"Senior Sister Lin, your footing is too unsteady! Your steps aren't working with your swordsmanship!"
"Even if you cultivate cold energy, you can't afford to be so lax! Swordsmanship is meant for killing. You have a Dual Spiritual Root of metal and water. Even if you cultivate cold energy, don't forget your Metal Spiritual Root!"
"Slow, slow, slow! Far too slow! Where's the heartlessness in your Heartless Dao? Don't hold back, Senior Sister! You're making me wonder if you're the real Senior Sister Lin!"
"..."
Sword light crisscrossed as Chen Zhuo moved through it with ease.
The Vast Dharma Universal Thunder Sword Monarch's cold, merciless voice kept sounding beside Chen Zhuo's ear. "Her next strike will come at your left. There's hardness hidden within the softness of that sword light. Just dodge right. You can move early, anticipate the strike, then counter with First Wood Divine Thunder..."
Hearing this, Chen Zhuo stopped pretending altogether. "Senior Sister, you're planning to send Sword Qi slashing left with your next attack, aren't you? I've seen right through you. Don't waste your effort!"
Chen Zhuo was doing this for Lin Yi's sake.
After all, according to Little Jade and the explanations of those in the Immortal Estate,
the Heartless Dao was a mistaken path of cultivation.
There was a term for the right approach: "Supreme Forgetting of Emotion."
Forgetting emotion, not having none.
Turning oneself into a cold stone served no purpose.
Chen Zhuo was trying to provoke Lin Yi's anger.
He wanted to draw her out of that heartless state and stir her emotions,
so he could take the next step.
Lin Yi's face remained expressionless.
Inside, though, Chen Zhuo had nearly made her flush with fury.
This junior brother is so irritating.
The thought surfaced in Lin Yi's mind. Though she had