Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 206 - 196: Senior Sister, You’re So Bold

"Senior Sister, will you accompany me in cultivation for these seven days?" Qin Qing asked with a smile towards Jiang Ruorong.

"Of course, Junior Brother. However, hiring your Senior Sister as your sparring partner comes with a fee. My rate isn’t low..." Jiang Ruorong teased with a laugh.

"Oh? How come that sounds a bit off to me?" Qin Qing frowned.

Jiang Ruorong didn’t realize what she had said at first, but after thinking it over, she quickly understood, "Hmph, you little Junior Brother, how dare you show such disrespect to your Senior Sister. Take this!"

With a flick of her hand, a silver longsword thin as a cicada’s wing appeared floating in the air, then darted straight towards Qin Qing.

"Swoosh!"

The tip of the sword barely grazed past Qin Qing’s chest.

"Senior Sister, that’s a sneak attack!" Qin Qing yelled out, "But good, Senior Sister, don’t stop. This is perfect for honing my movement technique!"

As he spoke, Qin Qing began to practice the "Sky-Splitting Step Technique."

Instantly, spiritual power surged around him, and spiritual patterns flickered beneath his feet.

"So, you want to practice your movement technique, Junior Brother. There’s actually a great method for that, taught to me by an elder from our clan," Jiang Ruorong said.

"What method?" Qin Qing asked.

"Come over here, and I’ll tell you!" Jiang Ruorong beckoned Qin Qing.

As Qin Qing approached, a cunning glint flashed in Jiang Ruorong’s eyes, and she suddenly smacked a palm towards him.

But it seemed Qin Qing had already seen through Jiang Ruorong’s little trick. The instant she struck with her palm, he sidestepped, turning into a virtual shadow and flickering aside, skillfully dodging her palm.

"Senior Sister, you’re sneak attacking your Junior Brother again!" Qin Qing said, shaking his head with a smile.

"I... I was just testing you," Jiang Ruorong shifted her gaze, puffing her cheeks as she spoke: "Do you still want to improve your movement technique more quickly?"

"I do, of course I do!" Qin Qing nodded eagerly.

"Alright then, follow your Senior Sister!"

This time, Jiang Ruorong was not fooling Qin Qing.

She led Qin Qing to the back of the Great Qian Martial Institute, where there was a mountain of neither large nor small proportions.

At the base of this mountain was a pond.

Waterfalls roared down from the cliff on one side of the mountain, pouring into the pond.

"Get in!"

Jiang Ruorong pointed towards the pond.

"What?" Qin Qing raised an eyebrow.

"You go into the pond, and I’ll attack you from the shore. You’ll use your movement technique to dodge my attacks in the water. This way of practicing your movement technique can yield twice the results with half the effort!" Jiang Ruorong explained.

"Eh?" After hearing this, Qin Qing gave a slight nod as the method seemed quite sound.

"Splat!"

Qin Qing dived straight into the water.

The surrounding ice and snow had not yet melted, and although the weather had begun to clear up in the past few days, it was still not warm, and the water remained ice-cold to the bone.

But such a degree of coldness was nothing to a martial cultivator.

Once Qin Qing entered the pond, he moved like an agile fish, swimming freely back and forth.

"Are you ready, Junior Brother?" Before Jiang Ruorong’s words even finished, the sword in her hand had already thrust out.

Even though Jiang Ruorong’s attacks were each extremely fierce, she was very familiar with Qin Qing’s strength. It was unlikely that her sword could truly threaten him, and any accidental injury would just result in some minor skin wounds.

For a martial cultivator, what were minor skin wounds worth mentioning?

"Bring it on!"

Qin Qing had already reacted. The moment Jiang Ruorong’s sword thrust came, he quickly dodged to the side.

However, Qin Qing quickly felt that in the water, each dodge met with great resistance.

This resistance was not constant but increased dramatically with the speed of the movement. In other words, the faster you dodged, the greater the restraining force of the water would be.

"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish..."

Jiang Ruorong stood on the shore, constantly waving her sword, sending waves of spiritual power-conjured sword radiance slashing towards Qin Qing without a break.

"Whoosh!"

Qin Qing continuously dodged within the water.

Each time, he would stir up a large splash of waves.

Similarly, when the Sword Qi slashed onto the water’s surface, it would continuously cause bunches of water droplets to scatter.

An hour later.

"Huff, huff!" Qin Qing panted heavily.

Tired!

If it were on shore, employing his movement technique continuously for half an hour certainly wouldn’t have left him this exhausted.

But in the water, the feeling of resistance binding him was ever-increasing, becoming more exhausting as time went on. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Even with his Dragon Blood Physique, Qin Qing couldn’t withstand such torment.

"Senior sister, let’s rest for a while!" Qin Qing said to Jiang Ruorong on the shore as he gasped for air.

"No way! Junior brother, you haven’t reached your limit yet! Only by breaking through your limits time and time again can you improve your movement technique in the shortest amount of time!" Jiang Ruorong said, while simultaneously controlling the Flying Sword in her hand.

This time, however, she didn’t slash out with Sword Qi, but directly controlled the Flying Sword to keep stabbing towards Qin Qing.

"Splash!"

Qin Qing hurriedly leaped backward.

"Senior sister, are you trying to murder your own junior brother!" Qin Qing yelled.

"Hmph!" Jiang Ruorong did not heed him and kept controlling the Flying Sword.

Qin Qing had no choice but to circulate the Spiritual Power within his body again.

Within the Dantian, Spiritual Power constantly struck against the four walls, and the circulation of Spiritual Power and Qi-Blood within his meridians was nearly at its limit.

But, just as Jiang Ruorong said, only by impacting his limits time and time again, and continuously breaking through them, could he raise his own ceiling in the shortest amount of time!

...

"Ah, it hurts. It hurts, senior sister!"

Suddenly.

Qin Qing screamed miserably.

His leg had been stabbed by Jiang Ruorong’s sword.

Blood gushed out instantly, dyeing the surrounding pool water red.

"Ah? Junior brother! Did I really stab you?" Jiang Ruorong was astonished; she felt that her sword just now shouldn’t have been able to stab Qin Qing.

"Has junior brother’s strength really reached its limit?"

"It’s all my fault!"

Guilt filled Jiang Ruorong’s eyes.

"Senior sister, save me. I can’t move my leg!" Qin Qing said.

"Junior brother, don’t move around, I’m coming to save you!" Jiang Ruorong plunged into the water, and just as she was about to rescue Qin Qing, the Qin Qing who had seemed to be in unbearable pain on the other side suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Junior brother, you?"

Jiang Ruorong then realized she’d been tricked: "Well done, junior brother, fooling your senior sister!"

"Who made senior sister so heartless in using the sword against me?" Qin Qing teased with a smile.

"Junior brother, then you... are not injured? What about the blood just now?"

"Uh... I just squeezed a piece of Explosive Flame Bear meat underwater..." Qin Qing laughed.

"Ah, you! Little junior brother, you’ve turned naughty!" Jiang Ruorong chided angrily, having been fooled by junior brother’s little trick, "Junior brother, see how senior sister will punish you!"

Jiang Ruorong followed Qin Qing, leaping out of the pool.

And it was at this moment that Qin Qing turned his head, just in time to see Jiang Ruorong emerging from the pool.

Jiang Ruorong’s silk robe, after being soaked in the pool water, had become semi-transparent and clung tightly to her body, perfectly outlining her impeccable physique.

"Glug!" Qin Qing swallowed subconsciously.

"Senior sister, you’re so big..."