With a clash of blades, the girl's sword was already at her neck, catching his longsword.
It was precisely the move prepared for such sudden, swift killing strikes-"Yellow Jadeite" · [Immovable Perilous Wind].
In her first match, Shen Yao had considered using it to meet Zhang Junxue's Wave Stacking, but taking such heavy blows was not actually this sword move's true strength.
This strike was somewhat like the True Qi Art called [Six Arms]. It did not come into being only when used; rather, a strand of True Qi had to be set aside from the outset and concealed within the body, supporting the painstakingly cultivated [Immovable] state so it could react.
This was not the move in "Yellow Jadeite" that demanded the most talent, but it was certainly the hardest to master. Its practitioner had to make returning the sword in twenty-four directions instinctive before the body could attain the [Immovable] state. Then, when danger suddenly descended, without needing-or having time-to pass through the mind, the body would already have brought the sword back to block it.
Thus the saying: a sparrow perched on a high branch, unmoving in a perilous wind.
Yet after catching this strike, the girl's expression barely changed, because she had completely understood how the boy would win.
-At this point, the [Tree-Washing Bronze Shadow] she had held in reserve had already been broken, and her opportunity to unleash it was gone.
But for the boy opposite her, this clash was merely another [Spread Wings], with [Clear Cry] still following close behind.
He had deliberately used a light, swift strike to force out her [Immovable Perilous Wind], making her dissolve her own hidden killing move before unleashing [Clear Cry] to take the victory.
Just as she had wanted to secretly avoid a collision with his