Chapter 4: Advanced Sisters, we must fight! Fight! ...
The demon cultivators seemed to have more people. If Ling Fengzhi had not been injured, he would not have taken these pursuers seriously at all. However, in the current situation, it seemed a little tricky... It seemed that a quick battle was necessary.
"I'm sorry for causing you trouble." The stern young man apologized to Chu Sheng with a serious expression. "This is all because of me..."
"Fellow Daoist Ling." Chu Sheng interrupted him with a relaxed tone.
"You've seen me practicing with my sword these past few days. Do you think I can defeat that bearded guy?"
The bearded man was one of the other two in the early stage of foundation building. Ling Fengzhi noticed that the other party's magic weapon was a flute, and he seemed to be a music cultivator.
It might sound a bit far-fetched to let Chu Sheng, who is still in the Qi training stage, fight against a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. However, for a sword cultivator who likes to fight across levels...
This is not a problem at all.
Ling Fengzhi only took a moment to assess the opponent's ability before nodding without hesitation. "If we get close, yes."
"Then leave him to me." Chu Sheng said.
The killing intent that Ling Fengzhi had revealed when he attacked just now was extremely strong. Even for a sword cultivator known for his ruthless killing, this level of intent was a bit excessive...
Chu Sheng thought that if she acted quickly enough, she might still have time to kill the other guy before the injured killer next to her was destroyed together with him.
"Okay." Ling Fengzhi agreed. He glanced at Chu Sheng and secretly decided to do his best to protect her. Chu Sheng was completely unaware of Ling Fengzhi's inner thoughts. The two rushed out of the door and confronted the three demon cultivators. The battle broke out with a deafening roar!
"court death!"
Seeing Chu Sheng rushing towards the bearded man with a clear goal, the leader was immediately enraged by this attitude of not taking him seriously. He waved the long whip like a living thing and rushed towards the girl's face at a tricky angle!
Chu Sheng's figure was as light as the wind, like a falling feather, deftly dodging the long whip's attack. After sending the demon cultivator wielding a giant axe flying with his heavy iron sword, he charged out from the side in a flash. Ling Fengzhi stood in front of the long-whip demon cultivator, his face icy.
"Your opponent is me!"
The bearded instrument cultivator saw Chu Sheng rushing towards him, a wicked glint in his eyes, and instead of retreating, he took out his flute and began to play. The moment the music started, both Ling Fengzhi and Chu Sheng froze in their tracks!
“What is this...?!” Chu Sheng paused, and the leading demon cultivator laughed wildly.
"You think the third brother is a pushover? Naive! His sound control technique can even control the spiritual power of a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator!"
The bearded man was busy playing the instrument and had no intention of talking, but a smug look appeared on his face as he walked towards Chu Sheng step by step.
Ling Fengzhi frowned and tried to attack, but his spiritual power was difficult to circulate. His limbs suddenly felt as heavy as if he was carrying a mountain, and the long whip had already rushed in front of him!
"Today is the day you die. Go to the underworld and reunite with your good brother!"
The bearded man stretched out his hand and grabbed Chu Sheng—
"Being able to control the spiritual energy in the body of a peak foundation-building cultivator is truly amazing."
After a moment of silence, the evil cultivator holding the whip heard the girl speak calmly.
"But, what if I don't have spiritual power that can be controlled by him?"
Without building a foundation, there would be no self-contained spiritual energy circulation system within the spiritual palace. Even if a little spiritual energy was accumulated, it would quickly dissipate and could not be retained...
Chu Sheng, who has been in the Qi training stage for a long time, is all too familiar with the empty feeling when the spiritual power in the body is completely exhausted.
So, what would happen if she didn't have any controllable spiritual power in her body at this moment?
It’s time to test the results of your studies in Yunshui Xuantian.
——The first move of the Blue Sea Sword Technique, Rising Tide.
The slender sword without any spiritual energy slid out of Chu Sheng's hand silently, passed lightly over the bearded man's neck in the air, and drew a complete arc.
