43: Chapter 43 Handkerchief!

"You seem to be cooking up some rotten idea?"

That voice came from behind Lin Wan again.

This time, Lin Wan did not turn around.

He had to trust his own senses.

He closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on his combat intuition.

In the Guixu space, that aura belonging to Lady White was right in front of Lin Wan,

so close that as long as she reached out, she could pierce his chest once again.

But this time, she did not strike.

Because Lin Wan had made no mistakes.

She was waiting for him to err again.

Lin Wan did not move.

Maintaining a half-kneeling posture, the wound on his chest was still slowly healing,

his breathing was heavy, and he looked as if he had been beaten into a daze.

But his brain was working at high speed.

He had to exploit the information gap.

He had to turn his passive position into an active one.

He knew very well in his heart that if he continued to be led by the nose by Lady White, the result would be the same even if they fought a hundred more times.

Her combat prediction was far superior to his; a head-on approach wouldn't even allow him to touch the hem of her clothes.

He needed to make her take the sword actively.

Lin Wan took a deep breath.

He adjusted the angle of Pride in his right hand slightly.

He began to concentrate his power.

The fusion of two Sword Intents:

Old Man Su's 'Celestial Extension' and Ye Qingxian's 'Reverse Flow'.

He wanted to infuse these two completely different Sword Intents into a single sword strike.

The idea was simple:

use the Celestial Sword Intent to lock onto the target and extend outward,

and use the Reverse Flow Sword Intent to reverse time the moment she dodged, leaving her nowhere to hide.

But putting it into practice was far harder than imagined.

The two Sword Intents coiled around each other within his body,

like two unyielding beasts fighting for control.

This time, he had no way to strike Little Lin.

He had to maintain extreme focus to make them achieve a temporary balance.

Just then,

Lady White moved.

She didn't approach; instead, she retreated hundreds of zhang.

Her intuition was exceptionally sharp; she had clearly sensed the dangerous aura gathering on Lin Wan.

She widened the distance and raised her hand...

A black wave of light shot over from afar.

Lin Wan had to interrupt his concentration and roll to dodge.

The light wave grazed his shoulder, exploding into a ripple of pitch-black energy in the void.

"Tsk..."

Lin Wan gritted his teeth.

She actually ran?

Lady White stood still in the distance, her gaze toward Lin Wan becoming a bit more serious,

"Were you charging up a big move just now?"

"Hmm... I don't really like letting people charge up big moves."

After she finished speaking, she raised her hand again.

Another black light wave.

Lin Wan was forced to dodge repeatedly; every time he tried to gather his Sword Intent, Lady White would precisely disrupt his rhythm.

She simply didn't give him any chance to charge up.

Damn it!

What kind of system is this Lady White using?

Lin Wan cursed in his heart while dodging.

She looks so normal!

They said that getting a glance from the Lord of Guixu would make you lose your mind...

But her fighting style is this standard long-range suppression + high-speed kiting!

Shouldn't the Cthulhu system be full of tentacles and indescribable things?

Why is she like a high-end version of a ranged mage-assassin?

The more Lin Wan thought about it, the angrier he got.

He clearly had higher combat power and terrifying Sword Intent bonuses,

yet he was being beaten by a 530,000-power First Stage opponent to the point where he couldn't even deliver a sword strike.

So many tricks, it's disgusting!

After dodging another light wave, he finally made up his mind.

"Sigh..."

He let out a sigh.

"Since you don't play by the rules..."

"Then don't blame me for using cheats."

He activated his Target Settlement talent.

Utilizing the real-time feedback mechanism of Target Settlement, he set a target to confirm Lady White's position.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Lin Wan frantically set targets; if wrong, he continued; if correct, he completed the target, received a small reward feedback, and simultaneously confirmed her position.

At the same time, through the location information attached to the reward prompts, he constantly corrected his perception of Lady White's position.

Thousands of calculations were completed in just a few dozen seconds.

Although every target reward was so small it could be ignored,

after all, the difficulty of confirming a position was too low, but his goal was never the rewards.

"Finally..."

Lin Wan grinned.

He had caught her.

Lady White's movement trajectory for a split second.

She was preparing to retreat to that position.

Right at that spot.

Lin Wan closed his eyes and swung his sword in that direction.

Into this strike, he infused both Sword Intents simultaneously.

The Celestial Sword Intent was responsible for extension.

The Reverse Flow Sword Intent was responsible for reversal.

Various passive specialties were fully activated:

Thunder Polar State, Lightning Glow, Berserk, Scorching Flame, Armor Piercing, Shockwave, Ice Spike...

The 999 flying swords did not follow; there was only the seven deadly sins · Pride in his hand.

The moment that sword was swung,

the sword momentum was silent.

It was hidden stealthily.

In the distance, Lady White was preparing to dodge, but she felt that the Sword Intent had already locked onto the space she occupied.

But she had not the slightest panic.

"A bit interesting... Did you figure out my position by pure luck?"

She said softly.

"But you're still too green."

As her voice fell, her figure began to fade, and she shrank into a pitch-black rift.

The Guixu space.

That was the ability bestowed upon her by the Lord of Guixu,

to temporarily escape into the crevices of Guixu and vanish briefly from the real world.

There, no attack could touch her.

The moment the Sword Intent was about to touch her, most of her body had already sunk into the rift.

Safe.

A faint curve appeared on Lady White's lips.

Then,

time reversed for an instant.

Not even 0.05 seconds.

Her body, which had just shrunk into the Guixu space, was yanked back from the rift as if by an invisible hand.

The rift closed.

Her figure reappeared in the real world.

Lady White's pupils constricted slightly.

"?!"

She had no time to react.

The Sword Intent had already slashed before her.

A silver-white sword light streaked across the void, and her body...

was split in two.

Lady White's upper and lower body separated in the void; no blood sprayed out,

and a large amount of black mist gushed out from the cross-section.

The expression on her face froze, a bit of disbelief.

"Sneaking up on me with a big one..."

"This brat..."

Her lips parted slightly, and she smiled palely.

Her body began to disintegrate, turning into a sky full of black mist that dissipated into the night sky.

Lin Wan stood in place, breathing slightly.

That feeling of frustration from being toyed with finally dissipated for the most part.

He looked at the spot where Lady White had disintegrated, was silent for a moment, and then whispered:

"What about the final stage? Was it a lie?"

"Did she fake her death and escape?"

Lin Wan didn't believe Lady White had just died like that.

He paused and added:

"But... those who play tactics deserve to get cheated on."

The night wind blew,

and Lin Wan suddenly felt a wisp of black mist emerging from his body.

He looked down,

It was that handkerchief.

Two words were clearly displayed on the handkerchief.

"Save her?"

"So persistent? You still want me to be your younger sister?"

"Huh... how are you sending me messages from afar?"

"Wait, could it be that it's not from afar?"

Lin Wan's expression was strange,

Could this be the so-called final form?

She doesn't seem to be in a living state anymore.

How about...

trying to decipher her and see?

Under the clouds,

Ye Fan was squatting on the ground, diligently collecting storage rings without even raising his head.