After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 150 - The First Battle

“I heard you were once a peerless genius, but you ruined your own future to save a group of ordinary people.”

Mo Dan sighed softly, “What a pity, I heard you had three-patterned heavenly dao Golden Core on you. Looks like I won’t be able to taste it.”

“So sure you’ve got me all figured out?”

Jiang Huai was already silently reciting, using the two remaining advanced experience scrolls on his body, as well as several low-grade experience scrolls. His cultivation level almost instantly reached the late great perfection stage of Nascent Soul.

The system’s experience scrolls directly infused spiritual energy into his body. His body was now like a worn-out bucket, unable to hold water, but the cultivation level provided by the experience scrolls could be maintained for the duration of an incense stick without any problem.

“Late Nascent Soul stage?”

Mo Dan noticed the change in his cultivation level but just smiled indifferently, “So what?”

He gently placed his hand on his chest, and moments later, he was tightly holding a pale Gu sword. It was at that instant Jiang Huai activated Mirror Flower.

As Mirror Flower enveloped Mo Dan, Jiang Huai suffered a backlash. His soul felt as if it had been pierced by a spike, causing him to break out in a cold sweat, his vision blurring slightly. Clearly, Mo Dan’s soul cultivation was far superior to his, and Mirror Flower could only delay him for a short time. Jiang Huai held his breath, gripped the Ye Ning sword in his hand, and began to search for Mo Dan’s vital point.

With his current level of cultivation, he only had the chance to strike twice.

For the first strike, he chose to use Silver Radiance, a sword technique of Chu Xianning, which focused on extreme speed. He had mastered the sword intent of Silver Radiance long ago. He hid within Mirror Flower, while Mo Dan stood still, speaking indifferently,

“A soul technique to obscure perception?”

Mo Dan murmured to himself, then suddenly chuckled. His body moved, turning into a dark shadow, and he struck at a certain point in the void,

“Not a bad technique, but it’s a pity your soul is too weak, still revealing a flaw in your aura.”

As he spoke, his swordplay suddenly shifted. The sword that was supposed to slash in front of him swept behind him instead, stabbing straight at Jiang Huai’s abdomen. At that instant, Jiang Huai thrust his sword into Mo Dan’s chest.

The Ye Ning sword was a heavenly-grade spiritual sword, its spirit capable of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Little Ning unleashed all its sword might at that moment, attempting to destroy Mo Dan’s heart meridian in an instant, killing the Gu insects within his body. Jiang Huai gripped the sword tightly, pulling the blade out of Mo Dan’s chest. He stepped back a few paces, blood pouring from his abdomen.

Mo Dan’s face still wore an indifferent smile. He calmly looked down at the wound in his chest. Where his heart should have been, it was now destroyed by the sword’s might, leaving a large hole. But soon, numerous red insects crawled over his chest, filling the wound. He spoke with a smile,

“I know you left that flaw for me. I’ve returned the favor with a sword strike. Do you like it?”

As his words fell, Xu Qing had already activated the Five Elements Absolute Sword Formation under the tree. Five spiritual swords, condensed by the formation, suddenly burst out from the ground, stabbing towards Mo Dan. Mo Dan dodged to the side, then calmly engaged in a fight with the five spiritual swords.

He even had the leisure to speak, “I had the chance just now to drive the sword into your heart.”

Jiang Huai’s arms trembled slightly, and he pressed his lips together, saying nothing.

“But I’d rather you tell me where you’ve hidden that beautiful woman. I like her very much, so... can you please tell me?”

Despite Jiang Huai swallowing the best healing pills at an extremely fast rate, it seemed that Mo Dan’s Gu sword carried some kind of poison that prevented his wounds from healing. Blood had already dyed his white clothes red, and he looked extremely wretched. The spiritual energy in his body was also rapidly depleting. He still had the chance to strike a second time.

If the heart wasn’t his vital point, then where could it be? The head?

Should he gamble on the second strike or use the remaining spiritual energy to flee now... and hide back in the Qingxuan True Person’s secret realm?

Xu Qing’s complexion was as pale as Jiang Huai’s. The Five Elements Absolute Sword Formation seemed unable to delay Mo Dan for much longer. Jiang Huai looked back at the crowd, but they seemed like frozen statues, unsure whether to help or flee.

“Master, don’t be foolish, they won’t help you. Why save them?!”

Xiao Ning’s voice reached Jiang Huai’s mind in an instant, but just as she spoke, a sword cultivator stepped out from the crowd and thrust his spiritual sword towards Mo Dan, who was entangled with the Five Elements Absolute Sword Formation.

