Chapter Sixty-Six: Paired Flying Wings
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无罪 update:2022-07-21 15:26
“I find it very ironic.”
Baili Suxue was not in a hurry to attack. Zheng Xiu needed time to rest, and he also needed time to control some of the vital energy in his body. When surrounded by many cultivators, any forcible attack when one could not move as they pleased could be fatal.
Seeing Zheng Xiu who looked so scornful at having wounded him, he then said, “He did not just leave this sword energy in your body. Even now, you rely on the things he left in your body. Do you not find it ironic?”
Baili Suxue’s words had a double meaning. Everyone who knew of the past between Wang Jingmeng and Zheng Xiu knew that such words were very crude for a person like Baili Suxue. Yet facing the enemy, Baili Suxue would use any method that could harm or anger his enemy.
His tactics received a corresponding effect.
Zheng Xiu was completely angered. “All of the people who dared to laugh at me back then are dead, so no one else can laugh at me.”
The flames in her eyes burned, her hair dancing like venomous snakes behind her. Star fire burned at the ends of her fair, and even her perfect face grew twisted. The great anger caused her vital energy to violently spread out without anything in reserve. In an instant, for hundreds of feet with her as the center, many pale white stars appeared like stars had been drawn here.
In this area, other than these cultivators, all other beings quickly died. The flowers withered and turned to dust. Even the insects underground silently turned to rotten soil. This cold and destructive star energy was something that even a cultivator like Huang Daochen could not fend off. He felt stabbing pains from the surface of his skin and his flesh, and then he unconsciously retreated.
A silver dome covered Zheng Xiu and Baili Suxue right now.
His gaze was stuck to the two people in the dome. This was close to a divine battle. Even a cultivator of his level could not interfere. There were powerful presences filling the air.
Baili Suxue’s expression grew very serious. Such a presence was equal to the cultivators of the Zhao Sword Furnace. While in the past battles with the Han, Zhao and Wei, Zheng Xiu had never out to for her life on large battlefields, he did not doubt that a cultivator like Zheng Xiu who managed to come out of Jiaodong Commandery knew how to fight with her life on the line. The power of a person like Zheng Xiu once she lost her mind would be terrifying.
But he did not hesitate at all, and used a sword move he had prepared a long time ago. His movements did not change. He just simply drew his sword and attacked. After completing this natural and smooth movement, there was no sword in his hand, but when he thrust at the end, like last time, an ice sword appeared in his hand.
The tip of the ice sword spurted a terrifying amount of lifebond energy. Even the primal energies of the universe in the air right now were in chaos and boiling like porridge, there was still a clear ring. The sound was very pleasing to the ear, and even covered up all other sounds at this time.
Two sword lights appeared in the air. Two clear sword lights, with indescribable elegance, cut through the star lights, flying like two transparent wings. But the edges of the sword energies had five colored lights and gave off a strong joy.
Pan Ruoye and Huang Daochen stopped breathing. The two of them had been waiting for the result of the two swords colliding together. Yet to their confusion, Baili Suxue’s sword did not have a destructive presence. The power of this sword was not as strong as his previous attack.
Baili Suxue could confidently use the powerful sword moves of so many sects, so why use this one?
What confused them even more was that Zheng Xiu suddenly paled. The stars were trembling. This meant that her emotions were in great turmoil.
Crack!
The patches of stars formed by these lights were cut apart by the two sword lights. This was a scene calm like paper being cut, but caused unimaginable power ripples.
The palaces in the surroundings had quite suddenly shattered. There were even great sounds coming from distant palaces like they were hit by enormous waves.
Countless cracks appeared under Zheng Xiu’s feet. In the next moment, the space behind her seemed to tear apart. Her body flew backwards, and then collided with her study behind her.
There was the skylight they usually stood at, her study table, and the wall behind it…… were all crushed to dust. Her body was still flying backwards among the debris, many wounds appearing on her porcelain body, bright blood soaking her grand and majestic robes.
Pan Ruoye and Huang Daochen could not understand. The secondary ripples hit the cultivators who kept on retreating. They could not understand why it was suddenly like this. In the contact just now, Zheng Xiu should have been the one to win. Such a result seemed to go against the rules of power.
“Paired Flying Wings…… being defeated by the sword move he created for you, do you find it ironic?”
Baili Suxue’s voice sounded, accompanied by his lungs heaving like bellows.
Many people instantly understood why it was like this. From waging war in the Chu, Zheng Xiu had always been attacking the heart, and Baili Suxue did the same.
Paired Flying Wings…… This sword move did not just have a beautiful name, it also contained wishes for staying together in love for a lifetime. At least, to Wang Jingmeng of the past, it had been like this. In his eyes, Zheng Xiu had been his perfect partner, the person which he had imagined beautiful things about. So he trusted and believed her. He felt she was the same. No matter what she thought, he was very sincere. So he had created such a move to represent his feelings at the time and his hopes for the future.
Baili Suxue used such a sword to attack Zheng Xiu’s heart. From the verbal battle at the start and Zheng Xiu appearing because of him and being affected by his words, he knew that this move would succeed.
Thud!
Zheng Xiu’s feet landed on the ground, the grand shoes splitting apart. While she managed to stop her body, and did not fall to the ground, the moment she landed, she vomited multiple mouthfuls of blood, and even her body started to bow.
All of the cultivators in the surroundings knew that Zheng Xiu’s body was in a very bad state by now, but at this time, it was very quiet, and no one dared to be the first to attack because they all knew that Baili Suxue would still be able to fight right now.
