In a one-on-one situation, the enemy is unable to pinpoint the exact location of the palm strike due to the overwhelming palm shadows and omnipresent palm force. In a two-on-two situation, having a helper to hold off the enemy for a moment allows the enemy to successfully build up their power. The Thousand Hands Tathagata Palm can indeed conjure thousands of giant palms, and its power is likely to be terrifying. Moreover, it can attack multiple targets simultaneously, making it a rare full-screen ultimate move among Shaolin martial arts.

Of course, the most terrifying move is the Tathagata Palm, which simplifies complexity. Very few people in the martial arts world have ever witnessed this palm strike.

In Jin Yong’s martial arts novels, only Fang Zheng truly mastered this technique, and he used it in his battle with Ren Woxing.

After the palm strike was delivered, the move was ordinary, but halfway through, it suddenly swayed slightly, and instantly one palm became two palms, two palms became four palms, and four palms became eight palms.

Ren Woxing blurted out, “Thousand Hands Tathagata Palm!” Knowing that if he only needed to “delay for a moment,” Fang Zheng would turn eight palms into sixteen, and then into thirty-two. He immediately struck out with a palm, attacking Fang Zheng’s right shoulder.

Even a top expert like Ren Woxing, when facing Fang Zheng’s Dry Leaf Tathagata Palm, only dared to make it manifest as thirty-two palms. He absolutely dared not let the opponent continue to build up his power, or even unleash the final move, the Tathagata Palm.

Jiang Yuyan was a newcomer to the martial arts world, with little experience in combat and limited knowledge of martial arts. Naturally, she was unaware of the secrets of this palm technique. By the time she and many other martial artists realized how terrifying this palm technique truly was, Fang Zheng’s palms were already rushing towards them like a dense cloud, as if the sky was filled with Fang Zheng’s fleshy palms.

Not only were they numerous and covered a wide area, but their palm power was also gradually increasing, making them look as terrifying as the Thousand-Handed Tathagata. The surrounding floor was constantly cracking, and in terms of sheer scale and destructive power, it far surpassed the previous battle between Mo Xiaobei and Zuo Lengchan.

In other words, Fang Zheng had cultivated the Yi Jin Jing and was already at the Innate Realm, having long since transformed it into Innate True Qi. Otherwise, such an exaggerated consumption would definitely not have been something he could easily withstand. In terms of realm and martial arts cultivation alone, Fang Zheng was far superior to Kong Wen, one of the four great monks who were the previous abbots of Shaolin.

Despite Kong Wen’s claim of mastering eleven of the seventy-two Shaolin skills, which is almost the most among all Shaolin masters throughout history, martial arts are about quality, not quantity.

Kongwen didn’t even master the Yi Jin Jing. The only skill he could be considered worthy of the title of abbot of Shaolin was the Great Vajra Palm. He was generally considered to be ranked second among the four great monks, not as good as the monk Kongjian who cultivated the Vajra Indestructible Palm.

Unfortunately, the four great monks were all wiped out one after another, along with the three senior monks of the previous generation who were the foundation of Shaolin, who were also killed by Yaoyue.

As a result, Shaolin Temple nowadays reveres the Fang and Wu generations, whose innate strength is already considered top-tier in terms of combat power, barely enough to form a group of three great monks.

Fang Zheng, the honest monk, Fang Sheng, and the first person of the next generation is the wonderful monk Wu Hua, who can be said to be the weakest in history, otherwise he would not have closed the mountain for ten years.

Jiang Yuyan was initially startled by the sight of the golden palms covering the mountains and fields, as she had never seen such an exaggerated palm technique before.

However, she quickly recovered and did not take such palm techniques seriously at all. She directly used one of the three great skills of the Yihua Palace, namely, “Yihua Jiemu,” which completely neutralized Fang Zheng’s palm force.

Having already witnessed the terrifying power of Mingyu Gong, Wan Zheng was not surprised by Jiang Yuyan’s “Shifting Flowers and Grafting Trees” move. Instead, he secretly accumulated his palm power, and when it reached its peak, he directly unleashed the “Thousand Palms Return to One” move, which merged all his palm power with all his internal energy into one palm, and struck Jiang Yuyan with a palm aimed at killing her.

The hatred between Shaolin and Yihua Palace is too numerous to mention. Fang Zheng was already furious at this time, so he directly used the Tathagata Palm, the final move.

Of course, this isn’t the kind of palm technique that falls from the sky. It’s just that it was given such a powerful and arrogant name, Tathagata Palm, to show how powerful it is.

Strictly speaking, it would be more appropriate to call it “a thousand palms returning to one”.

Upon seeing the unavoidable golden giant palm coming straight at her, Jiang Yuyan felt a tremendous threat even before the palm force got close. She knew that if she were to be struck, she would either die or suffer severe injuries, or even be crippled by the palm strike.

But she was not flustered or afraid at all. She faced the challenge head-on and immediately used the “Transferring Flowers and Jade” move as soon as the giant palm approached her true energy field.

“Shifting Flowers and Replacing Jade” is the most profound and magical palm technique of the Shifting Flower Palace. It is a technique that “uses softness to overcome hardness” and “strikes after the opponent has made a move,” drawing, shifting, and deflecting the opponent’s martial arts.

His fame resounded throughout the world, and the martial arts world was abuzz with the saying, “He can move flowers and graft jade, and even gods and ghosts cannot defeat him.”

Although this is also a kind of skill that uses the opponent’s force against them, it is similar in essence to the Wudang school’s “using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds” and the Shaolin school’s “Eighteen Falls with the Clothes on the Clothes”. It is only because the speed formed under its essential techniques is extremely fast, and after figuring out the direction of the opponent’s force, one can freely change the opponent’s attack position. Before the opponent’s true energy and power are fully exerted, one can seize the initiative and deflect the opponent’s force back.

This palm technique is unpredictable and becomes stronger when facing stronger opponents; the stronger the enemy’s attack, the stronger the counterattack.

When striking, each palm can utilize different internal energies of heaven and earth, yin and yang, to unleash various unique techniques, which are flexible, complex, subtle, and profound.

This extraordinary and unparalleled martial art, once mastered, allows one to utilize this wondrous internal energy technique. With a swing of the arms and hands, one can generate a strange and irresistible force that can alter the direction of others’ weapons. This astonishing technique is truly incredible, reaching the level of attracting metal and iron. However, this internal martial art is extremely energy-consuming.

This skill emphasizes speed, leaving the opponent with no openings and no chance to retaliate.

Or perhaps it’s so fast that even if the opponent sees the flaw in the move, they won’t have time to counterattack, and the flaw will vanish in an instant.

Although the sixth level of Mingyu Gong allows one to use the “Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees” technique to neutralize and transfer the opponent’s attack coefficient, it cannot actually transfer damage back to the opponent; it is merely a simple defensive skill.

Although it’s based on the principle of using minimal force to deflect maximum force, in reality, it can only neutralize up to three times one’s own power, and it’s not truly limitless.