Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 88

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Episode 88

Greedy Flower Bird threw a bowl at the man in front of him and immediately leaped upward.

Several swords pierced into the chair where he had been sitting.

The airborne Greedy Flower Bird drove his foot into the face of a nearby man. The kick infused with internal energy broke the man’s nose and teeth, sending him flying far away to crash into the ground.

Greedy Flower Bird shouted excitedly.

“One!”

Greedy Flower Bird used the recoil from kicking the man to perform a somersault in the air. Meanwhile, several swords passed dangerously close to his body.

Landing instantly behind two men, Greedy Flower Bird extended both hands and unleashed palm strikes. The men took the fierce palm force directly to their backs, coughing up blood as they collapsed forward.

“Two, three!”

Suddenly a sword flew from behind.

The sword stabbed deep into Greedy Flower Bird’s back. However, Greedy Flower Bird was perfectly fine. The man who realized he had only stabbed cotton hurriedly shouted.

“This bastard’s back is fake… Ahhh!”

“You just figured that out now?”

Greedy Flower Bird struck the man’s jaw with his fist. Then he spun his body half a turn to dodge an incoming sword, before kicking the chest of a man behind him with his left foot in a spinning motion.

Crack, the sound of breaking bones rang out. The man collapsed without even being able to scream.

“Four, five!”

Greedy Flower Bird grabbed the falling man by the back of his neck. Then without even looking, he spun the man’s body to block an attack from the side. A man who had been bringing down his sword screamed.

“You son of a bitch!”

Greedy Flower Bird hurled the man he was holding toward that direction with all his strength. The man bringing down his sword and the man beside him collided and staggered. In that gap, he rushed in, grabbed both men’s heads, and smashed them together.

Crack, both men’s heads split open and blood flowed. Greedy Flower Bird released the men and bent at the waist.

Whoosh, a blade passed over his head.

Greedy Flower Bird grabbed the arm of a man extending from the side, pulled him close, and struck his abdomen with his knee. Simultaneously, he struck another man’s solar plexus with his left elbow.

In the blink of an eye, four people had fallen.

“Six, seven, eight, nine!”

The fight was one-sided.

Several men fell before they could even attempt anything, and those who had initially responded calmly grew increasingly fearful, eventually just swinging their swords wildly.

And Greedy Flower Bird was not one to miss such an opportunity.

Swimming through the crude swordplay while moving his hands and feet, the men fell one by one. When he finally drove his fist into the last remaining man.

Swish-.

Instantly, Greedy Flower Bird quickly retreated backward.

He could dodge the blade that shot out in that moment, but a bit of his clothing was cut away. Greedy Flower Bird looked ahead with interested eyes.

Jin Se-ha, second-in-command of the Cheongsa Faction, was extending a fan forward.

“Ho.”

He had been holding it lightly since he appeared, so it seemed like just a wooden fan, but looking closely, it was an iron fan disguised with paper.

The fan ribs were sharpened more keenly than most sword blades, and sharp awls protruded from their tips. Greedy Flower Bird spread both arms and spoke in a delighted voice.

“Good, let me see your skills.”

With those words, Jin Se-ha charged forward.

Jin Se-ha’s martial arts were truly strange.

Watching him slash with the fan’s edge seemed like sword techniques, while watching him strike with the fan’s surface seemed like staff techniques.

When the fan’s edge slashed toward his left side, Greedy Flower Bird leaned his body to the right. Then the fan rib that seemed about to cut his shoulder turned horizontal and struck toward his chest.

Greedy Flower Bird was about to retreat backward when he suddenly felt an ominous premonition and stepped forward, moving his body diagonally to dodge.

Instantly, an awl thrust like lightning toward the direction he had been about to retreat.

It was a pressure point technique aimed at his blood path.

The motion of thrusting and withdrawing in a very brief moment could easily go unnoticed, but Greedy Flower Bird clearly saw that instant and shouted.

“Excellent pressure point technique!”

His true technique was neither the sword method of slashing with fan ribs, nor the staff method of striking with the fan surface.

It was a pressure point combat method that used false moves by wielding the iron fan to appear like sword and staff techniques, then thrust at blood paths while the opponent was distracted by the slashing.

And Greedy Flower Bird’s assessment was correct.

At Greedy Flower Bird’s words, Jin Se-ha showed no outward reaction but was inwardly flustered.

‘How did he figure it out?’

Any ordinary martial artist should have already fallen to his hands. His specialty was using false moves with the iron fan to distract opponents, then applying pressure points to instantly immobilize them.

But Greedy Flower Bird had seen through it immediately.

The first attempt seemed to be dodged by pure instinct, but after instantly grasping his combat method, he precisely watched the awl’s movements and evaded them.

