Naked Sword Art-Chapter 226 - Undisputed Victory
'It's about time I end this.'
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Watching from the hole in the wall, Xiao Fang had taken his blindfold off so he could see Lai Yun and her clones below.
Meanwhile on the battlefield, Xiao Fang's [ Solid Clone ] stood with clean robes and it didn't have a scratch on him. Everyone present stared at Xiao Fang in disbelief.
"No way," Lai Yun thought out loud.
Lai Yun had used everything she had into that attack, so she especially couldn't believe what she was seeing.
'It must've been a clone. Yes, that has to be it,' Lai Yun eventually convinced herself.
However, the more she thought about it, the less she believed it to be true.
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"Are you done?" asked Xiao Fang apathetically.
Lai Yun frowned.
If it wasn't clear before, it certainly was now, Xiao Fang didn't put her in his eyes at all. But who was Xiao Fang? Not only was he in the outer court last year, he was also a body cultivator and a man as well. These were the 2 things most of the girls in the inner court looked down upon. She didn't care if he had a higher body cultivation than her, getting defeated by a person like him was absolutely unacceptable.
Since she didn't reply, Xiao Fang assumed that she had lost the will to fight. However, before he could make a move, he saw her do something strange.
"Is she giving up?" one girl commented.
Lai Yun's [ Illusory Silver Whip ] began to fade, then her 2 [ Illusory Clones ] returned to her side. Suddenly, the room became silent.
Many of the girls watching assumed that she had given up, but Xiao Fang thought otherwise.
Lai Yun closed her eyes, changed her breathing, and relaxed her muscles. When she opened her eyes again, Xiao Fang was surprised to see that she was neither angry nor helpless. For the first time in the fight, she almost seemed stoic.
Although she was unarmed, she still stood her ground, and carried herself in a way that made her seem in control.
Seeing her act this way, made Xiao Fang have a second opinion of her.
'Perhaps if she wasn't trying to provoke me to get on the White Jade guild's good side, then things might've turned out differently between us,' Xiao Fang thought.
Whether they were friend or foe, enemy or ally, Xiao Fang respected them all the same if they were the type of person to keep fighting even when victory seemed out of reach. Xiao Fang had seen plenty of cowards kowtowing and begging for forgiveness in this sort of situation, but Lai Yun was no coward.
In the next moment, Xiao Fang's [ Solid Clone ] dashed towards her. At the same time, she created 2 more [ Illusory Clones ] then sent them running into 4 different directions. If there was one thing Lai Yun learned about him, it was that Xiao Fang always knew where her real body was, and never went after any of her [ Illusory Clones ].
'Come,' she thought as she waited for him to get closer.
Once Xiao Fang was only 10 meters away, she suddenly turned around and jumped high up into the air.
'Now!' She thought.
Her clones finally turned around then began to unleash an endless barrage of powerful spirit attacks on him.
As soon as the girls realized what Lai Yun was doing, they all became a bit more optimistic. Xiao Fang's [ Solid Clone ] was being targeted from 4 different angles, there was nowhere to run.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The attacks from the Illusory Clones created formless clouds of dust all around him. Xiao Fang tried to make his clone dodge the first few, but as the dust got thicker, it became more and more difficult for his real body to see through it. He eventually decided to make his [ Solid Clone ] go after Lai Yun in the air.
Lai Yun was nearly at the apex of her jump when she saw Xiao Fang emerge from the cloud of dust, and he was headed straight for her.
"There!" one girl said as she pointed in the air. The other girls all looked up and saw Xiao Fang going for Lai Yun.
"It's over," Xiao Fang said.
Instead of seeing the fear of getting hit in her eyes, he saw a smirk instead. Suddenly, he saw something wrapping around Lai Yun's waist.
'A whip?' he thought.
Xiao Fang's [ Solid Clone ] just narrowly missed her in the air as she was being pulled away by the clone pulling the spirit whip.
"You're right, it is over!" she grinned menacingly as she was being pulled back down to the ground.
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"It worked!"
"He fell for the trap!"
"Go, Lai Yun!!" the girls shouted for her to finish him.
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Since it was impossible for his [ Solid Clone ] to dodge while it was in the air, no one thought he could escape what was coming.
'How could he fall for such an obvious trap,' Zhao Pan thought.
Bai Fan thought that Xiao Fang was really trapped, so she looked at Su Lingxi to see if she was going to stop Lai Yun before Xiao Fang really got hurt. However, Su Lingxi stood with her arms crossed as if she wasn't going to do anything.
Su Lingxi didn't have any particular reaction to it because she was still suspicious of something. His robes were too clean. Even if he were to muscle through Lai Yun's Silver Whip attack from before, his robes should've been at least a little dirty after exiting the hole. If she had to guess, she suspected that his real body was still up in that wall, and he was using this time to recover his strength.
As soon as Xiao Fang reached the apex of his jump, Lai Yun and her clones all unleashed all the spirit power they had in their bodies. At the same time, the girls watching from the side abruptly jumped out of their seats as if they were watching the epic conclusion to an amazing fight.
In a matter of seconds, they all watched as Xiao Fang's [ Solid Clone ] got obliterated in the air and tore him to pieces. For a second, some even believed that the attack accidently killed him, but when they saw his body slowly turning back into Qi they realized what it was.
Time slowed as she watched the clone fall lifelessly to the ground.
'Impossible,' Lai Yun thought with wide eyes.
Suddenly, the clone's head slowly turned to her as its body was fading. Then, she unexpectedly heard a voice.
{"Your trap was not bad... but..."} Xiao Fang said through a spirit transmission.
'That voice...' she thought as she stared more intently at his falling clone.
{"There's one thing you should never put inside a trap..."}
Suddenly, Xiao Fang soundlessly appeared behind her as he came out of [ Stealth ]. At the same time, Lai Yun felt his chilling presence, then heard him say a single word.
"Me."
Purely reacting out of instinct, she tried to jump away, but it was too late.
'I can't escape!' She thought in fear.
Seeing him winding his arm back, she assumed that he was going to use a powerful martial body cultivation technique. However, contrary to what she believed, Xiao Fang didn't use any body Qi at all. Using only the palm of his hand, he delivers a striking blow to her gut, sending her flying across the room.
Boom!!!
As soon as she crashed, everyone stopped looking at the falling clone then saw Lai Yun lying unconscious against the wall. Standing not too far away from her body was Xiao Fang.
Xiao Fang won, but not only that, it seemed like he had hardly broken a sweat. Seeing how things turned out, if someone were to now say that he merely won by luck, others would assume that it was rather their brain or vision that was lacking. Lai Yun was utterly defeated, this was Xiao Fang's undisputed victory.
How Xiao Fang beat her was a mystery, so the other girls assumed that he had used a powerful technique to knock her out in one blow. If he were to tell them the truth, he didn't think anyone would believe him.
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While Su Lingxi and Bai Fan were relieved, Zhao Pan felt something else.
'He won...' Zhao Pan thought in disbelief.
She always assumed that he was just a philandering playboy, so it never occurred to her that he could be this strong.
If Zhao Pan were to face Lai Yun, she felt like she could hold her ground in a hand to hand combat, but if Lai Yun were to use her spirit Qi against her then Zhao Pan wouldn't even last a minute. Since Xiao Fang was able to defeat Lai Yun, Zhao Pan didn't think she could stand a chance against him .
'What am I supposed to do now?'
The more she thought about it, the less likely it seemed that she'd be able to force him to take her virginity.
'I need to find another way.'
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