Chapter 432: Chapter 288 Zhaozhou County_2
So he didn’t plan to leave this kid behind, casually pinched his fingers, and flew south to sever this karmic bond.
After flying for dozens of miles, he indeed saw a large commandery. The city walls were filled with the flags of the rebel army, which bore the latest logo introduced by Stone Heavenly King after his regime change, the Black Cloud Soaring Dragon Flag. Normally, only the orthodox Three Constellations could use the dragon flag; the Four Countries and Eight Provinces could only use the phoenix. This overstepping suggests that madman truly intends to change the dynasty.
However, when Tie Dan glanced over, noticing the dense population inside the commandery and its strong defenses, it didn’t seem like it had faced any military disaster. He estimated that this place was probably inhabited by a group of ’ministers who follow the dragon.’
"Demon Path, halt!"
As soon as Tie Dan flew into the city, still eyeing the many Gate Valve mansions in the city, wondering which family this chubby boy belonged to, he suddenly heard an angry roar.
He saw a golden-armored general leap out from the gate tower, drawing a bow like a full moon, and an arrow came rushing like a meteor, heading straight for his face!
Then the spear-like giant arrow was crushed by the sword light.
Tie Dan looked at him silently, lifted the chubby boy in his hand and shook him for a clearer view.
The general indeed saw clearly, his eyes wide like copper bells, roaring,
"Bold Demon Path! In broad daylight! How dare you kidnap people! Let them go quickly! Everyone, come help me exterminate the demon!"
The ancestors and tributes from various families in the city heard the roar and flew out to take their positions, and a great battle was about to begin.
Seeing plenty of people, Tie Dan was satisfied. He then released the Yao Guang Sword Ball, protecting Hui Ming’s Iron Cutting Little Fatty, and casually grasped a sword light from the sky into his hand. Raising his hand, a sword gleamed forty zhang long, unexpectedly breaking the armor of the shouting defending general, cleaving his head and spine into two.
"Oh no! General Zhao is dead!" "Wait, wait!" "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding ah!"
The crowd, realizing the trouble, turned to flee, but Tie Dan didn’t care about them. According to routine, he rushed up and started chopping, not even bothering with dialogue, simply displaying his sword light, sometimes long, sometimes short, tunneling and slashing, cutting down anyone he saw.
The skill of changing the sword light isn’t actually that difficult. As long as one practices the Nine Luminaries Sword Scripture to the realm of Nine Luminaries Unification and has studied reflection and refraction of light in university, it can be varied at will, with endless transformations.
But these skills are merely the basics of the basics, and the more Tie Dan pondered and applied them, the more he felt he was still too weak. The Yao Guang Sword Formation had a lot of room for development and was far from being polished to a perfect realm. Now, with a chance to increase training level, he naturally couldn’t let it slip by.
For instance, the move Yao Guang Sword Ball, although it was effective to crush Core Formation trash, when used in group fights or against Nascent Soul Realm opponents, it was ultimately a bit slow. Once encountering speed-type demons or Mystic Sect People who can leap with escape skills anytime, it couldn’t be deployed at all, and they could easily escape.
And Yao Guang Sword Fall wasn’t anything extraordinary either. It was just shooting out numerous sword lights like torrents; perhaps useful in special cases for break defense, but ultimately, it was a fancy, tricky move not stable in fundamental use.
Therefore, Tie Dan’s thought was to further improve and develop Yao Guang Sword Light, ideally evolving it to be capable of attack, defense, and escape, to achieve perfection.
So this time, he tried not using the sword formation for protection, but instead borrowed the sword light to fly, getting close to the face, then randomly scattering the sword light open like a lively firecracker, zipping to the face, exploding with a pop, thousands of cuts dismembering the opponent before they could react.
After killing five or six people this way, Tie Dan felt that this move was still not perfect.
It’s a bit... unnecessary?
After all, if it’s a long-distance raid, getting right up to them, won’t a Lightning Sword kill them instantly? Why set up a sword formation?
The Yao Guang Sword Ball was originally a method for prolonged battles, but if you’ve rushed up there, why hesitate, just kill them in one strike?
And if not even the Lightning Sword can harm or kill them, what use is setting up sword formations for prolonged battles? Wouldn’t you just turn around and run?
Chicken rib, chicken rib...
Tie Dan sighed, only regretting that the tactical approach of the Yao Guang Sword Sect didn’t suit his nature. He couldn’t think of a way to incorporate this lineage’s sword methods into his own experienced tactics rhythm for now, so he could only keep slashing people to get a feel and familiarize himself with the rhythm.
Thus, Tie Dan went on killing and slashing four or five more in the Nascent Soul Realm, stuffing their heads into his sleeves, planning to proclaim the Sword Sect’s rules to them later.
"Hey kid! You’re going too far!"
Unexpectedly, this time someone jumped out to stop him, and a soil dragon rushed up from the ground, ramming the city gate!
Then a bald old man tunneled out of the ground! Shaking an iron staff left and right, releasing beams of Returning Dust Refining Qi, he managed to catch Tie Dan’s ever-changing sword light!
"Zhaozhou County is already under my Wangwu Mountain’s governance! Even when hitting a dog, you should look at the owner!"
Seeing the old bald man’s power was somewhat profound, ramming a gate tower without turning red and at least taking four or five lightning bolts, Tie Dan realized he needed to be more serious to kill this one. So he gave him face, sheathed his sword, bowed, and skillfully complained,
"Senior, allow me to explain. I am a disciple of the Sword Sect. On my way, I encountered a Heterodox Demon and conveniently saved that kid, kindly sending him home.
Who would have thought these Gate Valve people, incorrigible as they are, would strike without saying a word?
If not for my own meager skills, I would have been harmed by them!
Such ungratefulness, repaying kindness with revenge and resentment with wrongdoings, how detestable!