Chapter 539: Dao Rule!

The reason Li Fei had been unable to forget about flying swords from the beginning was that he envied their coolness.

He had also fantasized about himself as a peerless swordsman, shouting "Sword come" when facing a strong enemy, and then sweeping across with one sword, turning the enemy into ashes.

This scene, just thinking about it, felt very cool!

Now facing two pinnacle powerhouses, at the most critical moment, Li Fei broke through on the spot.

The timing, scene, and conditions were all very suitable.

Only the way of dealing with the enemy was a bit different from what he had imagined...

Borrowing the fire of the Heavenly Tribulation to forge his own body, strengthening the flying sword body with the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability.

This strengthening of Li Fei's was different from the previous one; he removed the impurities in his body, significantly enhancing the purity of the flying sword body, making its strength rise, but the essence of his life did not change significantly.

Or rather, when life force is strong to such a degree, apart from leveling up with the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl or breaking through a major realm, it was already very difficult for Li Fei to enhance the essence of his life.

So this strengthening of the flying sword body did not increase the number of blood souls.

However, the flying sword body became purer, and its strength was enhanced, which also enhanced Li Fei's defensive power and damage-bearing upper limit.

The upper limit of 【Blood Rage】 increased from 1800 blood souls to 2000, and his own strength increased from 800 blood rage power to 1000 blood rage power.

More importantly, the sword intent, sword Qi, and sword momentum erupted from the flying sword body all increased by a level!

If the Li Fei of the past was like a sword embryo that hadn't been completely formed.

Then this strengthening was a quenching and sharpening, allowing a peerless divine sword to be completely formed!

This was why Ning Ning Qingman was attracted to Li Fei at this moment at a glance.

When she heard this Sword Immortal shout his name, Li Fei charged toward the other party without hesitation, preparing to join forces to fight the enemy.

By the time he was about to charge over, Ning Ning Qingman's next sentence reached his ears:

"Lend me your sword!"

Li Fei was a bit confused: "Lend sword, how to lend?"

Before he could react, a Dao rule power that was unparalleled in the world shrouded his body.

This was Ning Ning Qingman's 【Sword Resolution】; as soon as it touched the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 on Li Fei's body surface, it was like the scorching sun meeting the first snow.

【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 dissolved and deformed rapidly.

Li Fei suddenly realized something.

"Wait a minute..."

But Ning Ning Qingman didn't give him a chance to refuse.

Li Fei could of course resist, but with a great enemy in front, it was impossible for him to "infight" at this time.

So in the blink of an eye, the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 that was in the shape of battle armor transformed into a long sword—

The whole body was dark golden, with ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, clouds, mist, and frost on the blade...

The sword hilt had a coiling dragon, the dragon's mouth containing a pearl, connected to the blade, and the two characters 'Jingan' were engraved on the end of the sword hilt.

The world-renowned Marquis Jingan had now transformed into a two-handed heavy sword one foot wide and seven feet long!

Since 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 could transform into battle armor, transforming into a sword was not a difficult task.

With Li Fei's control over his body, plus the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability, hiding himself within this sword was also not a difficult task.

It was just that, including Li Fei himself, he hadn't expected this kind of development at all.

Ning Ning Qingman rarely showed excitement, holding the sword hilt with one hand.

A Sword Immortal holding a divine sword!

A thousand meters away, Li Ming felt his scalp go numb.

Ning Ning Qingman without a sword was already unparalleled in sword intent, killing him into a sorry state.

At this moment, with a sword in hand, before even striking, it made the heaven and earth Qi gathered around Li Ming fluctuate unceasingly!

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Ming blasted his fists forward, and the surrounding heaven and earth Qi gathered madly, transforming into a light sphere as large as a mountain, instantly crossing a distance of a thousand meters and colliding with Ning Ning Qingman.

Space twisted and collapsed accordingly!

At the same time, an Underworld River descended from the sky, and the power of 【Wangchuan】 shrouded Ning Ning Qingman.

Just now, Li Fei's sword intent had pierced through the 'Heart-Mind Tribulation' that was about to descend; under the traction of Qi, the remaining 'Heart-Mind Tribulation' also fell at this moment.

