CHAPTER 137: CHAPTER 39 DEFEAT THE ENEMY! SMALL CLOUD TRACE STEPS_2

A broken sword that has never been sharpened, this woman who popped up halfway through, dares to compare skills with her using this sword, it’s simply an insult to her.

After observing for a while, Li Geshu had confirmed that Yue Jinghua was not some Dan Realm Expert; at most, she was nothing more than an ant-like Dark Practitioner who was good at concealing Dark Energy, with a Cultivation at most only reaching Dark Jade level.

"It’s lucky you reminded me, I almost forgot," Yue Jinghua withdrew her sword at an extremely slow speed, the blade drew an inconspicuous arc under the moonlight. She did not retract the sword, but instead turned it around, aiming the hilt at Lihua Xue, "There’s no need to use a cleaver to kill a pig. To deal with someone like you, using the sword hilt is more than enough."

"You!" Li Shuge was completely enraged, she didn’t use the Xuan Crystal Cannon anymore, instead pouncing forward in an ambush.

Li Geshu’s signature technique was her Spiritual Snake Triple Stab. The Bone Piercing Three-Section Whip in her hands was made from the bones and skin of the Rock Cave Snake, extremely flexible, it could stretch and retract from a foot to several meters, and the whip body was covered with the cave snake’s poisonous scales, which could corrode the wound at the slightest touch.

The whip whistled through the air, and in the midst of a violent shake, the leaves of a ten-year-old Cold Life Wood tree behind Yue Jinghua fell, leaving a several inches deep mark on the trunk.

How could this whip not have harmed her? Yue Jinghua had already dodged to the side, just by a hair’s breadth, yet she was unscathed.

Li Geshu felt frustrated in her heart, the Bone Whip in her hand contracted and stretched freely, striking again with a swift lash. This time, it was about to wrap around Yue Jinghua’s arm.

She awaited the scene of scales piercing flesh and blood spraying everywhere.

But the figure ahead flashed again, just within a breath’s distance, missing by just a gasp, she sidestepped once more.

In the woods, two figures passed through the trees like butterflies, Xie Yu after listening for a while, showed a hint of a smirk on his lips.

All of a sudden, his smirk froze, his fingers waved in the void, to no effect.

"Who’s there?" Xie Yu was on alert, holding his breath, listening intently once again.

Only the more urgent, more violent and chaotic footsteps of Li Shuge could be heard, along with Yue Jinghua’s irregular, yet incredibly nimble evasive movements.

"Maybe I’m being too sensitive. But what kind of movement technique is that little demon using? It seems like no one on the continent has ever used such a technique before," just then, Xie Yu had felt a faint hostility nearby, but soon the feeling had vanished.

Yue Jinghua’s movements quickly shifted his attention.

"Tsk, what a monster. In just a short half-month, she has improved so much," Xie Yu’s words didn’t hold much reservation. On the contrary, there was a slight sense of joy hidden within them.

Because of his good relations with the Xiao Yi King, Xie Yu was very aware of Yue Jinghua’s martial skills and Cultivation.

A waste who had trouble gathering Dark Energy in her Dantian, who just a few months ago wasn’t even a Dark Human. Yet now, this waste was battling against a female mercenary Strongman at the Dark Earth Peak level with rich hunting experience, and not falling behind at all.

Xie Yu was certain that during their encounter with the Fire Dragon Sail, Yue Jinghua had not mastered this set of movement techniques. Only half a month had passed, and she had learned a technique that even Dark Earth experts couldn’t cope with.

Xie Yu pondered in secret; even if he relied on his Shadow Clone, he wasn’t completely sure that he could catch Yue Jinghua within the time it took to drink a cup of tea, "Self-preservation is more than sufficient, but if one wanted to Defeat the enemy decisively, some tricks would be needed. It’s a pity though, this set of movement techniques can only dodge, not attack, its biggest flaw..."

"!!" Xie Yu suddenly froze.

In his mind, a scene flashed reflexively.

It had been many years, Xie Yu couldn’t remember how many years it had been since the first time he killed someone. His master, Chou Yisha, who had killed over a thousand assassin Strongmen barehanded in the trenches, once told him.

A true assassin knows every weakness of their enemies; they may not be the strongest Dark Practitioner, but they dare to challenge themselves more than anyone else.

Against any kind of opponent, they can always stand invincible.

Assassins are those who create miracles, achieving the impossible.

The sound of a blunt weapon breaking bones, this strike was on the top of the skull, a muffled hit, and then another strike, this time with the sound of ribs breaking...

Finally, a sword pierced the Dantian, the muffled sound of the Dantian shattering, like a mute firecracker bursting open.

All returned to silence.

Yue Jinghua’s actions, compared to her remarkable movement technique, were unimpressive.

But each of her strikes was timed perfectly, hitting Li Geshu’s vital points dead on.

Even though it couldn’t be seen, Xie Yu could imagine that Li Shuge was now limp on the ground like a piece of useless mud.

Finally, there was the heavy sound of a body hitting the ground.

"What a pity, you were too arrogant. Otherwise, if you had used the Xuan Crystal Cannon, I wouldn’t have been able to kill you so easily," Yue Jinghua’s Small Cloud Trace Steps completely threw Li Geshu off balance.

She even forgot to use her strongest move, the Xuan Crystal Cannon, which could have given her a chance to escape.

Yue Jinghua picked up the Xuan Crystal Cannon and carefully studied the grooves on it. This groove was somewhat similar to the groove on her "Lianyun" sword.

Yue Jinghua was looking intently, but the person above her was not willing to wait.

"Hey, Yue Jinghua, have you forgotten? I am still up here. You should at least thank me. If it weren’t for me keeping my mouth shut tighter than a clam, you would have been hunted by the Blue Crystal Mercenary Group throughout the city by now," Xie Yu, who had been hanging in the air for a long time, complained with a sense of grievance.

Today was the fifteenth, such moonlight, such a beautiful scenery, he should have been in Qianbin Building, embracing a newly bought Beautiful Concubine from the north, enjoying fine wine and delicacies.

"Let him come down," Yue Jinghua said without even looking up, seemingly speaking to someone else.

Before Xie Yu could grumble more, he only felt a dull pain in his spine as if someone had kicked him. With a "whoosh," he tumbled down from the tree.