se. When she finally saw what was going on, she instantly froze; this…this is a tigerUpon hearing Liu Meng’s show-off question at the end, Ling Bingbing almost fainted; cute Was there any connection b...Chapter 1322: Still So Despicable

As the saying goes, an enemy's enemy is a friend. Xia Tian and Ye Yumei finally conducted their first-ever true collaboration. In Xia Tian's view, although this woman deserved to be beaten up, he still needed to win her over according to what his Fairy Sister said, so they would eventually become family. Therefore, the problem between them should be considered an internal family dispute. However, that white-clothed woman named Huang Jingyi was different; she not only wanted to kill him but also take away his Fairy Sister, which he couldn't tolerate. She was truly a mortal enemy trying to destroy his family, so she must be eliminated!

When Xia Tian secretly infused true energy into Ye Yumei's body and removed the restrictions on her when they first embraced, allowing her powers to recover, he felt that they should temporarily set aside their internal disputes to unite against a common enemy. Seeing how cooperative Ye Yumei was with him, Xia Tian was quite pleased; this slender waist wasn't as foolish as he thought!

When Xia Tian threw her out, she knew what he wanted from her. Although she still hated Xia Tian intensely until now, she understood that she had to cooperate with him temporarily because at least he wouldn't kill her right now. As the saying goes, if there's a mountain left standing, one needn’t worry about having no wood for fire; as long as she was alive, she would always have an opportunity to seek revenge on Xia Tian this rascal in the future. However, she also knew that Huang Jingyi from the Mysterious Immortal Sect truly wanted her life, and given her current condition, there was no way she could be Huang Jingyi’s match. To escape from Huang Jingyi’s hands, she had to cooperate with Xia Tian.

No matter what she wanted to do, survival was the most important prerequisite; if she died, nothing would get done. Therefore, whether it was for her future return to the Immortal Cloud Continent or having an opportunity in the future to seek revenge on Xia Tian, her top priority now had to be to survive.

Although they didn’t explicitly say so, this time around they were quite tacitly cooperative when launching attacks towards Huang Jingyi together. With Ye Yumei’s addition to their side, the battle situation instantly changed.

There is no doubt that Huang Jingyi is an outstanding disciple among the younger generation of Mysterious Cloud Immortal Sect, but in fact, her cultivation level is not significantly different from Xia Tian’s. Both of them are at the Golden丹Stage (Dan refers to a stage in cultivation), and if we divide this stage into three phases, both Huang Jingyi and Xia Tian are currently in the middle phase of the Golden Dan Stage. The only difference is that Xia Tian has just entered the middle phase, while Huang Jingyi is about to break through to the later phase.

However, Xia Tian's practical combat skills are seriously lacking. Although he often fought with his three masters when he was young and beat up people everywhere after going down the mountain, in reality, he rarely encountered true experts. In other words, he lacked experience fighting against high-level opponents. After mastering the Heaven-defying Fifth Needle technique and advancing to the Golden Dan Stage, he hardly ever sparred with opponents at this level. On the other hand, Yue Qingya also almost never taught him combat techniques of this level because in a world where it's nearly impossible to cultivate immortality, she couldn't have anticipated that Xia Tian would still encounter opponents.

Compared to Xia Tian, Huang Jingyi, who comes from Mysterious Cloud Immortal Sect, is clearly much stronger in this aspect. In battles between experts, cultivation level itself is indeed crucial; however, if both individuals are on the same level, practical combat skills become extremely important. Currently, not only is Xia Tian slightly weaker than Huang Jingyi in terms of cultivation level, but his practical combat skills are far inferior to hers as well. It's natural for him to be at a disadvantage in this battle.

Ye Yumei changed the situation, and when it comes to practical combat skills, she might even surpass Huang Jingyi. The only thing holding her back now is that her power isn't sufficient due to damage to her Golden Dan and injuries in her body. This prevents her from fully utilizing the strength of a later-phase Golden Dan cultivator as she was twenty years ago. However, those dozen black ribbons still pose an immense threat to Huang Jingyi.

Previously, Huang Jingyi had launched a flying sword to kill Ye Yumei, but at this moment, that flying sword is actually still attacking Ye Yumei. What surprises Xia Tian even more is that Ye Yumei managed to wrap the flying sword with just one black ribbon. Instead of continuing to chase after Ye Yumei, the flying sword now pursues that ribbon instead. More puzzlingly, this woman's black ribbons don't seem to be made of ordinary materials—although they were hit several times by the flying sword, there wasn’t even a scratch on them.

Xia Tian can’t help but recall Ye Yumei’s unique attire that even silver needles couldn’t penetrate. He begins to realize that this woman possesses some treasures. Whether it's her clothing or these dozen black ribbons, their materials are likely very special and capable of blocking powerful flying swords.

