The Primaltwin Shakes the Battlefield

The black-robed Ji Ning stood there, surrounded by over two hundred flying swords of the Heaven-rank. The sword-intent that permeated the entire Blooddisk Heaven-Sealing Formation was utterly astonishing. Anyone could sense the terrifying power contained within this ‘black-robed Ji Ning’. And given that Ji Ning’s true body had suddenly vanished earlier, everyone present could guess—

The black-robed Ji Ning was his Primaltwin!

“A Primaltwin! And Ji Ning has only been cultivating for thirty years.” Shock and disbelief filled Xiao Lang’s eyes. “He’s only been cultivating for thirty years, and he already has a Primaltwin? He dared to split his soul like that? Isn’t he afraid of dying?”

“This Primaltwin is incredibly powerful. All those flying swords seem to be Heaven-ranked treasures. I heard that Ji Ning purchased several hundred Heaven-ranked top-grade flying swords at the Heavenly Treasures Mountain headquarters. So this is what they were for. Given Ji Ning’s wealth, he’s probably already trained this Primaltwin up to the peak of the Primal stage in one go.” Keshui Xiaolou sighed inwardly in amazement. “Being able to control over two hundred Heaven-ranked treasures simultaneously gives him the combat power of a Loose Immortal. And his true body has vanished too. He must have entered a portable grotto. A portable grotto is extremely valuable. Just how much wealth does this Ji Ning have? Did he obtain some massive harvest from the Wujiang Immortal Estate?”

Even Shaoyan Nong didn’t have a portable grotto, yet Ji Ning did.

Keshui Xiaolou assumed that Ji Ning had gained more from the ‘Wujiang Immortal Estate’. She didn’t know that the portable grotto was a free gift from the Yellow Bear, the artifact spirit of the aquatic manor.

“Impressive.” Tiannong Yan stared fixedly at the formation.

“With such strength, and with Xiao Lang’s provocations earlier, he didn’t even bother to react. He can really control his temper.” The Wavegrace Fairy also sighed in admiration.

They all surmised that Ji Ning’s true body must have hidden itself inside a portable grotto. A portable grotto could indeed hide a person. However, regardless of how things went, at least one of Ji Ning’s bodies—the true body or the Primaltwin—had to remain outside. If both hid inside the grotto, the grotto itself would become manifest.

Portable grottos generally didn’t have very strong defensive capabilities. An enemy could forcibly seize one and toss it into the void ‘outside the Three Realms’, which would mean certain death for the person inside.

A place like the ‘Wujiang Immortal Estate’ couldn’t be moved, which was why it could be constructed to be as sturdy as a sect’s mountain gate, with extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Portable grottos, by contrast, were generally quite weak.

One had to choose between strong defensive combat power and portability... it was usually an either/or decision. Unless it was something like the ‘aquatic manor’, which was a masterpiece created by the Primordial Chaos Fiendgod ‘Daoist Threelives’ before the universe was even formed, built with all his heart and soul to find a successor. It could be carried once one reached the Primal level, and its defenses were also incredibly strong. The value of such a treasure far surpassed that of Pure Yang treasures, which was why it was so exceptional.

Normal grottos, however, followed the usual rules.

Portability and defensive power could not both be had.

“If both my true body and Primaltwin hide inside the aquatic manor, and the Loose Immortals sent by the Shaoyan clan launch a fierce assault, the secret of the aquatic manor might be exposed.” Ji Ning absolutely could not allow that to happen. “Besides, my Primaltwin has already reached the peak Primal stage. In terms of raw foundation, he’s only a single major realm weaker. It’s not an insurmountable gap.”

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“A Primaltwin! Ancestor Xuanji, you’ve doomed me!” The Floating Cloud Immortal wailed in his heart, but then madness filled his eyes. “I have no way back. It’s either this Ji Ning’s death or mine.”

“I refuse to believe that I, who have bitterly cultivated for over a hundred thousand years, am no match for a child who has only trained for thirty years!”

