Chapter 216: Unparalleled | Infinite | Setting Off Again

Ning Feiliu's cultivation is stronger than Dugu Yan's, so he was still able to react in time.

However, since he was facing Dugu Yan after all, the move he made upon reacting was not a counterattack, but rather a dodge followed by creating distance.

Then, the Crescent Moon King Sword in his hand struck toward Dugu Yan once more.

Because of the length advantage of the Crescent Moon King Sword, although Ning Feiliu's speed was a bit slower than when using other Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, he struck first by arriving later, directly hitting Dugu Yan's delicate body.

Dugu Yan had no choice but to stop at this moment. In truth, Ning Feiliu did not strike very hard; after all, this was just an ordinary, simple sparring session, and now that the winner had been simply decided, they could stop for the time being.

"I really don't feel used to your way of attacking with a sword yet," she said at this time. "You still need to keep practicing."

Ning Feiliu nodded. "Yes, I don't feel proficient enough yet, but the Crescent Moon King Sword is easier to use than I imagined."

Fighting with the Crescent Moon King Sword was a different experience from when he used the Crescent Moon Divine Weapons before.

Previously, Ning Feiliu's five Crescent Moon Divine Weapons could generally be divided into two combat styles: one was purely long-range, using Calibrum, Severum, and Infernum as the primary weapons for long-range attacks.

Although when using these three Crescent Moon Divine Weapons as primary weapons, Ning Feiliu would not truly turn into a marksman like in a game, with extremely low melee and defensive capabilities.

After all, games require balancing mechanisms; it is impossible to have a hero with high damage, long reach, and a sturdy melee build.

But in the real world, there are no designers to adjust Ning Feiliu for balance or nerf him.

When Ning Feiliu uses these three Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, his melee and defensive capabilities remain impressive, especially when using Gravitum, as he gains a defensive bonus.

But ultimately, one of the advantages of these three Crescent Moon Divine Weapons is their ultra-long range as ranged weapons.

There is no need for Ning Feiliu to waste their long-range advantage to actively engage in close-quarters combat with enemies.

It's just that he wouldn't be overly afraid if he were closed in on by an enemy.

And besides the long-range combat style using Calibrum, Gravitum, and Infernum as primary weapons, there is another combat style.

That, naturally, is the melee berserker combat style using Crescendum and Severum as primary weapons.

The combination of the red and white blades goes without saying; close quarters allow Ning Feiliu's aggressiveness to nearly double, so when using these two Crescent Moon Divine Weapons as primary weapons, his combat style is primarily melee.

Of course, as I said before, while Ning Feiliu is at his strongest in melee when using these two Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, it doesn't mean he cannot perform long-range attacks.

However, both of these combat styles of Ning Feiliu actually have one characteristic: they are too extreme.

One requires keeping a great distance for long-range, while the other is so close in melee that it's like licking blood off a blade.

Especially under the attack mode using Crescendum and Severum as primary weapons.

In the novels of Ning Feiliu's past life, there was a very common saying about various cold weapons: one inch longer is one inch stronger, one inch shorter is one inch riskier.

Long weapons, taking the Six Harmonies Great Spear or Miao Dao as examples, can often seize the initiative and occupy the upper hand in battles and duels.

And short weapons known for their adventurous nature, such as daggers, bayonets, or even sleeve swords, are adept at unorthodox surprise attacks.

That is to say, one must get close to exert their advantage, then kill with a single blow! But one is also extremely at risk; first, limited by the flaws of the weapon, it is difficult to get close to the opponent, as the opponent can attack you from a meter or two away.

And you need to quickly close the distance to less than half a meter before you can start attacking.

That, of course, means you cannot seize the initiative.

Secondly, while you can attack others, they can actually attack you too.

Therefore, fighting with short weapons carries extremely high risk.

Fortunately, however, Ning Feiliu's melee combat can be said to have rewards that outweigh the risks, as the "flying wheel sea" replicated by Crescendum in close combat poses a greater threat to the enemy than the risk Ning Feiliu himself faces.

And the attack style of the new Crescent Moon Divine Weapon—the Crescent Moon King Sword—differs from the two combat styles mentioned above; it is instead a "compromise," and can be considered to have fused some of the advantages and disadvantages of both combat styles.

The Crescent Moon King Sword has the appearance of a long weapon, so although it falls within the scope of "cold weapons," its attack range is not small.

Most importantly, it also has a sword Qi attack mode.

Ning Feiliu just didn't use it earlier.

