You're Strong But Now You're Mine-Chapter 67: Held Back a Trick

"An impressive move."

In front of the slaughterhouse, bodies lay scattered everywhere, blood flowing like rivers.

Kui Zhao took three steps back, looked down at his decaying chest from which large chunks of flesh had been ’bitten’ off. Even though the pain had him drenched in cold sweat, he couldn’t help but laugh, "I’ve seen countless people stronger than you, but very few fiercer than you."

"You actually twisted and broke your own arm first to create a battlefield opportunity... I thought I had already overestimated you as much as possible, but I still underestimated you."

Facing Kui Zhao, Le Yu was gasping for breath and coughing up blood, his face covered in blood, with severe injuries all over his body, and a few strands of Kui Zhao’s flesh under the nails of his right hand.

The most unforgettable and unwatchable sight was his left hand: you would hardly think it was still a hand—anyone taking a glance would think of a piece of clothing twisted into a bundle after washing to wring it dry.

His left arm’s flesh had twisted into a mess, squeezing out all the blood inside. Pale shattered bones mixed with crimson blood were exposed to the air, and the blood within seemed desperate to find a way out of the disaster, trickling down drop by drop.

Between the arm and shoulder, there were only a few ’strips of flesh’ connecting them, as if a gust of wind would sever this tenuously connected hand.

When Kui Zhao was about to twist off his arm, Le Yu suddenly bounced up from the ground. Although his arm was twisted and broken in the process, it gave him a chance to counter, directly launching a Desolate Bite attack in a sudden explosion.

Yet Kui Zhao immediately let go and retreated, losing only the flesh from his chest to Le Yu’s bite. Although he appeared blinded by hatred just moments ago, his mind was always wary of Le Yu—Wolf Eagle Fist hunters never let their guard down.

After killing, they remember to finish the job. Even when his daughter was in danger, Kui Zhao maintained the best strategy, so how could he be counter-killed due to carelessness?

"Aren’t you curious why I recognized your identity?"

Kui Zhao didn’t seize the opportunity for pursuit but instead paced slowly outside the safety perimeter, "Actually, you’ve done well. You didn’t say a word that night, didn’t use even a single move from the Biting Battle Technique, and even disguised your appearance. So why could I still recognize you?"

Le Yu wiped the blood from the corner of his eyes, looking silently at Kui Zhao. He was indeed puzzled, how did Kui Zhao recognize him?

"I didn’t recognize you at first, until we clashed..." Kui Zhao pointed at Le Yu and said, "Your flesh told me you were the assassin pinned down by me that night."

"Cough cough." Le Yu coughed out two mouthfuls of fresh blood, with a half-smile on his face — Kui Zhao’s reasoning was so strange, it almost made him want to laugh: "Are you saying, you left a mark on me?"

Kui Zhao shook his head, "It’s not a mark... you might find it hard to understand, but among Wolf Eagle Fist martial artists, this is not considered a rare special ability. Rather, it is a common skill that everyone possesses. The profound art of the Wolf Eagle Fist, to cultivate the martial artist’s ’superior food chain threat’ towards other martial artists, hypnotizes oneself with Spiritual Power during combat, firmly believing oneself to be the Wolf Eagle and the opponent to be prey."

"This hypnosis requires two mediums, oneself and the enemy, leveraging each attack on the enemy to continuously elevate one’s position in the food chain. During this process, I remember the feel of the attack—the sensation when attacking the enemy." ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

"I call it ’Wolf Eagle Spirit,’ this mental hypnosis technique has numerous advantages, but its drawback is that the beginning of combat is the weakest, requiring a period of fighting to achieve the optimal state of one’s ’Wolf Eagle Spirit.’

"At the moment of our fight, my former Wolf Eagle Spirit was awakened; I could even recall its use against the assassin." Kui Zhao sneered, "You’ve hidden well, but... if you want people not to know, you must do nothing."

Le Yu chuckled bitterly, not expecting the Wolf Eagle Fist to have this characteristic. Simply put, when Wolf Eagle Fist martial artists fight specific roles, each attack increases the ’Wolf Eagle Spirit’ buff on themselves.

