Chapter 38

Chapter 38

The Three-Sword Method.
The masked man swings his sword strangely.
He blocks all of the changes in the three swords.
“You’re weaker than them,” he says, ”and though your skills seem to be decent, wouldn’t you rather fight my men?”
“Is it fair to give such advice as an enemy? Focus on the fight.”
The masked man frowned at my words.
“That’s the leeway of the strong.”
“A tiger doesn’t take its time to catch a rabbit. You’re not a strong man, just an arrogant fox.”
The masked man swung his sword.
Chop, chop, chop, chop!
The masked man swings his sword furiously, as if through a force field.
Anger narrows his vision and slows his judgment.
A chance for defeat for the masked man and victory for me.
But the masked man was no pushover.
Boom!
The masked man clashed swords and stepped back.
“Whoa…… that was a close call.”
A sinking gaze.
I sensed something was wrong.
“You’re quite the fighter for such a young man. You made me feel angry for a moment…….”
I smiled bitterly.
He smiled bitterly, because he had learned this technique when he was younger, when he had been severely beaten by Liu Hyuk and Zhang Il.
“I’ll deal with you properly.”
The masked man changed his stance.
Is he going to use another martial art again?
This time, properly.
He sheathed his sword and took his stance.
The clashing ki waves stirred up sandy dust.
“Is that a foot sword?”
“Then what are you going to do?”
The masked man scanned me with cold eyes.
A brief standoff.
Suddenly, the masked man took flight.
With his back to the moon, the masked man rose into the sky.
It swooped down toward me at high speed.
“Ha!”
With a cheer, I struck with my left hand, my right hand, and both hands.
The sword my master gave me hung from my right waist, and the blue steel sword hung from my left waist.
They crossed with the masked man’s sword.
Ka-ang!
The scraping sound of the swords rang out loudly.
The masked man spun his body once in midair and slashed down once more.
Kaang!
“Ugh…….”
The power in the masked man’s sword was incredible.
His feet dug into the ground.
The masked man bounced back and landed on the ground.
The masked man leaned back.
His body flexed.
Using his momentum, he rushed toward me in an instant.
Bam!
“Crunch.”
It’s the Gungshin Tanryo.
As a divine technique of ascension, it’s incredibly fast.
I quickly slammed my sword forward, but a second too late and I would have been mortally wounded.
Chop! Chop! Chop! Chop! Kagaak!
A flurry of bizarre body movements.
He doesn’t even give you a moment to unleash your Xin Liuquan or Zhang Tianxuan, let alone your Plum Blade.
It’s best to just defend.
Chop, chop, chop!
But the masked man’s momentum grew stronger and stronger, and his defense began to crack.
He was cut in the side, then his shoulder, then his thigh.
Just then, a gust of wind blew in.
Whirling.
The leader of the masked men wore a long gun unlike the others.
The wind whipped the hem of his longsword.
[Now!]
Ma Jintian’s full voice sounded.
“I know!
Now, deploy telekinesis.
Yiying!
The top of the battlefield shook.
The telekinesis caused the tip of the masked man’s long cannon to rise upward, covering his eyes.
“……!!”
The masked man is startled.
“Now.
A disheveled sword.
He sidestepped to the right, dodging lightly.
I step forward with my left foot.
Thud!
The foot rises to his waist and slashes.
The force multiplies.
The shoulder rotates again, a warrior.
A tremendous rotational force is applied to the sword.
Poof!
He quickly stretched out, and the powerful sword force pierced the masked man’s shoulder.
“Ugh!”
The masked man blocked my strike and quickly stepped back.
The masked man’s eyes were blazing.
“Yeah, you caught me off guard. I thought I was doing it right, but I must have underestimated you.”
Snap!
The masked man tore at his clothes.
He touched a gouged shoulder, a nearby vein, and the bleeding stopped.
“Apparently, you were overwhelmed by the momentum, so I don’t think you did a very good job.”
I winced.
The masked man’s sunken eyes were intense, piercing through everything.
“It’s dangerous enough as it is, and if you do it right, you could die.”
The masked man gripped his sword tightly.
“I won’t give you a chance to prove yourself. You won’t be able to pull a wind trick like you did earlier.”
The masked man charges.
With the same frenzied momentum as Nara, he unleashes a series of Nodo-like strikes.
But the same attack doesn’t work.
The resonance of the upper and lower battles had reacted to the same sword techniques as Nara’s, showing him where to block.
Kagak!
The masked man’s sword strike was blocked in the middle.
The masked man’s left hand moved like a beam of light.
Pow!
“Kwak!”
Was he aiming for this?
To divert his attention to that place with an attack like Nara’s, and then attack with his hand when it was blocked.
An intense pain shot from my shoulder.
The masked man’s hand moved once more.
I blocked it with my right hand’s blue steel sword.
Thud!
The blade and the body.
It was only natural that Yuk Zhang would be cut if they clashed, but the masked man stepped back, striking only the sword face.
“Haa…… haa…….”
His right arm is unusable for the time being.
He bit his lip and glared.
The masked man didn’t seem to mind and lunged again.
“Ouch!”
