The touch feels wrong!
The expected collision between bones and muscles did not happen. Qin Tiexin only felt that it had crashed into a soft mass.
The woman had already moved back at the same moment when his shoulder touched her chest. Her ankles and knees exerted force at the same time, and her whole body seemed to be pulled back by an invisible thread, accurately removing all of his Burst Step momentum.
Qin Tiexin's shoulders only brushed the edge of the leather armor on her chest, not even her center of gravity.
His pupils shrank. He reacted so quickly.
Burst Step's momentum has not completely dissipated. Qin Tiexin stamped his right foot on the ground, turning the forward force into sideways stabilization. The bluestone beneath his feet cracked into a spider web pattern. He pulled out from his back. Edgeless, the dull luster of the blade gave off the texture of Heaviness under the cold light of the dome. Metal Phase Steps was activated, and his whole body turned into an afterimage, and the heavy knife struck in the direction of the woman's retreat with a dull sound of breaking wind.
The woman had already stood three feet away. She didn't panic at all. Qin Tiexin's bump only made her take a few steps back. She was not injured, but...
She lowered her head and glanced at the shallow scratches on the leather armor on her chest. When she raised her head, there was a hint of embarrassment in her big eyes exposed outside the mask.
She put the dagger into the storage ring, held the Middle-Grade Law Artifact long sword that was originally placed on Qin Tiexin's neck with her backhand, and came forward in a flash.
Qin Tiexin Only a black shadow flashed before his eyes.
The next moment, there was a muffled sound on his left shoulder. The woman's fist landed on the deltoid muscle on the outside of his shoulder blade. The force was not heavy, and it was not even painful for Qin Tiexin, but he did not capture the trajectory of the opponent's punch at all. He swung the knife across, and the blade split only a trace of her left in place.
She had already stood two feet away, with the tip of her sword pointing diagonally at the ground, and her eyes under the mask were somewhat cold and sulky.
Speed type, pure extreme speed route.
This kind of physical training gives up the pursuit of strength and high-intensity confrontation, and puts all the body-tempering resources into speed. Their muscle structure, nerve reflexes, and joint flexibility are completely opposite to the strength-type physical training. The power-type physical training emphasizes stable postures and heavy force exertion, while the speed-type physical training emphasizes light body movements and quick changes in direction.
Duan Xuan is a type that combines strength and speed. Although she is also fast, her speed is fast with weight. And this woman sacrificed almost all her strength in exchange for pure speed.
"I have the heart to spare your life." The woman's voice dropped even lower, and every word was laced with annoyance, "You actually--"
"Here you are making plans to drain my spiritual energy, so you have the nerve to say spare my life." Qin Tiexin interrupted her, stepped on her foot, Metal Phase Steps started again, Edgeless dragged behind him to draw an arc, and slashed towards the woman's front.
A trace of disdain flashed in the woman's eyes. In her opinion, Qin Tiexin's powerful body was a living target in front of her. No matter how powerful it was, if it missed, it would be in vain. Her body moved sideways almost at the same moment when Qin Tiexin swung the knife, and her whole body slid past Edgeless's blade, and circled behind Qin Tiexin again.
Her toes tapped silently on the bluestone floor, her body leaned forward, and her right leg gathered strength—preparing to give this ungrateful man a hard blow in the back, letting him know what the suppression of speed-type physical training meant.
Just when her toes were about to touch Qin Tiexin's back, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Where is his knife?
Qin Tiexin's Edgeless got rid of it.
The jet-black heavy knife drew a huge arc in the air. Qin Tiexin used the inertia of swinging the knife to let go of the handle. The blade circled half a circle around his body and hit him hard behind him. After Qin Tiexin let go of the handle, he used the inertia of the blade to complete a very fast turn. He opened his hands, just in time to meet the woman's right foot that kicked towards his back.
The woman's right leg and ankle was tightly grasped by a pair of iron-like hands.
Jiang Li's pupils suddenly shrank.