His thoughts moved as fast as lightning. In truth, after setting up the Blooddisk Heaven-Sealing Formation and seeing Ji Ning’s Primaltwin, the Floating Cloud Immortal was stunned for only a brief moment before immediately executing his most powerful attack.

“Heaven!”

“Earth!”

“Man!”

The Floating Cloud Immortal let out a roar, his face instantly turning bright red. He was now completely disregarding the consequences, directly unleashing a forbidden art. Within his body, the core Golden Lotus Primal energy core erupted with even greater Yuan power. The three flying swords before him, which faintly formed a diagram-formation, suddenly surged in power. The formation diagram became almost corporeal, vast and seemingly capable of holding the entire cosmos. Within the diagram, one could faintly make out swirling clouds and mist.

“KILL!!!” The Floating Cloud Immortal directly unleashed his ultimate killing technique.

He had no time to waste. Outside, the thirty-six Loose Immortals of the Minshui clan were furiously assaulting his ‘Blooddisk Heaven-Sealing Formation’. Once the formation was breached, facing those thirty-six Loose Immortals, all clad in Immortal-ranked Dao-soldier armor, he would probably be dead in a single exchange. Naturally, he had to make the most of every moment.

Huummm~~~

The three Heaven-ranked top-grade flying swords, ‘Heaven’, ‘Earth’, and ‘Man’, surrounded by their formation diagram and carrying the very might of Heaven and Earth themselves, came sweeping forward in an overwhelming tide of power.

This was the strategy of crushing an opponent with sheer force!

“Hmph.” The black-robed Ji Ning, standing in the distance, was not a single bit slower than the Floating Cloud Immortal. He had already activated the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation. Led by the nine Bishui Sharksword flying swords, the power of the over two hundred Heaven-ranked flying swords was channeled through the ‘Lesser Thousand Sword Formation’, converging in front of Ji Ning into a single flying sword wreathed in golden light.

“In terms of Yuan power, I am indeed one major realm lower.”

“But in terms of the Dao, I have comprehended the ‘Grand Dao Domain’ of the Sword Dao and the Rainwater Dao, and I have already fused the two into one. And as a Sword Immortal, I specialize in offense.”

“In terms of my treasure-formation, mine is the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation. Your ‘Three Talents of Heaven, Earth, and Man’ formation is clearly not nearly as exquisite. This is the technique of the Thousand Sword Immortal, the great enemy that even Celestial Immortal Juhua could never forget, a technique praised even by the artifact spirit of the aquatic manor. And you? You were sent here by the Shaoyan clan to be a dead soldier. Your status among their many Loose Immortals is probably not very high. You are far inferior to the Thousand Sword Immortal or Celestial Immortal Juhua.”

“In terms of flying swords, the Bishui Sharkswords come from the aquatic manor, far superior to your three swords, and I have nine of them. In terms of numbers, I have over two hundred flying swords.”

“I refuse to believe I cannot win!”

A cold light flickered in black-robed Ji Ning’s eyes, his murderous aura soaring to the heavens.

The two men, one in white and one in black, faced each other from a distance.

“BOOM!” “BOOM!”

The three flying swords, carrying their massive formation diagram, rumbled forward.

The flying sword wreathed in golden light, however, shot through the air in an instant, carrying a heart-palpitating sharpness… and collided head-on with the massive formation diagram.

“BOOOOOOM~~~” A massive tremor shook the area. Primal energy exploded, and space twisted.

The three flying swords were sent flying backward several zhang, and the cloud-wreathed formation diagram was covered in numerous cracks.

Ji Ning’s golden sword-light, however, shattered and dissolved into nothingness.

“Again.” The black-robed Ji Ning let out a cold laugh. The over two hundred flying swords around him undulated, and a massive amount of sword-qi gathered before his chest, once more coalescing into a flying sword wreathed in golden light.

“How is this possible? He… he blocked it?” A chill ran through the Floating Cloud Immortal’s heart, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head on a frigid winter’s day. Even his soul felt frozen. He had a premonition that he was going to lose. He had used his forbidden arts and his ultimate killing technique, and yet his opponent had met him head-on and blocked him.

