Chapter 1699: Learning by Example

Liang Yue and Huahua took over the battlefield from Chen Xuanba and Han Shanzuo.

Although Silver Armor and the Black-White Commander were both badly wounded, Liang Yue didn’t dare let her guard down for a second.

She knew that when badly wounded enemies on the brink of death started fighting for their lives, they could flare up with tremendous strength for a brief moment, like a dying man’s last burst of energy.

She couldn’t afford to be careless, not even for a moment.

Sure enough, Giant Blade tightened his grip on the oddly shaped, enormous curved blade and fixed his eyes on Liang Yue.

He didn’t say a word, but his gaze brimmed with a bone-chilling urge to kill.

Liang Yue swept her long blade through the air. A surge of black psychic energy swirled rapidly around her body, centered on her feet!

Endless black mist rose like a smoke screen, shrouding the entire battlefield.

Rather than approach Giant Blade, Liang Yue pointed her long blade at him and swept it diagonally upward.

Her slash was clean and decisive. A massive arc of black blade energy descended like a curtain from the sky and shot straight toward Giant Blade!

Giant Blade snorted and raised his weapon, holding it directly in front of himself.

Bang!

He shattered Liang Yue’s attack with a single strike. But she remained unhurried, keeping a certain distance from him as she continuously swung her blade.

She was using ranged attacks to test how much strength Giant Blade had left and assess his condition, so she could decide how to fight him next.

On the other side, Huahua fixed her enormous eyes on the Black-White Commander.

The corners of her mouth curled up like a human’s, and her long whiskers twitched.

Liang Yue still had to be cautious when facing Giant Blade.

But Huahua had fought a Black-White Commander before and knew exactly what the other side was capable of.

Even at full strength, she could take one on.

And the Black-White Commander was now covered in wounds from his battle against Han Shanzuo and Chen Xuanba.

Ice-type Transcendents were naturally countered by Han Shanzuo’s flames. Without Giant Blade protecting him, Han Shanzuo might even have killed him single-handedly.

So for Huahua, dealing with him now was as easy as eating a simple dish.

Still, after spending so much time with Zhang Yi, Huahua understood that even a lion should use all its strength to hunt a rabbit.

She opened her enormous jaws. A mighty surge of energy gathered in her mouth, eventually forming a crimson high-energy particle cannon!

Once she had it aimed at the Black-White Commander, the energy cannon transformed into a scarlet beam and shot toward him with devastating force!

The Black-White Commander’s expression changed drastically. He tried to dodge, but his body was in such poor condition, and Huahua’s high-energy particle cannon fired so quickly, that all he could do was conjure a mass of ice in front of himself, forming a giant iceberg in an attempt to block the attack!

“Boom!!”

The iceberg couldn’t stop Huahua’s high-energy particle cannon at all. It was pierced straight through, and the energy slammed into the Black-White Commander’s body!

“Argh!!!”

He let out a scream as the blast sent his entire body flying. A great deal of blood streamed down his wounded torso.

“I’ll go kill him first, then come back to help you.”

Huahua spoke to Liang Yue through the translation device.

Her intelligence was now every bit as great as a human’s, so communication was no problem at all.

“Okay!”

Liang Yue didn’t insist on taking him on by herself.

As the saying went, spend time near vermilion and you’ll turn red; spend time near ink and you’ll turn black.

Liang Yue used to be a hothead who knew nothing but brute force. But after spending the past few years by Zhang Yi’s side and learning from his example, she had become more cautious, too.

So even though she knew Giant Blade was badly wounded, she still refused to give him a chance to make a last-ditch counterattack. She stayed at a distance and kept attacking with black psychic energy.

Giant Blade’s heart sank as he watched his subordinate being hunted by the enormous cat.

But if he went to help now, he would expose his back to the enemy.

The situation was already dire, especially since Chen Xuanba and Han Shanzuo were still capable of fighting.

He could only put all his hopes in Tianshui City. At this point, only their Grand General could save him by winning.

But...

A sense of unease stirred in Giant Blade’s heart.

Why had the Marshal still not dealt with those human Transcendents, even after all this time?

There was no time for him to think it over. Huahua roared and pounced straight at the badly wounded Black-White Commander.

After repeatedly blocking Liang Yue’s attacks with his enormous curved blade, Giant Blade chose to go on the offensive.

He would gather what little strength he had left and unleash a fatal strike, killing the human female in front of him instantly!

Only then could he seize a slim chance of survival.

But Liang Yue had already seen through his intentions and gave him no such opportunity.

Giant Blade was fast. In no time, he had charged close to Liang Yue. He hoisted his enormous battle blade and hacked down!

Even from a Transcendent who was gravely wounded and on the brink of death, that overwhelming pressure was enough to make Liang Yue’s expression shift.

“Redirect the force!”

Liang Yue chose to focus on defense, using the force-redirecting principle of Tai Chi to maximize her defense rather than clash head-on with Giant Blade, who was ready to fight to the death!

The battle between the two Enhancement-type Transcendents rang out with deafening booms. The earth beneath their feet couldn’t withstand their strength and shattered again and again.

But Liang Yue was now employing the essence of martial arts. She refused to collide head-on with Giant Blade, leaving him no way to bring his full strength to bear.

When it came to technique, Liang Yue was a true master.

She knew Giant Blade didn’t have many chances, perhaps only one. As long as she didn’t leave an opening, she would be safe.

A short while later, Huahua returned with the Black-White Commander’s blood-soaked corpse in her mouth. She swaggered about, deliberately showing it to Giant Blade. Then, with a sharp “crack!”, she bit the corpse in half at the waist and swallowed it.

Giant Blade’s heart sank at once, because Huahua joined the fight right after!

With Huahua’s help, Liang Yue had an even easier time fighting.

The woman and cat worked together seamlessly, continually wearing down Giant Blade with ranged attacks.

Watching the battle while resting off to the side, Han Shanzuo wore an expression like he’d swallowed something foul.

“Sure enough, you start acting like whoever you spend time with!”

He knew that maddeningly underhanded fighting style all too well. It was exactly Zhang Yi’s way of doing things!

Even with an overwhelming advantage in strength, he insisted on using the safest approach and slowly torturing his opponent to death.

Put simply, it was like kicking a cripple in his one good leg.

Han Shanzuo and Chen Xuanba couldn’t help clicking their tongues in disapproval.

Chen Xuanba didn’t like this way of fighting, but he had to admit it was indeed a safe approach.

In the end, Giant Blade still fell.

Liang Yue and Huahua had never given him the chance to make the life-or-death strike he had been waiting for.

The woman and cat slowly wore him down, like boiling a frog in warm water, until he had exhausted the last of his strength.

In the end, Liang Yue hacked at him more than a hundred times, grinding him down until he was dead!