C31 System You Fcking Cheated Me Again!!

Qin Buyi's eyes narrowed as he watched the Heavenly Soldier's long blade vibrate at high speed, slicing through the air towards him.

"Killing Saber Technique?" Qin Buyi gasped in recognition.

He suddenly remembered the system's earlier message: someone in the Awakening Secret Realm would teach him the fourth move of the Killing Saber Technique.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" Qin Buyi bellowed.

"Clang!"

His Killing Saber met the Heavenly Soldier's blade in a fierce collision.

Sparks scattered in every direction as the force traveled from the Killing Saber up Qin Buyi's arm and throughout his body.

"Thump—Thump—Thump."

It took Qin Buyi three steps back to fully dissipate the force, whereas the Heavenly Soldier stood firm, not retreating an inch.

Regaining his footing swiftly, Qin Buyi pushed off the ground with the tip of his foot and, gripping the Killing Saber tightly, lunged at the Heavenly Soldier once more.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

The Heavenly Soldier countered with the same move, his own Killing Saber Technique slashing down at Qin Buyi.

"Clang!"

Qin Buyi staggered back over twenty meters this time.

Despite the Heavenly Soldier's attributes being vastly inferior to his own, and even though they wielded the same saber technique, Qin Buyi found himself at a disadvantage. Somehow, the soldier's strength surpassed Qin Buyi's, despite the disparity in their attributes.

As the Killing Saber clashed with the Heavenly Soldier's blade, the force transmitted hinted at a power that seemed to edge beyond the Golden Core Stage.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" Qin Buyi cried out.

The Celestial Soldier responded in a raspy tone, "Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

"Clang!" "Clang!"

"Clang!"...

Dozens of exchanges later, Qin Buyi remained on the defensive, the gap between him and his adversary growing ever larger.

The rust-like creaking noises from the Heavenly Soldier's body had vanished, his movements becoming sharper, his strikes increasingly ferocious.

"Boom!"

The impact of the blades sent Qin Buyi hurtling hundreds of meters, the raw power rampaging through his body.

Qin Buyi exerted all his strength to control his fall, yet he couldn't prevent himself from crashing hard onto the ground.

"Thud!"

Pushing off the ground with one hand, he sprang to his feet, just as the Heavenly Soldier loomed before him.

"Clang!"

In a frantic move, Qin Buyi lifted his saber to parry the incoming strike.

"Swoosh!"

The Heavenly Soldier's long saber showed no mercy as it sliced across Qin Buyi's chest, leaving a gash so deep that bone was visible.

"How could this happen!" Qin Buyi inwardly exclaimed in shock.

The Heavenly Soldier didn't allow Qin Buyi a moment to recover from the shock. Following the brutal cut to Qin Buyi's chest, he launched another attack.

Gritting his teeth against the searing pain, Qin Buyi gripped the Killing Saber and met the assault with full force.

"Clang!" "Clang!"

"Boom!" "Bang!"

This time, Qin Buyi was hurled a thousand meters, slamming into the earth with a heavy impact.

"Your saber skills are laughable. Are you wielding a stick for kindling?" taunted the Heavenly Soldier.

Qin Buyi rose from the ground, feeling as if his body was falling apart once again.

Upon standing, a smile crept across Qin Buyi's lips as he murmured, "I've got it."

The key to the Heavenly Soldier's ability to triumph over a stronger foe, despite the vast difference in their attributes, lay in his mastery of the saber technique.

The Killing Swordsmanship's essence is rapid vibration; Qin Buyi could vibrate his blade hundreds of times in a single second.

The Heavenly Soldier's strikes never vibrated less than a thousand times each, and as the battle wore on, the frequency of vibrations per second kept increasing.

The final blow was terrifyingly potent, with vibrations reaching tens of thousands in one second—an attack at the peak of the Golden Core Stage capable of instantly killing an adversary in the early Nascent Infant Period.

Had Qin Buyi's attributes not been so formidable, along with his knowledge of the Killing Saber Technique, that last strike would have spelled certain doom.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

Holding the Killing Saber, Qin Buyi mimicked the Heavenly Soldier's saber vibrations, steadily increasing the frequency of the Slaughter technique's vibrations every second.

"Clang!" "Clang!"

"Bang!"

