nyslfriends Chapter 30: Nascent Soul Rankings
Chapter 30: Nascent Soul Rankings
Chapter 30: Nascent Soul Rankings
After the Core Formation realm competition, it was the Nascent Soul realm competition.
The field of battle was still the arena atop the ninety-nine pillars, however the size had slightly increased and the defensive formation of the arenas were also strengthened.
Surprisingly, one of the top contenders among the Nascent Soul realm disciples stepped onto the first ranked arena early on even earlier than when Tianyi had stepped onto the rank nine arena. The Nascent Soul realm disciple was San Mirong. Tianyi had heard of her when he was on the immortal boat from Xia Yushan. Her hair was dark blue almost to the point of pure black and she wore blue robes as well.
But this only made her fair white skin stand out even more, but Tianyi had no time to appreciate her beauty because her white skin actually had countless lightning marks streaking under her skin like her body was a storm cloud.
Her eyes were even more like lightning as if they were a portal to an endless lightning storm. Just one look at her would let one know that she cultivated in lightning arts.
Her weapon was even more overbearing, a giant axe whose handle was thicker than her own slender arm!
The blade of the axe glowed a brilliantly yellow like lightning, it was in total contrast to the blue lightning that squirmed under San Mirong’s skin.
Her attacks were overbearing and tyrannical. Each one of her opponents were defeated in one strike, her axe chops resembled Pangu splitting heaven and earth in the legends, none of the defensive or evasive techniques the other Nascent Soul realm disciples displayed could block her attack.
After six to seven rounds, many Nascent Soul realm disciples were intimidated by San Mirong and for a time no Nascent Soul realm disciple dared to clash with her, but humans were creatures with short memories and soon more and more disciples were challenging San Mirong.
Although it only took her one attack to defeat each disciple,the expenditure surely wasn’t light and many people could see sweat beginning to form on her brows.
Just as the crowd thought the genius of the Eternal Night Sect would fall under the might of numbers, a storm cloud suddenly formed above Heaven Shroud Island.
Tianyi felt his hair stand on end and on reflex, he moved hundreds of meters away from the Heaven Continent and stared at the storm cloud with wariness. It was such an abrupt action that those from the other continents who noticed couldn’t help but be confused by Tianyi’s strange actions.
Even among the Buzhou Immortal Sect, not many knew that Tianyi was constantly struck by tribulation lightning.
“Elder Meng, you shouldn’t be so close to me.” Tianyi said, he was worried that she would suddenly be caught in the tribulation lightning’s range.
“Young master, look closely. That isn’t tribulation lightning.” As Elder Meng said those words, Tianyi observed the lightning once more and he noticed that it indeed wasn’t tribulation lightning. If Tianyi had more time, he would have also discovered the truth behind the lightning.
Just that the sudden appearance of the storm cloud came out of nowhere and caught Tianyi off guard and his body automatically reacted.
When he observed more closely, he discovered that it was just an ordinary storm cloud and the position was right above the first ranked arena.
As for what use the storm cloud was called for, Tianyi soon found out as a bolt of lightning struck San Mirong, but she wasn’t injured but rather seemed more relaxed than before and once again unleashed her axe chop and defeated her opponent.
Only this time the axe chop was even fiercer and her opponent was more seriously injured than all the previous ones combined. If the previous one just had scratches, this one directly had half his bones broken.
With this San Mirong created an extremely intimidating effect. First, her attacks were nigh unstoppable with no one being able to block it so far. Second, the lethality of her moves increased and the poor fool who challenged her last was made an example of. Although many had challenged her previously, their injuries were light not like the last challenger.
And third, it seemed that she had a secret method to replenish her true qi. This meant that unless someone could defeat her quickly and push her out of the arena, the chances of her losing were extremely slim.
Tianyi naturally had an idea of what San Mirong did. She summoned lightning and refined it into qi for her own use. Tianyi had been using tribulation lightning for his own cultivation when he was in the Core Formation realm, so he naturally had an idea of how San Mirong did it.
