Translator: Sparrow Translations  Editor: Sparrow Translations

Just how monstrous was Fang Zhengzhi's talent? Ping Yang could not imagine.

Fang Zhengzhi did not know how Ping Yang felt, or he would have given her a hard knock on the head and told her:

“Of course a person's talent can't be this monstrous. However, if he has a good grasp of different Daos, things would be different!”

This was akin to someone who has read all the books in the world. They would be able to understand the content of books faster and where the information was gleaned from.

As the saying went, becoming formidable requires a lifetime of work.

Fang Zhengzhi was formidable alright, to the point that he seemed scary. When he had been refined in the Middle Stream Cauldron on the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, he got to read the 23 Heaven Dao Sage Tablet everyday. This had given him a solid understanding of the Dao written on the tablets and his skills had progressed rapidly.

He had already broken through over two thousand barriers in his cultivation of Dao.

Over two thousand types of Dao?

What kind of notion was this?

Fang Zhengzhi did not have any idea how this worked at first but he did now. On the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, he had grasped the Ice Crystal Dao of the Great Elder Ying Yu in a very short time.

He had been astounded at himself then.

Now…

He had mastered the jade-green Green Blade Dao as well as the dark blue Extreme Frost Dao used by the five women from Ling Yun Tower in a short time as well.

Fang Zhengzhi no longer needed to keep up the pretense. He placed a hand behind his back and with his other hand holding onto the Traceless Sword, he sighed towards the skies.

“Sigh… aces are often lonely! Fang Zhengzhi reflected while ignoring the dumbfounded expressions of the five women and Cang Yue.

At this point, Fang Zhengzhi was acting like an arrogant p.r.i.c.k.

However piqued the five women and Cang Yue looked, they remained still.

They did not believe a word about having their skills countered.

Be that as it may, what they had seen was unprecedented. Nothing like this had every happened in the history of the Holy Region.

No one would have thought that a person could master his opponent's techniques in the short time they took to exchange blows.

“Why did it turn out this way?!”

“This is impossible!”

“No one could have done that! This is too coincidental to be true!”

It was often said that people who knew more tended to be confused easily. The five women prided themselves on knowing their Dao inside out and were thus unwilling to believe that incredible events had happened right before their eyes.

Cang Yue could not believe her eyes either.

She was seriously injured and could do nothing other than to steal looks at Ling Yun Tower every now and then.

Ping Yang recovered herself upon hearing Fang Zhengzhi speak.

“Aces are often lonely? Just how thick-skinned can he get?” Ping Yang was contemptuous but she did not want to argue with Fang Zhengzhi.

Perhaps it was Lin Mubai's injuries that had caused her to lose her inclination to argue with Fang Zhengzhi. Or it could be because she had no reb.u.t.tal for Fang Zhengzhi's words.

“I've underestimated him!” Lin Mubai had kept his eyes on Fang Zhengzhi the whole time.

Fang Zhengzhi was his last hope, his only hope.

At that moment, a light flashed across Ling Yun Tower. It was like a golden ray of sunlight.

It was una.s.suming.

However, this was enough to make the five women shudder. They shared a look with each other.

“Dance!” The woman in red gritted her teeth and shouted out loud.

The five women changed their positions once more and the dark blue light surrounding them disappeared. The dark blue in their eyes was replaced by the colour black. It was a deep dark black that sucked in all the light and obscured the whites of their eyes.

“Indeed, she is watching.” Fang Zhengzhi threw the occasional glance at Ling Yun Tower.

When he had seen the light flash across Ling Yun Tower, he could not help but smirk.

Fang Zhengzhi was pretty sure that the leader of Ling Yun Tower had been watching them the whole time.

What actually surprised Fang Zhengzhi was that…

The leader of Ling Yun Tower had such a high level of forbearance. She had refrained from revealing herself and was relying on the five women she had dispatched to test Fang Zhengzhi.

In fact, the five women were powerful. They were competent individually but their combined strength was very outstanding.

Were they really going to drag it on?

Fang Zhengzhi had enough of this. G.o.d knows if Ling Yun Tower would send out another batch of fighters when he had defeated these five women.

No one could know that.

As Fang Zhengzhi pondered over this question, the world around him turned dark. The five women were attacking him once again.

“Darkness?” Fang Zhengzhi narrowed his eyes slightly.

From the previous formation and techniques the five women had adopted, Fang Zhengzhi had thought that they would stick to the Five Elements Dao.

However, it seemed that this was not the case.

