Free Web NovelChapter 32: Chapter 32: Su Yu’s Furious Breakthrough
Leaving the hill,
Su Xing suddenly felt a sense of calm wash over him.
The night road was as still as water. He was alone, bathed in moonlight, walking step by step toward the Sword Hall.
At his side, specks of white energy, like lively sprites, poured into Su Xing’s injured areas. A tingling numbness filled his body, eventually rushing to his brain and making Su Xing crack a smile.
His wounds were repairing themselves at an unbelievable speed.
It was just like "out-of-combat health regeneration."
Once Su Xing left the hill and entered a "safe" state, the Black Sword in his body began to frantically draw in the surrounding energy to help him repair his physical body. In just a few blinks, his wounds began to scab over and then return to normal.
If not for the lingering scent of blood in his nostrils,
Su Xing might have even wondered if he had truly fought a life-or-death battle with Xue City.
When the white energy around Su Xing gradually faded, he stopped and touched his repaired skin. It was fair and resilient; you couldn’t see a single trace of injury.
"So this Mortal Sword has this kind of function, too."
Su Xing couldn’t help but sigh in admiration. He glanced back at the distant hill, now shrouded in darkness. It was completely empty. Apparently, Liu Ming and Bailan had already left. ’I wonder what action the special department will take after this,’ Su Xing thought for a moment, then shook his head. ’As long as those people from the Spiritual Sect don’t come bothering me and Su Yu, it has little to do with me. But if they insist on coming here to die, the sword in my hand is more than sharp enough.’
"Whoa, bro, what are you doing here?"
Just as Su Xing was lost in thought, he suddenly heard a vaguely familiar voice in front of him. Su Yu, dressed in a black short-sleeved shirt and brown jeans, was hard to see clearly as he blended into the night. Standing beside him was Shen Ruyun. Upon seeing Su Xing’s sudden appearance, her face instantly stiffened, giving off the feeling of being caught in an illicit affair.
Of course, there was no way the two of them were having an affair. The moment Su Xing saw Su Yu and Shen Ruyun, he understood immediately. They must have received a message from their organization summoning them. They probably didn’t know yet what he had just told Liu Ming.
"You’re asking me? What are you doing out here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Hearing Su Xing’s question, the words got stuck in Su Yu’s throat for a long while. After thinking for a good moment, he finally took out his phone, showed it to Su Xing, then cleared his throat twice and said:
"Ahem, bro, it’s already past four in the morning. Shen Ruyun and I came out to watch the sunrise."
"The sunrise? How elegant of you."
Seeing his younger brother’s attempt at an excuse, Su Xing found it rather amusing. He walked over to Su Yu’s side, patted his shoulder, and said, "Be careful out here so late at night."
"Don’t worry, bro."
"Well, enjoy the show. I ran into a little trouble tonight and I’m pretty tired, so I’m heading back."
Su Xing yawned, chatted with Su Yu for a few more sentences, then returned to the Sword Hall to rest.
After Su Xing left, a message popped up on Su Yu’s phone. He took it out of his pocket and opened it. The fluorescent white light illuminated his face, looking a bit harsh in the oppressive darkness, but he could see the content of the message.
There were two messages in total.
The first was sent ten minutes ago, telling them to gather immediately for a meeting.
The second was a supplementary message sent just now: [Confirmed. Approximately half an hour ago, on a hill not far from Su Yu’s residence, Su Yu’s older brother, Su Xing, was attacked by the Spiritual Sect’s Blood Priestess, Xue City. Su Xing was saved when a mysterious expert intervened and killed Xue City. The Spiritual Sect’s actions are growing more brazen. We must act immediately.]
When Su Yu saw this message,
he felt a surge of fire rise from his gut. The force of his grip on his phone unconsciously multiplied several times, and he only snapped out of it when cracks started appearing on the screen.
Su Yu recalled how relaxed Su Xing had looked just now, as if nothing had happened at all. This inexplicable disaster had been his fault. His own brother had been on the verge of death, yet Su Xing had pretended to be fine just so he wouldn’t worry.
The thought made Su Yu grind his teeth in hatred, wishing he could flay the Spiritual Sect and pull out their tendons. freewebnovel.cσ๓
"Fuck the Spiritual Sect..."
Su Yu cursed under his breath, his teeth clenched.
The sequence energy in his body began to resonate in sync with his emotional fluctuations, until a sudden gust of air spread out with Su Yu at its center. It forced Shen Ruyun, who was standing nearby, to take two steps back. She looked at Su Yu in surprise and muttered:
"No way... He broke through to the second-tier just like that?"
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Su Xing returned to his room.
He flopped into his bed with a THUD.
Lying in bed, Su Xing rolled over and stared at the ceiling. He replayed his last two battles over and over in his mind. His strength was clearly greater than both Lou Zhen’s and Xue City’s, but when it came to actually fighting, it wasn’t so easy to finish them off. It was as if he was missing something.
It was only just now that he’d suddenly understood why.
It was actually quite simple... His fighting style was too direct, while his opponents’ sequences gave them all sorts of ways to avoid a direct confrontation.
Su Xing’s method of dealing direct damage would always be at a disadvantage against enemies like Lou Zhen and Xue City.
The solution was also very simple.
Either he needed to obtain a sword technique that could apply special effects,
or Su Xing had to find a way to prevent his opponents’ sequences from mitigating his direct damage.
If he could achieve either of these two things, then his fights against Xue City and Lou Zhen could have likely been finished in one or two sword strikes. It wouldn’t have taken so long at all.
But it was easier said than done.
In the end, Su Xing had gotten this far by relying on his own talent and the system. He wasn’t a Martial Artist who had trained bit by bit to his current level. Therefore, he could only rely on the system, but so far, Su Xing hadn’t figured out a way to make the system produce new sword techniques.
[Thrust lv5 (986/1000)]
Su Xing’s gaze fell on the system panel as he muttered to himself.
’All I can do now is count on my ’Thrust’ skill.’
’I hope ’Thrust’ can evolve into the kind of sword technique I need.’
’If it really doesn’t work out... then the most I can do is just take the brute-force route. No matter who you are or what sequence you have, as long as my sword technique level is high enough, a single slash will still be an instant kill.’
With that thought,
Su Xing closed his eyes.
He prepared to replenish the energy he had lost throughout the day.
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