This buff applies only to specific roles, and when a Wolf Eagle Fist martial artist shifts attack targets, it has to be re-stacked. Conversely, if a Wolf Eagle Fist martial artist attacks the specific role again, the previous ’Wolf Eagle Spirit’ buff is reactivated, needing no re-stacking.

The primary use of this characteristic is to save the time of restacking the buff for Wolf Eagle Fist martial artists. Yet Kui Zhao used it to identify Le Yu as the assassin he had beaten up before; one can only say it’s not our army’s incompetence, but the enemy’s is sheer luck.

"Just leave."

Le Yu lifted his head in surprise, seeing Kui Zhao looking sideways at the slaughterhouse without even glancing at him. Kui Zhao said coldly, "You’ve already received your punishment. I have more important things to do and don’t want to waste time with you."

He paused, revealing a trace of reluctance on his face, and said, "You’re a genius; you shouldn’t die here."

What does this mean?

Is he pitying or admiring me?

Showing sentiment?

A mutual acknowledgment?

Or did my move hit his vital point, and now he’s seriously injured too, so he’s speaking softly to send me away?

Le Yu’s mind was full of thoughts, suddenly a surge of blood rose within him, he coughed thrice emitting a large mouthful of blood mixed with visceral fragments. He looked down and realized the ground was already a blood-colored scene, his blood almost forming a pool.

He is stalling for time!

Swoosh!

In the previous second, he was speaking warmly, and in the next, Kui Zhao suddenly attacked!

Blood claws swept, Desolate Bite Explosion!

"If it hurts, just fall." Kui Zhao’s face showed no mercy, only fierce ferocity like an eagle and a wolf, "You won’t be able to live much longer!"

Le Yu could only parry single-handedly, in mere breaths, followed by Kui Zhao exploiting an opening and landing a punch on his chest, sending him flying like a cannonball. Even though he managed to grab hold of the dirt to stabilize himself, he clearly understood he couldn’t match Kui Zhao in strength and technique.

Moreover, Kui Zhao was right.

He’s dying.

Kui Zhao spent so much effort talking just to delay time, allowing him to bleed as much as possible. Broken arm, severe injuries, ruptured internal organs causing massive bleeding, hanging over Le Yu like a countdown to death.

I’m going to die.

For the first time, Le Yu felt the arrival of death so clearly.

Surprisingly, he felt neither fear nor excitement, only extreme calm.

Kui Zhao gave him time to bleed, and he gave him time to adapt. He had fully assessed the state of each part of his body, realizing he still had one last chance.

"...So all the things you said were just to make me bleed?"

"A hunter, to kill the prey as easily as possible, always gives the prey a glimmer of hope."

Kui Zhao stomped heavily, the Blood Claw Explosion came like a thousand blades. He saw Le Yu could only disperse his explosion with one hand, relentlessly continuing the pressure, deploying his entire arsenal in a devastating strike, wolf claws devouring the body, eagle claws striking the air!

Wolf Eagle Fist · Eagle Embrace Wolf Feast!

No way to escape heaven or earth, surrounded on all sides by deadly strikes, the prey has no place to flee!

"I want to tell you..."

Kui Zhao watched Le Yu desperately disassemble the explosion in front, but this meant nothing. The blood claw explosions above, below, left, and right would tear him apart, and he had no strength left to retaliate.

"Actually, I don’t feel pain."

Le Yu curved his seemingly detached left arm, which looked like it could fall off like a sackcloth at any moment; under Kui Zhao’s astonished eyes, his left hand spread into a claw, gathering light like a waterfall, a killing machine like a blade!

The profound art of Wolf Eagle Fist is the hunt.

The profound art of the Biting Battle Technique is to fight to the death.

"I don’t feel pain at all."

’Ice Blood Physique,’ forcefully activated!

In a flash, as Kui Zhao’s Blood Claw tore through Le Yu’s clothes and flesh, Le Yu’s left hand fiercely bit into Kui Zhao’s chest, breaking bones, piercing through reaching the other side!

Biting Battle Technique · Desolate Bite!