This time, Xuan Yuan felt a little distracted, but he tried to calm his mind as much as possible.
Ashyvna then vanished in front of him before appearing again.
Chk!
Ashyvna smiled at Xuan Yuan: "Oh dear me, it seemed I left something attached on your body, would you be a dear and hand it back to me?"
Xuan Yuan frowned, but his body suddenly lost some strength as he looked at his body and found a dagger pierced right through his ribs.
"Kuak!" Xuan Yuan vomited a mouth full of blood but he retained his posture, his eyes twitched as he replied: "You want it back?"
Ashyvna chuckled: "Yes, please hand it back to me."
Xuan Yuan smiled: "Then come and get it!"
Ashyvna seeing this couldn't help but be confused: "You... what makes you think that I can't kill you after seeing my strength... or rather, not being able to see it?"
Xuan Yuan smiled: "My master... He trained me, and I trust that I won't fall here even if I am to be defeated! My seniors will definitely save me!"
"My master is the greatest, I won't fall here!"
"I'll persevere even if all of my limbs were cut, I'll fight even if all I have are my teeth!"
Ashyvna paused for a bit, she took something out and covered her face, it's like an Onimask: "I hope you made your prayers then."
Smoke came out of the mask as slowly, Ashyvna's figure disappeared, only the glaring red eyes can be seen till it vanished too.
Seeing this, the followers of Ashyvna became confused: "That... the great Ashyvna used her mask... is she that serious now?"
As they spoke, they looked at Xuan Yuan in a more confused manner, any one of them are at Immortal Saint rank or higher, but even if all of them combined themselves to fight Ashyvna, they wouldn't even manage to make her draw her mask out!
And nobody dared to make her do so!
Xuan Yuan couldn't see any of her moves.
Then, when his calm was about to be broken, he remembered something.
"If you can't follow your enemy's movements with your eyes, then feel it!
If you can feel it before it kills you, that will be worth it, right? Well, even if you die, that's still a great experience."
He smiled, he closed his eyes and started to feel his surroundings.
Ashyvna felt confused at what Xuan Yuan was doing, hence, she stopped moving.
Xuan Yuan slowly felt his surrounding, trying to feel every movement he can feel.
'My back!' He couldn't help but think, it felt like time had slowed down, he can feel something approaching him from his back.
And then, when he was about to pull his sword: 'It's too fast...'
But still, he's going to try his very best! 'Just an inch! A scratch will do!'
But the attack from his back reached first while his sword only managed to do half his swing, then, they heard it.
Swsh~
"Kfghzxchkok!" Xuan Yuan was choked as someone pulled his robe's collar and dragged him away.
Meanwhile, Ashyvna couldn't believe her eyes, she stopped for a bit but got bored waiting and intended to finish it immediately by killing him in a frontal assault, never would've she thought that Xuan Yuan would actually slash at her direction, slashing half of her arm.
Ashyvna looked at her arm that's about to fall off before she started regenerating it. She looked at the person that pulled Xuan Yuan away: "And you are?"
Fei Lin smiled, covered her face with a fan and replied: "I am the Senior Sister."
She looked at Xuan Yuan: "You... you gave me two of my first."
As she spoke, she took two daggers out, the same weapon that was struck at Xuan Yuan's body: "Now then, prepare to die."
Fei Lin smiled: "Well, with me watching over him, I doubt that's possible."
Fei Lin also took out her weapon, the Zither that Mo Xie had given him, she smiled: "Yan Meng, stop hiding there."
"Lin'er, I'm here, don't worry." Yan Meng immediately appeared holding a massive cauldron in his hand.
"..." Ashyvna looked at them for a moment: "Are you two really the seniors?" As she spoke, she looked at Xuan Yuan: "Are you telling me... seniors looked younger than their junior?"
Fei Lin smiled: "Oh, that's because he didn't receive master's help yet."
"Well, enough with that, so are you our enemy?"
Ashyvna looked at her blades and nodded: "Wasn't what I did made it obvious?"
Fei Lin nodded her head: "That's right."
She then glanced at Ashyvna: "I guess we don't have much of a choice then."
Ashyvna smiled, she tossed her daggers and immediately vanished.
But Fei Lin already equipped her zither as she started playing it: "I hope you won't be disappointed then."
Yan Meng took something out of his ring and fed it immediately to Xuan Yuan: "You okay?"
