"Again!" Lin Feng shouted, the Wildfire Spear thrusting out like a torrential downpour! (PS: Many blocks and HP reductions aren't described in detail, just general descriptions. Umekawa Kojiro has roughly 900 HP)

First thrust! Straight for the heart! The spear tip spat flames, the air sizzling as it was scorched!

Umekawa Kojiro twisted aside to dodge, his blade following through with a counterattack!

Second thrust! A sweep across the waist and abdomen! The spear shaft carried immense force, the wind of its sweep roaring like a savage beast!

Umekawa Kojiro raised his blade to block! Clang! He retreated another step, his arm numb and aching!

Third thrust! An upward flick towards the throat! The spear tip shot from below, fast as lightning!

Umekawa Kojiro ducked awkwardly. The spear tip grazed past his scalp, shearing off a few locks of hair!

A cold sensation spread from the top of his head, making cold sweat instantly break out on his back!

Fourth thrust! A downward stab at the knee! Lin Feng shifted his spear's momentum, aiming straight for the lower body!

Umekawa Kojiro leaped up violently, narrowly avoiding it!

But Lin Feng's fifth thrust was already waiting for him!

In mid-air, with nothing to push off from! 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

A ruthless glint flashed in Umekawa Kojiro's eyes. He brought his shadow moon blade down with all his might. Purple light erupted from the blade's edge as he tried to counterattack with an attack of his own!

CLANG!!!

The collision this time was more violent than any before!

A visible shockwave of air spread out from where blade and spear met, flattening the withered grass all around!

Umekawa Kojiro was sent flying backward as if struck by a charging rhinoceros. He smashed heavily onto the ground, tumbling twice before barely managing to climb to his feet!

A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth! The front of his robe was soaked with blood!

HP: 90% → 80%!

As for Lin Feng, he stood unmoving, merely flicking the blood off his spear tip lightly.

In a direct clash, Umekawa Kojiro was utterly defeated!

...

Umekawa Kojiro got to his feet, wiped the blood from his mouth. Not a trace of contempt remained in his eyes now.

This young man was stronger than he had imagined! Much stronger!

He couldn't fight head-on.

He took a deep breath, and his figure suddenly became elusive.

【shadow dance legguards·Shadow Dancer】 activated! While moving, for every meter moved, dodge rate increases by 1%, stacking up to a maximum of 30%!

This was the true core special effect of his purple legguards! Combined with his Level 20 agility attribute, it was enough for him to evade the vast majority of attacks in direct combat!

His footsteps began to weave, shifting left and right, forward and back, leaving behind a trail of afterimages within a thirty-meter radius!

With each step, his figure grew more illusory!

Lin Feng frowned slightly.

He thrust his spear forward once more!

The spear tip transformed into a dark red bolt of lightning, aimed straight for Umekawa Kojiro's heart!

Umekawa Kojiro sidestepped. The spear tip brushed past the front of his robe, missing by a hair's breadth!

Lin Feng swept his spear shaft horizontally—a sweeping strike to clear a thousand troops!

Umekawa Kojiro ducked his head. The spear shaft whistled over his head, the fierce wind scraping painfully against his scalp!

Lin Feng's spear light shot out. Three crimson beams of light targeted his upper, middle, and lower paths!

Umekawa Kojiro tumbled through the air. The three spear lights passed beneath him, beside him, and over his head—extremely close calls!

Within the thirty-meter radius, his figure was like a ghost, flickering in and out, leaving countless afterimages!

For every meter moved, his dodge rate increased by a fraction! After fifteen meters, his figure had already begun to blur, making it difficult to track!

Lin Feng's spear thrust out again and again, yet always missed by a hair's breadth!

"Lord Lin, your strength is indeed astonishing," Umekawa Kojiro's voice came from all directions, tinged with barely suppressed smugness. "But what use is it if you can't hit?"

Lin Feng didn't respond.

He stopped moving, quietly watching the weaving figure, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Within the ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) thirty-meter radius, Umekawa Kojiro's speed grew faster and faster, his dodge rate higher and higher.

After twenty meters, his movement trajectory began to become unpredictable;

After twenty-five meters, even the afterimages began to overlap; Now, at thirty meters, his dodge rate had reached its peak of 30%. Combined with the innate dodge bonus from his agility attribute, the hit rate against him now was greatly reduced.

But his movement trajectory...

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

Any high-speed movement has a pattern to follow. Umekawa Kojiro's dodging seemed chaotic and random.

But to maintain the maximum dodge rate, he had to keep moving constantly, and the path of his movement... had a fixed pattern!

Three left, two right, four forward, one back, then a diagonal dash!

Found it!

Lin Feng suddenly charged forward, the Wildfire Spear thrusting straight into empty air three meters to Umekawa Kojiro's left!

There was nothing there!

A mocking glint flashed in Umekawa Kojiro's eyes—a miss?

The next second, his expression changed drastically!

Because the direction Lin Feng had thrust was precisely the position he was about to pass through!

How was that possible?

