The two chased and dodged through the rear courtyard, and before long, they had smashed the courtyard's rockery and walls into scattered ruins, leaving utter devastation behind.
At their level, whatever they struck shattered. Nothing could withstand them.
Lin Shiling had never expected Wei He to break through. The longer she failed to take him down, the more furious she became, unleashing one ruthless move after another.
Relying on speed far beyond hers, Wei He managed to evade in time.
Yet as their exchange dragged on, he vaguely sensed a pair of eyes secretly watching him from the shadows.
Thanks to the vast reserves of blood and vitality from the Whale Flood Art, which far surpassed those of others at his level, Wei He's five senses were also much sharper than those of martial masters of the same rank.
That was why he could faintly detect that barely perceptible gaze.
It made him even less willing to make any covert moves. He could only rely on the fourth layer of Overturning Rain Vigor to keep trading blows and circling around Lin Shiling.
Lin Shiling used a compact grappling technique. Though one move was clearly meant to seize and lock, she unleashed it with the momentum of a mountain-splitting fist.
Moves that should have targeted joints became heavy slaps crashing down, forcefully turning an entire grappling art into a joint-shattering boxing technique.
After several rounds of pursuit, her speed proved too slow to catch him, and she grew even more irritable.
Ha!
She wrapped both arms around a wooden pillar in the rear courtyard and wrenched it hard.
With a sharp crack, the pillar broke free and swept toward Wei He like a long spear.
The pillar's sweep covered nearly half the rear courtyard. There was nowhere to evade.
Wei He