The King's Avatar: The Sword Immortal Returns

Chapter 41 Terrifying Substitute Player, No, Dude, are you a Sword Immortal? — So skillful!
"Come again!"

Tang Rou lost her match against Du Ming again. At the beginning, Tang Rou was able to win one or two matches against Du Ming with her hand speed and reaction ability. However, as time went on, Tang Rou's stamina became increasingly exhausted, and Du Ming adapted to her skills. Therefore, in the later one-on-one matches, Du Ming basically dominated.

"Again!……"

Just as Tang Rou wanted to play another round, Mo Qian appeared behind her and stopped her.

"Wait, Grandma, that's enough. A few rounds will do."

Tang Rou said somewhat defiantly, "I can beat him!"

"I know, how about I play a round?"

Tang Rou reluctantly left her seat, and then Mo Qian sat down and adjusted the key positions. The match had already begun. Du Ming rushed over with his sword, eager to use his "Immortal's Guidance" and use a backhand sword to take down Mo Qian directly.

"Hey—young man, don't be in such a hurry."

Mo Qian raised his spear and interrupted Du Ming's spellcasting with a strangely angled Sky Strike. The style of Sky Strike and the strange angle felt somewhat familiar, and everyone felt as if they had seen it somewhere before.

Huang Shaotian was very familiar with this angle; he had been helpless against the Sword Immortal's move before, but he eventually found a solution.

"No one understands swordsmen better than me, brother."

It's no exaggeration to say that as soon as Du Ming raises his sword, Mo Qian knows exactly what skill the kid is going to use. He knows every technique and skill of a swordsman too well.

"What? The 'Pointing the Way' technique can be interrupted???"

Du Ming was completely bewildered. He had been using the Immortal's Guidance technique for so many years and had never been interrupted before. What Du Ming didn't know was that a swordsman's Immortal's Guidance technique was indeed very difficult to interrupt, but the person standing opposite him wasn't some nobody, but a dignified sword immortal!

"You're not that girl from before. Who are you? Who exactly are you?"

Mo Qian almost blurted out "I am your..." but she held back. No, that wouldn't be appropriate. Mo Qian remained quite civilized.

"I... I'm just a hero who plays for fun, ah no... just a substitute player. The main player is tired, so I got a substitute." Mo Qian is no ordinary substitute player. With Mo Qian's strength, it's no less than a difference between dimensions. God-level substitute player, that's not just bragging. Sword Immortal substitute player, no deception.

"Hmph! What god-level booster? He's probably just a random pub star. Watch how I outplay him!"

Du Ming was very confident in his abilities. He firmly believed that he had lost to Tang Rou, a young girl, because he was careless; otherwise, he would never have lost.

"Sword Immortal's First Move! Consecutive Slashes!"

Mo Qian: ? ? ? You dare use this in front of me?
Mo Qian wanted to laugh. He could clearly see the flaws in Du Ming's "Sword Immortal One-Style Consecutive Slash Sword". Du Ming had only learned a little bit of the basics and had not learned the true essence of the Sword Immortal One-Style. Did you think that the Sword Immortal One-Style was just about getting the posture right?

You're being too naive. The Eighteen Forms of the Sword Immortal are never simply a combination of techniques. If you only learn the surface, you'll end up with a hodgepodge, full of flaws. Besides, Du Ming's sword-drawing slash wasn't fluid enough.
"The gap is too big—Du Ming, little friend—round stick!"

Mo Qian immediately saw the flaw in Du Ming's operation. It seemed that Du Ming was really skilled, but you have to know that even Huang Shaotian had not learned the complete Eighteen Forms of Sword Immortal. So how could Du Ming's Eighteen Forms of Sword Immortal defeat Mo Qian?

The circular staff precisely guided and grabbed Du Ming, completely shattering his "Sword Immortal's First Form."
"No! How could that be? Aren't the Eighteen Forms of the Sword Immortal a near-invincible skill?"

"There are no invincible skills, only invincible people—young man, have a good epiphany."

After leaving those words, Mo Qian launched Du Ming into the air, leaped up, and swiftly followed up with a four-hit aerial attack. Mo Qian's battle mage technique looked incredibly fluid; the swordsman's skill was undeniable—not to mention, wasn't Ye Xiu right beside him? While with Ye Xiu, Mo Qian had secretly learned many of Ye Xiu's techniques, including Ye Xiu's "Dragon Head Rising" and "four-hit aerial attack"...

"This is a fake combo! And it even has the Shadow Step!"

Mo Qian kept switching his perspective, leaving Du Ming completely unaware of his opponent's location, while his health continued to drop. This situation was causing Du Ming to feel somewhat devastated.
"Old Mo, just how much have you learned from me?!"

Seeing this familiar move, Ye Xiu couldn't help but think to himself, "It's really not my fault. I didn't learn all of Mo Qian's techniques. The reason is simple: the Eighteen Forms of the Sword Immortal were actually designed by the Sword Immortal specifically for his own techniques."
Even a genius like Ye Xiu could only flexibly apply the first ten of the Eighteen Sword Immortal Styles. As for the last eight styles, Ye Xiu could never learn them, let alone apply them. Ye Xiu knew that Mo Qian had an extremely strong ability to imitate. Back then, he could understand the principle of Dragon Head Raising after just one glance, and he even used Dragon Head Raising in front of Ye Xiu the very next day.

To be honest, the "Dragon Raises Its Head" technique isn't actually that hard to learn, and Mo Qian only came up with this move to make Mu Cheng happy.

(End of this chapter)