I'm a fox girl, I took over the job of the Night Demon Queen

boom!

The sound of weapons colliding was like a bomb exploding, and after a moment of silence from the audience, a burst of exclamations suddenly rang out.

Closing the net to catch the bird, Yazi, who was attacking with all his might, finally unleashed the power of a giant bear. The blow was simple and heavy, forcing Haoliana to take several steps back. Her steps and even her breathing were disordered for a moment.

Hao Lianna couldn't help but show a moved expression on her face. The strike that Yazi had made before didn't look like a sword technique at all. It was just like a siege hammer hitting her thin sword with a loud bang. If it weren't for the fighting spirit wrapped around the sword, the standard sword would have shattered in this blow, and the katana would have broken through the sword circle and went straight to her face.

Was it a full-strength attack or did she keep some strength in reserve? Questions flashed through Haoliana's mind, but she didn't have time to think about it at the moment, and Yazi immediately gave the answer.

Attack her while she's sick, fighting is never a matter of etiquette and rules, the unexpected heavy blow temporarily disrupted Haoliana's composure, Yazi could not give her time to calm down, he immediately followed with a knife, and chopped from top to bottom with the Tangzhu style, the momentum was even more powerful than before.

Haven't you used all your strength yet? Facing Azi's slash, Hao Lianna knew she was no match for him, but she couldn't dodge in the chaos, so she could only face him with her sword. It was like a giant hammer hitting her straight body and bending it slightly. The huge force went straight into the ground along her body, causing her internal organs to feel pain, and even the magical Qinggang stone floor under her feet began to crack.

But this is not the end. Forced into an absolute disadvantage by Yazi's excessive strength, Hollyanna naturally wanted to retreat first and distance herself from Yazi to take a break before fighting the second round. But Yazi would never give her such an opportunity. As soon as one blow landed, another one came head-on, and one blow was even better than the other, as if the bear's power was endless.

Cut iron!

This is the name that Yazi gave to this sword technique. It is not fancy or sophisticated, and it cannot even be considered a sword technique. It is just the most basic top-down slashing that even apprentices can do. It is extremely simple for people who practice swordsmanship. It is just a daily routine to train the speed and strength of the sword. But in Yazi's hands it is so heavy and unstoppable that it overwhelms the opponent without any chance to breathe, as if it is the perfect combination of the most sophisticated attacking and defensive techniques in the world.

"Why don't you fight back?"

Listening to the sounds of iron cutting on the stage, and looking at Hao Lianna who was struggling to hold on under Yu Yazi's enormous force without any power to fight back, with her legs and feet deeply stuck in the ground, she heard such agitated and puzzled voices coming from the stands.

There are many people who have such thoughts. Only real experts can understand the cause and effect of the situation. Even Alice, who has always understood Aiko, couldn't help but wonder aloud about this. She cast a curious look at the Saint Gwendolyn beside her, hoping to ask her for a little explanation. Unlike the saints of previous generations who entered the throne through magic, this one is also a powerful swordsman.

"Because the opponent can't fight back. The moves that Ayako is using now look simple, but her quality as a user is too high. Not only is her strength incomprehensible, but during the continuous suppression, she also uses extremely sharp insight to capture every subtle adjustment of Haoliana. Every time she wants to fight back, the katana will hit her sword, and she will be cut into defense again. There is no chance to breathe, and she can only continue to struggle under the impact of the huge force."

"Are we stuck in a tug-of-war? Such a clumsy way of winning is really in Ayako's style." Alice nodded with a smile.

Not only that, Gwendolen wanted to speak up to clarify the doubts, but the situation on the stage had already reversed and the time to speak had passed.

Haoliana, after all, lives up to the name of the phoenix.

#This is a very difficult fighting chapter to write. Gugu is really short in this aspect (not referring to the following part). #

142. Cut the iron and cut the heart, break the sword and forge the sword

There will be no tug-of-war, this is what Gwendolyn wanted to say but stopped.

With Alice's eyesight as a magician, she couldn't see clearly, let alone realize that Yazi's slashes were not random, but focused on one point. Each strike hit the middle of the sword in Haoliana's hand, which was the most fragile and easily broken part of the sword.

Just like a blacksmith forging a sword, in order to remove impurities, the blacksmith will hammer it again and again. What Yazi is doing now is the same, but the purpose is not to forge the sword, but to break the sword.

