As everyone fell silent, Shen Xiaohe removed the divine power barrier before her with a baffled look. Then, wearing an utterly harmless and sincere expression, she asked:
"Were you going easy on me?"
Those simple words, coupled with her earnest expression, nearly drove Cold Moon mad with rage.
To Cold Moon—and to everyone else—it seemed Shen Xiaohe genuinely believed that Cold Moon had been holding back!
And that was indeed the case. Shen Xiaohe truly thought Cold Moon had not used his full strength. After all, she already knew that Cold Moon stood first on the Earth Ranking and possessed no small measure of strength. But that sword strike just now had truly been... rather shabby. At the very least, she felt that strike was absolutely unworthy of the title of first on the Earth Ranking.
Thus, she concluded that Cold Moon had merely been testing her and had not gone all out.
What she did not know was that testing an opponent was not Cold Moon's style at all. That strike had indeed been his full-strength sword strike, aside from the fact that he had yet to use a divine skill!
Her single question filled Cold Moon's heart with panic while twisting his face with fury.
Yet the utterly clueless Shen Xiaohe continued, "You don't need to test me, and you don't need to go easy on me. Just attack with all your strength."
"Oh, right. Your cultivation is lower than mine. How about I give you three moves?"
Had Shen Xiaohe said such words before that sword strike, the onlookers in True Martial Pavilion would surely have burst into thunderous laughter.
After all, offering the first-ranked expert of the Earth Ranking three moves was the sort of crazed statement that likely no one in the entire outer sect