Chapter 551: Chapter 542: Azi
Although these businesses ultimately failed to cooperate with Ding Ling,
their frenzied advertisements still had a certain effect.
Especially fashion brands like V, Martial Hero World, and Ice and Snow King’s World that chose to strongly associate themselves with Ding Ling from the start, successfully directed a wave of traffic to themselves.
Since they were the first to unabashedly court Ding Ling, they naturally left a strong impression on the players, thus successfully taking advantage of this initial wave.
It attracted imitators.
Unfortunately, the effects were not as good as before.
But it cannot be denied that these businesses’ frenzied advertising
has made Ding Ling increasingly popular and sought after!
His fanbase continues to grow.
He now has quite a few ardent fans even in the Celestial Dragon World.
Especially some female fans asking for his phone number and contact information in public is a common occurrence.
What is their intention?
The meaning is clear.
Ding Ling is accustomed to this and is not surprised.
On this day,
he soared in the void, gliding on the breeze over a wild mountain range, when he suddenly heard screams and cries.
Curious, Ding Ling instinctively glanced in the direction of the sound.
At this glance, he paused and couldn’t help but turn around and head down.
He had just seen Ding Chunqiu’s figure!
Ding Chunqiu was extremely good at escaping.
Even under nationwide efforts to capture him,
he still managed to get away.
Of course, as a universally detested character, he naturally didn’t dare go to crowded places. If he did, players and natives would report him! This has happened more than once, and players naturally received some ’cultivation technique’ rewards.
Ding Ling doesn’t lack cultivation techniques.
In order to capture Ding Chunqiu,
he promised to reward anyone who provides information with a basic martial arts internal power technique and anyone who captures Ding Chunqiu with a first-class martial arts internal power technique.
Players were understandably ecstatic and eagerly participated.
Ding Chunqiu’s location was discovered numerous times due to players’ enthusiastic support.
But this guy is like a viper; regular warriors can’t capture him. A careless mistake, and they’d be poisoned and killed, which happened quite often.
In recent months,
due to the effort to capture Ding Chunqiu, the Great Ming Kingdom has lost probably over a thousand warriors to poison and battle.
That’s how troublesome this guy is.
Now that Ding Ling has encountered him here, how could he let this venomous snake go?
"Master, look, I’ve returned the Divine Wood King Tripod to you; just let me go. I feel so terrible. Master..."
The person crying out was a young girl.
She was petite and exquisite, with skin like jade, dressed in purple attire, looking quite elegant.
But at the moment, she was rolling on the ground, occasionally scratching her face and body, with large dark eyes full of resentment and pain.
Beside the purple-clad girl stood a young girl dressed in red, beautiful like a flower, with a lively spirit, constantly glancing towards Ding Chunqiu, saying:
"Please spare Azi, I’ll do anything you want!"
"You said it yourself."
Ding Chunqiu glanced up and down at the red-clad girl, saying with a half-smile:
"If you really agree to be with me, I wouldn’t mind sparing Azi this time. But this little girl Azi is truly mischievous and cunning; I’m afraid she might slip away again and steal my Divine Wood King Tripod, causing me to suffer the onset of severe poisoning.
She made me suffer for so long. How could I not let her taste the agony of poison corroding the heart?
Once she gets through this moment, I’ll detoxify her, and then both sisters can accompany me."
The red-clad girl smiled ingratiatingly:
"Azi is still young, just let me be the one to accompany you."
"Stop with the nonsense."
Just as Ding Chunqiu was about to act, he suddenly caught sight of a figure descending like lightning from the sky in his peripheral vision.
Instinctively, he looked over.
At this sight, he was so shocked that six of his seven souls escaped, letting out a cry and immediately disregarding Azi and the red-clad girl, channeling his full power, activating his breathing technique, boosting his fusion Qi tenfold, and whoosh!
His body shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, covering dozens of meters in an instant, reaching over a hundred meters away within moments—the speed so fast, it reached his lifetime maximum!
"What happened?!"
The red-clad girl was astonished.
Azi was startled by Ding Chunqiu’s yell, momentarily stopping her cries and looking towards the direction of the sound. Upon seeing, both inhaled sharply.
It turned out a figure was flying down from the void.
This person was tall, handsome,
full of nobility, power, and sage-like aura, looking exceptionally extraordinary, like a celestial god.
He only glanced at Azi and the red-clad girl.
The two girls felt as if struck by lightning, with a tingling scalp and hearts uncontrollably racing.
They couldn’t quite describe the feeling clearly,
but undeniably, with just a glance, they formed an extremely deep impression of this extraordinary-looking man, which they might never forget in their lifetime.
Boom!
Of course, this man was Ding Ling. He flew past without touching the ground, chasing after Ding Chunqiu like the wind.
His speed was unparalleled, like lightning, arriving behind Ding Chunqiu in the blink of an eye, executing the Dragon Capturing Skill, grabbing at the air.
Bam!
Ding Chunqiu was caught, thrown back heavily. A resounding noise followed as Ding Chunqiu was tossed tens of meters away, crashing to the ground, dizzy.
Ding Ling had no interest in wasting words with Ding Chunqiu and directly pointed a Canhe Finger at him.
Puff!
It struck Ding Chunqiu’s heart.
Just as the fight started, as Ding Chunqiu was about to plead for mercy, he felt a pain in his heart, and the next instant, his strength rapidly drained, with his Transformation Technique beginning to swiftly rebound on himself.
"My heart vein has been struck..."
The intense pain in his heart forced him to kneel as if he pushed Gold Mountain and toppled Jade Pillar, looking at Ding Ling, trying to utter a plea for help, but his vision was dark and his throat ached, unable to speak.
"Why am I so unlucky!"
"Escaping to this desolate mountain wilderness, only to encounter Ding Ling, such a killer!"
"Have I been cursed for eight generations?! Even if my ancestors’ graves emitted smoke, it shouldn’t bring such misfortune upon me! Yet I just so happened to meet him in this damned place!"
Ding Chunqiu’s vision increasingly blurred and darkened, his consciousness scattering into a muddled haze.
In his dim awareness, he seemed to dream of returning to his youthful, confident days.
