Chapter 1 An-

"Ah!"

Amidst shock and anger, Xiximan let out a furious roar, his Dou Qi (battle energy) blazing.

When a person (or rabbit) is driven to desperation, the first thing they turn to is often the power they rely on the most.

Appearance, intelligence, luck, faith… everyone has something they firmly believe in.

And what Xiximan was most skilled at and trusted in during his life... was undoubtedly violence.

"Changmao Heyi Xun Zhan (Long Fur Crane Wing Swift Slash)!"

After a loud shout, the ultimate move was unleashed.

As a Boss-level NPC, Xiximan's moves were naturally extraordinary. Regardless of speed, power, or technique… they could be considered to be at the level of an S-class skill.

Ruo Yu didn't let her guard down in the slightest; she immediately used [Limit Efficiency], bringing her physical skills to their highest state, and coordinating with the [Perception Preemption]'s prediction, she activated the fourth layer effect of the Mingyu Gong (Bright Jade Skill), [Ling Feng Ta Lang, Yi Bu Cheng Ying] (Treading on the Wind and Waves, Moving Steps Become Shadows).

In close combat, the most brilliant means of dodging is not to maximize the distance from the enemy's attack, but to invalidate the opponent's attack with the smallest movement, and to adjust oneself to a posture that can cope with the enemy's next move in the shortest amount of time.

Ultimately, it emphasizes the three words: "fast, skillful, and agile."

And the dodge that Ruo Yu made at this moment almost brought this concept to its extreme.

Compared with Feng Bujue's bizarre and extreme dodging posture, Ruo Yu's movements seemed incredibly relaxed, even elegant…

In the eyes of others, she only moved half a step at a speed that wasn't considered fast, but in Xiximan's eyes… the realm beyond this half-step was like an insurmountable chasm.

It was this half-step that extinguished Xiximan's fighting spirit in an instant.

It was this half-step that plunged Xiximan into despair before his moves were exhausted.

It was this half-step that made Xiximan think—being killed by such an expert might be a kind of luck, a kind of honor…

Hiss—

After dodging, what followed was a backhanded sword strike.

The blade was like a breeze, gently brushing across Xiximan's neck.

Then, the sprayed blood… made a rustling sound like wind blowing through wheat.

This sword came too fast…

Too fast for the dead to feel pain.

Too fast for the dead to experience death.

This was a kind of mercy, and also a kind of cruelty.

Shasha sha…

Blood was still sprinkling.

The sword, however, had already been sheathed.

In this silent scene, countless thoughts flashed through the mind of the dying person (rabbit)…

He still had regrets, still had remorse, he looked back on his life and found that he couldn't stand up straight and say that he had no regrets.

The material possessions obtained through plunder and enslavement, the status gained from the massacre of the weak… nothing could fill the void, but instead made his life more empty and hateful.

In the end, the only thing he was proud of… his self-respect as a martial artist, turned into tears in this remorse, and fell suddenly.

Poof—

After a soft sound, Xiximan, the Siming Xingjun (Star Lord of Fate), one of the six Heavenly Officials of the Long Fur clan, fell on the sand.

No last words, no struggle, the huge body only raised some dust in the end, and the bright red blood slowly stained the desert beneath him.

"Damn it…" Seeing this, Crossing for Kingship, who had already lost his will to fight, cursed in his heart and turned to run.

At this moment, he used all his potential, tried his best, and ran away at a speed far exceeding the top speed of a motorcycle, towards the fortress…

Although he knew that the chance of successfully escaping was very slim, it was better than staying and confronting the opponent in front of him.

"Hmph…" Watching the other party's retreating figure, Ruo Yu snorted coldly and ignored him.

She just calmly turned around and walked back to the village.

"Do you want me to take care of him?" When she arrived at the entrance of the village, Xiao Ling, who was hiding behind the sniper point, was still holding the sniper rifle in her hand, aiming at a black dot in the distant desert.

"There's no need, right?" Ruo Yu replied, "Let's try to follow Bujue's intentions as much as possible."

"Um…" Xiao Ling thought for a few seconds, "Okay…" she said, exhaling, revealing a relaxed expression, and no longer posing in a sniping stance.

Ruo Yu's decision was naturally not a whim, but because Feng Bujue had given instructions in advance for similar situations… the original words were, "If the other party chooses to escape when they see the situation is not good, letting them go back might be better than killing them."

…………

At the same time, in the treasure cave.

"Good! Who's afraid of who!" Wang Tanzhi widened his eyes and shouted in a pig-killing-like voice, "It's just ten moves! I'm not afraid! Ah—"

"Why do I feel like you're about to cry…" Feng Bujue, who was standing aside, stared with dead fish eyes and complained in a very lazy expression.

