Chapter 282: The Sword Protects Its Old Master, The True Identity of Yuga Ling Lu, and Sch Jing's Gi

Chapter 282: The Sword Protects Its Old Master, The True Identity of Yuga Ling Lu, and Sch Jing's Giegie~~ (4K)



"Who's the pervert?"

Yuga Ling Lu's eyes narrowed as he stared coldly at the naked man walking slowly towards him. He frowned, sensing something amiss.

There was no hostility... What was this man up to? With an innate sense so acute it was almost supernatural, Yuga Ling Lu could feel the man's strength and danger.

The danger he sensed was unlike that of a typical strong opponent. It was like a child unknowingly holding a bomb that might explode at any moment. Though the man showed no hostility towards his surroundings, he could potentially cause immense harm at any time.

As a result, even without sensing any hostility, Yuga Ling Lu's vigilance was at its peak.

However, what concerned him more at this moment was something else.

"He's a bit like Sch Jing..."

Yuga Ling Lu's brows furrowed.

He vaguely sensed a quality in this man that was similar to Sch Jing's.

Yuga Ling Lu wasn't sure what it was, but the mere fact that it resembled Sch Jing was enough to make him want to turn and run.

He was one of the few people in the world who could truly understand Sch Jing's strength, and this understanding didn't come from witnessing it firsthand but from his own intuition.

In some ways, this intuitive understanding was even more profound than what the eyes could see.

The 'inhuman' feeling that transcended humanity couldn't be simply described as 'powerful'.

And this naked pervert in front of him gave off the same inhuman vibe as Sch Jing.

At the very essence of their being, they were a higher species, surpassing humanity.

"Interesting."

Yuga Ling Lu's eyes gleamed with battle intent.

He was an extraordinary martial arts enthusiast. If an ordinary person felt the crisis he was feeling now, they would undoubtedly turn and run without hesitation. But he was intrigued.

"Perfect, it'll be a rehearsal before my second battle with Sch Jing..."

Yuga Ling Lu looked around and strolled into a nearby weapon shop, where weapons lay scattered on the ground after an apparent impact. He picked up a long sword.

When he stepped out of the shop, he saw that the naked man was still approaching, step by step.

Yuga Ling Lu drew the sword, discarded the sheath, and tested its weight. He nodded in satisfaction.

Though he was accustomed to the divine Unworn Blade, he wasn't entirely pleased with this ordinary longsword.

As if noticing Yuga Ling Lu had armed himself, Xu Mu De tilted his head curiously. Then, in a seemingly suicidal move, he plunged his right hand into his stomach.

Strangely, his entire palm seemed to sink into his body as if it were a lump of clay, showing no signs of injury.

He slowly withdrew his hand, pulling out a straight, white, one-meter-long dried fish from his abdomen.

Yuga Ling Lu was momentarily stunned as he recognized the object in Xu Mu De's hand.

【GOD-1468: Dried Fish Sword】.

Before Yuga Ling Lu could react, Xu Mu De, who had been walking slowly, suddenly stomped his foot, creating a three-meter-wide hole in the floor and shattering the floorboards. He burst through to the lower level with unimaginable speed and shot towards Yuga Ling Lu.

In less than half a second, he covered a distance of nearly a hundred meters and appeared before Yuga Ling Lu. The dried fish's fin on the sword glowed with a sharp, cutting edge, emitting a strong fishy odor as it slashed towards Yuga Ling Lu.

...

Two minutes later.

"Clang!"

Yuga Ling Lu's longsword couldn't withstand the impact and shattered.

The Dried Fish Sword slashed across his chest and abdomen.

"I-Ryu: Undying Mist!"

Yuga Ling Lu transformed into an intangible, weightless mist, escaping the strike in a baffling manner. He quickly retreated, performing a few agile maneuvers, and entered the nearby weapon shop, which was now in ruins. He grabbed another longsword from the ground.

This was the fourth sword he had picked up.

Xu Mu De's Dried Fish Sword looked comical but was surprisingly powerful. In just two minutes of combat, Yuga Ling Lu had broken three swords.

He glanced at his chest and abdomen, where his clothes were torn, revealing a glimpse of his fair and exquisite abs.

"This is tricky..."

Yuga Ling Lu frowned.

The disadvantage in weaponry left him with almost no ability to counterattack, and his opponent's strength was absurd.

