Chapter 97
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Shu Rong waved her blade in the air in an attempt to slice several cuts into the secretary's skin. While these cut wouldn't do much damage to her, they had a bleeding effect. Plus thanks to what Shu Rong's blades were made of, they couldn't be healed so easily. She succeeded in her first two strikes, leaving behind a small wound on the woman's thigh and shoulder. Unfortunately after noticing that her wounds weren't healing at the rate they should be, she decided to puta bit more effort in avoiding being cut.
The secretary finally brought out a weapon of her own after being on the defensive for a while. She reached behind her back and grabbed onto two sets of metal gloves. Once she finished putting them on, the secretary pulled her arm back and thrust it towards Shu Rong's blade, which was swinging towards her. The fist and the blade clanged together and sparks flew out from where they collided. Shu Rong then jumped back just as the other arm was swung at her head. The flying fist missed its target but flew into a wall nearby, completely shattering the place of impact and leaving behind dust.
Red warning signals blared up in the two girls' head as they understood that whatever those gloves were, they should avoid them at all cost. Shu Rong landed right next to Yi Ling, who stared at the glove with a hint of interest.
"Want to give it a go?" Shu Rong questioned her comrade after seeing the fighting intent hidden in her eyes. Without even responding, Yi Ling stepped up to the secretary and got into her battle stance. Her sword was sheathed and hanging from her side, but she oddly made no movements to reach for it. The secretary sneered at Yi Ling a little and asked, "Do you really think that I'm so weak that you could fight me barehanded? Such arrogance." Yi Ling shook her hand and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, "Despite how I look, I have quite a bit of battle experience. Against a hand to hand combatant like you, swinging around a large link of metal won't do much."
Yi Ling pulled back one of her fist to her waist and calmly placed out her empty palm. The secretary nodded in approval of Yi Ling's reasoning while moving in for the kill. Since Yi Ling had only begun getting into a proper stance, the secretary could use this time to striker her down. But just then Yi Ling's fist slammed into the ground, causing rock and dust to fly up into the air and blinding the secretary for one second. The secretary looked around in order to find where Yi Ling went, but she didn't need to search for long as a fist popped out of the dust cloud and smashed directly into her cheek. She took a step back from shock and angrily waved her arms around in random directions, "Where are you!"
No answer came as the secretary tried to think of a way to find her. An idea popped into her head as she sent out her aura in order to sense where Yi Ling was. Unfortunately, this was a double edged sword as Yi Ling could also sense where she was, so she had to pay close attention to any and all movements.
Something suddenly flew towards her face, but the secretary was able to quickly slap it away while throwing a quick jab in the direction it came from. She felt some sort of impact but knew that it wasn't enough to take her opponent down since the familiar feeling of bones breaking didn't appear. A few more movements occurred after that which the secretary expert intercepted with ease. She hadn't even broken a sweat yet and the dust had almost cleared.
The secretary noticed that Yi Ling's shape was barely visible now in the current environment and took this opportunity to attack. She ran over at Yi Ling, who was hopping backwards at quick speed, and began to throw out a few jabs and straights. The force of her punches caused air packets to fly over and slam into the secretary's target. While these didn't harm Yi Ling too much, they did disrupt her movements to an extent. Yi Ling suddenly stopped her retreat and charged forward instead. The unexpected actions puzzled the secretary for a bit before she cleared her mind of useless thought and just focused on the fight.
Unexpectedly, Yi Ling dropped to the floor and was somehow able to slip between the secretary's legs while she was running. This forced the secretary to stop her momentum and turn around in order to strike at her target. But when she turned around, Shu Rong suddenly appeared in front of her, the pitch black blade tip was aimed directly at her face and the secretary quickly tilted her head to the side.
A gash appeared on her cheek as she narrowly missed being struck by the blade. Shu Rong didn't expect her opponent to be able to dodge her blade and froze for a second. In that second, the secretary lifted her arm up and shoved it deep into Shu Rong's stomach, causing her to cough out blood and spittle. "Sneak attacks like that won't get me so easily. You forget, I too am an assassin!" The secretary screamed this out while using the momentum of her fist to throw Shu Rong into a shocked Yi Ling.
Yi Ling quickly held out her arms in order to catch Shu Rong, but the speed her body traveled proved too much for her and they both flew backwards together. Without a word, Shu Rong lifted herself off of Yi Ling and placed her hand painfully upon her stomach. The secretary raised up her eyebrows in surprise and said, "You're not dead yet? I was sure I used enough force to obliterate your organs... how strange."
