11 Battle of Intention! (1/2)
With black hair in a short boy cut, Xiaoyi contrasted with the long haired elegant Shu Yidan. Despite her jade white skin, Xiaoyi dressed in the style of a tomboy, lacking any measure of feminine beauty.
Facing his fellow apprentice-sister Xiaoyi, Shu Yidan couldn't help but feel pressured.
In terms of strength, she could cut down two ranks above herself. As a peak Qi Refining Realm, she could cut him at peak Golden Core Realm. And, he was at initial Golden Core Realm now. He couldn't take this casually.
Burning his blood essence and lifespan to take control of the defensive formation and reverse its nature to offensive wasn't a mean that he would lightly take. But now, nothing else could be done.
In the end, while he had many talismans and similar single-action measures, he couldn't use them as they would likely end up killing her. Secrets like the trace of his True Immortal Divine Sense would bring up a storm so he would rather let it be unused.
As for his ability to skip levels himself, hmm… The Qi Refining cultivation system wasn't fated with him. While he knew cultivation techniques that could help him match Xiaoyi, he hadn't currently cultivated any of them making all knowledge useless.
If he had a day to refine a Totem, he could take on Xiaoyi at an equal level, but in the few hours allowed to him, this was all he could do.
Using those few hours for dual cultivation with Feng Shiyao had ended up with him giving up most of his Golden Core realm cultivation base, but at least he could control his Golden Core cultivation base now. That at least let him sacrifice his blood essence and take control of the formation. As for what came now…
”Interesting, interesting! To think you would anticipate my bloodline's power to match peak Golden Core Realm and use a trick to attain the power of Nascent Soul! I truly underestimated you! Well, it isn't as if I have battled a Nascent Soul before either…” The surprise was only at the start. Xiaoyi's little eyes narrowed and battle mania flowed in them.
Shu Yidan didn't reply, immediately pointing a finger at Xiaoyi. The vital qi within his body and the outside wind controlled by the formation came together, forming one giant green finger to strike Xiaoyi.
Xiaoyi simply drew a sword from nowhere, and the finger was bisected. Then, a sudden force suppressed her from all her surroundings, as if the gravity of the world multiplied in a blink!
However, the power could not bind Xiaoyi, as rays of deep yellow sword light emanated from her body, easily crushing the power of the divine finger!
Shu Yidan expected this. He couldn't control the power of the formation in an offensive manner since it was never meant to be used that way, and he didn't have skills capable of perfectly using such mighty power in the opening attack either. On top of that, he never reached Nascent Soul Realm in the past life, only attain its equivalent in totem cultivation…
”As expected from the one sent to kill me, everything you have perfectly counters me. That's Earth-Elemental Sword Intent, and the perfect counter for the Wind Divinity Suppression Finger. Why are you still bothering to fake Qi Refining Realm, girl?” Shu Yidan couldn't give up his posture of blaming Xiaoyi as the assassin.
But his cold voice brought a faint smile from Xiaoyi. In response, she only drew her sword, causing mountain of earth-yellow sword light to cleave at Shu Yidan!
Shu Yidan flicked another finger, and a sheer hole was blasted through the mountain. Xiaoyi immediately changed her sword grip and the ultrafast invisible wind bullet was parried on the tip of her sword.