I am a female swordsman.

“Mr. Sodross, being unconventional is not always a good thing.” Liang Yue sighed and shook her head, clearly intending to continue the argument.

Sordros, growing impatient, bluntly stated their unspoken understanding. "Alright! Enough with the nonsense. You know me; since we're here, we're going to find an excuse to fight, and this time is no exception!"

"..."

Neither admitting nor denying, Liang Yue smiled and put down his fishing rod. He naturally stretched out his arm, mimicking the action of breaking off a branch, and casually picked up a twig from the forest of the Sword Domain—this was his sword.

At the same time, Sordros slowly reached for one of the many sharp blades on his body!

They were only a few steps apart, but that distance was absolutely deadly!

The sensation spread outwards from the two of them, and everything slowed down. The wind blowing, the water flowing, the birds soaring, and the fish swimming all seemed to slow down infinitely, as if time itself had been frozen! In a mere instant, the sword domain where the two were located was struck by a cataclysmic disaster that resembled the collapse of the heavens!

The aftershocks of their instantaneous attacks swept out in all directions, causing destruction!

Chapter 42 The Carp with a Twisted Back

By a strange twist of fate, the person who guided Huang Quan to the mining area was that exceptionally fierce scarred man.

Scar's expression was priceless when he learned he would be acting as a guide.

His face was ashen, as if he had seen some vicious demon, and he stepped forward without hesitation, willing to sacrifice himself to feed the demon for everyone. Huang Quan thought that it was a waste for such a guy not to be an actor, given his ability to change emotions so easily.

This isn't sarcasm, it's praise!

Guided by Scarface, Huang Quan successfully spotted the person who was also inquiring about Alizee in the mining area.

A woman with short white hair, whose demeanor exuded a heroic air.

Although she was wearing dirty miner's clothes and her pretty face was covered in grime from work, she was still extremely good-looking.

What Huang Quan cared about most was the other party's keen sense of touch!

They were quite far apart, and Huang Quan had dressed himself to blend into the mine, effectively concealing his cold, sharp aura. Under these circumstances, Huang Quan only stared at the woman for a few seconds before she became alert, scanning her surroundings like a hawk searching for any spy!

Position, body language, and this instinctive alertness.

Very few people can fulfill this professional requirement, and bodyguards are one of them. Alizee's bodyguard?

“That’s enough.” Huang Quan pulled down the hood that he used to cover his withered white hair and striking face, and turned to walk out of the mining area.

"Hey, is that all?" Scarface had only glanced at the target from afar with this female demon, and that was it. This delighted Scarface, who had been feeling uneasy. It seemed the task assigned by his boss was going to be completed easily. Scarface couldn't help but smile, feeling much lighter, as if he could fly.

However, Huang Quan's next sentence in his cold voice stunned Scarface.

"Don't let her notice that someone is watching her."

"what……?"

"Didn't he tell you that I paid you all to do my bidding?" Huang Quan's eyes sharpened instantly; she sensed that this scarred man was inclined to take money and not do the work. His piercing gaze, even through his hood, shattered the scarred man's defenses!

"No! No! Boss didn't tell me about this! I'll relay your message later!" He felt as if an invisible blade was pressed against his neck as the crimson eyes stared at him. If he didn't explain himself clearly in time and tried to gloss over it, then that sharp blade would mercilessly slit his throat!

"Then please."

Slowly, slowly, Huang Quan withdrew his gaze, nodded slightly, pulled up his hood, turned around, and quickly disappeared into the inconspicuous passage.

Only after Huang Quan departed did Scarface realize that his back was completely soaked with cold sweat...

The more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is!

………………

"Waaaaah! Don't touch it! It's going to break!!"

Arad Apartments, Swordfish Room.

When the wailing sounds emanated from the room, no one would suspect that the people inside were engaging in any erotic activities. However, the sight of Midis, her alluring white body half-undressed and half-covered, looking back with teary eyes and trembling with sobs as she moved her hands, was still quite beautiful.

"Don't touch there, it hurts!!!"

With its bared teeth and roaring zombie-like appearance, Midis completely destroyed this beautiful perfection.

"Knowing that it hurts you, you still do this kind of strenuous exercise that is inappropriate for your age."