She was right, on a normal occasion Shu Rong's organs would have turned to paste after that single punch. This confused Shu Rong a bit as well so she looked down at her own body to inspect it, what she found near her stomach was surprising.
The scarf that Zan Fu had given her was wrapped tightly around her sides, and a small stream of energy was coming off of where the secretary's fist struck her. She now understood why Zan Fu wanted her to keep the scarf in during battle and where she had seen it before. It was a piece of the artifact armor that he was currently wearing, meaning that the artifact was now incomplete. She felt incredibly grateful for his gm gift and at the same time she felt a bit guilty that his defenses equipment was weakened because of her. Yi Ling got up soon after Shu Rong did and she asked, "Hey Shu Rong, I have a plan."
"I'm guessing you need me to do something in order for that plan to work." Shu Rong glanced at her while saying casually. Yi Ling nodded in response and said, "Yeah, I need you to distract her for around-"
Shu Rong cuties Yi Ling off and said, "Okay, that doesn't seem so ba-"
"-five minutes. And considering how much the both of us were getting demolished... I'm sure you can pull it off."
"..." with her eyes twitching in annoyance, Shu Rong nodded, "Fine! Let's do this!"
A deep growl left Shu Rong's throat as her skin began to turn darker and her eyes became black without no whites at all. A powerful aura left her body as darkness crept into her vision. "Who knows, maybe I'll just finish this in five minutes!"
She was wrong.
For the next five minutes, Shu Rong was forced into a cat and mice game where she would hop into one Shadow and our another while trying to cut the secretary as often as possible. Thanks to Zan Fu's scarf, she didn't need to worry about her defense to much and mainly focused on attacking. For every twenty attacks she attempted, only three struck home and they weren't even deep cuts. Yi Ling stood there breathing in and out heavily while practicing some sort of martial art.
Her movements began to grow slow and heavy, but the power they exerted did not weaken at all. Finally five minutes passed and Shu Rong was forced to scream out, "Times up!" Just before the secretary landed a kick on Shu Rong's side and forced her to crash into a wall. Yi Ling opened up her eyes and said quietly, "I'm ready." Yi Ling faced the secretary with burning determination and released a loud battle cry, "HAAAAAAAAAA!" She charged at the woman and pulled her arm back for one last punch.
As the secretary and Yi Ling got closer together, Yi Ling suddenly paused her footsteps. This gave the secretary enough time to release her own strike first, aiming directly for one of the weakest part of any human, the neck. A crack sound rang out as Shu Rong looked at the scene in shock.
A mixture of surprise and panic appeared on her face as the cracking sound arrived in her ears. The secretary looked down at her enemy curiously with a confused look. This was because Yi Ling was not dead, in fact she was barely injured. The aura coming off her body did weaken on bit, but it got increasingly more powerful instead. This was because of what her cultivation technique was.
Long ago a single cultivator predicted that the world's supply of "heaven's force" was limited. Although his thoughts were that "heaven's force" was limited from the very beginning, but in reality it was only sealed away hundreds of years after his death. This made him spend his entire lifetime researching a way to develop a cultivating technique that did not need "heaven's force" and he succeeded!
His answer was will power. The will of a human being produced so much power that even abundant supply of "heaven's force" from back then couldn't keep up. Sadly after years have passed and modern conveniences entered into the picture, the will of human beings have weakened significantly making the technique useless.
That was until Yi Ling found it and discovered that her will could be increase substantially if she was put in immense danger. The more she fought a battle that she could genuinely lose, the more power her will produced. Against her grandfather, who she knew would never kill her, her power raised at an incredibly rapid pace. Now what would happen if she was facing someone who could, would, and was going to kill her? The will produced would surpass anything she's ever made before.
The way her cultivation worked was that she produced a large amount of power and was only able to absorb a small portion of it. But something she noticed was that when the will was produced, she had access to every bit of it for a split second. So her plan was simple, use that split second to release one attack. An attack that would decide the ending of the battle.
Yi Ling's power rose to the point of being equivalent to even practitioners in the peak of the seventh realm. The secretary on the other hand was only halfway through the sixth realm. This meant that she was currently completely outclassed and if Yi Ling landed a strong pinch on her, she could die!
