"Hold on!" Caught off guard, Wu Feng stared unblinkingly at the sword tip that was rapidly closing in.
Employing first level Shadow Step instinctively not for concealment but for short bursts of speed, he jumped back with cold sweat flowing down his forehead.
Song Shui Lian felt more enraged upon watching her attack easily evaded by the treacherous pervert. Like a lion that was suddenly awoken from sleep, she employed Dragonfly Fleeting Step. She seemed to be in one place at a time, then appeared in another place the next. Her movement was as elegant as dragonfly stepping over water, coming and going without a ripple. Like illusion, she appeared behind Wu Feng.
Wu Feng felt a sharp point pricked the skin on his back. With quick reflex he intentionally fell forward to the ground, then rolled away.
Before he could take a breath, a sharp wind splitting sound whistled over. Song Shui Lian was high in the air, her sword diagonally thrust down to the crouching down Wu Feng.
Dang!
Bright azure and emerald light intertwined one another.
In the dire second, Wu Feng had taken out his shield.
He frantically shouted, "Listen to me!"
But Song Shui Lian seemed to have gone deaf. She jumped back to channel her energy into the brightly glowing sword. She was gathering energy for an explosive thrust.
Despite her Pure Water spiritual roots, she didn't look gentle like water at all.
Wu Feng knew that he had to find a way to explain himself or it won't be good for him. Status wise he could not just force his will through to stop the fight. They were on the same level of social status after all.
And worse, his cultivation base was even two levels lower.
So he could only swallow down his grievance and took the fight seriously or he might suffer severe injuries.
He took a deep breath down. His eyes became sharp. He silently circulated qi from his dantian to his skin and blended it with his aura.
After finishing her preparation, Song Shui Lian leaped forward like a fish jumping over upstream current. She thrust her sword forward, producing countless shadows of sword tips. The sword attack looked like a violent waterfall falling down from high heaven. Indeed, water did not only contain gentle force. It could also become violent at times. This is a perfect example of Yin force at the peak transforming into Yang force.
When the barrage of sword tips filled with penetrating water qi came near Wu Feng's shadow, his entire body became blurry, like a rippled moon reflection in agitated pond's surface. Shadow Step level four!
Song Shui Lian felt her sword only pierced air. She was a little surprised. Wu Feng who suddenly became blurry had leaped away. Song Shui Lian lost sight of him in the darkness of night. She halted her attack then vigilantly jumped back, waving her sword to circle around her body in vigilance.
She swiped her glance over her surroundings, while her senses were operated at the peak.
"What a ferocious girl. What goddess? What water spiritual roots? She was like a flood demoness instead!"
Wu Feng cursed. He ducked down in a nearby bush under a tree. His back was hot, and on his chest there were some swallow wounds. The sword did not touch his skin but the aura alone had wounded him. He had to stow away his shield because the emerald light will give away his position when he used Shadow Step.
This is one of the weaknesses of low level Shadow Step. A Qi Condensation cultivator could not manipulate the elements qi freely yet, so they could only refract light using their aura to make them look blurry. They could not directly exert qi to the outside of their body to completely refract light, making the cultivator invisible.
A fifth level Qi Condensation indeed is frightening. She was above his current league in power and technique.
Song Shui Lian could not spot Wu Feng, but she caught sight of a few drops of blood in the soil where Wu Feng stood and the leaves around it.
She knew then that he did not escape her attack completely but he was still only suffered a light wound.
Half annoyed and half satisfied, she spoke, "pervert thief, come out and show yourself! Don't think that you can escape from me!"
"What to do?" Wu Feng frowned deeply, he thought very hard how to escape this predicament. He was outside their detection range and fifth level Qi Condensation cultivator's divine sense is still weak so he should have some time before they could found him.
Seven girls, one is a ferocious lion, two are her guards at fourth level Qi Condensation, the others are at third level.
"Song clan seemed to be very strong. Two genius disciples at fourth level of Qi Condensation at the same age were employed as her guards. In my clan only Wu Yan Fei is at fourth level in the same age." He sighed.
