Chapter 173: The Ninja's Attack

"Chen Jing, is the other party making any moves in the shadows?" Lingyun's voice suddenly rang out in the mind of Chen Jing, who had been boredly watching Daisy and the other classmates interact.

This sudden voice gave Chen Jing a start, and she was about to turn around to look in Lingyun's direction.

"No need to be so surprised, this is just a little trick called Condensing Sound into a Thread." Just as Chen Jing's body was about to shift, Lingyun's voice sounded once again. "Moreover, you don't need to worry about others discovering my words; given their strength, they aren't capable of that!"

Chen Jing lay on the desk and rolled her eyes in Lingyun's direction; the meaning was obvious: I don't even know how to use Condensing Sound into a Thread, so what is the point of you using this method to talk to me?

"No way, you don't even know a method like Condensing Sound into a Thread?" Lingyun's somewhat surprised voice rang out by Chen Jing's ear.

Chen Jing looked at the teacher walking into the classroom and the classmates returning to their seats one after another, then took out her mobile phone.

Before long, Lingyun's phone received a message: "You think Condensing Sound into a Thread is like Chinese cabbage? This secret technique was lost a long time ago. Even if some families preserve this secret technique now, they treat it as an un傳 secret; where am I supposed to learn this secret technique from!"

Seeing this message, Lingyun couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. In his memory, a little trick like Condensing Sound into a Thread was a dime-a-dozen skill; as long as one's strength reached the Earth Tier, there was no one who didn't know this ability. How did it become an un傳 secret technique by now?

"It seems that some things unknown to me have appeared on this land!" Lingyun raised an eyebrow.

Not long after, Chen Jing received a message: "This is not a very difficult technique. If you really want to learn it, come to my house after school this afternoon, and I will teach you. You will be able to learn it in just a few hours!"

Looking at this message, a flash of surprise crossed Chen Jing's eyes, and she then quietly nodded at Lingyun.

After school, Lingyun got up and left, and Chen Jing followed him.

Watching the two of them leave, William's brow furrowed imperceptibly, and he then asked a boy next to him with some confusion: "Is Miss Chen Jing very close with that guy?"

That boy glanced at Lingyun, who was about to walk out of the classroom, and a flash of envy crossed his eyes: "Isn't that obvious? That guy was a classmate of the great department beauty Chen in high school, and now they are lucky enough to be classmates again. Under these circumstances, how could their relationship not be good!"

"Classmates from high school?" Watching the two of them, William was lost in thought.

Lingyun and Chen Jing walked side by side on the road, and Lingyun said to Chen Jing with a smile: "I think that guy named William seems to have unusual thoughts about you!"

Hearing Lingyun mention William, Chen Jing's face was full of impatience: "This guy, I really don't know what his situation is. We only met for the first time, and he actually took a fancy to me. The most infuriating thing is that he actually instigated Elder Qian Sheng to propose marriage to me. What kind of thing is this!"

"Propose marriage to you?" Lingyun looked at Chen Jing with a face full of confusion.

"Yes, that's right, propose marriage to me! He really thinks too highly of himself. You have to know, back then, in order to resist the marriage contract my father had privately set for me, I..." Chen Jing stopped here and suddenly didn't continue.

Lingyun was just about to ask her what she had done at that time when his brow suddenly furrowed: "Be careful, Chen Jing, some ill-intentioned guests have come calling!"

"Ill-intentioned guests?" There was some confusion in Chen Jing's tone.

But relying on her keen perception, she soon discovered something wrong. Because they were in a hurry to get to Lingyun's house to learn his method of Condensing Sound into a Thread, they were walking along a path that was usually relatively quiet. Although this path was usually quiet, it was not to the point of being completely devoid of sound.

"There's an ambush!" Chen Jing thought of this at the first moment. "But who could it be? Could it be people from William's side?"

Just as Chen Jing was guessing who the people ambushing them might be, Lingyun grabbed with one hand, and several pebbles were sucked into his hand.

"Come out, everyone, I have already seen you!" Lingyun said loudly.

