"Interesting. To be so arrogant despite having just broken through to the Internal Force Realm." Ou Tianrong tossed away the paper strip and rolled her gloved hands.
"I roughly understand your intentions, but it is a pity. Now that you have arrived here, everything can stop."
With two heavy thuds, she pushed aside the Hundred Flowers Sect women blocking her way. Her body, almost as wide as it was tall, resembled a mountain of flesh as she walked straight toward Lin Hui.
She stopped only when she was two meters away from him.
"Come, let me see how fast your sword is!?"
She frowned deeply, staring at Lin Hui before her. To be honest, he was the type she hated the most.
But since he had come knocking on her door as the Sect Master, she had to meet the challenge. Otherwise, the backbone of the entire Hundred Flowers Sect would crumble. At this moment, she somewhat understood Daoist Baohe's mindset back then.
She couldn't escape, she couldn't avoid it; she could only fight.
If she still wanted to be the Master of the Hundred Flowers Sect.
Lin Hui’s sword tip dragged lightly across the ground, creating a friction sound.
"I can't imagine what method you'll use to deal with me. With your weight, it's basically impossible to keep up with my speed," he said softly, gazing at her.
"Hundred Flowers Palm and Enthralling Fragrance Palm. These are the two great martial arts of my sect. I have long since practiced them to the highest realm. You can experience them for yourself," Ou Tianrong said calmly.
The disciples beside her tacitly opened up the distance and scattered.
Soon, only the two of them remained in the second-floor hall.
Wind whistled from the open doors of the rooms.
Ou Tianrong stared at Lin Hui and extended her right hand.
Suddenly, she clenched it hard.
Bang!
With an explosive sound, the air in her hand was squeezed until it burst. At the same time, a ring of faint fragrance splattered from her palm.
Enthralling Fragrance Palm: Blissful Silence
Ou Tianrong exploded the fragrance with one hand while clawing at Lin Hui with the other like a venomous snake—silent, soundless, and concealed.
This fragrance was a toxic gas. Even Internal Force Realm experts with high poison resistance needed to breathe. Inhaling just a tiny bit in a moment of inattention could cause one to fall unconscious instantly.
This was the power of the Enthralling Fragrance Palm. When normal knockout drugs were placed in her hands and catalyzed by the palm force of the Enthralling Fragrance Palm, the efficacy could be enhanced several-fold. It was incredibly potent.
This move, Blissful Silence, appeared on the surface to be a poison attack from above and a sneak attack from below, but in reality, the lower hand was also covertly releasing another medicinal powder.
This powder was not an enthralling fragrance, but a mild, non-irritating tonic.
Poison and knockout drugs would often trigger the automatic body-protection of Internal Force, preventing erosion. But what if it was a tonic that was good for the body?
What if one simply sought the natural side effects of an overdose of tonics?
This was the key to successfully bypassing the automatic Internal Force protection.
It was also the hidden killing move of the Hundred Flowers Sect Master.
But just as her move rapidly approached and was about to taint Lin Hui...
"Wind!"
A low whisper.
She saw Lin Hui raise his long sword and shake it lightly.
A stream of invisible airflow suddenly blew toward her.
But this is indoors! And we are surrounded by walls or doors; where did this direct airflow come from!?
By the time the Hundred Flowers Sect Master realized something was wrong, a silver light had already flashed abruptly, brushing past her body.
Chi!!
Ah!!
She felt intense pain in her side. Looking sideways, she saw that at some point, a deep bloody gash had been cut into the right side of her body.
A finger-deep gash cut across her waist, looking utterly terrifying.
But in an instant, the wound pressed tightly together. Only a thin line remained, as if she had never been injured.
Ou Tianrong looked calmly at Lin Hui behind her.
"Nice sword. It can pierce through Internal Force and hurt me, but… with just this tiny cut, did you skip dinner, or hasn’t your hair even finished growing yet?"