Even a man with such great strength as Yazi would not be able to defeat Haoliana with such simple and unpretentious slashing. The art of war states that one must strike at the enemy's weakness in order to win, and the same applies to combat tactics. At the beginning of the duel, Yazi had already aimed at Haoliana's sword.

Compared to Haoliana, who has honed her swordsmanship through countless trials and tribulations, the half-hand sword of average quality in her hand is her biggest weakness. Even with the blessing of fighting spirit, it will eventually break after facing her repeated attacks. By then, a swordsman without a sword will no longer be a flying swallow, but a sparrow with broken wings, at the mercy of her.

Moreover, the broken sword is one aspect, and the rise and fall of momentum is another aspect.

In a duel, physical fitness, fighting spirit, tactics, and skills are all very important aspects, but spirit is an equally important key. The difference in momentum between the two sides will greatly affect the battle situation. With such continuous slashing, every time you swing the sword, your strength increases, your momentum increases, and the stronger your momentum, the more strength you will have.

The party that is so oppressed can only hold on with great difficulty, constantly worrying about defeat. The psychological pressure is self-evident. As the pressure increases, the faith in their hearts is broken before the sword breaks.

When you cut iron, you are not only cutting the sword, you are also cutting the heart.

Unfortunately, Haoliana, who has shouldered the responsibility of reviving the southern border since childhood and has never been confused or retreated, is a person with a strong mind after all, and cutting iron is just cutting iron after all.

Back to the battle, Yazi's intention was not difficult to understand. Gwendolyn, who was off the court, could see it, not to mention Hollyanna, who was extremely focused on fighting against Yazi on the court.

She was very clear in her mind that her sword was about to break. This was a clear conspiracy, but Hollyanna was not at all panicked about the conspiracy that would put her in an extremely unfavorable situation.

The fact that Yazi was able to strike at the same spot every time was not only the result of her powerful strength and keen insight, but also the intentional offering of Haoliana.

She was waiting, waiting for the fleeting opportunity to escape when the sword broke.

A crisis is sometimes an opportunity to win.

Yazi also had a subtle awareness of this point. She was able to suppress Haoliana, but she was puzzled as to how a swordsman of her level could be suppressed to the point where she had no strength to fight back. However, the arrow was on the string and had to be shot. Finally, Yazi delivered the final blow.

She keenly sensed from the vibration transmitted by the blade that the sword was on the verge of breaking. With a loud shout, Yazi used all her strength to try to break it with one blow, and then continued to pursue, completely suppressing and even defeating Haoliana.

As expected, when the swords touched, the white rainbow created several clusters of sparks that enveloped the two fighting people. Even the air was filled with the smell of burning clothes. The temperature around her body rose to the extreme and there was a crisp sound of "ding". The rapier broke. Realizing that the opportunity had come, Haoliana immediately leaned back and barely avoided Yazi's attack.

Although this attack did not work, it had broken one of Haoliana's wings. Next, she only needed to chase Haoliana who was constantly retreating under her attack, compress her space for movement, and force her into a losing situation to ensure victory.

However, Haoliana did not retreat. Instead, she took advantage of the moment when the remaining momentum of her attack was unable to stop and hit the ground, and slashed with the broken sword.

But how is it possible? Not only the calculation of the sword breaking time, but also the distance between them has been simulated and deliberately controlled in their minds. They can give Dou Qi to them at the third level, but they can't release the sword Qi anyway. With Hao Lianna's arm span and the length of the broken sword, they can't attack her anyway. Instead, they will be defeated directly because of this wrong judgment and unable to defend against her next pursuit.

But if the sword could be longer...

A chill suddenly flashed through Yazi's heart, and his attention was focused on the broken sword in Haoliana's hand.

Incredibly, raging flames flowed out from the hilt of the sword, and in an instant they flowed through the broken blade, then suddenly expanded and enveloped the other half of the blade. The red-orange flames were like lava in a forge, melting it into molten iron in an instant.

"【Coelestis Gladius cudendum (Forging of the Holy Sword)】" Haoliana chanted aloud.

This is the secret technique of the Leopold family in the South. The blood of the phoenix flows in their bodies, with fire as their source and swords as their lifeblood. This secret technique was born out of thousands of years of inheritance. They use pure flames to forge the ultimate weapon to strengthen themselves. This is the best sword-forging technique in the world, but at this moment, Haoliana used it in the battle to turn the tide and go from defense to offense.

