Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 156: Blood clones

Just as they were thinking, they saw the devil cultivator move, he was holding a blood-red short sword in his hands.

Ming Yue didn’t dodge or use any of her abilities to stop her enemy. She decided to take the attack head-on. The devil smirked when he understood her intentions.

He increased his strength, making sure that he could break her bones if she dared to take his attack directly.

His attack was a simple slash aimed at her mask. Ming Yue brought her sword slowly in front of her like she didn’t even care about putting more effort for blocking the incoming attack it.

Shinggggg!

The clash between the two swords created a tearing sound.

The devil was shocked instantly, his full-force attack hadn’t even made Ming Yue flinch, much less break her bones.

He looked at Ming Yue in trepidation now. The moment his sword clashed with hers, it felt like he had struck some unbreakable pillar.

He was also stunned by the quality of the sword Ming Yue was holding, it was a perfect-tier, peak-stage Grade 5 sword.

He gritted his teeth and backed off immediately.

The others who were following Jiang Hao flinched upon seeing the outcome. Their thoughts initially weren’t any different from the devil’s. The outcome of a frontal attack from a peak-stage Soul Sea realm cultivator on an early-stage Soul Sea realm cultivator wasn’t hard to predict.

But this was beyond their imagination. What shocked them the most was that this woman hadn’t used any kind of ability to withstand the attack, it was pure brute strength.

They couldn’t help but glance at Jiang Hao, who was still walking slowly without even paying attention to them.

Now they were having second thoughts. There was definitely something wrong with these two.

Were these two suppressing their cultivation realms? It was a possibility. There was no rule that one could not, but why?

"Aren’t you too strong for a woman?"

Although the devil cultivator had asked a question, it was only to distract Ming Yue. A soul attack was released by the devil cultivator.

Using a distraction to make the enemy not react in time to a soul attack was a common tactic. Soul attacks were very fast. There were three ways to counter a soul attack.

First, you could be fast enough to dodge it. Second, you could retaliate with your own attack. And third, you could use spiritual qi to create a barrier.

The first was the safest option, because if your spiritual qi was weaker than your opponent’s, then you would definitely be harmed using the other methods, unless your soul ability was of a higher grade than your opponent’s.

Ming Yue smiled slightly upon seeing the dark blood arrow coming toward her. No matter where it hit her body, it would enter her soul sea.

She didn’t dodge and didn’t even retaliate, she let it enter her soul sea.

The blood arrow entered her illusory soul sea. Seeing this, the devil’s eyes lit up, this meant he had pierced through Ming Yue’s spiritual barrier.

But before he could make a move to maximize his advantage, he coughed up blood from his mouth.

Every soul attack carried a small imprint of your soul. If it was destroyed by your enemy, then you would definitely feel a backlash.

This was the reason why soul attacks were generally never used unless one had full confidence or no other choice against the opponent.

He didn’t know what had happened to his blood arrow inside Ming Yue’s soul sea, but it had definitely been destroyed instantly.

Just as he came out of his dizziness, he saw a blue flame floating in front of him. It was too close, if it wanted to, it could have easily touched him, but it didn’t.

It was as if the flame was mocking him. The flame wasn’t hot. In fact, he felt coldness radiating from it. He moved backward, but the flame followed him easily.

He gritted his teeth and burned his blood essence to increase his blood qi. This increased his speed and strength beyond his original limit.

Burning blood essence to increase blood qi was not uncommon. Any cultivator could do it, but some cultivation techniques had utilized this method to create a technique in itself. novelbuddy.cσ๓

This increased the efficiency and effectiveness.

He looked at Ming Yue and said,

"You should have finished me when you had the upper hand, you wretch... now you are dead."

The devil cultivator suddenly became completely covered in blood qi before splitting into three, at least that was how many Ming Yue could see from her perspective.

Those who were on the sides could see four, one was completely behind the others.

They all looked identical to the devil cultivator, so determining who was real wasn’t possible with the naked eye alone, unless she used her spirit sense she wouldn’t notice, and she wasn’t using it right now.