This was the core martial art that truly allowed her to brawl with Song Zhanlong—the Hundred Flowers Body.
This was the amplified damage reduction and "health-locking" effect that appeared when the Hundred Flowers Palm was cultivated to its highest level.
Combined with her terrifying layers of fat, ordinary sharp weapons couldn't pierce through, and blunt weapons would have their damage and shock absorbed by the thick fat.
This layer of fat seemed to wobble, but in reality, it possessed exceptional toughness and was incredibly difficult to cut deeply into.
Lin Hui’s sensation just now confirmed this. The Clear River Sword had first broken through the Internal Force, and after finally managing to strike her body with great difficulty, most of its power was absorbed by the fat. The remaining force only left a shallow cut on her.
On a normal person, that cut would be enough to cause massive bleeding. But on the super-obese Ou Tianrong, who was nearly two meters wide, it was a minor scrape that didn't even count as a light injury.
However, he was not anxious. The Internal Force airflow automatically triggered by the Clear Wind sword just now had blown the surrounding medicinal powder and toxic gas back, avoiding the insidious methods of the Enthralling Fragrance Palm.
Looking at it this way, she really isn't any weaker than Song Zhanlong. They are equally troublesome. Lin Hui stood by the wall, watching Ou Tianrong turn around to face him.
In a confined space, the poison powder will drift back sooner or later. Get out first!
With a thought, he lunged sideways without warning.
"Let's change locations. It's too small here; I can't stretch my legs."
Dropping a sentence, Lin Hui smashed through the wooden door of a side room. After entering, he tapped his foot on the carpet, shot through the room like a sharp arrow, crashed through the glass window, and leaped down.
Outside, quite a few Hundred Flowers Sect disciples and students had gathered in the open space.
They were basically all women, and mostly young women with decent looks and figures.
Clearly, the main cultivation method of this sect still focused on figure and appearance. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many good-looking people. The Hundred Flowers Sect hadn't been in Tuyue City for long; they couldn't have scavenged so many beauties so quickly.
Bang.
Lin Hui landed steadily, provoking a circle of gasps from the surroundings. Before he could stand firm, a massive sense of oppression came from behind him again.
He looked back and saw Ou Tianrong leaping down from the second floor just as he had, crashing toward him.
Her colossal body was like a giant bomb, casting a massive shadow as it slammed down viciously.
Shua! At the same time, Ou Tianrong's left hand scattered several small black balls.
These small balls were similar to the hidden weapons used by the two Hundred Flowers Sect members he had killed in the mist zone back then.
Bang bang bang!!
The small balls exploded continuously in mid-air, turning into a large patch of viscous black liquid that covered the entire area of more than ten meters around where Lin Hui stood.
Boom.
Ou Tianrong finally landed.
But the sensation of collision she expected was completely absent, leaving only the slight pain of her body smashing against the hard ground.
"Where is he!?" Ou Tianrong's heart skipped a beat. She knew it—this type of speed-based opponent was the most annoying.
Even Song Zhanlong would have to vomit blood if he encountered that move just now, yet that kid opposite her had actually escaped the range in the blink of an eye.
He not only escaped the impact but also escaped the entire coverage range of the hidden weapons, vanishing without a trace!
The killing move she had prepared to deal with all speed-based opponents had actually missed twice in a row!
Simply disgusting!
Chi!
In the next instant, Ou Tianrong jerked her head violently, dodging a sword trail that sliced past silently at extreme speed.
But before she could rejoice, a tiny pricking sensation appeared on her back, behind her heart.
Pu-chi!
The Internal Force barrier was instantly broken, and the fat was pierced two fingers deep!
"Get lost!!" Ou Tianrong roared, turning back to strike a palm at Lin Hui.
Although she had been stabbed, and it was a deeper wound than before, this also meant the opponent was stuck by her flesh.
Yes, she did it on purpose! She used her own body to lock the opponent into a close-quarters fight with her.
