"!!"
"Huh?"
After withdrawing his move, Qian, the thousand-household commander who had been on the verge of winning, was naturally surprised. He couldn't help crying out in astonishment, unable to understand what had just happened.
He had seen that Yue Lingshan's move seemed to share the same subtlety as the White Cloud Swordsman's "White Clouds Emerging from the Mountain." The sword appeared slow, but was actually swift, and the tip quivered, splitting into several flashes of cold light. If he hadn't retreated just now, he might have been stabbed full of holes and left bleeding on the spot before he could claim victory!
"What a Huashan Jade Maiden!"
"This commander nearly forgot—you're from Huashan, too. There's no reason you wouldn't know the sword moves that the White Cloud Swordsman knows!"
Seeing Yue Lingshan abruptly switch from an ordinary Huashan sword technique in her combined sword style to the baffling "White Clouds Emerging from the Mountain," Qian praised her, then had no choice but to focus and brace himself again.
He narrowed his eyes and faced off against Yue Lingshan, who was urgently catching her breath and recovering, for several moments. Then he suddenly darted forward.
He was clearly planning to go all out and defeat Yue Lingshan, not give her a chance to catch her breath and recover her inner strength!
"Take this!"
As he spoke, one of the seventy-two moves of his Evil-Warding Swordplay, "Nowhere to Be Seen," transformed into several afterimages and thrust toward Yue Lingshan again.
"!!"
Yue Lingshan naturally didn't dare let her guard down. She seized the moment to wield the Jade Maiden Sword in her left hand, using "Snow Reflected in a Cold Heart." Its moon-cold swordlight thrust toward one of her opponent's figures, while her right hand sent "White Clouds Emerging from the