With the first person taking action, soon there was a second. More than a hundred cultivators were now wielding their swords, swarming towards Mo Dan like bees. They all used their most powerful techniques, but Mo Dan simply wielded his sword with ease.

In the brief moment he dodged the Five Elements spiritual swords, he had the leisure to throw his sword, cutting off two heads. The sword seemed to brighten slightly as it killed the cultivators.

The sword returned to Mo Dan’s hand, its brightness quickly fading, while Mo Dan’s aura became even more vigorous. The two slain cultivators turned into mummies in an instant.

Such a terrifying scene caused many cultivators to stop their swords, looking for escape routes. But Mo Wanqiu, who had been standing under the tree, now stood up with a smile. She raised her hand, and a purple cauldron suddenly appeared in mid-air, floating high above and creating a thunder pond in the dense forest, preventing anyone... from crossing even half a step.

“No one can leave,” Mo Wanqiu said calmly as she leaped lightly and sat on a rock, crossing her long legs under her cheongsam.

When there was nowhere to flee, the only option left was a desperate fight.

Jiang Huai gripped the hilt of the Ye Ning sword, raised his hand, and once again locked onto Mo Dan’s aura. At that moment, Mo Dan was too busy dealing with the Five Elements Absolute Sword Formation to care about him. But Mo Dan casually struck, and corpses fell before him.

Jiang Huai took a deep breath and played his last card.

Water Moon.

The Ye Ning sword left a crescent-shaped trail in the void, and the blade struck Mo Dan’s head in an instant. Everyone held their breath as the sword split Mo Dan’s head... into two halves, and even continued downward, through the head, neck, chest... as if splitting a log.

Jiang Huai had used up all his strength and leaped back, trying to remind Xu Qing to turn all the power of the Five Elements Absolute Sword Formation into a blazing sword to see if it could burn him to ashes. But before he could speak, Mo Dan’s shattered body turned into countless red insects.

And in that instant, Mo Dan’s bones melted, turning into a pile of blue powder, which then proliferated infinitely, forming another skeleton. The red insects that had formed from his flesh immediately crawled towards the countless red insects, towards the skeleton.

Even as Xu Qing reacted, smashing the skeleton with a blazing sword, the skeleton and the insects remained unharmed under the fire, as if reborn from the flames.

When the red insects covered the skeleton, it twisted and formed Mo Dan’s body again. His cultivation aura was no longer Foundation Establishment but... Void Refining.

The realms of cultivation are divided into Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Divine Transformation, which are the lower five realms.

Void Refining, Unity, Mahayana, and Supreme Sacred are the upper four realms.

Once one steps into Void Refining, there is a world of difference between them and cultivators of the lower five realms. Jiang Huai suddenly reached out and grabbed Xu Qing’s body.

“Let’s go!”

“No... I have to break Mo Wanqiu’s Thundercloud Cauldron... let them escape...”

“It’s useless, they can’t escape... I can only save you... let’s go...!”

Blood gushed from the corners of Jiang Huai’s mouth, his wounds still not healed. Xu Qing was still stubbornly standing there, but in the next instant, Jiang Huai used his last strength to strike one of Xu Qing’s acupoints. Xu Qing’s vision went dark, and she fainted.

In that instant, the Ye Ning sword activated the space within its blade and absorbed both Jiang Huai and Xu Qing. The blade instantly turned into a streak of light, breaking through the Thundercloud Cauldron covered by the Purple Cloud Cauldron, moving so fast it was almost shadowless.

Even as Mo Dan reacted, raising his hand to throw the Gu sword in an attempt to follow the trace of the Ye Ning sword, the millennia-old Ye Ning sword was far faster than the Gu sword, which could not even match a third of its speed, and could only watch as it disappeared into the distance.

Mo Dan was furious, looking at the struggling casual cultivators before him, he casually grabbed one by the neck, and in an instant, that person... turned into a puff of blood mist.

......

The inheritance site of the Qingxuan True Person.

The Ye Ning sword had already flown here, with the Gu sword still not in pursuit. Sensing the aura of the Ye Ning sword, Qingxuan True Person opened the secret realm. The Ye Ning sword flew into it, and Jiang Huai and Xu Qing were released from the sword by the Ye Ning sword spirit.

The chaotic world within the sword was not meant for humans to enter.

It was only with the protection of Ye Ning’s soul power that the two were able to stay inside the sword for a while.

Xu Qing was knocked unconscious by Jiang Huai, and Jiang Huai himself was now slumped on the ground, spitting out large amounts of black blood from his mouth.