Chapter 69 | Table of Contents | Chapter 71
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Chapter 70: Same Generation
“If you want to use your life to trade for the Ba Mountain Sword Field’s forgiveness that even all its enemies think is impossible to obtain with a direct surrender, it is impossible.”
Ding Ning looked at Zheng Sha and continued, “Because before the enemy will think of this, I will tell them whether or not they have the possibility of obtaining our forgiveness.”
Zheng Sha’s face grew dark. He stopped talking.
At his side, Wu Donglian who had been bowing with his coronet in his hands slowly straightened and put the coronet back on his head.
Once he did this, the respectfulness on his face disappeared. He was smiling. His skin was a bit tanned, as a result, his teeth appeared very white and his gums very red, giving people a strange bloody feeling.
“But you need a reason to kill. Even though you will not give me a chance to surrender, you should know you and my master are of the same generation. I am a junior. You killing me does not follow the rules.”
He smiled and looked at Ding Ning then said with slight scorn, “You can be unreasonable, but you cannot disobey the rules. The rules publicly accepted by the cultivators, especially many rules for duels that have become traditions, were formed back when you were at Ba Mountain Sword Field.”
At the start, he had used the casual “you” but in the end, he used the formal “you”, causing the scorn in his words to become even more clear.
But Ding Ning was not angry at his words. He just shook his head and said calmly, “It is best if you want to follow the rules. Today is not the day for me to achieve fame, but for the Thunder Fire Temple to regain its name.”
Wu Donglian and Wu Sha stilled. Their gazes were full of surprise as they landed on Shou Chen behind Ding Ning.
Ding Ning said, “His master and your master are of the same generation. When your master achieved fame, his master had not. So, on this so-called seniority, it fits the rules.”
Wu Donglian frowned deeply. He could see that Shou Chen was realm six. The former Wang Jingmeng could win above his realm, but it did not mean that other cultivators could do the same.
“Have you become careful after dying once?” He took a deep breath and looked at Ding Ning. “You fear that I have some special methods, so you have this cultivator come to test me first what I have?” “You have to think it through.” He deepened his tone and said to Ding Ning, “If I kill him, maybe all the cultivators in the world will think like this.”
Ding Ning looked at him, seeing through to what he thought inside and said with some disdain, “Do not worry, if Shou Chen is not a match for you, I will not fight you.”
Wu Donglian did not understand where Ding Ning’s confidence came from, but he had gotten what he wanted.
“I will try to kill him. This is a good move. The entire world will know that someone is able to kill a person close to you in front of you.”
Saying so, he swung his sleeve.
The sleeve brought a terrifying gust of wind. His body floated up towards the space behind Shou Chen. Before he landed, everything behind Shou Chen, including the other people were blown away by the wild wind. A large clearing appeared.
The wild wind blew by the ground, and ice blue crystals appeared in blooms.
Wu Donglian was Guo Dongjiang’s personal disciple. Because his master admired his talent, he even gave his student a “dong” character in the name. After Guo Dongjiang died, Wu Donglian went against Guo Dongjiang’s wishes, conquering the main islands here. If Ye Xiao had not failed in assassinating Ding Ning, and Jiaodong Commandery was not about to completely fall into Ba Mountain Sword Field’s control, he would be the king here.
He ruled these islands like a country. As he moved now, he had some of the presence of a ruler.
The blue crystals that covered the ground here was the prelude to one of his methods. If this was an ordinary duel, he would have attacked first. But he did not care and just said to Shou Chen, “Please.”
If one felt it was unfair, they would feel irritated and their mind would be unsettled. But Shou Chen was very calm.
The weather and the geography was important in duels between cultivators. He knew that when he would fight people on the Blue Jade Island, the island and the lands here would be his enemy’s weapons. But Ding Ning had confidence in his five seals, and he had confidence.
So he bowed slightly and responded calmly, “Please.”
The moment he said this word, he crushed a yellow seal in his palm.
In this moment, a wild presence descended from the sky above Wu Donglian’s head.
There was a madness hard to describe in words in this wild and enormous presence, the same as from Guo Dongjiang.
Wu Donglian’s feet naturally left the ground. He floated in the air. The primal energies of the universe in his body and from the world around him crossed and rippled, forming countless threads of white lightning.
The white lightning did not directly head at Shou Chen, but was absorbed by the blue crystals on the ground.
Strange thunder sounded within the blue crystals.
The energies of the white lightning was immediately magnified, refracting many times within the crystals, and then attacked Shou Chen from all directions.
At this time, the original inhabitants of the island were only half of the people present. The other half were fishermen who were temporarily stopping here, or cultivators who had come to the nearby waters to trade. When Ding Ning and Shou Chen came to this island, Wu Donglian had intentions of having these people act as witness, so many cultivators in secret here already knew Ding Ning’s identity.
At this time, countless eyes were looking at this battle. Seeing the millions of bolts of lightning fill the world and surge at Shou Chen, all of these people changed expressions. This was not just the full-powered attack from a realm seven cultivator… This clearly had the power of a formation!
Such a packed attack had nothing to do with sword essence. There was no way to defeat it through its weakness. No matter how wondrous the sword move was, it could not resolve this based on skill. Many people were certain, even some of the top realm seven experts may not be able to block an attack like this.
A cultivator who was only a realm six at his best. How could he survive such an attack?
But in this moment, heavy thuds sounded.
Gasps followed.
Shou Chen had not died.
He even did not move at all.
Hundreds of yellow shields appeared around him. These shields were taller than a person, floating and moving around him in seven layers.
The seven layers of yellow shields spun, and blocked all the possibilities of the lightning making its way through. Each bolt of lightning landing on the yellow shields seemed to be beating a drum. There would be a dull thud, and a yellow wave of dust would form.
Chapter 69 | Table of Contents | Chapter 71
- Sword Dynasty Volume 8 Chapter 72 “Regain Reputation”
- Sword Dynasty Volume 8 Chapter 71 “Ice”
- Sword Dynasty Volume Eight Chapter 70 “Same Generation”
- Sword Dynasty Volume Eight Chapter 69 “Not Hard”
- Sword Dynasty Volume Eight Chapter 68 “Step on the Island”
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