Ark Heroine Development Plan

"Hehehe... Hahahaha, what did I see? A ghost who restrained his own mania? How have you been living for the past twenty years? What made you become like this?"

Only in combat did the Ghost Tower seem alive, baring its teeth as if ready to feast on a delicious meal.

"You are very angry and rational now, but is your rationality... useful?"

The boneless arm twisted into an exaggerated arc without any warning, and the long sword actually snaked around Xingxiong's huge shield and stabbed her lower abdomen at an incredible angle.

The muscles on Xingxiong's face moved, and he raised his foot and kicked Guiminglou in the stomach without mercy.

A force perhaps more brutal than a full-speed truck crash hit the seemingly delicate body. The explosion of the air barrier and the wailing of the air proved how brutal the kick was. The Ghost Tower was instantly blasted into the building opposite, and several walls collapsed.

The emerald-haired woman immediately ran to the old man sitting on the steps with his head lowered to check on him. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found that his neck was only slightly cut, but then she shook him seriously again:

"Master Lin, Master Lin! You go first, leave this to me!"

What is strange is that this old man who controls the gray area of Lungmen and is worshipped as a god by countless people is now like a puppet with its strings cut. No matter how Xingxiong shakes him, he doesn't react at all.

Not far away, stones fell and a blood-red figure staggered through the thick smoke and dust, with a terrifying blood-red light in its dark red pupils.

"Do you still have time to worry about others, Junior Sister?"

She whispered softly:

"Killing Style...Snake Split."

As Guan Yueli stuffed potato chips into her mouth, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Snake killing plus quartering, Xiaolou has already achieved this level, it's really amazing!"

[Killing Style: Snake Killing] is to break through the inherent limits of the flesh without a body - in most cases, it manifests as bones being broken into several pieces, and to deliver an incredible blow by means that go against the human body.

As for the chariot-rip-and-split technique, Guan Yueli had used it before when he was instructing Xingxiong in the dojo. When a strike hits the enemy, follow-up force is applied, and the explosive force will tear the victim into pieces from the inside.

Guan Yueli basically no longer uses the former. That was a move she used a long time ago, so long ago that she was in a desperate situation every time she fought. As for the latter, the effect she achieved was not on the same level as that of her disciples.

Therefore, Guan Yueli had never thought of combining the two - the main reason was that there was basically no need, but it was a fact that Guiminglou made a brilliant breakthrough based on her work.

Xingxiong's face turned pale. She looked down at her abdomen. The wound, which had only penetrated two inches at most... was now spreading like a spider web.

The person who caused this injury was a disabled person with all four limbs broken. Xingxiong even felt that she had shown mercy.

This is the Shasheng-ryu, a school of swordsmanship that transcends reality, established by Guan Yueli through the refinement of his own martial arts. A swordsmanship that transcends reality, abandoning any external forces and reaching the realm of "fantasy" through pure skill.

But Xingxiong just tore open his T-shirt and bandaged the wound, looking at the figure walking out of the smoke and dust with an expressionless face.

"Don't let me down, Junior Sister." Gui Minglou's voice was dark. "You want to know why that old man can't do anything, right? Then you should at least... let me see your progress."

With his arms hanging down and his legs pressed together, Gui Minglou walked towards Xing Xiong in a funny yet terrifying manner, with a cruel and ferocious expression:

"If your value lies only in me repeating the swordsmanship I mastered ten years ago, you useless piece of shit..."

Gui Minglou, who had just had difficulty walking, appeared in front of Xingxiong as if she had teleported. She raised her long sword with both hands and roared:

"Go die now!"

Roar--!

The ghost face on Prajna roared angrily, and the giant triangular shield turned into the most terrifying killing weapon as it spun.

The woman with flowing long hair swung her giant shield towards her senior sister and answered word by word:

"as you wish."

……

"Hit! Hit me hard! Why are you showing mercy, poor kid?"

The woman who had finished her potato chips and started to eat melon seeds slapped her thigh with a look of annoyance.

Chapter 79 - Wuxiang Sword: Transformation and Freedom

When Prajna begins to spin, the battle is destined to become bloody and brutal.

Xingxiong rarely lets her shield rotate during an annihilation battle, unless the enemy's threat level is extremely high. Otherwise, she is unwilling to create a situation that will cause both the enemy and herself to feel psychologically and physically uncomfortable.

But now, the current situation did not give her any choice.

