Scholars with literary talent and warriors with martial prowess have superior hearing, and Shen Tang's conversation was heard by both sides.
For a moment, everyone's expressions were different.
Gong Xichou's words were unambiguous; threatening to take someone's head was a veiled threat. However, Shen Tang's response... left much to the imagination, and Gu Chi even covered his face with his sleeve. Liao Jia, unaware of the implications, asked directly, "What is the relationship between our lord and this person?"
Gu Chi said quietly, "These two are in cahoots, birds of a feather. The lord envied Gongxi Chou for having a good figure, and a few years ago he thought about taking possession of the other's body and then putting his own head on it... What kind of relationship is that? Shao Mei, you can figure it out yourself."
Liao Jia: "..."
Xun Zhen: "..."
Jiang Sheng: "..."
It's more like literally tempting one's body.
The lord's preferences remain as perplexing as ever.
Shen Tang was also utterly perplexed. She didn't know which of Gong Xi Chou's bottom lines she had crossed to make him turn on her so suddenly. However, it wasn't a big deal; they were going to fight to the death today anyway. Whether they turned on each other or not wouldn't make much difference.
But Shen Tang soon overturned his judgment.
The difference is huge!
Gong Xichou raised his hand, and the wisp of green mist flashed back into his palm, transforming into a long whip covered in sharp barbs, resembling a snake's head. The whip hung down, but its head was slightly raised, as if a spirit snake was guarding Gong Xichou's side. The snake's mouth was wide open, revealing a mouthful of venomous teeth. Shen Tang had seen this whip of Gong Xichou before; it was even more exquisite, eerie, and sinister than before…
It is also more dangerous.
"You want to fight me without wearing armor?"
Shen Tang tried to probe with seemingly casual words.
"Of course not, you deserve my full effort."
He took a step forward, revealing himself to be wearing a full suit of armor, a rare sight for him. Compared to several years ago, this armor had undergone subtle changes, becoming more refined, with more realistic snake patterns. The snakes with their mouths and tails intertwined on his waist had changed from a single snake to three intertwined snakes. The shoulder armor, which had previously consisted of simple snake scales, had been replaced by coiled pythons, their snake eyes flashing with a chilling light.
Gong Xichou: "I hope you feel the same way."
"So this is the full view of his armor..."
Xun Ding muttered to himself.
He had fought Gongxi Chou at least eighty or ninety times, and the result was always a resounding defeat. Not only did he lose, but Gongxi Chou also had a bad habit: he didn't like to wear his full armor when fighting. Every time, he'd be dealt with by wearing only half of his armor.
You can show off while humiliating your opponent!
This meant that even though he had known Gong Xichou for so long, he had never seen the other party fully armed... So this guy wasn't incapable of wearing armor, but rather didn't genuinely believe he needed to go all out? Xun Ding felt like he had been critically injured.
"Mama, I'm really angry." Gong Xichou said calmly, strolling leisurely towards Shen Tang. With a flick of his wrist, the long whip, its snake-like head swaying on the ground, shot straight at Shen Tang. Shen Tang parried with her sword, but the sword energy was easily shattered by the whip. The whip then coiled around Shen Tang at an even faster speed. The young martial artist said emotionlessly, "Very angry!"
Snap!
Shen Tang used the blade of her sword to defend herself. The immense force she felt on her tiger's mouth gave her a real sense of Gong Xi Chou's anger—this guy really wanted to whip her to death. However, all those years of eating rice, fish, and meat hadn't been for nothing.
The whip's shadows were dense, weaving into a net.
Sparks flew every time the sword and whip collided.
Gong Xichou had only taken eight steps when the battlefield between him and Shen Tang had become a network of crisscrossing ravines of varying depths.
"Mama, where's your armor?"
The long whip slithered along the sword towards Shen Tang's wrist, its mouth wide open, sharp teeth locking onto its target. Shen Tang tried to pull back the Mother's Sword, but the whip's barbs held it firmly in place. In a flash, Shen Tang had no choice but to retract the sword into her dantian, bend her elbow and use her forearm as a slap to deflect the whip, using the opportunity to escape to safety. She managed to remark, "I'm wearing it, aren't I?"