The girl tapped her toes lightly and retreated a few meters like a flying goose stepping on snow. Blood splattered everywhere, and after a dull sound of landing, the flute sound that had been continuously outputting came to an abrupt end at this moment!
The stagnant spiritual energy within Ling Fengzhi instantly erupted like a flood. The stern young man swung his heavy sword, first blocking the long whip that attacked him like a venomous snake, then suddenly lowered his body and slashed back at the massive axe that was coming at him from behind!
Clang! The heavy sword and the axe blade collided, sparking a burst of sparks. Chu Sheng leaned over and brushed past the long whip, then strayed behind Ling Fengzhi.
The stern swordsman who was currently battling the axe-wielding demon cultivator suddenly shifted his sword without a pause, as if the two had coordinated like this long ago. Chu Sheng leaped without hesitation, using the tip of his heavy sword to flip over and down.
The second move of the Blue Sea Sword Technique is the Tide.
The slender sword, which originally had no spiritual energy, now seemed to be wrapped in the power of thunder, chopping off the pair of axe-wielding hands without any hindrance!
The demon cultivator who had lost both hands wanted to curse, but Chu Sheng did not stop after landing, and his sword-wielding wrist turned nimbly:
The third move of the Blue Sea Sword Technique is Tide Low.
The axe-wielding demon cultivator let out a shrill scream. Chu Sheng pulled out the sword from his spiritual palace and watched calmly as his pupils gradually dilated.
The whip-wielding demon cultivator was fighting fiercely with Ling Fengzhi. After hearing the scream, he subconsciously turned his head to look, and his face suddenly changed!
Ling Fengzhi didn't even turn his head, and gathered momentum with his heavy iron sword in mid-air. He took advantage of the whip-wielding demon cultivator's failure to react in time and slashed it down hard, and the long whip magic weapon was cut off in an instant!
"puff!"
The leading demon cultivator, his life-defining magical weapon destroyed, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Seeing both the giant axe and the flute fall silent, a flash of madness flashed in his eyes. He suddenly retreated, forming hand seals and muttering something, as if casting some forbidden spell.
"He's going to self-destruct!"
Chu Sheng shouted, and Ling Fengzhi exhaled a breath of cold air, and instantly poured all his spiritual power into the heavy iron sword.
"Frost Flower!"
The whip-wielding demon cultivator's face suddenly revealed an expression of extreme fear. He seemed to want to stop something, but his final struggle was useless. The next second, a crystal clear ice sword mercilessly pierced through the demon cultivator's soul!
"Hey...you actually..." He stared at Ling Fengzhi, as if he wanted to say something. His lips opened and closed for a long time, but no words came out.
Until he was completely silent, his eyes were still wide open in disbelief, as if he had not expected such an ending.
This sudden battle was over. Chu Sheng let out a breath and forced himself to turn his head and look at Ling Fengzhi from the previous battle.
"Fellow Daoist Ling, you..."
"Puff, cough cough... uh!" Ling Fengzhi hadn't spoken yet, but as soon as he opened his mouth he bent his body and started coughing violently.
"Fellow Daoist Ling? Are you okay?" Chu Sheng went forward to help him. Ling Fengzhi stuffed a Soul-Restoring Pill into his mouth and subconsciously reached out to press the back of the girl's hand: "I'm fine... How are you feeling?"
How does it feel?
Chu Sheng felt like he couldn't be better at this moment. An unprecedented power lingered in his body, flowing with his blood like a tidal wave, just like...
"It's like I have broken through that bottleneck..." Chu Sheng murmured. She slowly opened her palms, and a wisp of milky white spiritual power emerged from her palms, swaying gently in the wind like a candle flame.
“…I have established my foundation?”
There were no rolling thunderclouds, no strange phenomena falling from the sky. On such a clear and snowy morning, after battling with the troublesome Taoist friend rescued by Yunyou, Chu Sheng calmly crossed the threshold that had shackled her for so long.
Chu Sheng calmed down and entered a state of meditation in just one second in front of Ling Fengzhi.
