Nine Nether Dragon Emperor-Chapter 55: A Strong Human Realm Warrior, Only Takes One Sword!
Amidst the crowd’s confusion, Ning Xuan spoke only two words. "Rise! Fall!"
BANG!
The boundless Saber Intent pervading the heavens and earth suddenly exploded! A breathtaking flash of light swept across the sky!
SHLICK!
As Dongguo hastily retreated, his body was suddenly sliced clean in two!
The entire area fell deathly silent.
"How... how did he do that?"
"Heavens, what just happened?!"
When they came back to their senses, many in the crowd were terrified and bewildered.
"He borrowed his opponent’s momentum and controlled his boundless Saber Intent! He then channeled it into the ultimate sword strike: Bi Luo, Huang Quan!" one of the more insightful theorists exclaimed in shock, having seen the crux of the matter. "This is a Sword Dao Realm, an incredibly terrifying Sword Dao Realm! It far surpasses Dongguo’s mastery of the saber path!"
"How terrifying! Does this mean he’s invincible within his own realm?!"
"More than invincible! By using his Sword Dao, he, a Profound Realm cultivator, could instantly kill most experts in the Earth Realm!"
"This..."
At that moment, everyone, friend and foe alike, fell silent.
In the center of the field, Ning Xuan acquired another Storage Ring. He was also silent. When Dongguo had unleashed his strongest slash, a realization dawned on Ning Xuan: the youth hadn’t obtained the Heavenly Stele’s Primordial Source. As it turned out, this was indeed the case. In the Heavenly Stele Battlefield of Donglin Crossing, the youth had obtained something else entirely, which was right inside the Storage Ring.
Before Ning Xuan had a chance to inspect it, a voice suddenly rang out. "How could the Earth Realm be as weak as you claim!"
A group of five people stepped forward. The one who spoke was a young man standing in the center. Behind him stood four elders with powerful auras, their gazes as sharp as lightning. All of them were mighty cultivators of the Human Realm!
"Chu Tianyun! What is he doing here!"
"Chu Tianyun, ranked tenth on the Dong Cang Pride List! Who would’ve thought even he would appear!"
"Is this Chu Tianyun really that strong?" someone, clearly an outsider, asked. As the city closest to the Dong Cang Country’s Capital, Wangdong City naturally had many visitors.
"The Dong Cang Pride List includes only the ten strongest prodigies from The Capital. Every single one of them fought their way out of the Pride Hunting Ground! Simply getting your name on a Heavenly Stele list only qualifies you to *enter* the Pride Hunting Ground. So, you tell me—is he strong?!"
"And take note, the Pride Hunting Ground isn’t a hunting ground *for* prodigies; it was created specifically to *hunt* them! The mortality rate inside exceeds seventy percent!"
The crowd gasped. The Heavenly Stele was an exceedingly mysterious object that had suddenly appeared in the world eighteen years ago. Each one contained a Heavenly Stele Battlefield. Having one’s name on a battlefield list was already an incredible achievement. They never imagined there was something even more terrifying like the Pride Hunting Ground—a place created specifically to hunt prodigies! The fact that Chu Tianyun could fight his way out and make it onto the Pride List was horrifying.
"Your mastery of the Sword Dao is peerless among your generation, and you’re extremely fast," Chu Tianyun said, looking at Ning Xuan with a playful expression. "Coincidentally, I’m also most skilled in speed."
"Come on, make your move. Let’s see if your sword is faster, or if I..."
Before Chu Tianyun could finish his sentence, a dazzling beam of sword light pierced through his forehead.
The entire place fell utterly silent, all eyes popping wide in shock.
Was the tenth-ranked on the Pride List really this pathetic? This so-called Pride List is just too...
However, Chu Tianyun’s voice suddenly rang out again. "Indeed, that was quite fast."
The crowd looked toward the sound and saw him standing a short distance away, smiling at Ning Xuan. When they looked back at the figure Ning Xuan had just skewered, they realized it was merely an afterimage!
"Why was his afterimage so solid?" someone asked, puzzled.
