Chapter 193: A Humiliating Strike

Wu Gang and Xue Qianyang's evasion speed was very fast, but the attack speed of Zhang Nuo's Flying Sword was even faster; only a soft "swish" sound was heard, and a Flying Sword left a long wound on one of Xue Qianyang's arms.

This was only because Xue Qianyang dodged relatively quickly, otherwise her entire arm would have been severed; she was startled into a cold sweat, her beautiful face lost its charm in fear, and her snow-white dress was dyed red in the blink of an eye.

Wu Gang was slightly better off than her; his Magic Blade danced in mid-air a few times, blocking all the Flying Swords attacking him. Just at this moment, a soft sound suddenly came from above their heads, and when they looked up, they saw the Heaven-Turning Seal, which had turned several zhang in size after a single rotation.

As the Golden Runes on the bottom of the seal swirled, ten thousand rays of Golden Light poured down, and in an instant, they were about to be enveloped within it. Xue Qianyang and Wu Gang were scared out of their wits; they had long heard of the power of the Heaven-Turning Seal, and if they were truly covered by the Golden Light it emitted, they would be unable to unleash their supernatural powers no matter how great they were.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The two figures escaped the attack range of the Heaven-Turning Seal like lightning. Upon seeing this, a look of disappointment immediately appeared on Zhang Nuo's face; such a great opportunity had just now only wounded the woman in white, and having missed this chance, he did not know when he would have such a golden opportunity again.

With a movement of his Divine Sense, the nine Flying Swords emitted a buzzing sound simultaneously, and with a flash, they slashed toward Xue Qianyang once more. By this time, Wu Gang had already discovered Zhang Nuo's hiding place; he cast two Dharma techniques into his Magic Blade, and as the Magic Blade's form expanded, it transformed to half a zhang in size and charged toward the boulder where Zhang Nuo was hiding.

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, the boulder was blasted into smithereens. Zhang Nuo's figure drifted, escaping the moment the Magic Blade struck the boulder, and he pointed a single hand into the void toward Wu Gang in the distance.

The Heaven-Turning Seal in mid-air shone with brilliant Golden Light and smashed toward him. Having suffered losses at the hands of the large seal before, Wu Gang felt somewhat wary in his heart; after retreating continuously, he controlled the Magic Blade with his Divine Sense to slash toward the large seal.

After a sound of metal clashing, the black blade struck the Heaven-Turning Seal, but this kind of attack was merely a drop in the bucket for the large seal; the massive seal body trembled once, and the next moment it charged toward Wu Gang again!

At this time, Zhang Nuo moved his body and quickly rushed toward Xue Qianyang. Having just held the Palm Thunder in her Jade Token, she suddenly saw Zhang Nuo rushing over, and Xue Qianyang gasped!

She had assumed Zhang Nuo was a Dharma Cultivator and that his movement technique could not be very fast, but what she had not expected was that Zhang Nuo's figure was extremely fast, like the speed of a Body Refining Cultivator, and he reached her front in the blink of an eye.

Before Xue Qianyang could even unleash the Palm Thunder! Zhang Nuo flicked one hand, and a mass of crimson flames wrapped around his fist! Murderous intent erupted in his eyes, and streaks of red blood quickly covered his eyes.

"Bitch! Go to hell!"

With a roar like a wild beast, Zhang Nuo swung his fist and slammed it toward Xue Qianyang. The attack was too sudden; Xue Qianyang had no time to unleash a defensive Magic Treasure and could only use the Palm Thunder in her palm to resist.

"Boom!"

Zhang Nuo slammed his fist onto the Palm Thunder, and immediately, a strange and massive force erupted from within the White Round Ball, neutralizing the power of his strike. However, Xue Qianyang did not dare to detonate the Palm Thunder in her hand at such close range. If she did so, it might injure Zhang Nuo, but she would certainly be caught in the blast and suffer heavy injuries.

Just at the moment she hesitated, flames also ignited on Zhang Nuo's other hand, and a second punch struck again. This time, Xue Qianyang had no defenses whatsoever, and the fist wrapped in Red Glow Fire slammed heavily onto her chest!

"Ah!"

Xue Qianyang let out a miserable scream, as if her tail had been stepped on, and flew backward with a shrill sound. Fortunately, at the critical moment, she stimulated the Demonic Qi within her body to defend against the Red Glow Fire outside her body; otherwise, had this fire touched the blood on her body, she would have been reduced to ashes in no time!

Despite this, the intense pain in her chest still made her bite her silver teeth; since she had started her cultivation journey, she had never suffered such a humiliating attack.

Having succeeded with one strike, Zhang Nuo did not linger in battle; with a movement of his Divine Sense, he retrieved his Magic Treasures, turned his head to give Xue Qianyang a malicious smile, and his figure moved and disappeared into the scattered stones.

"Zhang Nuo!"

Xue Qianyang screamed in anger! She reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth and looked down at her chest, only to see that the clothes on her chest had been blasted into several holes by the previous strike.

"Fellow Daoist Xue!"

Seeing that Zhang Nuo had escaped again, Wu Gang did not dare to pursue; he took a few long strides to the young woman's side, and upon seeing her state, he could not help but laugh in his heart, though he dared not laugh out loud.

