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Chapter 216 The Emei Sword Manual – Afterglow and Startling Wind
As the sound reached her ears, in Li Chimei's eyes, Gu Shaoan raised his right sleeve, and his fair and slender hand emerged from the sleeve, his five fingers spread wide, like a dragon's claw, and lightning-fast grabbed at her slender neck.

Seeing Gu Shaoan rushing towards him at high speed, and the fluctuations of Qi emanating from Gu Shaoan's body, Li Chimei's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints.

"Condensing Yuan Qi into Gang Qi? How is that possible?"

As one of the three great masters of the Great Yuan Kingdom, Li Chimei had already reached the level of internal energy cultivation of condensing primordial energy into qi. Naturally, she knew how difficult it would be for a martial artist to reach this level of internal energy cultivation.

Being able to reach the realm of Condensing Yuan Qi into Gang before the age of forty has always been one of Li Chimei's proudest achievements.

He never imagined that Gu Shaoan in front of him would be so young, yet his internal energy cultivation had reached the level of Condensing Yuan Qi into Gang Qi.

In shock, Li Chimei's instincts, honed through years of bloody battles, almost surpassed his thoughts. The bamboo he was using as leverage was bent almost to the ground by the terrifying force, and he used it to propel himself backward with lightning speed. His figure left several shadowy afterimages in the air that were hard to distinguish from the real ones.

At the same time, the Yin Qi burst forth instantly, condensing into a purplish-black protective aura three feet in front of Li Chimei.

Faced with Li Chimei's response, Gu Shaoan did not slow down in the slightest. As he continued to approach, he bent three of his five fingers and brought his index and middle fingers together, forming a sword-like shape.

The swirling energy caused a golden light to emanate from Gu Shaoan's fingertips.

However, this point was no longer a pure golden brilliance, but rather flowed with a strange and profound, dim yellow hue.

The surrounding light seemed to dim for a moment.

Li Chimei's attention was involuntarily drawn to that touch of yellow.

The trail left by the sword as it pointed across the sky, dragged by the vital energy, didn't feel particularly fierce; instead, it gave off a sense of decline.

But looking at Li Chimei's finger, it was as if he saw the last rays of light before the darkness of the sky at the moment of daybreak, when the sun and moon meet.

It has a kind of gentleness and haziness unique to the late years.

Unlike Gu Shaoan's other moves, which are swift and violent, this one is a seemingly slow but all-encompassing and inescapable final act.

It was as if at sunset, the last ray of light in the world was reluctant to leave, yet irrevocably falling into silence.

Emei Sword Manual - Sword Five: Afterglow!
When the fingertip reached forward and touched the protective aura gathered around Li Chimei, the protective aura in front of Li Chimei vanished without a trace, like the last remaining ray of light in the setting sun.

Gu Shaoan's fingers, however, continued their sword-like momentum, aiming directly at Li Chimei's dantian.

It seemed as if they were about to cripple Li Chimei's skills.

Li Chimei's expression changed drastically, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

"Damn it, what kind of martial art is this? Why can't my internal energy even block it for a second?"

It was only when Li Chimei discovered that even the qi she had gathered was insufficient to withstand the wind blade unleashed by Gu Shaoan's finger strike that she instantly realized that if she were to take the attack head-on, she would inevitably be injured.

Fear gripped her heart, and Li Chimei instantly unleashed the full power of her "Heavenly Demon Yin Condensation" technique to its limit.

Just as Gu Shaoan's sword finger was less than a foot away from his body, his figure was pulled by an invisible force. Although he did not use any leverage, he was suddenly and smoothly shot backward at an astonishing speed.

Furthermore, its retreating route was not straight, but rather somewhat erratic, yet its speed was extremely fast.

At this moment, Li Chimei seemed to have truly become a chaotic and formless yin wind.

In the blink of an eye, it had already swung back a zhang (approximately 3.3 meters), and then its body turned and floated towards the bamboo forest below.

Gu Shaoan raised an eyebrow as he took in the strange figure that Li Chimei was displaying.

Judging solely from the ghostly movements that Li Chimei was displaying at this moment, Gu Shaoan believed that they were even more impressive than Dongfang Bai's "Sunflower Manual".

Even Gu Santong, who was also at the level of condensing Yuan Qi into Gang Qi, was completely no match for Li Chimei in terms of lightness skill and movement.

This "Heavenly Enchantment and Yin Condensation" truly deserves its reputation as a miraculous achievement within the Great Yuan Dynasty.

But precisely because of this, the killing intent in Gu Shaoan's eyes intensified.

The more unpredictable Li Chimei's movements and speed became, the stronger Gu Shaoan's killing intent grew.