Even without any technique, their sheer power and speed were overwhelming.

And... this man, in his battle against him, seemed to be rapidly learning everything from him.

The previous slash was faster than the initial one, and it faintly carried a hint of the essence of Suza Kansen Ryu.

If this drags on, the longer it takes, the more hopeless his chances of victory become. He must end this swiftly.

This is his area of expertise; Suza Kansen Ryu is a swift technique, and the Kansen Slash is the pinnacle of speed, deciding the outcome in an instant.

However, this ultimate secret art of Sen Kirisaki requires an extremely high level of blade durability. Ordinary blades cannot withstand it and will shatter mid-swing, creating a huge opening if the attack is halted.

Although he could use his palm as a hand blade, the killing power would be greatly reduced. This man's physical strength is extremely high, and even severely injuring him would be difficult.

"Clang!"

Another clash of blades, and it seemed that he was becoming more adept at handling the Hamayu Sword. In the moment of blade contact, 'Xu Mu De' twisted his wrist, and the sharp fish fin on the sword followed, slicing through the air and the obi in Yuga Ling Lu's hand with a 'clang'.

The Hamayu Sword continued its path towards his head, but Yuga Ling Lu's expression remained unchanged. She attempted to use the Undying Mist to dissolve the attack once more.

However, this time was different. As her body transformed into the force-negating mist, the Hamayu Sword seemed to dematerialize for a moment.

"Sizzle—"

Several strands of smooth, black hair and a broken black obi fell to the ground.

Yuga Ling Lu's usually tied-up high ponytail naturally loosened and fell.

"Wh...!"

His pupils instantly contracted into needle-like shapes, his expression changing drastically, and he was shaken to the core.

It was as if the severed item wasn't an obi but his own head.

He quickly picked up the broken black obi from the ground and hurriedly tried to retie it around his hair.

"Whoosh—"

A gust of wind blew from behind, and Yuga Ling Lu instinctively sidestepped. The Hamayu Sword slashed where she had been standing, creating a huge crack in the ground that spread over a hundred meters.

Amidst the dust and debris, Yuga Ling Lu knelt on the ground, barely managing to retie her hair into a high ponytail with the broken obi.

However, Yuga Ling Lu's expression darkened.

Her body was weakening, her limbs becoming more slender, and something was disappearing while something else was appearing...

The slightly masculine features of her face began to soften...

"Oh no..."

Yuga Ling Lu's gaze shifted, looking around.

There was no one else around, so she didn't have to worry about her identity being exposed...

But the most crucial issue at hand wasn't this.

The female body was at a significant disadvantage, even under the same weight and height conditions, it was far inferior to the male body.

In the field of martial arts... or in any physical endeavor, women were at a crushing disadvantage when facing men.

Even in areas like flexibility and mental activities, which seemed to be similar or even advantageous for women in the eyes of ordinary people, men had a significant advantage.

At least before Transcendence, this was absolute.

Without this, her strength would gradually decrease by more than half.

What's more troublesome was that she had become accustomed to her previous state. Returning to her original form now was like a high-level player suddenly having to play a low-level character, requiring a long time to readjust.

But she didn't have time to adapt.

In the opening of her chest and abdomen, the once-defined abdominal muscles were gradually fading, though not completely gone, they had become less prominent.

Her skin became increasingly delicate and fair, her waist began to slim down, forming graceful curves.

In contrast, her hips grew larger...

Her chest... her breasts began to protrude, and from the opening in her clothes, the southern hemisphere gradually took shape.

'Xu Mu De' tilted his head, his expression pure and innocent, unconcerned with these changes, and the Hamayu Sword in his hand continued to slash at the 'interesting thing' before him.

It was as if an ignorant child was playing with a bug, not cruel, without malice, but purely curious.

Yuga Ling Lu hurried to dodge, but her weakened body couldn't keep up with her consciousness, moving a little slower than she had anticipated.

The sharp fish fin left a deep wound on her thigh, visible to the bone, and her pants were sliced open, revealing her fair and slender legs.

The Hamayu Sword showed no sign of stopping, and with extreme speed, it slashed out a second strike.

This time, Yuga Ling Lu had nowhere to hide.

The sword slashed towards her neck, about to cut her in half from top to bottom.

Just then—

"Boom—!!!"

A fierce sonic boom tore through the air like thunder, screeching as it rapidly approached from a distance.

