nyslfriends Chapter 98: Sword Immortal?
Chapter 98: Sword Immortal?
As he fled, he also threw out a flaming talisman, which transformed into a fireball about ten feet in size and attacked Yang Jiuli.
However, Yang Jiuli seemed to have seen through it all. With a flash, he also escaped from the spot and avoided the fireball attack.
boom!
The fireball exploded.
In that instant, Zheng Cha had already escaped a hundred meters away using a first-grade high-level 'Swift Wind Talisman'.
"That was close! This brat is actually a sword cultivator!" Zheng Cha secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a figure bypass the firelight and catch up with him.
The "Divine Speed Talisman" activated by Yang Jiuli was a gift from Luo Qiuping.
Both its grade and quality are superior to Zheng Cha's "Swift Wind Talisman".
"This kid didn't fall for it?" Upon seeing this, Zheng Cha panicked and immediately tried his best to activate the 'Swift Wind Talisman' to fly.
At this moment, the aftereffects of activating the "Blood Burning Technique" had begun, and he felt his blood energy gradually weakening.
This kind of secret technique is inherently short-lived.
In just two breaths, the distance between Yang Jiuli and him had been reduced to only ten zhang.
At this moment, Yang Jiuli's gaze sharpened, his mind merged with heaven and earth, and he entered a profound and mysterious state.
A gust of wind stirred in the air, and a surge of spiritual energy from heaven and earth converged toward Yang Jiuli.
A surge of immense energy flowed into the cold iron magic sword in his palm.
Yang Jiuli's aura suddenly surged, and he vaguely exuded the aura of a grandmaster.
This is the state of harmony between humanity and nature.
In addition, Yang Jiuli, relying on the Three Lives Stone's past life talisman, dreamt of the past and present, indirectly experiencing the lives of Yang Xiangru and Qin Jianmei.
His swordsmanship had long since reached the level of a grandmaster.
It's just that his internal energy is not as strong as that of a Grandmaster.
At this moment, he went all out, and his momentum naturally far exceeded that of an ordinary grandmaster, making him a half-step grandmaster!
"This is bad... Connecting with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth... This is a technique only Foundation Establishment cultivators possess!" Upon seeing this, Zheng Cha was horrified.
At that very moment, Yang Jiuli's body flew rapidly toward Zheng Cha.
With a sudden slash of his Cold Iron Sword, Yang Jiuli unleashed a torrent of powerful, chilling sword energy.
Accompanying it was a mysterious and profound sword intent.
The ninth move of the Snowdrift Sword Technique, "A Sword Drifts Snow and Seals the Vast Ocean," is unleashed.
brush!
The immense, chilling sword energy surged forth like a river of swords, and then, like a serpent, rapidly pursued Zheng Cha.
In the blink of an eye, the sword energy appeared three zhang away from Zheng Cha.
Not only that, but snowflakes suddenly began to fall from the sky, and an extremely cold aura swept towards Zheng Cha like a gale.
The sword energy had not yet arrived.
The chill had already reached the skin and fur.
Zheng Cha felt ice crystals forming on his skin.
"This...this is the legendary sword intent..." Zheng Cha thought with a chill.
At the same time, he went all out, and the light from his robes shone, forming a protective light shield.
At the same time, he activated several wind blade talismans and launched them at Yang Jiuli's sweeping river of sword energy.
Having done all this, he moved, intending to continue his escape.
However, as the snowflakes fell, his protective aura began to freeze.
A chill swept in and seeped into his body, causing ice crystals to gradually form on his skin.
Even the light patterns on the 'Swift Wind Talisman' began to dim, clearly affected by this extreme cold.
His escape speed suddenly slowed down.
Just then, the talismans he threw out, before they could be fully activated, were already covered by snowflakes.
The talisman was frozen.
The magic power within had not been unleashed.
"My life is over!" With his powerful divine sense, Zheng Cha took in all of this, and he immediately felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
boom!
Just then, a long river of sword energy swept in and struck Zheng Cha's protective aura.
The protective barrier shattered, and the immense, chilling sword energy crashed down on Zheng Cha like a surging tide.
Zheng Cha's body was immediately engulfed by sword energy.
Countless icy sword energies, sharp as blades, tore apart his robes.
In an instant, Zheng Cha felt as if he had fallen into an icy river and was being torn apart by countless sword blades.
Blood splattered...
