Chapter 475: Mother and Daughter Game

“The one putting on ghostly acts has been caught!”

That was the big news in the village last night.

Pei Zheng and Gongsun Xiaotao looked at the flat-faced person lying on the ground, momentarily at a loss for words.

How dare you yell and scare the villagers in the middle of the night! And you even climbed the crooked neck tree to set the scene!

“Look!” one villager pointed at the nearby coffin, his eyes reddening, “That’s our Ancestral Master!” So this bastard dug him up and hung him from the tree!”

“Despicable outsider!”

The flat-faced person lay on the ground, a single tear silently sliding from the corner of his eye.

My life is too hard.

***

Jiang Ke’er’s training had reached a fever pitch.

So hot that she was down to just her undergarments.

Her fair skin radiated sacred light under the sun, while a pair of skillful hands pinched and patted all over, tickling Jiang Ke’er until her face burned red.

“Mm, she said with a completely serious expression, ‘Alright, now for the sphincter. Hmm, the muscle engagement this time is passable…'” Qiao Xiaoxian said.

“Get lost!”

Jiang Ke’er had finally reached her limit.

She knew Qiao Xiaoxian was definitely taking the opportunity to cop a feel, but the other’s guidance was genuinely professional—by understanding muscle engagement patterns, she could quickly correct any flaws in her form.

This had also multiplied the speed at which she learned the war dance, allowing her to memorize dozens of war dance routines in just two days.

Moreover, the instruction was so professional and legitimate that there was no way to refuse it.

“Fine then.” Qiao Xiaoxian released Jiang Ke’er with disappointment, “Let’s stop here for now. This is all I can teach you at the moment…”

“Touch! Go ahead and touch! Touch anywhere! Just teach me everything!” Jiang Ke’er snapped angrily.

“What are you thinking? Do I look like the kind of person who takes advantage of others?”

Qiao Xiaoxian laughed, “There really is nothing more to teach. This is already a stockpile that would take an ordinary person several lifetimes to learn. If I acquire new war dances, I’ll come back to teach you.”

“Huh? I’m free?” Jiang Ke’er was briefly stunned, then ecstatic.

The one sliver of hope was drifting further and further away. Though she didn’t dislike Qiao Xiaoxian, the feeling of being groped like this…

“What you need next is to train and integrate what you’ve learned into your habitual combat methods. I won’t disturb you anymore.” Qiao Xiaoxian said.

Jiang Ke’er’s mind was now completely consumed by the newly learned war dances, to the point where even thinking had become difficult. She needed time to organize and fuse everything together.

So she lay down leisurely among the flowers and entered her cultivation state.

A mere Six Harmonies Stage system dummy—now that she had new moves, you’re dead this time.

Ten minutes later.

Jiang Ke’er stepped out of the white light, resurrected.

Having just learned new techniques, she found herself flustered precisely because her combat methods had changed.

The operational principle of the sword dance was to choose counter-moves that could chain into war dance sequences when facing different disassembly options, releasing war dance effects while maintaining offense and defense, achieving the goal of growing stronger with each exchange.

This meant the computational demands grew exponentially, and the early phase of battle became incredibly difficult to survive.

If wind calculations were added on top of that, the computational requirements became even more absurd.

Jiang Ke’er felt mentally exhausted after only a short fight, like she was drunk. Especially when facing an opponent like the system dummy that had zero tolerance for error.

But the growth rate was equally remarkable.

After several rounds of resting, fighting, and dying, Jiang Ke’er finally managed to fight to a draw against an enemy a full major realm below her.

Though she still couldn’t deal any damage to the dummy, not even touching the hem of her clothes, at least she could now hold out until her true qi was completely depleted.

“Again!”

Jiang Ke’er figured that being numb to death was probably her only virtue.

Jiang Ke’er’s fighting spirit was maxed out. Staring at the system dummy that looked exactly like her nine-tailed dharma aspect, she leaped up, raising her hand to swing out a war dance form. Lightning began dancing across both sword blades.

