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Chap 696

Chapter 696

Chapter 696: The perfect match, Ye-Xi (2)Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

As soon as Han Yunxi took out the magnetite, the sword hovering in the air at their back sped towards them with terrifying speeds. Alarmed, Long Feiye dodged out of the way and asked, “Han Yunxi, what’s going on?”

“It’s probably the opposite magnetic pole,” Han Yunxi muttered to herself.

Simultaneously, Lady Leng Yue intensified her assault to rush in front of them. The two swords looked on the verge of stabbing Long Feiye through when Han Yunxi suddenly flipped the magnetite in her hands. Immediately, the sword behind them stopped in mid-air and fell towards the ground. Meanwhile, the blade in Lady Leng Yue’s hands lost all sense of balance and begin to shudder in her hands. If she was holding on, it might have dropped to the ground too!

How could this be?

Lady Leng Yue’s face was still wearing the smile of victory because everything had happened so quickly. Her expression remained frozen and looked atrocious. She wouldn’t use Double Swords Harmony against iron swords, but no other opponents have broken through the mystery of her blades otherwise! How did Long Feiye defeat her blades without doing a single thing?

On the other hand, Han Yunxi was celebrating. She knew her gamble had paid off! Things like magnets didn’t exist in the past, but natural magnetite did. The one in her hands was a type of Chinese medicine used to soothe startled nerves and regulate the yang in the liver. It was good for clearing up hearing and sight as well as regulating breathing, but also doubled as an ingredient for potential poisons and their antidotes. It was also useful for attracting needles out of patient bodies to save their lives. When shadow guards had gotten injured by poison needles in the past, she’d simply drew the needles slowly out of them using this magnetite. No surgery was necessary in those cases.

She had been studying Lady Leng Yue’s Double Harmony Swords. Some treasured blades had a spirit of their own that responded to their masters’ auras, resonating with the same killing intent, for example. But even the most sensitive blades were still soulless objects in the end. It would be impossible for them to fight in tandem with their owner naturally. The one exception would be if the wielder possessed vast quantities of internal energy, enough to affect the flow of air around them and control their swords.

Han Yunxi didn’t understand martial arts, but she had been right in the thick of the battle. Aside from the wind currents caused by the swords, she hadn’t felt any other irregularities in the air. She was certain that Lady Leng Yue didn’t have enough internal energy to control her weapons remotely. To put it simply, even if she did, such control was temporary at best. But Lady Leng Yue had already let her blade run free for multiple rounds.

The secret of the two combined swords laid in their makeup. Thus, she thought of magnetism. Perhaps it was yin and yang that drew them to each other, or some sort of opposite, attracting energy. That would explain why the blade at their backs kept trying to find the one in Lady Leng Yue’s hands. Han Yunxi wasn’t interested in the exact composition of the sword, but she did wanted to know if the magnetite in her hands could break their connection. Even if it wasn’t as strong as a true magnet, it still had its attractive force.

Reality proved that her guesses were right. The rock in her hands right now was kryptonite to the Double Harmony Swords.

“Long Feiye, Lady Leng Yue’s treasured sword has been rendered useless,” Han Yunxi claimed confidently.