Heavenly Mountain Child Elder's sneak attack had come very suddenly, but it was not at all unexpected.
Ye Weiming knew that Heavenly Mountain Child Elder had not fully recovered her strength. Of her ninety years of cultivation, she had probably recovered only around thirty. Factoring in the time skip created by the plot's progression, she might have improved since Fei Yu located her, but at most she had regained a little over sixty years.
At that level, Heavenly Mountain Child Elder could not possibly be a match for Ye Weiming.
Putting himself in her shoes, Ye Weiming quickly came up with a series of tactics centered around ambushes and underhanded attacks that could improve Heavenly Mountain Child Elder's odds under such extremely unfavorable circumstances.
Among all those tactics, using Yinchuan to draw Ye Weiming's attention first while hiding nearby to launch a sneak attack ranked third in stupidity—surpassed only by confronting him head-on and blindly ambushing him without any cover.
All in all, this was probably the best solution a brute could come up with.
While secretly despising Heavenly Mountain Child Elder's tactical blunder, a low dragon's roar sounded beneath Ye Weiming's feet out of nowhere. He followed with a kick aimed straight at Heavenly Mountain Child Elder's face.
His kick was neither fast nor slow, almost exactly matching the speed of Heavenly Mountain Child Elder's palm strike. Considering who had moved first, it was even slightly slower. But accounting for the difference between their arm and leg lengths, a quick calculation showed that his foot would definitely reach her face before her palm could hit him.
Heavenly Mountain Child Elder was furious. This hateful brat was clearly taking advantage of her short arms!
Yet her anger could not change the fact that her arms were short. Left with no