Chapter 1060: The true exper (2/2)

All 13 disciples fell to the ground unconscious, a slender needle sticking out of each of their heads. The crowd fell silent at the sight.

Didn’t those disciples know to duck when Han Yunxi was using the needles at such close range? Their skills are more than enough to avoid it!

How can this be?[3]

“Despicable!” the Heretical Sword Sect disciples charged!

This time, Han Yunxi forgoed the Shadowless Needles and formed her hands into fists. With a hardly punch, she launched multiple needles at the attacking disciples! Their speeds were discernible to the naked eye, so all of them raised their swords to block. The disciple closest to Han Yunxi made contact with the first needle using his blade, but these projectiles were monstrously strong!

After a clang, the needle passed through the sword and headed straight for its wielder!

“Ahhh!” the disciple got a needle to the eye and howled in pain as he crumpled to the ground!

Seeing this, none of the others dared to block the needles, but evaded the blows with their lives. Many more didn’t make it in time and ended up with miserable fates, unconscious on the ground. Han Yunxi had stopped smiling, her phoenix eyes cold and icy. It was impossible to meet her gaze head-on. She hovered in the air[4] with one hand behind her back as the other shot needle after needle! This time, they were like a violent windstorm that came at shocking speeds, half-mirage half-illusion. Their victims only saw their forms whiz by before it was already too late to duck.

Just like that, multiple Heretical Sword Sect disciples fell victim to the needles, some crying out in panic, others in pain. Some didn’t get a chance to do either and simply toppled to the ground! Cang Qiuying had glanced back during all of this and was so shocked by the sight that she forgot to run! After staring for so long, all she saw was Han Yunxi dealing with twenty some experts with two waves of her hands. Ignoring the fact that her poison skills were exquisite, just how powerful was her internal energy! Without strong internal energy as a foundation, it was impossible to shoot such needles at such speeds!

Cang Qiuying thought of a saying: a true expert needs less than three moves to decide the match.

Wasn’t that saying tailor-fit for Han Yunxi?[5]

Han Yunxi floated elegantly to the ground before pushing off to take to the air again. This time, she was headed for Cang Qiuying. Her body was as light as a swallow’s as she fluttered through the skies in her purple robes like a fairy goddess descended to the mortal realms.

“Poison lass is so beautiful!” Gu Qishao sighed with emotion.[6]

Long Feiye’s lips drew up into a satisfied smile as his quiet gaze trailed after her form. This should be Han Yunxi’s first ever solo fight after learning martial arts. She didn’t look like a newbie at all, but completed her two rounds of needles perfectly.[7]

Cang Qiuying finally recovered her wits after seeing Han Yunxi take up the chase and dashed ahead while covered in cold sweat. Han Yunxi reached down with her hands and scooped up a sword from the ground. She landed steadily on the chain-link bridge, gracefully raised the weapon, and cut through the bridge!

Because Cang Qiuying wasn’t walking on the bridge, this move didn’t affect her much, but seconds before the bridge fell into the abyss, Han Yunxi gripped the sword with both hands and slashed viciously ahead.

“Han Yunxi, you can’t do this! You didn’t keep your word!” Cang Qiuying panicked when she thought Han Yunxi was slashing at her. But she was wrong!

Han Yunxi’s rainbow-hued sword awn sent ripples in its wake and struck the piece of bridge falling to the canyon below. The wooden boards were suddenly blasted aloft by the powerful sword qi and flew up in pieces to smash towards Cang Qiuying!

Finally getting the drift, Cang Qiuying realized she could fight against this! Instead of escaping, she drew her sword and started hacking at the planks. With a ridiculing grin, Han Yunxi soon flew in from the side to land on the high cliff on the opposite end, watching Cang Qiuying deal with the onslaught. Her skills against the planks were quite admirable, but Han Yunxi reminded helpfully, “Eldest Young Miss Cang, you’re running out of time!”

This distracted Cang Qiuying long enough for a giant plank to hit her squarely in the back, making her cry out in pain. She ignored the smashing and flew desperately towards Han Yunxi. But moments before she reached her, Han Yunxi backed away and spread open her arms. Her hands were filled with poisoned needles as she smiled slightly at the horrified Cang Qiuying. Phoenix energy emerged from her palms and sent the needles dancing around her form before they changed into a protective screen in front of her.

Cang Qiuying halted, afraid to get any closer…

1. HAHAHA IN YOUR DREAMS I mean *cough cough*

2. I dunno, if she’s still floating in the air couldn’t she just fly up or down...the descriptions here are kinda wonky.

3. Is it just me or has HYX just borrowed GBY’s “shadow arts super speed” schtick for her Shadowless Needles? Is LFY actually a plagiarizer? Maybe he studied the Shadow Clan too hard in his book on the 7 clans…

4. SEE WHAT I MEAN SHE WAS MID-AIR OR SOMETHING THIS WHOLE TIME

5. I really wished they showed us more training montages before pulling this heaven-defying skillset out of thin air because I feel it’d be more realistic (and also make this statement less cringe in my mind). Then again, some people hate training montages so maybe that’s just my personal preference. The sudden boost in ability does seem really out of left field for me though, because all I remember is the author going “and then LFY and HYX trained for X days,” “HYX’s skills improved quickly,” etc. I know the book mentioned HYX had even more innate talent for martial arts than LFY in an earlier story arc, but I didn’t feel a real sense of improvement before we suddenly get this whoosh-tada-she’s a martial arts expert thing. Not that I expect much out of the author’s erratic pacing...anyways, rant over! I suppose the print version of PGC handles these developments better.

6. If he was a girl I’d definitely use “gushed” here, ah~

7. My suspension of disbelief kinda cracked here, but let’s patch that up and move on.