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CRASH!
Bing Xue intercepted the King’s attack with her sword, the Yin and Yang Harmony Sword, an explosion of Aura erupted the moment both bdes cshed against one ahe King’s Aura otent, resembling an endless wave of darkness and crimson fire, yet Bing Xue remained calm. Despite her body looking much more “delicate” than his, her grip was firm and unmovable.
Her body exuded waves—rivers of light—that made the Kihey were dangerous. This, coupled with his inability to push her down, quickly forced him to kick her stomad thereat into the skies, his sword bzing with bck fire.
“My, that fighting style is quite rudimentary. Did your father teach you to kick the stomachs of your foes?” Bing Xue wondered. “Oh?”
“You’re tough despite your appearahe King’s entire body was engulfed in bck fmes, a maion of his Aura. “I shall showcase a fragment of my true power iurn.”
FLASH!
He rushed towards her, resembling a blur of bd red fire. His sword was swuically and horizontally within seds, each attack geing an explosion of fmes.
Bing Xue intercepted every attack with her sword; uhe King, she moved gracefully and withe in her i; her sword was like a snake, sliding through the King’s arms and defenses, pierg his armor several times while his sword could not even hit her once.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“W-What sort of swordsmanship is that?!”
The King grew frustrated, incapable of believing what his eyes were seeing! He had sparred with his siblings before, and although eae of them had their own specialties and ueiques, he could alredict or see what they were going to do.
He had sparred with his wife, a master spirit swordswoman of her own world, and always was able to overe her slightly sneaky attacks. He had fought tless swordsmen from all the towers and from many worlds.
Yet…
“Your movements are filled with hatred and anger; you ’t overy teiques if you let your emotions take over,” Bing Xue said. “Yrip is too tight, your muscles are tensed, and you charge like a wild boar without thinking about proper teique.”
She was reprimanding him.
“Y-You dare…?!”
The King quickly became even more furious; it wasn’t just because Bing Xue was ag "cocky." No, it was also because her teags reminded him of his own father.
Yes, for the only time he ever sparred with his father, he was su overwhelming wall to overe; it felt like the differen power was like heaven ah!
Fighting her gave him the same feeling, and he couldn’t believe this woman could ever pare to his almighty father.
“Teique?! I’ll show you my family’s teiques then!”
“{Golden Lion Swordsmanship Arts}: {Rampaging Bze}!”
His sword suddenly grew twice as rge, fmes of crimson and bck erupted, and his sword swuically as a gigantic ssh of fire was unleashed from his sword, g against Bing Xue!
BOOOM!
The explosion of fmes engulfed her body, yet...
SLASH!
Her sword swung through the explosion itself, splitting it not just once.
No…
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
But hundreds of times, until the explosion itself simply ceased to exist.
“As I said, even your teiques seem to rely on charging wildly. Is this the power of your Empire, of your father? Not impressive at all,” Bing Xue said, looking at the refle of her bde, showing the clearly ed-looking face of the King. “If you never achieve Inner Pead Harmony with the Elements, especially Yin and Yang, you will never be able to overe the wall betweewo.”
“W-What nonsense…?! Hah, as if!” roared the King. “I won’t fall for whatever tactics you’re using, you monster! I will unmask you as the creature you are and not as the human you cim to be!”
The King didn’t give up yet. Rushing towards Bing Xue, his sword fring with his bzing Aura, his body’s muscles started bulging, his long, bck hair turned into bck fmes, and his eyes seemed... draic.
“The Bloodline of the Golden Lion Empire has been tempered with many geions!” he roared. “We desd from the Red Dragons themselves; we might know no bounds! And we shall quer it all, as it is our duty as the Empire!”
As he roared, draigs made of red fire surged from his back, pushing him forward. His attacks became faster and even more intense, and Bing Xue could see his teiques all relying on brute power and some sort of teique.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Vertical and horizontal sshes relying on brute ford firepower were what made up their teiques. This, bined with their flying ability and enormous bodies, made the Empire Swordsmanship an incredibly overwhelming Art.
Yet, to Bing Xue, it was as if she were pying with a child who had yet to truly prehend the Law of the Bde at all.
CRASH!
“He’s strong heless,” Bing Xue smiled, admitting how powerful the King was. It reminded her of the brute force of the Primal King, albeit not as wild, and she quickly decided to stop ag defensively and take a siep forward. “Not bad; I will now act offensively.”
“Offensively?! You’ve not been doing that this eime?!” The King gritted his teeth. “Don’t talk nonseo me, woman! I am the King of this ti! Do you think you just start teag me anything?! You’re only insulting my great family! Pay for such a sin with your life!”
The King’s body erupted with even more fmes, the fmes shaping themselves into scales around his body, melding his armor with his skin. A tail of bck fmes surged from his back.
FLASH!
He kicked the air and reached Bing Xue within a split sed; his overwhelming presence seemed to be burning everything within his surroundings, and his gigantic sword swung down, like a guillotine ready to cut her head.
CLASH!
Yet Bing Xue moved forward, light verging with spiritual essehe bde she wielded shining brightly, and light and darkness emanated from it, spiraling together, and then...
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Heaven’s Spear}”
FLASH!
It was such a bright light that it almost made the King blind! He instinctively stepped back a sed before her sword’s aura turned into a spear of light and pierced his chest, shattering his armor instantly.
CRASH!
“You have good instincts; that would have killed you.” Bing Xue smiled. “I am starting to get a bit pumped up; you keep up?”
