Chapter 478 - Forfeit (1/2)
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The training room was completely empty with no signs of anyone, anywhere.
'Did he leave because I was late?' Alex wondered. But he quickly gave up on that thought. After all, he was only an hour late, and even if he left, Alex had already searched his home before coming here, and he was absent from it.
”He left his home, but didn't come here? Maybe he was called by his master,” Alex thought. He decided to wait and see if he would return. If he didn't, Alex would tell his master to send a message to Du Yuhan saying to cancel today's lesson.
So, he waited for an hour. It was getting closer to 7 pm now, and if Du Yuhan still didn't return, then Alex was going to leave.
Thankfully, at the nick of time, Du Yuhan entered the hall.
”Oh, you're here huh. You were running a little late,” Du Yuhan said.
”Yes,” Alex replied. ”Sister returned so I went to speak with her to talk for a few minutes, but it ended up being over an hour,” Alex said.
”I see. I did hear Luo Mei was back,” Du Yuhan said. ”I also heard she fought with Trevor too. How is she?”
”She's alright,” Alex said. ”In fact, much better than how she was previously. Given how easily she won against Trevor, I would say that she is doing perfectly fine.”
”She won against him easily?” Du Yuhan said with a hint of surprise in his voice. ”Even I had a bit of a problem with him.”
”Oh,” Alex said almost mechanically. But then he understood what Du Yuhan was saying and asked, ”Wait, you fought him too?”
”Yeah,” Du Yuhan said. ”He challenged me just now.”
”He challenged you? Already? He only just lost like less than 2 hours ago,” Alex said.
”Ah, that makes sense,” Du Yuhan said after realizing something. ”I was wondering how he had such a low rank. He must have gotten Luo Mei's previous rank and came to fight with me with that.”
”I remember him being unconscious,” Alex said. ”Did he come back to target you the moment he woke up?”
”Maybe, who knows. Although, I must say he was quite strong. I'm genuinely surprised Luo Mei won against him. Her cultivation base must have improved again.” Du Yuhan said.
Alex remembered Luo Mei saying that she was using True Qi to fight most of the time, so that was probably the reason why she won so easily.
”Did you use Sword Qi?” Alex asked.
”I had to,” Du Yuhan said. ”There is no other way for me to beat him if I didn't use it. Although, once I did, I did realize how much of an overkill it was. Sigh, that's Sword Qi for you, I'm weak if I don't use it, and I'm too strong if I do.”
Alex smiled when he heard that. Du Yuhan was normally quiet and liked to keep to himself, or at least that was what Alex had thought his nature was. However, after getting close to him, he had realized that he just didn't have people to talk with and did talk quite a lot when he got the chance.
'Maybe he just needed a friend,' Alex thought.
”So, are you tired from the fight and want to rest for a few minutes?” Alex asked.
”No, it was hardly a fight. I just struggled because I tried to see how strong I could be without Sword Qi,” Du Yuhan said. ”Once I did, I won. So, we can start now.”
”Okay,” Alex said with a smile and the two of them started training once more.
The fight between the two of them was getting more and more unhinged as Alex's skill level in using Sword Intent was getting closer and closer to perfection.
The clinks and clangs of the two's swords rang about inside the training for over an hour. At some points, the two of them had started using techniques too. Slashes with sword intent flew about, with Alex's sword intent barely losing to Du Yuhan's.
Du Yuhan was a little shocked at how terrifyingly good Alex was at learning stuff. 'Just two days and he's learned what would've taken me a month to learn with the same level of training,' he thought.
Alex didn't hold back in the least and started sending around attacks left and right. At some points, he was close to running out of Qi, so he asked, ”I'm going to use True Qi now, please use Sword Qi. I want to see how I would fare.”
Du Yuhan was a little surprised to hear that. ”Use it once and let me see if it can handle the sword Qi,” he said.
Alex nodded and used a simple fire slash, but it was formed using True Qi. The heat the sword gave off with the Fire Qi inside of it was unlike any he had felt before.
Once he slashed, the slash directly flew towards Du Yuhan who looked at it with surprise. Without spending a single another moment in hesitation, he dodged to the side and the attack flew directly to the wall behind him.
”Eh?” Alex said with surprise. ”Why didn't you block it with Sword Qi? It can't be that it's stronger, right?”
”No, it's weaker, at least by a small amount,” Du Yuhan said. ”Much weaker if I use True Qi too, but… I need some time to prepare Sword Qi for attacks. It doesn't come naturally as it does with Sword Intent.”