manynovel Chapter 182 - 140 Sword Qi Slaying
Chapter 182 - 140 Sword Qi Slaying
Chapter 182: Chapter 140 Sword Qi SlayingIn the practical training room, Zhou Yishang and the swordsmen all had eyes wide with amazement.
Ji Xinghuo’s composite bow had an effective range of only 220 meters; beyond this distance, the accuracy would significantly drop, making it difficult to pose a threat to the target.
With their distance surpassing 300 meters, could this arrow be of any use?
Before this thought settled, everyone saw Ji Xinghuo’s hands move swiftly, firing four arrows in one second, fast enough to create afterimages.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Four arrows followed almost the same trajectory, angling upward, passing through layers of tree branches and leaves without any interference or deceleration, swiftly falling toward Ling Yufei’s position.
As the arrows flew over 300 meters, nearing the target, their trajectories finally exhibited some minor differences.
Ling Yufei was in stealth mode, completely unprepared for the incoming arrows, but her reaction was extremely quick. As the first arrow flew in, she sidestepped twice to avoid it; immediately afterward, the second arrow, aimed at her new position, shot straight for her neck.
She used a Flash Step again, but the third arrow arrived.
She had to Flash again!
After using Flash Step three times, like a pre-rehearsed performance, Ling Yufei’s pathways and landings were always met with an arrow.
Moreover, the arrows’ shooting directions also intercepted the path she could have taken to hide behind a tree.
On the fourth Flash Step, Ling Yufei’s star power and physical fitness rapidly depleted, her body sore and numb but before she could get her bearings, another arrow had arrived.
Thud!
The arrow pierced her left shoulder, instantly rendering her entire arm incapacitated in combat.
Ling Yufei decisively dropped the recurve bow she was holding, her figure blurred, and finally, she slipped into the shadows, hiding behind a large tree.
A hint of bewilderment flickered in her sharp eyes.
Until now, she hadn’t seen where Ji Xinghuo was; she could only roughly judge the direction from the trajectory of the arrows.
The swordsmen watching couldn’t comprehend but were greatly shocked.
They didn’t understand why the composite bow in Ji Xinghuo’s hands could kill a target more than 300 meters away. Why couldn’t Ling Yufei, a Shadow Dancer, avoid the arrows despite her quick reaction? And how could Ji Xinghuo so easily pinpoint Ling Yufei’s location?
A series of question marks popped into the swordsmen’s heads.
Then, they saw Ji Xinghuo release four arrows and not even look at the results, as if he had already predicted that Ling Yufei would be hit.
His figure faded, his body absorbing sounds, sprinting through the forest.
By the time Ling Yufei treated her shoulder wound, Ji Xinghuo had already circled around to another direction, positioning himself on her west side.
Ling Yufei, unaware of this, thought Ji Xinghuo was still in the south, continually hopping in the shadows, quietly advancing toward the southern part of the woods.
The distance between the two rapidly closed.
Ling Yufei kept
She forcibly suppressed other thoughts and shot her last arrow, which, unsurprisingly, missed again. Then, throwing aside her recurve bow, she drew two swords, one long and one short, to meet Ji Xinghuo.
The thirty-plus-meter distance closed instantly, and they came into close quarters combat.
Ling Yufei vanished, and the next instant, she leaped out from the shadow behind Ji Xinghuo, concentrating Shadow Blade on the short sword, and thrust directly at Ji Xinghuo’s heart from behind.
Clang.
Ji Xinghuo turned around, his Demon Sound Longsword flicking the short sword.
The two weapons barely touched, and Ling Yufei immediately retreated to offset the giant force transmitted from the short sword.
At the same time, her body moved against physics, instantly reversing from retreat to advance, unexpectedly, her whole figure turning into a dark shadow merging with the right-hand longsword, thrusting straight at Ji Xinghuo’s heart.
Boom!
A sound of thunder, and lightning flickered.
The advancing Ling Yufei was struck by the lightning coming head-on, her body vibrating at high frequency, turning into overlapping illusionary shadows that blocked the lightning attack.
Illusion Flash!
This was an ability many Shadow Blades, Rangers, and Agility Type Mutants dreamt of, capable of resisting physical attacks and energy damage, utterly harmless to the body if timed right.
Ling Yufei, braving the lightning, thrust her longsword into Ji Xinghuo’s heart.
But she felt no resistance on the sword.
She had only hit an afterimage.
Instant Step!
Ji Xinghuo’s Instant Step did not move him far, just half a meter to the side, still in front of Ling Yufei. His Demon Sound Longsword was already slashing down.
Ling Yufei immediately used Flash Step to distance herself.
Whoosh!
A large transparent white air burst from Ji Xinghuo’s sword, the Ultrasound Sword Energy predicting in advance, covering Ling Yufei’s Flash Step landing spot, making it impossible for her to avoid.
Ling Yufei was not wearing armor, and immediately felt as if she was being slashed by thousands of knives, wounds spraying blood over her body. But these were only superficial injuries; the real danger of Ultrasound Sword Energy was its ability to inflict internal trauma, causing bleeding in her organs.
She bore the pain and tried to enter the shadow, only to see Ji Xinghuo’s empty left hand pointing at her.
A transparent spear shot toward her.
Sound Spear!
The transparent spear, moving at the speed of sound, instantly pierced Ling Yufei’s body, causing her entire body to stiffen and lose the ability to move.
Another white Sword Qi came slashing down, landing on her neck, plunging Ling Yufei’s world into darkness.
She abruptly sat up in the projection pod, her head aching like it was being stabbed, a side effect of dying in the Spirit Realm World.
"Uh..."
Ling Yufei, enduring the headache, climbed out of the projection pod and saw Ji Xinghuo also leaving the Spirit Realm, looking relaxed and composed, clearly finding these two rounds of combat quite easy to win.
"I lost," Ling Yufei took a deep breath and sincerely said, "You truly deserve your reputation as a Mutant in the heavenly ladder. I’m not as strong as you!"