Internal Force surged frantically along the wound toward the opponent's sword blade.
Ou Tianrong's ultimate art, the Hundred Flowers Palm, also pulled everything within a range of more than a meter, smashing viciously toward Lin Hui's head.
Die, die, die, die!
Ou Tianrong's face contorted unconsciously.
"Fool! I can lose moves countless times, but you... only need one time to die!!"
Bang!
This palm struck directly at his head…
In that instant, Ou Tianrong froze.
Like a statue, she went from extreme speed to absolute stillness. In that split second, she lost consciousness. Her body stiffened unnaturally, maintaining a twisted posture as she continued to lunge at Lin Hui with only residual inertia.
At the same time, all the Internal Force in her body silently dispersed.
Without conscious control, the Internal Force no longer flowed, providing neither amplification nor defense. Her muscles and fat relaxed rapidly, their toughness plummeting, leaving her in the weakest state—naturally defenseless.
Pu-chi.
Lin Hui's sword steadily pierced through Ou Tianrong's fat. Only the moment it was about to touch her heart did he instantly retract the sword.
He sheathed his sword, stepped back, flicked off the blood, and glanced back at his opponent.
Only then did Ou Tianrong slowly begin to recover from the effects of the sealing toxin.
Her massive body crashed heavily to the ground with a loud bang. She lay in a grotesquely twisted posture, utterly wretched as she sprawled on the floor, gulping down great mouthfuls of air.
Unbidden, fear surfaced on her face.
What happened just now!?
Ou Tianrong didn't understand.
She only knew she had tried to lock down Lin Hui, and as a result... she lost consciousness in an instant.
Then, when she woke up again, she was already lying on the ground. On her back, directly over the position of her heart, there was a bloody hole that was clearly a penetrating wound!
That bloody hole reached right to the periphery of her heart and then retracted at a touch. It clearly carried a thick warning.
I almost died!? Ou Tianrong couldn't imagine what had happened, and it was precisely this unimaginability that caused the fear in her heart to climb madly like vines.
What did he do!? Poison? Knockout drugs? Or some other ability!
Quickly suppressing the bleeding wound on her body, Ou Tianrong looked again at Lin Hui behind her.
"...You..." She wanted to say something, but the words were stuck in her throat, and she didn't know how to say them.
"You want to ask why I didn't kill you?" Lin Hui's demeanor suddenly became gentle again.
"You and I have no deep hatred. In broad daylight, and since I am not a homicidal maniac, why did you think I would definitely kill you?"
"..." Ou Tianrong was speechless. Who asked Lin Hui to come in so brazenly, acting as if he were looking for people to slaughter?
And now, in the end, he was saying there was no deep hatred between them, wearing an expression that asked why they were so impulsive.
She tried hard to adjust her emotions, taking a few deep breaths.
"That sword just now... incomprehensible. No matter what, if you wanted to kill me, it would have been as easy as turning over your hand just now." Ou Tianrong said in a deep voice. "What do you want to discuss? Since Sect Master Lin has no killing intent, why don't we sit down and have a good talk about cooperation?"
She now guessed that the other party might be another madman who practiced Extreme Martial Arts. The Extreme Path had numerous side effects; perhaps Lin Hui suffered from intermittent insanity—a condition where he might violently hack people at any time.
Just like some Internal Style experts in the Inner City, who called this side effect "Heart-Seeking" or "Heart Affliction."
"Cooperation is fine. I have admired the Hundred Flowers Sect for a long time. Only by exchanging and combining our efforts can we achieve mutual benefit." Lin Hui sheathed his sword, a perfect smile appearing on his face.
As for the destruction caused by his fight around them, it seemed completely unrelated to the current him.
He's a fucking lunatic!
Ou Tianrong and the surrounding Hundred Flowers Sect members saw it all. Although he looked normal now, no one could say for sure if he would fly into a rage again in a moment.