Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 171 – framing

High quality magical equipment, this Shi Jiutong actually brought out a High quality magical equipment!

Although the surrounding villagers of the two villages did not know what was happening in the training hall, the observing Martial Realm Cultivator saw everything clearly. The pearl that Shi Jiutong took out was a High quality magical equipment, and it was also because of this High quality magical equipment that he blocked Yang Tiangang’s smoke pot, which was also a High quality magical equipment.

Shi Jiutong’s breath quickened, the spirit essence in his chest churned, but he quickly calmed it down. Although he had received Yang Tiangang’s attack, the moment the two magic tools clashed, Shi Jiutong was able to truly feel Yang Tiangang’s cultivation, it was simply the strength of someone at the peak of the third stage of the martial arts realm!

Yang Tiangang similarly did not think that Shi Jiutong would actually be able to take out a High quality magical equipment. In his opinion, even if Shi Jiutong had advanced to the third stage of the martial arts realm, Yang Tiangang had already pushed his cultivation to the peak of the third stage with the help of sufficient cultivation resources over the past two years. That Shi Jiutong was still not his match, but he never would have thought that this fellow would actually bring out a High quality magical equipment!

No one knew better than Yang Tiangang about the difficulty of obtaining a High quality magical equipment. Back then, in order to obtain this High quality magical equipment in his possession, Yang Tiangang had disturbed almost all of the relationships that he could use before leaving the Bluestone Town, and had even sold off half of the cultivation resources he had accumulated over the years. This included a low-grade magic tool that was refined with the help of his father Yang Lie, and a portion of the compensation that he made from running away from the Yang family in order to barely gather the spirit materials needed to refine a High quality magical equipment.

That Shi Jiutong was naturally unable to compare with the Yang Tiangang who could still borrow the power of the Bluestone Town Yang family back then, so the High quality magical equipment in his hands was naturally not his own. The greatest possibility was naturally provided by the Xiong Family who stood behind him.

In fact, Song Wei who was watching the battle suddenly turned to Xiong Jingzhong and laughed: “I heard that the Xiong Family’s heritage is profound, there are two Spirit Treasures, five High quality magical equipment s, nine mid-grade Spirit Treasures and twenty low-grade Spirit Treasures, one of them is called the ‘Iron Aurora Pearl’, it should be this one right?”

It was not because Song Wei recognized the Iron-Aurora Pearl, but rather that the High quality magical equipment was an exceptionally rare item. When Shi Jiutong took it out, even if other people did not recognise this magical equipment, they would most likely conclude that the magical equipment came from the Xiong Family itself. This external butler was truly shocked that Song Wei’s control over the quantity of the Xiong Family had reached such a level!

He knew that this was Song Wei’s warning to the Xiong Family behind him, but Xiong Chi’s heart still felt waves of coldness, as though everything that happened in the Xiong Family was transparent in the eyes of Song Wei and Spiritual Master Chen Ji who was behind him.

Seeing the change in Xiong Jingzhong’s expression, Song Wei knew that his warning had achieved its goal, and thus, he turned his gaze back to the stage.

Although Yang Tiangang held the upper hand in terms of cultivation, the Iron-cloud Pearl and Shi Jiutong’s cultivation techniques seemed to be more compatible, and aesult, the scene looked as if Yang Tiangang was attacking while he was defending, but the occasional counterattacks caused Yang Tiangang to be wary of him.

The smoke pot in Yang Tiangang’s hands could only be considered normal amongst the High quality magical equipment, and this tool was more biased towards the fire attribute, so it was not too compatible with the Overlapping Earth Spirit Art that Yang Tiangang cultivated.

During the entire process of the duo’s battle, although Shi Jiutong had been defending, he had been silently accumulating his energy during the battle. He was not able to see it from the start, but as the duo’s battle progressed, the aura on Shi Jiutong’s body grew stronger and stronger, and it was obvious that he was preparing to counterattack.

However, Yang Tiangang seemed to not have seen it at all, as a series of scurrying techniques exploded out of the High quality magical equipment, and were blocked by Shi Jiutong one aime. He was actually determined to use his own profound cultivation to fight Shi Jiutong to the end.

“This Shi Jiutong is obviously accumulating his potential, what exactly is this Yang Tiangang thinking? Can’t he see that the moment this Shi Jiutong erupts, his counterattack will be incomparably sharp?”

Yu Zelin did not understand and could not help but ask Ning Changchun who was beside him.

Ning Zhangchun was slightly absent-minded, but hearing that, he only said: “Who knows, maybe before Shi Jiutong managed to successfully gather his energy, he had already used up all of his spirit essence, because Shi Jiutong’s cultivation was not as strong as his, furthermore, the son of Yang Tiangang had fought with him a few times, and more importantly, he used up some of Shi Jiutong’s spirit essence.”

Yu Ze Lin shook his head: “I don’t think so, this Yang Tiangang has always been giving off an extremely calm and steady feeling, and truthfully, if I were to choose a suitable Village Head, I would be more interested in him. From the looks of it, it’s impossible for this Yang Tiangang to not be able to tell, that with his current state, if I were to choose a suitable Village Head, I would be more confident in Shi Jiutong’s ability to counterattack.”

