Only My Way

Yang Zutao was running away.

So was everyone else.

Whether they were ordinary people working as miners or formal members of the White Crow Gang who were cultivators, everyone was running for their lives.

They looked like startled wild animals.

Or like ordinary people who had suddenly discovered that hundreds of tons of explosives were buried around them.

Everyone wished they had been born with two extra legs.

Even though blood was slowly seeping from their ears, they couldn't care less.

All they wanted was to move their legs and flee madly.

For them.

At this moment, running even a little slower could mean the difference between life and death.

There was no helping it. Although Ling Wuyuan had deliberately restrained his destructive power, the scorching heat waves that made their skin tingle still made the White Crow Gang members feel as if they were standing next to a huge furnace, unable to even open their eyes properly.

Only a few dared to turn around to look at the battle between Ling Wuyuan and the others.

In their line of sight.

Due to the strong interference caused by the high temperature, the air near the battlefield was like layers of constantly flowing, invisible water curtains, distorting the surrounding scenery, coupled with the dust that was still flying all over the sky…

Even if they focused their attention and looked over.

The things they could see clearly were still very few.

At most, they could barely see that in the center of the battlefield, there were still several people who had survived and had not been completely annihilated in the blink of an eye.

As the center of everyone's attention.

Ling Wuyuan was now just standing in place with a smile on his lips, holding his sword horizontally in front of him with his right hand, while his left hand gently stroked the blade of the sword.

He could clearly feel that the sword still had an extremely hot temperature.

It was a high temperature of over a thousand degrees.

But this level of temperature would not have any impact on him. At most, it would only make him feel a little warm.

At the same time, his fingers also felt some small nicks on the blade.

Some nicks that were not obvious, but could indeed be clearly felt when touched.

Touching those imperceptible nicks.

Ling Wuyuan's gaze looked straight ahead.

There, Ling Zhengfei was standing a little disheveled.

Although he didn't have any fatal injuries.

His clothes had become beggar's clothes.

Moreover, a large number of burn marks and wounds, large and small, were densely presented on his body.

Making him look even more downcast than a beggar.

Due to forcibly increasing his speed to take many of Ling Wuyuan's attacks earlier.

He had quickly consumed a lot of physical strength in a very short period of time.

This made him a little breathless.

However.

The long sword in Ling Zhengfei's hand was still intact.

The reason for this, in addition to the slightly inferior quality of the long sword in Ling Wuyuan's hand, the most important reason was the airflow that was tightly wrapped around the surface of the long sword.

The existence of those airflows greatly enhanced the sharpness, strength, and impact resistance of the sword in Ling Zhengfei's hand.

If Ling Wuyuan hadn't relied on his skills to deflect most of the opponent's destructive force and hadn't forcibly confronted him head-on, the sword in Ling Zhengfei's hand could have even completely broken the sword in his hand, instead of just leaving some nicks.

“This is [True Qi]?”

Looking at the invisible airflow still wrapped around the opponent's sword, Ling Wuyuan smiled with a bit of curiosity and sighed:

“Hmm… it’s been really a few years since I’ve seen it…”

The so-called [True Qi], in Ling Wuyuan's cognition, is actually a bit similar to the [Internal Force] that Ling Wuyuan often saw in various martial arts TV dramas in his previous life. It is a higher-level energy transformed from [Qi and Blood]. It can not only strengthen physical fitness, but also serve as fuel at critical moments, allowing the user to burst out with greater strength and speed in a short period of time. It can even be wrapped around weapons to increase the actual effect of the weapons and wrapped around the body to increase one's own defense.

In other words.

This is a relatively practical energy.

It can fight and resist, and the effect is very versatile.

And the name of the [Qi Nourishing Realm] comes from the fact that cultivators in this realm will gradually transform the [Qi and Blood] in their bodies into [True Qi] and cultivate and accumulate it.

As for why Ling Wuyuan said that he hadn't seen [True Qi] for several years, it was because he had briefly fought against the [Qi Nourishing Realm] a long time ago and achieved victory.

And that fight was the first time he went hunting.

At that time.

In the last person of the equipment-dropping trio, he saw a thin layer of airflow wrapped around the weapon in the opponent's hand.

Moreover, during the fight, the other party did indeed easily cut off Ling Wuyuan's fine long sword.

It's just that.

The opponent at that time was too weak…

Furthermore.

Ling Wuyuan didn't intend to confront him head-on at all.

The so-called long sword was just a tool for feint attacks.

His real idea from the beginning was to rely on the dagger hidden in his sleeve to carry out a surprise attack.

And from the results.

Ling Wuyuan undoubtedly made the most correct choice.

If he really had to confront him head-on.

Facing a weapon wrapped in [True Qi], he would probably be solved together with his sword…

Now.

Recalling the scene at that time.

Ling Wuyuan felt even more clear about many things in his heart.

That guy who was personally solved by him should have been in the great stimulation of the edge of life and death when he was continuously bled, and he was lucky enough to break through his own limits and successfully advanced from the [Strong Viscera Realm] to the [Qi Nourishing Realm].

But… things were already too late.

Most of the blood in his body was lost, his body was full of wounds, and one of his legs was crippled… All of these were factors that could affect the outcome.

There is no such thing in reality as instantly having full health and mana after advancing.

The remaining health is still the remaining health…

At most, it can only be half-dead and barely survive.

Therefore.

Even if he was lucky enough to break through the realm between life and death, that person still had to face many predicaments, and even did not have much [Qi and Blood] that could be converted into [True Qi]. He had skills but no mana to use, and he could not even wrap [True Qi] around his body to increase his defense. He could only be disemboweled on the spot by Ling Wuyuan using a dagger.

[It was not easy to break through to this realm between life and death… ]

Recalling the last sentence that the other party said before his death.

That sentence full of unwillingness and helplessness…

At the beginning, Ling Wuyuan was a little unclear and did not know that the other party was already in the [Qi Nourishing Realm].

But now, recalling it, Ling Wuyuan also felt a bit of pity in his heart.

He had just arrived at the dream realm, but death followed closely behind.

However, the world has always been so cruel and ruthless.

So… sure enough, compared to making myself feel unwilling and helpless, it is most practical to make others feel unwilling and helpless…

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Surprise!

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