"May I ask, young friend, what you mean by saying that Xin'er has an excess of agility but insufficient force? In this old man's opinion, Xin'er may indeed have had that flaw back then, but I also put her through extensive training. As for her swordsmanship now, I'll say nothing else—her agility is certainly sufficient, but it can hardly be called excessive. As for force, it should already rank among the very best. How could she possibly balance it with even greater strength? Could it be that every sword strike must split mountains and shatter rocks? Wouldn't that give her opponent an opening? To achieve such a balance, I daresay there are few in the world who can manage it." Seeing that I remained silent, Supreme Ascendant Qingwei immediately launched into a whole heap of rebuttals.
Actually, it was no wonder he reacted that way. After fighting Li Poxiao, the old man's confidence had inevitably taken a huge blow. After thinking it over and over, he had decided that he had merely lost to the explosive power of Li Poxiao's Twelve Heavenly Sword Treatises. He did not feel that his own swordsmanship was lacking in the slightest. After all, he had to have something to support his status and keep it from collapsing, didn't he? If even his swordsmanship was no good, wouldn't he have lost all face and sent it flying to Java?
I inwardly cried out that things had gone awry. I had not expected what I considered a fairly mild remark to stab the old senior in the heart. I could only smile faintly and say, "Senior, please calm down. That isn't what I meant. By saying that Xin'er has an excess of agility but insufficient force, I merely mean that she lacks a murderous aura. Her