74: Chapter 74, Part 1

Leveraging the downward dash from his low crouch, Li Wen's figure became like a cheetah sprinting close to the ground, instantly passing through the gap between the deep purple figure and the mid purple chasing from behind.

The deep purple enemy subconsciously swung its blade down, bringing with it a sharp whistle that tore through the air.

Puchi! The blade struck the Blue-Clothed corpse that Li Wen had kicked over, splitting it in two, but it only cut through an afterimage and dissipating data fragments.

It let out a roar of shock and anger simulated by its program, and was about to give chase when it realized Li Wen hadn't fled far.

Instead, with incredible explosive speed, he had circled to the side and rear of it and its companion—the mid purple—his target clearly being the Green-Clothed archer who was currently stunned by his own miss.

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The deep purple figure was enraged, delivering a fierce horizontal slash with a backhand swing!

The blade light was like a bolt of silk, sealing off all of Li Wen's evasion space and even faintly enveloping the mid purple who was trying to move in for a pincer attack.

It wanted to force Li Wen to take the hit head-on! Or force him back into an even more disadvantageous position!

In the real-world viewing area, the hearts of the Third Middle School teachers and students were in their throats.

Fighting two purple-clothed enemies alone while being harassed by an archer—every step was fraught with extreme danger.

Seeing Li Wen actually take the initiative to rush toward the deep purple figure's blade light blockade, someone even cried out in alarm.

"Is he crazy?!"

"That's a deep purple figure with 100% control!"

The blade light reached his body! Pressure pressed against his face!

At this critical moment, Li Wen's instinctive movement to retreat suddenly stopped.

Under Absolute Focus, within a thousandth of a second, his Primordial Spirit overclocked, performing a lightning-fast deduction of the deep purple figure's speed, angle, subsequent changes, and even the subtle vibrations under the pull of its Qi, as well as the angle blockade and the archer's follow-up shot path that would result if he retreated.

Retreating was a trap, moving left would lead into a dead end of ruins; the only way to survive was—"Advance instead of retreating!"

A brilliant light burst from Li Wen's eyes!

His body advanced instead of retreating, facing that all-tearing blade light, he actually crashed toward the deep purple figure's chest in a posture that almost looked like he was throwing himself into a trap.

However, the angle at which he crashed was extremely tricky; it was the tiny, almost non-existent blind spot under the left arm that the deep purple figure had exposed due to its full-force swing.

At the same time, the blade in his hand did not parry the incoming blade edge, but instead, like a venomous snake's tongue, it stayed close to the inner side of the opponent's swinging arm.

With the fastest explosive speed, he pointed with incomparable precision at a tiny blood-qi node on the deep purple figure's sword-wielding wrist.

Fast! Ruthless! Accurate!

The deep purple figure's program seemed to suffer a momentary glitch; the opponent's unconventional move caused its calculation System to lag.

It subconsciously pulled its wrist inward, wanting to avoid the blade stabbing at the weakness of its wrist, and the power of its swing inevitably weakened by half.

It was this half-beat of delay and weakening of power that was fatal.

Puchi!

The tip of Li Wen's blade arrived first despite starting later, striking the end of the deep purple figure's wrist-retraction path as if he had predicted it.

Although he failed to completely destroy its grip, he accurately tore through the meridian node that transmitted power.

Chila!

The deep purple figure's blade grazed past Li Wen's shoulder, cutting through his virtual shoulder armor and causing a small ripple of data, but the power that could have split mountains had already largely dissipated.

At the same time, because the meridian node was injured, the deep purple figure's swinging motion suffered an extremely brief deformation and stagnation.

"Now's the time." Li Wen completely ignored the minor damage to his shoulder. His right foot instantly kicked off the ground, and his body sprang away like a spring compressed to its limit.

But the direction he sprang toward was not a retreat, but toward the mid-purple enemy nearby who was sluggish due to being enveloped by the deep purple figure's blade light and happened to be on his trajectory.

"Piercing Sun!"

Crashing in with his whole body, the long-prepared final form of the Rainbow Light Saber Technique erupted violently, carrying the full strength of his body.

The mid-purple enemy had no time to change its move and could only barely parry.

Boom!

The long saber, carrying the momentum of Li Wen's full-body explosion, slammed heavily into the mid purple's parrying blade.

The terrifying force knocked its feet directly off the ground, smashing it ruthlessly into the ruined wall behind, which collapsed with a bang!

The mid purple's chest caved in, and its data flow instantly dissipated!

[Points +700!]

"Roar—!"

The deep purple figure was completely enraged! The stinging pain in its wrist and the stimulus of its companion being killed caused it to erupt with even more terrifying speed, its blood-qi surging wildly as its blade light fell like a waterfall.

However, after the crash and slash, Li Wen used the recoil force to slide several meters away like a fish, simultaneously giving a casual swing of his blade.

"Shadow!" A beautiful arc of blade light flashed, and the throats of the two archers behind, who had been dazed for a split second by the mid purple's sudden death, both spurted blood-light almost simultaneously!

[Points +50*2!]

Instantly! The encirclement collapsed!

The archers were all wiped out, the mid purple was dead, and only the deep purple figure remained, its wrist injured but appearing even more berserk.

All of this happened in just two or three breaths, smooth as flowing water, extremely thrilling yet precisely lethal.

The real-world viewing area was dead silent, then erupted into ear-splitting cheers that almost lifted the roof.

"Aaaaaahhh!!!"

"Deep purple! He hurt the deep purple figure! And even counter-killed the mid-purple one!"

"Heavens! How did he do it?! Wasn't that just seeking death earlier?!"

"A narrow escape! It's really a damn narrow escape! So awesome!"

"He's first on the leaderboard! He's overtaken Jiang Lingyun! Third Middle School's Li Wen has reached the top!"

On the leaderboard (Qingshi County), Li Wen's numbers instantly soared to 4,540 points, surpassing Jiang Lingyun's 4,250.

He took the top spot!

The entire viewing area was in a complete frenzy!

However, the battle for the leaderboard didn't last long.

Because the true hunter had quietly descended from the city's shadows.

Buzz—!

An indescribable pressure, like a heavy block of lead, suddenly covered a certain area of the battlefield.

An unlucky Unity Realm student from First Middle School, who had just painstakingly dealt with a mid-purple enemy and hadn't even had time to catch his breath, felt as if his Soul was frozen.

In his perception, the air seemed to solidify.

A massive white blade glow, condensed as if physical and carrying a sense of pure extinction, appeared above his head like a meteorite from beyond the heavens, silent yet incredibly fast.

He didn't even have time to see the newcomer's appearance, merely being enveloped by the 'momentum' emitted by that blade glow.

His body was like it had fallen into the thickest mire, his thoughts seemed frozen, and his movements to mobilize his blood-qi for defense were slowed down by ten or a hundred times.

His pupils constricted violently, and fear had just climbed onto his face—Puchi!

There was no earth-shaking sound, only an extremely faint tearing noise.

That white blade glow passed through his body without any resistance.

His terrified expression froze on his face, his consciousness instantly plunged into darkness, and his entire person, along with his weapon, shattered like glass, instantly turning into a sky full of data flow and vanishing.

[Eliminated!]

The real-world viewing area was in an uproar!

The cheers from First Middle School instantly froze, replaced by cries of disbelief.

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