Seeing that there was no response, Song Shui Lian became smug. "Hmph, coward pervert thief, you don't dare to come forward and take responsibility for your action?"
Wu Feng's cheek twitched hearing that. She even added a coward now! Seemed she had gotten cheeky from her small victory.
"Coward little pervert thief, come out!"
"Coward little pervert thief that only dare to bully weak girl, don't you dare to face goddess Song?"
"Shameless coward little pervert thief, show your face!"
By now the girl called sister Yan by others had already recovered. She looked around with a blushed face. Her eyes were still stained with wet tears.
Wu Feng's chest heaved up and down. Hot steam was coming freely out from his head. He never felt so humiliated like today. Usually it was him that bully others, now he was being the one bullied.
"Screw all of this! Do you think I am afraid of you all? Fine then, don't blame me for being impolite!" He muttered with gritted teeth.
He poked his head from behind the tree, carefully assessing the situation. Song Shui Lian was carefully walking around the place where he stood earlier. The other girls were walking forward, spreading like a net to trap him within. It seemed they have planned this beforehand with transmitted messages.
Wu Feng took out a rope to make a simple lasso. This special rope is very durable, able to withstand sharp weapon. Although it can not stand the attack from a treasure, it was enough for his purpose.
He blurred into the dark night. He lightly jumped like a weightless leopard that grew wing on his back.
The next moment he was perched atop a tree branch. A girl was walking slowly below. He tied the rope to the branch then slowly slide down like a spider hanging from its web, the other end of the rope was rolled on his forearm.
The unsuspected prey was shouting insults to provoke Wu Feng out.
Suddenly she felt her body was electrocuted. She could not scream, only helplessly accept her body being dragged upward.
Wu Feng gagged her mouth with a meat bun he took out from his mother's pouch. If his mother knew that the meat bun she cooked was used in such a manner, it is unknown whether she would spank her beloved son or maybe start a marriage talk with the girl's parents. He tied a handkerchief over the girl's mouth to prevent her from throwing up the meat bun.
"Hehehe..." he chuckled with an evil laugh. Of course he only dared to transmit it. He continued, "you have to savor it. This delicious meat bun was cooked by my mother."
"Mmph..." the girl squirmed and whimpered with an audible sound. She felt a complicated emotion. To be fed by a man using his mother's cooking? It was the first time for her! It should be a romantic story to be told, but why everything felt very wrong?! Should she blush with embarrassment or anger? She never experienced such a situation before, so she did not know how to react.
When the girl was absorbed in her imagination, Wu Feng moved to his next target. He used a small part of the engraved wood he chiseled from his Lightning Coiled in Arrow to stun his targets.
Because it was a small part and chiseling it basically damaging the spiritual array, the power is very limited. But as long as the victim is below Foundation Establishment Realm, the stun effect is guaranteed! Of course, had his father knew what Wu Feng had done using the arrow he would spank him without mercy.
One by one the girls had been trapped inside of his webbing trap. Wu Feng caught each girl covertly by watching their movements and planned accordingly to evade their detection.
The experienced girls never tasted true battle and in their agitation to find Wu Feng they rushed forward without keeping watch of each other. Even their transmission network slowly filled with random chatter.
They were different from Wu Feng who liked to stalk wild beasts in the forest inside Wu Clan's territory and often also have to evade his brothers and sisters chase.
Sister Yan leaned back on tree bark, staring at Wu Feng's fading back with a pounding heart. Why did she felt that this man is somewhat captivating? And why did she felt that she had fallen into an abyss she must not enter when she thought that? This is a mysterious and peculiar feeling. She felt afraid but curious, she could not stop herself to be lost in a wild imagination. She swallowed a bit of the meat bun stuffed in her mouth. Delicious...
The demon spider Wu Feng finally set his sight on a challenging and fat prey, one of Song Shui Lian's guards! He better pray that she would not know he thought of her as fat prey while being absorbed in his role-playing as a spider demon hunting a group of helpless sect fairies that was entering a demon's den carelessly.