Chapter 68
At the beginning, Wang Wu knew that his actual combat power was inferior to Li Shiyin's, so he decisively used the tactic of dragging the battle, just entangling Li Shiyin without directly confronting her head-on, like a quagmire, trapping Li Shiyin and buying time while waiting for her to make a mistake.
His strategy worked very well. Seeing that Qin Ran could not hold on any longer, Li Shiyin did become anxious and started to make mistakes...
But he did not take into account that some people collapse under pressure, while others gradually become stronger as the pressure mounts. Brought back from the brink of death, when the pressure reaches a certain level, they have an awakening.
Li Shiyin was this kind of person.
Some people collapse under pressure, their bodies smashed to pieces beyond recovery. Others tear through the pressure, rising up to meet the challenge, breaking out of their cocoon like a butterfly!
Under the tremendous pressure, Li Shiyin instead found a way to break the deadlock. With great courage, she used her own combat power to take out the opponent's support.
One must understand, she was still fighting with Wang Wu. Recklessly shooting out Starlight Beam greatly weakened her own combat power. It was an extremely dangerous maneuver. The slightest mistake would give Wang Wu a chance to seize the opportunity and take her life.
Yet she did it anyway!
And she succeeded!
Then Wu Qing was heavily injured and fell to the ground, fate unknown. Wang Wu lost his cool!
He even took the initiative to attack several times, forgetting that his actual combat power was far from comparable to Li Shiyin's. Even without the boost from Calling Starlight now, he was still no match for her. He forgot about that and attacked on his own initiative.
But what about Li Shiyin?
When she noticed Wang Wu was losing his composure, she actually started pretending to be weak on purpose, continuing to lure Wang Wu to attack.
Wang Wu attacked frantically. The angry roars of the Lionheart Flame Beast, the fiery rage of his great blade slashing out, he forced Li Shiyin back with slash after slash. The more she retreated, the more he advanced, believing he had the advantage and was suppressing Li Shiyin. The more he advanced, the more he felt that victory was imminent...He must avenge Wu Qing; he must distinguish himself!
And so...
He made a fatal mistake. Li Shiyin caught a huge opening and ran him through with her sword!
Then it was a downpour of blades, a wild storm. Seeing Li Shiyin's face like frost, devoid of mercy, he no longer had the strength to lift his blade. Covered in blood, his blade dropped to the ground as he...
Died!
Li Shiyin sent Wang Wu on his way, as her master had instructed!
Seeing that the woman on the ground was not only unafraid of his sword formation, but instead threw her own sword to attack him, Ma Ze let out a cold laugh. "Then go to your death!"
He focused all of his swords together and collided with the oncoming Qingxing Sword.
But unfortunately, as Li Shiyin had assessed, he really was a fool. Not only did he fail to fool anyone else, but he had fooled himself.
When you fool enough people, you start to believe your own swords are real sword energies. He forgot that due to his incomplete mastery of sword techniques, the dispersed swords were actually ninety percent illusory swords.
So when the Qingxing Sword collided with the Ten Thousand Swords, it was as if they collided with thin air. Without slowing in the slightest, only at the very end, right as it reached Ma Ze's face, was there a hint of resistance. But how could Ma Ze resist Li Shiyin's monstrous strength?
The Qingxing Sword plunged through Ma Ze's abdomen, leaving only the hilt protruding.
Qin Ran watched as Ma Ze fell from the sky and recalled that night when amidst the wolf pack, Li Shiyin precisely shot the wolf king. So it was no fluke, but another example of his foolish disciple's skill.
His foolish disciple had taken out another one. Qin Ran said nothing, circulating his mystic power to weaken the defensive bubble in the air. Liu Er tore through the bubble and plummeted from midair, landing right in front of Li Shiyin.
"And another one..." Li Shiyin sighed.
One after another, one after another, each one stronger than the last...
Moreover, carefully thinking back, she had always fought them one-on-one.
Li Shiyin was no fool. Staring at the man before her, his expression grieved and enraged as if he would swallow her alive, she finally understood everything was unfolding according to her master's plan.
The entire situation was under her master's control. In fact, her master had at least nine methods to deal with these five people, not even counting the poison arrays beneath Li Ben Mountain that hadn't even been activated yet.
This was her master deliberately controlling things, using these five people as experience treasures for her.
"Is it also part of master's plan that I now have to fight this physique cultivator Liu Er barehanded without my sword?" Li Shiyin had to wonder.
"Furious Immortal Demon Fist!!"
The Liu Er before her roared to the heavens. Jet black skin covered his bulging muscles and protruding veins, filling his whole body with berserk power. His figure flickered as he shot straight at Li Shiyin.
"Starlight..." Li Shiyin softly exhaled, no longer thinking about anything else. The flickering starlight around her body intensified, as if starfire had ignited. Striding to meet Liu Er's fist head-on, her own fist smashed out!
Bang!
Like metal on stone, a muffled thud rang out across the wilderness...
