Chapter 230 (2/2)

CLINK!

The needles burst apart from its conical structure and fleay fro

Li Yundong's blood ran coldshi+t… What the hell?

The needles had begun to e—at least 5 inches long—golden hairpin appeared in the air

And judging fro of her posture), she probably recognized the weapon

”What the—”

Li Yundong hissed when his body lurched sidewaysHe widened his stance andbefore he toppled over

There was another lurchBut this ti on his arrip

He grunted and gripped the sith both hands

Then, the hilt did a sharp twist, causing his wrists to bend at an odd angleHe tried to fight back, but his efforts were futile: the sword suddenly surged upwards, flinging his body over the edge of the stage

The sword's hilt slipped froers thepurely by instinct, Li Yundong kicked out with his right legHis foot slae, and he used the contact to propel hie

ZING! ZING! ZING!

Li Yundong dodged three slashes fro his body sideways to et

Footwork, footwork, footwork

Li Yundong followed the sith his eyes, keeping his weight balanced on the balls of his feet

ZING! ZING!

Li Yundong leaped backwards and e two successive cuts

The sword retreated and spun in the airTake this! Li Yundong stretched out his hand and launched his Zhenqi at the sword

His Zhenqi missed the hilt by inches when the sword jerked sideways

ZING!

The blade shot towards at hi's hand rose instinctivelyThe surface of his paled to deflect the sword sidewaysThe thrust narrowly razed the side of his neck

Clenching his jaw, Li Yundong gripped the hilt with both hands and yanked the sword away froht into the sword, hoping to erase the pre-existing spiritual signature froet the sword under control

Li Yundong was brought to his knees when his Zhenqi washissed in pain but held on nonetheless

Coive up!

Li Yundong growled and channeled another wave of Zhenqi into the sword

The resistance weakened slightly, though the sas still highly agitated, jerking and tugging at his ar shut his eyes and held on to the sith all histhe stageHe dropped into a crouch to lower the center of gravity and ed to stabilize his body

”Claim it,” someone hissed”You have to claim it!”

He opened his eyes and realized that he was now standing near the side wing of the stage, and Ruan Hongling was staring right at hiling pleaded desperately

”I'ritted teeth

Yes, he was fcking trying

He knew he couldn't afford to lose, not this ti what the sould do thethe sword froAbsolutely nothing

Closing his eyes, Li Yundong mustered all the control he had over his Zhenqi, and then channeled it into the sword in one powerful surge

The sword answered with a powerful jerk against his fingers

The whining of the sword grew louder, and even though his eyes were closed, he could tell that the sword's radiance was growing brighter as well

Then, it all stopped: the whining; the lurching; the resistance; everything

”Y- You did it” Ruan Hongling whispered

Li Yundong opened his eyes and glanced at the sword in his hands, not daring to loosen his grip on the hilt lest the sword decided to go nuts again

A few drops of his blood had spilled onto the blade's surface during the scuffle, but that wasn't the thing that had caught his attention

So to the blade: his blood was seeping into the surface of the blade as though the sas absorbing his blood

A bunch of weird symbols flashed across its surface as soon as the blood was fully absorbedHowever, the symbols vanished almost as soon as they appeared

SNAP! CLINK!

Li Yundong looked up froolden hairpin like a whipThe hairpin shot to the ceiling and then disappeared into thin air

Was it gone? Or had it just turned invisible?

A deafening silence per knew that all eyes were now on hiazes, he strode over towards Zi Yuan, as still staring at the ceiling, at the exact spot where the hairpin had just vanished into thin air

The grand hall erupted in cheers and whistles as soon as he reached the center of the stageThe audience's applause was so loud that it even drowned out the pounding in his ears

Li Yundong ignored everything else and kept walking towards Zi Yuan

Screw the play

This shoas over

Someone had just tried to assassinate him, and he wanted to knoho and why