The cultivation levels of those two voluptuous women from Spiritual Spring Island weren't actually very high. Qiongya was at Foundation Establishment, while her mother was at the Golden Core Stage. But they were tall and long-legged, so they must have practiced some external martial arts. Their true combat strength was probably not bad.
But the mechanical bird had been traded away, and Li Fan had nothing to do. He simply stretched, then lay on the deck with his eyes closed to rest while practicing the Revised Profound Heaven Sword Method in his mind.
After all, this kind of body-tempering martial art needed to be practiced every day. But with so many people around, he couldn't just show it off. When the five masked attackers had secretly been protecting them, Li Fan had often visualized the Five Ghosts in his Divine Sense using five sword moves to spar with one another. He also drew on what he'd seen during the earlier sword fights, imagining the disciples of Ink Bamboo Mountain and Tiantai Mountain as opponents and trading moves with them.
And because he had a photographic memory, he remembered the disciples' speed and strength, as well as the range and power of their techniques, with perfect clarity. His mental simulations were almost identical to the real thing. After seeing a technique just once, he could easily find its flaws and figure out how to counter it with a little thought.
Although he was only replaying things in his head, it turned out to be surprisingly useful. At the very least, the Five Ghosts' swordsmanship had improved greatly. At first, they'd been distracted while controlling their swords and would miss or strike wildly. But before long, they were surrounding the monkeys and beating them until they yelped. It hadn't even taken a