Chapter 12: The First Battle
Translator: Christina Editor: Rundi
With an outburst of power stemming from extre fear and awe, ng Qi’s blade lashed out towards Cheng Yong. The vigor was so strong; it’s as if a single slash could split a mountain in half.
Cheng Yong raised his palms. Crossing them together, he wanted to fight back the long blade recklessly. His Kungfu was much better than ng Qi, and so were his sight and the accuracy and tiliness of his moves. However, the movent of his palms triggered the wound on his left chest and accelerated the outflow of blood. Consequently, his palms temporarily lost their strength, and the blade broke through Cheng Yong’s defense, aiming directly at his face.
As a master who had gone through hundreds of battles, Cheng Yong remained calm even in such an ergency. Following the movent of the blade, he voluntarily fell and slid over ng Qi’s attack by rolling on the floor. On the other hand, ng Qi didn’t have any battle experience at all and didn’t know that he should follow up with a series of attacks while Cheng Yong rolled on the floor.
Suddenly, Cheng Yong pressed the ground with both of his palms, and like a toad, his right leg kicked backward, pointing directly to where the heart of his enemy is located at.
In the past, this was how he turned the tables and successfully created cobacks in many fights. Now, he wanted to use the sa move to finish off the battle.
However, his right leg didn’t encounter anything. Cheng Yong jumped up and saw the weak-looking little monk staring at him in fear. Obviously, the monk was a complete newbie and didn’t have any battle experience.
“Damn!” Cheng Yong cursed in his head. He didn’t expect his ultimate move would fail because his opponent was a Jianghu newbie who missed the chance to follow up. This made him extrely unhappy. After all the fierce moves that he had perford just now, the wound on his chest had beco even more severe. As more blood was lost, he started to feel weak and dizzy.
“I need to deal with my wound first.” Even though Cheng Yong beca reckless and impulsive after having the Mind-reaving Pill, and was too scared to disobey the commands of the owner of Yin Huang Castle due to the pain the pill could bring, he still possessed so extent of logical reasoning.
At this mont, he knew very well that if he didn’t deal with his wound, after so dozens of breaths, he would lose his consciousness. By then, the little monk would be able to do everything he wanted.
Just as Cheng Yong was about to tear his clothes and wrap up his wound, he suddenly heard a deep roar from the little monk, who ran towards him with another slash!
“Bastard, why didn’t you follow up earlier?” Cheng Yong had no choice but to cope with ng Qi’s attacks. He tried to end the fight as soon as possible so he could get to his wound.
Jiang Zhiwei sat on the ground and leaned against the stone gate. ng Qi was like a crazy tiger. Even though his moves were a ss, his strength and the length of his blade gave him an advantage. On the other hand, influenced by his severe wound, Cheng Yong’s Kungfu had beco much weaker, and his moves were sluggish. At the ti, he wasn’t able to approach ng Qi by taking advantage of the flaws in ng Qi’s blade moves.
“Random fists can kill an experienced master…” For so reason, Jiang Zhiwei thought of this old saying. Then an idea popped into her mind, and she yelled, “Top right!”
Although she had lost her strength, she still had good sight, and her eye Aperture was still opened. Therefore, she could easily spot the flaws in Cheng Yong’s movents. Moreover, since Cheng Yong was very slow, she could instruct ng Qi. Typically speaking, if it were two masters fighting against each other, everything would happen within the blink of an eye, and any instructions given by other people would miss the right timing.
ng Qi continued the slashes. Seeing that his attacks were as fierce as a tempest, which forced Cheng Yong to remain distant from him, for a second he had the illusion that he had beco a master too.
Of course, ng Qi knew perfectly well that all his moves were a ss. If Cheng Yong weren’t heavily wounded, he would have been killed instantly.
“Top right.” Suddenly, ng Qi heard Jiang Zhiwei’s voice. However, as this was the first ti he experienced an actual combat, and he didn’t have previous experience collaborating with Jiang Zhiwei, he was unable to transform what he heard into a thought, and thus the thought into an action. Therefore, he still followed his own instincts and waved his blade randomly.
On the other hand, Cheng Yong heard Jiang Zhiwei too, so he kneeled down and directly hit towards ng Qi’s lower abdon.
After a flash of the blade, blood burst out from Cheng Yong’s left arm, and he stumbled back holding onto his wound.
Then, he jumped up like a carp bouncing out from the water and glared at ng Qi with extre anger. A mont ago, when he attempted to hit ng Qi’s abdon, he encountered the blade instead, which led to the severe wound on his left arm.
“Didn’t you say ‘top right’?”
ng Qi looked back at him innocently. It seed like he understood what happened just now, too, and he said on purpose, “Sorry to disappoint you, but my reaction speed was too slow.”
Cheng Yong was so outraged that he spat out so blood.
“Haha.” Covering her abdon with her hands, Jiang Zhiwei couldn’t stop laughing. “I knew it! Haha, even if I get killed with this little monk together, I would have died because of laughter!”
Cheng Yong beca overwheld by fury. He used his right hand to form a finger sword and pointed several tis onto his chest. The blood was imdiately stopped. Though the wounds were too deep, it was just a temporary relief. After ten breaths, the wounds would burst open again, and he would possibly die imdiately. However, he didn’t care. If he continued to badger with this little monk, he would die anyways as ti elapsed, or even be killed by extre anger!
Seeing Cheng Yong’s moves and his resentful expression, ng Qi put away his smile and beca more serious. He knew that within the next few minutes, it would be either life or death. Shrouded by the high-pressure atmosphere, he subconsciously took a step forward and slashed his blade vertically.
