Chapter 485 Flying Stars (1/2)

Guan Longzi had stopped accepting students and told those who did not make it to return three months later.

Shen Lian did not announce that he would stop accepting students but no one else besides Lei Jing showed up. Also, besides Fei Zhong, no one else knew of Lei Jing's true identity.

Her status was too high above and compared to other students, she was the cloud above the sky. It was not odd that she had no interactions with other students.

Meanwhile, on the south side of the city, there was a huge courtyard that looked simple and plain.

The courtyard was known as the Yin Garden and it was the residences of the ambassadors and traders from Yin Shang. As Tianyi was held captive at Xia Tai, people who were at the Yin Garden rarely left the place to prevent unnecessary misfortunes.

Wu Ding, the young man who traveled with Shen Lian and the entourage of traders too stayed at the Yin Garden. He carried his sword and breathed according to the breath of Diqiu. He inhaled the fresh air and exhaled the foul Qi.

An airbag popped up on his back around the area of his Conception and Governor vessels. His mana then started to circulate around the Conception and Governor vessels.

After he was done absorbing the essence of the sun, he continued to absorb the power of the stars.

Wu Ding's cultivation was based on the stars known as the Flying Star Incantation. A Qi cultivator taught it to him when he was young and it was said that he was the only person who could master it to a deeper, whole new level.

He was a prodigy and was able to fathom the depths of the Flying Star Incantation. That was the reason why he chose not to cultivate his family's Dao incantation.

However, the cultivation of the Flying Star Incantation was more difficult than he expected. There were twelve levels to it but he hit a plateau at the fifth level as he failed to form stars with his Qi internally to become the source of mana.

Despite that, the Flying Star Incantation brought him enormous mana that was way beyond his peers.

But this was not sufficient, it was far from sufficient.

His current strength was not enough to bring him to Tianyi who was held captive at Xia Tai.

Tianyi, the person whom he admired the most in his lifetime.

When the Flying Star Incantation was running, the surrounding stars and moon would act like a lake that soaked Wu Ding in it. He would be able to sense anything within a mile radius that triggered a ripple in the power of the stars.

The power of the stars flowed naturally within the heaven and earth. Wu Ding picked up an odd energy from the stars towards the northern side. He thought it was odd because the power of the stars was too evenly distributed in that direction.

He took his sword along with him and headed out. His footstep was so strange that one could not tell his next step.

This was the star steps as recorded in the Flying Stars Incantation. If he mastered ten levels or more, he would be able to use the fluctuations of the star power to transport himself to anywhere the star power could reach. He could also use the star steps to absorb the power of the stars to rejuvenate damaged mana.

The best thing about the star steps was that it helped him camouflaged his Qi dynamics against the black shadow in the dark.

A figure dressed in black showed up at the northern side of the courtyard. The man in black had deeply hidden breath and a silver bow in his hands. The moon passed by and the silver bow pierced through the moonlight and halved it.

There were no arrows to the bow but as the black figure released the bow, the shapeless breath of the heaven and earth would form a bright silver arrow. Before anyone could hear anything, the arrow had left the bow.

Wu Ding leaned downwards and was almost parallel with the ground. The bow flew past his hair and a small patch of black hair fell off. Before it could land on the ground, the second arrow had reached his legs.

Wu Ding made a turn with a high-speed maneuver and avoided the arrow. He did not reduce his speed and ran further away from the man in black.

Someone who was at the Yin Garden noticed the man in black and wanted to warn others but before he could do so, the arrow had pierced through his throat.