Moreover, the advantage of a long weapon was just demonstrated; although the speed was slower, because the length of the Crescent Moon King Sword is there, just swinging it once can hit enemies within the attack range.

It has the thrill of a long-ranged top-laner hitting a short-ranged one, but not the thrill of a marksman hitting a short-ranged one; it is more like the feeling of Viego or Gwen playing top lane upon their debut, using a 225-unit attack range to kite an opponent's 150-unit attack range warrior.

The thrill of being able to attack the enemy with a bit of technique while the enemy is kited by you and cannot hit you.

It is a different combat style than using Crescendum or Severum.

Although the combat style is still melee, just like when using Crescendum and Severum.

"Not proficient enough... Senior Sword Douluo also uses a sword; you can ask him for advice when the time comes, Feiliu," Dugu Yan said at this time.

However, Ning Feiliu shook his head and said with a smile, "No need."

Because...

Before his eyes, two lines of small text that only he could see automatically appeared—

【Swing the sword ten thousand times to gain two years of Fiora Laurent's sword path experience.】

【Use the sword to protect the weak and kind one hundred times to gain two years of Master Yi's sword technique experience.】

Once again... experience bestowed by two heroes from the Valoran Continent.

Ning Feiliu was long since accustomed to this; his ability could always provide him with the best help according to his wishes.

In fact, Weapon Master Jax also has combat experience using blades and swords, but there is a specialty in every trade; in terms of sword path and sword technique, Jax might be stronger than Fervent Sword Fiora, but he might not necessarily compare to Master Yi, the Master Yi.

Yi is, after all... a sword path powerhouse who could fight against the Darkin in his backstory.

His attainments in sword technique might well be the undisputed number one on the Rune Continent! As for Sword Douluo...

Ning Feiliu does not look down on this Title Douluo powerhouse who uses the sword as his title, but in the fantasy sewer that is the Douluo Continent, he has not displayed his own unique understanding of the sword path, nor has he created a sword path soul skill powerful enough to surpass his own soul skills. If he had created self-created spirit skills like Tang Chen, such as the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, and the Great Sumeru Hammer, which are powerful enough to rival soul ring soul skills, then Sword Douluo might really have some tricks up his sleeve and be comparable to the sword path powerhouses from the Rune Continent.

But unfortunately, he does not.

Whether in the original plot or the Sword Douluo's own strength and information that Ning Feiliu has come into contact with now, Sword Douluo has no self-created spirit skills; he is purely famous for the Seven Kill Sword and his soul ring soul skills.

His attainments in the sword path, looking at it this way, are just so-so.

But then again, the general environment of the Douluo Continent is like this; the group of people who can come up with self-created spirit skills are the ones with the top-tier comprehension in this world, and others, even if they are Title Douluo, do not have the energy to bother with such thoughts.

Moreover, for Ning Feiliu to go and ask Sword Douluo for advice would be seeking far for what is near.

His own cheat ability is easy to use, and it directly increases experience and knowledge through divine enlightenment; why would he need to go through the trouble of asking Sword Douluo?

However, after this, when Ning Feiliu returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he did not hide this matter from Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, or Bone Douluo.

Consequently, Sword Douluo instead volunteered to impart quite a bit of experience to Ning Feiliu, with the implication of treating him as a successor.

Ning Feiliu could only accept it all with a wry smile, while simultaneously beginning to draw inferences about other cases based on the sword path experience he had already obtained from the Fiora.

At that moment, Sword Douluo became even more excited.

Good! I never expected that Ning Feiliu would truly be a peerless genius of the sword path.

Or rather... with Ning Feiliu's comprehension, as long as his talent was brought up and he became a Battle Soul Master, then no matter what he learned, he would be a peerless genius! At any rate, in the eyes of Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo, that was how they viewed Ning Feiliu.

Little did they know, Ning Feiliu was simply a cheater.

And now.

Ning Feiliu looked at the two newly appeared series of missions and said to Dugu Yan with a smile, "Sister Yan, please continue to accompany me in practicing a bit more."

Dugu Yan naturally would not refuse his request, nodding as she said, "Alright! But for this next period of time, you must properly accompany me to drink and have a good time."

Ning Feiliu chuckled and said, "Of course, no problem."

Then the two of them kept sparring with each other like this; in the process of several days of training, the number of times Ning Feiliu swung his sword gradually exceeded ten thousand.

While obtaining the Fiora's sword path experience, his mission requirements had also increased or even changed, but these mission rewards remained unchanged.

