Chapter 2228 Perilous Battle

Chapter 2228 Perilous Battle

Or so she thought.

Her eyes narrowed as the blade crashed into an empty image.

A feint.

The real Rui surged towards her back with a Yin-Yang Spear, threatening to cripple her with a single blow.

"You have underestimated me."

Rui's eyes widened as his predictive model foresaw a blade cutting his face in half.

WHOOSH!

Rui dodged the incoming blade at the last moment, narrowly avoiding instant death. He bounced back, leaping at her once more. Th.ê most uptod/ate novels a/re published on n(0)velbj)n(.)c/o/m

"Fool." She huffed. "You'll onl—"

"Temporal Disharmony."

Her eyes widened with shock as time sped up massively in her eyes. Rui moved so fast in her sense that his Yin-Yang Spear arrived at her head in the blink of an eye.

'Got her!' He grinned as his attack was moments away from killing her.

Yet, it was his turn to be denied victory.

WHOOSH!

His expression grew aghast as she literally disappeared in the face of his attack.

"Wha—!" His senses expanded, and he spotted her a kilometer away, panting lightly with widened eyes.

For the first time in the fight, her composure had been broken as she narrowly evaded death. His deadly technique would've crushed her head in.

"If not for my Sword Step Kata..." she managed to squeeze out.

Out of sheer and pure reflex and instinct, she employed a maneuvering technique that utilized her blade to move even faster than was physically possible with just her ordinary sword techniques alone.

If not for that, she wouldn't have been able to dodge from such a short distance away.

Her gaze fixed on him with deep hatred as she glared at him.

Land uprooted where the skies above them ceased to exist, giving way to the bright cosmos that shined down upon them unimpeded by the atmosphere.

It was an attack that struck almost everything.

Everything except her target.

"I can see you SOUL."

Her expression hardened as Rui emerged from the enormous cloud of dust surging towards her at top speed.

Rui activated Outer Convergence, Gale Force Breathing, and Parallel Walk as he shot toward her with the maximum amount of momentum he was able to gather, preparing a Flowing Canon empowered with the Yin-Yang Spear.

It was the fastest and most powerful attack he was able to muster at the moment.

Her demeanor grew more intense as she realized that if she allowed herself to get so much as touched by that, she would lose the battle.

The moment he arrived within her field of attack, a mighty sword swing surged toward him, threatening to cleave him in half.

WHOOSH!

He casually evaded her attack. With the Temporal Disharmony shackling her active coordination and the predictive and SOUL Models active, dodging her sword swing had never been easier.

BOOOM!! His fist struck her ribs, breaking through them with ease as the blow devastated her torso.

That was game.

Or at least, it should have been.

SPLAT!!

His attack froze as a deep gash emerged on his body out of nowhere.

"Rgh!" He grimaced as he began bleeding profusely. He gazed at her katana with shock.

The blade's trajectory had rebounded and returned after the initial miss, surging towards her opponent as it landed its strike against him after he had dodged her initial blow. He was shocked that she was able to cut him down so swiftly after he had dodged the first sword swing. "Silent Sword Style..." She smiled even as she coughed up blood. "Boomerang Blade."

This was her sole system of thought. She would observe the dodging patterns of her opponent only to predict the direction and manner in which they would dodge her attack before using the Boomerang Blade to curve the trajectory towards them after the initial dodge.

The only drawback was that the power would be diluted due to loss of momentum during the trajectory rebound.

It was for that sole reason that Rui had not been cut in half.

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