"Those old fogeys are so stingy. They're not even willing to give me three complete Titan mechs, only these junk parts," Su Mei complained mercilessly.
Everyone knew that the "old fogeys" Su Mei was talking about were all high-ranking military officials with stars on their shoulders. For a moment, no one dared to reply.
But Su Mei didn't care about that at all, just waved her hand casually, her eyes burning with intensity.
"Then let's take advantage of the time it takes to assemble those scrap metal pieces to have a little spar. It'll make up for my absence earlier. How about it?" Su Mei cupped her fist to Fu Hua again.
But this time, there was no respect in the gesture, only a thick arrogance and confidence.
She had heard the last thing Fu Hua said. To ask her to let go of her meaningless pride, to change her habits?
Heh... she wouldn't!
When did her life ever need someone else to choose for her? Just as she followed Fu Hua not because of her strength, but because she had chosen the then-unknown Fu Hua from among everyone else.
She was the investor... she was the first investor!!
Not this Lin Chaoyu, who had taken advantage of her preparations to sneak in!
She should have been the eldest martial sister, she should have been the one who stayed at the Taixu Martial Arts School, serving as the contemporary master's capable wife... no, as the contemporary master's assistant!
Su Mei, though not the stubborn type who would bang her head against a wall until it broke, would never bow down and bend if she hadn't seen a different path with her own eyes, if she couldn't personally experience the impossible.
Even if it was that terrifying Honkai, if it came too violently, then let her be destroyed here.
She would have no complaints, no regrets.
Unless Fu Hua used the power of the Honkai to completely crush her right here, just like those hundreds of "lessons" in the past. No persuasion, no explanation, just the most concrete facts, the most thorough defeat to tell her she was wrong.
Fu Hua knew this aspect of Su Mei's character very well. Faced with Su Mei's arrogance, which was the same as seven years ago, Fu Hua sighed and raised her hand to Su Mei, indicating that she would do as she wished.
A pathological smile appeared on Su Mei's face. At the same time, the other six silently stood beside her, with Lin Chaoyu even standing next to Su Mei with her sword in hand.
The two of them stood side by side, entrusting their backs to each other with great familiarity.
"Junior sister, be careful. Master's speed and power..." Although she knew Su Mei probably wouldn't listen to a single word, Lin Chaoyu still gave her a routine reminder.
As expected, before Lin Chaoyu could finish her whispered reminder, Su Mei had already charged out, rushing towards Fu Hua with unstoppable momentum.
Lin Chaoyu sighed inwardly, but her feet followed Su Mei's pace without a moment's hesitation.
Her presence arrived before her person.
Just by being there, Su Mei was peerless in the world. This was the complete opposite of Mosquito's Breath. Everyone's gaze was forced to focus on her, on her every move, on her, with no other distracting thoughts.
But if you only focused on the "peerless one," then how would you deal with the other six Swords following behind her?
Fu Hua's choice was—to send them all flying!
She could do it, and so could the Honkai beasts. She wanted the Seven Swords of Taixu to understand just how foolish it was to face a monster like a Honkai beast head-on!
Fu Hua moved faster than the seven of them. So fast that the expression on Su Mei's face had not yet stiffened before Fu Hua had already passed her, leaving only a hand covering her face.
Su Mei's vision blurred, and the face she had longed for, yet carried a strange sense of authority, was already right in front of her.
A seemingly slender palm rapidly enlarged in her pupils, carrying a pressure that froze the qi around her body, pressing straight towards her face.
Fast... incomprehensibly fast!
The arrogance on Su Mei's face hadn't even had time to turn into astonishment before the palm was upon her!
Thud!
A muffled sound.
Su Mei felt an irresistible force crash down on her, as if she had been hit head-on by a high-speed train.
All the momentum and power she had gathered instantly collapsed like a paper fortress before this absolute speed and power!
She didn't even have time to fully block before she was sent flying backward like a kite with a cut string, at a speed even faster than her charge. She slammed heavily onto the bluestone floor of the training ground, sliding for more than ten meters before barely coming to a stop.
She almost coughed up a mouthful of blood, but managed to swallow it down. She felt as if her internal organs had been displaced, and her vision went black in waves.
That was... really clean and decisive.
The other six, who had witnessed Su Mei's defeat in one move, were already mentally prepared. Fu Hua's attack on Su Mei had been delayed for a moment, and that moment of hesitation was precisely what Su Mei had intended to achieve!