But ever since he entered the Core Formation realm, such a technique was nearly useless to Tianyi, he had more true qi than he knew what to do with.
Thus the number of challengers decreased dramatically.
Although there was an extremely humorous challenger. He was a disciple of Myriad Sun Sect and against everyone’s expectation he openly confessed his love to San Mirong.
Tianyi felt his teeth ache as he watched the Myriad Sun Sect Nascent Soul disciple crash onto the ground from San Mirong’s axe chop.
She unleashed a chop, but that chop was extremely powerful and even space itself seemed to be affected.
But Duan Muli wasn’t a normal person either and he deftly avoided San Mirong’s strike by the slimmest of margins.
No matter how much San Mirong attacked, Duan Muli would be able to dodge it by the slimmest of margins, like a small speck in water. No matter how much you tried to grab it, it would always slip through your hands.
Duan Muli wasn’t just passively defending though, with each dodge his fingers lightly tapped the blade of the axe. After more than tens of taps, cracks began to appear on the white energy blade.
More and more cracks appeared until it all shattered revealing the original yellow axe head.
But the shattered fragments didn’t dissipate into the air, San Mirong widened the distance between them as her hands blurred through several hand seals.
At the same time the broken fragments of her axe became pillars of lightning that reached towards the heavens. At the top of the lightning bolts formed storm clouds.
It resembled a heavenly cage of lightning, this was San Mirong’s Sky Lightning Cage Lock technique.
But San Mirong wasn’t done yet as the cage began to shrink. No matter how slick Duan Muli was, he couldn’t change his size and slip out could he?
Duan Muli was unrushed as he too made several hand seals and as the cage around him neared, the space around him seemed to warp. The lightning cage naturally warped into a bubble.
It was like a bulbous seed with Duan Muli at the bottom while the upper parts of the enclosed lightning cage was the stem.
San Mirong frowned as she sensed an uncomfortable feeling, she detonated the lightning cage before Duan Muli could use it against her.
Although Duan Muli’s cultivation was very average and there was nothing special about his Nascent Soul aside from having all five colors, his attainments and insight into the dao of yin and yang was extraordinary.
He was the most skilled in reversing his opponents’ moves against them.
As for attacking up close?
That was even more dangerous than attacking from range as one wrong move and a fatal counterattack might occur.
Tianyi watched the battle intensely, especially Duan Muli. His usage of yin and yang based techniques was extremely eye opening for Tianyi. He felt that he could gleam something from Duan Muli if he continued to watch. Unfortunately for him, he could only grasp the barest of ideas from Duan Muli. It was actually much better for him to seclude himself to meditate over the manner than watching Duan Muli.
The battle between Duan Muli and San Mirong raged on.
Neither side was giving an inch and both sides were in near perfect condition. Duan Muli’s clothes and hand had been burned, but to cultivators like them, it was a negligible injury.
San Mirong didn’t seem injured but the viscuity of the lightning under her skin had fallen and her skin seemed to have dimmed.
To everyone’s surprise Duan Muli chose at this moment to exit the arena, greatly puzzling everyone.
However the reason was soon revealed as he challenged the third ranked arena once the rest period was up. It seemed that he judged he would not be able to defeat San Mirong in a short period of time, then why not just give up first place and get another arena?
Xia Yushan hadn’t fully revealed his strength and Duan Muli wasn’t confident in defeating him in a short time. The combination of five elements was equal to the combination of yin and yang.
In the end, the first place to third place was as follows.
First Place: San Mirong
Second Place: Xia Yushan
Third Place: Duan Muli
Surprisingly Li Mu had taken ninth place and he did it at the most opportune time. Not so short that others would think he was taking advantage of the time limit to steal a spot from the original disciple on the ninth arena. But it was long enough to still fight several battles to defeat over ten opponents, yet still hide the majority of his abilities.