Yan Lingji faced Bai Yifei across several yards, wooden sword in hand. He held a slender white sword in one hand and a slender red sword in the other!
In the story of Heavenly Journey: Nine Songs, Bai Yifei was one of only two people who fought with a sword in each hand!
What was more, those slender red and white swords had been left to him by his mother, Han State's first female marquis!
Bai Yifei's strength, and the reason he had been able to overwhelm Tian Ze and Wei Zhuang early on, lay mainly in his frost-based cultivation art and a martial arts realm far above theirs!
Swordsmanship itself was not where Bai Yifei truly shone!
"You're my guest, Miss Yan Lingji. Please, make the first move!"
Outside Snow-Clad Fortress, Bai Yifei held the white sword behind his back with his left hand, showing only the red sword in his right as he waited for Yan Lingji to attack!
At that, Yan Lingji raised her wooden sword and pointed its tip straight at the Blood-Clad Marquis!
"I've wanted to beat you up for ages!"
The words had barely left her mouth!
Yan Lingji shot toward Bai Yifei like an arrow loosed from the string, her speed and footwork worlds apart from what they had been before!
Clack!
A crisp sound rang out!
Surprise flashed through Bai Yifei's eyes, but he still blocked her straight thrust with astonishing speed!
"Fast. Precise."
"It seems you really did learn a profound sword technique from the State Preceptor, Miss Yan Lingji!"
Bai Yifei looked at Yan Lingji, whose strike he had stopped with his white sword. His voice remained calm, and a faint, wicked smile curled at his lips!
"This is only the beginning!"
Yan Lingji twisted her wrist, changed moves in