As the two were speaking, the atmosphere suddenly changed, and Shi Jiutong, who had been suppressed by Yang Tiangang, suddenly erupted. The iron pearl in the air carried a layer of cold light, and each time the two High quality magical equipment clashed, waves after waves of ice energy would follow the smoke pot and try to freeze the spirit essence in Yang Tiangang’s body. And under the continuous onslaught of the cold energy, the rhythm of Yang Tiangang’s continuous attacks also became a little chaotic.

Shi Jiutong could not wait and grabbed ahold of Yang Tiangang’s opportunity to attack. The aura that was brewing in his body seemed to have found an outlet to release its power, and traces of spirit essence scattered around him, condensing into a ball of flying threads that flickered with spirit light, instantly filling up half the area, floating gracefully and surrounding Yang Tiangang.

Yu Zelin saw the situation and his eyes lit up, and said: “Spirit technique, so Shi Jiutong also has a spirit technique inheritance, but he had this idea, this time Yang Tiangang will not be able to solve it easily!”

Yu Ze Lin looked left and right as he spoke, but suddenly realised that Xu Sanniang, who was not far from him, had a pale face, and was staring straight at the floating white hair on the ground with an excited expression. Yu Ze Lin’s heart was moved, he recalled that when Xu Sanniang came to the Yu Family to report about the Spirit Origin Realm, he mentioned that she had been ambushed.

“Patriarch Xu, have you discovered something amiss?”

Yu Zelin asked in a low voice. However, he deliberately created this tone to attract the attention of others, which attracted the attention of the surrounding Martial Realm Cultivator.

Xu Sanniang’s expression was obviously abnormally agitated, as she did not realize the intention behind Yu Zelin’s words. She lifted her arm, which was trembling from excitement, and pointed at Shi Jiutong: “It’s him, it’s him!”

Yu Zelin quickly asked, “Who is it, what happened to him?”

Xu Sanniang’s face was currently filled with hatred as she said in a ruthless voice, “It’s Shi Jiutong. The one who intercepted and killed me in the middle of last night was this Shi Jiutong!”

Yu Zelin’s tone was full of shock as he said, “Patriarch Xu, please don’t get the wrong person. Why would Village Head Shi want to kill you on the way?”

Xu Sanniang’s face was filled with certainty, and she said: “That’s right, it’s him, it’s this spirit technique, the white silk that filled the sky. After attaching it to my body, it’s like a vampire sucking blood from a cultivator’s body, I was possessed by this white silk, and was severely injured by it due to the lack of spirit energy in my body!”

Xu Sanniang then reacted and turned to look at Martial Realm Cultivator who was watching the battle from the side. Seeing that all of them had noncommittal expressions, Xu Sanniang immediately shouted: “If you all do not believe that I can continue watching, then this spirit technique will definitely be able to absorb the spirit essence in the opponent’s body, yes, yes, this Shi Jiutong wanted to kill me halfway, to let the Tuqiu Village have one less Martial Realm Cultivator. If not for Young Noble Yang Cunzheng’s martial arts realm, how could I, Tuqiu Village, win this battle?”

Xiong Jingzhong chuckled: “These are just the words of the Xu Family Patriarch after all. I think it’s better to be cautious with this matter. Everyone …”

Xiong Jingzhong was not finished, when suddenly a loud shout came out, everyone turned to look, only to see that Shi Jiutong’s spirit technique, which had turned into a sky full of white light, had forced Yang Tiangang into a corner.

Yang Tiangang obviously had a intuition that there was something wrong with this, but he did not know the exact details of the spirit art ability. In the beginning, he could only retreat, but the number of white clouds increased, and he knew that the space in which he could dodge Yang Tiangang was compressed time and time again.

However, the moment he rushed towards Shi Jiutong, the surrounding white catkins all flew towards him like mosquitoes smelling blood, and all the spirit energy around him was immediately sucked dry by the white catkins.

Yang Tiangang was so shocked that the killing intent around him surged, all the white threads that were within three feet of him were pulverized, but the white threads seemed to come from all directions.

Yang Tiangang continued to struggle as he got closer to Shi Jiutong, but he could feel the spirit essence in his body going past him, and his expression changed as he said: “Shi Jiutong, what kind of strange technique is this, to actually be able to absorb the spirit essence in your body!”

“Haha,” Shi Jiutong laughed complacently, and said: “Yang Tiangang, you did not expect this, right? I have already prepared this spirit art secretly for you for a long time, you will definitely lose to me today!”

Xu Sanniang suddenly shouted loudly: “It’s him, it’s this spirit absorbing technique, it’s this Shi Jiutong who tried to kill me last night!”

This time, the Yu Family, Ning Family, and Song Wei were all silent. However, Xiong Jingzhong said: “What can just a spiritual technique mean!”

At this time, Song Wei suddenly spoke up, “‘Floating Silk Spirit Summoning Technique’, this Spirit Art does have many inheritances in the Zhang County’s Seven Spirit Sects and Opening Spirit School!”

Xiong Jingzhong was startled, but in fact, he did not know of this spirit art. Hearing Song Wei being able to explain the details of the spirit art, his expression immediately changed, and he said: “What, Mr. Song, do you think Shi Jiutong is related to these two sects?”

Song Wei glanced at him and said: “Then does Butler Xiong think that a little Village Head like Shi Jiutong would be able to obtain this spirit art legacy? Since Xiong Family is so supportive of Shi Village Head, could it be that this spirit art is passed on to him by the Xiong Family?”