75: Chapter 50: The Crane Battles the Dragon Dog_3 75: Chapter 50: The Crane Battles the Dragon Dog_3 When Brother Sun let out the word “guilt,” Master Liuu’s foot tapped the ground, and he had already leaped more than ten feet away.
Quick, his sword skill was fast, his movents even faster.
In the world of martial arts, speed is unrivaled.
The sword wind swept up, causing the fallen leaves on the stage to whirl and fly.
Sun Yixie remained where he stood, seemingly unable to react just as when he was struck last ti.
However…
This ti, he surprisingly had a reaction.
With the experience from the last sword strike, Sun Yixie had seen through that when Master Liuu launched those high-speed “pluck-the-feathers” type of attacks, he could only target the upper half of the body; because the curved blade was relatively short, it wouldn’t reach the lower three body sections without a significant change in stance while maintaining posture, which would inevitably affect the speed of the sprint.
Without that speed advantage, the assault would lose its aning; better to stand firm and fight.
This was indeed a loophole in the Flying Crane Saber Skill.
The difference between nearly top-tier and top-tier sword skills lies here: top-tier sword skills, not to say they have no loopholes, but they are few, and not easily discernible nor easily exploited in a short ti.
With nearly top-tier, the power can nearly match top-tier, but there might be one or more apparent weaknesses, and once seen through, they are easily targeted.
Although Sun Yixie couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s blade, once he spotted the weakness, he could pre-emptively move to counter…
In that second, Sun Yixie suddenly bent over, moving forward instead of back, charging toward Master Liuu’s attack, his body skimming close to the ground, lunging straight for his opponent’s ankles.
This move was from the Dragon Dog Boxing—a style known as “Enduring Humiliation to Survive.” Essentially… it involved using one’s entire body weight to latch onto the opponent’s shins and pull them down to the ground.
Although this set of boxing, from its na to its moves, isn’t stylish, it is undeniably practical, indeed very effective.
Master Liuu had never expected such a move; not only did his upper strike miss, but his high speed also ant Sun Yixie caused him to trip thoroughly; however, Master Liuu didn’t fall face-first to the ground.
When he fell forward, he just supported himself with one hand, bounced up almost effortlessly like a balloon touching the ground, and was quickly about to regain his stance.
But Sun Yixie wouldn’t give him that chance, swiftly following up with another move, “Dragon Dog Ascension” – inverting his body and kicking like the blades of a helicopter rotating upwards, while still firmly gripping his opponent’s shins, leaving Master Liuu no escape.
Master Liuu, in turn, blocked with his left hand, effectively shielding his face from a kick, and with the curved blade in his right hand, he swiped at the back of Sun Yixie’s other knee.
Sun Yixie wasn’t naive; he knew the advantages of the curved blade in close combat, and was on guard.
Thus, before getting struck, he buckled and kicked aside the blade, and then took advantage of his opponent’s raised arm to thread his foot through the gap under his armpit, twisting his opponent’s ankle grow, applying a “Xie Boxing” ankle lock.
Master Liuu, caught in the joint lock, had no choice but to down with Sun Yixie, but with a blade in hand, he wasn’t worried.
After slightly easing the joint pressure by hitting the ground, Master Liuu tossed the curved blade from his right to his left hand, adjusted his posture slightly, and slashed again, driving Sun Yixie back from the close entanglent.
Sun Yixie, nimble as a monkey, just managed to grab hold of his trident stuck diagonally in the ground, unloaded the force, and detached from the close struggle, leaping to sit at the end of the handle over a ter off the ground.
Fighting to this extent, Master Liuu truly started to respect his opponent.
This exchange, almost like using their bodies to play chess, was so compelling that it sparked Master Liuu’s interest in martial arts matches for the first ti in his life.
But the outco was still not determined, now wasn’t the ti to think about that.
After a mont, Master Liuu heaved up like a carp rising reginted, and stood firm, his eyes locked on Sun Yixie squatting above, sword in hand, ready to engage again.
Just at that mont…
Sun Yixie shifted slightly, and right then, a brilliant golden sunshine of a mid-autumn afternoon stread down from behind him at just the right angle.
Ideally, Master Liuu was supposed to be backlit, and he wouldn’t have intentionally looked up at the sun, but now their positions were reversed, and Sun Yixie was exactly squatting at the diagonal end of the trident, with a high vantage—it was almost as if Sun Yixie had intentionally led Master Liuu to such a position, such an angle, and montarily used his body to block the sunlight, creating a mont of stark contrast in light and shadow…
“Darn!” Blinded by the sunlight, Master Liuu instinctively closed his eyes and cursed inwardly.
Sun Yixie had been waiting for this mont for a long ti; he burst into laughter and shouted, “Ha ha!
Sun Fist!”
The audience below was startled; using sunlight to dazzle soone, and you made a move out of it?
But Sun Yixie’s combination wasn’t finished yet, taking advantage of the mont Master Liuu was dazzled, he charged down from high up, first with the move “Flying Dog in the Sky”, followed by a “Deadly Charge”, causing Master Liuu to retreat steadily, unable to parry.
Finally, the two were fighting at the edge of the platform, Sun Yixie wrapped his arms around his opponent’s waist and shouted, “Together to the End!” bringing Master Liuu down off the platform with him.
Ultimately, under Brother Sun’s “Taishan Mountain Overwhelming Pressure,” the earlier landed Master Liuu lay there… giving up the fight.
Master Liuu wasn’t seriously injured; he could have continued fighting, he just didn’t want to…
To so extent, he truly admitted defeat, regardless of how good Sun Yixie’s martial arts were, managing to throw him off the platform in such a disheveled manner, he felt that to not admit defeat would be undignified, losing face for the Liuu Family.
So it was…
Sun Yixie advanced to the next round, making it to the top four.
His next opponent would be the only female knight among the top eight this ti—the lady of Divine Blade Manor in Liao Dong, wielder of the Lingfeng Blade, Song Zhixiu.
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