Chapter 1182: Chapter 1180: Instant Kill_1
Outside the land of Fate, Ling Cunyi personally witnessed the women standing with Shi Xiaole, so upon seeing the women being chased and killed before, he hastily led the Ling Family experts to help.
One thing led to another, and their identities were revealed. Both groups naturally came together, which also increased their safety. Who would have thought they would be so unlucky as to encounter Blade-back Old Ancestor.
The blade’s brilliance was not dazzling, nor did it give off any sense of power, but only those under its slice truly understood the terror of the blade’s radiance.
As one of the Ling Family’s three great swordsmen, Inheriting Heaven Sword Emperor’s arms swelled, but due to the overwhelming pressure of the blade, his short sword could only be swung forward at an extremely slow pace, and his arms continuously burst open with blood.
He sighed inwardly, knowing he was doomed.
Ling Cunyi, Ling Cunwei, and even more of Ling Wenlong’s lineage of Ling Family experts, all exerted their life’s work of cultivation. They were all top Heaven Realm Martial Emperors, yet under the strike of Blade-back Old Ancestor, they had no chance of resistance.
"Illusion Orchid Domain!"
"Illusion Orchid Domain" could not only transfer oneself, but also others. In a moment of life and death, the image of Shi Xiaole flashed before the eyes of the master of Illusion Orchid Tower, who instinctively mobilized her power, leaving the chance to survive to the people of the Ling Family.
Crack!
The light shield with rotating orchids was shattered by the blade’s light, and the master of Illusion Orchid Tower stood in front, her slender hands forming seals at high speed, continuously casting "Illusion Orchid Domain".
"Do you really think I will not finish you off?"
Blade-back Old Ancestor sneered, determined to teach the master of Illusion Orchid Tower a lesson. He changed from blade edge to back, twisted his wrist, and the back of the blade drew an indistinct light screen in the air. Waves of intense vibration power radiated out, easily shattering the Vigorous Air protecting her body.
The next target was her body.
The back of the blade was precisely aimed at the master of Illusion Orchid Tower’s dantian. One strike would either kill her or completely waste her cultivation! Perhaps it was deliberate by Blade-back Old Ancestor, everyone saw his move clearly; several women even screamed in terror.
Clang!
A metallic clash resounded.
Unbeknownst to them.
A sword was lying across the path of the blade, and with a lift of the blade, a powerful force erupted, sending the long blade and Blade-back Old Ancestor flying together.
"Shi Xiaole!"
Looking at the man who appeared before her, the master of Illusion Orchid Tower’s eyes momentarily flickered with a trance.
Just now, she truly thought she was doomed, a darkness more terrifying than facing death itself. When she was about to succumb, a light tore through the darkness, pulling her up by half.
"Xiaole, don’t worry about us, why did you even join this fray?"
The one shouting was Ling Cunyi.
He was well aware of the power of the Forbidden Martial Emperor; the Ling Family had two such emperors. Blade-back Old Ancestor had only shown a fraction of his strength. So, despite Shi Xiaole’s surprise attack sending the opponent flying, the adversary was not being serious.
Ling Cunyi did not want Shi Xiaole to fall into peril, Ling Cunwei’s face was even paler with urgency, completely taken aback by his nephew’s rashness. Now they were completely done.
Could he possibly hope that, in just a short span of two years, Shi Xiaole could catch up to the level of a Forbidden Martial Emperor? The mere fact of not comprehending Supreme Martial Arts condemns Shi Xiaole to death.
Glancing at Su Bi and Pei Qiuyan, who were critically injured and on the verge of dying, as well as at the corpses of Ling Family experts lying on the ground in a sorry state, Shi Xiaole turned his head towards Blade-back Old Ancestor.
"Lad, I know about you, the one who killed Lonely Lance Emperor with two swords, huh, haha, those women are still virgins, I’ll reluctantly take them as furnace cauldrons, do you have any objections?"
