Zhan Zhao Adventures - Chapter Three (Part III)

Chapter Three: Eternal Longing (Part III)

The Moon-Wielding Envoy could not help but let out a sharp cry of alarm!

 

Only then did she realize she had been tricked.

 

It turned out that the opponent had feigned revealing a flaw to take one of her moves upon his back, but in reality, he used this to soak and drench "Eternal Longing" with his own fresh blood at the very instant the object entered his body, forcing it, which was otherwise completely without shadow or trace, to reveal its shape and form.

 

The Moon-Wielding Envoy poured her force from her left palm into the long whip, and "Eternal Longing" suddenly reared up, circling and turning another half-curve; urged by the internal energy of "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers" as it turned from extreme softness into hardness, it actually let out a sharp whistle.

 

The fresh blood stained upon "Eternal Longing," driven by her internal energy, flew and scattered in all directions!

 

Once this fresh blood flew and scattered, "Eternal Longing" could become shadowless and formless once more.

 

Only, she was still one step too slow.

 

Zhan Rifei only required this single instant of "Eternal Longing" making a half-curve.

 

Now that he could already see her rare weapon, she would forever and never again be able to forcefully snatch his upper hand.

 

──He was afraid that in this world, there were also not many people left who could snatch his upper hand.

 

──His upper hand, which had long since gathered its momentum to launch!

 

His person had already flown and leapt up.

 

His left hand made a beckoning motion in the air, and the whip-tip of "Eternal Longing" was already in his hand! The sword in his right hand had already sliced straight down along "Eternal Longing."

 

The Moon-Wielding Envoy rapidly launched the "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers" of her right hand!

 

Only after the strength and force of her right palm were launched did she realize that she had committed a second unpardonable mistake.

 

──The opponent's sword move, which was as rapid as thunder that leaves no time to cover one's ears, was actually a feint!

 

Everything, was all for the purpose of drawing away her "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers," which penetrated every opening and went from extreme softness to absolute hardness.

 

Everything, was all for the purpose of making her divide the internal energy with which she drove and wielded "Eternal Longing."

 

The ultimate goal of all of this, was precisely to seize her "Eternal Longing."

 

──Her "Eternal Longing," which was shadowless and formless, sucking the marrow and attaching to the bone.

 

A cold shiver, in an instant, rolled across her spine.

 

For the first time, she felt terror.

 

Was this because upon the hand with which Zhan Rifei gripped her "Eternal Longing," there had already traveled an extremely ingenious, yet rapid, fierce, and sharp strike?

 

Although it borrowed this wave of internal energy from "Eternal Longing" making a half-curve, and although this strike traveling from his hand was not very strong, it was already sufficient.

 

Sufficient to make the five fingers of her left hand as if struck by lightning, having not a bit of sensation in a state of daze.

 

Sparse shadows clearing and shallowing, sparse shadows flying and rising!

 

The Moon-Wielding Envoy opened her mouth wide, as if she had seen a ghost. That charming smile of hers had already been torn to shreds by this scene before her eyes.

 

"Eternal Longing," her "Eternal Longing," had already flown out from her hand!

 

The other end of "Eternal Longing" was already gripped within Zhan Rifei's hand!

 

That end which was dyed red by fresh blood.

 

Clear shadows filled the sky.

 

But the Moon-Wielding Envoy could not see clearly exactly which clear shadow was the sharp blade she herself had held ever since entering the Cold Water Palace.

 

──It had actually come to her turn to be unable to see her own weapon clearly.

 

Zhan Rifei was in mid-air, and "Eternal Longing" was as swift and graceful as a heavenly dragon, yet it was silent and soundless, already striking toward the Moon-Wielding Envoy.

 

Although he did not know how to use "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers," the internal energy with which he drove and wielded "Eternal Longing" seemed not to be below "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers"──only because this move and style of his was exactly the same as the method of the Moon-Wielding Envoy just now.

 

The Moon-Wielding Envoy could not see clearly.

 

Not only could she not see clearly, she also could not hear clearly.

 

She could only gather her energy within her body, covering her entire body with the palm-shadows of "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers," allowing the blurred shadow of "Eternal Longing" to surround the dense and sparse intervals of her palm-shadows.

 

She seemed to have already seen life's mockery toward her: it had actually come to her turn, ──the master of "Eternal Longing," to experience the upper hand of "Eternal Longing."

 

Once a few rounds passed, she was already so stifled she was somewhat unable to catch her breath.

 

──For a moment, she also could not distinguish clearly whether it was the endlessly continuous upper hand of "Eternal Longing," or this dense, low, and fine drizzle of rain, that pressed down so she could not catch her breath?

 

She finally understood why Zhan Rifei, rather than tangling with her further, immediately did not hesitate to be injured upon his back, just to forcefully seize this weapon of hers!

 

The only expectation was that the skill of "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers" could, with a force like mercury spilling over the ground, halt the invading advance of "Eternal Longing."

 

Only, no matter how soft and dense "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers" was, it ultimately had form. While "Eternal Longing" was ultimately shadowless and formless, ultimately the number one sharp weapon of the hundred-year Cold Water Palace.

 

Somehow, this sharp weapon, as venomous as snakes and scorpions, finally penetrated the encirclement and entered.

 

In an instant, the Moon-Wielding Envoy retreated severalzhang, her chest as if having suffered a heavy trauma!

 

But for some unknown reason, at the moment "Eternal Longing" struck her, it seemed to have paused for a moment. In a flash, this peerless sharp weapon, along with this pause, had already changed from formless to having form. "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers" penetrated every opening, and instantly, with a speed like mercury spilling over the ground, entangled and strangled "Eternal Longing"!

 

Zhan Rifei actually abandoned the whip and let go immediately, his body form also retreating rapidly, still blocking in front of that boy.

 

Collapsing into the embrace of the green-clothed man, the Moon-Wielding Envoy still did not understand.

 

──Zhan Rifei originally should not have paused this pause. He originally should not have committed such a low-level mistake.

 

──Even if his "Eternal Longing" was entangled and strangled by "Softness Wrapping Around Fingers," he also should not have abandoned it immediately. How could the treasure he spent such effort to seize leave his hand so easily like this?

 

──With his response to changes and his resourcefulness, he should have possessed the ability to halt this kind of low-level mistake in advance.

 

But at the instant her thoughts turned like lightning, she finally understood.

 

Her face instantly became very ugly. Only because she did not wish for this to be true.

 

"You──so you have already──"

 

She tried hard to speak the words out, but a breath could never again be raised.

At the corners of her mouth, there actually surged up that soft and oily smile unique to her once more. Except this smile, when looked at at this time, appeared unspeakably malicious.