Zhang Junxue indeed did not manage to secure victory. After enduring through more than forty exchanges, she lost to that Northern Swordsman's sword and left the stage despondently.
Pei Ye was still astonished when he helped her down. Her knife skills had truly undergone a qualitative leap. He Hongzhu hadn't taught her much knife technique. She still used that same "Stacked Waves," but the way she exerted force and understood the knife was like she was a completely different person. Even with her realm being only at the Seventh Level, the power she could unleash was clearly beyond the Eighth Level.
"I really didn't expect you had reached the Seventh Level. Yesterday, I was still wondering how you managed to come and take the Feather Scale Test so quickly." The two of them sat on the roof bathed in the sunset, watching the bustling crowds at the Sixteen Platforms in the distance. For one of them, the battle was already over, while for the other, it had yet to begin.
