Seven Petals Severance was a High-Grade Profound Rank Mysterious Technique. It was already very lethal and in hands of a Sword Genius like Sun Tianlan, it became a nightmare.
Ye Jun's mind moved faster than his body ever could. In the space between heartbeats, he counted the angles, weighed the cuts, measured the breath she had put behind each one.
Seven attacks in a single second. Seven manifestations of a sword that should only exist once.
'Tch. So this is what a Sword Genius looks like when she stops being polite.'
He couldn't dodge all of them. He knew it the moment the technique unfolded so he didn't even bother to try.
His Ember Sword rose in a tight arc, catching the first petal at the wrist, redirecting it just enough that the second petal struck where the first had meant to land.
Sparks bloomed on the arena as metal kissed metal and the impact ran up his arm like a hammer striking an anvil.