With ointment applied to her hands, her delicate, jade-like fingers dabbed at the milky-white paste and smeared it on Midis's slender waist, ignoring her aunt's expression of near-fainting pain. Huang Quan had just returned home when he saw his aunt clutching her waist and groaning in agony. After briefly understanding the cause, process, and outcome of the incident, he could only helplessly serve this little rascal.

There's no other way; we can't just let those two little ones who can't even take care of themselves go, can we?

“You’re not young anymore, yet you’re acting recklessly because of a few sarcastic remarks from others, disregarding your health.”

"Ah, Huang Quan, you have no idea! Natalia, that devilish boss of mine, actually mocked me for being fat and told me to lose more weight. This is a matter of a woman's dignity, and I absolutely cannot tolerate it! ... Ouch, it hurts! It hurts!" When mentioning the cause of the incident, Midis seemed to forget the pain and loudly denounced the vicious words of her unscrupulous boss until Huang Quan poked her hard, and the cat, which was trying to struggle on Huang Quan's legs, finally gasped and lay down obediently.

Provoked by Natalia's few words, Mitis tried to prove that she was still young, but accidentally twisted her waist and could only walk home in a deformed and contorted posture.

If it weren't for someone taking care of them, the trouble would probably have been even greater.

"Are you very concerned about that manager, Natalia?"

Those words struck a nerve; Mitis, lying prone, felt her heart skip a beat. Because she was lying down, Huang Quan didn't see the fleeting panic in Mitis, only that she seemed to stiffen considerably.

He glossed over the matter with a few words, and Midis chuckled, deliberately changing the subject.

Huang Quan, who had no intention of delving into the matter, merely glanced at Aunt Midis and then said no more nonsense.

Apply ointment and massage the injured muscles. For most people, a sprained back like this takes more than a day or two to recover from. Especially for office workers whose physical condition is always in a sub-optimal state, it looks like Mitis will need to rest for a long time, but fortunately it won't affect her work.

"You're not young anymore, I hope you can take care of your health."

Finally, Huang Quan offered his tactful advice, then put away the first-aid kit, leaving the space to the two anxious little ones outside. They were also very worried about Mitis's twisted back.

'Is it just my imagination?'

In the storage room, Huang Quan stared intently at his palm; his smooth palm had nothing but the lines on it.

However, Huang Quan had just felt a strange pain, as if someone had cut her palm with a thin, sharp knife. When Huang Quan checked, the pain had mysteriously disappeared, just as secretly as it had appeared. If it was a hallucination, Huang Quan absolutely did not believe it.

Because her body, under normal self-control, could not possibly experience hallucinations!

'Could it be Aunt Mitis...?'

Naturally, suspicion fell on Li. Midis might have many secrets, but recalling how Li struggled against her because of a sprained back, Huang Quan wondered if her aunt, who seemed almost no different from an ordinary person, really had the ability to influence her.

Chapter Forty-Three: A Terrible Battle

Regarding the apartment, Midis, Alizee, and the bishop Ophelia with her twin ponytails who has been talking nonsense lately, they are just minor ripples in Huang Quan's warm world, and it doesn't seem worth her spending too much time and energy to investigate them.

The existence of the system and the Sword Domain constantly serves as a reminder to Huang Quan.

This cozy world is just a safe haven.

A truly perilous world, where humans and monsters still exist, both within reach and insurmountable distances. It is precisely because of this that Huang Quan has never let her guard down, or rather, she dares not let her guard down!

The familiar feeling of weightlessness.

As if falling from the heavens, her consciousness was constantly peeling away and taking shape. As the projection of her thought body was underway, Huang Quan, who dared not relax, emerged from the canopy-like spatial ripples after experiencing the usual dark weightlessness. Her usually stoic face revealed deep astonishment!

"Sword Domain...?"

Without a doubt, the destination reached by the thought entity through the admission ticket should be the sword domain of the [Divine Sword].

After this period of training, the most direct impression Liang Yue's sword domain gave Huang Quan was one of natural harmony and unfathomable depth. Even when she used overwhelming force, it was like the wrath of nature, filled with the scorching heat of a natural disaster!

However, what Huang Quan saw at this moment was a desolate and broken scene!

