"We already sparred a lot in the past month I don't want to" Han hao replied lazily, as he started to prepare himself for 'exchanging pointers' with Han Heng again.
"I don't mean a purely martials arts spar, those have become boring, I want a fight where we can use everything we have"
'It would be a good way to test the difference between Han Guang and I, and where I stand in the cultivating world, This young master is maybe a bit lazy when it comes to uninteresting things, however survival is not one of them'
"Fine, lets go to the sparring room"
"Hey what about our game" Han Heng screamed.
"we will continue later, go and cultivate you lazy bastard" Han Hao took the legendary brick out of his ring, and smacked Han Heng away.
"Why do you always use a brick Han Hao? And aren't you lazy when it comes to things you dislike, why do you suddenly want to soar with Han Guang?"
"This young master's intentions are beyond your comprehension peasant! I may not do as well as I could when it comes to runes and the like, however my cultivation is at the top of the class, and my martials arts are ranked third even though I don't like cultivating and fighting, I still work at them because they are necessary for my survival, while your talent is not necessarily below Han Gunag's and mine you still lag behind in cultivation".
Han Hao turned around and walked towards the sparring room with Han Guang trailing behind him, while Han Heng got a mat to cultivate and followed behind them.
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Blood Lotus world, Taiji sect, Han Hao's island, sparring room,
Both combatants stretched as they got ready to fight, Han Heng sat at the side cultivating at an extremely slow pace so he could watch and cultivate at the same time.
"The match will begin as the token rings in ten seconds, everything is allowed except killing the other person" Han Hao stated as he got ready and took out his furnace
As the tokens rang ten seconds later, Han Guang appeared beside Han Hao and swung her spear at him, Han Hao's eyes widened and he barely managed to place his forearm to block, as the shaft made contact he was sent flying to the side 'Too fast, I couldn't even see her moving'.
While in the air Han Hao controlled his furnace that was besides Han Guang to attack her, buying him time to get back to his feet, as the furnace flew towards Han Guang's face, she smirked and tried to slap it away with her hand, however the furnace was not sent away instead both and the hand and the furnace stopped and started struggling for dominance, then instead of pushing forward, Han Guang let the furnace push he hand back, she used its momentum to spin and smack the furnace with the spear and sent it flying behind her.
Han Hao called the furnace back to him as Han Guang headed towards him, he dodged a thrust from her spear and kicked at her head , she grabbed his leg nearly cracking his bones and threw him backwards toward the furnace, just as she grabbed him he attacked a small qi thread from his leg to her hand.
Han Hao flew towards the furnace and stretched his arm towards and as he grabbed onto it he made it spin vertically, it rapidly spun and Han Hao delivered a kick towards the surprised Han Guang, the momentum of her throw combined with the spinning furnace's momentum, plus with the surprise made this attack nearly impossible to dodge from Han Guang.
So instead of trying to she channeled her qi to her finger and thrusted it towards where Han Hao's back will be.
Han Hao shattered Han Guang's jaw with his kick, while the qi bullet that Han Guang launched ripped through Han Hao's unprepared back and made him stumble as he landed.
'Damn it! How could you react this fast, are you really a qi refinement cultivator? Heavenly Dao can you please fix this bug, This young master refuses to believe it, Are you sure you aren't one of those heaven chosen, Han Guang?'
Han Hao held his wound, and smiled 'Thank the Heavenly Dao that the attack missed any vitals, though fighting the death seems surprisingly enjoyable….. Not , my body hurts, I got a hole punched through my body, my nerves are frayed from fighting someone who could pull shit like this, my leg is almost broken, the only upside is this is the clearest mind has felt in my entire existence'
Han Guang smiled savagely as she landed 'It seems senior has got some tricks up his sleeve, I can start getting a bit serious' she immediately thrusted her spear a dozen times in Han Hao's direction.
Han Hao's eyes widened, 'she can also use qi bullets from her spear' he held his hands together and made a rubbery layer of qi, after all qi control isn't only accurately using your qi it's also changing its properties at will, he pulled his hand away from each other and a thick rubbery layer of qi unfolded between them.
The qi bullets reached the qi shield and pushed it back, however they failed to penetrate it, Han Hao smirked, straightened the qi layer out causing the qi bullets to fly back towards Han Guang.
Instead of dodging or blocking, Han Guang laughed loudly and launched even more qi bullets to destroy the counter attack, then instead of grouping the qi bullets together she started targeting every body part of her opponent and the general area.
Han Hao's eye started twitching, instead of bothering producing a giant wall of qi and wasting his reserves, he held out his hand and produced a rope of qi, closed his eyes, sensed where the qi bullets were and whipped the qi bullets accurately in one swing.
Before he could even release his breath a deluge of of qi bullets started to rain on him.
He employed the best technique possible for such a situation, Run the fuck away.
So he did, using his furnace to block every shot that came close to him he started retreating, hoping that Han Guang would run out of qi, but instead of the attacks decreasing they started to increase rapidly, 'What the fuck how is she not running out of qi?'
He started to use his senses to sense the qi bullets as he moved around the arena, and sense something wrong with them 'You have to be fucking with me, battle intent already dont people need to bath in blood to get that, she is mother fucking twelve the Heavenly Dao is truly unfair'.
Battle intent, the ability to infuse your will with attacks augmenting them, usually only those who love battles and have battled for entire life times could unlock it, unlike intent that are inspired by phenomena this intent is fueled not by comprehension but by will and love of battle
'How much time did she spend in the illusionary array?' as he sensed more and more of those bullets he started to notice something, their composition was beginning to become less and less balanced, the qi poured into each bullet was reduced and the battle intent got stronger, and what's worse the power remained the same instead of decreasing.
