From what point did...such an insignificant person began to be so arrogant towards oneself?
Lumings watched the girl before him quietly, recognizing her as the talented child raised by his rebellious son who never married.
Back then, despite her excellent talent, no Sorcerer Family in Capital City was willing to offer her favorable terms, mainly due to himself, and at that ti, he didn’t really care about a fostered girl.
Look, he did nothing, offered no hints, yet just because of Mu Hongqing and his status, all the Sorcerer Families in Capital City instinctively ruined the girl’s future prospects.
At that ti, he never looked down; in his eyes, there were only the Emperor of the Siao Family and Duke of Qin, Liu Yu.
And now, before he realized it, first foiled by Siao Mingyue’s sches, then defeated by Chen Qing’s hand, and now...even such a junior dare to provoke him like this?
Lumings closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He rembered fleeing alone in a panic, so hastily that he didn’t even have ti to take care of his own wife. After returning to the north, the rules of the Path of Yin and Yang forced him to compromise, letting Zhang Family people seal him inside a corpse using Secret Techniques.
Yes, the reason he was able to escape Jiangnan and still roam the mortal world was because of the Zhang Family, or rather, Zhang Zhiyun’s personal will.
He was conducting an experint that required a body of a Warrior close to Transcendent Bloodline Power. The Lu Family wasn’t able to preserve his body, let alone his life.
Those giant pythons, upon leaving Snake Valley, beca the first batch of flesh to be sacrificed.
Now, the only remaining person from the Lu Family in this world...is himself.
Although half-dead and half-alive.
He had never thought that one day, he would end up in such a wretched plight!
But no matter how low he fell, it was not sothing Mu Hongqing and his adopted wild girl could mock...
"Your master should perhaps teach you well the way to survive adversities," said Lumings as he stepped closer. He had been observing while the other Flying Stiffs were immobilized and had completely grasped this girl’s thods.
The Quadrant Heavenly Prison is a very special Array, even if he fell into it, he wouldn’t differ from the other Flying Stiffs, but he knew clearly that this wild girl could capture all the Flying Stiffs using this thod only because those Flying Stiffs were too predictable and easily targeted with re brute strength.
This was also why Zhang Zhiyun wanted to make living Stiffs.
"The way to survive adversities?" Chen Ying responded with an icy face, "Does Lord Lu even rember such a principle?"
"Didn’t your master tell you?" Lumings sneered, "How did he survive under such adversities? When it’s ti to face reality, one must endure in all situations, like when he knew all too well the torture his mother was enduring in the Lu Family’s courtyard yet still managed to study calmly with the officials. That is capability. Clearly, you have not learned your master’s skills, for had he been here and seen , his first thought would have been to find a way to escape, not to act on impulse."
Chen Ying’s face turned colder at these words.
Lumings...
The man her master utterly despised in his nightmares.
The cruel Madam Lu tornted her master’s mother and sister, but the indulgent father, who knew everything and allowed it to happen, was this very man.
Her master’s hatred for Lumings was greater than for Madam Lu!
Yet even so, she hadn’t imagined that he would take pride in this matter.
"From the beginning, I never thought you were anything important," said Chen Ying coldly, "No great man would fail to protect his won and daughter, allowing a vicious woman to defile them. I don’t know how you have the face to bring this up, my master was biding his ti, because he knew that even with all his might, he couldn’t save his mother and sister. Only by biding could there be hope, no matter how faint."
"You speak of my master, aren’t you the sa? Even if you took my master’s mother just for her beauty, it ans you at least liked her once. What right does a man have to denounce his juniors if he can’t even protect what he liked from being trampled and humiliated at will?"
"Sharp-tongued, just like your master," Lumings sneered coldly as he moved suddenly.
His speed was astonishing. The two behind Chen Ying couldn’t see clearly at all. Both with True Dragon Bloodline, relying on their Bloodline Power, they could catch up with the Yaksha General of the Southern Sea with their physical strength alone, but Lumings’s level was now much higher. They couldn’t keep up with their eyes, just like before, if the target were them, they would be like lambs to the slaughter.
