by Fat Bread
However to Yun Xi, this was a bloody trial which needed him to challenge his limit; understanding the true wisdom by wandering between life and death.
"Here we go."
Though it was a death trial, but with Hua Huo following and looking at him, Yun Xi felt that his spirit was strangely high.
Showing his growth to his girl, his childhood sweetheart, his first love... that made him pretty joyful.
Inside of his body, it seemed that Hua Huo's seed also felt his happiness and Hua Huo's sincerity, it started to grow sturdily.
"Kid, go die!" On the square, the moment the top-level stone soldiers found Yun Xi, they yelled and rushed at him together.
The difficulty had increased. That was Yun Xi's personal feeling.
Even in the first district, when the stone soldiers rushed forward together to attack him, their rank wasn't higher than 2nd rank.
And in the volcano district, when the five generals were challenging him one by one. If he didn't learn their weakness from Hua Huo's seed, he couldn't easily entice them to fall into the water and get them to drown to death.
Now, these 3rd rank stone soldiers started to group together again to fight.
However, something had changed.
After completing the side quest of "the girl fight against the evil dragon" and updating his seed from Hua Huo, though Yun Xi's body didn't become super strong, and the souls of the Five Tiger Generals weren't more than two green hippos' worth of souls....
However, his combat intuition, talent, and his use of Quicksilver Motion (Middle Level) and Flying Swallow Sword (Middle Level) had been improving rapidly.
After experiencing the bloody killing in the first district and seeing Hua Huo's god-like Sky Flying Sword, Yun Xi knew better than anyone what a wide gap was between Hua Huo and himself; he also had a strong desire to become stronger.
"You are nothing more than this!"
His enemies were at the 3rd rank? So what? They were more experienced in fighting? So what?
Though I can't kill you all as easy as Hua Huo, but you also can't beat me down with ease!
As he used Quicksilver Motion, his ankles made slightly ominous sounds. That meant that he had reached the limit of his body and had reached the limit of a Mortal.
Hovering the Flying Swallow Sword in the air! He didn't use the stronger skill, Flashing Nine Sword Lights, but used the most simple and elegant skill, the original Flying Swallow Triple Attack.
However, this time, the Flying Swallow Sword was being used when he was surrounded by four 3rd-ranked warriors and dozens of other people.
His actions were perfect.
His breathing didn't change.
His heart was strongly beating in his body, but his mood was unexpectedly calm.
Peace Of Mind!
Enhance Your Background!
Drawing out his sword!
"Swish!" A 3rd-ranked stone soldier who tried to be the first to attack Yun Xi, looked at Yun Xi in disbelief. At the next moment, his head slipped down to the ground, spurting out vast amounts of blood in the air.
For the first time, Yun Xi did it. He didn't use any tricks, but defeated a 3rd-ranked warrior face to face, in an unfriendly environment that was surrounded by tens of enemies.
The gap between two Mortals had a limit - that was what Yun Xi learned from Hua Huo's seed.
Even a monster who was strong like the green hippo could be hurt by a firewood chopper. Strong men like the Five Tiger Generals could also be drowned in the sea.
When confronted with sword and blade, everyone in the Mortal rank would get hurt. They couldn't ignore a Mortal's attack like what the hero-ranked male Fiery Dragon did.
The Mortal rank meant flesh and blood. You would shed blood if you were cut by a sword and you would die if your head was cut off.
What was the difference between 1st-ranked people and 3rd-ranked people? The difference was that when faced with a knife, one was a piece of paper and another one was a stack of papers.
You are not unbeatable! Yun Xi stepped back and dodged a series of slashes. Then he struck back, cutting off an arm from a 3rd-ranked warrior.
Blood sprayed on the blade, reflecting his resolute eyes.
Chapter 54: Irresistible Force
Brandish his sword, draw back his sword, kick away the enemies!
As if he was a swallow flying in the sky, Yun Xi flew amongst a group of well-armed burly men. By using his evolved Quicksilver Motion and Flying Swallow Sword, he dealt with the crowd like a fish in water.
One, two, three! Three heads successively slipped to the ground, spurting blood in the sky.
For the first time he assaulted the third district, Yun Xi had killed three 3rd-ranked enemies and cut off two people's arms. He had a really fruitful result.
The trial wouldn't become easy due to his improvement. When Yun Xi showed his strongest state in fighting against these 3rd-ranked stone soldiers, an accident happened.
An arrow was shot at him from a distance, flying through the crowd and cutting through one of Yun Xi's hand - the hand he used to hold his sword.
Win or lose, the battle between masters often ended in a flash. Not to mention that the trial Yun Xi had to face was so cruel.
That was a 3rd-ranked archer! Yun Xi felt a little surprised as he looked at the archer in red, standing alone at the end of the bridge.