There's a saying that the one you are most familiar with is often not your friend, but your enemy. This phrase fits here as well; Night Yu Mei is extraordinarily familiar with all kinds of cultivation techniques and sword skills of Mystic Immortal Gate. This allows her to attack Huang Jingyi at her weakest points. Every single black ribbon she has can be fatal!

"Night Yu Mei, I'll deal with you first!" Huang Jingyi's tone carried a hint of annoyance; she clearly realized the threat Night Yu Mei posed and had no choice but to focus on her. Her jade-like palms flailed rapidly, swiftly sending dozens of palm winds towards those black ribbons.

The powerful palm winds successfully deflected all the ribbons, yet these soft ribbons astonishingly showed their resilience at this moment. The front ends of the ribbons suddenly twisted bizarrely and then returned to their original trajectories, continuing to shoot towards Huang Jingyi's vital spots.

"Damn witch!" Huang Jingyi cursed inwardly; she finally understood that Night Yu Mei, who had once stirred up a storm on Immortal Cloud Continent twenty years ago, was indeed formidable. Although it seemed that her current cultivation level had dropped significantly and was far below hers, these bizarre black ribbons still possessed tremendous destructive power.

Her fair palms unleashed an array of palm shadows again; after sending out dozens more palm winds, Huang Jingyi rapidly retreated. Under Night Yu Mei's assault, she actually found herself in a position where she had to take evasive action, which infuriated her even further. But what was even more infuriating was that at this moment, a strong aura suddenly surged from behind her, and she heard a voice: "Hey, don't forget about me!"

Without any fancy moves, Xia Tian arrived swiftly behind Huang Jingyi with all his strength, delivering a palm strike with the force of heaven!

The palm wind was fierce, creating a small tornado in the air that rushed towards Huang Jingyi with an unstoppable force, seemingly about to tear her apart at any moment!

Although she was annoyed, Huang Jingyi wasn't panicked at all. She noticed that Xia Tian's martial arts skill was higher, but his attacks were too simple and posed no real threat to her; there was no need for her to dodge such a simple palm strike, as her strength was greater than his anyway. She could just confront him head-on.

Huang Jingyi thought this way and acted accordingly. With a reverse palm strike, she gathered energy in the center of her palm and met Xia Tian's attack head-on.

"Boom!"

The two palms collided as expected, unleashing countless true energies once more. As expected, Huang Jingyi continued to dominate, her body not even shaking slightly from the impact. Xia Tian was also unceremoniously sent flying again, seemingly everything happening just as Huang Jingyi had calculated. Yet, when she felt a slight pricking pain in her palm, she knew that an unexpected turn of events had occurred.

This subtle pricking pain introduced a strange true energy within her body, fluctuating between cold and hot. Although this odd true energy didn't seem particularly powerful, it possessed an unusually destructive force, swiftly traversing through her meridians and wreaking havoc inside them.

"Waif, attack quickly! She's injured!" Xia Tian shouted again before charging at Huang Jingyi once more.

Huang Jingyi glared at Xia Tian with contempt. Suddenly, she spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backward. Then, she turned and fled into the distance.

Ye Yumei was momentarily stunned but quickly reacted. Over ten black ribbons shot towards Huang Jingyi in an attempt to intercept her. However, Huang Jingyi had already escaped hundreds of meters away within a split second.

Xia Tian immediately gave chase after her as well but returned less than a kilometer later because he knew she was out of his reach.

"How did you injure her" Ye Yumei couldn't help but ask when Xia Tian came back, for even with her abilities, she hadn’t seen exactly how Xia Tian managed to make Huang Jingyi spit blood.

"Oh, it was simple. I just pricked her with a needle while we were grappling," Xia Tian said casually.

Night Jade Beauty stared at Xia Tian, and after ten seconds, she gritted her teeth and said, "You're still as despicable as ever!"

"Hey, how can this be considered despicable" Xia Tian glared不滿 should be 'glared' here but it seems to be out of context. I will remove it for a more natural translation." at Night Jade Beauty, "That woman used flying swords, and you used black ribbons; you both used weapons, so why can't I use one"

"What you have is not a weapon but a concealed one!" Night Jade Beauty said icily.

"I'm a doctor, and silver needles are my weapon," Xia Tian declared confidently.

Night Jade Beauty opened her mouth to retort but found herself unable to refute him. However, deep down in her heart, she still regarded this little scoundrel as despicable; back then in the capital city, he had subdued her using similar underhanded methods and even violated her!

"Hey, Little Waist, I'm asking you: don't you want to live" Xia Tian asked again at this moment.s the specifics with Qiao Donghai; he will contact you.”“Mr. Xia, are you serious” Wu Anfeng still found it hard to believe."Of course, I'm not in the mood to joke around with you," Summer said a bit...