Blade-back Old Ancestor wore a smile, but a careful look would reveal a smile filled with cruelty and mockery.
He hated up-and-comers, especially ones like Shi Xiaole. The older generation still had presence in the Martial World; it wasn’t time for these young ones to steal the limelight.
If he could take away Shi Xiaole’s women in front of him and cause a permanent inner demon in his heart, that would be a delightful affair, just the thought excited Blade-back Old Ancestor.
"Young Master Shi..."
"Xiaole..."
The master of Illusion Orchid Tower and Ling Cunyi wanted to say something through voice transmission, but they saw a flash of sword light as Shi Xiaole made his move.
The speed of the sword was so fast that everyone’s vision blurred, filled with sword shadows. More terrifying, by freezing each frame, one could seemingly find even more sword shadows within each image.
Keng!
Blade-back Old Ancestor blocked with his sword, but he was a bit too slow. The sword tip grazed Blade-back Old Ancestor’s neck, leaving a trace of blood. If not for Blade-back Old Ancestor’s timely evasion, that sword could have taken his head.
"You’re courting death, ’Mystifying One Blade’!"
Shocked and enraged, mixed with boundless horror, Blade-back Old Ancestor hastily retreated and then thrust suddenly.
The word "you" had barely left his mouth when the long blade, due to the mad vibration, had already created countless, hard-to-track chaotic auras. The real blade quickly sliced toward Shi Xiaole from the right side.
"Mystifying Blade Martial Way," merging the Illusion Martial Way and the Shadow Martial Way to become Supreme Martial Arts, and reaching an intermediate stage of ten percent, in terms of strength, Blade-back Old Ancestor was no less than Iron Mad Sky.
Not retreating, and paying no attention to the blade aimed at him, Shi Xiaole’s sword struck straight out, like a gust of wind, bringing order out of chaos, all the mystifying blade shadows disappeared.
After the vibrating power was broken, it even affected Blade-back Old Ancestor’s trajectory. The blade originally aimed at Shi Xiaole’s neck shifted towards his shoulder.
But Shi Xiaole’s sword, a step quicker, would pierce Blade-back Old Ancestor’s heart before the long blade could reach him.
"I’m going to chop you to pieces!"
Repeatedly forced into disadvantage, Blade-back Old Ancestor roared internally on the brink of madness. He had to admit that his prior carelessness made it difficult for him to gain the upper hand in close combat.
Utilizing "Mystifying Dragon Step," Blade-back Old Ancestor’s figure multiplied, twisting and floating, like illusory reflections in rippling air, quickly widening the distance from Shi Xiaole.
It was only an instant!
The Blade momentum had built to a climax; the saber in Blade-back Old Ancestor’s hands was shrouded in a mysterious and elusive aura, as if in an overlaid state that was both existent and non-existent at the same time.
"Confused Slash!"
With his power channeled to its peak, and his legs spread apart in a squat, Blade-back Old Ancestor swung hard at Shi Xiaole opposite him. The very air seemed to tremble, and severe cracks spread like a torn cloth, splitting into a triangle shape and extending forward.
"Returning Sword!"
Blade-back Old Ancestor was fast, but Shi Xiaole was faster. The moment before the long saber was swung, a deep azure sword light surged like raging waves, striking the opponent.
To be precise, the power of "Returning Sword" was not inferior to "Destruction of All,"; it just lacked the precision of the latter. However, once the target was locked, its momentum was even stronger.
Clang!
The saber light was, after all, half a beat too slow and inherently weaker than the sword light. At the moment of impact, it was like a long snake being struck at its critical point, severing into pieces, and after the sword energy was reduced by eighty percent, its residual force still drove fiercely into Blade-back Old Ancestor’s body.
Pfft...
There was no blood mist because the mist was shredded by the Sword Qi the moment it sprayed out. Blade-back Old Ancestor flew out like a kite with its string cut, his face pale from excessive blood loss, but more so from disbelief.
Defeated.
