Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 381: Vigor Like the Wind

Ma Lu quickly glanced at the two new cards he had just acquired and couldn’t help but sigh, everyone’s power really came in handy.

Among these was the Heart Method Card that he needed the most at the moment.

Ma Lu then played another Minor Eternal Spring Technique, replenishing his remaining 1 point of True Qi up to 7 points, and immediately threw out another Attack Card!

It was the fourth form of the Songxi Fast Sword—Vigor Like the Wind.

He spent 2 points of True Qi to activate the effect of Vigor Like the Wind, boosting its power to 12 points, which was just enough to completely exhaust Yan Wuji’s remaining parry value.

This move also had an additional effect. If it failed to inflict any damage, he could spend 1 more point of True Qi to take it back into his hand.

This was actually the real strength of the Songxi Fast Sword card set. One card could be played as two, thus truly living up to its name of ’fast.’

However, such a tactic also greatly drained True Qi.

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For younger disciples like He Qisheng, it was usually later in the battle, after slowly accumulating True Qi, that they could launch continuous attacks like this.

But Ma Lu, having inherited Shen Zhou’s Great Perfection Internal Work, had already surpassed He Qisheng in terms of True Qi acquisition, plus the Bonding Force’s divine draw allowed him to get two Heart Method Cards in the first turn.

This is how he successfully pulled off a triple A at the start.

Facing this third sword strike, Yan Wuji had no parry value left to defend himself and had to take the hit directly, albeit Vigor Like the Wind didn’t have the overwhelming power of Sunrise of a Lifetime.

Yan Wuji’s Health Points were still at 27, so even after taking this blow, he would still have 15 Health Points left.

But just as he was comforting himself, Ma Lu’s Longsword had already pierced his left side, causing Yan Wuji’s health to plummet to just 9 points.

How... how is this possible?!

Yan Wuji’s eyes widened in shock. Why had a sword strike with a power of 12 inflicted 18 points of damage? Where had the extra 6 points of damage come from?

The answer was simple—the Chef’s Knife provided it.

The Level 6 Chef’s Knife came with a built-in 50% damage increase. In previous Planes, Ma Lu had used it as an enhancer accessory, and even in this Plane, where the rules of battle had turned to card playing,

the boost effect of the Chef’s Knife still existed. As long as Ma Lu dealt damage, he would get an extra half on top of it during settlement.

So his strength was actually a cut above what was apparent on the surface.

This was also why Ma Lu had so willingly let people go earlier; he had become addicted to picking up card packs and had set his sights on Yan Wuji’s Martial Studies early on.

Mainly because the opportunity was rare. Yan Wuji was already severely injured, and having just been through a battle, he was at his weakest.

If they waited for him to heal and come back for revenge, it would only be more troublesome.

And now that his Health Points had dropped to a single digit, Yan Wuji finally started to panic.

His narrow, triangular eyes were fixated on Ma Lu. Ma Lu had 2 points of True Qi left and two cards in hand. If either of the cards were another Attack Card, and he just happened to be able to activate it with the remaining True Qi, then Yan Wuji might very well die here tonight.

Ma Lu also felt a bit regretful; everyone’s power was very useful, but it was still just a bit short. He was just a little bit away from taking out Yan Wuji in one fell swoop.

However, he no longer had any Attack Cards in his hand, only Body Protection Cards remained.

Even though he could activate one of their effects, after some thought, Ma Lu chose to simply end this turn and keep those two points of True Qi, thinking that maybe they’d be useful next turn if he drew an Attack Card.

After all, his health bar was thick enough, a full 70 points, and Yan Wuji wouldn’t possibly take him down in a single turn.

Seeing this, Yan Wuji also heaved a slight sigh of relief. He had already decided to stack up his parry value first in the next turn; 9 health points were still too risky.

In addition, he needed to reduce Ma Lu’s Health Points as much as possible. By this time, Yan Wuji no longer held the previous contempt in his eyes; he now regarded Ma Lu as the greatest enemy of his life.

Meanwhile, as Yan Wuji was calculating how to defeat Ma Lu, on the other side, Gu Qingyi had already silently completed drawing cards and played two Hold Yuan Secrets.

This was a very standard opening, and since Yan Wuji had fought Gu Qingyi before, he knew she was all about Body Protection Cards, often not able to unleash a sword attack for seven or eight turns, thus he didn’t take her too seriously.

However, to Yan Wuji’s surprise, the third card Gu Qingyi played turned out to be the only Attack Card in her deck—Peerless Iron Sword.

In fact, according to Gu Qingyi’s deck construction, drawing this card too late or too early wasn’t a good thing; too late, and it’s all over, and too early, without enough parry stacked, she couldn’t unleash the full power of the card.

But now it was enough.

Even though Gu Qingyi had no Body Protection Cards in hand at the moment, the Iron Clothes Sect’s mental method, Hold Yuan Secret, not only provided 4 points of True Qi but also 4 points of parry.

Having played two Hold Yuan Secrets before, Gu Qingyi had 8 points of parry, and since the power of Peerless Iron Sword equaled 1.5 times the parry value, this meant that Gu Qingyi’s sword strike had a power of 12 points.

And then Yan Wuji... died.

Up until the Peerless Iron Sword shattered his chest, Yan Wuji’s eyes were still filled with disbelief.

Since the moment Ma Lu used He Qisheng and others’ signature skills, a sense of ill omen had arisen in his heart, and he had a faint feeling that he might fall here tonight. But among all the calculations, he never imagined he would die at the hands of Gu Qingyi, whom he had completely looked down upon.

In the last moment of his life, Yan Wuji’s mind was flooded with many memories, like a carousel of images: being taken to study at the Vajra Temple by his master when he was young, fleeing into the night after killing his fellow disciple, exterminating the White Dragon Gang top to bottom, stealing Ding Bailong’s wife, and fighting fiercely against the martial arts experts from the Righteous Path who came to attack him...

There were several occasions when he was in grave danger but he always managed to escape death.

Just as he was about to leave Huizhou and enter the territory of Qingzhou, almost to safety, who would have thought he would capsize in this little temple.

Yan Wuji’s eyes were wide open, his heart full of unwillingness, but his Health Points had dropped to zero, and thus a devil of his stature met his end!

Gu Qingyi’s strike only sent Yan Wuji’s corpse flying a dozen yards before it hit the ground.

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At the end of the card game, Ma Lu immediately rushed over.

He reached out and touched Yan Wuji’s body, waiting for the character for "martial" to light up, as another prompt echoed in his ears.

[Ding! Looting was successful, congratulations on obtaining the Subduing Demon Vajra Skill card pack.]

This time the card looted turned out to be Yan Wuji’s Self-Defense Martial Arts, not his most prized Vajra Break Monument Palm, which left Ma Lu slightly disappointed.

However, considering that he had already upgraded the Songxi Fast Sword to the 4th Level, perhaps the Subduing Demon Vajra Skill suited him better. After all, Yan Wuji had relied on this martial arts defense to withstand the combined attack of Shen Zhou and several others.

There was certainly no question about its strength.