Given the strange movement techniques Li Chimei is displaying right now, if she manages to escape today, Gu Shaoan will have more reservations when he goes out in the future.

Therefore, as Li Chimei rushed into the bamboo forest below like a ghost, Gu Shaoan changed the speed of his internal energy circulation and lightly touched a bamboo leaf with his toes.

Her figure moved like a silver fish swimming in water, or like a cloud scattered by a strong wind. With a trajectory that was smoother and more in line with the spatial patterns than Li Chimei's, and completely unreasonable, she instantly traversed the distance of one zhang.

His body, however, was like a willow catkin in the wind or a dragon soaring in the clouds, almost stepping on the air rifts that Li Chimei had created as he retreated, following him like a shadow.

His gaze was as cold as an ice blade.

at the same time.

Just before landing, Li Chimei quickly turned her head to look behind her.

When Li Chimei saw Gu Shaoan following closely behind him, with only a few feet between them, she felt as if the blood in her body had been frozen by a cold air.

"How can this guy's lightness skill be so fast?"

Among martial artists who have condensed their inner energy into a powerful force, Li Chimei admits that she may not be the strongest.

However, in terms of movement speed, even among the twenty-odd martial artists in the Great Yuan Kingdom who had reached the Qi Condensation stage, few could compare to him.

But at this moment, Gu Shaoan's lightness skill was no slower than his.

Upon landing, Li Chimei floated away into the bamboo forest as if weightless once again.

Just as he was about to move, Li Chimei suddenly turned around, and his ten fingers instantly turned into a pale afterimage!
With a tearing motion, the claw shadows appeared out of thin air like hundreds of ghostly hands from the depths of hell. Each claw carried an extremely refined icy aura and a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, creating a dense storm of death in the small space of less than half a foot around his body.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"

Facing the claw-like shadows before him, Gu Shaoan gently pointed his sword forward once more.

A seemingly casual finger gesture, yet as agile and disorderly as flying snowflakes.

An indescribable sense of elegance arises from this.

It is "Sword Seven: Snow Sweeping" from the "Emei Sword Manual".

In Li Chimei's perception, the surroundings were no longer the gentle breeze of April, but rather felt as if she were in the midst of a bitterly cold snowy day.

Gu Shaoan's finger strike was like a snowflake falling from the sky.

The movements were gentle, soothing, and even possessed a touch of elegant beauty.

But when the sword pointed forward, streams of energy swept across the sky like sharp scissors, cutting through the myriad claw shadows he had conjured.

Before Li Chimei could recover from the elegance of Gu Shaoan's gesture, Gu Shaoan's finger had already touched his left hand.

"laugh!"

"puff!"

The next moment, a burst of energy erupted from his fingertips, and the extremely refined finger energy instantly pierced through Li Chimei's palm.

A special force instantly entered Li Chimei's palm, then spread all the way, destroying the meridians in Li Chimei's left hand and left arm.

The intense pain caused Li Chimei to groan involuntarily, her face contorted in agony.

Despite being injured and in pain, Li Chimei didn't stop. Instead, like a ghost that had lost its balance, her body abruptly turned downwards against inertia, disappearing into the shadows of a bamboo grove below like ink dripping into clear water. "Damn it, what's going on with this guy? Isn't the Emei Sect a second-rate power? Why does he have such strong martial arts?"

At this moment, Li Chimei, who was frantically moving in the bamboo forest, lost all composure, and beads of cold sweat mixed with fear slid down her forehead.

Fear sprouted rapidly from all parts of my body like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Although it had only been a few exchanges, Li Chimei was already certain that Gu Shaoan's strength far surpassed her own.

The two sword moves that Gu Shaoan just used as a sword were simply beyond his ability to handle.

The massacre of Emei and the capture of Gu Shaoan were all forgotten by Li Chimei.

His only concern now is how to leave this Great Emei Mountain alive.

After plunging into the bamboo forest, Li Chimei no longer followed a straight line. When she moved quickly, her figure was like a weightless ghost.

One moment he had just circled around a few bamboo stalks, and the next he used the bamboo leaves falling from the sky to propel himself into the air above the bamboo forest.

Not only was the angle incredibly tricky, but the speed was so fast that it left intermittent, blurry afterimages under the moonlight, like a skipped frame.

The bamboo forest became his best cover, and every bamboo stalk and every bamboo leaf became a tool for him to use to change direction and shift gears.

His figure truly blended into this world, omnipresent yet elusive.

The martial arts manual he learned, "Heavenly Charm Condensing Yin," is a complete system of martial arts consisting of the "Heavenly Charm" lightness skill and the "Condensing Yin" mental technique.