The secretary pulled back as quickly as she could, but it was too late. Yi Ling took a single step forward and threw every last bit of her strength into her punch. The world slowed in the secretary's eyes as the fist approached. The powerful aura swirled around this single attack and finally the fist made contact with the secretary's chest.
A resounding crack rang out as the woman slammed into the hard cement floor. Rocks flew everywhere as all of the power contained inside of Yi Ling's body was released. Blood shot out of the secretary's mouth like a fountain and Yi Ling stood there panting heavily. She kept an eye on the secretary and when no signs of movements was detected, Yi Ling allowed her exhaustion to take over.
She fell face first onto the ground and landed with a ~this~. As soon as this happened, the body of the secretary began to move. She slowly rose from the miniature crater that her body had formed and looked at Yi Ling angrily, "HAhaha! It's not over yet." She began to limp over to Yi Ling slowly releasing sharp gasps of pain every step she took.
Once she stood directly over Yi Ling, the secretary raised up her fist and looked down at the girl before her, "I-I win!"
Just then a single glowing blade appeared around her neck. Shu Rong stood there in her darkened state, "Shut up you b*tch!" And with a single swift movement, the knife slit the secretary's throat. Blood flowed like a river down her clothing as the woman fell back onto the ground. A look of despair shown in her eyes as her final living actions was to stretch her arm out toward Phoen. The only thing flowing through her mind was the regret she felt at not being able to assist Phoen anymore, "My god..."
The secretary was dead.
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Shu Rong waved her blade in the air in an attempt to slice several cuts into the secretary's skin. While these cut wouldn't do much damage to her, they had a bleeding effect. Plus thanks to what Shu Rong's blades were made of, they couldn't be healed so easily. She succeeded in her first two strikes, leaving behind a small wound on the woman's thigh and shoulder. Unfortunately after noticing that her wounds weren't healing at the rate they should be, she decided to puta bit more effort in avoiding being cut.
The secretary finally brought out a weapon of her own after being on the defensive for a while. She reached behind her back and grabbed onto two sets of metal gloves. Once she finished putting them on, the secretary pulled her arm back and thrust it towards Shu Rong's blade, which was swinging towards her. The fist and the blade clanged together and sparks flew out from where they collided. Shu Rong then jumped back just as the other arm was swung at her head. The flying fist missed its target but flew into a wall nearby, completely shattering the place of impact and leaving behind dust.
Red warning signals blared up in the two girls' head as they understood that whatever those gloves were, they should avoid them at all cost. Shu Rong landed right next to Yi Ling, who stared at the glove with a hint of interest.
"Want to give it a go?" Shu Rong questioned her comrade after seeing the fighting intent hidden in her eyes. Without even responding, Yi Ling stepped up to the secretary and got into her battle stance. Her sword was sheathed and hanging from her side, but she oddly made no movements to reach for it. The secretary sneered at Yi Ling a little and asked, "Do you really think that I'm so weak that you could fight me barehanded? Such arrogance." Yi Ling shook her hand and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, "Despite how I look, I have quite a bit of battle experience. Against a hand to hand combatant like you, swinging around a large link of metal won't do much."
Yi Ling pulled back one of her fist to her waist and calmly placed out her empty palm. The secretary nodded in approval of Yi Ling's reasoning while moving in for the kill. Since Yi Ling had only begun getting into a proper stance, the secretary could use this time to striker her down. But just then Yi Ling's fist slammed into the ground, causing rock and dust to fly up into the air and blinding the secretary for one second. The secretary looked around in order to find where Yi Ling went, but she didn't need to search for long as a fist popped out of the dust cloud and smashed directly into her cheek. She took a step back from shock and angrily waved her arms around in random directions, "Where are you!"
No answer came as the secretary tried to think of a way to find her. An idea popped into her head as she sent out her aura in order to sense where Yi Ling was. Unfortunately, this was a double edged sword as Yi Ling could also sense where she was, so she had to pay close attention to any and all movements.
Something suddenly flew towards her face, but the secretary was able to quickly slap it away while throwing a quick jab in the direction it came from. She felt some sort of impact but knew that it wasn't enough to take her opponent down since the familiar feeling of bones breaking didn't appear. A few more movements occurred after that which the secretary expert intercepted with ease. She hadn't even broken a sweat yet and the dust had almost cleared.
