Maiden Of The Splitting Moon

She could not allow the ape to attack again and moved ahead of it before finding a suitable area to ambush from. The snow ape was walking closer and closer to Ming Yue as she prepared to attack it, aiming for the leg. The moment it was within 2 feet of her, Ming Yue attacked.

"Descent of the Twilight"

A dark blade slashed at its leg, leaving a large gash there. After attacking she hid once more. The ape was surprised, he did not think that someone would attack him and he became enraged, beating his chest and roaring loudly. The ape could not see where or who attacked and it began scanning its surroundings.

As for Ming Yue, she had used Descent of the Twilight on it and was surprised that she did not hack off its leg. Throughout her time training with Elder Fei, she became skilled in using Descent of the Twilight and was beginning to understand Eclipse from the Shadow Blade Arts. It was a shame that these were the only techniques that were compatible with her sword. Knowing that she had learned all she could from it, She decided to look at the Falling Blade Manual.

In it, were three parts, The first part was how to use momentum to your advantage. Things like timing, stance, grip, etc were already explained allowing Ming Yue to only need practice before she had successfully strengthened her strikes. As for the second part, this dealt with adding inner force in order to push it up another level. This part was much harder for her as she never really used inner force for anything other than cultivation. Furthermore there was the final part, it was to combine the two parts together. It was extremely complicated as she could not control her inner force too well. Even with all of the practice, she could only bring out 30% of its strength.

However, this was plenty enough when it came to dealing with the snow ape. She hid behind a tree, preparing for her next strike. This time she started infusing it with inner force. The ape was still looking around, and the moment his back was in front of her, she attacked.

"Cut!"

She was extremely quick, however, the ape noticed and turned around, managing to block the attack with its arms. Unfortunately, his arms suffered damage and could not fully mitigate the force. The bones had already started cracking as blood dripped down from the large slashes. Then, the snow ape immediately attacked Ming Yue before she could escape, swatting her with his right hand. The force had thrown her against a tree causing an impact. It was strong enough to create cracks on the trunk and she starting tasting blood in her mouth.

The Snow Ape sneered as he approached her but it did not dare to drop its guard. It had already suffered several injuries and wanted to finish this fight quickly. However, Ming Yue was not as injured as she looked and stood up, taking her stance. She pushed forward and struck the ape.

"Eclipse"

Using the strongest move that she had, she attacked, aiming for the left arm.

The snow ape saw her attack but the strike was too fast for it to dodge. Within a moment, the ape had lost its arm which had fallen to the ground, twitching as blood poured out. The ape put his remaining arm on what was left of the left arm and felt extreme fear. If the fight continues, he would die.

Immediately it ran and tried to escape. However, Ming Yue did not let it escape, chasing after the ape. As they went through trees and bushes, Ming Yue was gaining on the ape. She was just a bit faster as the snow ape had lost too much blood therefore, it could not run at its top speed. Soon she caught up and dispatched the creature immediately, cutting off the head without hesitation. She then packaged it and put the head into her spatial ring to bring back as proof.

Afterwards, Ming Yue went to the cave that the snow ape lived in. She wanted to see if there was anything of use in there before she left for the village. She spotted some rare herbs as well as some medicinal pills. She didn't know what these pills were but judging by its strong scent, these were quite potent. As she packed these up, she noticed a strangely shaped stone at the deepest part of the cave and inspected it.

It was round and smooth with a white sheen. After some thought, she believed it to be an egg, as for what beast it was, she did not know. It could not be a snow ape because it was a male and there were no signs of any female either. As she was unable to make anything of it, she put everything into her spatial ring and left. When she goes back to the city, she would get someone to appraise it.

Several hours later, she made it to the village and showed proof that the snow ape was killed. The villagers were happy especially, the village chief, he did not want the home that he worked so hard for to disappear. Afterwards, Ming Yue stayed in the village to recuperate before moving onto her second mission.

As she continued on to Death Wind Mountain, she encountered several dangerous beasts but she was able to fend them off, even killing one or two. She collected any materials from those beasts and put them into her ring.

It was very useful despite having little space and Ming Yue appreciated it greatly. After a week or so, she reached the base of the mountain and began looking for a Jade Dew Flower. It had 7 petals which glowed a light green and could be used in multiple pills for healing. In this environment, it wouldn't be hard to spot but it was quite rare and she could not find it despite spending several hours looking.

Then she decided to venture deeper into the mountain, preparing herself to escape if she found a threat that she could not handle. There was quite a bit of trees and shrubbery that were in her way as she continued onward. Suddenly, she heard a booming roar and immediately hid. She could not see the beast and slowly moved until she heard sounds of battle and spotted 2 gigantic beasts clashing with each other.

She saw a large Earth Tortoise charge at its opponent, a Thunder Roc. It was a rank 5 monster that was fighting against another rank 5!

Each clash produced tremors as lightning scattered all over the battle area and much of the earth was overturned. They were both similarly injured but the fight was fierce. Ming Yue could do nothing but watch.. The battle was too chaotic for her to move and one wrong step could end in her death.