It was at that moment that the beast suddenly sprang into a. Its beautiful silver wings whistled through the air intercepting the sword aiming for its neck.

  Despite knowing that she would e out on the losing end in a match of brute strength, Hysode didn't bat so much as an eyelid at the ining silver-scaled wing.

  Ace, who could only barely follow their movements with the help of his [observation], thought Venerin's disciple was about to be sent flying, when her sword suddenly seemed to e to life.

  'Oh the sword.' Aoted to himself as he saw the incredible trol she had over her sword.

  After leaving nothing but a mere afterimage for the silver-scaled wing to slice through, Hysode's sword elegantly arced through the air at a speed that Ace couldn't follow even with his [observation].

  As the bde and scaled neck made tact, Hysode raised an eyebrow at the sight of her bde failing to leave so much as a mark, other than the white lihat quickly dissipated.

  In respohe dragon seemed to smirk at its oppos' futile attempts. As it exhaled, silvery-white plumes escaped the er of its mouth, causing Hysode's eyes to bulge.

  "ROOAAARRRR!"

  As the silvery-white fmes left its mouth, Hysode once again moved like the wind, barely dodging the dragon's breath.

  She was so focused on dodging, Hysode pletely fot that it was her subordio her rear. Her heart threateo beat out of her chest as she watched the scorg white fmes shooting towards her fellow soldiers.

  But even as the fmes neared and their armours began to melt, the soldiers remaieadfast. They showed no fear, despite knowing that their deaths were rapidly approag. But luckily, when the fmes were under a meter away, a purple ball of thunder came out of o intercept it.

  Though most were too slow to react to an attack like that, Wukong wasn't like most people. As soon as the white plumes escaped the dragon's mouth, Wukoed by casually summoning a ball of lightning to destroy the dragon's attack.

  But how could the casual attack of a rank-six beast pare to the attack of a ra lightning mage? Even if it was a dragon, Wukong's talent was no inferior to Ace's.

  As the two attacks met, it took all but the briefest of moments for it to destroy the dragon's fire breath and tinue on towards the enemy's army.

  Though it didn't care about the lives of the weaker magical beasts that made up its forces, if the bck dragon allowed Wukong's attack to hit, it would be a stain on his pride.

  With a casual swipe of its giant tail, Wukong's lightning ball was dispersed. It then turs attention back to Wukong, who had his arms raised.

  "My bad, I was in such a hurry to protect my men that I failed to trol my strength properly."

  "sider this your first and st warning. If anything like that happens again, I'll be the oo attack!" The dragon growled threateningly.

  Ace looked back from the dragon to Wukong ihough it didn't look like much, Ace could sense from the energy in Wukong's spell that it wasn't much weaker than the average attack of Whitebeard.

  'This world is definitely a lot strohan my st.' Ace sighed.

  Hysode was thankful for Wukong's interference. Had the dragon's breath nded, even if she did go on to win her fight, she still would've been riddled with guilt.

  Her eyes frosted over as she gred daggers at her oppo.

  Once again, Hysode's body turned into a blur as it approached the dragon, but it was no slouch. As soon as she es rahe dragon's tail sliced through the air like a whip, aiming to turn her head to a pulp.

  The young general calmly leant back, allowing the tail to pass over her, just millimetres above her nose.

  The silver dragon tis flurry of attacks, trying to prevent its oppo from getting too close, but no matter what it tried, Hysode was ready. She elegantly danced around the dragon's body, dodging each of its attacks. Whether it was its teeth, tail, or even the occasional dragoh, Hysode dodged with incredible ease and grace.

  It appeared to be a stalemate. The dragon couldn't nd an attack, and Hysode couldn't get close enough to attae of its oints.

  As the dragon's tail pierced towards her, for what felt like the huh time, Hysode once again calmly evaded it, but this time, before it could pletely retract its tail, Hysode's sword exploded into a.

