Chapter 379.2 (1/2)

Zhou… Zhou

Even though Ximen Ye was able to resist Ning Fan’s Sword Finger technique with his incarnation, he still suffered a great deal of damage. Amazement filled his eyes for the very first time.

“Sword Finger! You actually have the Sword Finger inheritance from the Sword Ancestor!”

It was really beyond Ximen Ye’s expectations that his Art of Seven Sounds which allowed him to defeat all of his rivals in the same cultivation realm as him would be destroyed by Ning Fan with just a single finger.

Besides, he had never imagined that the number of secret arts that Ning Fan had was not any lesser than him who was a prodigy of an aristocratic family.

“Ximen Ye, continue to fight me!”

Ning Fan kept both of his swords. Even though his whole body was stained with blood, his robes remained intact.

On the other hand, although Ximen Ye did not have any external injuries after he withstood Ning Fan’s attack using his incarnation, his robes were tattered and he looked worn out.

Ximen Ye had used his incarnation which was the incarnation of night. Ning Fan made a step forward. His body gave out masses of black qi and turned dark like concentrated black ink, gradually becoming illusory.

When Ximen Ye saw what was happening to Ning Fan, his pride was crushed!

The thing that made him proud the most was that he managed to comprehend the Incarnation Technique and constructed his incarnation of night when he was just at the Void Refinement Realm.

Ning Fan, however, was able to use the Incarnation Technique while he was at the Divine Transformation Realm. It immediately made Ximen Ye feel that his achievement was rather insignificant.

“Ximen Ye, continue to fight me!”

Ning Fan had grown tired of showy and stylish techniques. He stepped forward and disappeared into black smoke with a puff. In the next second, he was already right in front of Ximen Ye, swinging his fists.

Ximen Ye was also enraged. His cultivation realm was obviously higher than Ning Fan’s but he was surpassed by the latter in almost every aspect. He disliked this feeling!

“Zhou Ming! You certainly can’t be my opponent!”

*Rumble*

Abandoning all kinds of fashionable techniques, the both of them battled against each other with only their fists.

Both of them were cultivators with the Jade Life Body Refining Realm. Each of their punches and kicks carried force that could break mountains and lands.

While alternating between striking and guarding, Ximen Ye conjured a giant black sword with his void power. He wielded it and cut the sky in half, suppressing Ning Fan with his mighty strength.

While alternating between charging and dodging, golden purple mist coiled around Ning Fan’s body. Wherever the mist passed by, the giant sword would be eroded and disintegrate. Even Ximen Ye could not avoid suffering serious damage from this.

Both of them revealed their incarnations. Even though they used their incarnations to receive most of the damage during their fight, they were still unable to avoid being wounded.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat lasted for an entire day. During the first few hours, Ning Fan’s body techniques were inferior to Ximen Ye’s. Thus, he did not go on the offense a lot and only played defensively most of the time.

In the following few hours, Ximen Ye’s injuries got more severe and his strength weakened. Ning Fan, on the other hand, was as spirited as a dragon and as fierce as a tiger. Each of his punches was powerful!

Ximen Ye finally realized why Ning Fan’s courage went up as the battle progressed.

It was because Ning Fan’s incarnation had already reached the state where it could heal itself while his own incarnation was still at the initial stage.

Currently, Ning Fan was covered in blood from head to toe. However, he did not seem to recognize pain. He continued to throw his fists, just like an insane devil who could annihilate the world.

With a single step, his incarnation dispersed. With another step, his body recondensed.

In between the dispersal and recondensation, he carried the spirit of the saying which goes: It’s better to be a shard of jade than a whole tile. As he continued to battle on, his body refining realm which was on the verge of achieving the next breakthrough had finally broken through!

Now, his Jade Life Body Refining Realm had advanced to the Fourth Level from the peak of the Third Level. All it took was just a bloody physical battle with Ximen Ye!

*Bang*

The force of Ning Fan’s punches grew stronger for every punch he unleashed . To Ximen Ye’s surprise, his strength was completely at a disadvantage.

It wasn’t merely because his strength had been greatly depleted or he lacked a self-healing ability like Ning Fan, but also because Ning Fan had broken through the bottleneck of his body refining realm during the battle!

Seeing Ning Fan’s punches which got stronger to the point where his incarnation could barely defend himself against his punches, Ximen Ye’s eyes turned grim. He had no choice but to admit that he had lost to Ning Fan once more in a prolonged physical combat!

For the first time, he began to contemplate.

If Ning Fan breaks through to the Void Refinement Realm, how strong and powerful would he be?!

If Ning Fan attains the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm, would he, Ximen Ye, be able to become Ning Fan’s rival?!

He did not have a clear answer!

For the first time, Ximen Ye who had always been arrogant and proud failed to see any hope of winning against Ning Fan!

*Rumble*

Just as he was distracted by his own thoughts, Ning Fan hurled one of his punches towards him, hitting him right on his chest.

The strength of Ning Fan’s punch gave him a wrong impression. The pain was extremely excruciating as if he had been slammed by a ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall mountain.

His 24 ribs were all broken by this punch.