89 Scar (1/2)

After training in the Hollow Forest for 4 days straight, Xun Wei and Lei Xinyi finally went home to rest.

Upon learning that their master was in closed door training, they went back into the Hollow Forest to train.

Currently, they've been training there for another 3 more days, so they were planning on heading back to rest soon.

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Lei Xinyi watched in shock as Xun Wei dodged several tier 2 beasts with her eyes closed.

Xun Wei had already mastered her swordsman's instincts to such a degree that beasts in the 2nd tier couldn't even touch her.

Swordsman's instincts; a skill that normally took cultivators several years to learn only took her a week to nearly master. This amount of talent was simply too frightening.

'No, this is impossible. There must be some sort of trick to it,” Lei Xinyi thought, but she couldn't refute what her eyes were seeing.

Truth was, after dual cultivating Xiao Fang's Yang qi for so long, it gave her the comprehension required to master every skill he knew. Even if she didn't realize it at the time, the more she cultivated his yang qi the more she comprehended his techniques.

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Suddenly, Lei Xinyi felt a tickle in her spine. Her swordsman's instincts were warning her that she was being targetted by a formidable threat.

She began to frown. Since she was hiding with a special technique, if a beast really did find her, that would mean it definitely wasn't ordinary.

She unsheathed her sword then released her aura. If a beast really found her then it was only a matter of time till it attacked.

However to her surprise nothing happened.

'Strange, a beast that didn't attack a cultivator on sight. Was there really such a thing?' She thought as she put her sword away.

Suddenly she heard a cry, she quickly looked back at Xun Wei, but then sighed in relief. Xun Wei was finally clearing the wave.

This past few days had been an emotional rollercoaster for her. Watching Xun Wei dance on the brink of death was extremely nerve racking and exhausting.

Xun Wei collected all of the beast cores around her then yawned. She had been up for the past 3 days, so she was starting to feel a bit sleepy again.

Suddenly, in the middle of her yawn she felt a slight chill on the back of her neck.

In that exact moment, Lei Xinyi's heart skipped a beat as she opened her mouth to yell in warning, but it was too late.

The creature was way too fast.

The 3 meter tall, black furred felion beast, had soundlessly jumped out of the darkness, pouncing straight for Xun Wei's backside.

However, in that exact moment, Xun Wei dodged and attacked simultaneously, exactly the way Xiao Fang had always taught her.

She immediately knew that this beast was dangerous so she used her strongest technique to end things quickly.

[ Quick Blade: Ghost Blade Barrage ]

Slash~ slash~ slash~ slash~ slash~...

The creature crashed on the ground with cuts all over its body. That one technique was enough to severely wound it.

Although the strength of a tier 3 beast was above a Body Refinement realm cultivator, Xun Wei's formidable technique was enough to take it down.

The beast was hurt so it tried to flee, but upon looking back at Xun Wei it discovered that she was no longer there. Instead she was standing right infront of it.

Seeing the look of despair on its face, Xun Wei heartlessly slayed the innocent-eyed beast with no hesitation at all.

Although the fight ended quickly, it was because she decisively used her strongest technique to end the fight before anything unexpected could happen.

As Xiao Fang always said, there's no point in prolonging a fight if you have the means to end it quickly.

Xun Wei finally frowned. This beast was only a few days old, but was already in the 3rd tier. Just how terrifying would its parents be?

She didn't want to find out, so she approached it to collect its beast core and quickly leave, but just before she could even touch it, the beast opened its eyes and swung its claw at her.

Xun Wei sensed the attack, but she was standing too close to completely dodge it. Xun Wei jumped back a few meters away, but upon landing she put a hand over her eye.

Her eye was cut.

Luckily, the attack was too weak and her eyelid was too tough for her eyeball to be damaged, but it was still a close call.

Xun Wei started to frown.

She then walked up to the beast to end its life, but before she could even reach it it had already died from blood loss. Still, Xun Wei took no chances, so she cut it stomach open and mutilated its corpse. Only then did she finally collect its beast core.