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Chapter 98 Breaking the Kill
No one thought that Su Daoshan could take this move.

Liu Song and others who were standing nearby didn't think so. Zhou Qinghe and Wang Mingzhe who were chasing Yue Zhen didn't think so. Even Yue Zhen instinctively didn't think so.

You know, although there is only one level between the eighth and seventh rank, there is an insurmountable gap between the two.

That is, an eighth-grade warrior cannot transform force into strength.

If one cannot transform force into power, he or she will not be able to smoothly connect the first and second moves of martial arts, let alone combine them into one.

A martial arts move can only exert its power if it is fully executed with both the first and the second moves.

Only when you reach the seventh level, when you have reached the level of transforming strength into power, can a warrior achieve the state where new strength is born just as the old strength is exhausted, and can you make your Qi and blood flow like mercury, and let the dead strength in your body flow like mercury, and then use it in an explosive way between your gestures!
It is smooth and flowing, done in one go. It is as powerful as rolling beads and as powerful as thunder!

This kind of martial arts, front and back moves, can be said to follow each other, yin and yang complement each other. The power is increased exponentially.

Once a seventh-rank warrior uses his martial arts, it is like using a heavy artillery to bombard a wooden shield for people below the seventh rank. It is a complete dimensionality reduction attack! Even if this person has reached the upper eighth rank, as long as he has not crossed this threshold for a day, he will have no resistance.

In a flash, the knife light was already in front of Su Daoshan.

Facing this blow, Su Daoshan did not think he could take it. However, not being able to take it did not mean that he could not break it!
Su Daoshan had already mastered the art of reading.

The original talent of the literary spiritual root of ordinary warriors has extremely strong observation ability. The higher the level, the better they can predict the enemy's moves. The characteristics of the extraordinary profession [Scholar] are also a further derivative of the literary spiritual root talent, which can allow the eyes to break through the fog and see through the darkness.

Coupled with [Reading], an active skill that increases vision sharpness and can discover clues that others cannot find, at this moment, the opponent is simply invisible in Su Daoshan's eyes.

Points of light flickered on his body.

Not only on his body, but also on his sword!

At this moment, Su Daoshan's body was still retreating. The fight with his opponent just now had made his body a little exhausted.

The force of the collision pushed him and destroyed his balance, making it difficult to resolve.

Snap! Su Daoshan finally felt his feet firmly planted on the ground, and his toes grasped the ground tightly. Immediately, he exerted force, and the muscles and fascia of his body from his toes, calves, thighs, waist and abdomen all the way up, like a strong bow with a full bowstring!

The power is transmitted to the spine.

Crack! Su Daoshan felt that his spine was like a gun barrel bent by a huge rock, and he could even hear the sound of his spine being unable to bear the heavy load.

But the spine held up after all.

After this force crossed the critical point, the spine of the body suddenly rebounded like a big gun. The violent rebound force pushed him to twist out of the backward inertia, and in an instant his posture changed from leaning back to leaning forward.

Su Daoshan pushed the ground hard with his right foot and his body shot forward!
Like a cannonball fired from a gun!

Everyone around was extremely surprised, and even Zhou Qinghe, who was chasing Yue Zhen, subconsciously slowed down his pace. They saw that Su Daoshan actually went straight towards the knife light!

"He's crazy. Is he going to die?!"

Almost at the same time when this thought flashed through everyone's mind, Su Daoshan suddenly took a wrong step, his body turned several degrees to the right front, and then he jumped out with a fish leap.

The whistling wind and sand, the flashing of swords, and the human figures suddenly intersected at this moment.

When he saw Su Daoshan rushing towards him, the Zhou family guard tightened the sword in his hand. He could almost feel that the blade had touched the opponent's body, and he could even see that the opponent's clothes had been torn open by his sword energy.

However, this is already the limit.

It was just a hair's breadth away, and the young man's thin figure slipped through the gap between his sword's rays like a loach.

"how can that be!"

The two passed each other. At this moment, the Zhou family guards' pupils suddenly dilated and they lost sight of Su Daoshan for a short time.

And since the first move was ineffective, the Zhou family guard immediately circulated his internal energy, supported his body with his left leg as he landed on the ground, and turned back to the left direction where Su Daoshan had passed by. He changed the single-edged sword in his hand from a chop to a sweep, drawing an arc of sword light and chasing after him!
This was the back-up plan of the Zhou family guard. Apart from subconsciously following Su Daoshan's direction of return, he did everything without thinking.