The two evil demons' ability to grasp the timing was beyond doubt.

Ning Ning Qingman held the long sword, and the unparalleled sword intent erupted—

Heaven and earth turned into an ink-wash landscape painting again, black and white interlaced, and the power of 【Wangchuan】 transformed into a large splash of ink, wanting to dye the painting completely black.

The Heart-Mind Tribulation was like messy graffiti on the painting, wanting to turn the painting into a mess.

A point of green suddenly appeared in the center of the painting, and then quickly spread toward the surroundings.

Between the ink-wash mountains and rivers, a green lotus bloomed, covering all colors and taking away all the charm!

Whether it was the power of 【Wangchuan】 or the Heart-Mind Tribulation, they were all swept away by the sword intent.

Then a streak of sword light lit up; at first, it was just a point of brightness on the black curtain, and then heaven and earth turned white!

The fist intent, fist momentum, and fist moves blasted out by Li Ming with all his might were pierced by one sword.

The majestic heaven and earth Qi gathered by the 【Swallowing Heaven】 Dao rule disintegrated accordingly.

Storms, Underworld Rivers, Dao rules, Heavenly Tribulations—

All were broken by one sword!

Without any hesitation, Li Ming turned and ran.

While running, he activated 【Flesh Myriad Transformation】 and 【Demon Fetus Soul Seed】 with all his might, allowing himself to divide into over a hundred streaks of blood light, flying toward the surroundings.

He had used this move before at Mount Mount Tiansha; at that time, if Wen Wen Xuexian hadn't suddenly made a move to cut off the karmic connection between him and his clones, Ning Ning Qingman actually wouldn't have been able to keep him, and he wouldn't have been forced to resurrect by borrowing the soul seed.

Just as the over a hundred streaks of blood light dispersed, Ning Ning Qingman had already arrived.

Just now, when she broke the joint attack of the two evil demons, it was a vertical slash, and at this moment, it was a horizontal sweep.

It seemed that sword arts in the world, in her hands, were nothing more than a horizontal and a vertical.

Space was like a pool of lake water under this sword, rippling and spreading toward the surroundings.

All the blood lights were swept by the ripples and then collapsed one after another!

Previously, when Ning Ning Qingman fought Li Ming, every time she used 【Sword Resolution】 to break the other party's 【Swallowing Heaven】 Dao rule, she had no energy left to continue breaking the other party's divine abilities.

So every time she could only make Li Ming injured but not dead, allowing him to recover with the help of 【Flesh Myriad Transformation】 and 【Regeneration】 divine abilities.

But now with the divine sword in hand, Ning Ning Qingman's sword Dao cultivation suddenly rose by a level!

One sword pierced out, first breaking the Dao rule, then breaking the divine ability!

All the blood lights dissipated, leaving only one mass of blood light, barely maintaining a human shape.

Ning Ning Qingman pursued with the sword.

"Old Ghost!!!"

Li Ming roared angrily.

But the Underworld Ancestor did not make a move to intercept Ning Ning Qingman.

This Sword Immortal held the divine sword and pierced one sword toward the blood light transformed by Li Ming.

The dazzling sword light pierced through the blood light, and the evil demon was executed!

The soul seed that Li Ming had hidden in advance was a divine ability used beforehand; Ning Ning Qingman couldn't use the 'Present Sword' to slash the 'Past Body', so Li Ming could still resurrect.

It was just that resurrecting twice in a short period of time, Li Ming's realm would probably fall to the very bottom of the Martial Saint realm.

It would be very difficult to have a third chance at resurrection.

After solving Li Ming, Ning Ning Qingman turned to look at Tancheng below.

She saw a dark blue meteor that had already broken through the ground and was speeding toward outside the city.

In order to lead the Heavenly Tribulation into Tancheng, the Underworld Ancestor's true body had been hiding somewhere underground in Tancheng.

Seeing that the situation was not right, he sold his teammate without hesitation and chose to retreat.

Anyway, the Heavenly Tribulation had been completely withstood; he had gained and lost nothing.

Ning Ning Qingman gritted her teeth and wanted to pursue, but her breath was a bit unstable.

