40 Feng Wu trap and Shi's last chance
Shi was already starting to feel tired, evading Xinghong offensive with a woman tied in his back wasn't easy, even if she wasn't that heavy it still slowed him and with his left arm in a bad state, his movement was too limited to evade, block and clash against his enemy.
That's why he took out his last weapons, the exploding pentagon he made out of wood and spirit diagrams, he was running out of time so it was best to make a great offensive move and run away.
Xinghong was apprehensive at the wooden things, he couldn't just evade or cut it, the last explosion covered a large area, so he decided to wait for Shi's move but Shi was also waiting for his movement. In the end, they are at a dead-lock analyzing each other's movements carefully.
Shi's first thought was to just rush near Xinghong and explode the pentagons, it was, of course, stopped by Long Shin asking why he always tried to cripple himself with suicide attacks.
Long Shin followed his harsh comment saying "You are focusing too much in the explosion and not on the 'ice' rune kid, this guy has an annoying martial spirit, his movement would always be free and formless because of it, you should use the 'ice' rune to restrain it and then use your own swordplay to give him a deep wound, and for fuck sake run as fast you could from here".
His father's words made him blush, it was true he always would try to make suicide attacks and even become addict to it since the day he fought that tiger, but it always worked, even if he got a deep wound he could always get better with medicine and time.
Long Shin activate the heavenly circlet using Shi's spirit qi and started to chant the <Vipassana>, Shi's mind got empty right away, he could feel his spirit qi being sucked dry by the circlet, but the qi in his surroundings was also being sucked by it.
"This time you were in a thought fight since your body is in this state and you were carrying someone at your back, we need the best performance we could get, I will help you this time, so pay attention to my words and try to follow them with your body" said Long Shin as he locked his sight at Xinghong.
A deep feeling of dread wrapped Xinghong who didn't understand why he was feeling this danger, even if he almost got hurt last time, in his head, Shi was a lowly cultivator, and even if he had a great background he was still a 4th layer cultivator.
Yong who was in an aggressive fight against Jiangi also felt danger wrapping his heart, his sixth sense was always on point, that was one of the traits that made him a good shrewd cultivator after all, after the ice explosion he was fighting with everything he had, he was always a pessimist, and with this dread feeling he starter to get anxious.
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As the fighting was still in a deadlock in the clearing where Cuifen was being held, the battle on the campsite was heated to high degrees, this time everyone was fighting, from elders to outer disciples.
After Long Shin shout Meng'er felt that something was fishy ordering everyone to go and battle and everyone who was taking it easy would be treated as a traitor, a lot of people was mad at Long Shin's shout, not because they are traitors but because since the fight was between the sect leaders even if their side loses they could always surrender, but now everyone was battling.
Long Shin's thoughts are correct, seeing the offensive Blossom Lotus was about to start Evil's Cloud gave the order to attack at full power, and from the woods, two groups of cultivators wearing the inner and core disciples robes came out led by a foxy woman with perfect curves, she was using a fan to hide her mocking expression at the thought of the Blossom Lotus struggle.
Meng'er only spared a glance at the woman, and seeing her cultivation being at the spirit awakening realm she started to understand some of Evil's Cloud motivation, two-spirit awakening cultivators are a great force to be considered within the valley.
But she wasn't afraid, she knew the sly woman and understanding she depends on dual cultivation to improve her realm.
So Meng'er knew she was weaker than a normal spirit awakening cultivator, with a 'hmph' from her nose she turned again to Evil Cloud and restarted their fight, she couldn't let him alone, he was the real dangerous enemy here.
Feng Wu could feel the hidden disdain on Meng'er eyes leaving a bad taste on her mouth, but she knew it wasn't time for a tantrum, she also felt others looking at her, she knew there was a lot of enemies dreading her, this gave her a sweet feeling of being on the highlight making her smile even more snobbish "So what if you disdain at me? I am still stronger than 99.99% of people here".
But two women were looking at her with more curiosity than dread on their eyes, one of them was the daughter of Meng'er, the owner of the hottest voice on the valley, Daiyu Jiao, she was feeling the aura of Shi on the foxy woman, making her doubt her loyalty to Evil Cloud sect, of course, she didn't know she was far too wrong on her presumption.
