Another fist flame, not his own, flared up on Lu Hong\'s arm. The scorching fire ignited his shirt. Lu Hong hadn\'t expected this turn of events, and hastily used his spiritual power to disperse the flames. But as soon as he diverted his attention, Xiang Beifei charged at him again, aiming a punch at his face.

Lu Hong inhaled sharply!

The punch was too fast; if it hit, his nose would undoubtedly be broken.

However, as Xiang Beifei\'s fist neared Lu Hong\'s face, it deviated to the side, missing his face. By now, Lu Hong had reacted, transforming his fist into a palm, and with a burst of Rapid Flame, he struck at Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei deftly sidestepped, and with his left hand now open, he slapped out another palm wind. As their hands met with a thunderous impact, spiritual power on Beifei\'s palm shifted eerily once again, wrapping around Lu Hong\'s palm.

Lu Hong felt as if the strange force from Beifei\'s hand was like maggots on bones, completely suppressing his style of Rapid Flame punching. He was utterly unable to exert force, as Beifei countered with another palm strike to his chest.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Lu Hong was forced back several steps again.

"I actually lost?"

Lu Hong looked at Xiang Beifei incredulously.

The first retreat could have been explained away by his only using the initial strength of Qi-Controlling, but this second pushback signified a genuine defeat.

The skillful force Xiang Beifei used had drastically boosted the power of Rapid Flame. With Lu Hong\'s realm only at the mid-stage of Qi-Controlling, he couldn\'t suppress Xiang Beifei\'s offensive. Within seven moves, he was defeated!

This gave Lu Hong a truly shocking surprise!

One must know, even if he had suppressed his own realm, his combat experience and perception abilities were still at the Meridian Opening phase, and he even had complete confidence that he could use his experience to firmly suppress an ordinary Qi-Controlling late-stage master with his mid-stage strength.

But this experience was completely useless against Xiang Beifei!

Xiang Beifei was merely at the Qi-Controlling mid-stage level of strength, and using his mid-stage strength, he couldn\'t suppress Beifei at all—instead, he lost miserably!

"I lose completely convinced, both inwardly and outwardly," Lu Hong said with a bitter smile.

He was someone who could accept a loss. Even though he knew that relying solely on his mid-stage Spiritual Power would result in a loss to Xiang Beifei, he still did not forcibly enhance his realm and did not break the rules out of concern that losing to a young kid would be embarrassing for a district team leader.

For him, rules were rules; if it was said to use mid-stage Qi-Controlling, then mid-stage Qi-Controlling it was.

"Actually, I knew that it would be very difficult for me to deal with a strong opponent like Uncle Lu using normal methods, so I used Rapid Flame and played a little smart while deploying Spiritual Power," Xiang Beifei said.

Lu Hong suddenly fell into deep thought.

Losing to Xiang Beifei wasn\'t the point, the point was he always felt something wasn\'t quite right.

When Xiang Beifei threw a punch, the way Spiritual Power was deployed appeared completely different in his eyes; it was still Rapid Flame, but for some reason, Lu Hong\'s Rapid Flame was completely countered by Xiang Beifei\'s.

Lu Hong felt his Rapid Flame was lagging eighteen streets behind Xiang Beifei\'s!

"Wait, this isn\'t playing smart, this is..."

As Lu Hong pondered Xiang Beifei\'s so-called playing smart, the way the Spiritual Power was deployed gave him a great revelation. He realized something, turned to his system interface, and then revealed a surprised expression!

[Detection: Xiang Beifei has improved Rapid Flame. The opponent\'s method of deploying Rapid Flame has been entered into the database. Current feedback progress is 5%.]

"This is..."

Lu Hong became excited!

Feedback!

The system actively judged that Beifei was in the process of giving feedback?

Lu Hong found himself holding his breath.

He carefully recalled Xiang Beifei\'s punching technique, pondered it deeply, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt like a huge rock that had been pressing on his chest for a month had finally been lifted, and he felt as if he was basking in the long-absent sunshine, making him feel refreshed!

"Uncle Lu, is there anything about the way I deploy Rapid Flame that needs improvement?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"It\'s not that you need to improve, it\'s that I need to improve! It\'s me that needs to improve! Haha, Beifei, how did you come to think of deploying Rapid Flame like this?" Lu Hong asked excitedly.

Xiang Beifei thought for a moment and said, "When I practiced Rapid Flame, I always felt that the method of deploying Spiritual Power was somewhat superfluous, I felt it too overbearing. Being overbearing is good, the stronger it is the better, but it consumes a lot of Spiritual Power, making it disadvantageous in a prolonged battle. So I considered changing the way these powers circulate, and I found it seemed to be able to overcome the original Rapid Flame. Sorry, maybe this isn\'t quite right—"

"No need to apologize! You did exactly the right thing! No cultivation technique is perfect! Every technique has its flaws, and I never expected that you\'d find the flaw of Rapid Flame; in this respect, you are simply a genius!" Lu Hong exclaimed excitedly.

Xiang Beifei smiled, looking at Lu Hong\'s system interface.

Uncle Lu had never taken the initiative to ask him about giving feedback to Rapid Flame, and if Beifei brought up feedback on his own, Lu Hong might suspect how he knew about the enforced task of his system.

Although Uncle Lu was trustworthy, some secrets, Xiang Beifei felt, were best kept to oneself.

Therefore, he chose another way, and by sparring with Uncle Lu, he believed that with Uncle Lu\'s judgement, he would certainly notice the uniqueness of it.

As of now, the system had judged his actions as feedback, and that was enough.