No matter how many false moves he mixed in or how exquisite sword techniques he used, nothing worked. Even his Iron Fan Sword Method, which he had put considerable effort into, was completely ineffective.

Jin Se-ha grew impatient.

‘My martial arts have already been completely seen through. Even continuing to fight like this offers no chance of victory. Moreover, that guy’s lightness skill is excellent, dodging all my attacks. If I could just make him let his guard down once…’

Suddenly, Jin Se-ha’s eyes caught sight of the tables and chairs scattered throughout the inn.

Without further hesitation, Jin Se-ha pretended to attack Greedy Flower Bird while swinging his iron fan to smash tables and chairs. Then he picked up the broken pieces and began throwing them at Greedy Flower Bird.

Of course, there was no way Greedy Flower Bird would be hit by those pieces. While wondering why Jin Se-ha was attacking so recklessly, Greedy Flower Bird spoke in an amused tone.

“Could this be a desperate strategy? Throwing objects like a child having a tantrum truly shows the demeanor of a master.”

“…”

However, even at Greedy Flower Bird’s sarcastic words, Jin Se-ha gave no response.

Suddenly, Jin Se-ha grabbed several pieces and threw them all at once. The pieces infused with internal energy shot toward Greedy Flower Bird. Greedy Flower Bird lightly dodged the pieces without much effort.

In that instant, Jin Se-ha burst out from right beside him.

He had approached from the side while Greedy Flower Bird was distracted dodging the pieces. Jin Se-ha pressed the side of his fan and immediately shot out poison needles.

Swish, swish, swish!

“…!”

In a flash, his eyes widened and Greedy Flower Bird’s form disappeared.

Greedy Flower Bird’s movement was strange. The poison needles seemed to have definitely hit him, yet somehow he was already somewhere else. It was truly like appearing here and there in a flash.

Whoosh-.

And then, wind arose.

Jin Se-ha retreated backward to avoid the wind, then opened his eyes wide. The poison needles he had shot were gathered in Greedy Flower Bird’s sleeve.

Greedy Flower Bird poured out the poison needles and smiled broadly.

“Not bad.”

The corners of Jin Se-ha’s mouth trembled.

Shooting poison needles from the mechanism in his fan just now was Jin Se-ha’s last trump card. And now even that technique had been blocked.

‘I’ve completely lost.’

In this fight, defeat meant only death.

As Jin Se-ha sensed the end, Greedy Flower Bird continued speaking in a calm tone.

“It was quite a decent technique. Though one could call it despicable, shooting poison needles with a fan while the opponent was off guard – many masters probably met their end to that technique. I too felt a chill in my chest.”

“…”

“If you had used this technique to eliminate villains, we could have been friends. But since you only harmed innocent lives…”

Suddenly, Greedy Flower Bird stopped speaking abruptly.

Jin Se-ha also froze.

“I’ll end this now.”

There was no more time to think.

Jin Se-ha immediately began running toward the door.

The dignity of being second-in-command of the Cheongsa Faction had already been thrown far away. Only the thought of somehow surviving to plan for the future filled his mind.

However, his escape did not last long.

Because Greedy Flower Bird was already blocking the doorway.

“Get out of the way!”

Jin Se-ha screamed and launched a palm strike. However, Greedy Flower Bird did not dodge and responded with an identical palm strike.

At first, the palm forces seemed similar in strength.

But Greedy Flower Bird suddenly withdrew his right hand, then extended his left hand to launch another palm strike. Then he thrust his withdrawn right hand forward like a gale, adding to the palm force.

Continuous Triple Palm.

Waves of palm force that grew stronger through three iterations instantly engulfed Jin Se-ha.

“No…!”

Thud-!

Jin Se-ha’s body, unable to withstand the palm force, flew far away and crashed into the wall.

Bang!

And died.

His internal organs had burst, causing his death.

“….”

Greedy Flower Bird straightened his body and looked at Jin Se-ha, who had now become a corpse. Then he turned his eyes away. At the end of his gaze, a man who had been secretly watching the situation from outside the window came in.

The man’s and Greedy Flower Bird’s eyes met.

Greedy Flower Bird smiled and asked.

“Did you enjoy the show?”

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After that, Greedy Flower Bird woke up the unconscious Blue Lotus Sect member and asked where they had taken the women.

At first, the man couldn’t grasp the situation, but soon saw the second leader who was slammed against the wall with his tongue hanging out long and dead, and in terror spilled everything down to the smallest detail.

Greedy Flower Bird immediately went to the Blue Lotus Sect headquarters.

After that.

Rumors that the Blue Lotus Sect had been erased by Greedy Flower Bird spread widely throughout Jianghu.

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