But when the dagger was about a centimeter away from Jian Ning's chest, no matter how hard she tried, it seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't pierce it.
She stared wide-eyed in horror at Jian Ning in front of her, speechless for a long time.
"What's wrong? I'm standing right here, why are you trying to kill me?"
"You were saying some pretty harsh things just now, weren't you? I thought you were all that capable, Miao Xin. Can you tell me why you absolutely need the jade pendant I have?"
Jian Ning gently pinched the dagger between two fingers, and with a slight exertion, it broke in two. She stared at the unbelievable scene before her.
Miao Xin suddenly remembered what the Taoist priest had said: that capable woman could traverse between Yin and Yang. She was no match for her. A sudden flash of inspiration struck her, and she cried out.
"You're not Jian Ning, so who are you?"
"Yes, I'm not the Jian Ning you know. So who do you think I am?" Jian Ning chuckled and asked in return.
Seeing her admit it without hesitation, Miao Xin suddenly felt uneasy; she had been far too reckless in coming. Their fighting abilities were completely different, and her pistol was unusable.
Wasn't this just handing myself over to die? I quickly threw down the broken dagger in my hand, grabbed my stick, and turned to run.
"You think you can just leave like that after you've come? Do you think it's that easy?" Jian Ning sneered behind her, reaching out to grab Miao Xin's arm.
Then he applied an invisibility talisman. He flew straight into the air on his sword, carrying a living person, without any effort. They flew by soaring through the air...
Head straight to the mountaintop.
Miao Xin stared wide-eyed in mid-air, the cold wind chilling her to the bone. Watching the houses below shrink rapidly, she wished she could just faint instead of remaining so awake.
Is Jian Ning a ghost or some kind of demon? She clearly has a shadow.
And it even has a temperature. Isn't it true that you can't become a spirit after the founding of the People's Republic of China? Where did she get these abilities from? My mind was a mess, and I was so scared that I was trembling all over.
He knew in his heart that he had run into the line of fire today and was definitely not going to survive.
At this moment, she truly regretted why she had insisted on snatching Jian Ning's jade pendant. If she hadn't stubbornly insisted on getting involved, she wouldn't be in this situation today.
Jian Ning carried her all the way to the highest point of the mountain, then let go and threw her onto the thick snow. She sank in almost halfway into it.
This place is deserted, with not even bird footprints, and the cold wind blows fiercely from high up.
In just a short while, Miao Xin felt completely frozen, while Jian Ning, wearing only a long woolen coat with her long hair flowing in the wind, stood there quietly.
After a while, he turned around and looked at Miao Xin.
"I didn't want to kill animals during the Lunar New Year, but you keep challenging my bottom line. Today I won't get my hands dirty with blood either. You can jump down yourself."
"No, Jian Ning, I was wrong. Please, let me go. I'll kneel down and kowtow to you."
Miao Xin cried so hard that tears and snot streamed down her face. She lunged forward, trying to hug Jian Ning's leg, but Jian Ning kicked her away.
"Get it over with, Miao Xin. What's the point of you living like this? Don't make me look down on you!"
Jian Ning's voice was several degrees colder than the weather outside.
"If I count to three and you still don't jump, then I'll have to help you out."
"One, two..."
Before Jian Ning could even utter her third number, Miao Xin roared to the sky.
"Jian Ning, you just wait and see. If there's a next life, I'll make you wish you were dead."
He then staggered to the edge of the cliff, glanced back at Jian Ning, and his eyes were filled with hatred that was almost overflowing.
"Goodbye and don't come back!"
Jian Ning watched as Miao Xin took a step back and fell straight off the cliff behind her. It took a long time before the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground was heard before she finally sighed.
"You brought this on yourself, so don't blame me. Can't you just live a normal life? Why do you have to covet things that don't belong to you?"
I hope you'll be reborn as a good person in your next life. As for me, you'll never see me again unless you cultivate immortality and achieve eternal life.
Having dealt with Miao Xin, Jian Ning felt a sense of clarity and suddenly had the feeling of breaking through to the Golden Core stage.
Looking around, the area was a vast expanse of white, utterly deserted—the perfect place to undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality.
So he sent a text message back to Xiao Lingfeng, telling him that he was about to undergo a tribulation and to take good care of the family.
Then he set up a defensive formation, sat down cross-legged on the spot, and with a wave of his hand, a mountain of spirit stones appeared around him.
Having made ample preparations, he began to circulate his spiritual power, absorbing the surging spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
Three whole days passed in that sitting.
When the surrounding spirit stones turned to dust, Jian Ning suddenly opened her eyes, and her aura changed noticeably in that instant.
A golden core was forming within her body, radiating a dazzling purple light. Moreover, spiritual energy emanated from the core.
Just then, dark clouds suddenly filled the sky, and countless black clouds gathered from all directions, completely obscuring the sun that was high in the sky.
Suddenly, night fell. The dark clouds hung extremely low, as if one could reach out and pluck a cloud from the sky.
Jian Ning stood up from the ground, removed the defensive formation, and revealed a smile.
"Come on, a mere Golden Core Tribulation Lightning, do you think I'm afraid of you?"
The thunderclouds in the sky churned, as if they understood Jian Ning's words, and suddenly a crack appeared in the dark clouds.
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom boom..."
Nine bolts of lightning were unleashed in quick succession, each one thicker and denser than the last, giving Jian Ning no time to react.
The Ruoshui Sword instantly appeared in Jian Ning's hand. Instead of retreating, she advanced and swung the sword to withstand the tribulation lightning.
Jian Ning did this in order to use the heavenly lightning to temper the Ruoshui Sword in her hand.
The sword moved as it pleased, its sharp blade pointing towards the rolling lightning. At the moment of contact, the thunder was completely absorbed by the Ruoshui Sword.
The dark clouds in the sky paused, as if they couldn't believe their lightning had had no effect whatsoever. This only made things worse.
The surrounding dark clouds frantically gathered towards the center, and in a short while, they coalesced into a huge vortex. Lightning flashed within, illuminating the surrounding white snow.
In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, only Jian Ning stood alone, sword in hand, looking fearlessly at the tribulation clouds in the sky, the smile on his lips never fading.
Just now, she had already figured out that, perhaps because this was not the cultivation world, the spiritual energy here was not sufficient, so even the power of the Golden Core Tribulation was reduced.
It looks scary, but it's actually not that powerful.
Sure enough, the tribulation clouds reformed, and eighteen more bolts of lightning struck down in quick succession, but Jian Ning, wielding the Ruoshui Sword, blocked them all without sustaining a scratch.
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