"You shut up!" Xiao Tan turned his head and roared at Brother Jue again, "I'm afraid of myself when I go crazy!"

"Are you preparing to put yourself in some kind of mental limit to awaken your inner personality?" Feng Bujue saw through Xiao Tan's thoughts at a glance, and said with narrowed eyes, "Personally, I think… with your personality, this kind of rational self-guided approach is not suitable, you should just follow your feelings…"

"Hehe… this little brother Wang Tanzhi…" Tu Fage (Rabbit Bro Fa), who was on the other side, also smiled and advised, "You don't need to be so nervous, although I won't show mercy, but in the end… the starting point of this trial is not to kill people, it's just a pure strength test." As he spoke, he began to twist his fingers, making crackling sounds from the joints, "Blackbeard doesn't want those precious treasures to fall into the hands of the incompetent, so he set this rule. I believe… you, who are regarded as a partner by Mr. Feng, are definitely not an ordinary person, these ten moves of mine… you will definitely be able to handle them."

"Alright! You don't need to say anymore!" Xiao Tan was still in a very excited state, "Come on!"

"Okay." Tu Fage finished twisting his fingers and got into position, "Watch carefully… the first move!"

As soon as the words fell, the figure moved.

The rabbit star's fists instantly turned into two, then ten, then a hundred, as the saying goes, the shadows of the fists rise layer upon layer, and the Dou Qi pours down torrentially.

The move "Duanmao Bailiequan (Short Fur Hundred Fists Rend)," arrived in the blink of an eye.

The same move, when used by Tu Fage, was several times more ferocious than when used by that Kaka Lu the Great.

For Xiao Tan, who follows an agility-type route, this kind of move can't be resisted head-on, he must dodge…

For a time, the shadows of the fists were as fast as lightning, and the figure was faster than a shooting star.

Xiao Tan was fully focused, put everything on the line, and relied on his basic physical skills to dodge and move, and was unharmed in this first move.

"Heh… this kid…" Seeing this, Feng Bujue smiled secretly in his heart, "Even he doesn't realize how terrifying his strength is… if he gets serious, it's really hard to imagine…"

"Ha! As expected!" When Tu Fage saw Xiao Tan's reaction, he immediately showed a very excited expression, and shouted again, "Duanmao Gang Zhang Bo (Short Fur Iron Palm Wave)!"

This time, he pushed out with one hand, and a ranged Qi Gong wave, like a mad cow rushing out of its pen, roared.

Xiao Tan also had a wealth of experience in dealing with this kind of attack. As soon as he saw the other party raise his hand, he immediately did a hacker-style backbend, stretching his upper body straight and parallel to the ground just as the wave attacked… relatively calmly avoiding this second move.

"Little brother, don't just focus on getting beaten…" Tu Fage was, after all, a boxing master of a sect, and was frank (for a rabbit). Before making the third move, he didn't forget to remind the other party, "You can also fight back!"

"Then I will…" Xiao Tan didn't stand on ceremony with the other party. Before Bro Fa finished speaking, he used a very concealed action to launch a sleeve arrow at the other party, "…it's better to be impolite than to decline!"

"Hehe…" When Xiao Tan's words reached Tu Fage's ears, the sleeve arrow had already flown in front of the latter, but Bro Fa smiled calmly, raised his hand and clamped, "Er Zhi Zhenkong Ba (Two Finger Vacuum Grip)!"

As one of the defensive ultimate skills of the Bei Dou Shen… uh… no… of the Short Fur Divine Fist, the principle of the Er Zhi Zhenkong Ba is… to accurately clamp the flying knife or arrow shot at oneself at high speed with two fingers, and then rotate the wrist to turn the flying projectile one hundred and eighty degrees, shooting it along its original trajectory towards the releaser.

So… hidden weapons like sleeve arrows are useless to boxers of Bro Fa's level. If an ordinary person used this to attack him, they would only be courting death.

Fortunately… Xiao Tan is not an ordinary person either. Although he couldn't clamp the hidden weapon like his opponent, it was still no problem for him to deflect the returning sleeve arrow with his reaction speed.

Ding—

Accompanied by a crisp sound, the Assassin's Edge on Xiao Tan's wrist popped out.

The sleeve sword on the same piece of equipment (Altair's Touch) blocked the sleeve arrow that he himself had fired, thus taking the "third move".

"That's right! Little brother." Tu Fage smiled, "As long as you can force me to use defensive moves, you can reduce the number of offensive moves I use."

