Qin Qi listened to Li Weiyun's words and secretly grew a little more wary. Yet seeing the latter rush in with his sword, still following the same path of the Heart Piercing Swordplay as before, he could not help lowering his guard by a few degrees.
"Putting on a mystery!" Qin Qi raised his sword to block, his voice full of disdain, anger rising at having been frightened into caution earlier.
But the moment he blocked Li Weiyun's thrust, Qin Qi's expression abruptly changed. In horror, he quickly pulled back to widen the distance.
He secretly rubbed his slightly numb hand, staring at Li Weiyun in alarm.
He was certain that he had completely blocked that strike with his own sword, and Li Weiyun's blade had not carried much force either.
By all reason, a clash of that sort should never have numbed his arm like this, nearly making his meridians cramp...
There was something strange about that strike!
Qin Qi asked warily, "What exactly did you do?!"
Li Weiyun kept a gloomy face and did not answer. His longsword launched another fierce assault.
"You're courting death!" Qin Qi flared up. A trace of icy killing intent shone from his strange eyes, tinged with red. At last, he stopped holding back, and the sword edge he sent back at Li Weiyun carried threads of vicious ruthlessness.
Because of the disparity in their strength, Qin Qi suppressed Li Weiyun so thoroughly that he had no room to act, much less employ that strange sword path again.
Forced onto the defensive, Li Weiyun was soon wounded by Qin Qi's sword. That tricky, ruthless blade nearly severed the meridians in his wrist as it swept past.
Seeing that he was outmatched, Li Weiyun suddenly jabbed several fingers into his own chest, actually choosing