Chapter 28 Showing Affection

Park Hyun's eyes were filled with disbelief. He felt he had escaped quickly, traversing through the city's buildings. How could Xu Jingming have caught up to him in just a few seconds and delivered such a blow? Both his speed and control of the battlefield left Park Hyun feeling suffocated.

"Xu Jingming's pressure on me is far greater than the captain's. This battle is dangerous for the captain." At that moment, Park Hyun realized that even at the fourth-order limit, the gap between the captain and the three strongest players in the world could still be significant.

From afar, Li Wenxiu saw his teammate coming, but before he could offer any help, he witnessed Park Hyun being pierced through the chest by a stone, turning into a virtual form before disappearing.

Seeing the fleeting figure in the distance, Li Wenxiu shouted, "Xu Jingming, do you dare to fight?"

"Xu Jingming, are you afraid?"

Li Wenxiu shouted again.

But Xu Jingming had already left to reunite with his wife. The purpose of this battle was to please her. Who cared about Li Wenxiu?

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"Miao Miao, let's go together." Xu Jingming and Li Miaomiao were both dressed in modern sportswear, relaxed and at ease, each holding a sword! They surrounded and attacked a Silla team member.

"Xu Jingming needs to gang up to deal with me?" The team member was somewhat dumbfounded, cautiously blocking with a shield in one hand and an axe in the other. However, Xu Jingming and Li Miaomiao were very agile, their sword lights flashing like illusions.

Clang!

"Not good." The Silla team member tried his best to block, finally managing to narrowly deflect Xu Jingming's sword.

Poof! Another sword flashed, piercing the team member's neck.

The Silla team member's body turned into a virtual form.

"Won," Li Miaomiao said happily.

"Nice," Xu Jingming said. "Good timing. Let's go find the next one!"

"You're just creating opportunities for me. I can't defeat these Silla experts one-on-one," Li Miaomiao said.

"Being able to seize opportunities is also a skill," Xu Jingming said with a smile. Of course, he was deliberately creating openings for the enemy! His swordsmanship was indeed strong. Because he only used one method when wielding a sword—thrusting!

Holding the sword in one hand and thrusting!

It should be known that Xu Jingming's Hua Hong spear technique was all about thrusting. Two-handed thrusts, one-handed thrusts, backhanded thrusts, combo thrusts… all kinds of thrusting methods. Thrusting with a one-handed sword was similar to thrusting with a one-handed spear.

Strictly speaking, the sword was lighter and could thrust even faster. It was just shorter and weaker!

But if Xu Jingming used a spear, he would have a combat strength of more than 370,000. Holding a sword, he could at least display more than 200,000 combat strength.

Most importantly… his wife also used a sword. It was more interesting for the couple to use swords together.

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"What is Xu Jingming doing?" In the Xia country's official live broadcast room, the male guest, Jin Fan, pointed at the screen. "He and his wife, Li Miaomiao, are wearing the same modern sportswear and using single-handed swords! And they are fighting together? He can't kill his opponent with one strike; Li Miaomiao, on the other hand, killed the opponent?"

"They're just showing off their affection!"

"A combination of swords, a couple joining hands to kill enemies?"

"It's true; Li Miaomiao killed the two opponents they encountered."

Countless viewers felt the ease and joy of the Xu Jingming couple.

"In any case, it's a team led by Li Wenxiu, the number one in Silla. Shouldn't they be more serious? Wearing matching outfits, using swords, accompanying his wife… If they lose, they will be on the pillar of shame."

"Silla only has Li Wenxiu left."

"Xu Jingming shouldn't be fighting Li Wenxiu with his wife, letting his wife kill Li Wenxiu, right?"

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Inside the modern city map, the Silla side indeed only had Li Wenxiu left.

Xu Jingming first killed the archer alone. Wang Yi and Dai Xiaoqing joined forces to eliminate a fourth-order expert from Silla. The two third-order limit experts were both killed by Xu Jingming and Li Miaomiao together.

"Xu Jingming, you are too disrespectful to this battle." Li Wenxiu stood in the middle of the street, his face filled with anger. "I hope you have the dignity of a martial artist and can fight me fairly one-on-one."

"Alright."

Xu Jingming nodded with a smile and said to his wife beside him, "Wife, please watch from the side."

Li Miaomiao nodded and stood aside. Dai Xiaoqing, Wang Yi, and Sister Kong also gathered there.

