Cohabitation with Sword Spirit-Chapter 122 - 100: Offering Wife and Son (Double-Length) (Part 2)

A few old men actually didn't fully understand, they just found it amusing that a little fellow on the high judging stand was speaking so seriously.

Afterwards, Lu Xin sent a few people to settle the restless old idlers. Once they were seated outside, laughing and chatting, Lu Xin straightened his posture: "Alright, contestants can make their final preparations now, the duel is about to begin."

On the field, Li Qingshuang and Li Junyi exchanged a look, slowly calming their nerves, channeling True Essence, nurturing Divine Sense, ensuring they were in their best competitive state. In this battle, they were confident of victory!

On the other side, Li Chaolu looked bewildered.

Just going up like this? But, she had no chance of winning at all...

Earlier, she thought that in the last three days, Wang Jiu would bring out some unparalleled Divine Skill, or Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, allowing her cultivation to soar overnight, to handle the combined sword array of Qingshuang and Junyi. Yet, Wang Jiu merely followed the training plan step by step, not to mention Divine Skill secret manual or Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, he didn't even spare half a day for extra rest. As a result, Li Chaolu still felt the burn in her breathing—the excessive channeling of True Essence yesterday had harmed her lungs.

With this condition, how could she fight?

As the preparation time was almost up, and the battle about to erupt, Li Chaolu looked at Wang Jiu one last time.

Wang Jiu seriously instructed: "With your aptitude and strength, it's not enough to multitask, concentrate your attention on your opponent before the battle, don't look around, remember the tactics I taught you, just use them."

Li Chaolu helplessly nodded agreement, then began focusing, adjusting her state, preparing for combat.

Before long, on the judging stand, Lu Xin slightly stood up, announcing: "Begin!"

At the same time, Li Jinglun beside him also became highly tense, the amplified Immortal Technique already operating at his throat, with Lu Xin's start, he almost coughed out.

This was his first time serving as commentator for a cultivator duel. Before this, he merely liked to review some cultivator duels through writing, never trying to commentate live. Although it was just the Li Family Inner Sect juniors sparring, there were nearly two hundred spectators, along with a group of esteemed old idlers, saying a wrong word could be talked about endlessly.

As a theoretical master, best-selling author, his professional reputation could not have the slightest blemish!

Carrying this heavy pressure, Li Jinglun boldly began speaking, his voice quickly spreading across the training ground.

"Very well, now the duel formally begins, ah, unexpected! Li Chaolu actually chose to aggressively attack, using weakness against strength yet daring to strike first! Hundred Flowers Sword Qi is not famous for being sharp or forceful, no knowing how she will... uh, Li Junyi is out, next it depends on Qingshuang... Well, Li Qingshuang is also out, let's congratulate Li Chaolu for winning this match smoothly!"

On the field, Li Chaolu stared blankly at the long sword in her hand, cracking under immense force, her mind still dwelling in that lightning-fast triple strike a moment ago.

During the first triple strike, she was still somewhat dazed, but upon using [Spring Plum Blossoms], [Hundred Flowers Blooming], [Frosty Dew], her three best sword techniques the second time, Li Chaolu truly felt how much she had changed from a few days ago.

The speed of her sword strikes, at least thirty percent faster.

It seemed not much, but on the dueling field, any tiny difference could determine victory or defeat, a thirty percent gap was enough to form an overwhelming advantage. Theoretically, she would need to advance to Cloud Surge Realm, Hundred Flowers Swordsmanship practiced to the Eighth Heaven to achieve the previous sword speed. This speed far exceeded expectations, such that during actual execution, even she had trouble controlling it, the swordsmanship and Sword Qi both distorted... And these detailed errors instead puzzled the opponents, causing Li Qingshuang and Li Junyi to fail catching the rhythm, being directly knocked out unprepared.

It was simply an incidentally-timed victory, but looking at Li Qingshuang and Li Junyi standing outside the field equally dazed... it was undeniably a victory.

When did her speed become so fast?

When Li Chaolu stepped down and raised her question, Wang Jiu quickly gave the answer.

"Very simple, the Assault Type Hundred Flowers Swordsmanship is famous for speed, but the Universal Version you practiced earlier suppressed speed to avoid risk. By the way, I had you clear your hand and foot meridians yesterday, ensuring your first three sword strikes reach the peak level for Assault Type while not revealing any hint beforehand, ensuring during actual combat you perform an offset-type sword stance. In a prolonged fight it has little misleading effect, but using it for the first few moves to deceive Li Qingshuang and Li Junyi was more than adequate."

This remark made Li Chaolu admire Wang Jiu to the point of prostration, no wonder he was confident of victory in the duel from the start, he had designed the entire fight from beginning to end, from granting her cultivation techniques, tempering her meridians, to Li Qingshuang and Li Junyi's adaptability, all calculated within a tight-knit network, enveloping the opponents securely.

Though it was merely a brief battle in the blink of an eye, the calculation and strategy displayed within... really left Li Chaolu astounded.

"Mr. Wang Jiu, you are amazing." Li Chaolu sincerely admired, for a moment, even the usual fancy thoughts in her heart faded substantially.