Vol 20 Chapter 12 (2/2)

“Yes” Ning nodded “You are indeed strong enough to outmatch me; I’m not your equal at all Thus, I had to play a small trick on you”

“First, you filled your sith heartforcce, then you released the sword to attack me with your hand That hand of yours is no weaker than your sword,” Snowfiend said

“Correct To be precise,said

Ning’s [Starseizing Hand] had made his hands coh they weren’t sword-shaped, they were still corade Protocosmic swords Naturally, his hands would be a bit

“Although h ility techniques are sirab onto your ar shook his head

“You released the sword so that you could attack with your hand, but even if the hand succeeded, you would still have the option of using your second body, which is just as strong as your first body” Snowfiend shook his head “I was tied down by you for ahly convinced by my defeat”

“I wasn’t strong enough, so I had no choice but to use trickery,” Ning said

If he had started the battle with two clones, the ape would’ve been prepared for it Given how overwhelly powerful Snowfiend was, if that happened the outcome could be summarized in one word: LOSE

Thus, Ning’s second clone would only appear at a critical ain him victory

“It was because you have other clones” Snowfiend shook his head “You actually have two true bodies, and both are Empyrean God bodies It seems that you must’ve trained in so, this sort of divine ability should allow you to create quite a few clones, correct?”

Ning chuckled Indeed; [Taowu Eighteen FiendGods] allowed for a total of eighteen clones

“You win” Snowfiend hefted the golden staff onto his shoulders, then turned and left Snow fluttered around him, and he quickly disappeared into the snow

Ning let out a sigh of relief “Good heavens” Ning felt a spike of fear for what had almost happened

“Although I knew that Snowfiend had to be powerful…he ay too powerful! I threw everything I had at him, and my first clone used up almost all of its divine power and heartforce If my final ploy had failed, my only option would’ve been to try and flee back to the island”

The reason why Ning had battled ineffectively for so long as tolay in that final attack

First the sword, then the hand, then the second clone! If he failed, he would’ve fled back to the island Just like Roughpeak, he would train for a fewany further attempts

“Success! Finally, I succeeded”

Although Ning celebrated his victory, he still felt a sense of pressure This journey involved a total of five islands; his defeat of Snowfiend only allowed him access to the second island This battle, however, had already forced him to reveal his trump card and use all the tricks he had available Would he be able to overcoes?

Whoosh

The Ruyi Soulsnake Shuttle followed the floating wooden bridge, rapidly advancing towards the horizon

While flying, Ning pondered the previous battle nonstop Just nohen he had been battling so frantically, he had a vague feeling that he was about to co the third chapter of the [Five Treasures] sword-art, which he was still a hairs-breadth away fro However, because he was in a life-and-death battle, he didn’t have any time to think about the sword-art

Now, Ning began to think back to the previous battle and carefully analyze it

After flying for half a day, another island appeared before Ning This island had a massive volcano in the center of it Boom! Boom! Boo the the entire island red

“A volcano island?” Ning no longer pondered his sword-arts Instead, he rapidly fleard and landed atop the volcano island

This was the second of the five islands

“Eh?”

At the end of the wooden bridge, Ning sat a giant, vertical stone stele, with the stone stele covered by an enor ape This ape looked rather si at the heavens

As soon as Ning saw it, his ram’s depths

He saw the illusion of an ape, twirling a longstaff in its hands as it trained in a staff technique The ape started with the simplest techniques, then proceeded to the advanced ones, his staffwork growing increasingly ainst Snowfiend for a long period of time Now that he was able to carefully see each of the illusory ape’s separate techniques in detail, he instantly felt enlightened regarding his previous experiences Only after a long period of time did the display of techniques come to an end

“Eh?” Ning’s consciousness returned to his body

“What a marvelous staff technique A pity that ’s entire body turned stiff as he just stood there blankly

He had been trapped at a bottleneck in the [Five Treasures] for so that coht had suddenly pierced through a covering of dark stor a world that had previously been cast in shadow

Ning stood there silently and unly Both him and his second clone were completely absorbed in the [Five Treasures] sword-art They were gaining continuous insights into the third chapter, and in the end the bottleneck was no longer able to iress The bottleneck shattered, and all of his insights beca to form a perfect whole The entire third chapter was co’s swordforce silently advanced to the fourth stage as well

Swordforce, stage one – Silver Moon

Swordforce, stage two – Dazzling Sun

Swordforce, stage three – Imperial Ruler

Swordforce, stage four – Sword Heart

“Sword Heart…” Ning er in a slow arc A black streak of sword-light appeared, swirling around it

When he had created the very first stance of the [Brighte of swordforce Nearly a century had passed, and over the course of this period of tiainst many Empyrean Gods and Celestial Iainst True Gods and True Immortals there However, he had been unable to ainst Snowfiend and after his consciousness was drawn into the stone stele did he finally break through the last bottleneck and reach the fourth stage of swordforce