  It was at that moment that Aderstood the meaning behind the name "Silverlight." Though it was too fast to get a proper look, Hysode left a fshing silver light in the air as her sword arced towards its target.

  "ROAARRR!"

  As the dragon's pained roar threateo shatter the eardrums of many of the soldiers, Ace watched as the end of its tail fell to the floor, ly cut from the rest of its appendage.

  "So you finally allowed her to cultivate her battle qi?" Wukong asked, turning to the City lord who stood beside him.

  "Only after she broke through to the sixth rank naturally," Venerin replied with a hint of pride. "Unfortunately, that was her limit."

  Ace, who'd spent the st several months travelling with Wukong, was no lohe ignorant child he once was.

  Wukong had already expihat the [Qi Building Stance] he was taught ba Wushan Town was the simplest of all body temperihods as it only allowed you to absorb the ral essence of heaven ah, whily appeared as the sun rose in the m. In trast, others allowed warriors to absorb the elemental essen the atmosphere like mages; only, it was used as fuel for the body instead of being turned into mageforce to fuel a mage's spells.

  That being said, the biggest differeween the [Qi Building Stance] and the other body tempering teiques was "battle qi." Battle qi was a form of energy used tthen physical attacks and was stored in a fist-sized tainer located just beh the navel, but the only form of essehat could be turned into battle qi was elemental essence.

  But what still made the [Qi Building Stance] so popur was that as the energy absorbed using the [Qi Building Stance] couldn't be stored in the Qi vassal below the navel, all the energy absorbed was used to temper the body, meaning that the bodies of those who used the [Qi Building Staeo be strohan other warriors at the same rank.

  Unfortunately, the further yressed using the [Qi Building Stahe harder it was to tinue.

  The average warrior will reach their limits at the peak of the third rank. Those who were able to reach the fourth rank were all elite-level talents, and it was said that unless you were a desdant of the four supreme warriors, it was impossible to surpass the peak of the sixth rank, but all who made it that far were prodigies usually only seen once every hundred years.

  Although Hysode didn't make it to the peak of the sixth rank, the fact that she made it to the sixth rank at all spoke volumes of her talent.

  Ad the others watched with their eyes peeled as Hysode refused to give the dragon a ce to breathe. Its slip in tratioo pain gave Hysode her opportunity to finally close the distaween them.

  Even though she was moving too fast for Ace to follow, with the help of his [Observation], Ace was able to catch the briefest of glimpses of her bde, allowing him to see the sharp, silver aura coating it.

  When Ace first heard that you o absorb elemental esseo cultivate Battle Qi, he assumed that his ck of elemental affinity would hinder him, but Wukong told him that uhe ways of a mage, the warrior training manuals didn't rely on affinity.

  They allowed ao forcibly absorb the essence of any element, regardless of one's affinity but having a higher affinity did make it easier to absorb the essence of that element.

  'I 't wait till I get to cultivate my Battle Qi,' Ace thought to himself with a sigh.

  The increase in power was incredible. Hysode, who reviously uo leave so much as a dent in the dragon's seemingly imperable scales, was now able to draw blood with each ssh.

  The power and speed of her attacks weren't the only things to see an increase; even her movement speed spiked as she used her battle qi tthen her legs.

  Ace couldn't see the heroic young woman at all by that point. All he could see was the dragon's attacks being increasingly frantic as it angrily tried to destroy the annoying ant before it, but Hysode refused to back down.

  Hysode's domineering performa a fire of hope in the rest of the army as they watched their young general pletely trol the flow of the battle.

  Unfortunately, Venerin didn't share their optimism. He watched with his fists ched so tight the crag of his knuckles could be heard by everyone around him.

  As her master, he khat since she had only just begun cultivating her battle qi, although it gave her a drasticrease in power, her qi reserves would soon run dry. All he could do ray she could finish it before that.

  Thankfully, Hysode wasn't the only one who was slowly weakening. With each blow it suffered and attack it released, the dragon's stamina also waned. But unlike Hysode, it wasn't able to keep its posure.

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