A beauty danced with a saber, crimson pupils

"Beauty, oh, beauty..."

Xu Changsheng spoke as he looked Ye Luoxue up and down. With her knee-high, high-heeled boots already filled with "water," she had reluctantly changed into another pair of heels.

The black stilettos with red soles set off her slender, fair ankles.

Their heels struck the pavilion's white jade floor with crisp clicks.

Xu Changsheng's gaze slowly traveled upward from her jade-like feet, over her long, firm legs and slender waist, to what one hand could not fully grasp...

Finally, his gaze settled on her red lips, still glistening with moisture, his admiration entirely undisguised.

"A fair body bears a blade across a jade terrace; amid a wisp of fragrant dust, killing intent lingers. Who wouldn't enjoy watching that?"

"But..."

Xu Changsheng shook his head again and said with complete seriousness, "When I say I'll give you pointers, I really mean it. You can go laugh to yourself over your good fortune!"

"Laugh to myself?"

Ye Luoxue was truly at a loss for words.

It was clearly Xu Changsheng's perverse fancy-he wanted to watch her dance with a saber naked-yet somehow she had become the one getting a bargain?

After all, she was a cultivator of the Ninth Realm Dragon Transformation Realm. She would not claim to be invincible, but she was certainly no weakling within Great Yu.

Xu Changsheng, by contrast, was an ordinary person without the slightest cultivation...

He could give her pointers on her saber technique? Ye Luoxue could not believe it at all.

"Fine." With that thought, Ye Luoxue rolled her eyes at Xu Changsheng. "Then I'll see just what pointers you can give me!"

With that, Ye Luoxue reached out and picked up her Tang-style straight saber, Field Paths.

Clang-!

The famed saber left its sheath, its clear ring resounding through the Lotus Grotto-Heaven.

Biting cold light flowed along its blade, casting a sharp, cold white sheen over Ye Luoxue's eyes.

Ye Luoxue's entire bearing abruptly changed at that moment.

A moment ago, a faint killing aura had still surrounded her because of her years of campaigning on the battlefield.

Yet a trace of languor and allure after the deed had inevitably lingered in her expression, and the crimson at the corners of her eyes had not entirely faded.

But now!

With Field Paths in hand, Ye Luoxue's eyes instantly sharpened, her pupils taking on an uncanny blood-red hue.

She had once again become that Blood Princess General who swept across battlefields, killed people like cutting hemp, and had taken almost enough heads to build a corpse mound!

Is this one of the Military School Blood God Physique's special abilities, Crimson Pupils?!

Watching this, Xu Changsheng silently recalled the accounts of the Military School Blood God Physique he had previously read in the ancient books Ye Luoxue had brought.

The Military School Blood God Physique was one of the ten great battle physiques of High Antiquity, born for battle and possessing three extraordinary Divine Abilities.

First, when one's fighting spirit soared on the battlefield, one could continuously absorb the surrounding "Military Momentum."

As "Military Momentum" accumulated, one's strength would multiply.

According to legend, a Tenth Realm possessor of the Military School Blood God Physique had once relied on "Military Momentum" accumulated to its utmost limit to fight and kill an Eleventh Realm Celestial Person.

Although that Blood God Physique's lamp had run dry after that battle as well, it was enough to show how terrifying this physique was.

After all, that had been killing an enemy an entire major realm above oneself.

Second, one could accumulate one's killing aura within the body and unleash it in an instant when needed.

This was one reason Ye Luoxue's bearing was so sharp, cold, and murderous.

And the third and final effect was these Crimson Pupils.

The ancient books contained very few records of this ability, saying only that it was the ultimate trump card of the Military School Blood God Physique.

Almost everyone who knew its true effects had already been slain on the battlefield.

Once I've copied it, I'll know...

Xu Changsheng shook his head, no longer dwelling on these secrets.

Instead, he turned with a playful look and watched Ye Luoxue walk out of the pavilion, completely naked and trailing her saber.

