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Just as he rolled backward, Isshin Ashina twisted his upper body, put his left hand behind his back, and raised his katana with his right hand, like a strict old scholar holding a pointer, reprimanding a student who was sleeping in class. He took a step forward in a flash, delivering a light, skillful slash. The sleeves of his sleeping robe fluttered with the movement, making him look extremely elegant.

Stone rolled past this slash again, and just as he was about to retaliate, he was hit by the Sword Saint's methodical horizontal sweep and upward thrust, his health bar instantly dropping to its last sliver. He hurriedly jumped back a few steps, retreating to a safe distance to drink from his healing gourd.

"Damn, this Sword Saint is a bit fierce!"

When he jumped back just now, the Sword Saint didn't pursue him. However, just as he raised the gourd to drink the medicine, the Sword Saint suddenly bent down, holding his sword horizontally in front of him, and like an arrow shot from a bow, he crossed the twenty-meter distance, arriving in an instant to deliver a slashing blow!

Having only restored half of his health, he instantly lost another third. Stone originally thought the distance he retreated was safe enough, but he was so frightened by the Sword Saint's slash that his heart trembled. He immediately raised his sword to block, but in his haste, he only managed a normal block. His posture was broken, and he was smashed to the ground by the Sword Saint's fierce overhead strike, with a "Danger" sign appearing above his head!

Roll, roll, roll!

Just as he regained his ability to move, Stone hurriedly rolled to the side. However, the Sword Saint was in a low bow stance, his eyes fixed on the direction of his movement. The moment Wolf stood up, he suddenly stepped forward and swung his sword, delivering a horizontal sweep with an extremely wide range. Death!

Stone exclaimed: "Wow, this Sword Saint is so fierce, and he has three health bars! He feels so hard to beat!"

As soon as he resurrected, the Sword Saint retreated two steps like a light swallow, pulling away the distance, and then slowly began to walk.

Stone drank from his gourd and rushed towards the Sword Saint. The Sword Saint instead slightly bent his legs, twisted his upper body, and sheathed the Mortal Blade!

In the final moment of sheathing the sword, a glimmer of cold light flashed across the blade. Although Stone had never seen this move before, he sensed the danger from the Sword Saint's charging stance and immediately focused his mind to be on guard!

Iai Slash!

This is a sword technique that involves drawing the sword in an instant, leaving the enemy with no opportunity to take advantage, and thus defeating them.

With the blade completely returned to its sheath, the Sword Saint's body lowered even further. As the sleeve fluttered to his chest, the calm, slow, flowing motion of sheathing the sword suddenly switched to the most potent explosive, detonating with a roar!

Stepping forward and charging, the sword was already drawn, filled with sharp, fierce killing intent. In the air, a faint, extremely thin flash of lightning seemed to bloom quietly!

Clang!

It collided with Wolf's sword, emitting a huge metallic clang, sparks flying everywhere!

Stone completely relied on instinct to block this strike. Before he could even feel relieved, the Sword Saint followed the force of the deflected sword with a body rotation, delivering a horizontal sweep.

As he staggered backward, the Sword Saint had already bent down, dashing forward with a flash attack. The reeds behind him were blown up by the rapidly swirling wind, forming a white tail that rolled and tumbled in the air, a truly beautiful sight.

Chop, slash, swing, thrust!

Stone was completely unable to defend against the attacks, and with only a sliver of health remaining, he fled in a sorry state, screaming: "This Sword Saint's offense is too strong!"

After suffering twice from the perilous follow-up to the draw attack, he finally dodged it this time. He finally managed to go up and slash the Sword Saint once.

However, the Sword Saint shouted, held the sword with both hands, and delivered a vertical chop, knocking Wolf back. Then, he suddenly bent his knees and leaned forward, forming the Wild Horse Mane Splitting stance!

Charging power in his waist, he held the sword in reverse, bracing it in front of him!

Visible white streams of air appeared around him, constantly gathering towards the Mortal Blade in the Sword Saint's hands amidst the howling sound. The space near the blade was somewhat distorted and deformed under the fluctuation of the airflow, like a white lotus blooming with the tip of the sword as its center!

"Whoa!"

Stone looked at this astonishing move in shock, shouted loudly, and hurriedly jumped to the side!

The blooming and contracting of the white lotus was only a moment. After all the airflow was absorbed by the blade, the screen was instantly occupied by white light, and a huge blade of light dozens of meters long slashed towards Wolf!

"Damn it!"

After the white light disappeared from the screen, billowing smoke and dust suddenly erupted from the ground, and another almost transparent, enormous blade aura swept past, as if even space was cut open from it!

Wolf was hit by the blade of light during the first attack, and the remaining half of his health disappeared, instantly killing him!

Isshin Ashina put one hand behind his back, turned around, and no longer looked at Wolf lying on the ground like a dead dog, leaving behind a sentence: "Hesitation is defeat..."

Stone was still in shock, but when he heard the Sword Saint's words, he found it very amusing and couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha!"

The viewers were also laughing wildly!

"Hesitation is defeat, hahaha!"

"Isshin: Demonstration of a no-damage run against Stone!"

"Isshin says no pressure!"

"Showoff!"

Continue the challenge!

After dying for half an hour.

"Ha..." Isshin Ashina bent down, silently charging power, and instantly drew his sword!

Clang, clang!

A horizontal sweep and a vertical chop were both blocked!

The Sword Saint's draw attack has two variations. In addition to the Ichimonji, there is also the Ashina Cross Slash. There is almost no gap between the two consecutive strikes. To block them, the reaction speed must be extremely quick, with even a bit of prediction involved.

Stone had been stuck on Isshin's first phase for half an hour and was quite familiar with his moves. He blocked two more strikes, dodged a "Danger" sign, and then chased with a slash, filling the Sword Saint's posture gauge and stabbing him in the chest!

"NICE, second phase!" Stone cheered.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the Sword Saint's rising to get a few cheap hits, but he stomped hard on the ground, and the surrounding smoke and dust mixed with reed feathers surged, directly blasting Wolf back.

"Hmph, drink, aaaaaah!" The Sword Saint roared strangely, sounding very excited, and conjured a huge glaive-like spear about four meters long from nowhere, swung it in a big circle around him, raised it like a dragon, and slung it diagonally behind his back. "I'm getting fired up!"

The glaive-like spear was the same cross-shaped great spear used by the burly warrior Tamura in the coup d'état CG, which was later bestowed upon Gyoubu by Ashina.

However, one side of the cross on the spearhead was broken.

In the item "Gyoubu's Broken Horn," there is this description: "Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa once wielded the famous spear 'One Horn'... It could pull the enemy closer when retracting the blade, even stripping off their rough armor. However, One Horn was broken in the coup d'état. It is said that Isshin praised the break as beautiful and bestowed Tamura's cross-shaped spear to him."

The distant, undulating snow mountains behind the Sword Saint were illuminated by lightning as if it were daytime. At some point, black and gloomy skies began to rain.

The simple movements of the first stage finally warmed up the Sword Saint, and he felt refreshed. In the torrential wind and rain, he shouted: "Come on, Sekiro!"

With a thunderous roar, the Sword Saint leaped up, the huge glaive-like spear carrying a dull whistling sound, crossing a dozen meters of distance, and striking down head-on!