"Chu Tianyun is incredibly fast, and he’s careful enough to condense his Element Force into Element Gang! When he vanished, the Element Gang didn’t dissipate, which created such a realistic afterimage!" an expert who saw through the trick explained.
"The Element Gang remains intact, turning the ephemeral into the real! If the tenth-ranked on the Pride List is this frightening, then those ranked higher..." someone murmured, not daring to think any further.
In the arena, Ning Xuan stared at Chu Tianyun not with discouragement, but with raw excitement. "Finally, someone who can dodge my sword strike. And an Earth Realm expert at that. The Pride List is making me look forward to what’s to come!"
The corners of Chu Tianyun’s mouth curled up. "You can save that anticipation for your next life."
"Your Body Technique Skill is quite good," Ning Xuan said with a faint smile. "Actually, I have one too."
"Haha, I’m really looking forward to it. Come on, let me see this Body Technique Skill of yours!" Chu Tianyun laughed heartily. He appeared arrogant, but in reality, he wasn’t the least bit careless. If he had been one to underestimate his opponents, he never would have made it out of the Pride Hunting Ground alive.
PFFT!
A sword pierced Chu Tianyun’s brow once again.
"Chu Tianyun is amazing! That illusion was even more realistic this time. I even heard the sound of the sword piercing flesh!" someone exclaimed.
"No... wait! That’s his real body!" a trembling voice cried out.
The Kunpeng Divine Vein, one of the twelve divine veins, had been activated. And the Kunpeng’s domain is speed!
The smile froze on Chu Tianyun’s face. The four elders behind him blanched simultaneously. Ning Xuan’s speed was simply too fast! More importantly, they knew their Young Master’s strength and had never even considered the need to protect him. Yet this was the result! Despite using his own Body Technique Skill, their Young Master had been killed instantly!
"You little bastard, you deserve to die!" The elder closest to Ning Xuan on the left, his hair standing on end, roared like a crack of thunder as he threw a palm strike. A casual blow from a Human Realm expert was terrifying. The very air was compressed as overwhelming pressure bore down from all directions.
Ning Xuan let out a low shout.
PFFT!
A sword to the throat!
An instant kill!
Another instant kill!
A Human Realm expert, killed in a single strike by a Profound Realm youth!
Everyone around was stunned. You could have heard a pin drop in all of Wangdong City. It was like something out of a fairy tale!
The three remaining elders stared blankly at Ning Xuan, so shocked they forgot to even attack.
Ning Xuan himself was in rough shape. A Human Realm expert was not so easily killed. His opponent was a full two major realms and over a dozen minor realms above him. That last sword strike had required him to activate not only the Kunpeng Divine Vein but also the White Tiger Divine Vein. It was only by activating both that he could break through the formidable Seal Power. Even with his cultivation at the Ninth Layer of the Profound Realm, he couldn’t sustain such a massive expenditure of Element Force. The result was that his body was now almost completely drained.
"An Element Qi fluctuation? He must have used a Secret Technique to boost his strength. He’s an empty lamp now, his oil spent!" someone in the shadows called out.
The three elders snapped out of their daze. One rushed to try and save Chu Tianyun, while the other two shouted in unison and charged Ning Xuan from both sides. At that moment, they completely discarded the codes of Jianghu, ganging up on a junior to capture him by force.
WHOOSH!
Ning Xuan vanished. In his current state, he couldn’t even handle one Human Realm expert, let alone two.
SWISH!
A head flew into the air!
It belonged to the very person who had just shouted that Ning Xuan’s energy was depleted. Ning Xuan had decapitated him with a single sword strike.
The man’s own strength was not weak at all. Otherwise, he could not have sensed the Element Qi fluctuation from Ning Xuan’s body so quickly. What he hadn’t realized was that Ning Xuan was merely absorbing the energy from the Element Crystals in his Storage Ring. He never expected that Ning Xuan, while being besieged by two Human Realm experts, would still have the audacity to attack him!
He died with his eyes wide open.