“I should be asking that question instead,” the King raged, his sword moving downwards and upwards, and then to the left and right as an x-shaped ssh of fmes surged.
“{Golden Lion Swordsmanship Arts}: {Bzing Cross}!”
Bing Xue smiled, swinging her swainst his gigantic attack, so big it could easily destroy the ey of New York if it fell over it. “Let me show you then!”
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Harmonizing Wave}”
The harmonizing energies of Ying and Yang trated as she gracefully swung her bde horizontally. A wave of pure darkness and light stantly melding together was unleashed.
The skies were split in half as both powerful swordsmanship teiques cshed against one another. Fmes, light, and darkness covered heaven.
BOOOM!
As the explosioed, the King rushed down, trying to take advantage of the smoke to sneakily attack Bing Xue from behind, something he had never sidered before until he realized how much of a true monster she was.
Yet, as his bzing bde moved downward, Bing Xue’s rainbow eyes had already noticed him long ago; her bde quickly moved as she spun her entire body towards him. Her sword shoh light, attag him several times within a single sed.
Each attack resembled a spear of light, desding towards the King and pierg, shattering, aroying any armor he had left, even weakening his Aura itself.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“UGH?!”
Her attaterrupted his own teique, but she didn’t stop, quickly leaping through the sky and using her swain, this time imbued with pure darkness. The bde quickly pierot his body but his soul, leaving behind the darkhat cursed his Aura and weake even further.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“AARGH!”
The Ki his Soul growing darker, the cursed darkness making his mighty aura smaller. It was su enormous humiliation, and right in front of his entire army!
“T-This ’t be…!” he groaned. “I am the King…! I am King Caesar III!”
With a furious and draic roar, the King’s Aura erupted o time, creating a powerful pressure that made Bing Xue flinch for a sed.
For that very sed, she thought for a mihat the power of a Venerable had emerged from his body!
Time itself seemed to slow down, her senses sharpening as he saw the man in front of him, riddled with bloody scars and pain, quickly grow more scales around his body, c the wounds.
His bde suddenly ged color; the bck obsidian quickly turned deep red, as if the bde itself had been sleeping this eime.
“Wake up from your slumber, turion!”
RUMBLE!
The sword unleashed its mighty Sword Aura, being a pletely red bde, not as heavy as before as it discarded most of its mass, being longer, sharper, and lighter.
“I see, your sword is alive. Iing!”
“SILENCE!”
The King moved towards Bing Xue; his bde, now much lighter than before, was swung in all dires at the same time, enpassing the King with a barrier of sword sshes, something Bing Xue had only seen in the mightiest practitioners of the Dao of the Bde.
“{Golden Lion Swordsmanship Arts}: {Absolute Sword Domain}!”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“Oh?!”
Bing Xue ushed back, her normal grip incapable of holding back the endless, unceasing barrage of sshing attacks that seemed to cut the wind itself!
“This is the almighty Domain I’ve practiced my whole life to learn!” roared the King. “Once I activate it, there is no foe that has survived! Your body shall be shredded into pieces and reduced to nothing but mi.”
“Incredible indeed.”
Bing Xue smiled as her eyes fred with rainbow fmes. Her bde suddenly moved forward with no apparent teique other than a faint rainbow essenpassing it.
The King smiled, thinking of her as foolish. The moment she extended her bde and her arm into his Domain, they would both be torn to shreds!
Yet…
CLASH!
His sword was impacted by her bde, suddenly stopping the domaiirely as the King’s eyes widened. A sed ter, Bing Xue’s sword cut through space itself.
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Atom Splitting Ssh}”
Spad time itself distorted around the King, his eyes widening in utter disbelief as his Domain was not only pletely stopped with a mere swing of her bde, but...
“Ugh?! N-No…!”
SLAAASH!
The arm holding the bde was sliced and then shredded into tless tiny pieces, which were then cut even more, leaving nothing behind at all as they were cut down to the atoms that posed it.
“My arm is pletely... gone?!”
The King still felt his powers surging; even as weakened as he was, he swiftly used his other arm, trying to reach his bde again.
And managing to!
“turion, unleash everything you’ve accumuted, NOW!”
RUMBLE!
The sword fred with an endless amount of red and bck fmes; the king moved downers; his bde was like a guillotine, ready to behead anything that touched it!
“{Golden Lion Swordsmanship Arts}: {Red Dragoeor}!”
His sword and his body became one, resembling a gigantic, bzieor that could destroy everything.
Bing Xue looked upwards in silence, her bde glowing with silver light.
“Magnifit!” she smiled. “Then, allow me to show you an ultimate teique!”
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Endless Cycle of Harmony}”
Yin and Yang verged as one; Bing Xue didn’t even move her sword; her sword moved by itself, her very i wielding it.
SLAAASH!
An arc of gold and bck light erupted, pierg the King’s body and shattering his sword. The skies above opehe clouds dissipated, and space itself seemed to have shattered, leaving behind a small bck hole.
“A-Ah… I… I lost?!”
The King saw the enormous hole in his chest and the shattered bde falling at the same time as he did, from the skies, all the way to the ground below.
“K-King!”
“Your majesty!”
“N-No…! NOOO!”
The knights saw in horror as their King fell.
And Bing Xue remained supreme.
“You fought well, King Caesar III,” she said, her words full of respect. “But when you walk a path filled with hatred, you will end up tripping sooner or ter.”
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