Breaking the joint attack of two pinnacle powerhouses in a few swords and forcefully killing one of them.

Ning Ning Qingman looked light and airy, but in reality, it was not easy, and the consumption was huge.

At this moment, she felt a majestic Qi and blood force gushing out from the divine sword in her hand!

Not only that, there was also vast power in heaven and earth continuously gathering toward the sword body.

"This is..."

Ning Ning Qingman was startled and soon reacted.

This was Li Fei using his divine ability.

He first used 【Blood Rage】, then used 【Dragon Elephant】!

So Ning Ning Qingman stepped forward to pursue the fleeing Underworld Ancestor.

A streak of green rainbow tore through the long sky, pursuing the dark blue meteor in front.

In the blink of an eye, Ning Ning Qingman felt a heaven and earth force pushing her forward, as if in the dark, the surrounding heaven and earth were all helping her.

"Is this the 【Jingan】 divine ability? Truly miraculous."

Ning Ning Qingman praised secretly in her heart and soon caught up with the Underworld Ancestor in front.

She dragged the heavy sword with one hand and threw it forward fiercely!

Swish—

The sword light transformed into a golden long river!

A black hole appeared in front, and then a dark blue Underworld River carrying hundreds of thousands of vengeful spirits whistled out, colliding with the golden long river.

Boom!!!

The two long rivers collided, stirring up thousand-foot waves.

Immediately after, the Underworld River disintegrated, and one vengeful spirit after another was thoroughly purified by the sword intent, no longer able to resurrect within the Underworld Palace.

For these vengeful spirits, it was undoubtedly a kind of liberation.

The Underworld Ancestor's 【Wangchuan】 was good at strong control but not good at strong attack, so this collision fell completely into a disadvantage, and the Underworld River was broken by the sword Qi long river in one fell swoop, rushing into his Underworld Palace!

A piercing wail sounded between heaven and earth, and the meteor in front suddenly erupted, flying away at a faster speed and disappearing on the horizon.

It was the Underworld Ancestor who didn't know what secret art he had used, forcibly accelerating to escape!

Ning Ning Qingman didn't pursue anymore, descending from the sky and landing on a hillside.

Immediately after, the long sword in her hand turned into light, and Li Fei reappeared in front of her, his expression a bit strange.

Just now, transforming into a divine sword and being held in Ning Ning Qingman's hand made him feel as if he had also become a Sword Immortal, controlling the power of Dao rules!

He lent his power to Ning Ning Qingman without reservation, and then unified it with 【Sword Resolution】 to control it; this was the reason for Ning Ning Qingman's surge in combat power.

"Ning..."

"Pfft—"

Before Li Fei could speak, Ning Ning Qingman suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!

Li Fei was startled and hurriedly took a step forward.

"I'm fine."

Ning Ning Qingman waved her hand.

She had fought one against two and was already injured.

Forcibly erupting again, first killing Li Ming, then injuring the Underworld Ancestor, naturally required paying a price.

"The two of them will only be more serious than me!"

Ning Ning Qingman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth without caring.

Her green robe was soaked in blood, and her black hair fell like a flowing spring into the galaxy, flying in the air amidst the surging sword Qi.

The sword intent around her was like a cold pool and a lonely moon, reflecting the blade's edge, possessing a unique aesthetic feeling.

Such a Sword Immortal was something Li Fei had never seen before.

"Li Fei, great kindness needs no thanks."

Ning Ning Qingman looked at Li Fei and said solemnly.

This time Li Fei turned back to participate in the battle; for her, it was not only a life-saving grace but also a grace of protecting the Dao!

Li Ming had racked his brains to set up this heart-questioning trap for Ning Ning Qingman; although dangerous, after passing it, Ning Ning Qingman's sword heart had no flaws!

Besides this, holding the sword just now and defeating the two great evil demons also gave Ning Ning Qingman more insights into the sword Dao.

She could almost conclude that after her injuries healed this time, her cultivation would be able to advance further!

Reaching her realm, every small step of improvement was harder and more rewarding than breaking through a major realm before!

So Li Fei's actions today were an unadulterated great kindness to Ning Ning Qingman.