In her spiritual palace, which was originally as calm as stagnant water, as this barrier was broken, the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians began to absorb all the spiritual power they could like whales and use it for themselves.
The fragments of the ruthless Dao rhyme that Xiao Tiandao mentioned, at this moment, showed their presence for the first time, allowing Chu Sheng to clearly feel the harmony between the ruthless Dao and heaven and earth.
The meridians that Chu Sheng had previously tried to open up countless times with external spiritual power but had no water flowing through them, now finally received a rain. In just a few breaths, a huge sea of spiritual power surged in the girl's spiritual palace.
The early stage of foundation building, the middle stage of foundation building... Chu Sheng's spiritual palace absorbed spiritual energy at an astonishing speed, so much so that before Ling Fengzhi could make any move, all the spiritual energy that could be absorbed around the villa was plundered by her!
Just when Ling Fengzhi was worried that Chu Sheng's body might not be able to bear the spiritual energy absorption because she was absorbing it too quickly, and was about to risk being hurt by the counterattack to interrupt her, the girl who was still absorbing the spiritual energy aggressively the moment before suddenly calmed down.
Chu Sheng slowly opened his eyes and stared at his palm for a long time, as if he had not yet recovered from this sudden change.
Ling Fengzhi was so nervous that he forgot to cough. Now he just sat with her in the snow in a daze until the girl suddenly jumped up as if she had just woken up from a dream.
"No, how can I build a foundation?!"
She had been unable to break through the realm all this time because the Joyful Unity Technique and the Merciless Dao were incompatible. Now, she was suddenly building her foundation... Chu Sheng closed her eyes and looked inward, and indeed, she found that her mental method had unknowingly risen to the second level.
His own cultivation level was at the late stage of foundation building, which was exactly the same as the highest level that could be reached at the second level of Tongxin Jue.
The mental method that had been stagnant for a long time inexplicably broke through after saving Ling Fengzhi... Strange, is it because Ling Fengzhi himself is special enough, or is there some other reason?
She subconsciously looked at Ling Fengzhi, but found that Ling Fengzhi was also looking at her, and frowned in confusion.
Your swordsmanship is already so exquisite, and you have fought a battle against a higher level. Under such circumstances, your state of mind will break through, and your cultivation will progress naturally. What's so incredible about this?
...Chu Sheng miraculously understood what he meant.
But since the specific reason for the breakthrough had not been found yet, in order to avoid trouble, she smiled and did not explain anything. Instead, she changed the subject and asked Ling Fengzhi.
"Never mind, it's a good thing after all... Let's not talk about me anymore. Fellow Daoist Ling, where's your sword?"
"There."
Ling Fengzhi straightened up and pointed at the long sword that had killed the whip-wielding demon cultivator. Seeing his ease, Chu Sheng naturally withdrew the hand that was supporting him. The young man's palm was empty, and he paused imperceptibly.
He ignored the strange feeling in his heart, stepped forward, grasped the hilt of the sword and pulled it out of the demon cultivator's spiritual palace, but did not retract it like a heavy iron sword, but left it exposed to the sunlight.
"Sorry, I haven't tamed it yet."
"Are these demon cultivators coming for this sword?" Chu Sheng immediately understood Ling Fengzhi's unspoken meaning and subconsciously looked at the crystal clear ice sword.
When Ling Fengzhi thought she was going to start questioning him about the reasons why he had inexplicably run to the Canglang Mountains, Chu Sheng turned around and said to him.
"Since we've been chased here by the demon cultivators, it means we can't stay here for long. We have to leave."
Ling Fengzhi was stunned. "Leave?"
"Of course I have to leave. Otherwise, would I continue to stay here and be a target?" Chu Sheng answered as a matter of course.
"Your injuries haven't fully healed yet. It must be very taxing to forcefully activate this sword. We need to find a suitable environment for your recovery, so that at least you can return to the Sword Palace safely."
I finally saved someone, I can't possibly save them and then lose them again because I didn't keep an eye on them, right?
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