This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable-Chapter 1593 - 49: One Sword East, One Sword West, Wuya Refuses to Meet (3)
In the next five days, Lu Qingshan made successive moves.
Dao Wuya and Qian Venerable followed behind Lu Qingshan, running east and west, but it was all in vain. Their anger had accumulated to the point where they were about to explode.
"Let me run into him just once, just once, and I’ll make sure he dies a horrible death!" Dao Wuya gritted his teeth, promising his clansmen.
Though Qian Venerable was angry, he didn’t say much.
Dao Wuya did not disclose to Qian Venerable the secret that Lu Qingshan possessed their Taoism’s supreme treasure, the Cloud-patterned Primordial Stone. Similarly, Qian Venerable also had his secrets.
He did not inform Dao Wuya about Lu Qingshan’s grandiose achievements on Lingye Island, where he used Heavenly Punishment to drive back the Evil Venerable.
In his view, if Dao Wuya really did encounter Lu Qingshan, it was uncertain who would end up suffering.
The two, each harboring their own secrets, silently resumed their patrol over the Heavenly River Sea.
Sometimes, surprises come unexpectedly.
During a random patrol, a sharp intent suddenly stabbed toward Dao Wuya’s face.
Dao Wuya’s hair stood on end, and he hurriedly summoned several defensive spells.
With a clashing sound, spiritual light burst forth.
Immediately afterward, Dao Wuya sensed something burrowing into his body, directly attacking his Primordial Spirit.
Primordial Spirit Secret Sword!
With a thought, Dao Wuya’s Primordial Spirit gleamed brilliantly, converging into a Divine Soul thrust, shattering the secret sword.
As a cultivator in the Honorable Realm, such attacks weren’t particularly challenging to fend off.
But what irritated him was the fact that he had been attacked in the first place?
This was undoubtedly a blatant provocation!
Lu Qingshan was pushing his limits, openly challenging him!
In a fit of anger, Dao Wuya quickly unfolded a Law Domain.
No matter what method Lu Qingshan used to hide himself from divine sense probing, under the Law Domain, he would be fully exposed.
And so it was.
In the instant the Law Domain expanded, at its edge, a sword light faintly appeared.
It was Fuyao.
"Stay for me!" Dao Wuya immediately attempted to solidify the space within the Law Domain to imprison that sword light.
But it was too late; Fuyao had already reached the edge of the Law Domain. By the time Dao Wuya discovered it, it had burst forth with explosive speed, escaping the Law Domain and disappearing without a trace.
—Even for a cultivator in the Honorable Realm, his escape speed could not surpass that of a flying sword.
"Where is he? Where is he?" Seeing the sword light vanish, Dao Wuya roared in anger, unleashing a violent storm within the Law Domain, causing upheaval.
If the sword was here, the person should be as well.
Under normal circumstances, that would be the case.
But though Dao Wuya nearly turned the place upside down, he still couldn’t find the expected Lu Qingshan.
By this point, the Taoism cultivators responsible for patrolling the area didn’t dare look into Dao Wuya’s eyes, which seemed ready to devour them.
Reflecting on Dao Wuya’s previous guarantee, the current scene felt as if Lu Qingshan had delivered a heavy slap to Dao Wuya’s face, then playfully asked:
"Even if you meet me, what can you do?"
...
From locating the interception line of the Dao and Demon Clans until now, Lu Qingshan had been prowling the seabed like a shark ready to devour, hunting alone for nearly eight days.
During these eight days, the number of enemies he had taken down had reached a staggering one hundred and thirty-three.
Among them, one hundred and twelve were demonic cultivators, and twenty-one were Taoism cultivators.
To be honest, until today, Dao Wuya had somewhat underestimated the newly appointed Sect Master of the Sword Sect who had risen to fame.
Firstly, it was the fact that the resident god of Heavenly River City was Chu Mu Shenshen; aside from suffering a significant loss under Xie Qingyun’s sword in the past, they hadn’t had any direct confrontation with the Sword Sect.
This led to their perception of the Sword Sect’s might being less direct compared to the War Demon Clan.
It is said that fame cannot compare to a face-to-face encounter, and there’s a reason for that.
Even hearing much about the Sword Sect’s might, to Dao Wuya, it wasn’t as impactful as one sword from Chu Mu Shenshen.
Secondly, Lu Qingshan was too "young."
Both in cultivation level and age.
Battles between cultivators depend not only on cultivation level, magic artifacts, spells, and Divine Skills but also on mindset, on-the-spot reactions, and combat aptitude.
Combat has never been a simple comparison of strength statistics; that’s a turn-based game, not reality.
Soft skills like momentum, presence, and determination seem intangible and hard to quantify, yet they are crucial.
Without sufficient experience, how can one develop such soft skills?
In Dao Wuya’s view, although Lu Qingshan’s hard strength might indeed be exceptional, in terms of soft skills, he must be lacking in maturity, not worth worrying about.
But now, he no longer thought this way.
Even an old hand, a seasoned veteran, could not achieve what Lu Qingshan had, creating rage and frustration without a way to vent, leaving one helpless!
......
"I stepped on a landmine." Lu Qingshan muttered from eight thousand miles away from Dao Wuya’s location.
When Dao Wuya released the Law Domain, Lu Qingshan immediately sensed Fuyao seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, subjected to intense resistance.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and recalled Fuyao in time.
Although he couldn’t see the attacker, he understood in his heart that only a cultivator in the Honorable Realm could impede Fuyao with such resistance and obstacles.
The heart eye’s inability to detect the enemy’s cultivation aura posed a significant issue: unless a target was locked onto and pursued from the start, in blind sniping at a distance, Honorable Realm cultivators and Qi Refining cultivators appeared similar to his heart eye senses.
This could easily lead to "stepping on a landmine" incidents.
As it just happened.
Dao Wuya thought Lu Qingshan had deliberately provoked him, but he was genuinely wronged.
In fact, it was purely Lu Qingshan’s bad luck, stepping on his landmine.