Li Fei looked into Ning Ning Qingman's eyes and smiled:

"As a high-ranking official of the imperial court, I have the responsibility to guard the land and protect the people; how can I tolerate the rampant evil demons? Sword Immortal Ning doesn't need to thank me; it should be me thanking you for saving the tens of thousands of commoners of my Great Blue Dynasty."

Ning Ning Qingman looked at Li Fei blankly, making him feel a bit panicked.

He always felt that there was a bit of inexplicable covetousness in this gaze, but it was different from the way those wealthy young ladies looked at him.

"It's a pity that I still couldn't kill an evil demon."

Li Fei forcibly changed the subject.

Ning Ning Qingman came back to her senses and looked away with a guilty conscience:

"Where are pinnacle powerhouses so easy to kill?"

As pinnacle powerhouses, who didn't have a few life-saving means up their sleeves?

The three pinnacles who had died in the last hundred years:

One, Qing Xu, wanted to establish a Dao nation; if he didn't succeed, he would become a benevolent person, never thinking of escaping.

One, Qi Ming, was also seeking death with all his heart, not intending to escape again.

One, Yun Shu, was actively fighting with his life; let alone escaping, he didn't intend to live at all!

Changing to other pinnacle powerhouses, as long as they didn't seek death actively, they were very hard to kill.

"It's just that although the Underworld Ancestor ran away and the Heavenly Tribulation was blocked, the tens of thousands of commoners in Tancheng were tainted by vengeful spirits after all, and still need to be carefully checked to avoid leaving any sequelae."

Ning Ning Qingman said worriedly.

She had saved this city of commoners with such difficulty; she didn't want the final result to still be bitter fruit and regret.

It was just that this was not something she was good at, and treating tens of thousands of people involved too much workload, not something she could do alone with one sword.

"Sword Immortal Ning doesn't need to worry about this; I have already arranged it."

Li Fei said calmly.

"Oh?"

Ning Ning Qingman looked at him in surprise.

The other party had clearly just been held in her hand, how could he have arranged it?

"Sword Immortal Ning has roamed the Jianghu for many years; do you know what is most important in the Jianghu?"

Li Fei asked with a smile.

Ning Ning Qingman: "Strength?"

Li Fei: "Background."

Ning Ning Qingman: "..."

Li Fei pointed in the direction of Ding'an Prefecture City:

"Before, when I took Nie Nie Susu away, I also went to the Prefecture City and contacted the Garrison Commander of Ding'an Prefecture and the local Blue Patrol Pavilion, asking them to send a message in my name to the provincial capital of Dongping and Dongping University, gathering the troops of the entire province and the sorcerers of the entire province, as well as the power of Dongping University, to rush to Tancheng immediately!"

The straight-line distance between Tancheng and Ding'an City was over two hundred kilometers.

Li Fei used 【No Distance】 with all his might; at the fastest, he could move eight thousand meters in one second.

So he could control the round trip from Tancheng to Ding'an Prefecture City within one minute!

It was just that such high intensity, continuously using 【No Distance】, was a huge consumption.

Li Fei had to use the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to convert a large number of blood souls into heart-and-mind power and the source power required for the implant, only then could he maintain the consumption.

Hearing Li Fei say this, Ning Ning Qingman breathed a sigh of relief.

She was accustomed to being alone, long used to solving all problems with one person and one sword, forgetting that there was still a big figure of the imperial court by her side.

Dongping Province had previously been a firm 'Crown Prince Party', and now naturally it was a firm 'Emperor Party'.

So with one word from Li Fei, the entire Dongping Province moved accordingly!

Now all parties were rushing toward Tancheng.

Next, Ning Ning Qingman returned to Tancheng, while Li Fei went to find Nie Nie Susu and brought her back.

On the way flying, he finally had time to carefully study the gains after the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl leveled up.

Previously, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl unlocked new abilities only when the number of blood souls exceeded a certain amount.

This time it was unlocked by reaching level 50.

What was unlocked was also not a new soul skill or transformation skill, but something completely new—

Blood Crystal!

Li Fei stretched out his right hand, and a small blood-colored chip appeared in his palm.

