A Girl's Heart Could Sometimes Be More Dangerous Than a Star Beast

Faced with Chen Xing's sudden "declaration of victory."

Tiandao still failed to understand what she meant by it.

But after giving it some thought, he did manage to figure out one thing.

Chen Xing currently held a great deal of resentment toward him—an enormous amount.

As for the source of that resentment, Tiandao guessed that it was because Chen Xing had been suppressed by him for the past two years.

After all, if not for him—

then the position at the Stellar Apex would have always belonged to her.

Thinking this, Tiandao immediately said with a serious expression, "Xing, I have to say something about this. My achievements today are 99% talent plus 1%—"

"Shut up."

Before Tiandao could finish, Chen Xing suddenly cut him off.

At the same time, blood-red light flared in Chen Xing's crimson eyes, and the resentment in her gaze turned to anger.

"Tiandao, so even now, you still think I've merely been desperately chasing after you?"

"Huh?"

Tiandao looked at Chen Xing in confusion, utterly bewildered.

Because he had no idea what Chen Xing was talking about.

But before Tiandao could ask Chen Xing what she meant, Caroline suddenly spoke from nearby.

"Idiot."

Tiandao turned toward Caroline. Though she was pretending to seriously fiddle with the Tactical Tablet, her pair of drooping cat ears had quietly perked up.

This was a unique tell that only appeared when Caroline felt guilty.

Realizing this, Tiandao said in dissatisfaction, "Caroline, why did you suddenly insult me for no reason?"

Faced with Tiandao's questioning, Caroline, unaware that she had already given herself away, directly pretended not to hear him and lowered her head to continue "working."

Watching Caroline deceive herself even now, Tiandao was completely speechless.

Wait, had these two secretly made a private group chat without him?

Otherwise, why couldn't he understand a single thing they were saying?

For no reason at all, Tiandao suddenly recalled something Yun Meng had once said to him.

"Little Tian Dao, a girl's heart can sometimes be even more dangerous than a Star Beast."

He had not understood what that meant before.

But now, he understood.

Because how could a Star Beast's heart possibly be harder to read than a girl's?

At that thought, Tiandao simply gave up trying.

If he could not figure it out, then he would not bother!

"Xing, enough nonsense. If you want to fight, then fight. If you don't, I need to hurry to the cafeteria and eat. Don't waste time."

Hearing Tiandao's words, Chen Xing did not waste any words either. With a sharp clang, the Demonic Blade Blood Flame at her waist was drawn.

Chen Xing's red hair danced wildly amid the heatwave, while the karmic fire coiling around the blade burned the air until it twisted and warped.

To avoid the fierce heatwave rushing toward him, Chen Kong instinctively took half a step back.

He stared at Chen Xing in shock, as if he were getting to know his sister all over again.

Three days ago, Chen Xing had still needed to rely on blood to ignite her flames.

But now, she no longer needed to use blood as kindling as she had before.

And due to the extraordinary compatibility between "Star Core: Blood Flame" and "Star Source: Red Lotus Karmic Fire,"

although Chen Xing had obtained this Star Source only three days ago,

she had already developed it to a high degree.

She could perfectly integrate it into her original supernatural system.

Boom!

Chen Xing transformed into a crimson meteor. In the blink of an eye, she dragged her blade before Tiandao and slashed down.

The strike was so fast that even its afterimage had no time to fade, while the ground where the blade had passed was melted into a deep ravine.

Yet Tiandao reacted to this ferocious strike with ease.

Having acquired "Vector Control," what Tiandao feared least were opponents like Chen Xing, who were both Elemental type and Melee type.

After all, both of those were perfectly countered by his "Vector Control."

Clang!

Tiandao lightly raised his right hand.

The instant his fingertips touched Chen Xing's blade, the violent flames covering it suddenly split apart obediently, as though an invisible palm had casually brushed them aside.

