A Cunning Pervert in the Cultivation World

Ting!

Ting!

Ting!

Inside the forest, the sound of blades clashing rang out like a deadly melody.

Purple Death moved like a venomous serpent in human form, her body twisting, coiling, and striking from impossible angles.

Her twin blades left trails of burning purple flame with every swing, the corrosive flame hissing as it tried to devour everything it touched.

Meanwhile, Shadow responded with eerie grace.

Its long arms extended and retracted unnaturally, its blades spinning and slashing with surgical precision.

Every movement was small, yet carried overwhelming power.

Small spatial rifts would occasionally open near its blades, allowing it to strike from angles that should have been impossible.

Purple Death spun mid-air, her curved horns glowing as she executed a full rotating slash.

SLASH!

Her blades drew a beautiful, lethal circle of purple fire.

CLANG!!

Shadow blocked with crossed swords.

The impact sent sparks exploding outward as the purple flame ate away at its shadowy arms.

Yet Shadow simply regenerated the damaged parts with fresh darkness and countered instantly.

One of its long arms stretched like a spear, the black blade thrusting toward Purple Death’s heart from a blind angle.

Seeing this, she twisted her body at the last moment and the blade grazed her side, drawing a line of blood.

Spurt!

Despite being upside down in mid-air, Purple Death executed a vicious circular slash.

SLASH!!

Her blades drew another blazing ring of purple fire straight toward Shadow’s white skull mask.

Shadow’s skull mask tilted slightly, as if admiring the beauty of the attack.

But it didn’t dodge.

And then Purple Death saw it clearly.

’That again!’

A thin black line suddenly appeared in the trajectory of her attack.

Reality itself seem to tore open for a split second and her blazing slash passed straight through the spatial rift and vanished into nothingness, missing its target completely.

Then Shadow moved.

One of its long black arms shot upward with unnatural speed, the pitch-black blade thrusting directly toward Purple Death’s left eye like a spear of darkness.

But Purple Death, even while upside down in mid-air, twisted her body with serpentine flexibility.

The blade grazed her cheek instead, drawing a thin line of blood as she spun away like a coiling snake.

Even in that precarious position, Purple Death didn’t waste the momentum.

She twisted violently, her serpent-like flexibility allowing her to rotate mid-air like a living whip.

Her twin blades followed the motion in a deadly horizontal arc, coated in concentrated purple flames.

SLASH—!!

Seeing the same trick, Shadow hum.

And just as Shadow was about to tear open another thin line in reality to redirect the attack—

BOOOOM!!

Purple Death’s flames suddenly detonated violently right in front of its white skull mask.

The explosion was point-blank and devastating, as a blinding burst of corrosive purple fire engulfed Shadow’s upper body, the venomous flames roaring like a thousand angry serpents as they tried to melt and devour everything they touched.

WHOOSHH!!

CRASH!!

Shadow’s tall shadowy figure was blasted backward through the air, smashing through several thick trees before crashing heavily into the ground, carving a long trench in the earth.

Purple Death landed gracefully a distance away, breathing heavily but with a fierce, triumphant smile on her face.

Blood still dripped from the cuts on her body, but her vertical slit pupils were glowing with excitement.

“I knew it. It isn’t a truly invincible ability… There’s a limit to how much you can open those rifts, isn’t there?”

She could see it now.

It seemed that the smaller the rift, the easier this monster could open them.

The speed was absurd, almost instantaneous but she had to admit it was real.

However, against large-area attacks, the creature would simply phase through them as its entire body flickered for a split second.

So Purple Death couldn’t help but wonder why it reacted differently to different types of attacks.

’So small, precise slashes get redirected through those tiny rifts… But wide-area attacks… it phases through them instead… Does that mean opening large enough rifts to redirect big attacks takes too much effort? Or is there a cooldown? A limit to how many times and size it can tear space in a short period?’

The more she analyzed it, the clearer the pattern became.

This creature wasn’t truly untouchable.

It had rules and it had limits.

And if she could figure out those limits…

She could kill it.

And she already had an idea how to damage this creature… by launching both small and large scale attacks at the exact same time, forcing it to choose which one to defend against.

Slowly, a dangerous, predatory smile spread across Purple Death’s face.

Her serpent horns pulsed brighter with purple energy.

“You’re strong… but you’re not perfect,” she whispered, her voice carrying a cold hiss. “And I specialize in killing things that aren’t perfect.”

At her words—

BOOOM!

Her body was suddenly engulfed by even more purple flames, forming a layer of flaming armor around her.

HISS…

Slowly, a faint phantom of a giant serpent with similar horns materialized around her body.

She crouched low, preparing to release a devastating attack.

Meanwhile…

Shadow stood up from the crater it had created, as its tall shadowy figure slowly straightened.

Thick black smoke still rose from its body where the purple flames had struck, but the darkness was already regenerating at a visible speed.

The corrosive purple flames seemed to have done little lasting damage.

SWING!

Its long arms flexed casually, and the pitch-black blades in its hands spun once with a low hum.

For a moment, it looked completely unharmed.

It had only been caught off guard a bit, but now that it understood the woman’s attacks, there wouldn’t be a next time.

Seeing the slowly increasing pressure from the woman, Shadow seemed ready to greet her with a playful hum.

But then—

Crack…

A tiny, almost inaudible sound came from Shadow’s face.

And a small fragment of the white skull mask chipped off and fell silently to the ground, landing on the scorched earth with a soft clink.

Shadow froze.

It slowly raised one hand and touched the damaged part of its mask.

When it pulled its fingers back, they were holding a small piece of the broken white material.

“…”