Blades clashed, and Qin Buyi was sent soaring through the air once again, yet a smile crept across his face. Just moments before, he had managed to increase the frequency of the Slaughter technique's vibrations to over a thousand times per second.

The Heavenly Soldier spoke with a raspy voice, "I didn't expect you to catch on so quickly. Still, you're far too weak. If you don't ramp up your efforts, you're going to die."

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" the Heavenly Soldier declared.

Wielding a long blade that hummed with over 10,000 vibrations per second, he lunged at Qin Buyi.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" Qin Buyi roared in response.

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

"Boom!"

Qin Buyi was hurled away again, but this time he didn't travel nearly as far as before.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

"Clang! Clang! Boom!"

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

...

After enduring hundreds of exchanges, Qin Buyi had sustained two additional wounds—one on his abdomen and the other perilously close to his throat, narrowly missing a lethal cut.

With a faint blood-red glint in his eyes, Qin Buyi stared down the Heavenly Soldier and bellowed, "Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" Gripping the Killing Saber tightly, he unleashed his full power in a strike aimed at his celestial adversary.

"Clang!"

Their weapons met in a cacophony of metallic cries.

"Thump!"

Following the clash, Qin Buyi staggered back two steps, while the Heavenly Soldier was pushed back only half a step. By now, Qin Buyi had nearly mastered the Slaughter technique, achieving vibrations close to ten thousand times per second. Yet, the difference between nearly ten thousand and precisely ten thousand times per second seemed like an insurmountable chasm.

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!" Qin Buyi, clenching the Killing Saber, initiated a frenzied onslaught.

"Clang!" "Clang!"

"Clang!"

Half an hour ticked by. During this time, Qin Buyi executed the Slaughter technique tens of thousands of times. Despite the significant drain on his physical strength, the silver lining was that he was now tantalizingly close to the ten-thousand mark. At present, Qin Buyi could vibrate the Slaughter at a staggering 9,999 times per second.

"Just a hair's breadth away from reaching ten thousand vibrations per second..." Qin Buyi mused internally.

Marshaling the last of his strength, Qin Buyi's eyes blazed with a blood-red fury as he stared down the Heavenly Weapon, his voice thick with lethal intent:

"Killing Swordsmanship: Slaughter!"

"Strike!"

With Qin Buyi's battle cry, the once-impassable rift vanished in the blink of an eye.

The blade's vibrations made the Slaughter technique seem like a lake serene on the surface yet churning with deadly undercurrents.

"Clang!" "Clang!"

The Killing Saber collided with the Heavenly Weapon's long blade.

"Strike!" Qin Buyi roared.

"Crack!"

A web of fractures spread across the Heavenly Weapon's long blade, emitting a shrill metallic cry.

"Crack!"

Overwhelmed, the long blade shattered, its fragments bursting outward in a deadly spray.

"Swoosh!"

The Killing Saber, relentless, cleaved through the Heavenly Weapon's head after obliterating its blade.

"Thud!"

The Heavenly Weapon toppled, reduced to a headless corpse once more.

Having executed the Slaughter technique with its ten thousand vibrations per second, Qin Buyi felt as though his energy had been siphoned away, leaving him gasping for breath.

The path to enhance the Slaughter technique further was now crystal clear.

Despite the peril, the surge in his own power was unmistakable.

"So thrilling from the get-go; what lies ahead?" Qin Buyi wondered with a hint of curiosity.

During the recent skirmish, he noticed the killing intent previously constrained by the system beginning to unravel.

And with each battle, it seemed to loosen faster, his foreboding sense growing ever closer to reality.

What lay beyond in the Awakening Secret Realm was a mystery, but judging from the first challenge, the road ahead would be anything but easy.

The gradual release of the killing intent meant he had to devote more focus to counter it, to prevent himself from descending into a mindless, killing automaton.

Caught between internal struggles and external threats, Qin Buyi had no illusions: the system had played him once again.

Since his dealings with the system began, it seemed every encounter was rife with its sly machinations.

From his initial forced confrontation with a member of the Tang family at the Nascent Infant Early Period while still in the Golden Core Stage, to the enigmatic maneuvers at the South Heaven Gate, he had acquired twenty attribute points and an invisible bomb.

Qin Buyi had come to realize that he was becoming accustomed to this devious system.

Yet, familiarity aside, it didn't prevent Qin Buyi from inwardly bellowing at the system:

"System, you've duped me once more!"