The secretary noticed that Yi Ling's shape was barely visible now in the current environment and took this opportunity to attack. She ran over at Yi Ling, who was hopping backwards at quick speed, and began to throw out a few jabs and straights. The force of her punches caused air packets to fly over and slam into the secretary's target. While these didn't harm Yi Ling too much, they did disrupt her movements to an extent. Yi Ling suddenly stopped her retreat and charged forward instead. The unexpected actions puzzled the secretary for a bit before she cleared her mind of useless thought and just focused on the fight.
Unexpectedly, Yi Ling dropped to the floor and was somehow able to slip between the secretary's legs while she was running. This forced the secretary to stop her momentum and turn around in order to strike at her target. But when she turned around, Shu Rong suddenly appeared in front of her, the pitch black blade tip was aimed directly at her face and the secretary quickly tilted her head to the side.
A gash appeared on her cheek as she narrowly missed being struck by the blade. Shu Rong didn't expect her opponent to be able to dodge her blade and froze for a second. In that second, the secretary lifted her arm up and shoved it deep into Shu Rong's stomach, causing her to cough out blood and spittle. "Sneak attacks like that won't get me so easily. You forget, I too am an assassin!" The secretary screamed this out while using the momentum of her fist to throw Shu Rong into a shocked Yi Ling.
Yi Ling quickly held out her arms in order to catch Shu Rong, but the speed her body traveled proved too much for her and they both flew backwards together. Without a word, Shu Rong lifted herself off of Yi Ling and placed her hand painfully upon her stomach. The secretary raised up her eyebrows in surprise and said, "You're not dead yet? I was sure I used enough force to obliterate your organs... how strange."
She was right, on a normal occasion Shu Rong's organs would have turned to paste after that single punch. This confused Shu Rong a bit as well so she looked down at her own body to inspect it, what she found near her stomach was surprising.
The scarf that Zan Fu had given her was wrapped tightly around her sides, and a small stream of energy was coming off of where the secretary's fist struck her. She now understood why Zan Fu wanted her to keep the scarf in during battle and where she had seen it before. It was a piece of the artifact armor that he was currently wearing, meaning that the artifact was now incomplete. She felt incredibly grateful for his gm gift and at the same time she felt a bit guilty that his defenses equipment was weakened because of her. Yi Ling got up soon after Shu Rong did and she asked, "Hey Shu Rong, I have a plan."
"I'm guessing you need me to do something in order for that plan to work." Shu Rong glanced at her while saying casually. Yi Ling nodded in response and said, "Yeah, I need you to distract her for around-"
Shu Rong cuties Yi Ling off and said, "Okay, that doesn't seem so ba-"
"-five minutes. And considering how much the both of us were getting demolished... I'm sure you can pull it off."
"..." with her eyes twitching in annoyance, Shu Rong nodded, "Fine! Let's do this!"
A deep growl left Shu Rong's throat as her skin began to turn darker and her eyes became black without no whites at all. A powerful aura left her body as darkness crept into her vision. "Who knows, maybe I'll just finish this in five minutes!"
She was wrong.
For the next five minutes, Shu Rong was forced into a cat and mice game where she would hop into one Shadow and our another while trying to cut the secretary as often as possible. Thanks to Zan Fu's scarf, she didn't need to worry about her defense to much and mainly focused on attacking. For every twenty attacks she attempted, only three struck home and they weren't even deep cuts. Yi Ling stood there breathing in and out heavily while practicing some sort of martial art.
Her movements began to grow slow and heavy, but the power they exerted did not weaken at all. Finally five minutes passed and Shu Rong was forced to scream out, "Times up!" Just before the secretary landed a kick on Shu Rong's side and forced her to crash into a wall. Yi Ling opened up her eyes and said quietly, "I'm ready." Yi Ling faced the secretary with burning determination and released a loud battle cry, "HAAAAAAAAAA!" She charged at the woman and pulled her arm back for one last punch.
As the secretary and Yi Ling got closer together, Yi Ling suddenly paused her footsteps. This gave the secretary enough time to release her own strike first, aiming directly for one of the weakest part of any human, the neck. A crack sound rang out as Shu Rong looked at the scene in shock.
A mixture of surprise and panic appeared on her face as the cracking sound arrived in her ears. The secretary looked down at her enemy curiously with a confused look. This was because Yi Ling was not dead, in fact she was barely injured. The aura coming off her body did weaken on bit, but it got increasingly more powerful instead. This was because of what her cultivation technique was.