Zheng Cha's body was cut into countless pieces and disappeared into thin air.
"Sword... Sword Immortal is so powerful...!" Zheng Cha murmured before his consciousness was annihilated, then looked inward at himself as he was being annihilated.
A cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining was utterly powerless against Yang Jiuli's move: "A Sword of Snow Seals the Vast Ocean".
of course.
Yang Jiuli's ability to kill Zheng Cha, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so quickly was closely related to his rich combat experience from living several lifetimes.
This time, he not only used a grandmaster-level sword technique, but also used the "Swiftness Talisman" to greatly increase his speed.
With the increased speed, his swordsmanship became even more swift and fierce.
From the very beginning, Yang Jiuli deliberately left Zheng Jin's head intact to attract Zheng Cha's attention.
Then, Yang Jiuli launched a sneak attack from behind.
As soon as the two clashed, Zheng Cha was overwhelmed and began to feel fear.
Once the power of the "Blood Burning Technique" dissipated, Zheng Cha had no chance of escaping!
The sword energy vanished in mid-air.
Yang Jiuli flashed and appeared in the air just before Zheng Cha was killed.
He reached out and grabbed a storage bag and a spiked club, which flew over.
The storage bag was covered in sword marks and had developed a cold crystal.
If Yang Jiuli were to unleash another sword strike, the storage bag would be shredded.
With a flick of his hand, Yang Jiuli caused the icy crystal to disappear, and then he put away the storage bag.
At this moment, he held a cold iron sword in his left hand.
The sword's scabbard is made of purple gold, with a simple yet exquisite design.
"As expected of a top-grade magic sword... the power of this move, 'One Sword Drifting Snow Seals the Vast Ocean,' is already comparable to that of a Grandmaster!"
Yang Jiuli gently stroked the scabbard, speaking with a hint of admiration.
Although Yang Jiuli already possessed the swordsmanship skills of a grandmaster.
However, he ultimately failed to open his Qi Palace, and the Cold Fiend True Qi within his body was far less powerful than that of a Grandmaster.
Yet this one sword strike is comparable to that of a grandmaster.
There are two reasons:
Firstly, top-grade magical artifacts can enhance the power of martial arts.
In particular, magical artifacts with these corresponding attributes have an immediate effect on improving martial arts skills.
Secondly, Yang Jiuli's condensed Cold Fiend True Qi was originally nurtured by a second-tier spiritual vein, making it of higher quality than ordinary fiend qi.
Furthermore, Yang Jiuli also had the Three Lives Stone to purify the cold evil energy, which further enhanced its quality.
Yang Jiuli's wisp of cold, piercing true energy was not much weaker than the liquid mana of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
It is even stronger than those inferior Foundation Establishment cultivators who forcefully break through with pills.
In this way, the power of Yang Jiuli's sword was naturally beyond what Zheng Cha, a rogue cultivator, could withstand.
After this test, Yang Jiuli finally understood his own combat strength, and he would feel more confident in the future.
"From now on, I'll call you 'Frosty Sword'!" Yang Jiuli gently stroked the top-grade magic sword before putting it into his storage bag.
Then he turned around and looked at a valley.
There were also several cultivators he had killed there.
At this moment, Xu Jiang and Zheng Shu were still frozen in ice.
The rain of swords not only killed them, but the lingering chill also froze them.
Yang Jiuli moved and floated down.
The Jade Python flew over; it had transformed into a nine-foot-long python, carrying a small white ferret in its mouth.
The ferret was frozen in ice.
Its eyes were slightly narrowed, and it looked at Yang Jiuli with an honest expression.
Yang Jiuli smiled slightly, patted the head of the Xuan Yu Python, and with a flick of his hand, put the little sable into his spirit beast pouch.
Immediately, he took out a pill and fed it into the mouth of the black jade python.
The Jade Python opened its mouth and swallowed it, its eyes narrowing slightly as it revealed a satisfied smile.
Then, Yang Jiuli waved his hand, and the icy crystals on Xu Jiang and Zheng Shu, who were frozen in ice, disappeared.
At the same time, two storage bags and a spirit beast bag flew into Yang Jiuli's palm.
After doing all this, Yang Jiuli moved his hand, and flames shot out, incinerating Xu Jiang and Zheng Shu into dust and making them disappear into the sky.
"Let's go!" In the next instant, Yang Jiuli said to the Xuanyu Python.
