The Devil Sword Swordsman
Ch. 104 - Xin Fai vs Ho Shing
The afternoon sky with a cool breeze moved the wild plants, seen two people fighting and watched by three others. They watched in astonishment mixed with misgivings as they saw their teacher getting a counterattack from his enemy.
The two swords met creating sparks, both Xin Fai and Ho Shing both retreated keeping their distance after exchanging a few strikes.
Ho Shing's face was not as good as it was, now many wrinkles on his face indicate his condition began to be difficult, he felt Xin Fai still retained even greater strength but did not remove it for some reason.
On the other hand Xin Fai gulped as she realized Ho Shing's movements were extremely sharp and nimble like snakes, she was very clever taking a crack making Xin Fai many times faced with difficult situations.
Feeling that his attacks had ended in vain, Xin Fai mounted his flagship attack that rested on low speed and attacks from stomach to foot.
Ho Shing welcomed the attack while wondering, he had just this type of attack just like this beast. In fact, the attack is very difficult to deal with and makes it even more cornered. That made him step back.
"It turns out that your strength is much greater than my vision, from now on I will fight seriously to face you," said the man starting to move his sword with all his might.
Ho Shing was famous for his deadly attacks that were the same as snakes, meandering and swerving messing with enemy concentrations. He launched an attack at full speed, at that moment Xin Fai had just resisted one attack and finally when another attack was released he had no time to avoid it.
Fighting with Gong Li and Zhuan Ang earlier did drain a bit of his stamina moreover now Ho Shing attacked him mercilessly.
Not being given any space to breathe made Xin Fai unable to absorb the natural energy, she could only inhale with high concentration to recover a little of her inner strength.
'This man's strength is at least the same as that of Li Yong's uncle, I think his fighting experience more makes his every move so deadly.' Xin Fai's inner self guessed, guessing, he retreated five steps made Ho Shing who now stopped attacking him.
"uh? You started to surrender until you backed out of my attack? Hahaha." the arrogant laughter from Ho Shing's mouth sounded. Xin Fai shook her head seeing that the behavior of her teacher and student was exactly the same.
Zhuan Ang as if ridiculing Xin Fai from a distance, he felt that his defeat earlier would be avenged by their teacher. Likewise, Ren Yuan now put on a very satisfied face to see Xin Fai several times in a cornered state.
Xin Fai closed his eyes for a few seconds, during which time Ho Shing felt that something was wrong with his surroundings. He tried to feel it even more and how surprised he was when he realized the abundant natural energy was moving in focus at one point, which was towards Xin Fai's body.
"Absorbing the natural energy?! Isn't this a high-level technique that only an Imperial Pillar-level person can master?!"
In the Demon Man's own body, the owner gets a lot of privileges. One of them absorbs good energy that is life energy, spirit, nature, demon and others. It was this privilege that presented a figure of legend like Qiang Jun back then.
With the spark mark on his forehead now, the natural energy would automatically move on him like a magnet. The ease of absorbing natural energy makes the number of inner circle more and more over time if it is in a location with an abundant amount of natural energy like today.
Ho Shing's eyeballs widened while Gong Li who was able to realize it cursed loudly inwardly, he should have known from the beginning why Xin Fai was not tired of facing him and Zhuan Ang earlier.
Xin Fai's strength had recovered as usual, she opened her eyes slowly without compromising her vigilance. Feeling this fight was crucial for him to teach the four people in front of him Xin Fai released an enormous golden energy.
Ren Yuan's eyelids enlarged upon seeing something so beautiful there, the wind blade-like golden circle moved swiftly with a twisting motion all over Xin Fai's body.
Such a scene was extremely rare in the Shang Empire for a child as small as Xin Fai, the change of two types of energy into light and wind at once was extremely difficult. Seeing Xin Fai as if fused with the gold itself made Ho Shing swallow his saliva.
Ho Shing did this all for the sake of keeping Ren Yuan's good name but it seemed that he had missteps this time and it was completely unthinkable in his head that today he would meet a ten-year-old young man with a mysterious and terrifying power.
Feeling Ren Yuan looking at him expectantly Ho Shing strengthened his grip on the sword. He braced his mentality back to defeat the young man in front of him.
"Your children's games have absolutely no effect on me, boy."
"E... No effect at all? But I saw you pale as an undead. And again, you're saying it's a children's game?" Xin Fai commented on her sweet smile, but there was another meaning in that smile.
"You're gonna get a feel for how real kids play after this."
Lightning and high-speed winds surrounded Ho Shing very quickly, in one breath Xin Fai was preparing to unleash an attack on him.
Ho Shing as best as possible to fend off the wind blades that had come at him as well as welcome Xin Fai's attack, he made it very cornered this time. His position is completely unfavorable.
Moreover, the moment Ren Yuan had been desperate to see his teacher since earlier, he had not expected Xin Fai to have strength that was getting more and more terrifying.
Gong Li even gulped, she was not sure that she could do what Xin Fai was currently doing. The movements and patterns of his attacks in fighting were very different from those of the average person, making every swing of the sword he released very difficult to guess at.
Ho Shing retreated even more as Xin Fai continued to cling to him, the man was as pale as a sick person. Cold sweat is pouring down his temples.
At this moment Ho Shing's focus had split and at the same time he was stunned by the swordplay before him. He had never seen such a swordplay at all, during his 40 years of life and met many heavy opponents today Ho Shing saw for himself how terrifying his opponent was this one.
It could be said that Xin Fai was a strong enough opponent, if only Ho Shing did not underestimate his opponent and used all his strength from the start at least the situation would not be this bad.
But the rice had become porridge, Xin Fai gave no room for him to think. The perfectly circular slash and swing of the sword accompanied by golden energy coming out from the sword belonging to Xin Fai made Ho Shing retreat very far.
"You... Who the hell are you?! Answer me honestly!"
"Currently... Why is it that when you are fighting always questions like this come out," Xin Fai grumbled in annoyance. He paused for a while while plunging the sword eyes onto the ground.
"Maybe after returning from this tournament Senior can find out who I am."
Xin Fai was quite sure his name was now a warm conversation considering that when he arrived at the port this morning there were many people who talked about the presence of the Water Ruler Demon figure that appeared in the middle of the sea there.
After saying that three people came along with panicked faces. Shen Xuemei put on an annoyed face as she had just scolded priest Li Yong for leaving Xin Fai alone in this place while Huang Kun looked for her everywhere and was finally able to find Xin Fai being together four people from other sects.
"That's what we're looking for!"
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