Chapter 85: The Foe Retreats, Backlash
Bai Yunfei drew back his Firetipped Spear and moved to use his bracer to protect himself from Zhang Zhengshan’s Glacial Palm. Before he could even stabilize his footing, another strike was already coming close!
Zhang Zhengshan’s eyes had gone scarlet as if he had gone berserk. In this moment’s assault, he had seemingly given up all sorts of defense in order to attack crazily. The images of his palm had practically blurred together. Even the injuries on his left hand had been forcibly frozen over before moving to attack.
Retreating one step after another, Bai Yunfei’s continued to dance as he fended off his opponent’s strikes in a continuous manner. Although it seemed as if he had been suppressed by Zhang Zhengshan, his eyes didn’t show any panic in them–instead, in the midst of dodging and weaving around the palms, his eyes flickered with a light as if he was thinking about something….
In terms of close combat ability, Bai Yunfei was clearly not of the same level as his opponent. Although he wasn’t slow in speed and was quite nimble in movement, he had revealed several holes in his defense after several minutes of combat. His opponent had struck out at his left shoulder, and despite the Goldsilk Soul Armor providing defense, Bai Yunfei had still been sent staggering back two steps in pain. Simultaneously, the glacial qi had already greedily entered his body.
Circulating his soulforce, the essence fireseed in Bai Yunfei’s body expanded and contracted for a moment before a part of the elemental fire had migrated over to his left shoulder area, causing the glacial qi to disappear instantaneously.
A chilling breeze had then slammed against his face. Opening his eyes just a little bit, Bai Yunfei then saw a mangled palm with the glacial qi swirling around it come flying to meet him! Without any time to dodge, Bai Yunfei had only managed to bring both arms up in a cross to protect his face. One muffled echo later, Bai Yunfei had been forced back half a step again. But because of the protective defense of his bracer, he had barely suffered any sort of damage besides a small portion of the blow.
After one palm, the other palm came to attack with even more power behind it. Remaining in the same position, Bai Yunfei allowed for his bracer to take the hit. After several palm strikes, Zheng Shanming had realized that he was unable to strike the head with just his palms alone and had then diverted his palms to attack Bai Yunfei’s shoulder.
After a misstep from Bai Yunfei, he brought his right arm up in a horizontal fashion while trying to dodge. This had opened him up to another of Zhang Zhengshan’s palm before he unleashed yet another barrage of strikes. The position of the two men had been reversed. Now it was Zhang Zhengshan who was attacking frantically while Bai Yunfei remained calm with his all out defense.
But, with a closer observation, one would be able to see that there was something strange–Bai Yunfei looked like he had given up several chances to strike back and was instead blindly defending himself from Zhang Zhengshan as if waiting for something….
Finally, after being struck by a palm in the abdomen again, Bai Yunfei used his bracer to defend himself from the second strike. His eyes flashed furiously with an explosion of light as if the moment he was waiting for had finally approached. After defending himself from one more powerful palm, his entire body had suddenly shifted. His right fist had retreated to his waist instead of being held up to defend himself from the palm of Zhang Zhengshan that was aimed at his stomach. Foregoing any type of defensive maneuver, Bai Yunfei’s right leg stepped forward half a step. With his right hand forming a fist, he let loose a single punch without hesitation!