Chapter 318 – Truths and Lies (IV)

Chapter 318

Truths and Lies (IV)

Dai Xiu stepped out onto the stage rather leisurely, glancing over toward the other end where her opponent was.

It was a girl–or, well, a woman from the looks of it—who seemed to be in her thirties. She donned long, almost flaming red robes, tight against her skin, with scarlet hair let loose to freely swarm around her face.

She was rather beautiful, Dai Xiu thought, though she had a venom to her eyes that the former found rather displeasing. A faint smirk hung on her lips, and, in combination with the look of derision, it was clear that the woman was looking down on her.

Dai Xiu didn’t mind, putting on the gauntlets.

“You’re a rather pretty little thing~” the woman said, cackling rather strangely. “I’d feel bad to hurt such a pretty face. Little sister, don’t you know? If a girl gets a scar on her face, she’ll never be pretty ever again. You don’t want to become ugly, do you?”

“What do you mean?” Dai Xiu said. “Ugly like you? I don’t think you’re that ugly, big sister.”

The woman’s eyes widened and her eyebrows twitched, and Dai Xiu felt a tinge of pride swell in her heart. She had been watching her Master all this while and was carefully learning his mysterious ways–her Master’s ability to stun others into utter silence was marvelous, and she yearned she could do the same. And now, she’d done it–she used mere words to stun someone, just like her Master did!

“… naughty girl,” the woman said, her grin turning into a wide sneer that cut the corners of her lips until they bled. “I should cut that filthy tongue of yours and feed it to the fishes.”

“My tongue’s not filthy,” Dai Xiu said. “Master taught us to wash it twice a day!”

“Heh, somebody you call a Master? You–“

“–careful,” Dai Xiu’s tone dropped as Qi began to flutter around her. “Right now, all I plan on doing is giving you a few bruises. But if you say one bad thing about my Master,” she grinned. “I’ll wring your head off your neck and shatter your skull into thousands of pieces.”

“Ho ho, scary, so scary~ please, please, little sister, don’t do that; girls ought to be proper and nice and sweet, not so barbaric. This big sister should teach you since it’s clear your Master never did, he he~”

“Aah,” Dai Xiu sighed. “You went and did it anyway.”

“I sure did. That means you’ll have to wring my neck. Can you do it, though, sweet little thing?”

“I’m just worried.”

“Worried about what?”

“If I can do it without spilling any blood.”

“What do you–“

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“BEGIN!”

Dai Xiu was like a bolt of lightning, shooting forward as soon as the voice cleared out. Her expression distorted slightly with anger, she poured Qi into her fist and struck forward; the woman, though slightly surprised, took out a lengthy and slithery whip, lashing out as she took a step backward, dodging Dai Xiu’s strike.