137 A Deep Feeling of Master and Disciple (1/2)

Within the boundless darkness, the few burning bright jades were the only few light source. Under these lights, the dark skinned Black Poison Corpse General bewilderingly withdrew its bone whip and glared like a tiger watching its preys—the man and the dog.

The deadlock lasted for less than a moment, because with an angry bark, the stupid dog sprinted forward to attack.

Just now, in a moment of distraction, it was nearly cleaved in two by the bone whip, but was promptly thwarted by Wang Lu’s Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi… The exchange happened too fast that the stupid dog didn’t even have the time to think about it. It only knew that, at this time, the enemy was at the front, while its master was guarding at the back with his sword. Therefore, it would do the only thing that it could do.

Bite it to death.

A moment ago, the Black Poison Corpse General had melted its skin, however, it seemed like that flowing poison scene had already been thrown off its brain by that stupid dog. It once again pounced on the enemy’s body and fiercely bit that corpse’s arm. Its supposedly stronger-than-steel flesh and bones were actually torn by the dog’s sharp teeth, deepening its wound.

In just around ten to twenty seconds, its stout arm had been completely torn down in an incredibly smooth process.

This was, of course, not the intention of the corpse. In those several seconds, it had actually tried more than thirty methods to kill the mad dog that tried to bite it. However, they were all thwarted by the Non-Phase Sword Qi of the cultivator who stood a few meters away.

Whether it was a colorless and odorless poisonous gas, the powerful bone whip strike, or even the demonic method powered by the dead spirit’s Primal Chaos Force, all of them seemed to have hit a layer of invisible but solid wall; regardless of which method, none could hurt its opponent...

In this dark tide, this corpse general has killed countless living creatures. Although it was occasionally repulsed by a more formidable creature, it had nevertheless encountered this kind of strange situation. An idea to retreat was born out of its crafty nature. However, at this time, that stupid dog intuitively changed its attack target. It bit off its ankle to force it to fall on the ground.

When it looked down, the corpse general saw the pair of crimson eyes of a mad beast.

It seemed like the dog didn’t care about its own life anymore as it crazily tried to tear apart the corpse general’s body. Its two rows teeth had to withstand the repeated excessive frantic biting force; several of them had actually been chipped off, and the blood flowed freely out of its mouth. However, how could a mad beast care about all these?

Obviously all the injuries were isolated by its master, thus, it wanted to bite the corpse general to death. However, the animal instinct in the stupid dog’s brain crazily roared, urging it to finish the opponent as fast as possible and at all cost.

It was as if it was walking on a rope, with abyss under it, and the other side was a glorious heaven. If it could step correctly, it could safely go to the other side, but if it took the wrong step, it would be doomed.

The dumb dog didn’t understand why it would feel like this. However, compared to thinking, it trusted its instinct more. Therefore, under the protection from the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi, it brazenly went crazy. Surrounded by firelights, it set off a hurricane of flesh and blood.

The Black Poison Corpse General would finally die.

As a dead spirit, it shouldn’t even have the concept of death. In this black tide, even if its physique was destroyed, it could re-form again in the dark tide… Unless it was killed by the living.

And whether it was Wang Lu or the stupid dog, both of them were undoubtedly the standard living creatures. When the stupid dog finally bit off the corpse general’s throat, it tore the head off of its body, and thus, this filled-with-infinite-hatred Black Poison Corpse General finally perished.

The stupid dog’s mouth had been dripping with blood; the excessiveness of the crazy had brought it great harm. However, at this time, all of a sudden, the redness in its eyes dissipated a little, and a moment later, it turned its head and looked.

Wang Lu, brandishing his Sword of Mount Kun, still has his smile on his face. However, from the lower lip to his throat and from the throat to his chest, blood flowed like a waterfall.

”Damn it, if it’s a little bit slower then it’s death for sure.”

Wang Lu said. His legs seemed unstable as if he was about to stagger.

For a long time, Wang Lu always thought of himself as a professional adventurer. Even if he didn’t dare to declare himself as the possessor of the highest IQ in the world, he was confident that he could crush the majority of his peers with ease. Over the years, from his feat at the Immortal Gathering to founding the Wisdom Sect on the year-long experiential learning, all these feats were the proofs of that point.

However, in this nearly a year in the Savage Land, Wang Lu had to admit that he had made an extremely stupid mistake.

His Master duping him into the Savage Land was nothing more than in order to let him practice the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi. For a year, in this Western Mountain, Wang Lu had industriously worked on his cultivation. Whether it was his Qi Cultivating Stage, Sword Bone, Heart Sutra or other methods, all of them had undergone an enormous progress. However, he was actually unable to successfully train that Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi.

At first, Wang Lu only thought that he just hadn’t reached the required level. After all, in theory, this Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi belonged to an advanced method, thus, it was understandable that it had a higher basic requirement. However, his cultivation speed could also be considered as fast. Now he had reached the middle-level Qi Cultivating Stage, yet he had only entered the Spirit Sword Sect for about five years...

However, a few days ago, when he argued about the merit of dog meat, he found out that things didn’t seem to be what he thought of. His inability to train the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi was perhaps because he had been looking at the wrong method to train it...

For a professional adventurer, the method was always more important than the effort. One year of diligent training was not worth showing off because even someone as stupid as Wen Bao could easily accomplish it. What was difficult was to find the right method to achieve more with less effort. Yet this professional adventurer who always specialized in this field of endeavor had actually picked a foolish method this time.

Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi could not be practiced by ordinary methods… In fact, this fact could readily be discerned by its name alone. All of the methods on his set of Non-Phase Method had Non-Phase, two words at the front, however, why would this particular Non-Phase Sword Qi had additional Innate [1] word in front of it? Because it looked more mighty, more noble, more glamorous? With his Master’s extremely insufficient moral character, that name would be laughable instead.

When he thought about it, his Master had actually clued him about this as early as two years ago; what was the actual meaning of Innate? Why would a method for a mere Qi Cultivating Stage deserve to be paired with the word Innate?

Of course, it referred to the innate lifespan… When that woman taught himself the Heaven Burning Blood Technique three years ago, she had probably thought of this day. For a cultivator who hasn’t reached the high level Qi Cultivating Stage, exerting out the sword qi and also maintaining the formidable defense power of the Non-Phase Sword Art could only be achieved by burning the lifespan in a short period of time to produce a huge amount of magical power as the fuel to do all that. The strong points of the Non-Phase Method were its toughness and firmness, but it has practically zero ability to produce a burst of power. To offset these shortcomings, the only thing that could be done was by using the Heaven Burning Blood Technique. It was just that, in the past, Wang Lu always thought that this method was an especially sh*tty method, and he had never associated it with the noble and grandeur of the authentic Non-Phase Method.

Therefore, the so-called Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi was actually the precursor to the Non-Phase Sword Qi. With the prefix Innate, not only was it not stronger, but it was also weakened a lot, however, if a Qi Cultivating Stage Cultivator wanted to exert out the sword qi, this was the only road that one must follow.