It sounds slow, but in fact, from the moment the Zhou family guard made his move to the moment Su Daoshan pierced through the gap in the sword light, and then to the moment he landed with a back-handed horizontal slash, all happened within one second.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard Liu Song shouting, "Get out of the way!"

"Get out of the way?"

When the sound was heard, the Zhou family guard had already turned around with the single blade in his hand. Because he twisted his neck first, his head turned faster than the blade.

Before the pupils could adjust their focus, the space on the left suddenly appeared in the field of vision as a blurry spot of light.

However, in this blur, a bright light suddenly magnified like lightning.

puff!
The light approaching like lightning and the dust blowing in his face made the Zhou family guard instinctively raise his head and close his eyes. Then, he felt a pain in his throat.

When the Zhou family guard opened his eyes with a "crackling" sound in his throat, he finally saw everything clearly. The dull-looking young man was standing in front of him, and the long sword in his hand had already pierced his throat.

The sword is drawn and the man retreats!

The Zhou family guard dropped his sword and covered his throat with his hands, trying to stop the gushing blood. But as his breathing became disordered, his chest rose and fell violently, and blood spurted out of the wound and mouth with foam.

The next second, he fell straight down!

Everyone's head buzzed.

Liu Song, who had the fastest reaction, leaped up and swooped over like an eagle. While in the air, his face was distorted to the extreme, and he shouted sternly: "How dare you!"

However, Liu Song did not pounce on Su Daoshan, but on Zhou Qinghe.

The encirclement in the dust storm could not distinguish east, west, south, or north. But Su Daoshan threw Yue Zhen out, just over the head of the Zhou family guard. Later, when Su Daoshan fought with the guard, he was naturally facing the direction where Yue Zhen was.

This meant that when he faced the blade and passed by the Zhou family guard and killed him, he was actually running towards Yue Zhen, and was not far from Zhou Qinghe who was chasing him from the outside of the battle group.

So, after drawing his sword and escaping, Su Daoshan flashed and rushed towards Zhou Qinghe.

If it was a few seconds ago, Liu Song would not be so anxious. Su Daoshan is an eighth-rank martial artist, and Zhou Qinghe is also an eighth-rank martial artist. Even if there is a gap, it is only a small gap. It will take at least thirty or fifty moves to determine the winner.

What's more, there is Wang Mingzhe next to him.

But when he saw his guards being killed, and then saw the dull-faced young man rushing towards Zhou Qinghe like a ghost, Liu Song felt his hair stand on end.

At the same time, Zhou Qinghe also stopped subconsciously.

The surging sand, the fallen guard not far away and the blood on the ground formed the background of the young man who pounced on him.

Against this dim and bloody background, the young man looked like a vicious tiger!
Zhou Qinghe felt a chill down his spine and his courage suddenly vanished.

But what he didn't expect was that Su Daoshan only made a feint. He had already passed by him diagonally two meters away, rushed to Yue Zhen, grabbed Yue Zhen's hand, and disappeared into the dust storm.

Zhou Qinghe stood there, his face turning pale and blue.

"Why is he..." Seeing Liu Song falling beside him, Zhou Qinghe tried to remain calm and wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was trembling.

Until now, he couldn't believe that Su Daoshan had actually killed a seventh-rank warrior. Moreover, when the opponent had the upper hand and used martial arts, he was killed with just one move!
"Wen Linggen!"

Liu Song's expression was equally grim, and he answered word by word.

As he spoke, he turned around and looked at everyone, saying, "I heard that his spiritual root level has reached an unfathomable level. Now it seems that this is probably true!"

Zhou Qinghe was jealous and incredulous.

"You mean..." Zhou Qinghe turned his head and looked at the body of the guard, "He was able to kill Yang Guang because of his spiritual root advantage?"

Liu Song nodded and said, "This kid's martial arts realm is only the eighth level, and he has not transformed his strength into power. However, he saw through the flaw in Yang Guang's front hand chop and passed through the gap directly. It is impossible for a person with high-level spiritual roots to do this."

In fact, from Liu Song's point of view, the [Tiger Pounce Style] performed by the guard named Yang Guang was not perfect.

Firstly, he was limited by his strength, and secondly, he had consumed too much physical strength and internal energy in the previous battle with the Crazy Puppet, which further reduced his strength. Therefore, when the front hand's direct chop was performed, the knife force was not fast enough and not dense enough.

