In the Ice-Sealed Forest, on the clearing around the shelter, Bai Cai struggled to defend himself, dodging and shifting desperately.
A hand chop shot straight out like an antelope's horn, instantly breaking through his guard and striking beneath his ribs. Bai Cai fell at once.
"Your reactions are too slow."
The beautiful girl with snow-white hair remained expressionless. "Again."
Bai Cai slowly rose and assumed a defensive stance. Although Snow Empress's attacks were sharp and fierce, every strike avoided vital areas. She never aimed for his internal organs or struck the joints of his limbs.
Unless he traded injury for injury in a direct clash, he could not withstand a single blow.
Though he could not defend against Snow Empress's attacks, Snow Empress had to avoid his vital points to defeat him.
Therefore, abandoning defense and trading injury for injury to force Snow Empress to change her target was his only chance.
Snow Empress was not an ice sculpture. Once she noticed the flaw, she would never make the same mistake in the next combat simulation.
He had already tested it more than five times. The longer he delayed, the more likely something would change.
The combat simulation began again. Snow Empress noticed nothing unusual and still formed her hand into a blade, stabbing toward Bai Cai's ribs.
Bai Cai neither dodged nor retreated, abandoning all defense as he lunged straight at Snow Empress. Just as the hand blade was about to strike, Snow Empress changed her stab into a palm strike to avoid injuring his internal organs.
The plan succeeded!
In that instant, Bai Cai grabbed Snow Empress's hand, leaving her center wide open. He then stepped in, twisted his waist and hips to exert force, and drove his bent elbow against Snow Empress.
Close-Quarters Shoulder Strike!
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