There was no hiding now.
With his left hand, he deployed the plum blade.
Plum Blade, this second plum talisman.
The masked man’s sword and my plum blossom clashed a dozen times in an instant.
The masked man’s sword bounced back.
I stepped forward and unleashed four plum blades and plum blood.
The plum blossoms struck the masked man’s body.
The masked man flipped over and struck out with his foot.
Puck!
“Thud!”
The Masked Man’s improvisation was excellent.
He blocked my attack with minimal damage and counterattacked.
This is the difference between practice, experience, and age.
However, I can’t let up as long as I have momentum.
Blood splashes from the masked man’s chest as I thrust my sword all the way through.
The plum blossoms red with the blood of the masked man.
He thrusts once more.
The plum blossoms turned purple and glowed faintly as they attacked the masked man.
Pow!
It was deep.
The plum blossom pierced through the masked man’s side.
“Kk…….”
The masked man twisted his body and slammed his sword down.
He doesn’t give you a chance to dodge.
I blocked his sword with telekinesis.
“……!!”
The masked man is surprised.
The sword slows down.
You let go of the sword and struck again with your left hand.
Kewwww!
“The last!
That’s it.
At this rate, the masked man’s body would be split in two.
At that moment, something black appeared in front of me.
It was so fast that I didn’t even notice it.
Pfft!
“KUCK!”
An intense impact felt in my chest.
I was lifted into the air and sent flying backwards.
Kwaaang!
It slammed into the wall of the Volcanic Wave’s red-light pavilion and came to a stop.
“Ouch.”
Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
I had healed my internal wound with a simple potion, but now I had a new one.
He coughed up blood with a twisting pain.
“Kuluk! Wook…….”
I lifted my head and stared at where the masked man stood.
The masked man was a disgrace.
A sword at his side, another sword that had stopped short of slashing at his chest.
He was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and the details were gruesome.
But it didn’t cut off his breathing.
And there was someone staring at him.
I turned my head to look.
The figure was six feet tall and packed with muscle.
His face was sharp and angular, his jaw sharp and angular, his eyes like fire.
He looked like a strong man.
Unlike the masked men, his face was uncovered.
And the six black spears on his back.
The one that struck me seemed to be the single black spear in his hand.
In total, the man carried seven spears on his body.
He looked at me with intense eyes and said.
“Open top combat, and with a sword that’s out of its normal orbit. Dangerous.”
He’s a strange man.
He speaks nonchalantly, but the words ripple through his chest as if they were sound waves.
You stare at him with shaky eyes, and he thrusts the spear into your back.
“If it’s any consolation, you’re not fully grown yet, in which case die.”
He muttered to himself and raised the spear.
He pulled back the hand holding the spear, then flung it forward.
Aaaaaaaaaaah!
The black spear flew with tremendous speed.
And it had a lot of energy in it.
The wind whirled around the spear.
A force that shook the ground.
The blade reached my eyes in an instant.
Even the telekinesis of the top fighter was useless.
I couldn’t use my power as if something was blocking it.
‘Oh no…….’
Is this a futile end?
I didn’t let my guard down until the end, and I had momentum.
But everything went wrong with just one person’s rush.
This is the end.
There is no way to stop it.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light.
Kwaaang!
An intense binge.
I shielded my ears with my qin, so my eardrums didn’t burst.
I opened my eyes to see a brilliantly shining sword.
He turned his head to the side and saw a familiar face in blue robes.
“That was dangerous.”
It was Ma Jinchen.
He twisted and gripped his sword.
“Are you the dark-colored seven spears, the Chu Heng Seven Demon Spears of the Second Lieutenant of the Three Demon Soldiers?”
The man’s eyes lit up.
“You recognize me? I didn’t think I’d recognize you, since you’ve long since disappeared from the Zhongyuan, but you do.”
“Three hundred years ago, the Fearless of Blood Heaven. I believe it’s the signature weapon of the Spear Demon among the three divine Laws of the Blood Heaven Sect.”
“That’s irrelevant, who are you to block my attack, you don’t seem like an ordinary late-stage cultivator.”
He pulled out a spear from his back and said.
“Ma Jintian, Eighteen Swordsman of the Sect of the South. Who are you?”
“There are many people, so I can’t tell you who I am. But I can tell you my name. It’s Huang Xin.”
“I’ve never heard of you.”
“Neither have I. You’re still so poorly informed, you can’t even recognize a hidden master…….”
“Me and him are well hidden. I don’t blame your intelligence network.”
“I guess you’re right.”
Huang Xin nodded.
Ma Jintian raised his sword.
“Shall we try?”
Ma Jintian unleashed his momentum.
Zhongnan’s Half Dragon.
As the earth dragon unleashed its momentum, its presence was enormous, as if it was the only one standing on this earth.
“It doesn’t matter, but the damage is too serious.”
Huang Xin looked around and said.
The only remaining masked men were their leader and five others.
Judging from Elder Wenhu’s standing next to him, it seemed that he had come to his aid when he and the Masked Man’s leader were fighting.
Thus, there were still thirteen surviving members of the Huashan and Zhongnan Sects, including Elder Wenhu.