"Tianmei" refers to the ghostly speed and agility of the user when using the light-footed transformation technique, which can confuse opponents with afterimages in battle.

"Condensing Yin" is a special mental technique that condenses cold internal energy through high-speed movement. The two techniques complement each other, with the "higher speed, the more fierce the internal energy" characteristic.

Therefore, given some time, Li Chimei is confident that he can increase his speed.

Until he completely shook off Gu Shaoan behind him, left Emei, and escaped back to the Yuan Dynasty.

Unfortunately, he was up against Gu Shaoan.

As the internal energy circulated along a special path, and as strands of golden energy surrounded Gu Shaoan's fingers, a peculiar fluctuation suddenly condensed from Gu Shaoan's sword-finger.

The Emei Sword Manual – “Sword Eight: Startling Wind”.

"Woo~"

At the same time, the night wind that had been blowing gently in the back mountain suddenly became violent and chaotic.

From all directions, countless streams of air, some thin and some thick, seemed to be summoned, rushing towards the tip of Gu Shaoan's pointed sword finger with sharp, rapid whistling sounds.

Strands and wisps of translucent wind, visible to the naked eye, swirled around the joined finger swords.

Then, the air currents drawn by Gu Shaoan transformed into condensed sword-shaped wind blades, densely gathering around Gu Shaoan's sword finger.

Even before her fingertips reached him, the terrifying sharpness that condensed the power of the Qi and the surrounding wind was enough to send chills down Li Chimei's spine.

The moment Gu Shaoan's finger touched Li Chimei's protective aura, the aura that Li Chimei had just condensed was instantly shattered by the sword-shaped wind blades gathered around Gu Shaoan's finger.

The next instant, as Gu Shaoan's sword finger pierced the air, its speed suddenly increased several times, as if a gentle breeze had just risen.

This gentle breeze is too light, too soft, too fleeting.

It was too abrupt.

It was so light that it seemed like just a ripple caused by a leaf falling onto the water, so gentle that it was like a lover's sigh in the dead of night, so fleeting that even the most perceptive insects could not detect its origin.

It was sudden and caught everyone off guard.

It's like a person being startled by a gentle breeze when they are completely unprepared.

By the time he realized what was happening, the gentle breeze had already brushed past him.

The sword is like a startled gust of wind; when a person perishes, the wind arrives.

This is why Gu Shaoan named this move "Startling Wind".

Li Chimei's senses were still reeling from the deafening roar of his protective aura being shattered in an instant, and the image reflected in his eyes was still the afterimage of the thousands of wind blades spinning.

Before Li Chimei could react, a gentle breeze unexpectedly brushed past his cheek.

At the same time, Gu Shaoan's sword finger gently and without any trace of violence touched Li Chimei's brow.

There was no overwhelming force unleashed.

There was no dazzling display of talent.

But Li Chimei felt a gentle breeze pass through his brow and blow into him without any obstruction, brushing past his surging consciousness, then penetrating his head and silently heading towards the green bamboo behind him.

Until the bamboo within a ten-foot radius behind Li Chimei began to fall in swathes, creating a "whooshing" sound.

Li Chimei stood quietly in front of Gu Shaoan.

Drops of blood continued to fall from Li Chimei's palm.

After struggling to clear her throat, Li Chimei opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

But before he could utter a single note, Li Chimei could no longer support himself and collapsed softly to the ground.

Fresh blood began to flow from Li Chimei's seven orifices.

Gu Shaoan lowered his eyes and calmly looked down at Chi Mei on the ground.

A soft and calm voice slowly began to ring out.

"I told you, I can decide your life or death."

The moment the sound reached her ears, a hint of resentment and regret suddenly flickered in Li Chimei's eyes.

But before this sense of resentment and regret could spread, it vanished along with the glimmer of light in his eyes.

at the same time.

Several figures rushed towards the bamboo forest from different directions behind the mountain.

In just a few breaths, Extinction, Dustless, Insulation, Zhou Zhiruo, and the others had all gathered in the bamboo forest.

They were clearly alarmed by the commotion caused by Gu Shaoan's last move.

The first to arrive were neither Abbess Miejue nor Abbess Juechen.

It was Gu Santong who had just noticed the fluctuations in his internal energy during the battle between Gu Shaoan and Li Chimei.

As the group approached and their gazes fell upon the unfamiliar corpse in front of Gu Shaoan, their expressions changed drastically.

Abbess Miejue asked, "Shao'an, what is this?"

Gu Shaoan said, "The Demon Master Palace sent this guy, who wanted to slaughter my Emei Sect tonight. He's a transvestite named Chi Mei."

　This chapter has been revised many times! I hope everyone is satisfied. I'll try to finish the next chapter before 11 PM!
　　
　
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