After the two sides observed each other for a while, Shaoqing made the first move, he held a sharp sword in his hand, and rushed towards Xia Yang in an arc.

I've never seen anyone use such a circuitous charge path in a duel. But when you think about it, it makes sense, while it takes more time to do so, but if it's fast enough, the extra time is almost negligible.

"And the side defense of the person will definitely be weaker than the front, and it will take a lot of effort to readjust the direction and footwork, so this kind of attack is likely to be surprised." Naranno seemed to see what I was thinking, adding.

But Xia Yang is definitely not a vegetarian, he waited until the moment Shaoqing made a move, and accurately judged that Shaoqing's attack target was his left leg, just before the blade of the sword almost cut through his pants. He twisted to the right and dodged, and the onlookers let out an exclamation.

"As the saying goes, 'strike first is strong, and then strike suffer'. Shaoqing really took the initiative. Ling Xiao nodded, he had scoffed at the tactics of defensive counterattacks, so he admired Shaoqing's fighting style, and after saying that, Ling Xiao frowned again, "But his posture of holding the sword is a little strange." ”

We all said we couldn't see it, and Naranno explained: "You can see that his hand holding the sword is less than two-thirds of the hilt, and his thumb is cocked. Almost perpendicular to the arm. This grip should be more suitable for blades such as short knives. ”

After Nalanno's reminder, Ling Xiao and I thought of the fight we had witnessed outside the city at the same time, Shaoqing was indeed using a short knife at that time, and according to Naranno's analysis, the short knife was Shaoqing's usual weapon, so why did he use a sword today? Could it be that he looked down on Xia Yang and felt that it was unnecessary? Or do you deliberately hide your blades?

While we were talking, Shaoqing attacked Xia Yang again and again, but Xia Yang just blindly dodged and did not fight back.

"What, are you so scared that you can't lift your hand?" Shaoqing sneered as he accelerated his offensive.

"If I don't raise my hand, you won't be able to stab, so I'm embarrassed to say anything." Xia Yang is not good at stubble, and the onlookers also let out a burst of laughter, and Shaoqing was really a little annoyed and angry. Spotting an opportunity, he stabbed hard.

"Shaoqing has been tricked!" Ling Xiao and Naranno said in unison.

Before I could react, I saw a sneer flash at the corner of Xia Yang's mouth, and once again deftly avoided Shaoqing's attack, it turned out that he just sold a flaw, and at the same time stabbed the dagger in his hand towards Shaoqing's neck.

Although Shaoqing's sword was attacked urgently, it was fortunately collected in time, but in the face of Xia Yang's dagger, he had to dodge backwards, and then he realized that behind him was the edge of the martial arts arena.

It turns out that Xia Yang has been waiting for this opportunity!

However, it seems that Xia Yang has miscalculated his attack distance, and his dagger is not enough to stab Shaoqing.

Shaoqing also realized this, and his body stopped leaning back, but things were far from that simple, the dagger suddenly stretched out less than a foot away from him, and now the inertia of Shaoqing's body to retract forward has not disappeared, and there is really no way to retreat, so he can only forcibly tilt his neck to the left, although he dodged the fatal blow, but he also left a wound on his neck that is not deep or shallow.

This time, there were not only exclamations of exclamation, but even a few screams from the onlookers.

If Shaoqing hadn't dodged just now, he would definitely have been directly pierced through his throat. However, using this kind of weapon with a mechanism, it seems that this Xia Yang is not a gentleman.

After Shaoqing suffered this loss, he obviously cheered up, and there was a little more fierceness in his eyes. He first distanced himself from Xia Yang, treated the wound briefly, and then continued to attack again, but this time he opened his ghost qi and kept chanting spells in his mouth.

"Brother Ling, shouldn't you concentrate your ghost qi when attacking, why did Shaoqing spread the ghost qi so wide?" I asked, puzzled.

Ling Xiao shook his head, obviously he didn't understand it very much, but Naranno said that Shaoqing must have his own purpose in doing this, and it was probably related to the spell he was silently chanting.