Long ago a single cultivator predicted that the world's supply of "heaven's force" was limited. Although his thoughts were that "heaven's force" was limited from the very beginning, but in reality it was only sealed away hundreds of years after his death. This made him spend his entire lifetime researching a way to develop a cultivating technique that did not need "heaven's force" and he succeeded!
His answer was will power. The will of a human being produced so much power that even abundant supply of "heaven's force" from back then couldn't keep up. Sadly after years have passed and modern conveniences entered into the picture, the will of human beings have weakened significantly making the technique useless.
That was until Yi Ling found it and discovered that her will could be increase substantially if she was put in immense danger. The more she fought a battle that she could genuinely lose, the more power her will produced. Against her grandfather, who she knew would never kill her, her power raised at an incredibly rapid pace. Now what would happen if she was facing someone who could, would, and was going to kill her? The will produced would surpass anything she's ever made before.
The way her cultivation worked was that she produced a large amount of power and was only able to absorb a small portion of it. But something she noticed was that when the will was produced, she had access to every bit of it for a split second. So her plan was simple, use that split second to release one attack. An attack that would decide the ending of the battle.
Yi Ling's power rose to the point of being equivalent to even practitioners in the peak of the seventh realm. The secretary on the other hand was only halfway through the sixth realm. This meant that she was currently completely outclassed and if Yi Ling landed a strong pinch on her, she could die!
The secretary pulled back as quickly as she could, but it was too late. Yi Ling took a single step forward and threw every last bit of her strength into her punch. The world slowed in the secretary's eyes as the fist approached. The powerful aura swirled around this single attack and finally the fist made contact with the secretary's chest.
A resounding crack rang out as the woman slammed into the hard cement floor. Rocks flew everywhere as all of the power contained inside of Yi Ling's body was released. Blood shot out of the secretary's mouth like a fountain and Yi Ling stood there panting heavily. She kept an eye on the secretary and when no signs of movements was detected, Yi Ling allowed her exhaustion to take over.
She fell face first onto the ground and landed with a ~this~. As soon as this happened, the body of the secretary began to move. She slowly rose from the miniature crater that her body had formed and looked at Yi Ling angrily, "HAhaha! It's not over yet." She began to limp over to Yi Ling slowly releasing sharp gasps of pain every step she took.
Once she stood directly over Yi Ling, the secretary raised up her fist and looked down at the girl before her, "I-I win!"
Just then a single glowing blade appeared around her neck. Shu Rong stood there in her darkened state, "Shut up you b*tch!" And with a single swift movement, the knife slit the secretary's throat. Blood flowed like a river down her clothing as the woman fell back onto the ground. A look of despair shown in her eyes as her final living actions was to stretch her arm out toward Phoen. The only thing flowing through her mind was the regret she felt at not being able to assist Phoen anymore, "My god..."
The secretary was dead.
Shu Rong waved her blade in the air in an attempt to slice several cuts into the secretary's skin. While these cut wouldn't do much damage to her, they had a bleeding effect. Plus thanks to what Shu Rong's blades were made of, they couldn't be healed so easily. She succeeded in her first two strikes, leaving behind a small wound on the woman's thigh and shoulder. Unfortunately after noticing that her wounds weren't healing at the rate they should be, she decided to puta bit more effort in avoiding being cut. The secretary finally brought out a weapon of her own after being on the defensive for a while. She reached behind her back and grabbed onto two sets of metal gloves. Once she finished putting them on, the secretary pulled her arm back and thrust it towards Shu Rong's blade, which was swinging towards her. The fist and the blade clanged together and sparks flew out from where they collided. Shu Rong then jumped back just as the other arm was swung at her head. The flying fist missed its target but flew into a wall nearby, completely shattering the place of impact and leaving behind dust. Red warning signals blared up in the two girls' head as they understood that whatever those gloves were, they should avoid them at all cost. Shu Rong landed right next to Yi Ling, who stared at the glove with a hint of interest. "Want to give it a go?" Shu Rong questioned her comrade after seeing the fighting intent hidden in her eyes. Without even responding, Yi Ling stepped up to the secretary and got into her battle stance. Her sword was sheathed and hanging from her side, but she oddly made no movements to reach for it. The secretary sneered at Yi Ling a little and asked, "Do