With a soft hum, Yazi was stunned for a moment. The broken blade broke in the air and had only time to fall for a moment before Haoliana melted the broken blade into a new, tougher sword and slashed it towards Yazi's neck. The blow that should have secured the victory instead gave the opponent an excellent chance to win.

With horror in her heart, Yazi immediately bent backwards, touching her knees to the cracked ground and lowering herself as low as possible to barely avoid this amazing blow. However, even so, her long hair was cut off by this blow, and strands of it fluttered in each other's sight.

Yazi's natural intuition saved her. If she had not sensed the coming crisis in advance, it might not have been her hair that was cut off, but her head.

The reversal of the battle situation was not due to Yazi's carelessness, but due to lack of information. If Yazi's sudden effort just now was a victory in the information war, then at this moment it was the bitter fruit he had to swallow due to his unfamiliarity with Haoliana.

No one would believe that one could forge a sword so quickly in battle unless they saw it with their own eyes.

But dodging Haoliana's unexpected killing move does not mean that you can catch your breath. It is Yazi who has taken the initiative and is now at a disadvantage.

Because he was kneeling on the ground and couldn't get up in time, Yazi, without hesitation, supported himself with both hands and did a roundhouse kick that temporarily deflected the tip of Haoliana's sword, then he did a backflip to create some distance and regrouped.

The previous iron-slashing had consumed too much physical strength, and Haoliana's counterattack just now was even more frightening. With a frown on his face, Yazi couldn't help but gasping violently as he got ready.

The same thing happened to Hao Lianna, but she finally survived the most difficult crisis, and she will not be careless next time.

The reversal of attack and defense was so exciting that a deafening roar came from the audience. Although Yazi in the barrier could not hear it, he could feel it.

This time, it really ignited.

"Let's get started, next round."

Having declared this, the tip of the sword slid down and pointed directly at Yazi's heart, and Haoliana suddenly attacked!

#Declaring this, the tip of the sword slid down and pointed directly at Yazi's heart, and Haoliana rushed forward! #

ps: The speed has become much faster, and I feel like I have become a little more proficient in it.

143. Daytime Meteor

After fierce attack and defense, everything seemed to have returned to the starting point under Hao Lianna's unexpected counterattack. If there was any difference, it was probably that both sides consumed some of each other's physical strength.

After the opening warm-up, the two men faced each other quietly, breathing rhythmically to adjust their states.

Realizing from the battle just now that the strength of both sides might not be much different, both of them moved much more cautiously, slowly circling in the same direction, gradually approaching each other. This is the oldest way of dueling, where both parties test each other's flaws by drawing circles, while silently calculating in their hearts the distance needed for their fastest attack.

Yazi and Haoliana were staring at each other's footsteps, wrists, and the slight swings of knives and swords, not daring to slack off for a moment. The arena, which was filled with the sounds of iron chopping and girls shouting just now, was suddenly filled with only the rustling sound of footsteps. Even the audience in the audience, who were pinched by the neck by the tense atmosphere, became quieter, quietly waiting for the moment they would make their move.

Finally, with a sudden sound, starting with the sharp sound of a sword piercing the air, the two people in confrontation finally moved.

However, this time it was not the reckless cute girl Yazi who took the lead. Instead, it was the nimble flying swallow who flapped her wings and rushed into the arms of the wild bear. Her flaming wings were determined to draw bright red blood marks as she moved forward courageously.

Not only did Yazi's previous repeated iron-slashing attacks fail to break Haoliana's sword, but it made her fighting spirit even stronger, which was something Yazi had not expected.

In fact, just before Haoliana drew her sword, Yazi was ready to rush forward and stab, but she didn't expect that the opponent would attack first. She was so surprised that she even slowed down her defense. The sword just hit Haoliana's sword, leaving a series of sparks.

At this moment, looking at the sparks falling from the sword, Yazi finally understood the capital of Haoliana's first attack. The sword was broken and recast in the previous fight. Although the length was shortened, the purer sword was more suitable for her hot flames to attach to it. In the end, the attack range wrapped in flames was an inch longer than before.

The light and shadow effects are always deceiving. The increase in Haoliana's attack range is a conclusion that can only be drawn after actual combat. Fortunately, Haoliana's sudden change in style made her alert and she defended conservatively, otherwise she would have suffered the consequences at this moment.

While Yazi understood the whole story, Haoliana's pursuit had already caught up. Similar to before, Yazi wanted to win by force, so he faced her head-on. However, the swords felt light when they touched. The seemingly powerful attack was actually a feint, and all his strength was hit on the cotton ball.

