The beast, seeing its attack fail, leaped backward and started running circles around her. Min Li's eyes narrowed as she struggled to keep track of its speed, quickly becoming flustered. In her distraction, she failed to sense the beast charging from the left side
"Ugh!" she grunted, barely managing to raise her sword in time. Luckily, the beast headbutted her instead of using its claws or fangs — otherwise, her arm would have been torn apart.
'Fuck, I really need to hone my combat awareness,' Min Li thought bitterly. She had mainly focused on cultivation all this time and had neglected combat training
Wang Ming, watching the fight from the side, sighed. He spotted dozens of openings that any experienced fighter could have used to inflict a fatal injury. She was lucky to be facing a beast that relied mostly on instinct — against a more intelligent opponent, she would have already been dead.