Absolute Choice

“Try taking on This King’s strike!”

This time, it was Shi Xiaobai’s turn to attack.

A distance of eighteen hundred meters could not be considered as close proximity. But to Shi Xiaobai, who had his flash motion technique, Crab Steps, cultivated to the Crest of Perfection realm, it was not that great a distance. However, a flash motion technique was after all a movement technique that focused on movement and dodging. No matter how high the realm, it was still motion at a fast speed, and not instantaneous motion that could cover a great distance in a blink of an eye. Shi Xiaobai suddenly charged out, and his blazing figure and the strong winds that stirred seemed to become the biggest disturbance.

Dawn immediately woke up from her strange feelings. Her eyes focused once again. Her ice-blue eyes squinted like blades as she slowly lifted her sword in preparation to strike back.

Without needing to either see her opponent’s figure, or hear the sound of the sword slicing through the air, even with her eyes closed and ears covered, she would be able to react in the most perfect manner because she could ‘see’ the fluctuations in the air. She could ‘hear’ the breathing of the power. She could ‘predict’ the trajectories of annihilation.

She did not turn her head nor did she use her eyes to capture the figure that was rapidly approaching to the point of nearly instantly appearing in front of her. Instead, she suddenly turned around and slashed towards her back!

“Caught you.”

The figure in front of the girl had been penetrated by sunlight as it dispersed into a chaotic mirage. It was a fake phantom image.

And the direction in which the girl slashed was at the neck of the youth who suddenly appeared behind her.

Shi Xiaobai’s pupils constricted slightly. His phantom movement technique had been seen through so easily and his movement trajectory had been easily grasped. His intentions appeared to have been seen through by the girl from the very beginning.

She was indeed an expert.

The smile on Shi Xiaobai’s lips grew in intensity. The girl’s advanced judgment of slashing at his neck had completely exceeded his expectations, but his reaction was equally stunning.

Shi Xiaobai quickly twisted his right arm by half a circle and used an exaggerated angle to change the trajectory of his slash. Just as Lucifer’s Sword was about to hit his neck, he successfully deflected it.

Dawn’s eyebrows pricked up slightly. Shi Xiaobai’s reaction speed and ability to cope in an impromptu fashion left her somewhat surprised.

But the following scene caught her off guard. Shi Xiaobai, who had forcefully parried the strike, should have retreated and opened up a distance to protect his neck so as to reduce some of the momentum of that strike, but he did not choose to do so.

With the sound of a crack, she saw Shi Xiaobai’s head suddenly lean back, as though he ignored the risk of cracking his neck to make it level. His body spun a few times like a top to forcefully disperse the power of that strike and at the same time, a swift and fierce beam of light appeared as it hurled straight for her abdomen!

It was unknown when the black-and-white sword in the youth’s right hand had become a pure black sword. At the most dangerous moment, he had parried her Lucifer’s Sword, and in his left hand, he was holding to a pure white sword. At the same moment he defended, he had suddenly thrust his white sword at her.

He actually did not retreat?

His neck and the ice-cold blade were in close proximity. At that moment when his life was in danger, he actually did not choose to retreat to open up a safe distance but counterattack there and then?

If he made the slightest of mistakes, his head would separate from his body. Was he that unafraid of death?

Dawn frowned as she could not hurriedly retreat so as to dodge the sword beam that suddenly came thrusting at her abdomen.

Shi Xiaobai’s dual-wielding had exceeded her expectations. It was not as if she had never encountered opponents who used two swords at the same time, but he was the first opponent she had encountered to suddenly go from a single weapon to dual-wielding them while disregarding his life. He would bare his fangs when he needed to defend the most, and strike back suddenly.

Should he be called crafty or crazy?

Dawn did not choose to clash head on with him. She held an advantage with her strength, so there was obviously no need to withstand Shi Xiaobai’s internecine assault.

But just after she retreated, Shi Xiaobai would immediately come sticking closely behind.

The youth held a white sword in his left hand and a black sword in his right. The power of Sword Truth seemed to flow above the blades like stars. Suddenly, two completely different Sword Intents were produced from the two swords. On the white sword, there was burning Sword Intent, and on the black sword, there was watery Sword Intent that caused ripples.

Dawn’s eyes flashed a look of appreciation. This was the most unique dual-wielding she had ever seen. Shi Xiaobai’s dual-wielding was not just simply brandishing two swords; instead, he demonstrated the true charm of wielding two swords.

Dual-wielding was not as simple as wielding two swords in hand and using different sword attacks. Only by injecting two different Sword Intents into the two swords like Shi Xiaobai, could the true power of the dual-wielding be expressed. However, it was not easy to do so. Grasping two Sword Intents was just the foundation, but to use the two Sword Intents together with one mind simultaneously was an extremely difficult task.

And what Shi Xiaobai was currently doing was even more difficult. That was because both his swords were injected with different Sword Intents. One of them was blazing fire and the other was soft water. These were two completely different and contradictory Sword Intents. Dual-tasking things might not be difficult, but to produce two completely opposite Sword Intents at the same time, without even considering the ability needed to dual-task, it still needed clear and resolute willpower.

“You are indeed very excellent, but the Sword Intent grade of your dual-wielding is still rather unpolished. If it’s two different Sword Truths, it might be…”

With those thoughts in mind, Dawn grasped the perfect opportunity to use a nimble swerve to dodge Shi Xiaobai’s two strikes that were in close proximity. She slashed at Shi Xiaobai’s waist from the side.

Her opponents choice of a melee battle suited her wishes. Her movement technique, speed and strength were extremely outstanding. Her combat skills were also something no peer could match.

However, her present opponent was Shi Xiaobai. Shi Xiaobai was equally well-versed in movement techniques. His speed and strength had been crazily enhanced through the Power of Taotie after he consumed the three holy items. His keen senses and battle instincts far exceeded ordinary people.

Shi Xiaobai reacted extremely fast as he changed the trajectory at which he slashed out. Twisting his right arm, he forcefully pushed the black sword in his right hand to parry Lucifer’s Sword that was about to hit his abdomen. At the same time, the white sword in his left hand was hurled straight at the girl. The watery Sword Intent was ice-cold as it formed a frost-ice sword beam which shot at the girl’s chest like an icicle.

Shi Xiaobai had once again chosen to counterattack when he needed to defend the most. He ingeniously used his dual-wielding to simultaneously attack and defend.

However, it was extremely risky by doing so because the girl’s sword was only a sword’s length away from his waist. If the strength of the right sword was crushed, his waist would be severed into two by his own sword.

Of course, if the girl had ignored the thrusting of the white sword from his left hand, and forcefully slashed at his waist, there was a extremely high chance of being severely injured. That was because while attacking, one’s defense was at its weakest.

Therefore, there were two choices placed before Dawn.

First, to ignore the risk of injury to slash at Shi Xiaobai’s waist. In that case, Shi Xiaobai might very well die and she might be seriously injured. It would result in an internecine outcome.

Second, it was to abandon her attack and take the initiative to retreat. It would be equivalent to treating it as though that round did not happen.

This was a choice that had to be made in an instant.