Jiang Zhiwei stopped laughing and tried to stand up to help ng Qi. Nevertheless, Dantian is the foundation for storing Qi. Although her Dantian wasn’t destroyed, there was a considerable injury. For now, she was unable to compile her scattered genuine Qi.
After Cheng Yong temporarily stopped the bleeding from his wounds, he crossed his legs, and with his wounded left arm below, he drew a semicircle in the air with his right hand. It seed like he wanted to disarm ng Qi with his bare hands.
ng Qi knew this wasn’t a desirable situation, so he used all his strength to transform the vertical slash into an inclined one. However, although he successfully dodged Cheng Yong’s right hand, Cheng Yong’s left hand pressed onto the blade. Overwheld by the power Cheng Yong exerted, ng Qi involuntarily took a few steps back.
Given his previous success, Cheng Yong followed up with a series of attacks which continued to counter ng Qi’s blade. It beca increasingly dangerous for ng Qi. If Cheng Yong didn’t worry about the sharpness of the blade, ng Qi would have already died under Cheng Yong’s palms.
“I can’t let this continue, or I’ll be the one dead!”
ng Qi’s eyes turned red. While his hands didn’t stop for a second, hundreds of thoughts flashed through his mind.
“Why haven’t I learned blade arts before? If I knew the basics about blades, given Cheng Yong’s current condition, I would at least be able to defend myself until his wounds burst again or until Jiang Zhiwei recovers. But now, all I can do is to slash around randomly!”
Suddenly, an idea popped into ng Qi’s mind. He recalled Cheng Yong’s attempt to steal away his blade.
Gritting his teeth and slashing his blade vertically again, ng Qi glared at Cheng Yong as if he wanted them to die together.
Cheng Yong sneered. With his right hand drawing a circle and his left hand moving upward, he pressed towards the blade. Since ng Qi had used all the strength he had, he wasn’t able to change the track of the blade.
With the movent of Cheng Yong’s palms, the long blade instantly fell into Cheng Yong’s hands. However, as he exerted power to seize the blade, he felt nothing from the other side. He was competing with nothing but the air!
“Damn!” Cheng Yong imdiately lost his balance. At the sa ti, he saw with astonishnt that the little monk solemnly took two steps forward and gave out a punch.
At the mont the blade fell into Cheng Yong’s hands, ng Qi loosened his right hand and abandoned the weapon!
After this, taking advantage of Cheng Yong’s unguarded chest and stomach, he stepped forward and perford “Black Tiger Stealing Heart”, a move in Luohan Fists, with his left hand!
Bang, ng Qi’s left fist heavily hit the wound on Cheng Yong’s left chest. Imdiately, blood burst out like a fountain and sprayed all over ng Qi’s head, face, and body.
Cheng Yong gasped for air and uncontrollably retreated back. He looked at ng Qi with an extrely stupefied and shocked expression.
How could he be killed by a little monk who only knew such little Kungfu?
Cheng Yong fell to the ground, stirring up the dirt on the floor. His eyes remained wide open. He had died with everlasting regret.
“Hahahaha.” ng Qi burst into laughter as if he had gone crazy. A variety of negative emotions poured out from his heart and accompanied by the blood on his face and body, it made him seem extraordinarily ferocious. “Your father, I, know nothing about blades, but your father knows how to fight with fists! So stupid!”
After releasing all the negative energies he had, ng Qi breathed heavily. The only thing he could feel now was extre tiredness.
“Little monk, you have broken the rules. How can you call yourself your fa-fathe…?” With their greatest enemy eliminated, Jiang Zhiwei felt relieved, too. So, she joyfully began to tell jokes. However, she was aware that as a girl, she shouldn’t say dirty words, so she restrained herself from fully saying the term “your father”.
“Buddha would be happy for that I survived a danger like this, so he wouldn’t bla …” ng Qi said calmly, “Ms. Jiang, how is your injury?”
Seeing that ng Qi wanted to turn around, Jiang Zhiwei quickly stopped him. “Don’t worry about first. Take my sword and stab his head. We are not sure if he’s dead or just pretending.”
Jiang Zhiwei was well educated about how to deal with situations like this.
ng Qi nodded and took a few steps back. He kneeled down and picked up Jiang Zhiwei’s sword while staring at Cheng Yong. Then he carefully walked towards Cheng Yong and stabbed at the point between his eyebrows.
Seeing that the sword penetrated Cheng Yong’s head, ng Qi was completely relieved. Now Cheng Yong was even “deader” than dead!
It wasn’t until now that Jiang Zhiwei had the ti to comnt, “Little monk, you are pretty talented. Even though this was your first battle, you were able to have a clear grasp of the circumstances and remain calm. You set up traps for your enemy, overca your own fear, and abandoned your weapon to use bare fists to give him a fatal attack. It’s not impossible that you will beco a famous Kungfu master in the future.”
“Hehe.” Hearing complints from Jiang Zhiwei, who was very skilled at Kungfu, ng Qi giggled proudly.
Suddenly, the blood on the floor started to wriggle and ford into characters:
“Jiang Zhiwei and Zhen Ding saved Cheng Yong from the pain of being controlled by the Mind-reaving Pill. Each of them will be awarded 10 Karma points for accomplishing this side quest.”
ng Qi and Jiang Zhiwei looked at each other, and knew that they were thinking about the sa thing, “Why would killing him be considered as saving?”
But thinking it over again, being controlled by the Mind-reaving Pill was indeed worse than death!
“There are so mistakes in our previous analysis. If this is the case, where do we look for help?” A slight frown appeared on Jiang Zhiwei’s pretty face. “Or do we not need any help at all?”
ng Qi said with confusion and worry, “What is the aning of this side quest then…”
“Maybe there is no aning at all.” Suddenly, Jiang Zhiwei cried out, “Oh no, Big Sister Qi!”
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