Li Wenxiu was invigorated to see this. This Xu Jingming was willing to duel him one-on-one.

"Not wearing armor and even using a sword? If you lose, you can only blame yourself, Xu Jingming, for being too arrogant!" Li Wenxiu thought to himself.

"Please."

Xu Jingming stood in the middle of the street and said politely.

"Be careful."

Li Wenxiu said, and then he moved.

Having reached the fourth-order limit, Li Wenxiu did have the strength to be confident. His movements turned into ghostly illusions, and his top speed could reach 183 meters per second. As he rushed at super speed, he suddenly threw out flying knives.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh… Three flying knives were thrown from his left hand and three from his right, each flying knife as fast as lightning, enveloping Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming only took one step, and the six flying knives brushed past Xu Jingming's waist and head. It seemed dangerous, but none of the six flying knives touched Xu Jingming.

"What." Li Wenxiu was shocked. His flying knife technique was his ultimate move. Six flying knives covered many spaces at close range, and it should have been too difficult to dodge. However, Xu Jingming saw through the flaws in the area covered by the six flying knives with one glance and only took one step to make all six flying knives miss.

Failing with the flying knives, Li Wenxiu's eyes became even colder.

"Double yue against a single sword; I have the advantage in weapons." Li Wenxiu instantly held weapons in his left and right hands. They were Bagua Ziwu Yuanyang Yue (Bagua Meridian Mandarin Duck Halberds). The Bagua Yue had four tips and nine blades. The combination of the two yue was a very powerful close-combat weapon that could defend, block enemy weapons, kill enemies… and was unpredictable in close combat.

Whoosh.

Li Wenxiu attacked like a ghost, and the Bagua double yue also enveloped him at the same time.

Xu Jingming stood still. At the moment the opponent approached, he suddenly took a step forward and thrust out the longsword in his hand!

Stepping thrust!

It was like a stepping one-handed spear thrust!

After reaching the cellular control level, Xu Jingming's control over his body's strength, speed, and agility reached an extremely precise level. Because his control was so precise and meticulous, his combat strength increased so much when he broke through to the fifth order.

The moment Xu Jingming stepped forward, he happened to catch Li Wenxiu at the moment he exerted his force.

"Not good!" Li Wenxiu had just exerted his force and couldn't change his movements in time. He could only instinctively wave the Bagua double yue to try to close off the area in front of him as much as possible. Because he knew very well how fast a 'stepping thrust' was! It would be too late to defend after seeing Xu Jingming's thrust.

In fact, the best method was to change his body shape and assist with weapon defense, but his body could not change in time at the moment, so he could only rely on the double yue to resist.

"Chih!"

A lightning-fast thrust! Grazing the Bagua Yue, it pierced into Li Wenxiu's vital heart.

Li Wenxiu's eyes widened: "How is this possible…" Looking at the hole in his chest, his body gradually becoming illusory, Li Wenxiu still couldn't believe that he would be killed by Xu Jingming with one strike. After piercing Li Wenxiu's heart with one strike, Xu Jingming stood with his sword.

Wang Yi, Dai Xiaoqing, Sister Kong, and Li Miaomiao were all dumbfounded. Even though she knew her husband had broken through to the fifth order, Li Miaomiao still found the scene in front of her unbelievable. Because Xu Jingming's stepping thrust felt as fast as Li Wenxiu's speed.

But it was a one-hit kill!

"Just one sword?" Wang Yi couldn't believe it. "That's Li Wenxiu, a fourth-order limit! He fought back and forth with Miyagawa Akari and Merritt. Did he lose his life with one sword?"

"This is outrageous." Dai Xiaoqing blinked her eyes. "Senior Brother is too outrageous."

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"Outrageous." On the Xia country side, male guest Jin Fan also said these two words.

"One sword? I don't understand?" Host Liu Xin blinked her eyes.

"Not to mention you, I don't understand either. Li Wenxiu is also a fourth-order limit expert. How did he die with one sword?" Jin Fan said, "Let's watch the slow motion first."

Countless Xia country people were puzzled and confused, carefully watching the slow motion of that one sword.

In the slow motion…

Although Li Wenxiu's figure was slowed down a lot, he was still very agile. When he rushed close to Xu Jingming, he was already about to pounce!

