Chapter 9 (Part 2) of Volume 3: Dead or Alive, Don't Want a Wife

  I pushed open the window, and the bright moonlight filled the courtyard. He Saihua stood under a banana tree, her eyes black and shining. I was a bit surprised - what brought her to my place in the middle of the night? Was she thinking about men until she went crazy? Jumping out of the window, I politely asked: "Miss He, how are you? Is there something I can help you with?"

  He hesitated for a moment, then looked at me boldly: "Don't get any wrong ideas, I came to find you just to ask you one thing."

  I couldn't guess her intention for a moment and vaguely said: "I'm not omniscient, Miss. I may not know what you want to ask."

  "You must know!" He Saihua said resolutely: "I'm asking you, in broad daylight in front of so many people, why did you say you didn't want to marry me? Was it intentional to raise your own value and win popular favor?"

  I couldn't help but laugh in my heart, I didn't expect her to find me for this matter. After thinking about it, I simply opened the window and said straightforwardly: "I don't like you, that's all."

  "What's wrong? Am I not pretty enough? Is my family background not good enough?"

  I scratched my head: "Don't like is don't like, what reason is there?"

  He Saihua glared at me straight, suddenly stomped her foot: "I think you're just fooling around with this girl. Humph, what's so great about being a small soldier in the Armor of Loyalty? Besides, you're dirty and ugly, only a fool would fall for you." Her eyes rolled over, cunningly said: "Actually, you're afraid of Liu Cuifei, aren't you? Because you know tomorrow's trial will definitely lose, so you might as well announce your withdrawal to avoid losing face."

  "My god, this woman is really self-indulgent. I'm busy and can't accompany you in your nonsense. Stretching my waist on one side, I walked back to the door of the house, yawning with my mouth: "Whatever Miss says, I want to sleep, sorry not to accompany."

  "What a madman! I haven't told you to leave yet." A soft shout came from behind, and a strong gust of wind struck my left shoulder.

  Without turning my head or moving my feet, I cast the Puppet Witchcraft spell and slapped a nearby locust tree with my palm. The tree immediately transformed into a puppet treeman, opening its withered branch arms to block the attack for me. "Slap", wood chips flew everywhere, and a shiny soft whip struck the puppet treeman before quickly retracting back into He Saihua's hand.

  I turned around and said lazily: "I can leave whenever I want, no one can stop me."

  "You're quite arrogant, aren't you? Come on, let me weigh you and see how many catties and taels you really are." He Saihua's voice was laced with a playful rebuke as she whipped out her soft whip, its heavy shadow coiling towards me.

  I smiled slyly, intending to carefully examine the intricacies of the Topsy-Turvy technique. I manipulated the puppet tree people, making them jump and pounce, but only defending without attacking. "Crack", the whip's sound rang out, the whip clearly striking my left side, yet landing on the right, if not for the puppet tree person blocking it, my right arm would have taken a hit. In an instant, I retracted my underestimating heart, although Topsy-Turvy is a branch of Chaotic Shield Technique, its mysteriousness is somewhat different, can't be underestimated.

  He Saihua's figure flashed, dozens of whips in a row, fast as one, continuously hitting the puppet tree man, causing the bark to fall off and the branches to break, leaving only the bare trunk. He Saihua smiled and said: "This whip of mine is made from thousand-year-old python tendon, be careful!" As soon as she finished speaking, the python tendon whipped across, breaking the thick trunk, and the puppet tree man immediately fell to the ground.

  I smiled and said, "Beating is affection, scolding is love. Go ahead and hit me with all your might, I'll enjoy it immensely, and I guarantee I won't fight back." With a clap of my hands on the ground, a large clod of earth burst forth and transformed into a mud puppet that blocked the incoming whip-like tendon.

  He Sai Hua smiled and shook out a whip-like flower, which bypassed the puppet earthman and immediately straightened up like a sharp thorn, shooting directly at my face. Just as I was about to control the puppet earthman to block it, a sudden flower appeared in front of me, and the python tendon disappeared. At the same time, a strong wind howled behind me, and the python tendon strangely swept over from behind.

  I leapt into the air, barely avoiding the dragon tendon. But the dragon tendon came back like a ghost, striking straight at me with a sharp point, as if it had been waiting there all along. Strange! This whip-like strike had clearly disappeared just now, how did it reappear? In the midst of danger, I performed the enchanting dance, moving horizontally in mid-air, my hands and feet dancing to avoid this inevitable blow.

  "Not bad, huh." He Saihua flicked her wrist, conjuring up countless whip-like shadows that swooped in with a whoosh.

  To counter this move, I originally had dozens of spells to counterattack. But for a little girl, it's somewhat overkill, and besides, I've already boasted that I wouldn't counterattack. I retreated backwards, my palms constantly slapping the ground, one by one, puppet earthmen rose up, blocking the whip shadows for me. "Bang bang bang", the python tendons flew back and forth, shattering the earthmen one after another, and in an instant, they struck again at my front.

  He raised his head triumphantly: "Don't you want revenge?"

  "Killing a chicken with a knife used to slaughter an ox?" I said stubbornly, my eyes fixed tightly on the whip's shadow. Since the chaotic armor technique is a branch of the mixed-up armor technique, there must be some similarities. My master once said that as long as you understand the principle of the magic, you can find a way to break it. While dodging and weaving, I was thinking hard about a countermeasure. Just as the whip-like tendons were coiling towards my left foot like a venomous snake, I quickly dodged to the side. The whip-like tendons disappeared again, only to reappear beside my right foot. As soon as I lifted my right leg to avoid it, "slap", the whip-like tendons suddenly appeared below my left foot and struck it with a loud thud.

  After being whipped like this, I couldn't help but burst out laughing. He Saihua looked at me with a puzzled expression: "I've never seen anyone get beaten and still laugh, are you okay in the head?"

  "Die under the peony, even as a ghost, it's just windy." I excitedly blinked my eyes, finally understanding the subtlety of the "Reversal of Order" technique. If the "Chaos" technique broke through physical constraints, then the "Reversal of Order" technique broke through order itself. The python tendon that initially wrapped around my left foot was actually the second strike, while the one that whipped towards my right leg was the first strike. But He Saihua's technique cleverly reversed the order of events, creating an illusion in my eyes, so when I dodged the first whip aimed at my right leg, I coincidentally got hit by the second whip on my left foot, which had been waiting in ambush all along.

  "Hit me again and I'll make you my wife!" I shouted confidently, reversing the order of my moves with a topsy-turvy technique that was quite ingenious but far from the profound and subtle Chaos Armor Technique. Once deciphered, it wasn't difficult to break through.

  He Saihua pouted: "You're willing, but I'm not." The python tendon suddenly rose and struck my face. I knew this was only the second strike, so I didn't rush to dodge. As expected, the python tendon disappeared in an instant, a whip-like shadow swept across the ground, and then came the real first strike. I calmly jumped up, dodged the whip, and the second whip appeared in front of me, striking head-on. I used my "Iron Claw" technique, transforming my fingers into iron pincers, lightly clamping down on the python tendon. He Saihua looked surprised, trying to pull back with force, but the python tendon was firmly pinched between my fingers, unable to move.

  "Hehe, try pulling harder, it's stuck too tight to come out?"

  He Saihua glared at me: "You, you're so shameless."

  I was stunned, and Hesaihua whistled, a green shadow flashed in mid-air, a green pheasant swooped down towards me, I loosened my grip on the reins, and Hesaihua had already flipped over and mounted the green pheasant.

  "We'll see about that!" He Saihua flexed her arm, snorted, and chuckled, as the Qing Luan flapped its wings and vanished into the night sky.