Qin Siyang's right foot aimed at the hilt of the Short Bee Dagger.
BANG!
In an instant, dust flew up.
This time, Qin Siyang directly kicked Guo Jiuxiao to the ground, and the surrounding two to three meters also collapsed into a deep pit.
Qin Siyang only glanced with the corner of his eye.
The armor on Guo Jiuxiao's arm had already been pierced by the Short Bee Dagger.
Blood was gushing out like a ruptured water pipe.
Guo Jiuxiao no longer dodged, instead placing his hands together.
Qin Siyang's gaze sharpened.
'Pierced by the Short Bee Dagger, and still able to move?'
Countless vines suddenly emerged around, surging toward Qin Siyang like a tide.
But Qin Siyang didn't use [Banquet Domain] to escape.
He glared fiercely at Guo Jiuxiao, who had his hands together.
'Hands together?'
'No longer blocking with his arms?'
'Then doesn't that expose your face?'
'The helmet and the armor on the body are a set.'
'Since the armor cab be pierced by a tier-2 weapon.'
'How many punches can the helmet withstand?'
'The tier-4 armor on my body can't be more fragile than your tier-2 armor, right?'
Qin Siyang curled the corners of his lips.
'I scammed that old bastard's tier-4 armor.'
'Now it's finally useful'!
Qin Siyang ignored the vines behind him that surged like towering waves.
His legs straddled either side of Guo Jiuxiao's body.
He bent down to gather force, punching rapidly in succession.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
His fists already formed afterimages, indistinguishable between real and illusion.
Wind howled past Qin Siyang's ears.
Qin Siyang could feel the helmet on Guo Jiuxiao's face shattering.
Then the colorful mask beneath the helmet was continuously shattered and regenerated.
But the bridge of the nose and skull beneath the mask couldn't regenerate.
Everything was breaking.
Suddenly, a vine wrapped around Qin Siyang's neck, trying to tear off his visor.
Another vine shot at his face like an arrow loosed from a bow.
After one more punch, Qin Siyang used [Banquet Domain] to flash away.
He landed not far away.
Escaped from the giant cage formed by vines.
However, due to the vines blocking his view,
He couldn't see Guo Jiuxiao's condition within them.
Qin Siyang pondered silently.
'Guo Jiuxiao took a few punches directly.'
'Even if he's sequence-ranked, if not dead then at least disabled!'
Because Qin Siyang escaped the encirclement, the vines stopped attacking, slowly swaying on the ground.
Just a few seconds later—
A figure stood up from the middle.
It was Guo Jiuxiao.
The colorful mask on Guo Jiuxiao's face had disappeared, and he stared at Qin Siyang.
But his heart held some surprise.
'Didn't expect Qin Siyang to be this fast, and this strong!'
'Faster and stronger than last time outside the safe zone!'
'Last time I disguised myself as Laudenor to fight, yet this boy Qin Siyang didn't even go all out.'
'He dares he?'
[Warrior] and [Phantom Assassin] sequences known for strength and agility—at the same level, none of them match Qin Siyang's strength.
'Just what sequence is this kid?'
Guo Jiuxiao spat out a mouthful of blood, with several shattered teeth.
Staring darkly at Qin Siyang, "Even after being bound, you can still move so quickly."
"No, this isn't just quick movement. This is practically teleportation!"
"Teleportation, huh…", Guo Jiuxiao's lips curled, blood-streaked saliva dripping from his cracked mouth, "Classmate Qin, the more I see your skill, the more interested I become."
Guo Jiuxiao spoke with a "gurgling" sound.
Looking at Guo Jiuxiao's appearance, Qin Siyang felt a chill in his heart.
Just now he had taken a fully-charged overhead slash from him, and Guo Jiuxiao's arm was already pierced by the Short Bee Dagger.
Yet it didn't affect his movement at all.
Took a few punches from him, and his face was already sunken in.
One of his eyeballs had popped out of the socket, dangling on a blood-filled lower eyelid.
The lower half of his face was a bloody mess.
Like a car head-on crashing into a guardrail, totally unrecognizable.
Barely discernible as a human face.
Even Qin Siyang felt pain just looking.
Yet Guo Jiuxiao still acted like nothing happened, seemingly feeling no pain at all.
'This Guo Jiuxiao, is he man or ghost?'
Weirdness and disharmony lingered in Qin Siyang's mind.
Suddenly, he realized—
'Guo Jiuxiao's armor isn't tier-4.'
'The dignified Guo Jiuxiao doesn't even have a decent defensive wepaon?'
'Ren Changyu, Ma Shi, and Hu Yunsheng all have various defensive gear.'
'Guo Jiuxiao is the leader, and yet too poor to equip even tier-4 protection?'
'Never heard that Guo Jiuxiao is bankrupt from futures trading?'
Guo Jiuxiao turned his barely usable eye to glance at a distant house.
The house remained quiet.
Only the lights inside had turned red.
Guo Jiuxiao frowned slightly, then shook his head.
He said unhurriedly, "Zhang Kuang definitely hasn't succeeded yet. Xu He also hasn't encountered danger."
"As for the battle on Ma Shi's side, I can't intervene even if I wanted to."
At this, he fixed one eye on Qin Siyang, "Since neither side needs me, then I'll spend some time with little classmate Qin."
Guo Jiuxiao twisted his neck.
Another mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth.
But his gaze still brimmed with interest.
"Little classmate Qin, since you used this teleportation skill again, let me test how deep your waters run," After speaking, Guo Jiuxiao once again pressed his palms together.
His face was again wrapped in the colorful shaman mask.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Suddenly, countless vines sprang from the ground.
Although the size of the vines hadn't changed, the quantity was astonishing.
These vines lunged swiftly toward Qin Siyang, trying to entangle him.
Qin Siyang first threw a punch.
Crushing several vines, but then more vines burst from the ground.
Impossible to clear them all.
Qin Siyang furrowed his brow, repeatedly activating [Banquet Domain], dodging the vines that suddenly emerged.
'Why is the number of vines he summons now so much more than when he fought old Li before?'
Qin Siyang was full of doubt.
He glanced again at the distant Guo Jiuxiao.
With his sharp perception, he was surprised to find that Guo Jiuxiao's figure seemed a bit thinner.
'Could it be that this powerful summoning comes at the cost of his own bodily energy?'
'Why is he going so hard against me again?'
'He doesn't want his life anymore?'
'Eh!'
Qin Siyang tilted his head.
'Why did I think 'again'?'
'Right.'
'Last time Guo Jiuxiao possessed Laudenor's body, disguising as Li Tianming, also acted like he wasn't afraid of death.'
'Also immune to my Short Bee Dagger!'
'Could it be this time, Guo Jiuxiao possessed someone again and is pretending to be Guo Jiuxiao?'
'Is this what Li Tianming meant by "This Guo Jiuxiao is not Guo Jiuxiao"?'
While dodging vines, Qin Siyang kept watching Guo Jiuxiao.
And became increasingly convinced his guess was right.
The Guo Jiuxiao in front of him was just an ordinary [Shaman] sequence's substitute body.
'So that's why Li Tianming was at ease letting me fight him!'
'I see.'
'No wonder his strength is mediocre and his equipment crappy.'
'Turns out he's a fake.'
Having figured all this out, Qin Siyang didn't hesitate anymore and directly switched from defense to offense.
'Damn it.'
'If I can't beat Guo Jiuxiao, I can still beat you, right?'
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