The Le family members were full of doubts, but they weren't in a hurry. They were all waiting for Le Youran to finish, once it ended, they could ask questions and naturally all doubts would be resolved.
They believed this battle should end soon. They all felt Le Youran hadn't released her full strength yet, if she did, she would win easily!
Guxing was still far behind her.
"Strange, I've heard that Le Youran's talent is very strong and she's almost reached the peak of King level. Why can't I see her having such strong power now? Were the rumors wrong?" Nangong Suxin was somewhat puzzled.
"Maybe Seventh Sister is relatively strong. We've never seen Seventh Sister truly release her full power," the Young Miss said casually, though her slightly furrowed brow also indicated she was considering this matter.
"That's true. I originally thought I had already overestimated Guxing quite highly, but now it seems I still underestimated her," Nangong Suxin nodded.
"Mm! Miss Guxing is very strong!" Third Miss nodded.
"??" Xiaoyao looked at Third Miss with some confusion, seeming to sense something was wrong, but couldn't figure out what it was, so he stopped talking.
At this moment, everyone was watching the duel between the two people in the courtyard. Such duels were already rare, and even rarer was that these two had relatively similar strength, and both were already at King level!
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"Boom!"
Le Youran's punch missed and struck the ground, immediately raising a cloud of dust.
If not for the sound of Le Youran's attack, perhaps others wouldn't even know a battle was taking place, because Guxing's fighting style made many people feel it was very strange. Whether sword techniques or movement arts, she took the agile route. Agile to the point of seeming ethereal.
But if you thought this agility lacked power, you'd be wrong. The sword marks on the ground were quite shocking.
"What... what sword technique is this exactly?"
Even the well-informed Le family elders knew nothing about Guxing's sword technique, let alone Le Youran. She discovered that aside from her advantage in strength, she had no advantages in other aspects.
However, Le Youran was indeed a genius. Under such circumstances, she didn't try to close the gap in other areas like some people would, but instead pushed her strengths to the extreme, using her strength advantage to suppress Guxing.
This was undoubtedly the right thing to do, otherwise she would quickly be defeated, rather than the current situation where she was going toe-to-toe with Guxing and even held a slight advantage.
Being weaker than her opponent, Guxing also didn't panic. She attacked and defended sword strike by sword strike, with strange moves frequently appearing, allowing her to remain undefeated despite being several small realms behind.
Now Le Youran had come to understand Xiaoyao's point. This time, she knew she had done the right thing, this was extremely helpful to her. She could already faintly feel she was about to break through.
Le Youran also understood this wasn't merely because their strengths were equal - more importantly, Guxing's sword technique had given her great enlightenment. Without this unique sword technique, she felt she couldn't have had the feeling of breakthrough so quickly.
At the same time, she began to carefully consider Xiaoyao's words. If she had been much stronger than Guxing, would she have paid careful attention to Guxing's sword technique? Or rather, could Guxing's sword technique have been displayed to this degree?
If she thought carefully about this question, it seemed that lacking any one element wouldn't have achieved this effect. The person who created these conditions was a little servant she had captured, how ironic!!
What purpose did this little servant have? Why was he helping her? Oh right, he had said earlier that he wanted to help his boss.
That is, Guxing.
Guxing also needed stimulation to accelerate her breakthrough.
But this Guxing wasn't even twenty years old yet and had already reached this terrifying realm. Did he still want to stimulate her to become Emperor level before twenty?
If that were really the case, the entire world would be shaken, because throughout history, even the most talented people, including the previous Sword God, had never become Emperor level before twenty.
That would be a mythical existence...
Impossible, this was absolutely impossible.
Le Youran finally dismissed her thoughts and devoted herself wholeheartedly to the battle, comprehending what she wanted. How others were doing was none of her business.
When others became Emperor level at what age wasn't her concern, the most important thing was when she herself would become Emperor level.
"Clang!"
Le Youran struck Guxing's sword spine with a punch, then punched toward Guxing. The shaken Guxing seemed about to be hit, appearing to have no power to fight back. But just then, Guxing's left hand made an incredible change, meeting Le Youran's fist with a palm strike.
Although this palm blocked Le Youran's fist, the fist force wasn't blocked and penetrated through, causing Guxing to spit blood and fly backward.
But Guxing performed a turning movement while flying backward. Though somewhat disheveled, she still landed steadily and could still use her sword techniques!