How can Feiyan compete with the giant bear in brute strength?

Hollyanna was not a stubborn fool. She had no reason to suffer a second defeat. In the second round, she chose to avoid the opponent's attack. Although her sword seemed fierce, it was mostly a feint. She exerted 70% of her strength and always kept 30% left so that she could change her moves in time. She never fought with Yazi, but always hit the side of Yazi's blade to deviate from its trajectory. In just three or two rounds, she made Yazi's steps disordered and she had brute force but could not use it.

It's just like the Tai Chi in martial arts novels, which uses the opponent's force to counter attack. The martial arts in the alien world have been developed for thousands of years, so naturally there are people who understand this principle. If you can't defeat the opponent with force, you can break it with cleverness. At this moment, Hao Lianna is using this method to consume Yazi's physical strength bit by bit, waiting for the moment when she reveals a flaw.

Strength can defeat skill, and if you are strong enough, you can break through the clever force. However, although Yazi is much stronger than Haoliana, it is not to the extent of crushing her. For a while, she can only be forced to defend and cannot take the initiative.

But on the other hand, Hollyanna's cleverness was not enough to completely make up for the difference in physical fitness between the two sides. In addition, although Yazi was anxious, he remained calm and did not rush into attacking and revealing too big a flaw. He continued to attack and defend while fighting and retreating.

Ding! Unlike the light sound of swords clashing, this dull collision sound suddenly appeared during the battle.

Attracted by the sound, Haoliana realized that Azi had retreated to her original position at some point. A katana must have a scabbard, and lying under her feet at the moment was the wooden scabbard of the standard katana in her hand. The sound just now was made by Azi touching the scabbard.

Noticing that the corners of Yazi's mouth suddenly curled up, Hao Lianna couldn't help but be horrified. The route that Yazi retreated just now was not a random retreat, but a conscious retreat to lead her to this side.

He usually acts recklessly, but he is a completely different person in battle. He is so cunning and has every step planned.

And this was not the time to think about this. Yazi just chopped off the rapier that Haoliana was stabbing with with a knife, then hooked the scabbard with his foot and kicked it into the air, then held the scabbard steadily in his left hand.

Then, close the sheath.

Yes, sheathed.

The audience was immediately surprised by the amazing scene. She closed her sheath in the middle of a fight. Was she going to admit defeat? They were so evenly matched just now.

The audience in the audience thought so, but Hollyanna, who was facing Yazi head-on, keenly noticed the difference. The moment the sword was sheathed, Yazi's aura changed. If she was still a wild bear slashing with brute force just now, now she had her eyes half-closed, like a tiger ready to attack, waiting for the moment to roar.

"Iai..."

Iai, also known as the art of drawing a sword, was the strongest assassination sword in ancient times and also the fastest sword in the world.

This was the way of wielding a sword that only Jiang Lan from another world could think of, and it was also the secret skill she taught to Yazi. Jiang Lan, who had reproduced this skill, knew that this move would be undefended and a sure-kill move, so she had sealed it and would never use it until a crisis. Now it was Yazi, a half-baked warrior, who revealed it to the world for the first time.

"cut!"

The first time he used this move in actual combat, he entered a mysterious state. Yazi's half-closed eyes opened wide, and the sword with flawless white light came out of its sheath. It was an extremely fast sword. The white air passed through the air, leaving behind a blazing white light, just like a meteor falling from the sky, breathtakingly beautiful.

It was also suffocatingly dangerous. The giant bear tore open her strong muscles, and a ferocious tiger walked out. This was destined to be a stunning kill.

But no matter how fast Iai was, it was still a half-baked blow delivered by a half-baked warrior.

From the moment the swords were closed, Haoliana began to be on guard. Iai was fast, so fast that she couldn't even catch the extremely fast sword. It could be said that if they acted at the same time, she would not be able to dodge such a swift sword at all with her current strength. But since she couldn't dodge it, she could just predict it.

There is no need to capture the knife light, just stare closely at Ayako's hand holding the knife. The trajectory of Iai can be determined by the turning of the knife's wrist. Crisis is also an opportunity to win. Once again, she seized this moment.

Facing the meteor that was breaking through the sky, Feiyan dodged sideways, and when Yu Yazi's blade got close to it, he turned around and drew his sword to hit the tail of the meteor.

The blazing red flames intercepted the meteor!

"what?"