BAIHU (White Tiger Warrior): Challenging the Dragon
CHAPTER 138 | Fighting at the top of the Mountain of the Fire Clouds
On the predetermined day, Baihu went with some Western Desert kingdom generals who were also his friends from the central plains great sect to go to the top of the Fire Cloud mountain to fight against La Xuan, crown prince of the Lato nation.
Meanwhile La Xuan along with his younger brother La Guan and his teacher Xu Yuan had been waiting at the top of the Mountain of Fire Clouds. The time for the fight was only an hour away, Baihu and his friends had arrived at the fighting ground.
Baihu walked up to La Xuan and looked at him closely. La Xuan's face was indeed similar to La Yuan's, yet somewhat older than him. La Xuan was indeed the elder brother of La Yuan, whereas La Guan was his half-sister from the royal consort mother of Lato.
“I have come. I hope today this grudge will end.” Baihu told La Xuan.
“This revenge will end when I take your life.” La Xuan said with a sharp look at Baihu.
Baihu sighed hearing La Xuan's words.
“Many people die in war, if you do not want to die you should not go to war. Falling in battle is honorable. There is no revenge in war, only the opposite side. Friends and brothers can kill each other in war.” said Baihu at length.
Yet what Baihu said was completely unappealing to La Xuan. In his mind, he must avenge his sister's killer.
“Alright, no need to talk much more. Get started!” Baihu.
La Xuan immediately prepared by clenching his fists. He exerted his strength and drained it into both of his fists. Baihu also exerted strength in both of his palms.
Both sides had prepared to carry out an attack, the atmosphere was instantly silent. Everyone watching seemed to be holding their breath waiting for the start of this fight.
Wuzzzh...
The wind blew between them. La Xuan immediately jumped up and attacked Baihu with both of his fists. La Xuan's attack was extremely ferocious and the sound of his fists roaring made the feathers of the crowd stand up to hear it.
However Baihu remained calm awaiting La Xuan's attack. When La Xuan's fist was one step away from him, Baihu moved at high speed dodging La Xuan's fist strike.
Baihu's palm was like dancing swerving between La Xuan's arms then pointed towards La Xuan's chest quickly. “Huh!”
La Xuan's eyes saw Baihu's movements instantly raise his fist and hold Baihu's palm by using his elbow. La Xuan's elbow cut off the direction of Baihu's palm strike that wanted to smash into his chest. La Xuan then directed his left fist twisting towards Baihu's standing on his right side.
Wuzzzh...
Baihu twitched from La Xuan's left fist, so La Xuan's fist only hit the wind. Then La Xuan changed his fist strike and intended to use his foot kick.
La Xuan took out a footstroke towards Baihu, but Baihu had read the direction of La Xuan's attack, and leaped away from La Xuan's footstroke. Then Baihu salted in the air as if leaping over La Xuan's body. It made La Xuan turn around to welcome Baihu behind her, yet she did not see Baihu there.
Suddenly La Xuan felt an immense force heading up his head swiftly. La Xuan's face turned pale when he learned Baihu was swooping down on top of his head with his feet sweeping towards his throat.
Just a split second La Xuan reflexively raised her head then tilted her body back to avoid Baihu's leg sweep from above. Thus, La Xuan still had time to raise his legs turned around by resting on his hand directing his kick to Baihu's back.
Baihu's position in the air made him inevitably turn around to fend off La Xuan's foot kick with his palm.
Baihu's palm punch dispelled La Xuan's foot and bounced it back, while he salted back in midair and landed a bit far behind La Xuan.
When he managed to set his foot on the ground, Baihu used it to push his body back and shot towards La Xuan at a faster speed than before.
Bugh!
Baihu's palm managed to hit La Xuan's back by having it fall to the ground. Yet La Xuan managed to hold his body and turned around in a twist. Baihu's powerful punch left him sitting down after successfully avoiding him falling face down on the ground.
La Xuan's face became ugly and grimaced in pain. Although he had time to drain his strength into his back to avoid Baihu's attack, the pain still remained in his back.
La Xuan immediately drained his energy to dispel the Baihu energy still stored in his back.
“Badness!” he felt pain in his back.
La Xuan's eyes moved around in annoyance. He re-exerted his strength and prepared to strike again.
This time La Xuan no longer held himself back, he exerted all his strength to immediately end this fight.
“Your brother underestimated his opponent too.” muttered Xu Yuan who was standing beside La Guan. Hearing his teacher's words, La Guan turned his head towards Xu Yuan.
“Teacher, can big brother beat him?” ask La Guan.
Xu Yuan's face looked calm, he narrowed his eyes looking towards the fight.
“The strength of both of them is balanced, but your brother's style attacks are less effective. Not so with Baihu, his movements were simple but his attack power was very strong. His fighting experience is far above your brother.” Xu Yuan said.
La Guan again noticed the fight between his brother and Baihu. He felt anxious after hearing the words of his teacher. “Kakak..”.
La Xuan's attack was indeed extremely ferocious and powerful, but his battle experience was far below Baihu who had gone through various fights in his life. Thus La Xuan's attack despite being extremely powerful but ineffective against his opponent.
Instead Baihu used the Nine Universes' moves but the movements were simple, but the attack power from his movements was very strong and directly hit towards his opponent.
The difference made La Xuan's attack easily evaded by Baihu and La Xuan's stamina wasted by it, but Baihu's attack always hit La Xuan's body even though he could fend off and hold it off.
Eventually La Xuan realized that his manager's movements were not as good as Baihu's. He finally pulled out his heirloom sword to fight Baihu. Seeing his opponent pull out a sword, Baihu did not underestimate him either. He unsheathed his dragon sword from within his storage ring.
The dragon sword reflected the sunlight with a sharp glint on both sides. The sound of the sword buzzed as the wind gushed towards him.
La Xuan narrowed his eyes looking at the dragon sword in Baihu's hand. He had not expected Baihu's sword to look stronger than his heirloom sword. “I must have that sword. I'll take it after I kill you.”
Then La Xuan prepared to take out his heirloom sword stance. The heirloom sword swung into the air and spun and then slashed towards Baihu.