But facing Chen Ying was different. Chen Ying had a peculiar formation that not even the quickest warrior could approach.
Indeed, just as before, when Lumings approached with extre speed, his movent suddenly slowed down. It seed that no matter what, he couldn’t touch Chen Ying at all.
However, faced with this technique, Lumings rely let out a cold laugh. He was already tired of this move.
The little girl is inexperienced, isn’t she? Hasn’t anyone told her not to use the sa powerful move repeatedly in front of a master?
Boom!
All of a sudden, Lumings stomped on the ground, and the terrifying force of the stomp instantly churned the earth. At that sa mont, the folded space in front of Chen Ying shattered like glass.
Chen Qing’s pupils contracted slightly as he quickly retreated.
"Getting cocky with just a bit of skill, in that, you’re quite similar to Mu Hongqing," Lumings whispered teasingly close to Chen Ying’s ear. "The ability to form arrays instantly is indeed good, but it has a big drawback. First of all, rune stones, which are unstable and wastefully extravagant, definitely can’t be used to form arrays instantly, so the runes of the formation have to be etched elsewhere. In an unexpected encounter with an enemy, even a fool can guess that your formation is etched into the ground beneath your feet."
As soon as he said this, the elder sorcerers watching the fight had their realization.
So that’s how it is!
Arrays are usually made with rune stones to be more stable. However, if the rune stones are etched in advance, it makes the formation too obvious, and they can’t be used to face enemies on the fly.
The secret technique of drawing arrays in the void is a secret of Jiangnan, which allows for creating arrays out of thin air, without the need for rune stones to stabilize them. But this thod can be very unstable when facing formidable warriors, since air is fluid, especially in battle situations, making it easy for warriors to directly destroy them.
On the other hand, quietly etching them on the ground can ensure a certain level of stability.
But warriors can counter this too, by simply destroying the ground!
Indeed...
A group of sorcerer elders had a complicated look in their eyes. This clever thod could have a certain advantage against warriors with slower thinking, but when faced with soone as battle-hardened as Lumings, who only needs to see it once, it becos full of flaws.
However, Chen Ying, confronted by Lumings’s proximity, remained undisturbed.
"Does the Duke of Qin really think that he’s the only smart one in this world?"
Lumings was taken aback, and his expression changed drastically. This remark, a woman had once said the sa thing to him, it was Siao Mingyue who had nearly calculated him out of everything!
And now, Chen Ying looked at him with eyes that were exactly like Siao Mingyue’s back then.
In that mont, he realized instantly that he had been sched against.
Instinctively, he reached out to grab Chen Ying, but at that mont, he found that his reaching hand unfolded entirely, and the world in front of him suddenly completely folded and inverted, while Chen Ying in front of him beca infinitely large.
"My array was indeed quietly etched under the soil beneath my feet, but if you can think to destroy the ground to disrupt the formation, don’t you think I, the designer, would consider that?"
At this point, the scene was extrely strange. With one grab from Chen Ying’s hand, the entire space around Lumings was rapidly folding, eventually being forcibly folded into sothing the size of a small box, including Lumings himself, who was folded inside!
"I’m sorry, but guessing your destructive moves on the ground is not difficult, and after its destruction, my formation forming a new array is also within my calculation."
"How is that possible!" Lumings couldn’t believe it and exclaid sharply, "You might predict that I would destroy the ground, but could you also predict the force I would use?"
He wasn’t a magician, but he knew that for an array to transform into another, the requirents were extrely exacting. If the transformation of a new array depends on his destruction, the requirents are even more demanding, as it must precisely understand the force applied in his destruction.
"That’s why I’ve been avoiding you," Chen Ying said indifferently. "Calculating your speed and prowess, a warrior’s speed and strength are directly proportional. It’s not difficult to calculate, and the only trouble was how much force you would use. It turns out it wasn’t troubleso at all; your intentions... were very easy to guess."
Lumings: "....."
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