C63 Part1

Translated by An Edited by An

The next day’s morning practice was replaced by actual combat as Yang QiQi sat on the viewers’ platform with Zheng Shou, Ling Yue, Xiang BuChen, and Tu Jin.

In the arena, Nian JiMo and Xu were busy attacking each other in their human forms.

Nian JiMo’s braid moved erratically as he attacked Xu with a short dagger held in his hands. Since he was using ‘Roaming Flower Steps’, it was proving even more difficult to determine his exact position on the arena. Just as Yang QiQi expected, he was talented enough to become an expert in assassination. He was this good at sneak attacks even during the day and in this empty arena. If the environment and the time were changed, then he would absolutely be that person who terrified his enemy. Those places, for instance, could be forests, places full of buildings, dark nights, dense foggy areas…

Contrary to Nian JiMo’s elusive and ghostly figure, Xu’s moves were much more concise and decisive. His combat method was like that of the military soldiers; all power-packed and aiming at the vitals.

Yang QiQi pondered while staring at the two in the arena: ‘Xu’s techniques should represent the majority of martial arts techniques practiced in this Beast World. If it is, then these techniques must have arisen from the experiences that the beastman had undergone in real battlefields. And after generations of integration and improvement, a relatively stable method has been formed. These moves are neither complicated nor gaudy but they are easy to learn. Yet, the transition between the consequent moves require a high strength and flexibility on the part of the user. If an actual human ever tried to wield these techniques, then their muscles would definitely get strained by the series of changes in the angles so abruptly…’

Not only did Yang QiQi look attentively but Zheng Shou, Ling Yue and the other two also looked at them with great concentration. They were all entranced by the sight.

This was the first time they had seen a Tier 4 male beast use the martial arts techniques taught by a Red-ranked Saintess Hall. Compared with the ones Yang QiQi taught them, these ones were simpler and easier to learn. Moreover, each of these tricks was capable of fully exercising the natural brute strength of the beastmen. On the other hand, Yang QiQi’s martial arts techniques were much more complicated and sophisticated; it paid more attention to using less strength for attacking the vitals. Such conditions were tailor-made for the beastmen like Nian JiMo who had flexible bodies, loved to use their brains during fights and were not particularly powerful. For beastmen like Zheng Shou, the ones who loved to use brute strength, they would certainly prefer Xu’s techniques more. This was the exact reason why he didn’t think of using the ‘Subduing Dragon Palm’ but followed his instinct to fight directly with Xu last night.

At this moment, when he looked at the male calmly fighting, oozing masculinity with his neat moves, his two bear eyes were gleaming with joy.

‘Awoo~’

‘This old bear must enter a Red-ranked Saintess Hall soon! Fighting like this is so satisfying ah. That sobriety and forcefulness, this is what a real male beast should look like!’

Fortunately, Yang QiQi didn’t know that the ‘Subduing Dragon Palm’ she had painstakingly taught Zheng Shou was disapproved by this st*pid male. Otherwise, she would be furious enough to twist his ears— the kind that rotated it a full 360 degrees.

Ling Yue looked at the two males in the arena fighting using techniques that were completely poles apart. After a while, he couldn’t help but ask Xiang BuChen, who was sitting next to him: “What do you think?”

Nian JiMo’s figure seemed to almost teleport from here to there as he the short dagger came down at Xu with the speed of a meteor, almost hitting him. Although Xu was not as fast as him, he was, after all, a whole rank higher in strength. He was able to evade or escape all the tricky attacks just in time.

“That male, Xu, isn’t actually exhausted. He is just observing Nian JiMo’s moves.” Xiang BuChen’s eyes glinted: “Nian JiMo also knows the other party’s purpose, so he is purposely disrupting the sequence of the moves whenever he is applying it for the second time…”

Yang QiQi was surprised. She stared at him for a while: ‘This leopard can unexpectedly infer this much information? Sure enough, this Sister’s preference is only talent ah! If it wasn’t for his painfully eye-catching ‘I’m a bad person’ face…’ In fact, he hadn’t done anything close to being bad ever since she had known him. Two months later, the competition between the Green-ranked Saintess Halls was scheduled to begin. Although she had five Guardian Beasts in name, only Ling Yue, Xiang BuChen and Tu Jin could participate in the competition with her. So, should she put down her guard and teach him?

“Huh? Is Xu from LingWu City that powerful?” A sense of loss and disappointment was pasted across Tu Jin’s face: “I thought Nian JiMo could defeat him ah.”

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