Any speed-type cultivator knows what will happen if he is caught by a strength-type physique cultivator. Without any hesitation, she kicked her left foot hard towards the hand that grabbed her right ankle. The instep kicked Qin Tiexin's knuckles, making a snapping sound. Qin Tiexin's hands were motionless, and even her skin was not red. Her pure speed route sacrificed her power to a very low level. In terms of attack power alone, even Body Tempering Eighth Layer's power-type monks were stronger than her.
Qin Tiexin ignored her left foot. He gripped the woman's right ankle tightly, lifted her up with one hand, threw her over his shoulder, and threw her hard to the ground in front of him.
The woman's back collided solidly with the bluestone. The muffled sound echoed in the hall. If she hadn't been wearing a medium-grade protective robe, her spine would have been dislocated at this moment. Even with the robe as a buffer, she still felt that her spine was buzzing from beginning to end, and the breath in her chest was shaken for a moment.
Before she could bounce up from the ground, the top of her head suddenly became dark.
Qin Tiexin jumped high. His body was fully spread out in the air, with his knees facing down - this move he learned from Blazing Mountain Bear, which can make full use of his own body size than the opponent. Blazing Mountain Bear used this move to suppress him, and he used this move to suppress this woman. Pure strength and weight suppression, no skills required.
Jiang Li's pupils shrank to pinpoints. She instantly judged that even if she stabbed the man down with a sword, she would be seriously injured due to his size and weight. The sword could stab him, but it could not prevent him from smashing down.
Hide. Can only hide.
She rolled desperately to the left. The stone ground was retreating rapidly beneath her, and her left half of her body had already rolled out of the shadow range where Qin Tiexin fell - but her left foot was half a beat slower.
Click.
The crisp sound of broken bones was particularly clear in the hall. Qin Tiexin's left knee pressed heavily on the woman's left ankle. The ankle bone could not withstand the impact of nearly 20,000 kilograms and broke directly. The woman let out an extremely suppressed groan, gritted her teeth tightly, and swallowed back the scream.
She didn't have any desire to fight. The moment Qin Tiexin stood up, she kicked off her right leg and shot towards the nearest corridor entrance with her whole body pressed against the ground. The movement was so fast that Qin Tiexin had time to reach out and trace the edge of the leather armor on her back. The black figure had already slipped into the dark light of the corridor and disappeared after a few breaths.
Qin Tiexin stood up and glanced in the direction of the corridor, feeling a little regretful. He failed to kill him several times. He originally wanted to take this opportunity to fight against speed-type physiques more and accumulate experience in fighting this type. He didn't expect that the opponent could run so neatly and even broke his ankle without hesitation.
He turned around and walked back to the center of the hall, picked up Edgeless from the ground and put it back on his back. The move of swinging the knife and turning around just now was a temporary move - he found that he could not catch up with the opponent's speed with a frontal slash, and the only way was to bet that the opponent would sneak around from behind. He deliberately threw the knife out and let the inertia of the blade carry him around, shortening the time required to turn around and catching the opponent just at the moment he took his kick.
The bet was right.
He sat down cross-legged, preparing to restore his spiritual power. The activation of the light beam had consumed sixty-and-a-half percent of his spiritual power, and coupled with the consumption of the previous battle, there was now less than 30% of the cyclone's remaining spiritual power left in Dantian. If anyone comes in later, this state will be very dangerous.
After closing his eyes and adjusting his breath for less than half a stick of incense, Qin Tiexin frowned slightly. The concentration of Spiritual Qi in the hall was abnormally low. It would take at least half a day to fully absorb all eight cyclones just by absorbing the free Spiritual Qi in the air.
He had no choice but to take out Spirit Stone and the elixir from the storage ring and start assisting in recovery.
While running his spiritual power, he was thinking in his mind. There are more than a dozen light pillars in this hall, and each light pillar has an object sealed in it. If he wants to take out all the things in the light pillar, theoretically he can repeatedly restore his spiritual power here, repeatedly dissolve the light pillar, and remove the things one by one.