She's not Gong Xichou.
Did she not want to increase her defense stat when fighting before?
It's because she can't.
Click—
She glanced down at the cracks in her arm, channeling her martial energy to quickly repair them, transforming them back into a longsword. Gong Xi Chou, however, gave her no time to react. Dust swirled on the battlefield, and shadowy figures of snakes loomed overhead. Under his relentless onslaught, Shen Tang swiftly shifted her position.
clang!
A loud bang.
The silvery sword energy slashed away the lingering whip shadow, and the Compassionate Mother Sword transformed into a strangely shaped double-pointed spear—short weapons were at a disadvantage against long whips, and Gong Xi Chou's whip was particularly peculiar. She simply changed her strategy, shifting from passive defense to active offense.
A double-pointed spear, with a spearhead at both ends.
The gun barrel is covered with dragon scales.
"You can't assume I'm not wearing any armor just because my armor isn't as good as yours, can you? You're my most important opponent, so naturally I have to be dressed to the nines." Shen Tang rode the wind and clouds, casting a [Chasing the Wind and Stepping on the Scene] spell. With a swift movement, she slipped past the defense formed by the whip and approached Gong Xi Chou. Her silver light shone like a shooting star, and her double-pointed spear aimed for his face.
bite!
The spear tip was deflected by a double-crescent-shaped halberd.
The two figures collided and separated at times.
Xun Zhen looked on with concern.
It's really hard to tell which one is better.
Xun, the filial son, guessed that his father was worried about his lord, so he comforted him: "Using ordinary martial energy, we can't force Gongxi Chou to use his true abilities. At this level, it's barely enough to make him relax his muscles and bones. So far, he hasn't been able to summon his Martial Spirit Totem... However, I didn't expect that Shen Jun, who doesn't look very strong, would have such elegant and beautiful skills. He must not have used his full strength."
Xun Zhen: "Do you know Gongxi Chou's true strength?"
Xun Ding shook his head: "I don't know, but according to him, he was already a fifteenth-level Lesser Upper Realm cultivator two years ago. In the past two years, not only has he completely stabilized his realm, but he has also improved a lot. As for the specifics, I'm not entirely sure either, after all—"
After all, he couldn't force the other party to reveal their trump card.
Father, this question is really difficult for your son.
_(:з」∠)_
While the father and son were talking, the situation on the field changed again, a change that immediately alarmed both sides. Xun Ding was stunned, his mouth slightly agape. Coming to his senses, he secretly sweated; Gong Xi Chou had actually held back against him these past two years.
It turned out that Gong Xichou realized that Shen Tang was responding with equal force to every bit of effort he used, making the fight rather pointless. So he simply resorted to drastic measures. His dantian circulated, and martial energy surged wildly from his meridians, transforming above Shen Tang's head into a python resembling an ancient, colossal beast. Calling it a python wasn't entirely accurate; its head had a pair of thick, curved, dark green horns, its tail grew whiskers, and its belly had strange feet with sharp claws. Its body was thick, over ten feet long, and it coiled around, blocking out the sunlight above Shen Tang's head.
His aura locked onto Shen Tang, his imposing presence overwhelming her.
A loud bang.
The warrior totem fell to the ground from mid-air.
Shen Tang: "..."
She flung her double-pointed spear at the giant python, ducked, and slid away, narrowly escaping the danger zone. Turning around, she saw the huge crater in the ground and her lips twitched involuntarily. What had Gong Xi Chou done these past two years to feed the Martial Courage Totem into this state?
Gongxi Chou stood on the snake's head.
A man and a python both watched her.
(*￣︿￣)
My mom went to visit relatives tonight, leaving me to deal with my leather jacket all by myself. Good grief, he did it on purpose! He cried three times in an hour. The first time was when he was hungry, so I fed him. I just put him down to poop, changed his diaper, and as soon as I put him down again, he cried because he peed… Diapers cost money too, can't you do both things at the same time?
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