Liu Song believed that among the people present, not only himself could see the flaw, but the other two guards with seventh-grade strength should also be able to see the flaw.

And they also knew that since Yang Guang had taken the initiative with this move, the opponent's dodging or parrying could only be considered passive defense. The most direct way to regain the initiative was to pass through the sword light directly, break through it and launch a counterattack close to him.

It's one thing to see it, and another to actually crack it.

The initiative is in the hands of others, and trying to get into their trap is almost like putting your neck under the blade.

What if the opponent's flaws were revealed intentionally?
Therefore, if he were in Liu Song's shoes, even he would not dare to fight like this.

But Su Daoshan not only saw the flaw, not only dared to take a gamble and drill through the knife light, but also stabbed Yang Guang's throat with his backhanded sword.

The sword was fast and accurate.

And from beginning to end, he did not use any martial arts.

It's just that an eighth-grade warrior possesses speed, strength, and eyesight and courage that surpass most people.

"It is said that the literary spiritual root is the weakest of the five spiritual roots, the least suitable for martial arts, and the most difficult to achieve success," Liu Song gritted his teeth and said, "But I have also heard from the old people that true masters of literary spiritual roots are extremely terrifying. Now it seems to be true..."

He turned his head to look at Zhou Qinghe and Wang Mingzhe and said, "If this guy hadn't been able to see through the flaws and anticipate the enemy's moves, there's no way he could have killed Yang Guang!"

Zhou Qinghe and Wang Mingzhe looked at each other, their faces looking extremely ugly.

As a warrior's talent, spiritual roots are something that everyone is born with. From childhood to adulthood, they are very familiar with it.

When the bones of a child are opened at the age of six, their spiritual roots will be checked. After that, the training and development of the clan will be planned according to the different spiritual roots of each person. In addition to the cultivation of internal qi martial arts, the accumulation and practice of knowledge in each industry is also an important part.

Those with business spiritual roots have to take classes in the accounting office since childhood; those with agricultural spiritual roots have to work in the fields since childhood; those with industrial spiritual roots have to go to the workshop since childhood...

During the development process, not only are there plans for your spiritual roots' attributes, but in order to avoid developing useless spiritual roots due to changes in personality preferences, there are extremely strict regulations on what you can and cannot do.

If you are an agricultural person but become interested in business, or go to kiln to make tools when you have nothing to do, or fall in love with weaving and carving crafts, then you will break your legs!

Especially after entering the academy, everything has to follow the rules. Arts, military, engineering, business, agriculture, each has its own path. No one dares to say that I am not interested in my own subject and go to other subjects to listen with relish.

That's simply heresy!

Because of this, everyone has a deep understanding of their spiritual root attributes since childhood. Its existence is like a person's surname, which fundamentally distinguishes you from others.

But just like surnames, people often overlook this. Just like you don't think about your surname or other people's surnames anytime, anywhere when you are eating, sleeping, walking, or reading, you often overlook the existence of spiritual roots.

Especially at the two levels of initial understanding and mastery of spiritual roots, the role and influence of spiritual roots are almost unnoticeable.

On weekdays, when everyone competes with each other, the most common thing is that some people have a more delicate fighting style, preferring to roam and dodge to look for opportunities, while others prefer to rush and hit hard, with a wide range of attacks and full of pressure.

But if we carefully calculate the factors that determine victory or defeat, inner energy, martial arts, eyesight, brain, experience and on-the-spot performance account for a much greater proportion than spiritual roots.

Of course, everyone also knows that the later the stage, especially after reaching the sixth and fifth grades, not only the fighting style and martial arts combat effectiveness are greatly affected by the spiritual roots, but even if the spiritual roots level cannot be improved, even the martial arts realm will be difficult to improve.

Liu Song is a craftsman. Zhou Qinghe often sees him carving things with a carving knife in his hand.

But in the final analysis, these are still a bit far away for Zhou Qinghe and Wang Mingzhe, and they don’t have a deep understanding of them on a daily basis.

Until now...

Recalling the momentary confrontation between Su Daoshan and Yang Guang, recalling a seventh-rank warrior being killed by a mere eighth-rank opponent with a single sword, and recalling that over the years, the guy who had always appeared in front of him with a dull and bullied face actually possessed an unfathomable spiritual root...

Zhou and Wang felt cold all over.

(End of this chapter)