But the defensive body cultivator only took a round shield and went out, and the man who was seriously injured and walked away only took a sword embryo. Neither of them took the second piece. There must be other rules here.
After burning a stick of incense, Qin Tiexin recovered most of his spiritual power. No new monks came in during this period, and the hall was so quiet that he could only hear the subtle buzzing from the crystals on the dome. He stood up and walked towards the second light pillar. There is a fist-sized rough ore suspended in this light pillar. The surface is dark blue, and there is a faint star-like luster flowing inside. Star Meteoric Iron - The quality is not high, but at least it is a treasure grade, which is rare to see outside.
He put his hands into the palm prints on the stone platform. After waiting for a moment, he felt nothing in his palms. The suction force that surged from the depths of his palms just now did not appear, and the light beam above his head did not change at all.
Qin Tiexin tried to actively inject spiritual power into the palm print. After the spiritual power flowed out from the palm, it did not enter the stone platform, but dissipated directly into the air, forming a faint halo of spiritual power around his palm. The light pillar did not move at all.
"One person can only take one piece." Qin Tiexin took his hand back from the stone platform and whispered to himself.
It seemed that his guess was correct. The woman should have activated a light pillar to take one item first, then put a sword on his neck and asked him to activate the second light pillar for her to take the second item. The rule in this hall is that each person can only take one item, no matter what you take.
He tried several light pillars next to him, and they were all the same. The light pillars had no response to his spiritual power. No matter how much he actively injected, the stone platform would no longer absorb it.
Qin Tiexin is not angry at all. Fortuitous opportunity This kind of thing is first come, first served, and some are quick and some are slow. If he had resisted when the sword was held on his neck, he might have been able to get another one. Now that he had used up his spiritual power to make a wedding dress for others, he had no choice but to admit it. He moved his eyes away from the light beam and started walking around the hall to see if there was anything else worth paying attention to.
The main hall is semicircular, with a complete bluestone wall behind it. The wall is smooth, with no reliefs, no carvings, and no gaps.
Just when Qin Tiexin walked to the center of the bluestone wall behind the hall, suddenly, the black ring around his neck began to get hot, so hot that it caused a tingling sensation on his skin.
It was even more intense than the last time he found the Cauldron Eating Art bone fragment recorded in the Flowing Cloud Sect Curios Pavilion. The heat of the ring fluctuated like a pulse, and each fluctuation had a clear direction - right behind the bluestone wall in front of him.
At the entrance of the corridor, a black shadow stumbled out as if it was being thrown out.
When he landed, Jiang Li's left ankle bent outward at a weird angle, and he staggered forward two steps before barely holding on to the ground with one hand.
She gritted her teeth and her left toe could only point slightly on the ground. Every small vibration of her ankle bone was dug into the seam of the bone. The black leather armor on her body was scratched with several scratches of varying depths, and most of her mask was tilted, exposing half of it. Snow-white jaw, cold sweat on the forehead, broken hair stuck to the temples, even in such a mess, the face is still so beautiful that people can't take their eyes away - the jaw line is exquisite and carved, the bridge of the nose is straight, but the eyebrows are as cold as frost and snow.
No one could see clearly whether she rushed out by herself or was ejected without going through the tunnel. Only Jiang Li knew that the extra things in the storage ring almost cost her life at the hands of that tall man.
At this time, the spiritual power in Jiang Li's meridians was horribly empty. The escape from the corridor just now had almost drained the last remaining energy. Every breath she took was filled with the smell of blood.
Before she could take a breath, she suddenly raised her eyes - the gazes of the surrounding monks had all gathered around her. Some were staring at her left foot that could not be stepped on at all, some were scanning the remaining forbidden scratches on the leather armor, and some were looking at her storage ring lustfully. Several monks had begun to move towards her subtly, with undisguised evaluation and covetous expression in their eyes.
Jiang Li felt a chill in his heart, knowing that he was being targeted.