Chapter 9: The Shocking Small Thousand World (8)
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The takeover of Thousand Bird City was news that many in Deficient Moon Valley had already heard. But for those who had long been proud to be part of one of the Seven Great Immortal Sects, it was hard for them to see the rising Extermination of Immortals as an organization on the same level as Deficient Moon Valley.
The success of Extermination of Immortals was largely due to luck.
For example, Thousand Bird City made a blunder, and Li Ying Tian had one too many drinks that day, which allowed Extermination of Immortals to take advantage and seize control of Thousand Bird City in one fell swoop.
Humans are that foolish; no matter how history is recorded, they’ll still make the same mistakes.
Only when disaster befalls them do they understand the price of arrogance.
As soon as the competition command from Liang Shan was issued,
the figure of Zhu Ying, the Valley Master of Deficient Moon Valley, vanished from everyone’s sight.
Cheers erupted around her.
“This is the supreme invisibility assassination technique! Only the Valley Master can master it completely in Deficient Moon Valley.”
“Seeing the Valley Master unleash her ultimate skill today truly feels like a once-in-a-lifetime blessing!”
“Who is this wild woman daring to challenge our Valley Master? Doesn’t she know when she’s beat?”
“It’s a pity, such a refined woman about to become fertilizer for Deficient Moon Valley’s soil.”
As a judge, Liang Shan was notably excited.
The supreme invisibility assassination technique was incredibly difficult to cultivate.
After all, once mastered, it allowed the wielder to hide without a trace, regardless of day or night or even the most complex weather.
Honestly, no one could be prepared for such a killer day and night.
At that moment, Lin Nan was nearly regarded as a goner in everyone’s eyes; her life and d*ath depended entirely on how much mercy the Valley Master would show.
Even scarier was the fact that not only was she invisible, but even her weapon had also vanished.
At that moment, the calmness of the Black-Clothed Woman seemed to others like a dazed helplessness.
Even Liang Shan shook his head.
Maybe this Black-Clothed Woman was pretty formidable, but against a powerhouse like the Valley Master, all she could do was bow her head and admit defeat.
Seeing as she had kindly bought food for the refugees, he felt compelled to advise her to give up sooner rather than later.
“Miss…”
He had only managed to utter two words when the Black-Clothed Woman suddenly bent at the waist, planted her hands on the ground, and shot straight up from the ground.
A few strands of hair came loose during the process and gently floated down.
People gasped,
and it was only then they realized that the Valley Master had made her move.
Yet this Black-Clothed Woman seemed to have foreseen it, narrowly dodging the Valley Master’s lethal attack at the last moment.
However, this also indicated that the Valley Master had not fully committed to the k*ll, but rather offered the woman a chance.
Otherwise, what had fallen would not be hair but her head!
The crowd began to shout.
“Miss, you should just surrender!”
“Yeah, the Valley Master clearly showed mercy; is it worth it to keep holding on like this?”
“Since it’s only a light tap, come on, admit you’ve lost!”
Liang Shan was puzzled,
by rights, with a few strands of hair cut off, the Black-Clothed Woman should be conceding.
After all, once the Valley Master unleashed her assassination technique, even the leaders of other sects couldn’t counter it in a short time, let alone the leader of a small organization.
If she kept struggling, once the Valley Master was in prime assassination mode, it would likely lead to unavoidable casualties.
Suddenly, snowflakes began to drift down from the sky,
and the onlookers were taken aback.
Could it be that this accursed winter was finally delivering snow?
But upon closer inspection, the snow only fell above the training ground, and the density was so high that those on one end could barely see what lay across the field.
What the heck was going on?
Could it be this girl had the ability to control the weather?
But what good would that do?
Did she think that in her desperation, she could trap the Valley Master in this icy blizzard?
She would need snow to pile for seven days and nights, completely burying the training ground, with the Valley Master stuck there for her plan to work, right?
The crowd couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Miss, just making it snow isn’t enough; how about throwing in an ice storm or something?”
“Yeah, or rain might work. Maybe in your pitiful soaked state, we’ll petition the Valley Master for you.”
“Haha, this is hilarious. Just go home already and stop embarrassing yourself here!”
But in the next second, as laughter echoed about,
their dropped jaws refused to close.
Even if they had previously been clueless as to the significance of the sudden snowfall, when they saw the two figures mill about in a flash and the patch of dark red appearing on the ground covered in snow,
they realized what the snowflakes were truly for.
The Black-Clothed Woman proudly sheathed her long sword, a droplet of bl**d trickling from the tip into the white snow, creating a small red pool.
Behind her, a figure slowly manifested, wobbling as if the screen of a broken black-and-white TV.
Zhu Ying had a gash across her shoulder, bl**d pouring down her arm, and she gazed at Lin Nan, astonishment and shock filling her eyes.
“Valley Master! Are you alright?!”
The onlookers instantly surrounded her, weapons drawn, and Liang Shan appeared gravely on guard.
d*mn, she actually dared to injure their Valley Master!
This was a provocation to all of Deficient Moon Valley!
“Put down your weapons! Losing is just losing; I’ll own up to it!”
Lin Nan turned, and with the swirl of her black skirt and the flutter of her hair, the snow overhead gradually quieted.
Liang Shan felt a shiver run down his spine and instinctively stepped back in the face of her frosty gaze.
Though the snow seemed useless, it was incredibly strategic.
Zhu Ying was invisible but not entirely gone; her figure remained in the training field, just shrouded to the eyes of others.
When the training ground was previously empty, predicting her moves was nearly impossible.
During Zhu Ying’s first attack, Lin Nan didn’t sense the killing intent until the last moment.
She had no doubt that the damned Valley Master intended to use this supposed match to cut her down in Deficient Moon Valley.
Zhu Ying had the motive.
Lin Nan decided to stop holding back and unleashed the heavy snowfall,
Any motion from Zhu Ying would alter the flight path of the nearby snowflakes.
Under the blanket of snow, invisibility lost all its advantage.
She had initially planned to slay Zhu Ying with a strike, paying her back with her own evil.
If not for the refugees outside who needed grain and the fact that she couldn’t stay there forever, she would have left the Valley Master without a shred of life.
At that moment, everyone looked at Lin Nan differently.
They never imagined the Valley Master’s assassination technique could lose; such a profound skill was crushed to worthless dirt by a simple trick from the opponent.
“You’re quite clever!”
Lin Nan clapped her hands, and suddenly, four figures in black garb leaped into view, kneeling before her.
“If I had taken even a scratch, Deficient Moon Valley would have been wiped out!”
No sooner had she finished speaking than, to the terrified eyes of the Deficient Moon Valley crowd, those four black-clad figures simultaneously vanished, completely melding into their surroundings.
