This was a lance magic treasure, for sure. Ning Cheng could no longer move his footsteps after seeing this lance.
He disliked using flying swords against his enemies, what he had liked was a long spear or a more powerful magic treasure. Moreover, the spell technique he had obtained was the gun technique ‘Thirty Six Spears of Xuan Bing’, which made Ning Cheng want a lance even more. Unfortunately, he only had a flying sword and nothing else.
Now here was a lance, and although the part of the lance that was exposed to the ground was broken, it still had infinite appeal to Ning Cheng.
Not to mention the cultivation level of the people fighting here, if they could cause a fight of this magnitude, their cultivation level could not be any worse. Two masters of great cultivation fought here, could the things left behind be any worse?
Ning Cheng slowly moved towards the centre of the gully where the fight was taking place. Originally, he had felt a harsh and pervasive killing aura at the edge of the gully. When he took a step into the area of the fight, this powerful killing aura immediately tore his clothes apart.
The killing Qi was like a knife cutting, sweeping past Ning Cheng’s body, and immediately dozens of blood marks were added all over Ning Cheng’s body. The blood marks were shallow, but the blood that flowed out instantly stained Ning Cheng’s body red.
Ning Cheng did not dare to take a second step, and the attraction of that lance magic treasure did not allow him to exit this place of long gullies. He stopped and slowly ran his True Qi trying to heal his injuries while slowly advancing. Even if it took a few more months, he had to get his hands on this lance. Ning Cheng had long known how difficult it was to refine pills and weapons. Such a spear-type magic treasure was left here, and if he didn’t get it, he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
True Qi flowed along Ning Cheng’s meridians, and the Xuanhuang Pearl that was originally resting in the Purple Mansion suddenly spun up, and a stream of Xuanhuang Qi mixed in with the true Qi and filled Ning Cheng’s entire body’s meridians.
Ning Cheng surprisingly sat down in this murderous place, and two human figures emerged in his mind. These two figures were streaking across the sky above the Daan Forest, one using a long spear and the other using a giant axe. The two men were crisscrossing this space with spear shadows and axe light.
In just a short time, this originally densely wooded area was devastated to the point where there were only a few charred remnants of wood. A killing trajectory in the gun shadows seemed to be vaguely sensed by Ning Cheng, and his consciousness space suddenly stood still on an image of the figure who was casting the gun sacrificing the lance magic treasure in his hand before stabbing out with a single shot.
This spear brought up thousands of spear shadows, and the killing intent in the spear shadows took Ning Cheng’s breath away. So powerful, Ning Cheng was shocked in his heart, he came to a sudden alert, he only felt a trace of residual lance killing Qi and it was so unbearable. If it was him facing such a terrifying killing Qi, he could only close his eyes and wait for death. Or maybe he didn’t have to wait for death, as soon as that terrifying killing Qi came out, it could completely stir him into nothingness.
This dense and ferocious gunshot killing Qi swept through almost the entire Daan Forest, seemingly wanting to tear the entire Daan Forest apart.
He did not know how the shadow casting the giant axe should resist in the face of such terrifying and destructive gun shadows. But then again, he vaguely felt that there seemed to be an indefinable oddity about this shot.
Suddenly, his mind ached violently, while he was no longer able to pounce on the shadow wielding the giant axe. He could only feel a terrible tearing pain blasting through his mind, and the next moment he was spurting out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Ning Cheng’s face turned a little white as he spat out a mouthful of blood, but he still did not retreat, he just slowly stood up and with a raise of his hand, his flying sword had already appeared in his hand. At the same time, his flying sword stabbed out as a long spear.
“Swoosh” like the sound of a sharp arrow being shot out, the flying sword in Ning Cheng’s hand brought up a long sword aura that tore apart the surrounding killing Qi. Or rather, this sword of Ning Cheng’s had already strangled away all the killing Qi around him, so that the killing Qi around him no longer had any effect on him.
Was this the skin of that one shot? Ning Cheng’s heart was filled with incomparable excitement, he never thought that he would be able to comprehend such a shot in such a place. If this shot was fully comprehended by him, how much more would his combat power rise by a level?
No, Ning Cheng suddenly stopped, the joy on his face vanishing without a trace in an instant. Traces of the breakage of this move appeared clearly in his mind, and it was a fatal one at that.
When the figure who had executed the lance had executed this move, he had not been able to manifest countless equally terrifying lance shadows with a single lance; he had used a secondary lance. That’s right, it was auxiliary spears, because that person was not yet able to truly sweep the heaven and earth where the two were fighting with a single spear, so he employed several auxiliary spears to a*sist him.
Because of this, this one spear shadow seemed to have an extra crack. If the man who had wielded the giant axe had caught this flaw, then the shadow using the spear would have lost without a doubt.
Ning Cheng’s face paled once again as he saw the gully in front of him, and at the same time he clearly understood that the man using the spear had definitely lost. The gully in front of him was a deep gully forward, the surrounding gullies were relatively much thinner, and the killing aura was also much weaker.