'Knowing Han Guang she is slowly ramping up to have more fun, she must still have a couple of trump cards, my only hope is to go all out before she could start really ramping it up to levels beyond what i could endure' Han Hao made up his mind, he stealthily attached two qi thread while dodging, two points across each other, then he headed to the opposite area making sure Han Guang was between him and the two points where he attached the qi threads.
Han Hao stopped running blocked a few bullets that were going to hit him and rushed towards Han Guang, blocking every bullets while wasting more and more of his qi to defend.
'It seems senior brother noticed I wasn't using up much qi and decided to go for one last charge, lets see what he has up his sleeve' Han Guang smirked stopped launching qi pellets and smiled looking forward to seeing what her senior brother has up his sleeve.
As Han Hao approached he began reinforcing the qi threads that he attached to the two points, he then instead of continuing made a qi tendril on both of his hands and whipped at Han Guang's face, while at the same time attaching the qi thread that he attached directly to Han Guang with the furnace and ordering it to spin around the arena.
'Sigh, it seems I have overestimated senior brother' Han Guang raised her spear to block one tendril and used her hand for the other, just as the tendril were about to be blocked they split into three parts, one of the smaller tendrils latched to the obstacle in their path and each of the other two headed towards Han Guang.
Han Guang eyes widened as four sharp qi tendrils rushed toward her, she let go of her spear and used her one remaining hand to launch a few qi pellets towards the approaching qi tendrils however they kept branching of and creating more tendrils, and before she could do anything that required more qi they pierced through her unprepared defenses in 6 points, one in the abdomen, two in the legs, two in the arms and one headed towards the head but got blocked by her qi coated tongue.
Han Guang got launched backwards from the force of the tendrils, the wound they caused were not deep due to the qi being separated into several spots, however she was bleeding profusely.
Instead of taking advantage of the situation, Han Hao used the qi thread sticking to her spear to grab it, and throw it out of the arena, after that he used the thread attached towards her hand and spun her around, then he started running away from Han Guang.
'Maybe I should start getting serious, after all senior brother managed to land a few hits' just as she started calling her weapon towards her after regaining her balance, Han Hao stopped running and was suddenly launched towards her, 'what?' however Han Guang being Han Guang, managed to dodge slightly to the left avoiding most of the damage.
Han Hao who used the two qi threads he attached to launch himself towards Han Guang smirked as the furnace he ordered to spin around the arena completed a few spins, even though he missed, he expected that, he already had a back up plan.
Han Hao sat on the ground exhausted and incredibly hurt from bullet hole in his midsection, then he checked if the two strings were attached to him still there.
Han Guang called her spear back, and started laughing uproariously "senior brother, why are you sitting the fight is just getting started"
As the furnace spun more and more, "senior sister it's unbecoming of you"
"What do you mean?" Han Guang said confused, then as her mind calmed down from her battle lust induced haze she noticed the furnace spinning around the arena, then realization dawned on her face.
"It's unbecoming of a Taiji sect member to be so poor at sensing qi"
The qi thread that was slowly wrapping itself around Han Guang, tightened and increased in strength, becoming slightly visible as Han Hao ordered his furnace to pour a massive amount of qi to strengthen the ropes.
Han Guang's arms got pulled toward her sides, her spear dropped down, then the furnace immediately used the opening to attack Han Guang.
As Han Guang prepared to use her qi to strengthen the area that was about to be hit, "Huh?".
Instead of hitting her, the furnace stopped right in front of her, opened its mouth, and the fire inside it started getting hotter and more uproarious.
'What is he doing, alchemist can't control fire outside of the furnace, especially at this level of quality, at the Nascent soul realm, let alone at qi refinement' and usually at the Nascent soul level such ability would be useless since the alchemistical fire would be weakened severely outside its furnace
Han Hao who was sitting at the edge of the arena, concentrated as he used of the brief Window of time bought by the qi ropes,
"Junior sister you may be a prodigy at fighting however this young master is a prodigy at pill refining"
The fire surged from the furnace blasting a hole through Han Guang's abdomen, launching Han Guang backwards as the sheer heat melted through her insides blowing.
The qi rope dissipated, the furnace dropped down as it used all of the qi stored in it for one attack.
Han Hao's body was drenched, his will was nearly drained, however he nearly coughed blood from what he saw next.
Han Guang was starting to stand up, barely but surely she got up, she called her spear towards her.
'Ahhh, so this is how antagonists feel when the protagonist wills his body to continue when they should be dead, truly all plans fall before a protagonist's will' as his annoyance subsided he looked up to the ceiling and started to relate to the villains from the stories in his previous life.
Han Hao started sweating more than he already was, his breath stopped, a pressure descended on his body, the atmosphere in the arena got heavier.
'How much were you holding back junior sister, wouldn't you have instantly defeated me if you used even half of this battle intent combined with your qi'
The aura instantly disappeared, Han Hao could finally breath properly, the intent instead condensed around Han Guang's spear, as she cocked it into place using her qi-less body, and then launched it at Han Hao a sonic boom following the spear.
Han Hao's eyes widened, he barely used one of the strings to push him to the right, the spear changed its course mid-air towards where Han Hao's body has dodged to, Han Hao then used the other strained qi string to barely go to the left as the spear poked a hole through his right side.
Han Guang collapsed, her will power spent, while Han Hao stayed conscious for a few seconds after, the last thoughts flashing through in his mind before getting knocked out, were: 'I really shouldn't have taught you how to do that' and 'Was that a fucking sonic boom?'