Although if it was Jiang Hao in place of her than he could easily senses who the real one was with his instinct.

After all four forms completed perfectly, three of them attacked Ming Yue while the fourth, which had been hiding behind the middle one, moved backward with tremendous speed, so fast that he almost reached the level of a Nascent Soul cultivator in speed.

The reason was that he had burned more of his blood essence for this short burst of speed to escape.

The moment his two attacks failed, he already understood that he could not win against Ming Yue, so he used his last skill to flee toward the safe pathway.

At least, that’s what he thought. But how could Jiang Hao let him go?

Just as the devil cultivator was about to enter the safe pathway, Jiang Hao appeared in front of him. He didn’t want to kill the devil, so he merely placed his hand on him.

But the devil cultivator’s speed was too high, his chest caved in immediately, and the devil was thrown to the ground, blood gushing from his mouth uncontrollably.

Ming Yue was surprised when she saw that, everything had happened in a single breath. She had just finished all three clones, which were mere illusions with no real strength. She had truly been fooled here.

Well, she had never seen this technique before, and because it used the cultivator’s own blood, it was extremely difficult to discern which one was real. She accepted this calmly.

"Thank you, junior brother. I really got fooled there."

She arrived near the devil and Jiang Hao, then looked down at the former.

"And here I thought you were creating so much ruckus to make this fight more enjoyable, but all that acting, only to escape like the coward you are. Nothing can be expected from you devilish cultivators anyway, I suppose."

She created another soul flame and dropped it on the devil cultivator, who wasn’t even in a condition to speak, much less move.

After his death, Ming Yue didn’t pick up the storage bag, as she didn’t expect anything worthwhile from it anyway, but Jiang Hao didn’t mind and picked it up.

On the other hand, Ming Yue looked toward the other group of people who had been following Jiang Hao. They had come out of the safe pathway, and when Jiang Hao disappeared and reappeared in front of the devil cultivator, they were shocked to their core.

They knew that, by following Jiang Hao and Ming Yue out of greed, they had made the worst decision of their lives.

Thinking of returning to the safe zone was impossible, Jiang Hao had stopped the devil cultivator at the very edge, and now he was standing there.

And with Ming Yue also having arrived, it was even more impossible to flee.

There was only one path left, run.

The group from the same clan were the first to run, and when the others saw it, they too began to run in different directions.

Jiang Hao didn’t even look toward them, but Ming Yue wasn’t going to let them leave so easily. Multiple icicles were created out of thin air and shot toward the fleeing cultivators. The speed of the icicles was far greater than that of the cultivators, so there was no suspense of what happened next.

Those who ran late were hit first. They weren’t just skewered by the icicles, their entire bodies froze like sculptures.

In only two breaths, all were dead, including the group from the same clan.

Jiang Hao looked inside the storage bag. Interestingly, there wasn’t any part of a human cultivator inside it. There were a few spirit stones, weapons, a cultivation technique, and some pill bottles.

Nothing was interesting. He threw everything out and kept only the spirit stones. The escape technique looked quite effective, but he didn’t need it. It was only an Earth-grade technique in the end.

And those who could truly force him to escape wouldn’t be fooled by it anyway.

"Let’s go, junior brother. Collecting all those storage bags doesn’t seem worth the time."

Jiang Hao nodded, and they teleported toward the 8th level.

It was time to see what their enemies had prepared for them.

If they were as incompetent as those in the Core Formation realm, it wouldn’t be fun.

Jiang Hao truly wanted a good fight. There had been no hope of that happening at the Core Formation realm, but here, there might be a slight chance, if they had something worthwhile to back them.

They came to the first city, but there was no one in this city from those sects. This time, Jiang Hao didn’t want Ming Yue to create a ruckus, so he directly teleported them to the next city.

They kept going until they reached the central city of this level.

They didn’t need to enter the city to know whether cultivators from those sects were present or not, some were already on the safe pathway itself.