you really think that I'm so weak that you could fight me barehanded? Such arrogance." Yi Ling shook her hand and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, "Despite how I look, I have quite a bit of battle experience. Against a hand to hand combatant like you, swinging around a large link of metal won't do much." Yi Ling pulled back one of her fist to her waist and calmly placed out her empty palm. The secretary nodded in approval of Yi Ling's reasoning while moving in for the kill. Since Yi Ling had only begun getting into a proper stance, the secretary could use this time to striker her down. But just then Yi Ling's fist slammed into the ground, causing rock and dust to fly up into the air and blinding the secretary for one second. The secretary looked around in order to find where Yi Ling went, but she didn't need to search for long as a fist popped out of the dust cloud and smashed directly into her cheek. She took a step back from shock and angrily waved her arms around in random directions, "Where are you!" No answer came as the secretary tried to think of a way to find her. An idea popped into her head as she sent out her aura in order to sense where Yi Ling was. Unfortunately, this was a double edged sword as Yi Ling could also sense where she was, so she had to pay close attention to any and all movements. Something suddenly flew towards her face, but the secretary was able to quickly slap it away while throwing a quick jab in the direction it came from. She felt some sort of impact but knew that it wasn't enough to take her opponent down since the familiar feeling of bones breaking didn't appear. A few more movements occurred after that which the secretary expert intercepted with ease. She hadn't even broken a sweat yet and the dust had almost cleared. The secretary noticed that Yi Ling's shape was barely visible now in the current environment and took this opportunity to attack. She ran over at Yi Ling, who was hopping backwards at quick speed, and began to throw out a few jabs and straights. The force of her punches caused air packets to fly over and slam into the secretary's target. While these didn't harm Yi Ling too much, they did disrupt her movements to an extent. Yi Ling suddenly stopped her retreat and charged forward instead. The unexpected actions puzzled the secretary for a bit before she cleared her mind of useless thought and just focused on the fight. Unexpectedly, Yi Ling dropped to the floor and was somehow able to slip between the secretary's legs while she was running. This forced the secretary to stop her momentum and turn around in order to strike at her target. But when she turned around, Shu Rong suddenly appeared in front of her, the pitch black blade tip was aimed directly at her face and the secretary quickly tilted her head to the side. A gash appeared on her cheek as she narrowly missed being struck by the blade. Shu Rong didn't expect her opponent to be able to dodge her blade and froze for a second. In that second, the secretary lifted her arm up and shoved it deep into Shu Rong's stomach, causing her to cough out blood and spittle. "Sneak attacks like that won't get me so easily. You forget, I too am an assassin!" The secretary screamed this out while using the momentum of her fist to throw Shu Rong into a shocked Yi Ling. Yi Ling quickly held out her arms in order to catch Shu Rong, but the speed her body traveled proved too much for her and they both flew backwards together. Without a word, Shu Rong lifted herself off of Yi Ling and placed her hand painfully upon her stomach. The secretary raised up her eyebrows in surprise and said, "You're not dead yet? I was sure I used enough force to obliterate your organs... how strange." She was right, on a normal occasion Shu Rong's organs would have turned to paste after that single punch. This confused Shu Rong a bit as well so she looked down at her own body to inspect it, what she found near her stomach was surprising. The scarf that Zan Fu had given her was wrapped tightly around her sides, and a small stream of energy was coming off of where the secretary's fist struck her. She now understood why Zan Fu wanted her to keep the scarf in during battle and where she had seen it before. It was a piece of the artifact armor that he was currently wearing, meaning that the artifact was now incomplete. She felt incredibly grateful for his gm gift and at the same time she felt a bit guilty that his defenses equipment was weakened because of her. Yi Ling got up soon after Shu Rong did and she asked, "Hey Shu Rong, I have a plan." "I'm guessing you need me to do something in order for that plan to work." Shu Rong glanced at her while saying casually. Yi Ling nodded in response and said, "Yeah, I need you to distract her for around-" Shu Rong cuties Yi Ling off and said, "Okay, that doesn't seem so ba-" "-five minutes. And considering how much the both of us were getting demolished... I'm sure you can pull it off." "..." with her eyes twitching in annoyance, Shu Rong nodded, "Fine! Let's do this!" A deep growl left Shu Rong's throat as her skin began to turn darker and her eyes became black without no whites at all. A powerful aura left her body as darkness crept into her vision. "Who knows, maybe I'll just finish