As soon as Nalanno's words fell, Yujie actually answered: "Look, is Xia Yang a little difficult to make moves at this time?" ”

was reminded by her like this, and we found out that this was indeed the case, in the face of Shaoqing's fierce offensive like a rainstorm, Xia Yang's back was even a little rickety, as if he was suddenly out of strength, could it be that Shaoqing's spell could reduce the opponent's physical strength?

"No, it's because Shaoqing's offensive strategy has changed, you see, he has been attacking Xia Yang in the same position, that's because he found that Xia Yang was obviously sluggish when dealing with attacks from the left side of his body, which means that Xia Yang has old injuries on this side of his body, I guess it's in the abdomen or ribs."

Ling Xiao immediately gave his opinion, and the others nodded one after another, but I was secretly surprised. Ribs!

At this time, on the martial arts field, Shaoqing had completely taken the initiative, only to see his sword handed over to his left hand, this time he actually slashed towards the right side of Xia Yang's body, this time it was unexpected by Xia Yang, Xia Yang couldn't dodge and could only use a dagger to block, but he didn't expect Shaoqing's sword to just lure, at the same time, his right hand had reached out to his waist and took out his usual short knife, and stabbed Xia Yang's left rib hard.

The strength of this knife was full, Xia Yang was pierced firmly, and the dagger in his hand swung forward, forcing back Shaoqing's second round of attacks, but he himself was weak in his left leg and knelt down on one knee.

Shaoqing sneered, looking at Xia Yang who was kneeling on the ground, Xia Yang roared in pain, and the ghost qi that erupted burst his shirt, only to see that in the part he had just been injured, a red scar that bloomed like a flower was clearly recognizable.

Naranno gasped, "Shaoqing is really powerful, the spell he just used to cooperate with the ghost qi to find the weakness of Xia Yang's body!" ”

When I saw the scene in front of me, I couldn't help but stand up, and the people behind me complained a few times before being dragged by Yujie and sat down.

"Four Tigers, what's wrong with you?"

I didn't know how to answer at all, because Xia Yang was staring at me and smiling coldly!

This kind of fighting style that does not clash head-on, waits for an opportunity to sneak attack, the retractable dagger, the large, fresh scar on the left rib, plus the ghost aura I just felt.

"Xia Yang is the masked man I injured in the princess's dormitory the night before!"

I whispered to a few of them, but it was as if a bomb had been detonated among them, and my big head was so startled that I almost fell out of my chair.

"Are you sure it's the same ghost?"

"So his scar is the day before yesterday."

"Didn't you say that the man would poison the weapon? Why is Shaoqing okay? ”

They threw questions at me almost at the same time, and I could only answer them one by one.

The answer to the first two questions is, of course, yes, and my guess is the third one: Winter Paw Servitude.

At the beginning of the duel, I didn't feel Xia Yang's ghostly energy, so even after Ling Xiao judged that his left rib was injured, I couldn't be completely sure until he burst out with a ghostly aura just before he sneered at me.

He sneered at me just now, he must have known that his identity was about to be exposed, the reason why he was reluctant to use ghost qi before, and he didn't quench poison on his weapon was because both of them were unique to him, and several of us had seen his poisonous effect, and his ghost qi was also felt by me the night before.

But now in the face of a strong enemy, it has reached the moment of life and death, he can no longer deliberately restrain his ghostly energy, it can be seen that Xia Yang is fighting to the death at this time, his attack looks out of order, obviously red-eyed, Shaoqing doesn't care at all, and jumps to the side trying to dodge.

However, this time, Shaoqing once again paid the price for his carelessness, and Xia Yang's seemingly indiscriminate dagger changed again, from two to six, and Xia Yang threw five of them out quickly.

Two of them knocked the sword in Shaoqing's hand to the ground, and in order to avoid the other three, Shaoqing lay down on his back, and when he quickly sat up, Xia Yang had already rushed in front of him with the last dagger.