Xuan Yuan nodded his head, he took the dagger out of his body: "I can still go on."
Ashyvna's voice echoed: "I won't mind fighting the three of you... but I really hope that you three won't disappoint me."
As she finished speaking, not even a blur can be seen as she immediately attacked at Fei Lin.
Fei Lin responded with a strum of her zither creating a barrier of wind around them.
But then, it was easily sliced up, Fei Lin smiled though, as she used another tone to play and Ashyvna's figure showed up.
Yan Meng and Xuan Yuan both appeared behind Ashyvna, one holding a massive cauldron about to strike down and the other one trying to make his sword pierce Ashyvna.
Ashyvna was quite shocked, she immediately dodged the two attacks, making it hit only air and ground as she resumed her skill and vanished again before appearing twenty meters away.
"That..." Ashyvna felt speechless, she had never fought a person that can actually remove her stealth, and even detect her at the same time!
Fei Lin smiled: "Ohhh, isn't that such a disappointing, you didn't die."
"If you want to ask about my art, it's gifted to me by our master, pretty cool right?"
Ashyvna nodded her head: "That I won't deny."
But she went into deep contemplation, how strong is their master really at? First is teaching his disciple swordsmanship that can break the limits of cultivation levels, another one mysterious notes that can disable her own art.
She then looked at Yan Meng: "What's your skill then?"
Yan Meng felt glad, finally, he wasn't being ignored, he chuckled and replied: "I'm an alchemist!"
"........" Ashyvna felt speechless for a while: "What's an alchemist like you even doing fighting here?"
Yan Meng smiled mysteriously before replying: "I will be a future Celestial Alchemy Emperor, fighting you is but a normal thing for me to do."
Ashyvna then asked: "What are you going to do? Concoct a pill in front of me and bore me to death?"
Yan Meng looked at Ashyvna before remaining silent for a while, he looked at his cauldron: "My master gave it to me! I may not excel at combat, but I can definitely beat others as well."
Ashyvna tilted her head: "How? Smashing them with a cauldron?"
Yan Meng nodded his head: "Exactly!"
"........" Even Fei Lin and Xuan Yuan felt speechless this time together with Ashyvna.
But Ashyvna lost interest with Yan Meng as she immediately disappeared.
Fei Lin rather panicked: "Her speed increased!"
"Be aware!"
But as she finished her words, the three of them heard the slashing of wind, it only took 0.1 seconds to react as Xuan Yuan lifted his cauldron to block his body, Xuan Yuan struck at the direction of it, and Fei Lin punched at her direction.
Ashyvna smiled, she then changed her move and instead of targeting Xuan Yuan, it became Yan Meng instead.
Swk~
Yan Meng's back was struck, but they didn't stop as they continuously reacted, trying to defend while countering.
In just a short thirty seconds of combat, Yan Meng was slashed twenty times, while Xuan Yuan got struck sixteen times, and Fei Lin was injured one time, but her injury was the most brutal of them all, it was the last attack but Ashyvna opened Fei Lin's stomach!
Yan Meng threw pills in their direction, immediately swallowed it as their wounds healed immediately, only Fei Lin's injury took a lot longer to heal.
Ashyvna appeared again ten meters away: "It looks like being an alchemist has its advantages as well, being able to provide supporting pills to aid your teammates, a nice catch indeed."
Ashyvna had been focusing on speed which made her attack weaker, but at the last strike against Fei Lin, she actually slowed down to deal a massive damage to her.
But Fei Lin smiled: "Looks like you really underestimated me."
Ashyvna tilted her head: "Why is that?"
Fei Lin chuckled: "Well... Look at your body?"
Ashyvna felt confused, she looked at her body, and immediately, her eyes grew wide open: "What are these things!?"
There are eight scar-like tattoos on all of her limbs, she was clear that she had evaded every attack from all three of them, hence, made her quite shocked at what happened to her body.
Fei Lin smiled: "That's one of my killer moves, Mark of the Howling Winds."
She then picked her zither up and started playing it rather wildly: "For injuring me due to your jealousy of my beauty, I condemn you to death!"
As she strums her zither, thousands and thousands of wind blades continuously appeared, Fei Lin smiled: "Kill the pest!"
Ashyvna immediately vanished and tried to attack again to finish this fight, but then, the wind blades started to follow her!
Fei Lin smiled at the sight: "Never underestimate the power of sound, if you're fast, it won't be any slower!"