This feeling again?
Seeing Yi Yun quickly adjusting his mental state and his eyes focused, Lin Xintong gave a satisfied nod. And then, she attacked again! Her speed was as fast as lightning!
This time, Yi Yun saw it. He saw the stone by Lin Xintong’s feet break as she stretched out her white as snow palm to his stomach. He could even tell that this stance was the ‘Fierce Tiger Shatters Jade’ of the ‘Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist’.
But even then he could not avoid it. Yi Yun had no way of avoiding it, nor even the time to block the attack. He could only subconsciously arch his body to dampen the attack by tightening his muscles to resist the blow!
By tightening his abdominal muscles, his resistance to the attack was much stronger. Despite that, Yi Yun still flew backwards and crashed into some rocks. A surge of blood erupted from his throat as he spit out a mouthful of blood.
“Fast, too fast!” Yi Yun wiped the blood from his lips. A serious Lin Xintong was totally different from the casual Lin Xintong from days ago. And she was still suppressing herself at the fourth stage of Mortal Blood.
As a fourth stage against his fifth stage Mortal Blood, how could the gap be that great?
Lin Xintong seemed to hear Yi Yun’s thoughts and explained, “To classify the five stages of Mortal Blood, it is just based on phenomenon, and not a real stage. For example the Thunderous stage just means a person’s bones can emit thunder-like sounds, but…two different warriors who can both create thunderous sounds from their bones, are their strengths the same?”
Lin Xintong response had cleared Yi Yun’s doubts. Yes, everyone who is at the fifth stage of Mortal Blood was different. Even by suppressing her strength to the fourth stage of Mortal Blood, his fourth stage was a totally different concept.
“I understand, take your shot.” Yi Yun knew his strength was inferior to Lin Xintong’s but regardless, an expert had to know how to receive hits before they could deliver hits.
If he did not get beaten up, how was he going to accumulate battle experience?
But even if he was being abused, Yi Yun did not want to suffer a crushing defeat; he needed to at least regain some of his pride!
“Peng!”
Yi Yun had already been sent flying by Lin Xintong numerous times. This time he was sent flying into the woods, breaking several tree branches.
Lin Xintong and Yi Yun both had their own motives. Lin Xintong was looking for the reason her meridians had been activated, while Yi Yun wanted to become strong.
“I can’t dodge it, I still can’t dodge it. Her speed is too fast for me and I can barely keep up with her movement. All I see is a blurry afterimage, and in the moment my body wants to react, I would already be hit!”
Lin Xintong’s strikes were well placed, although it caused Yi Yun’s body to ache, the force she sent in only affected his muscles and bones.
Such an attack would not only not cause harm to Yi Yun, but would temper Yi Yun’s body, making his body even purer.
This was what Lin Xintong wanted for she did not want to owe him a favor. She was sparring with Yi Yun for her own Yin Meridians.
In order to understand the situation she had experienced, she had to beat up Yi Yun; but this made her feel bad. Hence, she decided to help Yi Yun grow stronger and by honing Yi Yun’s combat experience, as a form of compensation.
“Phew–Phew–”
Yi Yun half-squatted on the ground as he held out both arms on a rock, breathing in deeply. From his stance, he looked like the Toad skill practiced by Ouyang Feng.
Yi Yun was in this stance because he couldn’t help it.
The benefits of half-squatting was the ability to exert strength quickly and without bending his leg, he was able to charge forward. Also by making his body shorter, he reduced the surface area that could be hit. He then had less spots to parry when Lin Xintong attacked.
“I can barely see her moves but I can’t avoid them. My body’s speed is slow and is unable to keep up with her. How should I overcome this?”
To overcome his slow body movements seemed like an impossible task.
Suddenly, Yi Yun had a sudden flash of brilliance!
Right! Previously when I avoided her moves, I had moved my entire body, so I was naturally slower!
When Lin Xintong sent a palm strike, Yi Yun was thinking of jumping to the side to totally avoid it, but he could not do it.
There was a process for a person’s body to accelerate from rest to motion.
If he took a step backwards, he did not need to move his entire body to avoid it. As long as he changed his body’s position, with the smallest of moves, he could avoid the palm?
As such Yi Yun’s center of gravity would not change; the only change would be his stance, which would make his avoidance naturally faster!
Upon understanding this, Yi Yun felt exceptionally clear in his mind and as if his body was filled with energy.
Seeing Lin Xintong’s ankle making a gentle move, Yi Yun knew Lin Xintong was about to strike!