Breakthrough! She decided to break through the Six Harmonies Stage dummy in this very challenge!

In an instant, the war dance imbued her surroundings with a strange force field, gentle breezes swirling around her. Jiang Ke’er seized the momentum and slashed toward the dummy’s nape.

The dummy attacked first, but Jiang Ke’er spun nimbly, evading its strike. The dummy made a contemptuous reverse thrust, only for Jiang Ke’er to take advantage and deliver another sword.

Switching between twin-sword offense, her storm-like barrage momentarily overwhelmed the dummy, leaving it gasping for breath!

And the moment offense shifted to defense was when the war dance could display its true value!

Jiang Ke’er followed the pattern, mimicking the battle between Qiao Xiaoxian and Xu Chen, her momentum growing fiercer with every exchange!

The overflowing sword qi turned the surrounding miles into a dense danger zone!

Jiang Ke’er took the opportunity to further compress the dummy’s operational space while concentrating all her power into a single point—pushing it to a limit she could barely control!

“One—!”

Seizing an opening, Jiang Ke’er’s twin swords rose abruptly and slammed down with tremendous force!

Sword qi flooded the area, leaving the dummy nowhere to dodge.

“Buzz——”

An explosive shockwave detonated across the wilderness, the sharp sword qi mixed within shredding every blade of grass and tree around into powder.

After all, it was only at the Six Harmonies Stage, and the system dummy barely managed to block Jiang Ke’er’s strike.

Jiang Ke’er stared in disbelief—at the critical moment, the dummy had wedged one sword precisely into the weak points of both her blades. That was just absurd.

But the overflowing sword qi still grazed the dummy’s hand, leaving a thin cut on its skin.

She finally hurt it.

Jiang Ke’er suddenly felt a tear-jerking surge of emotion… three years in system space! She could finally cut a tiny wound into a Six Harmonies Stage dummy!

Alright then, next was to press the advantage! Seize the victory in one go!

“How dare you hit your mother?!”

The system dummy suddenly wore an expression of utter disbelief, tossing aside the Alluring City Sword and swapping it for a chicken feather duster.

Then, under Jiang Ke’er’s horrified gaze, the dummy’s aura exploded tenfold!

“How dare you rebel!”

Whoosh——

The dummy vanished from where she stood, and Jiang Ke’er couldn’t even see her shadow.

“Thud——”

Jiang Ke’er snapped back to her senses: “Th-this… what kind of move is this?”

A sharp pain struck her abdomen, doubling her over, and she once again found herself kneeling against the dummy’s knee.

Jiang Ke’er was scared stiff.

“How dare you hit your mother?”

“Smack——”

The hard handle of the chicken feather duster struck heavily across Jiang Ke’er’s rear.

“How dare you hit your mother?”

“Smack——”

“Do you know you were wrong?”

“Smack——”

Pain mixed with fury sparked a powerful urge to counterattack within Jiang Ke’er.

She twisted and struggled to get up, only to find her stomach seemed glued to the other’s knee.

“You still dare to move? You still dare to resist?!”

“Smack! Smack! Smack!”

Jiang Ke’er wanted to cry but no tears came.

“I’ll kill you sooner or later! I’ll kill you sooner or later!” Jiang Ke’er yelled as she struggled.

“What? You want to kill your mother?! Looks like I’ve been hitting too lightly!”

“Smack! Smack! Smack!”

Sharp, crisp sounds rang continuously across the wilderness sky, rhythmic and steady, mixing with Jiang Ke’er’s screams to form something like a beautiful percussion piece.

Jiang Ke’er’s furious shouts gradually faded, eventually dissolving into humiliated sobbing.

“Stop hitting! Stop hitting! Big sis, stop hitting!”

The system dummy’s delicate brows furrowed sharply as she glared at Jiang Ke’er.

“Hm? Who are you telling to stop? What should you be calling me?”

“Mom, I know I was wrong…”