Fearless Ignorance

Before he had time to think, Lu Bu relied almost entirely on the instincts honed through years of battle. Fang Tian Hua Ji spun one and a half times, meeting the descending right-hand halberd head-on. He forcibly stopped himself in midair, splitting his legs wide into a perfect horizontal split and buying himself that sliver of time. Borrowing the force of Dian Wei's right-hand halberd, he swept the shaft of Fang Tian Hua Ji around, barely knocking it aside before Dian Wei's left-hand halberd could cleave him in two.

Seeing that his nearly ambush-like attack had failed despite relying on Lu Bu knowing nothing about him, Dian Wei was unwilling to accept it. His right leg lashed out like a whip and slammed into Lu Bu's waist. The shining armor, formed entirely from condensed externalized Qi, exploded on the spot beneath that kick. Lu Bu spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent tumbling into the sky.

Dian Wei crashed to the ground with a boom, the force of his descent smashing a huge crater into the earth. He raised his head and looked toward the sky.

A streak of red light flashed. Lu Bu straightened himself in midair and landed steadily on Red Hare. "Cough, cough!" He spat out two more mouthfuls of blood before finally feeling somewhat better. After circulating his Qi once, he found that, fortunately, his injuries were not serious.

Though these exchanges seemed to have taken a long time, in reality, from Dian Wei's landing to Lu Bu landing on Red Hare and standing in the air, barely a second had passed.

In that brief second, the situation on the field had changed again and again. Zhang Fei, who had seemed invincible just moments ago, had run off. Before everyone could even figure out