nyslfriends Chapter 264: Continental Crush
Chapter 264: Continental Crush
Chapter 264: Continental Crush
Ba Shifang stared at the looming tribulation clouds overhead. ‘How long does it take for Main Body to overcome his tribulation? At this rate, a new generation will grow up thinking that the sky is always covered in black clouds.’
Okay, he was exaggerating. It had only been eight months, far from enough time for a new generation of mortals to mature, but still!
“Everyone, quiet down.”
Ba Shifang and the nine other cultivators turned towards the speaker, an earth immortal.
“I know some of you are proud elites of your sect,” The earth immortal elder scanned the group of ten, pausing specifically on Ba Shifang and a disciple of the Monolith Sword Sect. “However, this is war. Put away your arrogance, or die. Do you understand?”
Most of the cultivators respectfully nodded, but a few from first-rate and took the earth immortal’s words like air. The earth immortal was from a second-rate sect, and he frowned at the blatant disregard for his words despite the strongest among them being a venerable.
The earth immortal snorted. “If you step out of line, don’t think I won’t sort you out. Enough, I don’t want to hear your whining. Let’s be on our way. We have a deadline to meet.”
Ba Shifang didn’t take the earth immortal’s words to heart. Although, he was surprised by the antagonism in the earth immortal’s words. ‘What sect did he come from again? Something something Wind Sect? Meh, not important. Though, his attitude is a warning sign of betraying the Buzhou Immortal Sect if this had been a novel.’
He had accepted a mission from the Assignment Hall to join a squad to attack one of the Anti-Heaven Alliance’s resource points. The mission was a joint venture, so members of the vassal sects, and their vassal sects, also joined.
“My name is He Yongli. What is your name?”
Ba Shifang turned his head and looked at the man who had flown next to him. Like him, the man was in the early Nascent Soul Realm and resembled an unsheathed sword.
“Ba Shifang,” he said. Then, he scrunched his brows and openly scrutinized He Yongli. “Have we met before?”
“I don’t believe we have,” He Yongli said, but he also felt that Ba Shifang felt familiar. He just couldn’t quite word it out.
Ba Shifang suddenly slammed his fist into his palm. “You’re the guy who challenged Main Body and got demolished!”
He Yongli’s expression immediately darkened at Ba Shifang’s words. “What do you mean by that?”
“You remember Xi Tianyi? I’m his clone.” Ba Shifang said.
Immediately, an awkward expression appeared on He Yongli’s face. However, before he could speak, Ba Shifang spoke again. “Why are you still in the early Nascent Soul Realm? Shouldn’t you at least be in the late or peak Nascent Soul Realm?”
He Yongli’s anger vanished, and he just stared at Ba Shifang with his mouth agape. “I’ve already reached the Nascent Soul Realm faster than the other scions from the Heavenly Connection Gathering. Over half of them are still stuck at the Core Formation Realm.”
“So slow?” Ba Shifang said. “I thought everyone who attended the Heavenly Connection Gathering would enter the under a hundred years. Why does it seem like most of you won’t? I’ve been created for less than half a decade, and I’ve already reached this level.”
“Do you think everyone is as monstrous as you and Xi Tianyi?!” He Yongli practically screamed. “Even among the descendants of immortals like me, less than one in ten will enter the Nascent Soul Realm under a hundred years old. I’m already outstanding for doing it at ninety-nine.”
“Oh. My bad, it seems that I overestimated you people’s–” Ba Shifang paused mid-sentence and immediately changed his words. “–underestimated the difficulty of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm. My apologies.”
“You, you,” He Yongli kept repeating the same word. Finally, he huffed and flew away, his intestines green with regret. He had wanted to gather more information on Tianyi since rumor has it that the tribulation clouds were his. Instead, he only got his confidence destroyed again.
Ba Shifang didn’t even have time to roll his eyes as the enemy venerable as a wind-green armored appeared. Tufts of feathers could be seen sprouting out of the joints, and an eagle-like helmet covered his head.