this in five minutes!" She was wrong. For the next five minutes, Shu Rong was forced into a cat and mice game where she would hop into one Shadow and our another while trying to cut the secretary as often as possible. Thanks to Zan Fu's scarf, she didn't need to worry about her defense to much and mainly focused on attacking. For every twenty attacks she attempted, only three struck home and they weren't even deep cuts. Yi Ling stood there breathing in and out heavily while practicing some sort of martial art. Her movements began to grow slow and heavy, but the power they exerted did not weaken at all. Finally five minutes passed and Shu Rong was forced to scream out, "Times up!" Just before the secretary landed a kick on Shu Rong's side and forced her to crash into a wall. Yi Ling opened up her eyes and said quietly, "I'm ready." Yi Ling faced the secretary with burning determination and released a loud battle cry, "HAAAAAAAAAA!" She charged at the woman and pulled her arm back for one last punch. As the secretary and Yi Ling got closer together, Yi Ling suddenly paused her footsteps. This gave the secretary enough time to release her own strike first, aiming directly for one of the weakest part of any human, the neck. A crack sound rang out as Shu Rong looked at the scene in shock. A mixture of surprise and panic appeared on her face as the cracking sound arrived in her ears. The secretary looked down at her enemy curiously with a confused look. This was because Yi Ling was not dead, in fact she was barely injured. The aura coming off her body did weaken on bit, but it got increasingly more powerful instead. This was because of what her cultivation technique was. Long ago a single cultivator predicted that the world's supply of "heaven's force" was limited. Although his thoughts were that "heaven's force" was limited from the very beginning, but in reality it was only sealed away hundreds of years after his death. This made him spend his entire lifetime researching a way to develop a cultivating technique that did not need "heaven's force" and he succeeded! His answer was will power. The will of a human being produced so much power that even abundant supply of "heaven's force" from back then couldn't keep up. Sadly after years have passed and modern conveniences entered into the picture, the will of human beings have weakened significantly making the technique useless. That was until Yi Ling found it and discovered that her will could be increase substantially if she was put in immense danger. The more she fought a battle that she could genuinely lose, the more power her will produced. Against her grandfather, who she knew would never kill her, her power raised at an incredibly rapid pace. Now what would happen if she was facing someone who could, would, and was going to kill her? The will produced would surpass anything she's ever made before. The way her cultivation worked was that she produced a large amount of power and was only able to absorb a small portion of it. But something she noticed was that when the will was produced, she had access to every bit of it for a split second. So her plan was simple, use that split second to release one attack. An attack that would decide the ending of the battle. Yi Ling's power rose to the point of being equivalent to even practitioners in the peak of the seventh realm. The secretary on the other hand was only halfway through the sixth realm. This meant that she was currently completely outclassed and if Yi Ling landed a strong pinch on her, she could die! The secretary pulled back as quickly as she could, but it was too late. Yi Ling took a single step forward and threw every last bit of her strength into her punch. The world slowed in the secretary's eyes as the fist approached. The powerful aura swirled around this single attack and finally the fist made contact with the secretary's chest. A resounding crack rang out as the woman slammed into the hard cement floor. Rocks flew everywhere as all of the power contained inside of Yi Ling's body was released. Blood shot out of the secretary's mouth like a fountain and Yi Ling stood there panting heavily. She kept an eye on the secretary and when no signs of movements was detected, Yi Ling allowed her exhaustion to take over. She fell face first onto the ground and landed with a ~this~. As soon as this happened, the body of the secretary began to move. She slowly rose from the miniature crater that her body had formed and looked at Yi Ling angrily, "HAhaha! It's not over yet." She began to limp over to Yi Ling slowly releasing sharp gasps of pain every step she took. Once she stood directly over Yi Ling, the secretary raised up her fist and looked down at the girl before her, "I-I win!" Just then a single glowing blade appeared around her neck. Shu Rong stood there in her darkened state, "Shut up you b*tch!" And with a single swift movement, the knife slit the secretary's throat. Blood flowed like a river down her clothing as the woman fell back onto the ground. A look of despair shown in her eyes as her final living actions was to stretch her arm out toward Phoen. The only thing flowing through her mind was the regret she felt at not being able to assist Phoen anymore, "My god..." The secretary was dead.
