Chapter 101: The Reverberations of Actions
Yang Xiu couldn’t believe how unfathomable her master was.
First, he hopped over the fifteen-foot-tall gate with all the ease she would have demonstrated leaping over a fallen tree trunk. Upon landing, he calmly stood there as the jaguar, for no apparent reason, was repelled from atop Yang Ru.
Again for no apparent reason and with Master simply standing still, the cat smashed into the ground like it had been slammed with great force. It literally sunk several inches into hard-packed dirt and lie there unmoving.
Master walked at a leisurely pace to the spirit beast, crouched, and held out his arm, looking for all the world like he wanted the cat to claw him. Yang Xiu couldn’t understand what he was doing or why. Suddenly, the jaguar’s right front leg broke free of whatever force was holding it and swiped at him, and for an instant, she was worried.
She needn’t have been. The claw never even touched skin. An invisible force repelled it a fraction of an inch above his hand.
Master hmmed before pushing back his sleeve and letting the jaguar claw him again. The swipe was not repelled, but it had as little effect as if it had been.
Yang Xiu was amazed. She and Yang Ru were far and away the strongest of the disciples. They’d both went toe to toe with the best Poison Claw Sect members in the Qi Gathering realm.
Neither of them had even been able to scratch the big cat.
In contrast, Master dominated the spirit beast, controlling it with invisible forces beyond her comprehension. The dozens of people that had gathered to watch by that point were all murmuring their awe. Even Yang Ru seemed stunned by the power on display.
So unfathomable.
Master smoothly rose, summoned his spear from his ring, and struck the beast’s eye. By this point, Yang Xiu definitely wasn’t expecting the beast to be able to resist his blow, and for once, something that occurred during the fight met her expectations.
A flash of qi burst from his spear as it made contact with the invisible layer that had protected the beast. It resonated with her. Ice. The burst was ice qi.