789 Behind, Sticking Tightly Behind (1/2)

Just how monstrous was Fang Zhengzhi's talent? Ping Yang could not imagine.

Fang Zhengzhi did not know how Ping Yang felt, or he would have given her a hard knock on the head and told her:

”Of course a person's talent can't be this monstrous. However, if he has a good grasp of different Daos, things would be different!”

This was akin to someone who has read all the books in the world. They would be able to understand the content of books faster and where the information was gleaned from.

As the saying went, becoming formidable requires a lifetime of work.

Fang Zhengzhi was formidable alright, to the point that he seemed scary. When he had been refined in the Middle Stream Cauldron on the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, he got to read the 23 Heaven Dao Sage Tablet everyday. This had given him a solid understanding of the Dao written on the tablets and his skills had progressed rapidly.

He had already broken through over two thousand barriers in his cultivation of Dao.

Over two thousand types of Dao?

What kind of notion was this?

Fang Zhengzhi did not have any idea how this worked at first but he did now. On the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, he had grasped the Ice Crystal Dao of the Great Elder Ying Yu in a very short time.

He had been astounded at himself then.

Now…

He had mastered the jade-green Green Blade Dao as well as the dark blue Extreme Frost Dao used by the five women from Ling Yun Tower in a short time as well.

Fang Zhengzhi no longer needed to keep up the pretense. He placed a hand behind his back and with his other hand holding onto the Traceless Sword, he sighed towards the skies.

”Sigh… aces are often lonely! Fang Zhengzhi reflected while ignoring the dumbfounded expressions of the five women and Cang Yue.

At this point, Fang Zhengzhi was acting like an arrogant prick.

However piqued the five women and Cang Yue looked, they remained still.

They did not believe a word about having their skills countered.

Be that as it may, what they had seen was unprecedented. Nothing like this had every happened in the history of the Holy Region.

No one would have thought that a person could master his opponent's techniques in the short time they took to exchange blows.

”Why did it turn out this way?!”

”This is impossible!”

”No one could have done that! This is too coincidental to be true!”

It was often said that people who knew more tended to be confused easily. The five women prided themselves on knowing their Dao inside out and were thus unwilling to believe that incredible events had happened right before their eyes.

Cang Yue could not believe her eyes either.

She was seriously injured and could do nothing other than to steal looks at Ling Yun Tower every now and then.

Ping Yang recovered herself upon hearing Fang Zhengzhi speak.

”Aces are often lonely? Just how thick-skinned can he get?” Ping Yang was contemptuous but she did not want to argue with Fang Zhengzhi.

Perhaps it was Lin Mubai's injuries that had caused her to lose her inclination to argue with Fang Zhengzhi. Or it could be because she had no rebuttal for Fang Zhengzhi's words.

”I've underestimated him!” Lin Mubai had kept his eyes on Fang Zhengzhi the whole time.

Fang Zhengzhi was his last hope, his only hope.

At that moment, a light flashed across Ling Yun Tower. It was like a golden ray of sunlight.

It was unassuming.

However, this was enough to make the five women shudder. They shared a look with each other.

”Dance!” The woman in red gritted her teeth and shouted out loud.

The five women changed their positions once more and the dark blue light surrounding them disappeared. The dark blue in their eyes was replaced by the colour black. It was a deep dark black that sucked in all the light and obscured the whites of their eyes.

”Indeed, she is watching.” Fang Zhengzhi threw the occasional glance at Ling Yun Tower.

When he had seen the light flash across Ling Yun Tower, he could not help but smirk.

Fang Zhengzhi was pretty sure that the leader of Ling Yun Tower had been watching them the whole time.

What actually surprised Fang Zhengzhi was that…

The leader of Ling Yun Tower had such a high level of forbearance. She had refrained from revealing herself and was relying on the five women she had dispatched to test Fang Zhengzhi.

In fact, the five women were powerful. They were competent individually but their combined strength was very outstanding.

Were they really going to drag it on?

Fang Zhengzhi had enough of this. God knows if Ling Yun Tower would send out another batch of fighters when he had defeated these five women.

No one could know that.

As Fang Zhengzhi pondered over this question, the world around him turned dark. The five women were attacking him once again.

”Darkness?” Fang Zhengzhi narrowed his eyes slightly.

From the previous formation and techniques the five women had adopted, Fang Zhengzhi had thought that they would stick to the Five Elements Dao.

However, it seemed that this was not the case.

The positions of the five elements…

Was only a method used by the five women to unleash the Dao better.

”Buzz!”

Fang Zhengzhi's vision was entirely obscured by the darkness. He could feel the invasiveness of the shadows.

Black flames rose up from Fang Zhengzhi's body again. This was an instinctive reaction to other Daos and served as a defence mechanism as well.

The black flames burned in the dark and banging sounds began to ring out. Fang Zhengzhi could feel new information entering the sea of his consciousness.