And in the process of his sword path experience growing, after Ning Feiliu had stayed in Heaven Dou City for two months, he requested Ning Fengzhi's help again to re-acquire a second Soul Ring of the ten-thousand-year level.

This way, all of his current Soul Rings would reach the ten-thousand-year level or above.

And after finishing the acquisition of the new ten-thousand-year level second Soul Ring, he went directly to find the exit near the Bei Jing of the Douluo Continent to go out and once again travel the remaining parts of the Bei Jing.

At the same time, this time, Ning Feiliu felt there was no need to have Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo or Bone Douluo accompany him.

After all, the source of his second Soul Ring was a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake; even a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake of over forty thousand years did not require the mobilization of combat power above a Title Douluo to help.

Ning Fengzhi was also persuaded, directly letting Ning Feiliu take the Elders and disciples directly under his Wuliu Pavilion to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the Soul Ring.

This time, before preparing to set off again, Ning Feiliu specifically said goodbye to Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, his elder brother Ning Mingrui, and several brothers.

He first said goodbye to Ye Lingling the day before, and then said goodbye to Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo when he was about to set off.

"Teacher, Sister Yan, I am leaving." Ning Feiliu, surrounded by twenty Elders and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, said goodbye to the Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo before him.

Having experienced one separation, Dugu Yan was actually much more relaxed this time.

Because last time Ning Feiliu left to go out for training, although it took a bit longer, he still returned unscathed.

So she was much more at ease.

However, she still said, "You must be careful outside! Remember to be restrained; don't be too cocky and provoke people who are narrow-minded and much stronger than you."

Ning Feiliu smiled helplessly and responded, "Am I that kind of cocky person in Sister Yan's eyes? And don't worry, I might not be able to beat many people, but I can still run."

With his current level 52 soul power, the amplification effect of his all-ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, plus Presence of Mind and the incomplete Resurrection Rune, the key was that the experience he had accumulated from Jax, Sett, and Fiora was also quite rich.

It could be said that at this moment, even if a Soul Saint were in front of him, he would have the power to fight.

However, considering that a Soul Saint with a Martial Soul True Body would have a clear watershed in combat power, Ning Feiliu estimated that he could not beat a Soul Saint who used their Martial Soul True Body.

Spirit Masters have several clear watersheds of combat power, which would make the gap in strength very large.

Those are the five realms of Spirit Master, Soul Elder, Soul King, Soul Saint, and Title Douluo; it can be said that the further one goes, the greater the gap in combat power between those who have reached a watershed and those who have not.

A Spirit Master compared to a Soul Scholar has one more powerful skill due to a Soul Ring, which counts as a small watershed in the early stages, but if one has an advantage in martial soul quality, restraint relationships, and combat techniques, it can still be easily made up for.

A Soul Elder compared to a Great Soul Master has one more thousand-year soul skill, which will also highlight a clear gap in combat power between the two sides, but it can still be made up for.

The Soul King is also like this; having one more ten-thousand-year soul skill makes the gap more obvious than having one more thousand-year soul skill, but the gap in combat power can still be made up for by martial soul quality, restraint relationships, and combat techniques.

By the time one reaches a Soul Saint... then I'm afraid it's a bit difficult, because the Soul Ring at this level must be a Martial Soul True Body; this soul skill that reveals the true form of the martial soul is not something that can be easily made up for.

If Ning Feiliu were at the Soul Emperor realm, with many abilities and Rune enhancements, he would not be afraid of a Soul Saint using their Martial Soul True Body at all.

But he is currently at the Soul King realm... and to fight a Soul Saint who possesses a Martial Soul True Body across two major realms.

That is, of course, impossible.

As for the final Title Douluo, it goes without saying; unless it is like Tang San in the original plot using the Seagod Trident to ambush Gui Douluo, who was extremely restrained by the Seagod Trident, otherwise, even someone like Dugu Bo, the weakest Title Douluo, could easily handle a Soul Douluo.

Dugu Bo naturally did not know that Ning Feiliu was complaining in his heart at this moment that he was the theoretically weakest Title Douluo.

Looking at Ning Feiliu at this time, he snorted coldly and said, "You brat are clever; Yanyan, you don't need to worry about him too much, but brat! If you encounter trouble outside, just reveal your identity. I don't believe anyone would dare to touch a student of mine, Dugu Bo, and you are also a disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect whose father is the current Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"

(End of this chapter)