The positions of the five elements…

Was only a method used by the five women to unleash the Dao better.

“Buzz!”

Fang Zhengzhi's vision was entirely obscured by the darkness. He could feel the invasiveness of the shadows.

Black flames rose up from Fang Zhengzhi's body again. This was an instinctive reaction to other Daos and served as a defence mechanism as well.

The black flames burned in the dark and banging sounds began to ring out. Fang Zhengzhi could feel new information entering the sea of his consciousness.

An attractive force!

This probably has something to do with the Abyss Dao!

Other than the attractive force, there was the presence of another aggressive ent.i.ty that carried with it a sense of corruption. Fang Zhengzhi could feel something burning as well.

The nature of this darkness seemed to be similar to that of h.e.l.l Dao, but it was not as tough and energetic. It felt softer and more pa.s.sive.

Its name?

It shall be called…

The Yin Fire Dao!

Fang Zhengzhi had managed to comprehend this Dao but there was no way for him to derive its name. Thus, he had named it casually.

“Crack!”

A cold and sharp aura a.s.sailed Fang Zhengzhi from behind.

It seemed like that of a sword!

No!

It was five swords!

Fang Zhengzhi had lost his vision in the dark and could not see the incoming attack. However, he was still able to feel its aura.

Fang Zhengzhi closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again.

The black fire burning in his eyes had been extinguished and was replaced by a deep dark black.

Just as his eyes turned black, he suddenly saw that the five women were approaching him with their swords. The five swords were banded together just like how the five women had arranged themselves into one straight line. They had given up on their five elements formation.

“I see!” Fang Zhengzhi immediately understood their attack strategy. It was obvious that they were approaching Fang Zhengzhi with caution.

They had given up on attempting to suppress him directly with Dao.

They were going to try to get close to him and kill him from there.

Of course, before proceeding with their slaughter, the five women had activated the Yin Fire Dao.

The Yin Fire Dao was not only invasive and aggressive, but it was also capable of obscuring Fang Zhengzhi's vision. This way, the five women could approach him undetected.

In such a situation, one would have thought that the five women would attack from five different directions.

In truth…

In order to kill someone, it was not necessary for them to aim for five vital points.

One was enough!

The five women were experienced in battle and had made use of the Yin Fire Dao to aid them in their a.s.sault. They were going to attack Fang Zhengzhi at only one of his vital points with their combined strength.

If their plan went through, Fang Zhengzhi would not have detected the attack until it was too late.

A seamless plan, solid experience, as well as the excellent individual and combined prowess of the five women, meant that this a.s.sault had an extremely good chance of success.

Unfortunately, this was not going to work on Fang Zhengzhi, simply because he had literally seen it coming.

In the entire Holy Region, was there anyone who could comprehend a Dao in one look?

No one!

Except for Fang Zhengzhi. Hence, he was able to see through the battle plan of the five women so easily. However, the ease at which he was able to do it was built upon a foundation that was tremendously strong.

Fang Zhengzhi laughed.

It was a merry laugh. He wanted to shout to the skies about how lonely he was at the top. Was he going to become the second Dugu Qiubai, an unparalleled swordsman who had died of loneliness due to the lack of opponents?

But he did not do it in the end.

Because he had no time for that!

The swords of the five women had reached him.

He twisted away rapidly.

Fang Zhengzhi's body had disappeared on the spot. Now that he had comprehended the Yin Fire Dao, he would not be harmed by it.

No more hesitation. No more dragging it on.

The five women had delivered a lethal blow. Fang Zhengzhi would not stand on ceremony either and s.h.i.+fted his body such that he appeared behind the five women.

The five women had concentrated all of their attacking power on the straight-lined a.s.sault. This was the strongest blow aimed at one spot that they could manage.

This form attack had one weak spot though.

The weak spot was at its back.

The reason being that the five women were arranged very closely to each other in the straight line so as to increase the attack speed.

This way, their line of sight would be compromised. In order to stay within the line, the four women behind the woman at the front would not be able to see ahead.

Fang Zhengzhi's current position…

Was at the back of the five women. He was within one step of the woman at the back of the line. His eyes were as black as their eyes.

Although Fang Zhengzhi's eyes were devoid of light, the Traceless Sword that he held sparkled with a strange purple light.

In truth, as he stood behind the woman, an idea for a thrilling killing move came into his mind.

However, he considered the advanced age of the five women and decided to drop the idea.

He would give up the plan for Kancho!

However, thrusting his sword into their backs and skewering them like candied hawthorn did not sound like a bad idea!