The Devil Sword Swordsman
Ch. 77 - Second Defeat of Huang Kun
During the day as usual Xin Fai was already under the tree by sitting cross-legged, he looked so focused on meditating.
The sun had just risen directly overhead, even though the light was so hot that the air there was very cool.
While taking a breath Xin Fai felt his lungs filled with oxygen, the air in this place was very different from the air in other places. Just like the waterfall where Xin Fai trained first, every place that has a lot of natural energy has its own specialties.
The air in these mountains made the person who inhaled it feel his body so light, and his mind was clear. So no wonder this place is famous in the Shang Empire and often receives guests who are important people.
Xin Fai took her breath in deeply with her eyes closed, streams of natural energy revolving around her. Not far from him a young man named Huang Kun was staring at him, he felt Xin Fai was being off guard.
With a sneak peek Huang Kun walked behind Xin Fai, when he was about to surprise him, apparently his junior had already realized his arrival first. Xin Fai's hearing was very sharp, even the sound of crickets from a distance was still clearly heard in his ears.
Xin Fai moved suddenly to scare Huang Kun. Huang Kun who wanted to shock Xin Fai was instead made dumbstruck by her, he stroked her chest while stabilizing her heartbeat.
"You... But I was just sitting there..." Huang Kun's face was disappointed heavily, he sat beside Xin Fai exhausted.
"Hahahaha, one of his own would surprise me," Xin Fai's laughter exploded after making Huang Kun smile wryly, he shifted the subject.
"A bright day... What if we just practice the match now?" Huang Kun did not want to mince words, he had actually trained hard from last night to defeat Xin Fai today. Because of his defeat yesterday, he was so devastated and promised to be stronger and not repeat the same mistakes.
Xin Fai commented a small smile.
"Rest for a minute, Senior. You need to recover your strength first."
Huang Kun smiled shyly at her, Xin Fai realized the carefree young man was not in top shape. Some of his strength had been drained due to the training. While recovering his profound strength, Huang Kun took a useful pill to increase his profound strength quickly.
Xin Fai's gaze still turned to the sky, I don't know what he was thinking made Huang Kun curious. But he did not want to question it and chose to do the same.
There was quite a long period of silence until Huang Kun said he was ready to fight with Xin Fai.
Huang Kun drew his sword quickly, the look in his eyes was different from yesterday. If he had previously thought Xin Fai was just a little brat, this time he considered his opponent a formidable foe and immediately put on an alert stance. His determination was extremely strong, visible from the grip on his sword hilt that was extremely tight.
The match practice began, Huang Kun darted quickly showing his abilities. The two swords clashed together, bringing out sparks. Xin Fai held back the speed of such a fierce attack in awe. The current strength of Huang Kun was very different from the previous one.
'Senior Huang Kun only needs a strong determination so that his true strength comes out to the maximum. Lan An's words used to indeed prove to be true.' Inner Xin Fai.
Slashes moved sharply from all directions, Xin Fai tried to hold everything back as long as possible to find out Huang Kun's true strength further.
Not one of the Lotus Temple sect made him one of the three strongest disciples there, Huang Kun's sharp and powerful movements had definitely made his enemies heavily defeated.
Somewhat long ago being in a defensive position Xin Fai slowly advanced because it was Huang Kun who continued to urge him. In this match practice, they agreed that they would not use a style that uses deep energy.
Strength started to balance, Huang Kun insisted on attacking Xin Fai but in too much of a hurry he opened a gap.
Huang Kun's sword swing wasn't as agile as earlier, he bit his lips when he realized the power that Xin Fai unleashed was far greater than yesterday's match practice.
With a gasp of breath Huang Kun said his defeat, he clenched his hands so tightly as to be unable to defeat Xin Fai.
Xin Fai himself had once been in the position of Huang Kun, when he used to train with Lan An in Anguo City. All the experience Lan An had given him was very useful.
Huang Kun snorted heavily. "Ah, even though I trained hard I still lost to you.."
"Senior, you just need to maintain that determination to get stronger. "
"You won't understand my feelings... I'm..." Huang Kun had high self-esteem as a man, losing to a junior like Xin Fai for the second time made himself almost cry.
"I've been in the Senior position, I've even lost three times to my opponent before."
Xin Fai began to tell of a figure named Lan An who used to teach him martial arts. Hearing Lan An's age was only 12 years while his strength was extremely great made Huang Kun envious.
Huang Kun thought for a long time pondering over everything, before long his eyeballs were like flames. He looks very excited.
"I will continue to train you to fight even though it must be thousands of times until I get my victory!" he said steadily, the young man was very ambitious.
"By pleasure, Senior."
A old man came after her, he came with a friendly smile as usual. His eyebrows were white with a whitened beard anyway, he was a Tao Wei. One of the Imperial Pillars that was highly respected by everyone.
Tao Wei said slowly. "I've always observed your training here, Fai'er. Seeing one of my proud disciples lose to you has awakened me to train my students to practice more."
With all due respect Xin Fai replied. "No Senior, I'm just lucky to win from Senior Huang."
Huang Kun looked down. He was again discouraged.
"You can't possibly get lucky twice, Fai'er... I have already acknowledged your strength is indeed above mine," Huang Kun said afterwards.
Xin Fai fell silent, she did not know what else to answer. Afterwards Tao Wei said that the Young Swordsman Tournament would be held soon. They had to get ready to leave for the center of the city of the Shang Empire.
Huang Kun and Xin Fai were willing to become the representatives of the Lotus Temple sect to take part in the Young Swordsman Tournament. On the other hand, there was one more disciple who would be sent from their side.
Huang Kun said that the disciple who was going to join him was named Shen Xuemei one of the youths who was of noble blood. When telling that person, Huang Kun seemed to not like him very much, he explained that Shen Xuemei had a bad temper.
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