"COURTING DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scar Face roaring out loudly seeing Zhu Dingxiang advanced toward him without a word.
Holding the Fire Blade tightly in his grip, Scar Face uses up all of his energy and executes his only martial skill. In normal circumstances, he would exchange blows with his enemies before looking for an opportunity.
However, this time it is different as his instinct is screaming at him to run away but he can't. Showing his back to the enemy during a battle is taboo. Therefore he can only count on this one slash with everything he had and hope for the best.
"Tyrant Blade! Slash!"
Scar Face charge forward with the speed he himself never thought was capable of making. Hot fires erupted from the blade with an overbearing aura as its descent.
(A/N: Body refining cultivator can't use spiritual Qi to increase the prowess of their attack. Therefore what Scar Face doing right now is actually using all his physical energy to use his martial spirit and the Tyrant Blade technique without Spiritual Qi.)
Everything that is happening at this moment appears very slowly for Zhu Dingxiang. He had already activated his Spirit Eyes and his perception gained a huge boost.
Zhu Dingxiang simply makes a side step before making over ten wooden spears launching them in differents blind spots of his opponent's body.
As the saying goes, 'Don't take the brunt of the attack when you can dodge it!'
For Zhu Dingxiang, he never has much experience in fighting but it wouldn't even pose a challenge to defeat someone an entire realm below him. Not to mention he had the overwhelming advantage of foundation, martial spirit, and physique.
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Normally, when a mortal first become a cultivator he/she is estimated to have about 300 kg of force. From the 1st stage of Body Refining, every stage breakthrough would add 50 kg to their punch. This is just the most basic way to measure their strengths and not very accurate because there are many variables to take into consideration.
However, even though the Body refining realm cultivator could sense and use the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth to temper their body. They would still be vulnerable to many mortal sicknesses.
Only after stepping into the Qi condensation realm would they truly received a spiritual Qi baptism from heaven and earth, shedding their mortal-self and truly become a real cultivator.
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As Scar Face missed the all-out attack, soon many wooden spears pierced his body. After all his speed was way slower than Zhu Dingxiang who is in the middle of Stage 3 Qi Condensation realm.
After getting pierced by many of the wooden spears, Scar Face is dead as his corpse hanging in the air like a broken doll.
Many of the bandits who see this scene lost the will to fight and drop their weapons before running away. But would Zhu Dingxiang let them off? No!
After a few minutes, Zhu Dingxiang and Little White killed off all the bandits in the camp. With his left hand carrying Little Chibi, he then proceeds to calm down all the captured slaves and give them Divine Tree's Blessing.
Looking at the lifeless looks in some of the slave's eyes, Zhu Dingxiang was helpless so he just leaves them be. After calming all the captured women down, he purified all the blood and buried the dead bodies.
'They should already be alert by the fight that occurred here a moment ago.' Zhu Dingxiang thought while looking at the mountain peak.
"Well, since I'm already exposed then so be it."
Zhu Dingxiang takes a moment to recover his nature Qi before heading to the main base of the Yellow Dog.
Up the mountain, in front of the base of the Yellow Dog. There are barricades made of stones and woods wall with iron spikes on them. These walls are about 4 meters in height and 3 meters wide.
On top of the gate, there is a short and skinny middle-aged-looking man with a scimitar on his right shoulder giving off a dangerous aura and killing intent.
They are waiting for the unknown intruder who dared to come here and challenge the authority of their mighty Yellow Dog bandit group. A little over two hundred bandits, some even armed with bows and arrows.
Observing from far away with his Spirit eyes, Zhu Dingxiang was a bit intimidated as he looks at their steel arrows.
'Fuck! They even have 3 ballistae!' Zhu Dingxiang was cursing them in his heart. Even though he is at the third stage of the Qi Condensation realm, he would still be gravely injured if one of the ballista bolts hit him.
But upon thinking for a while, Zhu Dingxiang wasn't overly concerned. With his Mortal-rank (middle) movement technique "Cloud-step" practiced to perfection in this past 3 months, he was confident to dodge their attacks with the help of his Spirit eyes.
(A/N: What should I do with the progress of martial technique? Minor Making up his mind, Zhu Dingxiang summoned his martial spirit as a majestic 9 meters tall divine tree materialized behind him. "Fourth spirit ability: Plant manipulation!" In this world, martial spirits have spirit abilities just like how spiritual beast has their innate ability. Usually, only martial spirits at the Human-grade or above have spirit abilities, those at the Mortal-grade rarely have one. For every rank above Human-grade, the martial spirit would have one extra ability. For example, Human-grade would have 1 spirit ability, Earth-grade would have 2, Sky grade would have 3, and so on… However, spirit ability loses out when compared to the innate ability of the spiritual beast. Cultivators would only be able to use spirit abilities when using their martial spirit as a medium which expanded a lot more spiritual Qi than innate abilities. That is why most cultivators would focus more on martial techniques or other things they learned themselves and only see spirit abilities as a supporting mean or trump card. As the Divine Spiritual Tree is currently at the Sky Grade it has 4 spirit abilities. [Martial Spirit: Divine Spiritual Tree (Special/Variant).] [Innate: Aura of enlightenment (passive).] [Grade: (Divine/Sealed) Sky-grade(early).] [First Spirit ability: Heal (ACTIVE)] [Second spirit ability: Energy Refinement. (PASSIVE/ACTIVE)] [Third spirit ability: Purification.] [Fourth spirit ability: Plant manipulation.] (A/N: Hi guys, for the spirit ability things I kinda based it on soul land, a Chinese novel some of you might know. But as this world is not soul land, many things will be different, and yeah I don't want to make a big info dump about everything cuz I knew some might not even bother to read it. so I try to add little by little when it's time to explain things! I might write another chapter today. Hehe. Oh for the first skill heal, it was originated from the previous martial spirit.)