Living Side by Side

This strike brimmed with killing intent and was no trifling matter. Sword qi transformed into a roaring heavenly river and surged toward the Masked Man.

The Masked Man was exceedingly slippery. After making a series of evasive movements, he slipped in through the wooden hut's window. Zhao XiaoMan's sword qi followed close behind, blasting the hut into fragments.

Zhao XiaoMan had painstakingly built this wooden hut. Every furnishing inside had received her careful attention. Now, with a single blow, it was reduced to flying splinters.

Pfft!

Several sprays of blood splattered amid the flying wood chips.

Zhao XiaoMan's heart stirred. Had she succeeded?

She narrowed her eyes, sweeping the area with her senses as she searched for the Masked Man's whereabouts.

There was a pool of blood on the ground, mixed among the broken pieces of wood.

Zhao XiaoMan flicked her sword, sweeping aside the splinters. Looking toward the pool of blood, she found a dead pig lying there. The blood that had just sprayed out had all come from that pig!

"Thank you, Miss Zhao, for helping slaughter the pig. Now we have dinner."

The Masked Man chuckled, pierced the dead pig with his wooden sword, hoisted it over his shoulder, and fled.

Zhao XiaoMan trembled with rage. She had personally destroyed her own wooden hut, yet all she had killed was a pig!

"I'll kill your brother first, then come kill you!" Zhao XiaoMan said viciously.

"Haha, that little mouth of yours is pretty fierce too." Rather than getting angry, the Masked Man laughed.

"My sword is fiercer. Come and try it!"

Zhao XiaoMan pursued him, unleashing one continuous sword move after another, mixed with other techniques, determined to put the Masked Man to death.

The two went back and forth, one chasing and one fleeing, fighting for