Chapter 589 (1/2)

Chapter 589

Chapter 589: A New Generation of Powerhouse

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Tensions were running high . Ning Que had to break Master Boshu's nine-layer Buddhist defense first, or his opponent Master Boshu would kill Sangsang with his copper bell . At that moment, only Knowing Destiny cultivators could make a difference in the battle . Quni Madi wanted to crush Ning Que and Sangsang with her broken staff, though she knew she couldn't . Instead she looked anxiously at Cheng Ziqing .

Cheng Ziqing sat in the Buddha's temple with a sword on his knees . He had been thinking a lot in only a short amount of time but only realized that, if the world was destroyed, relations between Sword Garret and the Academy and the conflict between Tang Empire and South Jin Kingdom would become meaningless . As a cultivator, the most important thing he could do was keep the world intact .

Before Quni Madi's anxious gaze could wander to him, he had already prepared a Sword Formula, and a sharp sword style burst out of his sword .

Sword Garret had a very different style of swordsmans.h.i.+p than others in the world . Most of the time, sword masters would tightly hold a sword and follow its movement . So Cheng Ziqing immediately grasped the hilt and let the sword lead the way .

His body moved extremely swiftly, as if he had become a sword himself that was on its way to Ning Que's back .

He was a Knowing Destiny cultivator, second only to Liu Bai, the Sage of Sword, in Sword Garret . At this very moment, he had launched his most fatal attack .

Faced with Cheng Ziqing's most powerful attack, Ning Que could defend only himself with his strong body after joining with the Devil, and even still he barely survived . If Sangsang were to be hit, she would die at once .

However, Cheng Ziqing's sword did not hit Sangsang .

Neither did it hit Ning Que's back through Sangsang's thin body .

Instead, it hit hard stone .

Cheng Ziqing looked the same . His sword continued to move forward, breaking the stone into pieces .

Another stone appeared at the tip of his sword .

His expression turned fierce . An aura of the world burst out of his sword which vibrated continuously in a very short period time with numerous shadows, trying to avoid the stone .

But he couldn't .

In the quiet hall, countless stones appeared in the ten-feet s.p.a.ce between Cheng Ziqing and Ning Que's back . The stones were of different shapes and sizes, and were all densely packed in the small s.p.a.ce .

Faced with the stones, Cheng Ziqing could hardly move forward, though his sword was quite powerful .

Mr . Ke had once broken these stones with Haoran Sword .

But Cheng Ziqing failed to do so, even though his swordsmans.h.i.+p was uniquely skilful .

Suddenly, he felt as if his mouth was stuffed with stones, and then his throat, and chest, before finally his entire body was full of them . He felt slightly tingly and cool . What made him even more pained were the hard stones with sharp edges, which were cutting his consciousness constantly .

A feeling of hopelessness rose within his chest as his insides throbbed . With a shrill cry, he waved his cyan-steel sword for 120 times without a pause, finally breaking the encirclement of stones and leaving behind their bleak and desperate world . He breathed fresh air again .

Turning to look at Mo Shanshan who was keeping silent at the corner, Cheng Ziqing was pale and shocked .

There were countless notches on his sword, which was greatly damaged as if it had collided with hundreds of thousands of hard stones in only a second .

When Cheng Ziqing tried to stab Ning Que's back, Mo Shanshan moved immediately .

She took out a paper ball and tossed it on the ground in front of the futon .

It was a piece of talisman paper, which was shaped like a small stone .

The paper stored the talisman power which she had comprehended from the pile of rocks at the bottom of Daming Lake . It had helped her reach the Knowing Destiny State this spring, when she had become one of the youngest Divine Talisman Masters in history .

This was why she named the talisman ”Stone Array Tactics” .

The greatest taboo in a fight was hesitation . That was what Ning Que had told Mo Shanshan at the Wilderness . He certainly would not make this mistake now, so when he sensed that Cheng Ziqing was trying to stab his back, he did not stop attacking Master Boshu .

He could deal with a Sword Garret's attack with the big black umbrella, which would at least buy some time . But he could not stop Sangsang from spitting blood because of Master Boshu's ringing bell . So he had to kill Boshu as soon as possible .

Six layers of Baoshu's nine-layer Buddhist defense had been breached by Ning Que's podao . However, as the bell rang and the Buddhist aura was recovered, the nine-layer Buddhist defense became intact in a flash .

Ning Que appeared indifferent without a hint of disappointment . Before his podao blade reached the ground, he bent his knees and chopped at Master Boshu with his clenched left fist .

For ordinary people, a fist was usually their last and most primitive attack during a battle, even if it was a strong one . But for cultivators, whether it was a fist or foot, as long as it was a part of human body, it must be the weakest, if not most laughable attack .

Ning Que's fist was not laughable, however, because it was the first time that he showed his Dark Methods . More importantly, his had stored unparalleled Great Spirit in this very fist .