Fog rises and clouds surge! A hurricane rages! Streaks of light, barely perceptible even in the Yellow Springs, wander and surge through the air, their piercing shrill cries filling every corner of space, brutally and forcefully penetrating the five senses of the thought entity! The unidentified fragments shredded by the light are instantly swept into the sky by the gale and fog!!

Within just a few breaths, the thought entity could not withstand the pressure of the divine sword intent within the shattered sword domain and was on the verge of death!

That's terrifying!!!

Until now, Liang Yue hadn't truly made a move, and Huang Quan had never been able to personally experience the sheer power of a swordsman standing at the pinnacle of a world teeming with strong individuals. But now, facing the overwhelming might Liang Yue unleashed, a power so immense it seemed the very sky itself was about to collapse, Huang Quan finally truly understood what a "Divine Sword" was!

If Huang Quan knew that this was merely the aftermath of Liang Yue and Sordros's sparring match, he would probably be even more horrified.

'No! I'm going to die!!'

Maintaining the thought body became increasingly difficult. Liang Yue and Sordros immediately noticed this weak entity that had suddenly appeared within their fighting range and could also see that the thought body was about to shatter.

However, for the same purpose, neither Liang Yue nor Sordros indicated that they would stop, and both remained silent, keeping a watchful eye on Huang Quan.

For Huang Quan, the tangible form of her thoughts was on the verge of collapse, and her extraordinary willpower was merely a temporary measure to hold it together. In this harsh environment where she could be easily killed a thousand times over, strength was the only hard standard; if one's strength was insufficient, there was only one possible outcome.

dead!

'It's over...' His vision blurred, and Huang Quan, like a rag doll being tossed about by the gale, knelt in the agonizing air. Like a candle flickering in the wind, perhaps because this death was too suffocating, Huang Quan felt a tightness in his chest, and the sharp edge beneath his resilience revealed a ferocious glint!

Liang Yue, what's wrong with you?! Weren't you doing just fine before? Why are you turning your back on me the moment I came in?!

This injustice is unbearable even in the Yellow Springs!

"Not bad." The young swordsman's mental form, which he sensed, was nearly shattered, yet it hadn't collapsed under such overwhelming pressure, managing to hold on for a while by sheer willpower. Sordros gave a fair assessment; with his sharp and experienced eyes, Huang Quan couldn't hide anything about his swordsmanship in front of him.

"Just not bad?" During their sparring, Liang Yue flicked her wooden staff, shattering dozens of pursuing slashes from the void at an incomprehensible angle, smoothing out the deadly shockwaves generated by the sharp cuts. To achieve this with an ordinary wooden staff—Liang Yue's swordsmanship was divine!

“What else?” Sordros retorted, instinctively realizing that this was not the end.

Clang!

As if confirming the words of the "Divine Sword," and also Sordros's intuition, a crisp sword cry, faint yet tenacious, emanated from outside the deathly aura of the two sparring.

"what?"

The question came from Liang Yue, not Sordros. What lay hidden beneath the unyielding spirit of this exceptionally tenacious swordsman was something quite unexpected.

With both hands gripping the sword, Huang Quan's eyes seemed to burn with the fierce flames of karmic retribution, so vivid and alluring they were blinding. She held the gleaming blade horizontally to her shoulder. A destructive desire, so overconfident and reckless, to crush and destroy everything filled Huang Quan's icy heart! Her sword intent was always focused on striking the sharpest point!

Unwilling to accept defeat, wanting to win, wanting to dominate everything! It felt as if the pent-up frustration within me had unleashed a ferocious, demonic energy!

The name "Sword Demon" is truly well-deserved!

*Sizzle...!*

A snow-white single-edged sword was thrust out in an instant! The bright blue sword light cleaved through the gale and the thick fog! It plunged forth relentlessly towards the very spot in his mind's eye!

What a magnificent and beautiful scene that was!

The solidified sword light flashed and disappeared, forcefully carving a clear path through the complex, swirling sword domain. The light rapidly dissipated, fading and vanishing after traveling a short distance, finally emitting a mournful cry as it disappeared into the violently turbulent sword domain. The entire process was brief, reminiscent of a fleeting meteor, so beautiful that one wanted to see it a little longer.

"Your sword intent [Mind] can create its own space within Liang Yue's sword domain. You deserve recognition."

Before Huang Quan fainted, a strange male voice entered his ear.

That's right, he didn't die, he just passed out.