Chapter 71
Chapter 71: The Burning Scroll, the Horizontal River
A thread of blood seeped out from Jing Liuli’s lips . She had bitten through her lip but had not detected it . She was very nervous .
When managing the Min Mountain Sword Trials, the students, including Ding Ning, had been in danger, but she had not felt nervous . But now, it was different .
This was a true battle of life and death . Both sides only had one goal, killing each other . No one would stop them .
Corresponding to Ding Ning and Palace Attendant Rong’s cultivation realm, if Ding Ning were exposed under Palace Attendant Rong’s sight and perception, this meant death .
“Hide and seek with me?”
Palace Attendant Rong had expended a lot of vital energy, and blood started to bead out of some wounds . But a mad smile appeared on her face . “Now you cannot hide, can you?”
She was an old person of Changling, and had been one of the closest to the group from Ba Mountain Sword Field .
One would only think if one saw . If one thought, one could learn .
Many of the strongest cultivators in Changling later on were usually the closest people to the top experts from Ba Mountain Sword Field . So Palace Attendant Rong’s sword manual was not ordinary, and also a secret sword that ordinary cultivation places could not imagine .
As the mad smile spread across her face, wild sword essences came out of her mouth with strong vitality .
Ding Ning started to cough up blood .
Dust was still billowing around him . The sword essence that Palace Attendant Rong spat out had not yet landed, yet the pressure of the energy was something he already could not withstand . His feet were on the ground as he uncontrollably slid backwards, his soles felt like they were burning .
The strong killing intent in the air even stunned the realm seven cultivators in the crowd watching who were stronger in cultivation than Palace Attendant Rong .
So a person’s killing intent could be so strong and powerful .
This was the sword essence in the “Heavenly Hatred Sword Manual” . It accumulated hate from many months and years, creating this unimaginable murderousness .
Shining porcelain sword energy fell towards Ding Ning’s body . The air in front of these sword essences turned black . The rubble around him constantly exploded, turning into dust, and then was gathered by the powerful pressure to form some terrifying black ribbons .
This was the difference of power . Ding Ning could not withstand this sword .
Even Jing Liuli felt that he could not block this blow .
Everyone felt that Ding Ning could not stop Palace Attendant Rong’s blow . Just like how, since the start of the battle, everyone felt a realm five could defeat a realm six . Nonetheless, they all still hoped to see a miracle .
Then Ding Ning did let them see a miracle .
He was coughing blood but his expression was extremely calm . A presence in his body, pressured by great power, accurately managed to permeate the metal box behind him .
The surface of the metal box was covered in scorch marks from the hot smoke and burning sand . But in this moment, the scorch marks suddenly blackened like ink was going to flow out .
The metal box gave off a faint and distant presence . The moment the presence erupted, Ding Ning stopped coughing blood and his breathing calmed .
The great pressure from the sword energies were all eliminated . Pure white lines of light shot out of the metal box . Even the sword energies paused .
A white scroll seemed to unroll around Ding Ning and capture everything within .
Everyone was shocked speechless .
Even Huang Zhenwei, on the nearest turret, looked with wide eyes, unable to fathom how the metal box could possess such a powerful presence .
Palace Attendant Rong stopped breathing . Not because of shock, but because the air in front of her had almost solidified .
Under everyone’s disbelieving gaze, the scorch marks on the metal box faded away . An ink scroll flew out of the metal box behind Ding Ning .
Boom!
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Thunder roared in the sky . The entire sky turned the color of an ink painting, black and white .
Palace Attendant Rong’s body suddenly shook . Her ears started bleeding .
A sword light appeared in the black and white sky like a bolt of lightning .
That was Ding Ning’s hidden flying sword .
A burst of rain descended .
The rain containing sharp sword essence exploded several feet around Palace Attendant Rong, creating numerous splashes . It could not create true damage to her, but caused her sword energy to stop in the air .
The burning sun in the sky was covered by black clouds creating a crescent moon .
All of the rain started to turn into ice . The white rain became blue-black ice .
Everyone outside the battlefield felt the cold .
The ice started to explode . Then many cold sword energies appeared, flying as they pleased and cut up Palace Attendant Rong’s sword energy .
Palace Attendant Rong’s body started to tremble violently . The porcelain energy around her started to sway . Then she started to cough blood up lightly .
“It’s the remnant scroll from the Zhou Family Ink Garden!”
Many people started to react and exclaimed in shock .
Jing Liuli finally started to breath again, and sensed pain from the wound on her lip .
The remnant scroll of the Zhou Family Ink Garden was famous in Changling . No one had ever thought a cultivator could use this to fight .
Yet Ding Ning’s miracles did not stop here .
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He looked up . The flying sword in the sky was suddenly covered in blue-black ice and drew a crescent in the air .
The crescent seemed to be the missing part of the crescent moon and filled it .
Boom!
All the energy around Palace Attendant Rong started to explode .
The remnant scroll that had flown out of Ding Ning’s metal box started to fragment along the ink strokes . There was no flame, but as the scraps flew away along the seal essence, they seemed to burn .
In the middle of the explosion, Palace Attendant Rong gave off a shrill and terrifying scream . Blood sprayed out of her mouth . Her body was blown off the ground by an unstoppable force, and she fell hard to the ground .
Another loud explosion .
A deep pit appeared on the ground like the crater formed by a meteorite . Terrifying flame shot out of the deep pit mixed with scarlet blood .
The surrounding streets were deathly silent .
Palace Attendant Rong rose slowly from the deep pit . Her porcelain light had disappeared, and her skin was covered in shocking wounds . A part of her face was swollen . Blood seeped through her lips .
After a pause, she screamed again in anger . Not just because of pain and her wounds, but because she had lost Ding Ning’s tracks again .
The ashes of the Ink Garden remnant scroll were still floating through the air . The black ashes covered the sky like black snow . But the reflected light shone like white paper, causing space to be fragmented until it was impossible to see through .
Ding Ning was no longer at that spot . Even his metal box had disappeared from the ruins there .
He did not take the opportunity to attack, and chose instead to disappear and keep playing hide and seek .
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While Palace Attendant Rong was howling furiously due to being actually injured, an old man with a white beard and hair was slowly walking towards the tea garden . He was the person Huang Zhenwei was worried about, Mo Shoucheng .
Changling had no walls, but he himself was one of the unseen walls of Changling .
Today, the entire city had come out . All of the attention was directed towards Palace Attendant Rong and Ding Ning’s battle . Then other places would naturally be neglected and it would be easy for unusual things to occur .
He was truly wise, and naturally had prepared in advance .
At this time, he could sense the killing intent of the Cloud Water Palace woman . He chose to come close to Bai Shanshui rather than be high up in the turret because he did not want any more accidents . He did not want the woman to escape .
The black sword light was still spinning like a top, easily flinging out all the primal energies of the universe that landed on it .
Just like a true top, strong force would make the top move faster .
This was an invulnerable defense move . A realm seven could not break through .
Yet from Xu Fenqin’s sword move, Bai Shanshui smiled brightly, despite knowing that her battle had already been sensed by some top experts of Changling .
A glowing water droplet fell from high up in the sky .
When it neared the ground, the glowing water droplet turned into a long river, a horizontal river .
This river seemed to be like the slap from an enormous hand . The black top-like power turned on its bottom .
As the force came down from up high, Xu Fenqin’s sword move was pressed downwards . The two enormous powers tore up the ground below and drilled an enormous hole .
There was the sound of water surging deep below .
Bai Shanshui and Xu Fenqin fell down .
Xu Fenqin gave a furious howl accompanied by Bai Shanshui’s rebellious bell-like laughter .