The techniques of the [Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge] grew ever more polished and lethal in Yue Xiaofei's hands!
The Hongming Blade's bloodthirsty soul seemed to sense his boiling battle spirit, too, and let out a series of excited hums!
He could feel an unprecedented, wondrous resonance forming between the [Emperor Engine] within him and the Hongming Blade in his hand!
Every swing seemed to draw on a trace of the [Emperor Engine]'s origin power, boosting the might of his blade techniques by thirty percent out of nowhere!
Exhilarating!
It was an exhilarating sensation unlike anything he had ever experienced!
He felt as though he had been born for the battlefield!
To dance madly on the edge between life and death!
Yet, despite his rapid progress, two fists were still no match for four hands.
In a moment of carelessness, a sharp-clawed bird demon swooped down from above, broke through his defensive curtain of blade light, and raked its talons viciously toward his shoulder!
Riiip!
The piercing sound of tearing fabric rang out.
Yue Xiaofei felt a stab of pain in his shoulder. A wound deep enough to expose bone appeared in an instant, and blood stained his clothes red!
"Hss!"
The intense pain made Yue Xiaofei suck in a sharp breath.
But in that very instant, an even more savage ferocity erupted from the depths of his heart!
"You beast! You're asking for death!"
A red gleam flashed in Yue Xiaofei's eyes. Instead of retreating, he advanced, ignoring the wound on his shoulder as he drove a vicious elbow into the bird demon's chest!
Crack!
A crisp sound of breaking bone rang out.
The bird demon let out a shrill, miserable cry. Its breastbone caved in, and it flew backward like a kite with its string cut.
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