Not only that, Chen Xing, who held the blade in one hand, seemed to be pulled by some terrifying force in that instant.

Her body suddenly toppled in the direction her blade had been deflected, clearly losing her balance somewhat.

Fortunately, Chen Xing was indeed the strongest person beneath Tiandao.

Just as most of her body was about to hit the ground, her left hand swiftly braced against the floor while her right hand swung the blade once more.

With astonishing flexibility, she completed a spinning motion.

The Blood Flame Demonic Blade in her hand drew a perfect arc, aiming straight for Tiandao's ankle.

But Tiandao merely chuckled at that strike, then precisely kicked the flat of the blade with the tip of his shoe.

This kick produced the same effect as before, twisting Chen Xing's force.

It made her hand involuntarily loosen around the weapon, sending it flying from her grasp.

In an ordinary battle, Tiandao could have attacked Chen Xing now that she was without a weapon.

But because of their prior agreement, Tiandao could only watch as Chen Xing performed a backflip, caught the hilt of the Demonic Blade falling through the air, and charged at him again.

But under the absolute gap in strength and the Star Source countering her,

Chen Xing, who currently only had close combat and fire coating at her disposal, had absolutely no way of dealing with Tiandao's Vector Control.

Because the flame damage she took such pride in had no room to shine before Tiandao's Vector Control.

As for swordsmanship?

Chen Xing's swordsmanship was good, but Tiandao, who possessed the Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye, could perfectly counter every one of her sword techniques.

Because those eyes allowed Tiandao to perfectly predict every movement Chen Xing would make within the next second.

Her Star Source was countered, her base attributes were countered, and even her swordsmanship was suppressed.

It could be said that although Chen Xing's strength surpassed everyone other than Tiandao,

Tiandao found fighting her much easier than fighting anyone else.

It could not be helped. His "Vector System" innately countered Melee Elemental types like Chen Xing.

Under this absolute suppression and absolute counter,

even though Chen Xing's strength had improved tremendously,

she ultimately still failed to force Tiandao out of that tiny one-meter circle within three minutes.

Because whenever Chen Xing attacked, Tiandao could effortlessly divert the flames covering her blade.

And the force on her blade would always rebound back in some bizarre fashion.

Of course, the most frightening part was that Tiandao could respond to Chen Xing's every attack in advance.

It was as if the one fighting her was not Tiandao, but her future self.

Under such absolute suppression, the three minutes quickly ran out.

"Time's up."

Seeing that the time was about right, Caroline suddenly announced the end of the game from afar.

Hearing her words, Chen Xing abruptly withdrew the flames around her body and sheathed the Demonic Blade with a cold expression.

"Xing, it seems I won again this time."

Tiandao said with a smile as he looked at the expressionless Chen Xing.

But to his surprise, faced with his "provocation," Chen Xing—who would usually flare up and argue with him—fell into an eerie silence and did not say a word.

She calmly turned and left the training room, leaving the utterly baffled Tiandao standing where he was.

Watching her departing back, Tiandao could not help asking Caroline beside him, "Caroline, did I hit Xing so hard that she doesn't even want to speak anymore?"

Seeing that even now Tiandao still did not understand what Chen Xing was actually "angry" about,

Caroline immediately gave him an answer he could not understand at all.

"It's nothing. She wasn't discouraged. She just thinks there's nothing to say to a block of wood."

"???"

Amid Tiandao's sea of question marks, Caroline also left the training room on her own for some reason.

Watching the two cryptic people leave one after another, Tiandao felt for the first time that his brain was not quite enough.

At that thought, he looked toward Chen Kong, who wore the same blank expression nearby, and asked, "Kong, do you know what they mean?"

Chen Kong thought for a moment, then shook his head apologetically, indicating that he did not understand either.

"I think you're a block of wood too. You can't even figure that out. What use are you?"

With that, Tiandao ignored Chen Kong's baffled expression and hurried off to the cafeteria for a meal.