Chapter 214: Party Prep
Yang Xiu waited until her brother stepped heavily forward on his right foot. That was his biggest flaw in using his technique. He always, always triggered it after one certain movement with that foot.
She dodged right.
He transferred all his gathered Momentum into his strike, but it was too late. She’s already moved too far away. And with his Momentum depleted, he was too slow to avoid her reprisal.
In one smooth movement, she nocked an arrow, charged it with as much qi as she could in the fraction of a second she could afford to spend, and loosed. It flew true, straight to the center of his chest, where it explosively impacted with the heavy force of sharpened ice.
Yang Ru staggered and let out a loud oof.
She prepared another arrow but knew she wouldn’t have to use it. He was done.
“Stop,” he yelled, holding out his hand. “You win.”
It was nice to be able to fight using all their strength. If they’d hadn’t been sparring inside one of the rooms in the new pavilion, that arrow might have killed him. With the arrays on, it only felt like it should have.
She grinned at the thought. “Good job, Brother. You almost had me.”
He really hadn’t, but the longer he thought he was on the verge of beating her, the longer it would take him to figure out he was tipping her off to the exact timing of his use of the technique.
Yang Ru winced, rubbing at his chest. “We should set the pain lower.”
Yeah, right. He hadn’t thought that way when he was the one pummeling her.