The sturdy walls of Skyreach Center were instantly shattered, and an ancient longsword enveloped in black flames suddenly pierced through, striking 'Xu Mu De' in the chest and sending him flying dozens of meters to be impaled on a wall.

Yuga Ling Lu's eyes widened slightly as she looked at the longsword she was so familiar with.

"Suza Maru?"

No, she suddenly remembered that this sword no longer belonged to her, and at this moment, it should be called—

Dawnlight.

Since the sword had appeared here, it proved that its owner was also present.

Yuga Ling Lu quickly looked around, searching for that figure.

At the same time, she instinctively covered her chest with one hand, her face showing a look of panic.

But after searching for a while, she couldn't find him.

"Brother Xue?"

She asked in confusion, her voice extremely soft and girlish, even a bit squeaky.

Brother Xue hadn't come? Could it be that Suza Maru sensed its old master's danger and came to save her on its own? As she wondered, the ancient longsword suddenly pulled itself out of the wall, floated in front of her, and presented its hilt to her.

And 'Xu Mu De', without the 'nail' holding him, slowly slid down the wall, leaving a trail of pale golden blood on the wall.

The fatal injury, with a gaping hole in his heart, seemed to have no effect on him. 'Xu Mu De' immediately stood up and walked towards Yuga Ling Lu with an unchanged expression.

Yuga Ling Lu took a deep breath and reached out to grasp the hilt of the longsword before her.

The familiar feeling returned, and there was no doubt that this was her Suza Maru, Xue Jing's Dawnlight.

Although she didn't know why the sword had appeared here without Xue Jing himself, she didn't need to think too much at the moment.

She slowly stood up, placed her left hand at her waist, and sheathed the longsword with her palm, assuming the stance of Iaijutsu.

"Suza Ryu Secret Art—"

"Kansen Slash!"

Countless overlapping sword lights, as if hundreds of Yuga Ling Lu were drawing their swords simultaneously, reached their targets in an instant.

'Xu Mu De' stopped in his tracks and stood in his original position.

Fingers, palms, wrists, toes, ankles, calves, thighs, waist, chest, neck, head—

Numerous parts of his body slowly separated, slid off, and turned into hundreds of lumps of flesh piled on top of each other.

Pale golden blood splattered and slowly stained the area within a few meters.

Yuga Ling Lu maintained her sword-drawing posture for a while, then swung the sword to the side to perform blood-wiping.

Afterwards, she sheathed the sword, performed the finishing move, and completed the entire set of perfect and graceful Far Eastern sword art rituals.

She raised the longsword, held it in front of her eyes, and caressed the beautiful blade with her slender fingers, murmuring, "Thank you, Suza Maru..."

At that moment, amidst the booming sound of the sonic boom, a teasing voice traveled from a distance, growing closer.

"You should be thanking me, Yuga-san."

The wall of Skyreach Center was smashed open, and the powerful gust of wind made Yuga Ling Lu's clothes flutter. She raised her hand to shield herself from the raging wind and stared intently at the direction of the hole.

A figure clad in black slowly approached her.

As he walked, the black armor on his body gradually ignited into black flames, which dissipated, revealing his true appearance by the time he reached Yuga Ling Lu.

The warm smile with a hint of mischief, the flawless beauty as if crafted by the gods—it was undoubtedly Xue Jing.

"Yuga-san, so this is the case. I never expected you to be..."

Xue Jing opened his mouth with a smile, intending to tease this woman who had played tricks on him multiple times.

Unexpectedly, Yuga Ling Lu clasped her hands together and placed them beside her face, assuming an extremely cute smile, and said in a coquettish voice, "Oh my, you must be Brother Xue Jing, as my brother mentioned. Nice to meet you, I'm Yuga Shinelu, the younger sister of the Yuga Clan Leader."

Xue Jing: "..."

This sentence was half in Far Eastern language, filled with terms like 'oni-sama' and 'onee-sama', making his skin crawl.

"Yuga-san, what are you pretending to be?"

Xue Jing said in disbelief.

"こめん~ (Sorry~), my Far Eastern language isn't very good, and I can't quite understand what you're saying, Brother Xue Jing~"

Yuga Ling Lu... Yuga Shinelu grabbed Xue Jing's arm and shook it while speaking in a flirty tone.

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(End of Chapter)

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