Chapter 402: Why the World Reversed
What does it mean to have bad luck, even choking on cold water? Su Hao was just like that.
Before he arrived at the Qianfeng Assembly in Ling Mountain Province, things had been fine for many years. But just as he arrived at the Qianfeng Assembly, not even a day had passed before he encountered a large group of Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators besieging the sect. It could only be said that he was extremely unlucky.
The one who felt it the most was Feng Ling. She felt that the timing of her departure from the Immortal Sect was wrong, leading to such a string of bad luck along the way. First, she encountered five cultivators intercepting her on the sea, then she found all the replacement disciples dead when she arrived at the Qilou Peak, and now she encountered over a hundred cultivators besieging the Qianfeng Assembly…
Feng Ling glanced thankfully at Su Hao beside her. If it weren’t for Su Hao being there, she feared she might have already died somewhere.
Su Hao furrowed his brows and stopped on the ground, saying, “Master, six Golden Core cultivators are chasing after us!”
“Uh—” Feng Ling suddenly turned around, seeing six different colored lights flying towards them, her heart skipping a beat.
Feng Ling immediately formed hand seals, grabbing Su Hao’s hand, and said, “Quickly burrow underground and escape!”
Su Hao flicked his hand, letting go of Feng Ling’s hand, and said, “Master, are you sure these cultivators can’t use earth escape techniques?”
Feng Ling’s hand stiffened, her face turning ugly as she said, “Then what should we do? I also know a shadow escape technique…”
Su Hao waved his hand and said, “What else can we do? Let’s just kill them first!”
Feng Ling worriedly said, “But they are six Golden Core cultivators, how can we fight them?”
Even after seeing Su Hao’s display of power twice, she still found it difficult to dispel her fear of encountering Golden Core cultivators.
Su Hao said, “Just stay put and don’t run around.”
As he spoke, a green light shot out from the Universal Knife, covering him and Feng Ling separately. Then Su Hao took a step forward, extending a finger and tapping it on the handle of the Universal Knife.
“Hum—”
The Universal Knife burst out instantly, attacking the nearest cultivator in a purple robe like a meteor.
The cultivator in the purple robe squinted his eyes and formed hand seals.
“Illusionary Thousand Traces!”
The cultivator in the purple robe turned into tens of millions, almost filling the entire sky, with countless shadows making it impossible to discern the true body.
The cultivator in the purple robe’s ‘Illusionary Thousand Traces’ technique mixed Golden Core spiritual energy into the other illusions. In the perception of spiritual consciousness, each one seemed real, making it impossible to confirm where the true body was hidden.
Perhaps, this was his reliance for daring to trouble Su Hao.
However, it was useless against Su Hao. Su Hao’s current way of locking onto the enemy’s position was through blood qi perception. As long as the cultivator in the purple robe didn’t have the ability to disperse his flesh like [Origin Lord], Su Hao could still instantly identify the person.
So, amidst the incredulous gaze of the cultivator in the purple robe, the green light changed direction, directly locking onto his true body, breaking through five layers of shields, piercing through, leaving behind a trail of blood splattering in the air.
A large number of illusions also disappeared along with it.
The green light turned again and was about to cut off the head of the cultivator in the purple robe.
“Golden Light Shield!”
A layer of golden light shield enveloped the cultivator in the purple robe. It was another technique from a bun-haired cultivator who, at the critical moment, put a shield around the cultivator in the purple robe. One, to protect the cultivator in the purple robe, and two, to test the effectiveness of his shield against the Universal Knife.
Su Hao’s Universal Knife struck the golden light shield, and it immediately shattered, barely slicing off the head of the cultivator in the purple robe.
At this point, Su Hao had depleted most of the spiritual power attached to the Universal Knife, and he was no longer capable of consecutively beheading the remaining cultivators.
The attacks of the other five cultivators also arrived in front of Su Hao and Feng Ling.
With no room to dodge, all the attacks directly hit the cyan light shields covering Su Hao and Feng Ling.
In the eyes of these five Golden Core cultivators, their attacks were sure to be successful, absolutely fatal! How could two Foundation Establishment cultivators withstand them?
Indeed, the artifacts of these two Foundation Establishment cultivators were powerful, able to instantly arrive and consecutively break through several layers of shields, directly killing a Golden Core cultivator!
Any one of them dared not face this artifact alone; if all six of them attacked together, they might try it, with one dying for the other five to escape.