“Watch out, that’s the Drifting Feather Sect’s Grand Roc Qi Armor! It boosts his speed and attacks dramatically!” One of the venerables from the Bright Ascension Sect called out.
Ba Shifang ignored him. Instead, eight strands of true qi burst out from his back. Five colors composed each strand. Some emitted a fiery heat, another a gentle breeze, the third, a rapid torrent, the fourth, a dense heaviness, and the fifth, a stinging sharpness.
The eight strands of qi combined to form an illusionary continent. The sky and land were divided in two, mountains sprung throughout, the wind howled between two canyons, volcanoes erupted, numerous forests dotted the land, metal veins peaked out from crags, lightning storms covered mountains peaks, and rivers spread throughout the land like veins.
“Parlor tricks!” The world merging venerable shouted as he appeared in front of Ba Shifang. He unleashed a punch, and a spiraling tornado shrouded his arm like a drill.
Ba Shifang didn’t say anything, and instead of blocking, he returned the punch. The moment the two fists connected, the world merging venerable discovered that thirty percent of his connection with heaven and earth had disappeared.
“What did you do!?” He shouted in horror.
Ba Shifang didn’t reply and continued to attack, unleashing a flurry of attacks. Each attack diminished the connection the world merging venerable had with heaven and earth. When a venerable lost their connection with heaven and earth, they were just a grandmaster with slightly more energy and power.
After returning from the Demon Slaying Expedition, Tianyi had created this move to deal with venerables. But before he could even use it, he entered the Singularity Realm and lost the ability to use qi, so it was only until now that Ba Shifang reached the Nascent Soul Realm that the move, Continental Crush, had shown itself.
The user formed a pseudo world using their qi. While strengthening their attack, it also cut off a venerable’s connection with heaven and earth. By this logic, it also had some uses against those between the Unity Realm and Pathfinding Immortal Realm. Although the effectiveness still had to be tested.
Only those with vast amounts of qi and had all five elements qi or chaos qi could perform this move.
Ba Shifang didn’t give the world merging venerable time to escape and shatter his Great Roc Qi Armor and impaled his chest with his hand. One of the greatest disadvantages of a martial venerable was that they didn’t have a nascent soul, so once their body perished, they couldn’t escape with their soul.
The world merging venerable struggled mightily, but like a butterfly caught in a spiderweb, he struggled for naught. Not wanting to risk the world merging venerable using any hidden trump cards, Ba Shifang directly crushed his head like a melon. Then, he pulverized the rest of the venerable’s body until it was a meat particle.
At the same time, he heard a shriek and turned toward the source.
“How cruel!” Bai Weiwei said. “Brother Peng, the Buzhou Immortal Sect won’t even leave a complete corpse for Elder Sang.”
‘What does it matter to you? This is war. Get used to it.’ Ba Shifang thought. He turned and searched for his next opponent, but Bai Weiwei’s following words made him stop.
“Brother Peng, you have to punish him for his cruelty!” Bai Weiwei said.
‘I wasn’t going to look for trouble for you, but you look for trouble with me?!That’s it, you’re next.’ Ba Shifang turned and glared at Bai Weiwei. His movements paused as he saw Bai Weiwei’s new suitor decapitate one of the venerables aiming at Bai Weiwei.
The two grandmasters had already perished, leaving only two venerables from the Bright Ascension Sect.
Ba Shifang narrowed his eyes and sized up Bai Weiwei’s Brother Peng. He hadn’t thought much of him at first, but that all changed with a venerable’s death. Even among the Buzhou Immortal Sect, only the top elites could cross realms and kill a venerable as a grandmaster.
It wasn’t that the Buzhou Immortal Sect’s geniuses were weak. It was the gulf between a grandmaster and a venerable. Even in the Demon Slaying Realm, no one aside from Tianyi had killed a demon venerable.
Ba Shifang flew and stopped twenty meters in front of Peng Yun and asked. “What’s your name.”
“Peng Yun, the man who will kill you!”