When the negative sword youth spoke, the dragon clan soldiers had already charged forward like raging tigers. Their armor and weapons clashed with a deafening roar. Chu Xisheng's expression turned extremely serious. If they were elsewhere, they would never have fallen into such a perilous situation.
The footsteps of the dragon clan soldiers and the clashing of their armor could be heard from a mile away. But the flowing hot spring water here absorbed and muffled those sounds.
"You go first!" Lu Luanli's expression turned grave as she gripped her straight sword and faced the enemies. "I will do my best to hold them off." Her undercover identity could only be exposed here. Without hesitation, Chu Xisheng shouldered Tie Xiaosheng and began to retreat. Remaining here would burden Lu Luanli. And the person behind her was undoubtedly doomed.
Lu Luanli caught a glimpse of this and couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. "Before you leave, why didn't you leave Tie Xiaosheng behind? He's usually very smart, why is he so clueless about his physical abilities? Clearly, he's someone who gasps for breath after running a short distance, yet he's trying to escape with at least 250 pounds of weight. Can he really get away?" She didn't have time to be distracted by these thoughts, as the negative sword youth leaped directly over the long hot spring pool.
With a sword in hand, he descended like an eagle, aiming the tip of his blade directly at Chu Xisheng's back.
Lu Luanli decisively swung her sword upwards, slashing towards the chest and abdomen of the negative sword youth. There was a light sound between the two, and the negative sword youth was forced to retreat several meters, with bloodstains on his shoulder.
It was a minor injury that had no impact on his fighting ability, but the negative sword youth frowned, looking at the woman in front of him with some surprise. "Nice swordsmanship. At least it's at the level of a seventh-grade martial artist! No wonder you were able to decapitate more than twenty of our people in less than a quarter of an hour. I was wondering, even if Chu Xisheng's swordplay is fast, the speed of killing is too exaggerated. So it was you who truly made the move."
Lu Luanli remained silent, she sheathed her sword, unleashing a curved sword energy that not only killed two people but also forced the dragon soldiers attempting to flank from both sides to retreat.
The negative sword youth didn't pay attention to the fallen dragon soldiers; instead, he looked at the notch on Lu Luanli's straight sword. More precisely, he looked at the notch on her straight sword caused by his sword light during their clash.
"Unfortunately, your sword falls short and doesn't match your swordsmanship." The negative sword youth's lips curled up slightly as he swiftly advanced, his green long sword clashing repeatedly with Lu Luanli's straight sword, creating a series of clanging sounds and sparks flying.
His target, however, was not Lu Luanli herself, but the sword in her hand, causing three more notches to appear on the blade in an instant.Lu Luanli had to take out a platinum-colored talisman while engaging in the fight and slapped it on the blade. This was the 'Geng Yuan Talisman', which could enhance the durability of weapons.
"Are you also practicing both martial arts and magic?" The negative sword youth widened his eyes, even more astonished.
He then sneered inwardly, not expecting such foolishness in the world. Magic not only repels metal, but it is also challenging to blend spiritual power with martial arts true essence. Practicing both before reaching the fourth rank is difficult to be effective, essentially wasting one's talent.
Just then, Lu Luanli suddenly waved her right hand, causing a whirlwind to surge in the cave.Her sword was also mixed in the whirlwind, slashing towards her opponent like white light.
The negative sword youth instinctively tried to dodge, but found himself slightly hindered in his movements by the chaotic whirlwind, unable to switch positions as freely as before.Lu Luanli's sword broke through his sword light defense, leaving a wound on his arm.
"You practice the Divine Eagle Sword."
Lu Luanli's gaze turned cold as she continued to unleash consecutive slashes with her sword. "The question is, can the eagle that fell into the pit still have the ability to dominate the hundred birds?"
The negative sword youth's face darkened slightly as he struggled to defend himself.
His 'Divine Eagle Sword' needed to be complemented with extensive body movement to unleash its true power. In this narrow and low cave, his combat effectiveness was less than seventy percent of his usual strength.
However, in his field of vision, there were already over a dozen Long Clan soldiers bypassing the female obstruction in front of them, rushing towards the direction where Chu Xisheng was trying to escape.
When Chu Xisheng ran about two hundred feet, he couldn't run any further.He breathed heavily, panting like a bull, beads of sweat the size of beans forming on his forehead.Then, a weak voice sounded next to Chu Xisheng's ear: "Brother, please put me down."Chu Xisheng was startled when he turned to look and realized it was Tie Xiaosheng.
The man woke up at this moment, his breath weak, lips pale as he said, "Brother, for the protection and kindness you have shown me, I am grateful from the bottom of my heart. But there's no need to involve you in this. If you put me down now, you might still be able to escape."
Chu Xisheng smiled upon hearing this, glanced around, and indeed found a secluded corner where he gently set Tie Xiaosheng down. Then he walked back to the center of the road, standing tall and firm.
Tie Xiaosheng was puzzled, looking at Chu Xisheng in disbelief. Why didn't this person run away? Did he intend to confront the Long family soldiers alone?
Chu Xisheng had only recently reached the lower ninth rank in cultivation, his true essence unstable and recently breakthrough. Why was he behaving so recklessly?Chu Xisheng held a spare steel knife, suppressing his aura while expressionless, looking at his system panel. The number of his martial points had dropped to twenty-eight.
The key to this system seemed to be the word 'trust.' When people stopped trusting him, his martial points would decrease.
When the Long family soldiers saw Lu Luanli fleeing, they realized that the people they were after were not the ones he had killed. They didn't pay much attention and turned to open the martial treasury, exchanging for a divine power pill first.
As soon as the pill entered his belly, Chu Xisheng felt a surge of power throughout his body. The divine power pill temporarily doubled his strength, increased his speed by sixty percent, and his reaction speed by sixty percent, lasting for twelve hours without stacking.
Next, Chu Xisheng waited quietly. He saw a dozen or so Long family soldiers in leather armor running towards him and the distance between them rapidly closing in.
As the Long family soldiers approached within five zhang, both sides could clearly see each other's faces when the martial treasury in front of Chu Xisheng suddenly changed.
It was exactly the end of the fourth quarter of the child hour, twelve o'clock midnight in the modern world, the moment when the martial treasury refreshed!
Chu Xisheng's eyes quickly scanned the fourteen colorful items in front of him, and his pupils dilated with surprise. This time, if he found something desirable, he would directly exchange for it. If not, he would use martial points to enhance his Wind Chasing Blade and Eye-Piercing Blade intent.
However, the refresh of the treasury this time brought him unexpected joy.
Yang Lei Body, Phase One - permanently enhances fifty percent of true essence, strength, twenty percent speed, twenty percent reaction speed, twenty percent endurance, twenty percent resistance to impact, and breeds pure Yang and thunder power within the body, requiring 25 martial points to exchange.
Star Shift Lightning Step, Phase One - enables one to move like a shooting star and lightning, doubling agility speed and jumping ability, requiring 20 martial points to exchange.
Without hesitation, Chu Xisheng used 25 martial points to choose the Yang Lei Body. Although Star Shift Lightning Step was also excellent, at this moment, the Yang Lei Body that could increase his speed and strength in combat was more useful.
Just as he completed the exchange, the Long family soldiers had already arrived in front of him, their presence audible to each other.