He desperately tried to change direction, but the thirty-meter full-stack dodge rate meant his movement speed had also reached its peak!

The inertia was too great; he couldn't change course instantly!

Thwack!

The spear tip slashed across his left arm, cutting deep to the bone, sending a spray of blood mist into the air! -180!

Umekawa Kojiro staggered back, his left arm dripping with blood, his eyes filled with shock!

This young man had actually predicted his movement trajectory!

...

He couldn't drag this out any longer.

Gritting his teeth, enduring the severe pain in his left arm, Umekawa Kojiro rapidly formed hand seals with both hands!

【Ninjutsu·Multiple Shadow Clone Technique】!

Three identical figures separated from his body. Together with his true self, they pounced on Lin Feng from four directions simultaneously!

Four figures, four shadow moon blades, four angles, all slashing down at once!

The true body was mixed among them, impossible to distinguish!

A fierce light flashed in Lin Feng's eyes. He had been waiting for this!

He did not retreat!

The Wildfire Spear swept out to clear a thousand troops! The dark red spear shaft traced a perfect arc under the sunlight, carrying world-destroying force as it swept towards the four figures!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

All four blades were knocked aside! Sparks flew in all directions, the metallic clanging deafening!

But one of those blades belonged to the true body!

Umekawa Kojiro's true body among the four figures suddenly accelerated. Seizing the instant when Lin Feng couldn't retract his sweeping strike, the blade edge slashed viciously across Lin Feng's right arm!

Thwack! Leather armor split, blood spurted! -170!

Lin Feng grunted. His HP dropped from 2000 to 1830!

But his counterattack was even faster!

【Blazing Spear Light】!

Four crimson beams of light shot out from the tip of the Wildfire Spear! At such close range, there was simply no time to dodge!

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Four spear lights simultaneously pierced through the four figures!

Three clones, struck in vital points, instantly dissolved into smoke!

The true body took a hit to the shoulder. The spear light pierced through the shoulder blade, sending up a spray of blood mist! -130!

Umekawa Kojiro staggered back. His HP dropped to 63%!

His eyes were filled with astonishment. The spear light could actually attack multiple targets simultaneously!

His pride and joy, the shadow clones, had become a joke before Lin Feng!

But almost at the same instant, a gentle white light shone from the rear of the Baigui County camp, landing on Umekawa Kojiro!

+110!

His HP instantly recovered to 75%!

That healer profession who had been hiding behind the two warriors had made his move!

At the same time, Su Yurou's Healing Spell also landed on Lin Feng!

+120!

Lin Feng's HP recovered to 1950!

Both their HP bars returned to a healthy level once more!

Umekawa Kojiro let out a sinister laugh, a crazed glint flashing in his eyes. "Lord Lin, you have a healer, and so do I! Let's see who can outlast the other!"

He completely abandoned direct confrontation. Relying once again on the dodge effect of the 【shadow dance legguards】 to create distance, he simultaneously formed hand seals in rapid succession!

【Ninjutsu·Multiple Shadow Clone Technique】—three more clones separated out!

【Ninjutsu·Shuriken Technique】—countless shuriken shot out from the hands of the clones, filling the sky!

【Smoke Potion】—a dense cloud of smoke exploded, covering an area of thirty meters in radius!

Within the smoke, Umekawa Kojiro's true body, using the clones as cover, continuously weaved, ambushed, and whittled away!

Lin Feng's Wildfire Spear pierced through clone after clone, but there were too many!

Kill one, and Umekawa Kojiro immediately split off two more!

Within the smoke, shuriken flew from every angle, forcing Lin Feng to divide his attention to block!

And the true body always hid behind the clones, finding an opening for a slash before immediately retreating deep into the smoke!

Thwack! A slash to the left shoulder! -170!

Su Yurou's Healing Spell landed precisely. A flash of white light! +120!

Thwack! A slash to the right leg! -168!

Healing descended once more! +120!

Lin Feng's HP fluctuated violently, slowly declining. Every time he was injured, Su Yurou's healing would immediately follow;

But each healing could only slow the rate of decline, unable to reverse the situation!

Umekawa Kojiro also had healer support. Whenever he was struck by the Wildfire Spear, a white light would descend from the rear to heal him. His HP was also slowly dropping!

Both were being injured. Both were being healed.

Both HP bars were falling, but neither could truly overwhelm the other!

The battle situation had reached a stalemate!

And right at this moment—from the rear of the battlefield, a deafening roar of battle cries suddenly erupted!

Twenty black-clad ninjas, like twenty black ghosts, had already bypassed the main battlefield and were charging straight for the rear of Beacon Fire Town's formation!

Their target was that blue-robed healer holding a short staff, who had just cast another Healing Spell!

Su Yurou!

The third battlefield had begun!

(By the way, some readers asked why the protagonist doesn't use the Eye of Probability to check things every day. I've moved the detailed explanation to the end of Chapter 82. The main reason is that the protagonist's Eye of Probability only shows names and drop rates, not quality. He needs to check reference materials to confirm which ones are of gold quality. A low drop rate doesn't mean they are all gold.)