During the back-and-forth battle, Prajna cut off dozens of pieces of flesh on the Ghost Tower, making the woman who was already like a rag doll look even more miserable, like the female corpse hanging on a hook in a horror movie. She was enough to scare people just by standing there, not to mention wielding a knife with a hideous smile on her face.

And Guiminglou made three or four cuts on Xingxiong's body. Although the number was not large, the injuries caused by each cut were either larger cracks similar to being torn apart by a chariot, or very serious wounds that almost caused Xingxiong to bleed internally. So Xingxiong looked much better than Guiminglou, but the actual situation was quite dangerous.

This is truly a life-and-death struggle.

"The skills taught by the master are just used by you to hide like a turtle!"

The woman covered in blood laughed loudly, not caring at all that the rotating giant shield had cut off another piece of flesh from her body. Xingxiong retreated suddenly, barely avoiding the knife in Guiminglou's hand from cutting a huge gash in her chest, but she was still hit hard on the shoulder.

"I'm telling you, Junior Sister, in these twenty years... have you made any progress at all?"

Gui Minglou's voice became frantic and angry: "I thought you had developed something different from your master's path, so I fought you. Don't let me down!"

……

"Xiaolou's taste is getting better and better." Guan Yueli, who was crunching melon seeds, nodded approvingly.

……

"……call."

Xingxiong exhaled slowly, ignoring Guiminglou. The giant shield spinning in his hand suddenly stopped without any warning when it was about to hit Guiminglou!

The original upward cutting posture seemed to violate inertia and turned into a frontal shield without any hindrance. Xingxiong's iron-like muscles suddenly tensed up, and his heavy steps forward directly stomped a crack in the ground. Under the instant blessing of such huge force, the huge shield hit the whole person of Guiminglou directly like a cannonball.

The clear sound of bones breaking was heard again, and no one knew how many bones in Guiminglou's body were broken.

At the moment the woman was knocked away, Xingxiong threw Prajna out with an expressionless face. The tip of the giant shield pierced deeply into Guiminglou's abdomen. If Prajna rotated at this time, it would be enough to cut a gap in her entire upper body, or even cut him in half!

This was to repay Gui Minglou for showing mercy when he attacked him with the Snake Sword just now, but it was just this one move, just this once.

Guiminglou was smashed into the ruins, and the whole person was nailed to a broken wall by Prajna. The Cui Se figure followed closely behind. She stared at the woman in front of her who looked like she was going to die in the next second, her senior sister, and raised her fist without any hesitation.

A punch hit Guiminglou's head.

……

"Wow……"

Guan Yueli rubbed her cheeks and muttered, "Slapping someone in the face would hurt the relationship between us, wouldn't it? Can't we just hit them on the head?"

……

Xingxiong, whose fists were covered in blood, had a cold expression and did not waver at all. She continued to punch and retract her fists without stopping until she smashed Guiminglou's entire head into the wall.

——In fact, she didn't want to stop at all, but she had no strength left.

The injuries that Guiminglou had just inflicted on her did not allow her to make any big movements. If she continued to move, she would surely die first, even though, logically, Guiminglou should have been dead beyond death by now.

Because Xingxiong knew that Guiminglou was not dead yet.

The forbidden technique of killing that he had used before, a simple, crude, direct and easy-to-understand forbidden move - Burning Life.

Overdrawing the body's potential, treating the body as an "object", and squeezing it to the extreme to burn out the vitality.

"Huh...you really wanted to kill me just now, Junior Sister."

With two hands, he pulled out the huge shield embedded in his abdomen and threw it aside, then pulled out the head embedded in the wall.

That enchanting face was only covered in blood, but... intact.

The woman stood up shakily, and her broken limbs, which were as thin as willow catkins, actually took shape, and the support of the skeleton seemed to have returned to her body.

"I burned away twenty years of my life," she said, then burst into laughter. "But... I'm very satisfied!"

"Illusionary bubbles, disintegrating swords, four kinds of disasters..."

Guiminglou, who had recovered to his full strength with forbidden techniques, looked down at Xingxiong who had fallen down exhausted. The situation was changing so quickly.

"It's not quite the same, but it's plausible. You used a shield to perform the sword technique of the Killing Style."

The woman bent down and pinched Xingxiong's chin, her eyes full of surprise:

"Is this your progress? Very good...wonderful!"