The patterns in this chip seemed to contain the principles of heaven and earth, making people forget themselves upon seeing it, and their heart and mind couldn't help but be invested in it.

"Dao rule fragment!"

Li Fei revealed a look of surprise and joy.

After the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl leveled up to 50, the blood crystal condensed was a Dao rule fragment!

Every divine ability could be viewed as a Dao rule fragment, and deep within this blood crystal in Li Fei's hand were two characters—Blood Rage.

This was the Dao rule fragment corresponding to the blood soul skill 【Blood Rage】.

With this blood crystal, from now on, Li Fei didn't need to consume blood souls to use 【Blood Rage】!

All along, the blood soul skills bestowed by the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl were part of Li Fei's combat power and were very important, making him equivalent to having several extra divine abilities.

But in reality, these blood soul skills couldn't be counted as true divine abilities.

One was that in terms of 'priority', they were not as good as divine abilities; blood soul skills could be restrained by martial arts.

Two was that casting these blood soul skills required consuming blood souls, which was consuming Li Fei's own life.

So every time Li Fei fought across realms, more than half of his health bar was actually consumed by himself, and he hadn't truly exerted his advantage of being thick-blooded.

But now it was different!

With the blood crystal, Li Fei could cast blood soul skills without consuming blood souls, but like casting divine abilities, he could cast them by consuming his own power.

It was even more effortless than divine abilities, because divine abilities also required heart-and-mind power, force, Qi and blood, and the power of the implant to be consumed together.

And blood soul skills with blood crystals only needed to consume heaven and earth Qi to be cast!

Li Fei put away the blood crystal and began to look forward to it.

This blood crystal corresponded to 【Blood Rage】; the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl would continue to level up, and there should be new blood crystals condensed, at which time he could 'liberate' more blood soul skills.

"Sword Immortal Ning said before that everyone can only possess one Great Dao rule. Even if Lin Lin Tianyi combined law and martial arts, he only condensed one Dao rule."

Li Fei suddenly thought of a point:

"When I break through the realm in the future and step onto the pinnacle, I can possess one Dao rule. And this Ten Thousand Blood Pearl continues to level up, condensing more blood crystals; when these Dao rule fragments transformed from blood crystals are combined in the future, they should also be able to form a Dao rule."

"In this way, isn't it contrary to the Great Dao of heaven and earth?"

"Or is it that I have the possibility of breaking this restriction and possessing two Dao rules, unprecedented in history?"

Thinking of this, Li Fei's heartbeat began to accelerate.

Even with his current composure, he couldn't help but be a bit excited!

"A Great Dao rule is composed of at most seven fragments, and my blood soul skills plus transformation skills total six."

"In that case, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl can condense at least five more blood crystals, and at most six more blood crystals?"

Li Fei had new associations.

"Level 50 only condensed the first blood crystal; if it condenses one blood crystal every 10 levels, to condense seven blood crystals, wouldn't it need to level the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to 110?!"

Thinking of this, Li Fei suddenly calmed down.

Leveling the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to 50 was already very difficult; to level it to 110, when would that be?

When he calmed his heart and mind, he suddenly discovered a point different from the past.

After refining the Ghost-Slaying Blade into a 'sword scabbard', relying on 【Refining Gold with Fire】, he was performing self-harm every moment, thereby allowing the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to absorb energy.

And he suddenly discovered that the speed of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy value increase was actually faster than before!

One must know that every time the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl leveled up, the required energy value would be much higher than the previous level.

Previously, when Li Fei possessed 【Refining Gold with Fire】, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl was only level 47.

Now it had leveled up 3 times, already reaching level 50.

The speed of energy value increase should be much slower than before, but now it was faster instead!

"Is it because the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl condensed blood crystals, so the demand for energy has become less?"

Such a guess flashed through Li Fei's heart.

Blood crystals were the only variable, so this guess was likely true.

"In this way, I don't have to worry about possibly needing decades to level up the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl."

A smile appeared on Li Fei's face.

Dealing with the two great evil demons this time, the gains were far beyond his imagination!

He suddenly looked forward to meeting these two people again next time.

Seeking monthly tickets.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 540 =====