"Then you have to be careful…" Xiao Tan's expression turned cold, and he rushed in front of his opponent with quick steps, using a military thorn (Energy Storage Triangular Military Thorn) and a fist blade (Feline's Fury) at the same time, aiming straight for Bro Fa's ribs.

"Ah… I will." Tu Fage still responded calmly, and used the fourth move, "Hmph… Duanmao Gang Lie Ba (Short Fur Iron Rend Grip)!"

It was said to be slow, but it was fast. Bro Fa used three fingers (thumb, index finger, and middle finger) on each hand, using a gesture like holding chopsticks… to catch Xiao Tan's two weapons respectively.

"Hehe… it's not that I want to say this, little brother…" Tu Fage said, while adding force to his fingers, "With your ability, how can these ordinary metals be used?" Having said that, he actually used those few fingers to crush Xiao Tan's two weapons.

"Hey—" This time, Xiao Tan really felt like crying. These two were also excellent-grade weapons, but they were actually destroyed by this NPC while talking and laughing, "Bro Fa! That's not very kind! Just fight, why dismantle my weap…"

Tu Fage didn't let him finish his words: "I said it's ordinary metal, what's there to feel sorry for!" He shouted loudly, shook off the metal fragments on his hand, and then launched another move, "Watch this! Duanmao Shizi Zhan (Short Fur Cross Slash)!"

Although he shouted "Slash", what he unleashed was a fist… a continuous fist that targeted the torso in a cross attack. The frequency of this move wasn't high, and it didn't look fast, but its fist power was more concentrated and dangerous than the previous Hundred Fists Rend.

"Whoa~ This is only the fifth move… and it's already at this level of attack…" Feng Bujue watched from the side, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat for Xiao Tan.

And Xiao Tan, on this side, quickly recovered from the shock of having his two weapons destroyed, and reacted to the current dangerous situation…

"Um… with this distance and body stance… it's very difficult to dodge with pure physical skills…" His mind raced, using his keen combat sense to find an opportunity, "But using [Dance of the Dead] here is obviously not worthwhile… then…"

Since he had to use a skill, then he had to use it in a valuable way.

In the next second, Xiao Tan didn't retreat but advanced, using the move [Demon Bat Phantom] to dash directly behind his opponent. At the same time, he also left a trick, and launched [The Wind Stops, the Fragrance of the Flowers Fades] in the instant of leaning forward, as a kind of interference.

Sure enough, when Bro Fa's fist landed on the afterimage, his movements and expression were obviously stagnant.

"Heh… not bad." Tu Fage was indeed powerful, he almost instinctively guessed what Xiao Tan had done…

"Watda!" In this instant, Tu Fage made the first "Bruce Lee-style" roar in this battle, and used a action with no sense of incongruity to turn around and kick out a broad-legged straight kick towards his back, "Jiaoshou Potou Quan (Head Cutting Fist)!"

This time, although he shouted "Fist", what he used was essentially a kick. But the name wasn't important, as long as it worked.

However… this attack didn't achieve the effect that Bro Fa expected.

Because Xiao Tan had also guessed that the other party was fully capable of seeing through his actions and using a counterattack move. So… before that kick came over, Xiao Tan had already prepared the [Titanium Alloy Jinhua Ham], ready to withstand this blow at any time.

Immediately afterwards, there was a "bang" sound…

The foot kicked the shield, but it made a muffled sound like a car crash.

"I'll go…" After the collision, Wang Tanzhi's whole body tightened, his Qi and blood surged, and the hand holding the shield involuntarily let go, and the [Titanium Alloy Jinhua Ham] also shattered into three pieces after falling to the ground.

"This won't do, little brother." Tu Fage landed on the ground, hopping around and said, "These ordinary metals you use… are vulnerable to true Dou Qi."

As he said this, Xiao Tan was still retreating due to the remaining force of the kick just now, and only barely stood firm after the other party finished speaking: "Alright… you don't need to emphasize it to me again, I've already seen it…"

"Hahahaha…" Feng Bujue laughed gloatingly at this time, "Don't feel bad~ If the old doesn't go, the new won't come."

"Huff…" Xiao Tan shook his head, exhaling helplessly.

Now that things have come to this, he really has nothing to feel sorry for. It's like… one day, your phone breaks, you will definitely be quite depressed; but if your phone, camera, laptop, and so on are all smashed on this day, then by the time the last thing breaks, you will be more calm…

"In short…" Xiao Tan straightened his expression and stared at Tu Fage, "…there are still four moves, let's get them over with!"