The Xuan Yu Python immediately enlarged, transforming into a giant python as thick as a water bucket.
Yang Jiuli landed on it.
In the next instant, a light shield materialized on the Xuanyu Python, enveloping it and Yang Jiuli.
Immediately, the Xuanyu Python moved and carried Yang Jiuli directly into the ground below.
The battle just now could easily attract the attention of cultivators. If we delay any further, it will cause a lot of trouble.
Given Yang Jiuli's cautious nature, he would have sought out a deserted area to escape underground once he left Dazeshan Market.
After all, flying through the air makes one a huge target, an easy target for the treacherous cultivators.
As for burrowing underground, as long as one burrows deep enough, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator cannot detect it.
After discovering Xu Jiang and the others' intentions, Yang Jiuli changed his mind and decided to use their scheme to test his combat strength.
Now that he had successfully dealt with these people, Yang Jiuli naturally followed the original plan and went underground.
Underground, Yang Jiuli retrieved the spoils of war.
Xu Jiang and his group consisted of five people.
Among them, Zheng Cha, Zheng Jin, and Xu Can had the highest cultivation levels and the most abundant money and goods in their storage bags.
Xu Jiang and Zheng Shu were next, but the latter had a palm-sized spirit beast token in his spirit beast bag.
It was used to control that first-tier spirit beast, the white sable.
This is the most basic method of beast taming.
Advanced practitioners, like Yang Jiuli, directly implanted bloodline runes into the Xuan Yu Python's body to form a seal, thereby controlling the spirit beast.
In addition, he also had a first-tier spirit beast puppet inheritance in his storage bag.
Zheng Jin's storage bag also contains a similar spirit beast puppet inheritance.
Besides these, the most expensive items are Zheng Jin's top-grade golden knife and Zheng Cha's top-grade wolf-tooth club.
Xu Can's Black Flame Moon Wheel has also reached the first-tier top-grade level.
The combined value of these three magical artifacts is three thousand low-grade spirit stones.
In addition to the first-grade high-quality talismans, magical artifacts, and pills in their storage bags, they should be worth about four thousand low-grade spirit stones.
In addition, the five of them had a total of 2,300 low-grade spirit stones.
Yang Jiuli's total gains from this trip will exceed six thousand low-grade spirit stones.
Suddenly, Yang Jiuli felt rich again.
This does not include the first-tier beast taming inheritance and the two first-tier mid-grade spirit beasts.
"The cultivators are truly wealthy... but if they do this kind of thing too often, they'll eventually fall into a trap!" Yang Jiuli murmured.
Just like Zheng Cha and others, this serves as a negative example.
In the world of cultivation, there are many powerful individuals who like to conceal their cultivation level and disguise themselves as low-level cultivators when traveling.
Although it's rare, people will eventually encounter it over time.
Just one use is enough to cause those cultivators to perish and their cultivation to vanish.
Of course, some people are lucky enough to build a business empire through this.
Yang Jiuli carefully put away all the treasures, his mind as calm as still water.
He certainly wouldn't become a cultivator just because he had gained so much this time.
While the path of the Tribulation Cultivator may seem glamorous, few of them actually live long enough to survive.
Unless one finds a great opportunity and successfully establishes a foundation, there is no chance to cleanse one's name and return to the right path.
……
The following day, at dusk, Yang Jiuli arrived at Yunmeng Lake.
His bones cracked and popped as he returned to his original form.
Afterwards, he changed his clothes and entered the Yunmeng Lake area with the Li family's waist token in his hand.
……
In the courtyard, Yang Jiuli released the Xuanyu Python from the spirit beast pouch.
The little guy gave a cute look, rubbed its head against Yang Jiuli's trouser leg, and then disappeared into the spirit pool in a flash.
"A first-tier bloodline fire sable..."
Then, inside the room, Yang Jiuli moved his hand, and two small sables, each about a foot long, appeared in his palm.
One of them was a pure white mink.
One of them was a blue-eyed sable with black and white fur.
Both little ones are only at the mid-level of the first rank, comparable to a human at the fifth level of Qi Refining.
They were frozen at this time.
Yang Jiuli took out two spirit beast tokens, and when his divine sense penetrated them, he could see a beast-taming contract pattern.
The remnants of the Zheng brothers' consciousness were still inside.
Although very faint, it was still possible to sense a little bit.
Yang Jiuli's divine sense swept away like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, completely erasing the divine senses of the two people.