A head-on collision was the most honest, the best way to gauge an opponent’s true strength.

“His Primaltwin possesses the combat power of a top-tier Loose Immortal.” The Floating Cloud Immortal understood. “This is what a true genius is. His Primaltwin is probably only at the peak Primal stage. He’s only been cultivating for thirty years, yet he’s already comprehended the ‘Grand Dao Domain’. His Dao insights are already on par with mine. And his flying sword formation is clearly unfathomably profound, making his overall power no weaker than mine.”

“Am I, Floating Cloud, going to die here?” Despair only lasted an instant within the Floating Cloud Immortal. Over a hundred thousand years of cultivation had taught him not to give up easily.

“If crushing with force fails, I’ll rely on technique, on speed, on other secret arts.” The Floating Cloud Immortal went completely wild. He strained every nerve, struggling desperately, trying to kill Ji Ning.

Whoosh!

Instantly, the entire Blooddisk Heaven-Sealing Formation was filled with white mist. The mist was so thick that even divine sense could not penetrate it. This was the Floating Cloud Immortal’s most powerful support secret art, ‘Mist Concealing the Heavens’. However, using this art consumed a great deal of mental energy, preventing his flying swords from reaching their peak state.

“I can’t see anything anymore!” Xiao Lang, whose eyes were already red from staring so intently, immediately grew anxious. “There’s nothing but fog. I can’t see a thing!”

“Fog? This fog has to be able to block divine sense, otherwise that dead soldier wouldn’t have used it.” Keshui Xiaolou pondered. “Among the many Loose Immortals of the Shaoyan clan, the one who is about to collapse from the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations and is capable of using this kind of fog… could it be the Floating Cloud Loose Immortal?”

True Immortal Heavenly Patriarchs were truly immortal. They could only die in battle, and so they generally lived for an extremely, extremely long time. Over the long years, it was hard to say how many Heavenly Patriarchs each tribe had alive at any given time.

Loose Immortals were different.

A Loose Immortal who lived a few million years was already very impressive, like Celestial Immortal Juhua. Thus, the Loose Immortals and Earth Immortals of each tribe… could generally be accounted for. At the very least, Keshui Xiaolou was very familiar with most of the Loose Immortals and Earth Immortals of her tribe’s mortal enemy, the ‘Shaoyan clan’.

“That Ji Ning is formidable. His Primaltwin definitely has the strength of a top-tier Loose Immortal. And as a Sword Immortal, he can hold his own in a head-on clash against that Loose Immortal dead soldier.” Tiannong Quge thought to himself. “But now that this mist has been deployed, Ji Ning is completely blind. This could be dangerous for him.”

“Attack.”

The thirty-six Loose Immortals, having merged into a giant black serpent with the power of a Celestial Immortal, once again slammed into the Blooddisk Heaven-Sealing Formation. They had already attacked a total of eight times. Many of the countless blood vessels within the formation had shattered. However, the golden heart at its core was frantically pumping out blood, forming new blood vessels in a desperate effort to sustain the formation. Yet, it could be seen that cracks were beginning to appear on the surface of the golden heart. The attacks from the thirty-six Loose Immortals were simply too powerful.

Inside the formation.

Mist was everywhere.

“Grand Dao Domain!”

“Water-Fire Lotus!”

“Self-Created World!”

The black-robed Ji Ning stood there. Faced with this technique that blocked divine sense, he finally unleashed a ‘defensive art’ he had comprehended within the aquatic manor over the past year or so. One had to understand that Ki Refining cultivators had frail bodies, so they generally studied defensive arts to prevent enemies from easily touching their physical forms. Ji Ning naturally had to make provisions for his Primaltwin. Guided by the artifact spirit of the aquatic manor, Ji Ning had, based on his ‘Heavenly Dao Domain’, ‘Water-Fire Lotus’, and ‘Self-Created World’, created a powerful defensive art which he named ‘Lotus Sword World’!