OBS Chapter 24 The power of mortals will eventually come to an end.
Chapter 24 The power of mortals will eventually come to an end.
"Stubborn fool." The young man sneered and casually struck down.
What appears to be a casual palm strike actually contains immense power.
Chu Ning parried with his sword, but the Emperor's Sword let out a mournful cry before breaking completely.
The force struck her chest without any resistance.
Unable to resist, she plummeted from mid-air and crashed heavily to the ground.
The young man in mid-air snorted coldly, mocking Chu Ning's overestimation of his abilities.
In his view, even a peak ninth-rank cultivator was nothing more than a slightly stronger ant, and he could easily crush this so-called "Empress" into ashes.
But Chu Ning's inherent madness far exceeded his imagination.
Despite the fact that all of Chu Ning's internal organs had shifted, he managed to stand up from the ground again.
The Emperor's Sword in her hand had already broken.
But she used her fingers as a sword, and the murderous aura around her transformed into countless blood-red threads that gathered in front of her, condensing into a blood-red longsword.
Seeing that Chu Ning was still resisting, the young man's disdain deepened.
He released his spiritual power to envelop his body, believing that this all-out attack was something even his spiritual power couldn't break through.
Chu Ning leaped into the air once more, his blood-red longsword slashing towards the young man with overwhelming murderous intent.
In that instant, it seemed as if heaven and earth were responding to her, and the power gathering on the longsword became even more terrifying.
The young man had just broken through and his cultivation was unstable. Now, facing Chu Ning's attack, he felt a bit of fear. He wanted to dodge, but the murderous aura around him had completely locked onto him.
Now, the other party seems like a celestial being on land.
He dared not underestimate the situation any longer and focused all his spiritual energy on maintaining his defense.
Chu Ning gritted his teeth, making no attempt to defend himself.
The moment the blood-red longsword slashed down, the heavens and earth seemed to tremble, and a massive shockwave swept across the entire plain.
To the young man's horror, the blood-red longsword broke through his defenses and slashed straight at him!
He couldn't dodge in time and was slashed from his shoulder to his abdomen, leaving a deep, bone-revealing wound.
Blood gushed out, and the young man unleashed his spiritual power once more. With a casual wave of his hand, he sent Chu Ning flying.
He looked down at his wound, where the eerie, malevolent energy was like a bone-deep infection, frantically devouring his life force!
Chu Ning, who had been sent flying, seemed to feel no pain and struggled to get up again.
For the first time, a murderous glint flashed in the young man's eyes.
This girl is only nineteen years old, yet she can injure a terrestrial immortal with just her martial arts skills, and she also possesses such terrifying killing intent and resilience.
If she were given a few more years, she could truly break through to that level...
This child must not be allowed to live!
Young people are experiencing an unprecedented crisis.
This is by no means some tyrant of the mortal realm, but a terrifying being who will sweep across the world and even trample him, an immortal, underfoot.
He clasped his hands together, and the clouds in the sky were instantly dyed a deathly gray.
A hundred-foot-long sword, formed from pure spiritual energy, slowly took shape in the void, blocking all of Chu Ning's escape routes.
This time he won't hold back.
Looking at the giant sword in the sky, Chu Ning felt a sense of despair and helplessness. She hadn't felt this way in a long time since she met her teacher.
Her teacher always gave her hope.
She tried to gather malevolent energy, but it seemed as if all the meridians in her body were broken, and she was unable to circulate her cultivation technique no matter what she did.
Is it about to end...?
In the end, it was she who broke her promise first.
She said she wanted to dedicate the world to her teacher, but in the end she accomplished nothing, and her teacher could no longer wait for her to return.
Facing death, Chu Ning felt a sense of calm.
If there is an afterlife, she only wants to be an ordinary person, as long as she can be with her teacher every day.
Chu Ning had already closed her eyes.
"Die, you old man!" the young man roared, and the speed of the greatsword increased.
Just as the colossal sword was about to fall, a clear, cold voice, tinged with a sickly cough, suddenly rang out on the desolate battlefield.
"Ahem... While there is a difference between immortals and mortals, these rules are not something you can dictate."
The fallen leaves, which were flying everywhere, were eerily suspended in mid-air at this moment.
Upon hearing this sound, Chu Ning suddenly opened his eyes.
The teacher actually appeared not far away!
She thought it was a hallucination, but the feeling was all too familiar to her; it was definitely her teacher!
Cheng Xiao, dressed in snow-white robes, appeared to stroll leisurely under the immense pressure of spiritual energy.
He lightly tapped his finger in the air, and the once silent wasteland instantly lit up with star-like array patterns.
"Is this a formation?" the old man exclaimed in surprise.
He discovered that his powerful spiritual sword, capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, vanished without a trace the moment it touched these array patterns, leaving not even a trace behind.
Moreover, the surrounding space seemed to have become an indestructible cage.
Every gust of wind and every grain of dust turned into chains, pinning him firmly in mid-air.
No matter how he mobilized his spiritual power, the formation was like a black hole that could never be filled, swallowing up all his resistance.
Cheng Xiao didn't look at the struggling old man, but slowly walked to Chu Ning's side and gently wiped the blood from her face.
"Teacher..." Chu Ning finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed.
But this time she didn't fall to the ground; instead, she fell into a warm embrace.
"You've done very well." Cheng Xiao secretly injected spiritual energy into Chu Ning's body. Acting was acting, but he couldn't let the female lead really die.
Chu Ning wanted to say something, but due to excessive blood loss, she fainted in Cheng Xiao's arms.
Now her veins are broken and her life is in danger at any moment.
However, this "minor injury" was nothing to Cheng Xiao.
Even if he really dies, he has a way to bring him back to life.
While using his spiritual power to adjust Chu Ning's body, Cheng Xiao shouted to the army, "All troops, listen to my command! The rear guard becomes the front guard! Withdraw from Yixianyuan immediately!"
After Chu Ning's defeat, the 10,000-strong army had already fallen into despair.
But now that the imperial advisor has appeared, they have rallied again.
So what if the immortal is powerful?
They were trapped in place by the Grand Preceptor's formation.
The army quickly regrouped and soon withdrew.
Cheng Xiao also carried Chu Ning back to the carriage.
Seeing Cheng Xiao not even turn his head, focusing solely on protecting Chu Ning as they left, the young man's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and he cursed, "Shameless scoundrel! If you have the guts, remove the formation and fight me fair and square! What kind of skill is it to resort to these unorthodox techniques of Qimen Dunjia!"
The sound, imbued with spiritual power, reverberated throughout the canyon.
He found the formation to be truly bizarre, and no matter what methods he used, he was unable to break free.
He could only writhe in impotent rage.
"You think you can escape? This broken formation can trap me for a while, but not forever! I am a terrestrial immortal. Once I break free of this formation, I will hunt you down to the ends of the earth and raze your Great Chu capital to the ground!"
He was still cursing.
But Cheng Xiao had already left with Chu Ning.
Although the battle was lost, it did not affect the morale of the Great Chu.
In their view, as long as the Imperial Advisor is around, even the immortals on land don't seem so scary.
After Chu Ning returned to the military camp, Cheng Xiao quickly ordered his soldiers to dig a pool, treat Chu Ning's wounds, and then soak her in a medicinal bath.
At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to prepare various sacrificial items.
Cheng Xiao did not hide the purpose of these items.
He said, "Since ordinary iron cannot sever the bones of an immortal, then let's build an altar. I will borrow the might of the heavens to slay this false immortal for the Great Chu."