Petty Tricks, How Dare You Bark?

Petty tricks—how dare you bark so wildly?

The next day.

The golden crow spread its wings and soared high.

The master and disciple, who had risen early, had already begun training.

Endless sword shadows stabbed at Long Fan from every direction.

But Long Fan had grown used to this sort of situation.

The pair of Bamboo Swords in his hands danced swiftly back and forth.

Their speed was not the slightest bit slow.

Not only did they guard his front, they also kept watch on his left and right.

A string of soft thuds rang out.

It was like rain striking banana leaves, sounding without end...

Compared to the Owl Ants' charge back then, this was countless times more fierce.

Yet strangely, Long Fan actually blocked it just like that.

For a while, Yang Haoyu, without using spiritual power to assist him, unexpectedly could not break through his defense.

Suddenly, light flashed on Yang Haoyu's Bamboo Sword.

A smear of white light swelled in an instant and stabbed toward Long Fan.

Long Fan focused completely, and the hilt of the sword in his left hand knocked against the sword in his right.

With a clang, the sword in his right hand immediately blocked horizontally in front of his chest.

At the same time, the longsword in his left hand swept outward.

Golden light flashed.

A Thrust struck straight against the other party's Bamboo Sword.

Unfortunately, Long Fan's sword was still knocked aside.

The Bamboo Sword's forward stabbing trajectory had not changed in the slightest.

However, by using that instant of blocking just now, Long Fan had already activated a body-protecting defensive skill.

A layer of pale golden light lit up from his body.

The sword in his right hand instantly stabbed into the ground.

A surge of golden light erupted abruptly, rising a full two meters and more.

It was precisely Ascension Array.

A third-tier skill of the Punishment Knight!

By relying on the light and sacred attribute unique to knights, it formed a layer of light shield that produced all-around defense equal to one's own spiritual power.

A crisp clang rang out.

Yang Haoyu's charged stab struck the Ascension Array.

In an instant, a layer of golden halo rippled out around Long Fan.

Fortunately, the golden light screen blocked the spiritual power Yang Haoyu had used in that stab and dissolved the attack.

Withdrawing his Bamboo Sword, Yang Haoyu nodded with a smile.

"Very good. Turning movement into stillness."

Long Fan, however, was panting hard. The mana-consuming Ascension Array had also cost him quite a bit.

The front of his clothes was already soaked through with sweat.

Deep Blue!

Continue adding points to Lightning Thrust.

Evening.

This time, it became actual combat training.

Long Fan went deep into Tor Mountain alone to hunt magical beasts.

Whoosh.

A pitch-black shadow swept past through the bushes.

Long Fan instantly stopped in his tracks.

He took a leaping step to the side.

At the same time, both his hands drew the Bamboo Swords from his back, entering a state of alert.

Using spirit power, he saw at a glance exactly what had been about to attack him.

A Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard, a peak second-tier magical beast.

Its entire body was dark green, and its four limbs were short, thick, and powerful.

The hooked tail behind it kept swaying back and forth.

Two pairs of brown eyes were fixed on him. It looked very much like a huge mutated crocodile from his previous life.

Each tier of magical beast was divided into four levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and peak.

The biggest difference between them and wild beasts was that they could use spirit power to strengthen themselves or attack their enemies.

This Scorpion-Tailed Lizard was exactly that kind—a carnivorous magical beast.

Its tail hook was poisonous, and its weak point was under its belly.

Though it was called a lizard, it looked more like the Scorpion King Super Beast from Super Beast Armed.

Both its color and patterns, as well as that swaying scorpion tail, matched.

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's four brown eyes spun about as it stared viciously at Long Fan.

Its huge mouths split open, revealing ghastly white teeth, and it let out hissing cries.

It seemed to be pondering whether such a small human would even be enough to pick its teeth.

Long Fan raised his middle finger and made a provocative gesture.

"Come at me!"

After all, in his previous life, there had been people who got bitten for giving a dog the middle finger.

