My Profession Can Be Infinitely Upgraded: Part 61

However, Jiang Xuan, having burned everything away, was simply too fast, his attacks too berserk. Wind and snow followed in his wake, making it impossible for Su Xingying to see the trajectory of his sword.

"Pfft..."

And so, on the seventh breath of battle, Su Xingying finally failed to hold her ground.

Jiang Xuan's longsword passed through her defenses and carved a long wound across her body—this had been his full-force strike. Yet her starlight protection was too strong; his sword only cut her open rather than killing her outright.

Still, after that strike, the situation had completely turned in Jiang Xuan's favor.

The wound was not fatal, but the Winter chill wrapped around his sword further locked down the circulation of her mana.

More fatal still, her mind had already been stretched taut. Once wounded, she completely lost her composure.

"I couldn't block that. Can I block the next move?"

The moment such a thought arose in Su Xingying's mind, it represented her hesitation.

Sword cultivators valued intent above all. Once hesitation was born in her heart, the defenses around her mind weakened further. Jiang Xuan's Winter chill completely enveloped her body, leaving all four of her limbs somewhat stiff.

In that state, the sword in her hand slowed by another thirty percent.

And in a duel between swordsmen, being a fraction slower meant falling into the inferior position. Thirty percent was the difference between life and death.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft..."

Her sword moves had slowed and grown somewhat chaotic, and Jiang Xuan immediately seized the opening, slashing her seven times in succession.

With the final slash, Jiang Xuan cut directly at her neck, severing half of her beautiful, fair neck in a single stroke.

"Pfft..."

At that point, her life force was extinguished, and she died completely.

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