"Not so."
Tang Qianshou smiled. "This throw pursues the ultimate in speed. Whether you're prepared makes no difference!"
"Please!"
Tang Qianshou drew a deep breath.
He raised his right hand, and a tiny throwing knife appeared in his palm. Its design was exquisitely intricate, its subtle, streamlined curves pleasing to the eye; no longer than a finger, it gleamed brightly.
He spun, and a whirlwind concealed his figure. Then came a shout: "Strike!"
At that moment, Zuo Xiaoduo felt an unprecedented, hair-raising dread.
An extreme danger had locked onto him.
He could not see where the throwing knife was at all. Acting purely on instinct, he jerked sideways!
Pain shot through his left shoulder. A throwing knife pierced straight through its outer edge, missing the bone and taking only a strip of flesh.
Blood streamed down!
Chapter 231: Call it a draw
Meanwhile, two thousand meters behind Zuo Xiaoduo, somewhere in the school woods.
At the very instant the knife struck Zuo Xiaoduo, several soft thunks sounded in succession. After piercing Zuo Xiaoduo's body, Tang Qianshou's throwing knife had also pierced three enormous trees, each so thick that five or six people would have had to join arms to encircle it. It then punched a hole through a fourth tree before finally exhausting its momentum.
The blade did not remain inside the fourth tree. It emerged from the other side, leaving only the handle lodged in the trunk.
Through the knife holes in the first three trees, flames could actually be seen surging.
Presumably, the throwing knife had traveled so fast that the intense friction as it penetrated had ignited them.
"Damn, that's awesome!"
A figure flashed into view. Li Chenglong appeared in the woods, casually extinguished the flames, and retrieved the throwing knife from the fourth tree, his face