The other one was Yue who now had a karma line connecting her and Shi, she could feel the same energy Jiao was feeling, but for some reason, the top of her forehead was giving her a bad tingling every time she looked at the woman.
Twitching her mouth a little as she thought about him, she started to dart her eyes throughout the battlefield she was looking for Xinghong and the others storm clouds, she knew they were the real battle force and a great enemy for her sect.
Not seeing a single one of those dangerous characters her thoughts started to race, she knew Shi was fighting against Linghu hours ago, but none of them was here, if it wasn't for the voice who shouted was different from Shi's voice, she would think it was him.
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Xinghong glanced at the wooden planks on Shi's hands and then decided to not let him start those things, in his mind since he had several it would take time to active it.
As Shi evaded Xinghong assaults, he unloaded the spirit jade qi inside, and after infusing with his own spirit qi he then shot those wooden pentagons on the floor, trying to make a perimeter with them, inside the spirit diagram was only his spirit qi, activating it, making it slowly convert his spirit qi in ice qi.
Feeling the wind getting colder Xinghong started to have goosebumps, now he knew what Shi was trying to do, but as he looked at Shi he could see he was also facing the same problem as him, making him think about what he was hiding.
Suddenly as the clearing got, even more, colder Xinghong felt a throb at his dantian, the yin qi he was suppressing with the help of the extreme yang pill started to get stronger and revolt again, but this time wasn't his yang qi who was getting weak, but the cold air was strengthening the yin qi.
Getting anxious at this and shooting a glance at the nearest wooden pentagon he decided to destroy it.
But how could Shi let him do whatever he wanted? Not only he spent his time to cut those things but also his money to carve those spirit diagrams, seeing now the advantage it was giving him, he shot at Xinghong.
As the Xinghong rapier was slashing from above Shi's spirit sword was thrusting at his dantian, seeing the vicious blade thrusting at him he stopped his attack and used the slash to block Shi's assault.
"CLANG" the two blades crashed and a loud and heavy metal clanging sounded in the cold clearing.
"Don't let him get his balance back again, keep up with your assault, not only his movements are slower but his spirit qi is getting chaotic again" Long Shin instructed as he kept chanting <Vipassana>.
This time whoever wasn't necessary to warn him, Shi could see it with his celestial eyes and he would never let the enemy get his advantage back, using his <Light Spirit Steps> at the fullest he shot forward leaving after images.
"CLAAANG" this time the clash was way more violent giving their inner organs a shake, but happily Shi was with the advantage this time since his enemy body was working to maintain the balance of his qi.
With a confident smile he shot forward again, his spirit qi was being spent at a visible rate, but he didn't care, all he needed was to give the enemy some deep wound and run.
Annoyed at the wooden pentagons, an idea popped up in Xinghong head, then using his <Fleeting Cloud Steps> he shot backward, he was trying to get off the perimeter, being just a little faster than Shi, but he made a great mistake in a fight.
He took his foot off the floor leaving his body drifting in the air, this took the support of his gravity center making him an easy target, he wasn't a spirit awakening cultivator that could create clouds of nowhere like his father.
When Shi saw this his heart almost exploded with joy, finally a chance.
Suddenly the beautiful fiery pinky eyes of Cuifen opened because of the abrupt movement, her sleepy eyes could only see a tiny bit of what was happening before close again, her head falling at Shi's shoulder again.
Because of the heavenly circlet and the <Vipassana Chanting>, he could sense the movement at his back and shoulder, but it wasn't time for it, stomping his feet again on the floor he became a rocket shooting forward.
Lifting his spirit sword to the left shoulder he made a cross slash and put every single particle of his spirit qi on this attack.
Seeing the enemy's sword infused with huge energy Xinghong felt his heart stop for a second in his head he was already dead, he could only lift his rapier in a defensive stance holding it with both of his hands as his body drifted backward.
When Shi's sword was in the middle of the slash he felt emptiness on his right hand again making his heart tremble with hate "IF YOU WANT TO GO AWAY, THEN GO ALREADY!" he yelled in his mind as he closed his eyes.
It was all his last chance if this attack failed he would be dead for sure, as he felt his hand become empty, and empty dreadness took over his body.
But then he heard the sound of wind being cut as his sword training all over the years played in his mind like a movie and then a giant crescent moon shining in sky-blue color was shot through the clearing.
"SWORD AURA!" the hearts of everyone present shuddered in dread.
