Chapter 69: Come, draw your sword; I've taught you

Don't... don't...

Weiniya couldn't control her body; her only clear consciousness seemed to be locked deep inside, and she could only watch helplessly as the mechanical sword swung toward her sister's head.

Clang!!!

At that moment, Zhang Jie appeared beside the two, his Han sword blocking the descending mechanical sword, deflecting it, and he brought Weinina away ten meters in an instant.

"Run, your sister is in great danger now!"

Weinina snapped out of the horrifying scene, realizing she had been just a step from death, and she nodded quickly before running off into the distance.

Zhang Jie told her to find a place to hide, but now the ground was overrun with unknown creatures rampaging, and various Cyber Madmen were killing people everywhere; she could only rely on the qi and blood Zhang Jie had passed to her to keep running to escape.

In his sight, Weinina's petite figure stumbled and disappeared down the street, and Zhang Jie turned his head to look at Weiniya.

At this moment, her gaze toward her own eyes was no longer as reliant as before; her reddened eyes were as cold and sharp as a leopard locking onto prey.

Zhang Jie didn't know whether Weiniya's current state was being controlled by a hacker or if it was the state of a Cyber Madman.

But he knew he needed to open the emergency device on Weiniya's spinal prosthetic to let her regain clarity.

Facing his only disciple, Zhang Jie sheathed his Han sword, extended his arm, assumed the starting posture of his fist technique, and beckoned to Weiniya with his hand.

Seeing Zhang Jie's strange posture, Weiniya tilted her head, looked at him, seemed to understand something, and slowly raised her mechanical sword toward him.

Looking at Weiniya's appearance, Zhang Jie slowly curled a smile.

He hadn't had a satisfying, unrestrained duel with Weiniya in a long time.

"Come, draw your sword; I've taught you."

Swish!

With a casual swing, the mechanical sword severed the nearby giant worm, and Weiniya raised a sickly grin, lifting her sword and charging at Zhang Jie.

"Good timing!"

Zhang Jie rushed forward, sidestepping the oncoming sword qi, deflected the thrust aimed at his face with a probing palm, followed up with his elbow, turned and struck Weiniya's cheek with a heavy swing of his fist.

But the opponent felt no fear of injury; after taking Zhang Jie's heavy, powerful blow, she merely tilted her head slightly, and her eerie smile grew brighter, not retreating at all as she madly attacked his incoming fists.

This fearless, injury-for-kill fighting style was very familiar to Zhang Jie—it was the way Weiniya fought before she learned martial arts, in the underground black market.

But ever since she learned martial arts, such a frenzied state had never appeared again.

Zhang Jie had thought he would never see Weiniya in that state again, but who would have guessed that when it reappeared, it was directed at himself.

The master and disciple's battle quickly drew the attention of nearby Cyber Madmen and other strange creatures, but anyone who dared to approach would be struck down by a blade qi or fist qi.

Their battle grew ever fiercer, sparks flying from every clash of fist and sword, spreading from the road into shops, then from shops onto rooftops, leaving not a single inch intact wherever they went.

In this frenzied state, Weiniya's learning ability was extraordinarily strong; having made a mistake once, she would not repeat it, and combined with her ever more wild fighting style, even Zhang Jie could feel a faint pressure.

In this frenzied state, Weiniya's learning ability was extraordinarily strong; having made a mistake once, she would not repeat it, and combined with her ever more wild fighting style, even Zhang Jie could feel a faint pressure.

"Teacher... are you teaching me?"

Unlike Weiniya's outward frenzy, at this moment her inner self could truly feel all of this.

Seeing the teacher before her, whose resistance was growing ever more difficult, Weiniya felt anxious and urgent.

"Teacher! Quickly draw your sword! Don't hold back on my account!"

Even if she were injured, Weiniya did not want the teacher to be hurt because of her.

But no matter how Weiniya shouted in her heart, Zhang Jie couldn't hear it; instead, a sense of pleasure welled up from deep within his own body.

Outside, Weiniya's smile grew ever brighter; she let out a mad laugh, her mechanical sword flashing wildly, its frenzied strikes on Zhang Jie's arm producing a clinking, clanking sound like striking metal.

"This kid! How can she get more excited the more she fights?!"

Zhang Jie muttered inwardly, and just then, that blow created a gap in his usually effortless defense; the frenzied Weiniya struck him in the chest with a palm, instantly launching him into the air.

The frenzied Weiniya's leg-augmented prosthetic suddenly exerted force, her form shooting toward the airborne, backward-flying Zhang Jie, and she thrust her sword forward.

Who would have thought, Zhang Jie's eyes narrowed, and at the moment the mechanical sword reached his chest he raised both palms, one in front and one behind, slamming them hard against the sword.

His entire body suffused with semi-golden qi and blood surged wildly, flowing from his meridians to his palms.

The sound of metal and gold breaking rang out, and the valuable mechanical sword, like brittle cast iron, snapped into three pieces in an instant.

The frenzied Weiniya froze, seemingly never imagining that such a hard mechanical sword could be cleaved by Zhang Jie in an instant; and just then he seized her and hurled her violently to the ground.

Boom!

The ground rang with a tremendous impact as the frenzied Weiniya hit the earth, dust flying everywhere.

And the next second, Weiniya, gripping the broken mechanical sword, charged at Zhang Jie.

"How can this kid be so tough to beat?!"

Zhang Jie couldn't help but sigh inwardly, and in his peripheral vision he glanced at the distant outer space where a huge, gaping maw loomed, furrowing his brow.

"We can't delay any longer..."

Having dodged the frenzied Weiniya's attack, Zhang Jie realized that he and Weiniya, through their continual fighting, had already come near the position of that giant cannon.

Not far off, the octopus-headed guardian that had been pierced by a giant mosquito had already been sucked dry into a husk, and its enormous head fell to the ground, splattering a large patch of white.

But Zhang Jie had no time to feel nauseous; he now had to quickly find the frenzied Weiniya's weakness and press the emergency device on the operating system (screwing out her battery).

The frenzied Weiniya still waved her broken sword, but her threat was nowhere near what it had been.

As Zhang Jie was looking for an opening, the frenzied Weiniya seemed to finally recall her Stanweistin, and her form vanished in an instant.

Zhang Jie instantly became alert, feeling the wind nearby, and he reached out to block a sword thrust aimed at his waist.

As Weiniya's optical camouflage activated, her every trace vanished from the surroundings.

The frenzied Weiniya thought Zhang Jie couldn't detect her, unaware that her every move lay within his sensory range.

So he deliberately exposed an opening...

"Teacher! Dodge quickly! Quickly!"

Weiniya kept shouting urgently in her heart, and the next moment...

Pfft!

The broken sword stabbed hard into Zhang Jie's chest, the broken blade protruding from behind, bringing out fresh blood.

Time... seemed to come to a complete standstill at this moment...

(There's still another chapter later, okay).