Volume 4 61 - Exactly So
Black, red, deep yellow …… insects of all strange shapes and colors flowed past Shen Xuan’s feet like water, even hitting his shoes and the hem of his clothing. He had never seen such colorful insects before, and never so many.
These insects ignored him. Even the ones usually sensitive towards the scent of flesh and blood only moved around him as fast as possible when they hit his legs, and headed towards the place with the most spirit energy.
It was the same with the wild beasts of the grasslands. Other than the most commonly seen wolf packs, dholes and other beasts, Shen Xuan even saw some beasts in the sprinting black shadows that were thought to be extinct and could be called
beasts.
An enormous viper with fleshy wings and covered in stone-like scales. A black fire turtle burning with flame on its back. A rhinoceros seemingly made of green jade ……
These powerful beasts had faced being hunted by cultivators for generations because most of their body parts were useful to cultivators. So they had great enmity towards cultivators. Yet right now, these enormous beasts ignored him and Ding Ning. They just tried to head towards the Mountain of Ancestors where the rain was heaviest as fast as possible.
“Great Shaman, what did they do?” At the edge of the valley, Wu LIanzi too saw the surrounding scene.
The man next to him looked at the various birds coming down from the sky like rain and said emotionlessly, “They destroyed the Fountain of Eternal Life.”
Wu Lianzi immediately paled.
The man next to him slowly shook his head. “No matter. The more they destroy the Mountain of Ancestors, the more they will feel the ancestral curse.”
After a pause, the man glanced at the Mountain of Ancestors and then at where Ding Ning and Shen Xuan were coming from. He smiled faintly with a strong confidence. “The timing is perfect.”
Shen Xuan and Ding Ning started to move quickly towards the Mountain of Ancestors. It was not due to their own will, but because the military horses they were riding were no longer under their control and were wildly sprinting towards the Mountain of Ancestors.
These military horses ran faster and faster, going through the curtain of rain, and seemed to not be tired at all, running like they were going to fly. Ding Ning’s body went up and down as the horses galloped and seemed to move through the clouds.
When the tide of insects and beasts formed, especially the tide of insects that flowed constantly around him, he unconsciously frowned. Then he became grave …… then relieved, and then shocked and emotional …… In just a few moments, myriad emotions crossed his face.
But because Shen Xuan himself was too stunned, he did not detect Ding Ning’s abnormality.
The opportunities of cultivators were odd things. For example, Ding Ning had schemed for a long time in Changling, waiting to enter the sword school that Xie Changsheng was in. But in the end, he entered White Goat Cave that originally did not qualify to attend the Min Mountain Sword Trials. He had also never expected White Goat Cave to have preserved a spirit vein.
Today, something odd was also happening on the plains. He feared the strongest spirit vein in the world was being destroyed. The terrifying spirit energy burst through the vent. Just the presence would be enough to crush Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing’s organs and meridians, killing them, but this spirit vein also had astounding medicinal power which quickly repaired their bodies. An ocean of spirit energy cleansed and filled their bodies, and affected their perception. All the undetectable primal energies of the universe entered their bodies. Like finding an answer after countless tests, primal energies that could merge with their vital energy finally united and managed to spare the breakthrough and directly bring them up a level.
This had never occurred before in the world of cultivators, and it may never happen again. There was no second spirit vein so powerful and wonderful, and no one would just swing their sword to destroy a spirit vein that could regrow bone and flesh.
Other than Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing, no one else knew that there was another wonderful and also unprecedented event happening to Ding Ning.
It was not a cultivation breakthrough.
Sensing the spirit energy released instantly by the spirit vein in the Mountain of Ancestors, and seeing all these beings furiously run over, Ding Ning suddenly realized something like he had an epiphany.
Above realm eight was realm nine. Yet all cultivators in history had never reached the true realm nine. Emperor Yuanwu had displayed his realm eight cultivation during the Deer Mountain Conference. He had flattened a mountain with one blow and been invincible.
No one could confirm if realm nine really existed. They knew not if realm eight was the highest peak in the world. Yet Ding Ning now knew that realm nine truly existed.
Existence meant it was achievable.
Hu Jingjing looked up at the wildly flying giant birds in the sky, especially those vicious and ugly monsters that she could not have even imagined before. She thought, if the rain stopped, when the powerfully healing spirit energy disappeared, just the insects and giant beasts coming from all directions would be enough to consume her and Li Xixing until nothing was left.
But there was no time to think. Li Xixing was continuing to go up deeper into the Mountain of Ancestors. Hu Jingjing did not hesitate and sped up to walk side by side with him.
From afar, this mountain looked like an ordinary small stone mountain, but when one entered, they would find there were countless natural gullies that formed ascending paths, or rather, mountain paths within canyons.
The most suitable mountain path was the one facing the spirit spring. The natural mountain paths had clear marks left behind by experts. There were deep footprints, holes created by powerful steps, and even all kinds of giant sword marks …… there were also the marks of giant builds that the outside did not have.
Yet, when they entered the first mountain valley along this path, and saw the buildings, what attracted the pair’s attention was an enormous skeleton!
An enormous grey-white skeleton was pressed against the top of the building ruins. It was tens of feet tall. To their shock, the building seemed to have been crushed by this enormous skeleton.
This was just the skeleton.
Compared to the enormous skeleton, the giant birds in the sky were as minuscule as wild chickens outside of Changling.
“What kind of
beast is this?”
Seeing the enormous skeleton that seemed to have wing bones, Hu Jingjing could not help but ask Li Xixing. She could not connect this skeleton to any beast recorded.
Li Xixing shook his head. He also could not imagine what kind of beast the skeleton belonged to.
Since they did not know, they would keep going up. He moved his feet and continued to go up.
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