The surroundings of the path were quiet, without any movement, as if there was no one there at all.

"Since you won't come out, then I will invite you out!" Lingyun spoke again, while simultaneously raising his right hand.

Hearing only a few "hissing" sounds, the pebbles in Lingyun's hand turned into several afterimages and shot out, aiming directly at several empty spaces.

With several "swish" sounds, blade lights suddenly flashed in the places that had been empty, and those pebbles were shattered into fragments under the slashing of the blade lights. Following the attack, the ambushers who had hidden their figures also revealed themselves. They were four people dressed in black, with black masks covering their faces, carrying Samurai Swords in their hands, revealing only a pair of cold, sharp eyes.

"It's actually Ninjas! They are really too bold. This is Beijing; they actually dare to take action in this place!" Seeing these people, Chen Jing's face couldn't help but change slightly. Because of some historical reasons, if Ninjas appeared in Beijing and rashly launched attacks on people, it would cause some very serious things to happen.

Seeing that the other party had already seen through their identities, these Ninjas didn't say much, raised the Samurai Swords in their hands, and rushed over quickly.

"It's actually aimed at me? Could it be that I have some grudge with them?" Lingyun saw the focus of this group of Ninjas at a glance. "No, could it be because of Busujima Saeko?"

"Lingyun, be careful, these guys are all Chunin, they are not particularly easy to deal with!" Chen Jing cautioned Lingyun, then flew forward to block one of the Chunin who was equal to her in strength. As for whether Lingyun could deal with the remaining Chunin, Chen Jing was not worried at all; regardless, Lingyun was now at the Earth Realm Mid-Stage, so dealing with a few Chunin shouldn't be a difficult task.

"Has the strength already improved to the Mysterious Tier Late Stage? This speed is really quite astonishing!" Lingyun squinted at the True Qi surging on Chen Jing's body. "However, this True Qi seems a bit wrong. Could it be that Chen Jing has some problems in her cultivation?"

The three Chunin who were not blocked saw Lingyun's indifferent attitude toward their siege, and a trace of anger couldn't help but well up in their hearts. They were dignified Chunin, and this person, according to the information they had, was just an ordinary person. Facing their siege, he actually had this expression; wasn't this a naked look of contempt for them!

Thinking of this, the three Chunin were burning with rage, and the Samurai Swords in their hands accelerated a bit more. Although the order from above was to take him alive, it didn't say how he should be kept alive; half-dead is still alive, right? Thinking of this, a trace of cruel smiles flashed in the eyes of the three Chunin. Watching others wail in front of them was their favorite thing!

Looking at the fierce light in the eyes of the three Chunin, Lingyun didn't take them to heart at all. Facing the full-force attacks of the three Chunin, Lingyun only swayed his body slightly and dodged their attacks very casually. Although the attacks of the three Chunin were like a gale, Lingyun's figure was like a leaf floating in the wind; no matter how the three of them struck, Lingyun could always easily find gaps in their attacks to dodge. Now, most of Lingyun's attention was on Chen Jing.

On the other side, Chen Jing's battle against the Ninja had also entered a white-hot stage. The True Qi Chen Jing cultivated could be described as extremely overbearing; although she had just entered the Mysterious Tier Late Stage, her palms, wrapped in True Qi, were actually able to go head-to-head with the Samurai Sword in that Ninja's hand without falling behind. Looking at the Ninja, every time he clashed with Chen Jing, he would be shaken back a step by the powerful force. Under these circumstances, this Ninja had to turn from offense to defense, struggling to resist Chen Jing's fierce attacks, while hoping in his heart that his companions could capture Lingyun as soon as possible so he could retreat.

Seeing Chen Jing forcing the Ninja to retreat repeatedly, Lingyun's brow, however, tightened more and more. The True Qi Chen Jing used was simply too overbearing, so overbearing that even her own body couldn't withstand it. If used for a long time, it would cause great damage to her body. And looking at this appearance, it wasn't the first time she had fought like this.

"It seems that after the battle ends, it is necessary to mention this matter to Chen Jing!" Lingyun said in his heart.