None of these six believed they were the unluckiest one, even the cultivator in the purple robe who charged ahead felt the same. Even if the artifact targeted him, he was not afraid; ‘Illusionary Thousand Traces’ was his trump card…
In other words, as long as the tender-faced Foundation Establishment cultivator used the artifact to attack, regardless of who he hit, the attacks of the other five Golden Core cultivators could tear that tender-faced Foundation Establishment cultivator apart!
Then the battle would end, and they would obtain this immensely powerful artifact.
The more these five cultivators thought about it, the more excited they became. If they could get their hands on that cyan light artifact…
“Ding ding ding—”
To everyone’s surprise, various colored lights attacked fiercely, but when they hit the two Foundation Establishment cultivators, they only made a series of crisp sounds, unable to make any progress.
“What?” The bun-haired cultivator looked completely astonished! He had been prepared; once he killed that kid, he would immediately snatch the cyan light artifact. He didn’t expect his exceptionally sharp and vicious attacks, combined with those of the other four fellow cultivators, to be unable to break through the thin cyan light shield.
This made him furrow his brows. Was this kid really a Foundation Establishment cultivator? Could he be a disguise of some Nascent Soul old monster?
He carefully examined Su Hao’s youthful face again, thinking to himself, “At this age, he does seem to be a Foundation Establishment cultivator, not like a Nascent Soul old monster. He should still have an exceptional defense artifact on him.”
With that thought, the bun-haired cultivator’s heart burned even hotter, filled with even greater desire for Su Hao.
“Golden Light Break Shield!”
He waved his hand, and a golden light shot out from his sleeve, appearing in front of Su Hao in an instant, fiercely attacking the cyan light membrane in front of Su Hao.
“Dang!”
To the bun-haired cultivator’s surprise, his killer move, Golden Light Break Shield, actually failed!
This was the move he had prepared to seize the top-tier artifact at the last moment! Even he didn’t dare say he could withstand it.
He couldn’t help but furrow his brow and shouted, “Fellow Daoists, if not now, then when will you show your skills?”
Upon hearing this, the other four quickly expressed their intention to display their own specialties!
The green light turned back, appearing in Su Hao’s hand again. Once again, a large amount of spiritual power was infused into it, causing the slightly dim green light of the Universal Knife to swell again, turning it back into a deadly weapon.
At this moment, Feng Ling still had lingering fear, gasping for breath heavily.
At the moment when the attacks of the Golden Core cultivators were about to strike, she thought she was already dead, with various childhood memories flashing through her mind.
Then came a series of “ding ding ding” sounds around her ears, and to her surprise, she found herself still alive, with the thin cyan light in front of her remaining unscathed.
Feng Ling exclaimed, “Feng Wei, is this the Wind Spirit Shield? It doesn’t seem like it!”
Su Hao replied, “No! It’s a simplified version of absolute defense.”
“Absolute defense? What’s that?”
Feng Ling obviously didn’t understand the meaning of these four words, but Su Hao didn’t have time to explain to her. He thought to himself, “It’s okay to use the Universal Knife to kill individual targets, but once there are more opponents, it won’t work! I need to find a way to end the battle quickly!”
Killing one, recalling the Universal Knife to infuse it with spiritual power again, and then killing another—this kind of attack efficiency was too slow for Su Hao’s liking. It was intolerable! Even transforming into [Child of Fate] in front of everyone wasn’t an option…
After reinforcing Feng Ling’s defense once again, Su Hao wielded the long Knife, waved it around, and then chuckled softly, “There’s a sense of reality when it’s in your hands!”
At this moment, the second wave of attacks from the five Golden Core cultivators had arrived, clanging against Su Hao’s shield, but they were once again futile!
Although the cyan light shield on Su Hao’s body was just a crude version of the ‘absolute defense’ triggered by the Universal Knife, it was not something these Golden Core cultivators could easily break through.
One more Nascent Soul cultivator would be about right.
Su Hao murmured, “Let’s try swinging the Knife through space…”
The next moment, Su Hao’s brain quickly activated, activating the core rune ‘Spatial Module Generation’ and ‘Negative Space Module Positioning’, his spiritual tendrils manipulating space…
Suddenly, Su Hao swung the Universal Knife flatly.
In the distance, a flash of cyan light appeared around the neck of one Golden Core cultivator.
“Splurt!”
A head flew up into the air, the Golden Core cultivator’s head turned upside down as it fell, his eyes clouded, his mind filled with confusion: “What’s going on? Why is the world turning upside down…”