He had been miserably defeated by a non-Forbidden Martial Emperor who was less than a hundred years old.
How could this be possible? Who would wake him up and let him know this was just a ludicrous nightmare?
The nightmare was far from over. At the same time as Blade-back Old Ancestor was severely injured and retreating, Shi Xiaole, who was still far away, had turned into a sword light and rapidly charged towards him.
"No!"
Blade-back Old Ancestor exerted all his strength to swing his saber in defense.
A spark flew.
The two passed by each other; Shi Xiaole sheathed his sword and turned to go back.
A red dot appeared on Blade-back Old Ancestor’s forehead—though it seemed to only break the skin, the raging Sword Qi that poured in extinguished Blade-back Old Ancestor’s vitality in an instant.
"What, what?"
Inheriting Heaven Sword Emperor was dumbstruck.
Ling Cunyi, Ling Cunwei, and the other top fighters of the Ling Family were dumbstruck.
The owner of Illusion Orchid Tower, Bai Ruiting, Fairy Yunni, and other women were petrified, speechless.
Four swords!
Four swords had killed a Forbidden Martial Emperor. Shi Xiaole’s strength was so formidable—what exactly had he experienced in these two years?
Blade-back Old Ancestor’s strength was significantly less than Shi Xiaole’s, and coupled with his initial complacency and underestimation, it would have been surprising if he hadn’t been instantly killed. For fighters of this level, a hundred moves were an instant kill.
Ignoring the astonished onlookers, Shi Xiaole approached Su Bi and Pei Qiuyan, checked their breath, and couldn’t help but sigh silently to himself.
The injuries were too severe; he only had half a Nine Rebirth Pill left on him. Divided between them, it could barely keep the two women breathing. Without the aid of a holy medicine, there would be no chance of reviving them.
Unless he used the Life-and-Death Martial Arts.
"Brother Shi, do you have a way to save Senior Sister Pei and Senior Sister Su?"
Bai Ruiting looked at Shi Xiaole with a begging desire, her eyes twinkling with specks of light.
After pondering for a moment and seeing that the two women’s breath was growing ever fainter, Shi Xiaole finally smiled and said, "Of course, just wait a moment."
Having fed the Nine Rebirth Pill to the two women, Shi Xiaole picked them up, blinked out of sight, and only returned about half a day later.
To everyone’s amazement, the two women who had been at death’s door now had much stronger life forces, although they were still unconscious. They believed that as long as they took a general high-quality spirit medicine and were slowly nursed back to health, they would surely recover.
"Brother Shi, you’re amazing!"
Qu Ni was crying and laughing at the same time, hugging Shi Xiaole tightly in her excitement. In the moments of despair, it was this miraculous man who had pulled them from the depths. Qu Ni knew that she had no room in her heart for any other man.
...
This was a Blade Mountain, emanating the grandiose aura unique to the Supreme Martial Arts.
But as time passed, the initially eleven-percent early stage Blade Martial Way perceptibly declined in speed, falling to ten percent at the middle stage before it finally halted.
A figure swept out from the Blade Mountain.
"My Blade Martial Way has reached the peak of ten percent—haha, a regular Forbidden Martial Emperor won’t be able to withstand my five strikes."
Ding Yufang was covered in blood, but he was spirited.
He was lucky; shortly after entering the Fate Grounds, he stumbled upon this place, where in the process of battling with a Martial Arts Light Body, his own path of the blade rapidly progressed, right up to this day.
Swish, swish, swish.
Several gazes turned toward him from nearby. Without the Supreme Martial Arts, it was impossible to enter the Supreme Imagery, and anyone who discovered this place could only look on enviously.
"Time to search for the Blade Talisman."
Ding Yufang recalled what his elders had told him—the opening time of the Nineteen Peaks was determined by the talismans. Once all the talismans were obtained, the Nineteen Peaks would immediately open.
With many top competitors this time around and more than two years having passed, the opening was likely not far off. It seemed he needed to find a shortcut and rob some people.