And the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard was fairly intelligent. Its brown eyes immediately burst with savage light.

It lifted its heads and roared.

"Woof-tsk!" x2

After Long Fan drew its aggro, he gripped the Bamboo Swords tightly in both hands.

But he did not act rashly, and he certainly did not turn and run.

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The Scorpion-Tailed Lizard was extremely fast when sprinting over short distances.

As a knight, he could never leave his back to the enemy.

Whoosh—

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard had been enraged. Its thick, powerful limbs stomped hard against the ground.

It pounced straight at Long Fan.

Long Fan smiled faintly.

"Perfect timing!"

His goal was to lure it out of the bushes and onto the open flat ground.

First, to keep his attack line of sight from being obstructed.

Second, to stop it from burrowing back into the bushes and fleeing if it could not win.

Just as the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard closed in and was about to bite him, Long Fan stepped sideways, and the pair of Bamboo Swords in his hands slashed out viciously.

They struck its two heads.

Two muffled thuds rang out!

He smashed the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard right back down to the ground.

But the moment its body hit the ground, it swept its poisonous hooked tail over.

Long Fan leapt up, jumping more than half a zhang into the air.

At the same time, he brought both swords downward to block, chopping aside the upright poisonous tail strike.

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard missed its attack, then pounced toward Long Fan again.

It was not going to play some turn-based attack game with him.

Its drooling mouths let out a woof-tsk-tsk sound.

Its body seemed to swell a little.

It was a Charge skill that strengthened its own body.

And those blood-red teeth turned even more ferocious.

Spirit Power Enhancement: Red Fang!

But Long Fan only gave a cold laugh and swung his swords, spirit power covering them.

"Hmph. Parlor tricks!"

His right-hand sword stabbed into the ground.

The Ascension Array rapidly took shape.

With two clangs, both of the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's heads slammed into the Ascension Array at the same time.

Red Fang was blocked by a layer of golden light.

The momentum of Charge was rebounded as well, forcing it to land.

However, the opponent's attack was not to be underestimated either.

The Ascension Array also began trembling violently.

Long Fan did not slack off. Seizing the chance, he leaned his upper body back with force, and his left-hand sword swept out with all his might.

This strike lashed viciously across the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's lower jaw.

The latter immediately let out a pained whimpering screech.

But at the same time, Long Fan's left leg suddenly swept out horizontally.

It kicked the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard in the lower jaw once more.

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard could not keep its balance and was kicked upward.

Its fatal weakness—its abdomen—was wide open.

After landing, Long Fan adhered to the principle of taking your life while you were down.

The Bamboo Sword, wrapped in a faint layer of spiritual power, thrust upward like lightning.

With a pfft!

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's lower abdomen was pierced through.

Amid shrill screams, it crashed to the ground in a sorry state.

But its hooked scorpion tail swept over in an instant.

A final flash of life, a dying struggle.

But Long Fan had already predicted it.

Once his strike landed, he showed not the slightest greed for another blow.

He quickly hopped back, dodging the Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's final attack.

The Two-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lizard's body twisted violently, the pain beneath its abdomen making it scream again and again.

Dark-brown blood soaked a large stretch of earth.

Long Fan first observed it calmly for a moment.

Only when the other party's aura had completely withered did he begin finishing it off.

"Be good and become my Attribute Points and experience points!"

A pair of Bamboo Swords.

They stabbed into the two heads as fast as lightning.

For the final killing blow, he used the third-rank skill Deep Blue had processed not long ago—Lightning Thrust.

In an instant, he concentrated all the spiritual power in his body into a single point.

It produced explosive piercing damage.

Very soon, the Deep Blue System began calculating the reward of combat Attribute Points.

Only then did Long Fan know that the demonic beast before him was completely dead.

As for Long Fan's whole sequence of battle tempo...

Even Yang Haoyu, who was hidden in the shadows, could not help muttering inwardly, "Nice!"