This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 440: Rematch

Ba Shifang entered the palace again. After informing Tianyi of his experience during the brief battle, he sat in a lotus position and closed his eyes to recuperate.

He needed to stabilize his body before it collapsed. What was terrifying about Bao Ling’s slash was that he perfectly controlled the power so that it was only on the brink of collapse. Just a tiny bit more and it would have been disastrous.

Even if his body collapsed, it wouldn’t reach the point where Ba Shifang would enter a soul state, with all his powers substantially reduced until he could form his body once more out of the Law of Five Phases, but he wouldn’t be able to participate in battle for at least a decade.

Ba Shifang had no doubt that Bao Ling had purposely done this. It only meant that his insight and control were terrifying. Tianyi was equally terrifying, but he didn’t possess the same control as Bao Ling. If Tianyi was force, then Bao Ling was finesse.

To stabilize his Five Phases Law Body, Ba Shifang needed to absorb a vast amount of spiritual qi and convert them into Five Phases Immortal Qi or immortal qi of the five elements. Ba Shifang usually converted spiritual qi into immortal qi of the five elements before converting it to Five Phases Immortal Qi within his body. Transforming it directly had a much lower success rate.

This was the issue of building a body out of a divine-level law, even if only partially mastered. Although it is powerful, if you haven’t completely mastered the divine law it takes a long time to repair any damage.

Hu Landie focused her attention on Ba Shifang. She knew him. Since he only sat down, it meant his situation wasn’t serious. So, Hu Landie focused on the conversion process. Spiritual qi would linger outside his process before transforming and being absorbed by Ba Shifang. This process stimulated her comprehension of the five elemental laws.

The other immortals wanted to watch the process, too, but they needed to observe at a close distance. Coming up to Ba Shifang in his current state was undoubtedly a provocation, so they didn’t. Well, except one, but his aim wasn’t to increase his comprehension of the law of the five elements.

“Are you alright?”

Ba Shifang opened his eyes and glanced at Meng Tingfeng. “It’s nothing that can’t be fixed with time.”

Meng Tingfeng stared, hoping to differentiate whether his son was telling the truth or not. Soon, he looked away. He didn’t want Ba Shifang to think he was probing for weaknesses and erase any goodwill he accumulated.

Not to mention he didn’t know whether Ba Shifang would blame him for what Bao Ling had done by default thanks to his relationship with the Numinous Sword Sect.

Judging by Ba Shifang’s absorption of spiritual qi, Meng Tingfeng concluded that something had occurred to his body. And it wasn’t the type to be easily healed, either. Immortal monarchs were infinitely harder to injure than true immortals. Conversely, the effort needed to heal was far greater as well.

Meng Tingfeng took out a gourd and held it out to Ba Shifang. “I apologize for Bao Ling’s action. He went too far. It can’t make up for it, but every little bit helps.”

Ba Shifang stared at the gourd. Within it were ten Immortal Qi Condensation Pills. However, he didn’t take it. “No need. It’s a spar, and injuries like this are only expected. I’m not the type of person to hold a grudge just because I lost.”

“Shifang has the temperament of a hero. I admire it,” Meng Tingfeng said. He could see that his son wouldn’t take it, no matter what, so he took it back. With his power, it probably wouldn’t be hard to get some Immortal Qi Condensation Pills if he didn’t already have them.

Still, the sheer amount of spiritual qi Ba Shifang was absorbing surprised Meng Tingfeng. After walking away, Ba Shifang resumed absorption of the qi, and it was as if he was a bottomless hole. He kept absorbing and absorbing with no intent on stopping.

Not just the spectators, even Tianyi couldn’t help but be dazzled by that sword swing. Still, his actions only halted for a nanosecond. His fist rained down upon Bao Ling, but to his surprise, that sword swing blocked all of his punches. He wanted to continue. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have named it an infinity combo, but the stinging pain in his fingers stopped him.

Tianyi retreated. At a distance, he looked at his hands to see deep gashes in his fingers where he punched the cyan sword’s edge. Black mist continuously leaked out from the wounds. If he had continued to attack, disregarding the damage, his hand might have disappeared.

‘It was a simple sword slash, yet he’s able to pierce the dimensional boundaries of my conduit,’ Tianyi thought. Bao Ling’s power had exceeded his imagination.

Tianyi’s body started to float up. Bao Ling followed. The two didn’t stop even when their body exited Shangri-La’s influence and only stopped when they were far away from it in the Vast Void. It was an implicit agreement. Their following clash would be catastrophic and would cause irreparable damage to the fortress.

Once they stopped, Tianyi attacked. Black qi with countless twinkling motes of light exploded from his body and covered over a hundred kilometers. “Chaos Refining Formation, form!”

Bao Ling once again unleashed his sword. There was no sword qi or any other type of ranged attack exploding from his blade, yet Tianyi still felt his Chaos Refining Formation fail. Not a second later, it split in half. After stalling for a minute, the formation dissolved into immortal qi of primordial chaos.

The sword emperor wasn’t content to allow Tianyi to continue to attack him either. He flew toward Tianyi like a sword.

Tianyi retreated. He waved his hand and unleashed a spacetime domain. Within the domain, time slowed down and space solidified. Yet, Bao Ling only slowed down a bit. It was as if he was a hot knife slicing through butter.

Upon seeing his tactic fail, Tianyi altered the spacetime domain. Sometimes time would speed up or slow down, it might even freeze. Up, down, left, and right altered. Sometimes, it was just a bit of direction adjustment, like flying up would cause you to fly forward. Other times, the directions would reverse. In essence, spacetime became chaotic and the regular rules no longer applied.

In this situation, most immortal emperors would become flustered and unable to exert even seventy percent of their strength. But Bao Ling’s speed only dropped by ten percent.

Still, that was enough for Tianyi. A miniature sun appeared inside Tianyi’s palm. Without a second thought, he launched it toward Bao Ling.

Nine Heavens Style - Stellar Silence.

Bao Ling slashed his sword.

Tianyi narrowed his eyes. He expected the miniature sun he condensed to explode upon contact, but to his shock, Bao Ling actually sliced his attack in two without exploding. The two halves continued to fly forward, extremely stable, as if they hadn’t been hacked in half. It was only after a few seconds that the two halves exploded, but by then, Bao Ling had already exited the blast radius.

The next several stellar silences launched by Tianyi also met the same fate. Just as he was only a kilometer away from Tianyi, Bao Ling’s speed dramatically increased. The nine sphere attack in Tianyi’s palm didn’t even have time to finish forming before Bao Ling appeared in front of him.

With sword raised high, Bao Ling slashed down. Tianyi felt a gouging pain as the sword sliced through his chest. His eyes hardened as his immortal qi of primordial chaos exploded forth and engulfed Bao Ling. Not even a second later, the immortal qi of primordial chaos burned brightly.

An astronomical explosion engulfed the two immortal emperors.