In the next second, his eyes were filled with blood.
"Arrrghhhhh! My Little Xi!" After seeing Yun Xi being hacked to death by the crowd, Hua Huo's eyes turned red.
Even after Yun Xi had told her that as long as the bonfire was still burning, he could revive from it, and so she didn't need to care much about his death.
However, after seeing her childhood sweetheart miserably dying in front of her, how could she bear it? How was it possible to bear it!
Hua Huo would never bear it!
"You wastes, how dare you to do this to my Little Xi!"
"You all, go to hell!"
Drawing her two-handed heavy sword, Hua Huo turned into a terrible shadowy figure again. That definitely wasn't something that any other 3rd-ranked human could do.
One brandish, two pieces!
The two-handed sword could even be used to collapse a city gate. But now, it turned into a light of killing, cutting all the 3rd-ranked stone soldiers on the bridge in half.
As for the archer in red, who gave Yun Xi a critical shot, he was the priority target Hua Huo paid attention to. The archer was sliced and diced by her.
That only took her three seconds!
"And you, go die!" After coming through the bridge by killing, Hua Huo aimed at the last three red stone soldiers of the third district.
"Go!"
"Watch out!"
"Who is this monster!"
Childe Yun He, Childe Si Nian, and Childe San Quan entered the battle.
Three seconds later, Hua Huo dragged her two-handed heavy sword, peevishly walking back to the bonfire.
Behind her, was a sea of corpses and blood.
Ten seconds later as usual, he revived beside the bonfire. Then, he speechlessly looked at the sea of green souls as they slowly rebuilt their bodies.
Hua Huo, what did you do to them? Why did they all die?
It seemed that if he stayed together with Hua Huo, the enemies who were killed by her would also become green souls.
However, Hua Huo couldn't absorb these green souls and neither could he. So, these green souls would revive again and turn back into their original bodies.
As Yun Xi was ready to challenge the cruel third district again, Hua Huo stretched out her hand.
"Little Xi, don't keep doing it."
"Don't keep doing what?" Yun Xi quizzically looked at his childhood sweetheart. He knew he had used all the power from Hua Huo's seed.
"You're imitating me but we're different." Hua Huo seriously gazed at Yun Xi.
Though in the dream Yun Xi was so cool and excellent and she was glad to see it, but a de
fect was a defect. She must tell him.
"Different?" Yun Xi also slightly realized that the world in Hua Huo's eyes was different from the world in his eyes.
He couldn't say the details. However, after Hua Huo pointed it out, he had realized this problem, which was ignored by him all this time.
"Your arm length, body height, and physique are all different from mine."
"The Flying Swallow Sword isn't a big problem for you, because you have enough flexibility and dexterity. The problem is the Quicksilver Motion." Hua Huo lowered her body and held Yun Xi's foot, carefully observing the bones and shape of his foot, then took off his shoes.
Because Yun Xi just finished ecdysis not long ago, his skin was abnormally white, not looking like a boy's feet.
Because his ecdysis was evolving according to Hua Huo's seed, so the flexibility and dexterity of his body were unconsciously biased toward Hua Huo.
However, the feet were the limbs that humans used the most and was also the most sophisticated body parts that muscles developed very well at. Sixteen years of experience left Yun Xi a deep impression, which caused a little incongruity.
"Well, as I thought... here is untrained."
"Little Xi, the Quicksilver Motion puts a huge burden on the feet. Your feet still can't withstand the explosive force of the Quicksilver Motion." Hua Huo rubbed Yun Xi's feet and told him the matter needing attention.
"Ah, so that's the reason." Yun Xi finally understood what the incongruity he felt was.
That was true. Just like what Hua Huo said, when he used Quicksilver Motion to the limit, his ankles would give out bad cries. That was the telltale sign of overexertion.
To other 3rd-ranked people, it was already enough if their speed could be as fast as the middle-level Quicksilver Motion. However, Yun Xi's flaw was too big in Hua Huo's eyes.
"Just now, the archer in red aimed at the position you were going to go to. You had forced yourself to reach the limit, so you were no longer able to make any change to your trajectory. So that meant you couldn't dodge the arrow."
"Besides, you pay too much attention to close combat and you don't have the experience to deal with ranged attacks. I can teach you."
Hua Huo's soft words made her Yun Xi's first and best battle tutor. Finally, Yun Xi understood how many ridiculous mistakes he made in his seemingly satisfactory performance.
Oh, certainly, people were not the same.
The wandering green souls revived in the third district one by one, waiting for Yun Xi's challenge.
"Then, I'm going." Holding the newbie iron sword in his his, for the second time, Yun Xi walked to the cruel third district.