The reason why Ning Cheng’s face turned white was because he had just comprehended the skin of this spear as well. This meant that when he faced off against others in the future, as long as his opponent caught the breakage of this shot, he would lose just as miserably like this.
Even if he didn’t use the auxiliary spear, this shot that he had comprehended still couldn’t be rounded and carried a hint of a crack.
Even though he knew that the person who was using the spear was unable to penetrate this shot, leaving it with an irreparable flaw. However, psychologically speaking, Ning Cheng was still on the side of the one who used the spear, because he also wanted to use the spear as his magic weapon. Likewise Ning Cheng finally understood what the half-ruined gun in the middle of the gully was, it should be the auxiliary gun of the gun-maker. After that gun-maker had lost, he didn’t even have the ability to take away the auxiliary gun. It was evident that he should have been defeated miserably.
But Ning Cheng quickly put aside this thought of his, his current cultivation level was a dream if he wanted to fight such an expert, so he did not need to think too much about it. In the future, when he could face off against such an expert, or maybe he would have made up for the breakage of this shot long ago.
Putting this thought aside, the harsh killing aura of that shot was once again pounced upon by Ning Cheng, and his mind became clearer and clearer about this shot.
Ning Cheng was completely unaware that what he had caught was not a killing aura, but a hint of gun intent.
If anyone knew that Ning Cheng, with a mere Qi gathering cultivation, was able to sense the scene of the fight through the killing Qi and even comprehend a hint of gun intent. Then even if Ning Cheng was hiding in the sky, he would have been caught out and torn apart a little to study.
Ning Cheng likewise knew why he could sense such a terrifying scene of a fight, it had nothing to do with his qualifications, it was because of the Xuanhuang Pearl.
After only a few breaths, Ning Cheng drank, and with a flourish of his hands, that one gun intent was inspired by him. The killing Qi around him, which already had little effect on him, grew thinner and thinner.
Ning Cheng’s heart was overjoyed and he even quickened his pace. He had originally planned to spend several months to get that remnant spear, but he had never imagined that he would be able to walk so fast in the middle of this battle gully after only comprehending a hint of killing Qi.
In just an incense burner’s time, Ning Cheng arrived at a place not far from the half-remembered spear. Just when Ning Cheng wanted to take a step forward and grab the broken spear in his hand. An even harsher killing Qi blasted over, directly hitting Ning Cheng’s chest.
This killing qi was even more severe and fierce than the killing qi left by the spear before, and Ning Cheng was blasted backwards by this terrifying killing qi. While another mouthful of blood spurted out, a shadow of a giant axe appeared in Ning Cheng’s consciousness.
Ning Cheng stood up trembling, still feeling his legs and belly tremble a little, this had nothing to do with fear, but the killing Qi of the giant axe was so terrifying that he had no way to resist it at all.
“This is the axe shadow that broke away that shot, it’s too powerful.” Only after a long time did Ning Cheng muttered to himself.
At this moment, Ning Cheng knew very well that if he could not block the killing aura of this giant axe, there was no way for him to fetch the remnant spear. Even if the spear was within reach, he could only look at it.
“Bah,” after looking at the inner armour that had been blasted with a mark on his chest, Ning Cheng spat, “I’ll take this spear today.”
Ning Cheng, who had made up his mind, carefully approached the gully with the killing aura of the giant axe. When he had just gotten close, the terrifying axe shadow came blasting straight over, once again sending him flying.
He continued to sense the axe shadow, and then once again stepped forward.
Blasted away, injured, sensed, went forward …… again, blasted away, injured again, sensed again, went forward again ……
In the midst of being blasted away and injured again and again, Ning Cheng went up to sense it again and again.
Time pa*sed in this repetition, and the killing intent of this axe shadow gradually became clear in Ning Cheng’s consciousness.
The momentum of this axe was majestic and boundless, with no room for loops.
Whether in terms of aura or killing aura, this axe shadow was much more intense and powerful than the gun intent killing aura Ning Cheng had felt before. This was not because the cultivation level of the axe wielder was much higher than that of the spear wielder, but because one was a winning killing aura and the other was a losing killing aura, which was simply incomparable.
Ning Cheng couldn’t remember how many times this was the first time he had been blown away, not an inch of his body was intact and even his face was scarred.
However, instead of being shocked, he rushed forward once more, while the flying sword in his hand slashed out. This time he used his flying sword as a giant axe and just slashed out with it.
The sword qi drove the killing qi around the gully, sending out a burst of ‘crackling’ explosions. An instant later, Ning Cheng stopped, and before his eyes was the gully. The killing qi that had easily blasted him away before was no longer able to blast him away by half at this point.
Ning Cheng just stood in front of the gully created by the giant axe, and a sense of insight appeared in his mind. After an unknown period of time, Ning Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, his body emitting a soft sound, the powerful true qi in his body was like bubbling water, and its sound became clearer and clearer.
A touch of surprise appeared in Ning Cheng’s eyes, this was the first time he had advanced without cultivating through spirit stones or through any outside resources. He was able to advance to become a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi gathering solely because he had comprehended the two types of killing Qi here.