Xia Hong imdiately saw through Yuwen Dao’s intention, but simply gave it a decent evaluation.
Clang......
The reason was simple. Although the new Sword Puppet was smaller than last year’s model, it still stood over three ters tall, significantly larger than a human. Moreover, with Xia Chuan controlling it to stand beside him, Yuwen Dao’s plan was dood to fail.
Xia Chuan rely manipulated the strings with his left hand, causing the puppet to abruptly raise its left arm, horizontally blocking Yuwen Dao’s broad sword with a large blade.
At the sa ti, the small dagger in Xia Chuan’s right hand suddenly transford into a black large knife over a ter long. With a swift upward motion, he slashed out a black blade from top to bottom towards Yuwen Dao.
In martial duels, naturally, they avoid fatal moves. Just as when Yuwen Dao charged at him a mont ago, targeting his limbs, Xia Chuan’s strike was aid at Yuwen Dao’s left shoulder.
Clang... Whoosh...
The broad sword and black blade collided, producing a crisp sound of tal clashing. Subsequently, a shockwave emanated from the two as the center, sweeping away the already thin layer of snow on the ground entirely, exposing bare earth to form a circular area of about four or five hundred ters.
Buzz!
The crowd of onlookers surrounding the area finally realized why Xia Hong had set the venue for the Cold Resistance Level duel to be five hundred ters in radius.
But realizing it now was a bit late.
The shockwave spread outward, and while the thirty-sothing Cold Resistance Level individuals fared better, the hundred Earth-digging Realm ones suffered. They all planted their weapons into the ground, then gripped them with both hands, gathering their strength to brace themselves.
The aftershocks from the earlier skirmish between Luo Yuan and Chen Yingyuan had already been enough to knock them down; later in the battle between Yuwen Dao and Peng Bo, they also couldn’t keep their footing.
And now, this shockwave generated by Xia Chuan and Yuwen Dao was clearly more terrifying than the previous two encounters.
If they didn’t take any precautions and got flung away, it wouldn’t be too bad, but getting injured would be too embarrassing.
Everyone gritted their teeth, watching the shockwave approach.
Just as the aftershock was about to arrive, Xia Hong at the very front moved.
He simply extended his right leg and stomped the ground.
Boom!
Everyone felt the earth under their feet shake, and the once formidable shockwave approaching them was instantly nullified.
Including the more than thirty Cold Resistance Levels, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Just a stomp of the foot, I didn’t even see the leader exert any force."
"The leader’s strength is incredible!"
.........
While the crowd at the sidelines was astonished by Xia Hong’s effortless stomp, the battle between Xia Chuan and Yuwen Dao in the field had already reached an intense peak.
The black blade Xia Chuan had just slashed with his right hand didn’t manage to hit Yuwen Dao’s left shoulder because Yuwen Dao used the montum from the clash of his broad sword and the Sword Puppet to spin his body mid-air, directly moving to the rear of the Sword Puppet.
It was clear to Yuwen Dao that defeating Xia Chuan without considering the Sword Puppet was impossible, so he shifted his target directly to the Sword Puppet.
He gripped his broad sword with both hands, avoiding the Sword Puppet’s large blades on its limbs, frenziedly hacking and slashing at its body and main fra. After a series of clashing sounds, he indeed managed to slice off quite a few pointed blades.
"His broad sword is also at the Thousand Forged Level. The pointed blades on the body and fra of Xia Chuan’s Sword Puppet are made of Hundred Forged Material, so they naturally can’t withstand it."
Xia Hong’s eyes flashed with appreciation as he watched Yuwen Dao.
Because the Sword Puppet was covered in pointed blades, Yuwen Dao had to avoid them. Thus, his maneuvering space in the battle with Xia Chuan was greatly constrained.
Cutting off those pointed blades should just be the first step.
The next step would likely be targeting the main limbs!
Just as Xia Hong predicted, after severing quite a few pointed blades, Yuwen Dao indeed targeted the Sword Puppet’s limbs, specifically the large blade at the end of the right leg.
However, Xia Chuan wasn’t easy to deal with either.
The pointed blades on the Sword Puppet’s main fra were damaged, but Xia Chuan didn’t panic at all. His left hand continued to control the limbs aggressively attacking, continually compressing Yuwen Dao’s movent space. Simultaneously, his right hand repeatedly slashed out black blades, pushing Yuwen Dao step by step away, preventing him from focusing his attack on the Sword Puppet’s right leg.
"Breaking a point to a surface, Xia Chuan is controlling the Sword Puppet with one hand, so it’s hard to maintain balance. He saw this point, so if he just breaks the right leg, Xia Chuan won’t be able to control it with one hand. This Yuwen Dao, his combat talent is indeed amazing!"
Clang......
The broad sword collided with the right leg once more, and sparks violently erupted. Xia Chuan’s little finger suddenly flexed, and the Sword Puppet’s hands raised high, vertically slashing down at Yuwen Dao’s sword-gripping hands.
"Not dodging?"
Xia Chuan’s intention was to force Yuwen Dao to abandon attacking the Sword Puppet’s right leg. Such a scene had already occurred three or four tis, so this ti he didn’t expect anything different, believing Yuwen Dao would dodge.
But as it turned out, he was wrong this ti!
This ti Yuwen Dao didn’t dodge. Instead, he forcefully pressed down with both hands, actually bending the large blade on the Sword Puppet’s right leg.
"If you’re going to underestimate like this, you’ve already lost..."
With the Sword Puppet suppressed, Xia Chuan himself was still able to move.
He vigorously maintained the Sword Puppet with his left hand, leaping high, his right hand wielding the knife drawing a black arc in the air, slashing straight towards Yuwen Dao’s back.
Whoosh......
At the battleground, Xia Chuan had already unleashed his Holy Pattern, boosting his strength by thirty percent, making it over eight 鬃, even surpassing Yuwen Dao.
But the problem was, at this mont, he was wielding the knife single-handedly!
Holding the knife in one hand ant he couldn’t exert his full strength.
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