Chapter 148: My long sword will not lose!

No, that is not the divine bird named "Phoenix."

It is the 'Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter' Xia Na.

The crimson flames from the Crimson Realm God of Heaven's Punishment condensed six pairs of lifelike crimson phoenix wings behind her. The terrible heat wave spread in all directions as the wings swayed, and the wingspan of each pair reached an astonishing twelve meters.

"Success?"

"Indeed, success." Margery Daw nodded, gave a punch to the contracted Demon King slung across her waist who was chattering and boasting in an annoying tone, her eyes a bit complex. "Through the joint development of myself and Spiral Organ, the technique you mentioned named 'Phoenix Call Fighting Block Heaven' has been completed."

In fact, even she herself found it hard to believe: "I have never seen a method that can improve a person's performance to such a degree, it's as if... it's as if..."

Margery Daw was at a loss for words. She didn't know how to describe this terrifying Otherworld Free Method, even though it came from her own hands.

"It's as if it wasn't created for any other purpose, but only to transcend the limit named 'speed,' a specialization that discarded all other trivial details..." Pheles, who was short but spoke in an old-fashioned way, took up the conversation from behind. Although she couldn't hide her fatigue, her tone was exceptionally excited.

The way she looked at Xia Na in the sky was as if she were examining a fragile but incredibly beautiful, top-grade work of art.

"On the requirements you proposed, we deepened and improved it, and it became like this... Any more would cause the difficulty of balance and operation to increase exponentially. Now this form has reached the limit that Xia Na can operate."

"Oh my god, this is *ao*!"

Even Jia Ji had to admit that even if Xia Na didn't pose in this form, her stylishness far exceeded his by dozens of times.

Cold killing intent and scorching fluctuations came from the airflow. Jia Ji trembled all over, knowing that Xia Na was preparing to get her revenge, and he was already prepared.

Throwing the confused Sakai Yuji to the two Free Method masters who had already run away, Jia Ji revealed an expectant smile. He shook the exaggerated giant sword in his hand, placed it in front of him as if it were weightless, and struck a pose of "Great Zhang One-Sword Style."

"Screech—"

From the sky in the northwest, a passionate cry came from afar. He looked up and saw a golden-red meteor attacking him.

Blinking again, the distance of several hundred meters was crossed in an instant. The petite girl burning with crimson flames vibrated her wings and came, her disdainful burning eyes facing Jia Ji, whom she had once beaten down. The fire powder scattered by her flame hair threw out a long flame tail.

Under that exquisite appearance like a work of art, there was terrifying speed and kinetic energy that made people shudder.

Fast.

Really so fast.

Faster than sound, faster than the palm wave, faster than the friendship fist, faster than the fist speed of his Beidou Arhat Strike... three times faster!!

The dense airflow formed a transparent shield shaped like a ship's bow in front of her body, and before her true body arrived, the surging airflow had already touched Jia Ji's skin, making his scalp tingle.

With his dynamic vision, he could only barely capture the afterimage left behind by that fiery red figure that seemed to want to burn everything and cut everything.

The girl held the hilt of the sword tightly with her left hand and supported the blade with her right. Besides that, she didn't need any sword technique or routine. The long, slender, and thin blade of the long sword, at the moment of relaxation after the hands were pressed to the limit, bloomed with astonishing crimson lotus brilliance.

Getting closer and closer, faster and faster.

One uses a long sword, one holds a giant sword.

The two cannot be called a swordsman and a swordswoman.

Their body sizes have a large difference, and their temperaments are as different as heaven and earth. One is wildly fierce, the other is as imposing as a rainbow.

It was just that the eyes of the two people met in an instant, simultaneously capturing that most precise gap, that fleeting opportunity.

"Crimson Lotus Great Long Sword!!"

The dive from high altitude compensated for the flaws and missing changes with crowning extreme speed. It was like Mount Tai pressing down, an irresistible must-kill move. The silver-white frost blade of Nietono no Shana instantly elongated and erupted with about a zhang of crimson blood light.

"Must-kill—Dragon-Ascending Sword!"

Facing this slash, in the short time of a fleeting moment, Jia Ji raised the giant sword in his hand and, driven by domineering fighting Qi, also pulled out an arc full of the beauty of power.

Two and a half feet apart, they swung almost at the same time!

Clang—!

The harsh metal collision pulled out a desolate blacksmithing sound.

The glistening fighting Qi and the violent fire energy intertwined. Clearly, it was just a clash between two people, but it had the atmosphere of tides rising and falling. The extreme high heat and impact illuminated the midnight Seal as brightly as day.

The earth bearing the impact collapsed, solid rock and soil splashed, and Jia Ji's feet, which were rooted in place, were completely unable to stop, flying back hundreds of meters, plowing two ferocious scars on the ground. His arms trembled, his muscles rarely felt sore, and the bones of his whole body felt like they had been cracked by this slash.

"Pfft!"

Jia Ji's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but spit out blood. His gaze touched the front, and the entire sky became red under the violently erupting flames. Endless crimson lotus flames seemed like a scorching tornado, disturbing the air and crazily pouring toward the surroundings.

Squinting his eyes to look at the small figure in front, he decisively threw away the giant sword in his hand and chose to return to the fist art he was most proficient in.

Before the hot airflow and shockwave arrived, his pupils gradually focused, and the terrifying blue fighting Qi intertwined with the crimson tornado, spiraling upward.

"Raging Fire Backflow Fist!"

The surging raging fire flowed backward along with the roaring iron fist, pouring back half of the sea of fire in one go.

"What?"

No feeling of hitting.

However, this large-scale damage as a counterattack skill fell into empty space at this moment.

However, the next second, the girl with six pairs of phoenix wings vibrating behind her landed lightly behind him, and that Nietono no Shana, which was sharp and undamaged, was already resting on his neck.

"You really have been reborn."

Jia Ji smiled bitterly and raised his hands to surrender. Sure enough, as he expected, "Phoenix Call Fighting Block Heaven" combined with Xia Na herself produced an extraordinary chemical reaction.

And not only that, perhaps because of the panic about the future, as well as the infinite pressure brought by the shame of losing to him, the determination, awareness, and the kind of thought that nurtured these thoughts made Xia Na's sword have something more than before.

He seemed to be able to see a prompt like "Complete Realm Up Up" appearing on the girl's head.

It was just that, compared to the shock of others, Sakai Yuji, after being surprised, had a feeling of being able to understand the thoughts of these two people.

What kind of training and determination must one go through to be able to possess power like theirs?

After a moment of silence, the look in the boy's eyes when looking at Xia Na was no longer purely like looking at a Flame Haze warrior fighting against Crimson Realm Denizens. In his complex expression, he unconsciously revealed a bit of yearning, and he whispered to himself: "As expected... I still want to fight side by side with her."

And Jia Ji, who lost but was not discouraged, saw Sakai Yuji's obsessed expression. He sighed first, then revealed a helpless smile, and patted the boy on the shoulder.

"Let the future take its course."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 149 =====