Sparks flew wherever the blade passed.

At that moment, heaven and earth seemed stained red by Ye Luoxue's utter killing intent.

Outside the pavilion, in the clearing.

Ye Luoxue raised her uncanny, sinister eyes and glanced at Xu Changsheng, holding Field Paths horizontally before her body, just enough to conceal those most breathtaking little glimpses.

Then she moved.

As this was merely a demonstration, Ye Luoxue did not use spiritual power, yet she still displayed the Lone Star Slashes the Moon Saber Instruction with unmatched might.

The blade sliced through the air with rushing whistles, and biting Saber Qi scattered outward, making even the white lotuses beside the pavilion sway.

The first form, Lone Star Points at the Firmament: saber light like a shooting star, a single point piercing the air;

The second form, Waning Moon Rises: the blade swept upward in reverse at a tricky angle, as though it could cleave moonlight;

The third form, Draped in Stars: the long saber wove a dense net of blades, guarding her so tightly that not even the wind could pass through;

The fourth form, Lone Star Pursues the Moon...

The fifth form, Star Falls into the Long River...

At first, Ye Luoxue was still somewhat self-conscious. After all, with Xu Changsheng staring straight at her in this state, her legs involuntarily weakened slightly.

But as she performed the saber instruction, move after move.

Ye Luoxue soon became completely immersed in it. Her movements grew textbook-perfect, strength and speed combining flawlessly, killing intent fierce.

Clearly...

She had practiced this Lone Star Slashes the Moon Saber Instruction no fewer than a hundred thousand times. It had long since been carved into her marrow.

The same went for Xu Changsheng.

At first, he had still been in the mood to admire Ye Luoxue's powerful movements, her delicate white-jade body, its gentle trembling...

After all, this was Xu Changsheng's first time watching a beauty dance with a saber, naked.

But as Ye Luoxue's saber momentum grew ever stronger, his gaze gradually became focused, and he analyzed inwardly:

Just as I thought...

Ye Luoxue's saber intent always falls a little short of the resolve to face death.

Why?

With her experiences and temperament, that shouldn't be the case. Could there be something about her I don't know?!

Xu Changsheng pondered.

Until...

Clang-!

An incomparably piercing waning-moon saber howl rang out, and Xu Changsheng looked up again.

The thirteenth form of the Lone Star Slashes the Moon Saber Instruction-Bright Moon Slashes the Heavens!

Ye Luoxue slashed, and a faint great moon appeared in the sky. But because she had not used spiritual power, nothing followed.

With that, Ye Luoxue had finished performing all thirteen forms of the Lone Star Slashes the Moon Saber Instruction.

Ye Luoxue held her long saber horizontally before her body again and softly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

The next second, the scabbard resting on the stone table abruptly flew out. With a swish, Field Paths automatically slid back into its sheath.

Click, click, click~!

Holding Field Paths by its sheathed blade in her fair, slender hand, Ye Luoxue walked up to Xu Changsheng in her high heels, step by step. She raised her chin slightly and looked indifferently at him as he sat on the bench.

"Well? Convinced now? Still going to say you'll teach me how to use a saber?"

Xu Changsheng looked at Ye Luoxue, whose entire body now brimmed with fierce killing intent, yet who seemed all the more alluring because of it, making one want to conquer her...

He stood, walked up to Ye Luoxue, and lifted his head to tip up her chin.

Then he lowered his head and kissed Ye Luoxue hard on her red lips, his fascination entirely undisguised in his eyes.

Ye Luoxue froze for a moment, then a rare trace of smugness flashed in her eyes.

She stretched out her snow-white, jade-like arms, wrapped them around Xu Changsheng's neck, and responded passionately.

As they tangled together, the faint, fresh fragrance of lotuses mingled with the scent of blood, forming a strange and enticing scent.

Ten minutes later.

Thoroughly satisfied, Xu Changsheng released the panting Ye Luoxue, his fingertip gently stroking her glistening red lips.

"Where's my saber?"