At this moment, Xu Jingming took a step forward! This step put Li Wenxiu into Xu Jingming's longsword attack range. However, Li Wenxiu's Bagua double yue could not reach Xu Jingming.

"Look!" Male guest Jin Fan finally understood in the slow-motion replay of the key exchange. He pointed and said, "Generally, masters step and thrust! The step and the thrust occur at the same time! This is the fastest. But Xu Jingming didn't… When he stepped forward, the sword in his hand seemed to thrust, but in reality, it paused for a moment."

"It was just this pause!" Jin Fan exclaimed, "Li Wenxiu could not change his body shape in time and instinctively waved the Bagua double yue. Xu Jingming paused for a moment and then thrust! The Bagua double yue was waved too early! This thrust was as fast as lightning, and it happened to follow the edge of the Bagua double yue, piercing into Li Wenxiu's heart."

Jin Fan said in disbelief: "Other people's stepping thrust is a swift strike. Xu Jingming is like a seasoned hunter, pausing slightly to find a momentary opportunity to kill his opponent."

"He can still precisely control the battle at this level?" Jin Fan still couldn't believe it.

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"His speed is not faster than our Li Wenxiu! The speed of his thrust is also normal! But why can he find a momentary flaw to kill Li Wenxiu?" The male and female hosts of Silla also couldn't understand.

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"His grasp of space and control of time are simply incredible!" The Sakura country hosts also exclaimed, "Xu Jingming's combat strength must be outrageously high. Miyagawa's combat strength is 65%, and Xu Jingming's is probably 120%!"

"Turning something rotten into something magical! With this kind of combat ability, even with the same strength and speed, he can still kill with one move. As expected of Xu Jingming!"

…

After the slow-motion replay analysis, the official live broadcast rooms of various countries were all amazed by Xu Jingming's combat ability.

If Li Wenxiu was a fool, then Xu Jingming was a grandmaster. The combat skill difference between the two sides was too great.

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Xu Jingming didn't care about the outside world's discussions. He had tried his best to control and restrain himself, and his strength and speed were not fast! But there was nothing he could do. He now had too much control over his body. Li Wenxiu was like a target rushing in front of him. He only needed to follow the enemy's flaws and thrust his sword in.

"You don't have to accompany me in the global skirmishes anymore. Everyone is saying that you are just showing affection with your wife." Although Li Miaomiao felt that the global discussions were a bit much, she was happy in her heart. But she still asked Xu Jingming not to participate in the global skirmishes with her anymore.

Her husband's strength was too much of a bully.

"I'll listen to you." Xu Jingming was very obedient. "Miao Miao, I'll go cultivate for a while first."

"Your cultivation is the most important thing," Li Miaomiao also said.

…

After Xu Jingming accompanied his wife in a global skirmish, he returned to his personal training ground and began his own cultivation.

As usual, he began to practice the Heavenly Python Evolution Method over and over again!

This was practicing the evolution method from the level of controlling 'cells', trying again and again. In the past few days, his footwork had broken through to the fifth order, but the Heavenly Python Evolution Method had not broken through.

"Hu."

Practicing the Heavenly Python Evolution Method one move at a time, Xu Jingming felt as if he was gradually becoming a Heavenly Python! Between movements, it was not just the perfect mobilization of muscle bundles but also the beginning of cellular mobilization.

Like a Heavenly Python, sometimes soaring, sometimes crouching, sometimes swimming, the power flowed and ran through his whole body, becoming more and more perfect.

In fact, after his spearmanship reached the fifth order, he felt different every time he practiced the evolution method. However, in the virtual world panel's judgment, he had always been at 99% super-order.

"Hua—"

Xu Jingming suddenly felt much smoother throughout his body. For a time, he felt that his whole body was perfect and there was no imperfection anywhere.

Cellular-level control, perfect body mobilization, and the Heavenly Python Evolution Method operated flawlessly.

"Boom!"

He only felt that every cell was boiling, becoming hungry, and beginning to absorb energy. In the virtual world, the body could be supplied with infinite energy, and the cells were growing naturally.

Xu Jingming still finished practicing the evolution method once before looking at his personal combat panel.

As expected, the gene evolution method column, "《Heavenly Python Evolution Method》Super-order 99%" had been transformed into "《Heavenly Python Evolution Method》Perfect."

There was no percentage. Perfect represented the ultimate of a planetary life!