Xue Qianyang's face turned red and then white; she was so ashamed she wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground. As a disciple of Fu Ling of the Wushuang Sacred Demon Mountain, when had she ever suffered such a loss!

"Zhang Nuo! If I don't kill you today, I swear I am not human!"

Wu Gang stood to the side, looking at the furious Xue Qianyang, not knowing what to say.

At this time, Zhang Nuo had already escaped far away. Recalling the strike just now, he was still secretly chuckling in his heart; although it had not caused serious injury to Xue Qianyang, this kind of humiliating attack was more effective than killing her directly.

In her shame and anger, the opponent had suddenly lost her composure, which also bought him some time to escape. After traveling through the scattered stones for a long time, Zhang Nuo fell into the distress of being lost again.

If things went on like this, even if he were not killed by Wu Gang and Xue Qianyang, he would be trapped to death in the Stone Array. Leaning against a large rock, Zhang Nuo thought carefully.

He had wanted to ask Chunyangzi, but as soon as he thought of the other's attitude, he immediately dismissed the idea.

At this time, Xue Qianyang and Wu Gang had also left the place where they had just fought and were pursuing in the direction Zhang Nuo had fled. Not long after the two of them left, everything that had been destroyed by the battle here was swept by white mist and returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened just now.

Even if the three of them came to this place again, they would likely not recognize it as the place where they had once fought.

After wandering in the Stone Array for two full days, Xue Qianyang suddenly stopped her steps, a look of suspicion appearing on her pretty face. After a moment, she said calmly:

"Fellow Daoist Wu! Don't you find it a bit strange?"

"What do you mean?"

"No matter how large this valley is, with the foot speed of the two of us, it is impossible that we cannot walk to the end. For these two days, we haven't even walked through a single repeated place; I haven't seen the road markers you made on the strange rocks at all!"

Hearing this, Wu Gang was stunned for a moment, and upon careful recollection, it was indeed the case.

"You mean to say that the road markers I made were erased by some strange power?"

Although Wu Gang's brain was not as flexible as Xue Qianyang's, he understood the situation before him to some extent.

"The strange rocks here are not as simple as we imagined; they seem chaotic and disorganized, but they hide some kind of mystery. In my opinion, it should be some kind of Array!"

Supporting her chin with one hand, Xue Qianyang, like Wu Gang, knew nothing about Arrays. Walking aimlessly like this would only make them sink deeper and deeper, until they had no way back.

Wu Gang also became distressed. He had originally wanted to hunt down Zhang Nuo, but in the end, he was trapped in the Stone Array. With the Restriction that forbade flight, they could not pilot their Dharma Treasures to fly, and if this went on for long, they would inevitably be trapped to death inside.

He felt some regret; he regretted being impulsive and following Zhang Nuo in here.

"Does Fellow Daoist Xue have a way to get out?"

Placing his last shred of hope on Xue Qianyang, Wu Gang asked tentatively.

"You know it yourself, where would I understand any Arrays?"

This one sentence made Wu Gang's heart turn cold to the core. Now, never mind Zhang Nuo, they couldn't even find the exit; even if they killed Zhang Nuo, what would it matter?

At this time, Zhang Nuo was no better off than the two of them. After circling the scattered stones several times, there was nothing here except for bones all over the ground and heavy fog; it seemed these bones had been trapped to death in the Stone Array.

Striking a heavy punch against a strange rock nearby, Zhang Nuo felt as if his heart were on fire; he still had many things to do and could not just die here.

Sensing Zhang Nuo's helplessness, Chunyangzi in the Sword Box still made no movement, as if he were determined to oppose him to the end. Zhang Nuo was stubborn enough that he refused to ask.

Suddenly, Zhang Nuo's gaze fell upon some bones not far away. He saw that within the bones, there seemed to be something emitting a faint light.

Taking a few quick steps, Zhang Nuo arrived before the bones and saw that at the position of the ribcage, a Flying Sword several inches in size was stuck in the bone, as if it had been unleashed by someone and struck the body of the cultivator before they died!

Reaching out to take the Flying Sword from the bones, the bones immediately scattered with a "clatter." It seemed this skeleton had been dead here for quite some time, at least several hundred years.

Holding the Flying Sword in his palm, despite the fact that this sword had experienced over a hundred years, its luster remained undiminished, and the steel sword body shimmered with a cold light.

As he poured Spirit Power into it, five-colored light bloomed on the surface of the Flying Sword. Just at this moment, a strange scene occurred: a stream of light suddenly burst forth from within the Flying Sword, and relying on the sword body, it slowly formed a blurred human face above Zhang Nuo's head.

Zhang Nuo was greatly shocked, his heart nearly jumping out of his chest, and he raised his hand to throw the Flying Sword away. However, after the Flying Sword landed, the blurred human face floating above it did not disappear.

"Ah!"

The blurry human face let out a long cry of surprise, as if it had been woken from a dream; after sweeping his Divine Sense over the Flying Sword and confirming there was no danger, Zhang Nuo tentatively walked forward.

He saw the blurry human face slowly open its eyes, a pair of pupils radiating sharp light, which appeared even more sinister and terrifying in such a bizarre place as the Strange Stone Array!

"Are you the one who released my Remnant Soul?"

The blurry human face swept its gaze over and landed on Zhang Nuo, then asked in a low, deep voice.