After drawing a lesson from his first try this time, he didn't rashly force his body to reach the limit, but saved his strength in order to use Quicksilver Motion at any time. As he dodged the attacks from dozens of 3rd ranked warriors, he also kept seeking the best timing to attack.
One, two, three!
Four, five, six!
As Yun Xi killed the tenth person, the archer in red finally found his weak point by using his intuition and killed him in one shot.
"This archer is not simple..." Looking at the black arrow cutting through his heart, Yun Xi murmured and fell to the ground.
"Arrrghhhh! My Little Xi!" Seeing her childhood sweetheart's death with her own eyes, Hua Huo got mad again.
Ten seconds later, after Yun Xi revived beside the bonfire, he saw a lot of green souls floating above a sea of blood again.
Chapter 55: Title at End
"Chi!"
Yun Xi took an arrow to the knee.
"Chi!"
Yun Xi took an arrow to the shoulder.
"Chi!"
Yun Xi took an arrow to the head.
There wasn't any exception. Every time Yun Xi got shot by the archer in red, he would be chopped by all sorts of weapons in the next second.
In this battle of Mortal ranks, such an archer who could fire at the target a hundred times without missing a single time, was surely the deadliest killer.
Yun Xi proved that by dying thirty times.
Hua Huo also left Yun Xi's enemies with a nightmare forever by her thirty massacres.
Again, Yun Xi revived beside the bonfire. As he was ready to rush to the stone soldiers and fight with them, Hua Huo grabbed his hand.
"This can't go on, Little Xi."
"Right now, you can't defeat the archer."
"If you don't make yourself stronger, even if you overdraw your limit, you can't walk through the bridge."
Yun Xi paused for a while, then he relaxed his body and sat on the ground.
Yes, Hua Huo was right.
Now, even if he used his 2nd-ranked power and Hua Huo's 3rd-ranked combat intuition to the limit, he still couldn't pass through the bridge.
After all, he wasn't Hua Huo.
For the first time, Yun Xi clearly felt his limit.
One, two, three. Even if the 3rd-ranked stone soldiers on the bridge attacked him together. If he paid the price of dying hundreds of times, he probably still couldn't pass through the bridge - even if that meant that he had to die for many more times.
However, the archer in red was out of his expectations.
Yun Xi didn't know who the mysterious archer was. No matter how perfectly he used his 2nd-ranked Quicksilver Motion, the archer could still find his weak point among the crowd and give him a critical shot.
The archer didn't even need to hit the arrow at his crucial point. In fact, Yun Xi was only directly killed by the arrow very few times.
The archer's goal was to break Yun Xi's rhythm. Yun Xi's Quicksilver Motion looked like floating clouds and flowing water, but that was built on his strong pre-assessment. When faced with a dozen 3rd-ranked masters, every second he slightly stayed at the same place would lead to a dead end.
"What an awesome archer! But the archer's battle style doesn't look like it's from the White Lotus Sword Domain." Sitting by the bonfire, Yun Xi observed the white-haired young person who carried a two-handed long bow behind the back and wore red clothes.
White Lotus Sword Domain was a lower domain of the Sky Sword Domain. Most of the people there practiced sword skills. If there was such an archer that mastered such a terrible archery, he should already be as famous as the Five Tiger Generals.
"Eh. He should be a stealth archer who majors in the longbow and his close combat power is also good. Look, he wears two swords at the waist. Those two aren't ornaments, but true lethal weapons." Hua Huo pointed at the archer in red, the person who caused his thirty failures.
"He should have a locking skill like the Mind's Eye and he should also have the Eagle Eye. If I'm not wrong, he should have found his way to the Hero rank."
"Maybe he is a little weaker than the last three guys, but his potential is far beyond them "
"If he had a Spirit Weapon rank bow, he can cause three times the threat. Fortunately, his weapon is just so-so."
After Hua Huo pointed out the mysterious archer's talents one by one, Yun Xi finally understood what kind of an opponent he was facing.
If even Hua Huo also praised the archer, that meant that he was way better than the Five Tiger Generals. The archer was very likely to reach Hero rank in the future.
No wonder he looked unlike the other stone soldiers. His red clothes and white hair made him look like a crane standing among chickens.
However, he still wanted to win!
No matter what he faced, he must pass the trial and become stronger.
For Yun Xi, it was very rare to have such a impulse. Compared to this, his ultimate goal of saving the princess wasn't that important.
The more hard it was to get, the more eager one was to get it. Perhaps that was the commonality of all humans.
"Hua Huo, have you got any strategy?" Holding his newbie iron sword, Yun Xi was ready to fight again.
"Now... no." Hua Huo carefully counted the gap between him and the stone soldiers, then shook her head.
Th
ough Yun Xi had exerted his talents to the fullest, but that was still too early for him to challenge a trial at this level.
It wasn't good to die so many times. She still felt love dearly.