……

Seeing their faces getting closer and closer, Guan Yueli's brows suddenly furrowed:

"If you want to kiss, you can only do it on my bed! How can Xiaolou be so bold! Xiao Xiaohe, if Xiaolou dares... you understand, right?"

……

Xingxiong sneered and spat out a mouthful of blood: "Only my sister... has the right to speak to me in this tone!"

Gui Minglou stretched out his index finger and touched Xingxiong's lips, then put it into his own mouth, frowning slightly.

"But your blood is still like this... It hasn't grown as I expected."

Xingxiong pressed his abdomen and kept adjusting his breathing, his heart beating more and more violently.

"Do you think... you're the only one who can use Burning Life?"

The long emerald hair fluttered in the wind, and Xingxiong's breath became increasingly hot. If this woman didn't calm down, he would beat her until she calmed down!

But in the next second, Xingxiong's rising momentum suddenly stopped.

Just like Lin Gerui, who had clearly become a general just now...

"Do you think you have a chance, Junior Sister?"

The woman smiled and placed her hands on Xingxiong's face. "You've shown me your progress, so... you should also see my achievements, right?"

The flames of desire burned brightly in her dark red eyes:

"You're not the only one who has extended the Master's path to other places!"

There is no sword to cut, no beheading to kill.

Gui Minglou softly recited the knife she had just used, a knife that no one could see, so no one could dodge.

"Killing Flow, Unthinking Sword, Transformation and Freedom."

……

"Okay, you don't need to read anymore."

Guan Yueli turned off the TV and stretched out lazily. The potato chip bag beside her was filled with melon seed shells.

"Eh? Don't you need to continue, my Lord?" He Mao Jingyu, who was sitting next to Guan Yueli, looked surprised. "Can I summon the Shikigami back?"

"Yes, the next step is the girl's private time. Adults who pry into children's secrets are the worst adults." Guan Yueli said seriously.

"Uh……"

Xiao Xiao He seemed very conflicted. As a follower of Guan Yueli who only knew the name of Guiming Tower and had never seen the real person, she wanted to know what would happen next.

Seeing Xiao Xiao He's shy look, Guan Yueli couldn't help but rub her head with a smile: "Just ask if you have any questions."

The girl immediately sat up straight and asked cautiously, "What exactly was that last sword move by Master Guiminglou? Why did Miss Xingxiong suddenly... just... lose consciousness?"

"That has to do with Xiaolou's own abilities." Guan Yueli grabbed another handful of sunflower seeds from the tea table and munched on them. "She has a spell similar to mind interference... or maybe a special ability, nothing too profound. It's just something that can cause a sudden zap in the enemy's brain during a fight. Even with her training, it's basically just a zap that's incredibly painful."

Xiao Xiao He was stunned: "Did Miss Xingxiong pass out because of that ability?"

"It's not that simple. This is swordsmanship, not Xiaolou's ability."

He Mao Jingyu stuck out her tongue. The "swordsmanship" her master mentioned was the most unreliable. Even if it was so outrageous that it could split a mountain with a single sword, or so abstract that it could cut off time with a sword, it was still swordsmanship in Guan Yueli's words.

The woman, gracefully munching on sunflower seeds, spoke slowly, "Xiaolou uses her abilities as the carrier of her sword, and herself as its sheath. Xiaoxiao He, what do you think would happen if she stabbed you with this sword, which resides in her 'spirit'?"

Xiao Xiao He thought for a moment and tentatively answered, "Those whose spirit is weaker than Master Gui Ming Lou will die immediately?"

Guan Yueli burst into laughter: "It's not such a boring sword. Xiaolou's swordsmanship is much more interesting."

"The person buried within this sword of no thought... their spirit, ideals, and thoughts will be overtaken by the small building. Their desires will devour the original owner's wishes, their rationality will destroy the original owner's rationality, and their thinking will overturn the original owner's thinking. But the fun part is, the original owner remains the original owner, and the small building is just a small building."

"Desires are empathetic, emotions are overwhelming. Am I me? Am I not me? Whose desires am I following? And who is creating desires for me?"

The woman savored the swordplay of her most outstanding disciple with satisfaction and laughed heartily:

"This is... Hehua Zizai!"

Xiao Xiao He shuddered. "How terrifying! I only knew that Miss Xingxiong's previous abnormality was related to Master Guiminglou. I didn't expect the reason to be so terrifying... Wait!"

The girl's eyes widened. "Master Guiminglou was still far away from Longmen at that time! How could it work from such a distance? This, this is too..."