Guxing made a slight downward pressing motion, and Xiaoyao understood she still wanted to continue fighting...
"Stop!!" Xiaoyao immediately shouted.
Stop? How could they stop now, just when it was getting most exciting!!
The Le family members wanted to see Le Youran completely defeat Guxing, so this small victory wasn't satisfying enough. From their understanding of Le Youran, they felt she couldn't possibly stop.
Because Le Youran was the type who wouldn't give up until achieving her goal, and she also liked to be thorough. If she wanted to step on someone, she would definitely step them down completely. If she wanted victory, she would definitely beat the person badly before stopping!
Perhaps because of this, she learned violent boxing techniques, she liked the feeling of fist meeting flesh!!
Therefore, this current level was still far from enough.
Not only did the Le family members think this way, even Nangong Suxin thought the same.
That Le Youran wouldn't listen to Xiaoyao. She had heard about Le Youran being an absolutely tsundere, strong woman who wouldn't even listen to her family, let alone Xiaoyao.
Because of this, Nangong Suxin felt Xiaoyao's "stop" was wrong, completely wrong, because Le Youran wouldn't listen, but Guxing definitely would. Although Guxing was Xiaoyao's boss, conversely she listened to him more than he listened to her.
Sure enough, after hearing Xiaoyao's words, Guxing immediately stopped her movements. Even when facing a dangerous opponent, she didn't doubt Xiaoyao's words at all.
Regarding this action, Nangong Suxin could only shake her head, not knowing how to describe her current feelings. But soon she no longer had this feeling, because it was immediately replaced by other emotions!
These replacement emotions were surprise, astonishment, disbelief...
Not only Nangong Suxin, but everyone else showed the same expressions, even more complex ones, because they all saw something they couldn't believe.
Le Youran had also stopped. She had also listened to Xiaoyao's words, stopping directly without doubt!
Even Le Youran herself couldn't believe this, why had she stopped without even thinking about it?
However, Le Youran didn't think much about it. Understanding Xiaoyao's meaning, she said, "The current you is not my opponent yet. Come find me again when you've healed your injuries and become stronger. As long as you can defeat me, I'll release him!"
"??" The Le family members were somewhat confused. What was Youran singing today? Why didn't she continue? And she was letting people continue to challenge her?
Also, who was this person to be released? Regardless of who it was, this person should be the cause of the battle between Youran and Guxing!
"My injuries will heal soon. Let's continue," Guxing looked at Le Youran, preparing to take medicine to recover. She didn't want to leave Xiaoyao at the Le family, in someone else's clutches.
Seeing this situation, Xiaoyao immediately said, "Boss, I'm fine. Here I'm just being a servant like anywhere else, and no one's bullying me! Your current strength isn't as good as hers. Go cultivate and come back to compete with her next time! You can go study at First Academy Under Heaven. Break through early, come defeat her early, that's what's most important right now!"
He didn't want Guxing to force herself. He just wanted to give her a little stimulation, plus a good sparring enemy to accelerate her strength improvement.
Although Guxing had always cultivated diligently, she lacked a sense of crisis. This could stimulate her inner sense of crisis. Even knowing this was deliberately arranged by Xiaoyao, she would still feel the crisis, be stimulated, and accelerate her strength improvement.
Because she saw a possibility, Xiaoyao might be captured by others, and she would be powerless to rescue him. This was a situation she wouldn't allow to occur. To prevent such situations, she needed to make herself stronger, able to defeat all enemies.
This time the opponent had no malicious intent, but what about next time when they did? Guxing was afraid. Her undefeated record in the Dragon Gate Tournament had made her feel too relaxed.
Seeing Le Youran before her, she truly realized that she actually wasn't very strong, there were still many, many people who could defeat her. The one before her was only a few years older than herself. What about those who were even older with even stronger power? There were far too many such people.
Someone could appear at any time to threaten her and Xiaoyao's safety.
Guxing's heart was changing, her mental state beginning to evolve again. After hearing Xiaoyao's words, she immediately got up to bid farewell and left, because she needed to seize time to make herself stronger and rescue Xiaoyao earlier.
This was Guxing, very decisive and direct, not doing unnecessary things.
"Your boss has quite a personality, I like her! Having such a person as my opponent makes me very happy!" Le Youran said to Xiaoyao with a smile.
(End of Chapter)