Techniques and Dao

Chapter 219 Two-Front Operation
After the violent explosion, a large hole was blasted through the several-foot-thick brick wall of the ancient castle, and the rocks and black steel at the edge of the hole were scorched and melted red-hot!

Mieying and Jian had already passed through the cave and were out of Huasheng's sight when they reached the outdoors.

Hua Sheng was extremely anxious, but Brian in front of her was so difficult to deal with that there was no way she could escape.

End the battle as soon as possible!
She clenched her fists. Although the opponent's magical spells were several levels higher than those of an ordinary mage, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, the magic staff of the Ruyi Jingu Bang, was no pushover! As long as she used the staff to resist, neither electricity nor fire could harm Hua Sheng.

However, after several dozen rounds, Hua Sheng immediately showed signs of fatigue. His nerves had been on high alert for the past two days, and the fierce battles he had just fought against Lü Dongbin and Tian Jizi before rushing to Paris had left him breathless.

Hua Sheng knew that losing focus in battle was fatal, and he told himself that he absolutely could not continue fighting. Moreover, the gravitational nuclear bomb in Jinling City was so close at hand, and Master Ruokong, Immortal Master Jueguang, and Immortal Master Yuran were in grave danger; he had to warn them to be on guard as soon as possible!

Hua Sheng pondered as he fought. Western magicians and the immortal arts of the magic academy were different. Whether it was a magic wand or a magic book, Western magicians were highly dependent on magical artifacts, far more so than cultivators like themselves. Cultivators, on the other hand, could still cast incantations even if they lost their magical artifacts.

Hua Sheng thought this might be similar to Eastern martial arts, where many practitioners can defeat enemies even without swords, using only their bare hands. But Western magic seems to emphasize the use of tools; once magical items are lost, it's like an archer losing their bow and crossbow.

To take away Brian's "wand," we need this magic sword! Without the magic sword, it's like losing both of his arms, leaving Brian's magic without a channel to function, and greatly reducing the threat.

How can we take the wand from a mage of this caliber? Since this wand can transform into a knight's sword, it might also change into different shapes. As long as there are unknowns, there is no foolproof way.

Even if one has the skill to disarm someone with bare hands, once they grasp the sword, if the other party discovers their intention, they can easily turn the sword back into a magic wand or something else.

But as long as you're fast, speed is the only way to win!

Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of the sword's shape to seize it at an extremely high speed! Not only that, but at the same time as you are fast, you must slow down Brian's speed.

Give him some kind of "signal" so that he doesn't have time to turn the wand into something else, so that you can be 100% sure.

But since it's a weapon, trying to grab the sharp blade with your bare hands is obviously not a solution, so some kind of...

"We have no choice but to take a gamble!"

Hua Sheng made up his mind and decided to go all out.

Clang! The golden cudgel clashed with the magic sword, and Brian slid the magic sword down the golden cudgel! Like a boning knife, he slashed at Hua Sheng's fingers.

Hua Sheng knew this was her chance! She pretended to loosen her grip on the golden cudgel to avoid the sword blade.

With a clang, accompanied by the metallic scraping sound of the sword blade against the staff, the golden cudgel flew out of Hua Sheng's hand!

When Hua Sheng revealed an opening, Brian certainly wouldn't miss it. After slashing down with his magic sword, he thrust forward in the same direction!
Hua Sheng tried to grasp the sword with his bare hands, but he still couldn't stop it from piercing him.

*Thud!* The sword pierced Hua Sheng's left abdomen, and blood immediately flowed down the blade.

Hua Sheng grabbed the sword with his bare hands, blood gushing out and soaking the floor tiles!
“You little bastard! You’re finished!” Brian roared viciously.

Looking at the magic sword piercing his body, Hua Sheng raised his head, a sly smile on his face.

"You're doomed! You idiot!" Hua Shengnian cried out, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

Suddenly, the flowers bloomed and the figure vanished, replaced by a scabbard in front of Brian. His magic sword had been seamlessly sheathed, and then the scabbard suddenly began to spin rapidly, as if it had been fitted with a motor.

Brian couldn't hold onto the sword hilt at all, and the sword flew out of his hand!

The sword and its scabbard traced a parabola in the air—a blood-red, glowing parabola.

When the light landed, the magic sword was already in Hua Sheng's hand. She gripped the hilt with both hands and forcefully plunged it into the ground.

"Hurry up as a law!"

The magic sword was completely embedded in the ground, becoming a true sword in the stone.

Hua Sheng reached out and the golden cudgel flew into his hand. He swung the cudgel backhand and struck Brian in the chest, sending the vice principal sprawling backward to the ground. Without giving his opponent a chance to catch his breath, Hua Sheng rushed forward and plunged the cudgel into Brian's face.

“Attendez un peu! Wait...wait!!” Brian panicked.

The heavy golden cudgel, weighing over ten thousand kilograms, slammed into the stone brick floor to the left of Brian's face with a loud thud, sending up fragments that left several bloody marks on his face!
Hua Sheng squatted down and leaned closer, saying, "What else do you want to say?"

"You...you don't care what happened to your companion?" Brian was still in shock. "Her life or death...maybe..."

Hua Sheng turned to look at the blasted-open cave, and at the same time, a girl's figure appeared in the center of the cave.

The girl had long hair that was dancing in the wind.

As white as snow.

Their eyes met, and just as Hua Sheng was about to speak, the white-haired Mie Ying spoke first.

"She's strong." Mie Ying's lips curled into a slight smile. "But I'm the one who won!"

Seeing that the outcome was decided, Hua Sheng pressed his golden cudgel against Brian's forehead and shouted, "We've destroyed your main battle camp! Get everyone back now, or I'll smash your head in!"

Hua Sheng added, "And then I'll burn this lousy school to the ground!"

"Shut down the gravity nuclear bomb first!" Shadow Extinction shouted sternly.

Upon hearing this, Brian suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

"What are you laughing at!" Hua Sheng raised the golden cudgel in his hand.

"Too late! That nuclear bomb exploded the moment you came in! A gravitational nuclear explosion—no one in the city except those from the Demon School could have survived!" Hua Sheng felt a surge of blood rush to his head, and he almost lost his balance. Ignoring the blood still flowing from his abdomen, he punched Brian in the face, then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out the door.

"Quick! Get me out of this hellhole right now! I need to get back to the front from the reversed space! Now! Right now!"

Hua Sheng shouted urgently.

Suddenly, the white-haired Shadowless One said uneasily, "I've been worried ever since we came in. Where did that Minister of Dark Arts named Madeline, whom Jane mentioned, go? If Jane said she's powerful enough to skin you alive, why didn't we encounter her in the Dark Arts Advancement Campus?"

She pondered, "They didn't mention this person in Nanjing either. Since he's not in Nanjing or Paris, it's like he's vanished... I'm worried that we've overlooked a crucial piece of information, which could render all our efforts futile."

Hua Sheng glared at Brian and demanded, "Where is your Minister of Dark Arts?!"

Brian pointed out a tooth that had been broken by the flower, and said, "The second one... a six-pointed star..."

Ten minutes ago.

Nanjing Jinling, Xuanwu Lake.

The sky above Jinling City remained shrouded by Master Ruokong's Righteous Dharma Bright Tathagata Dharma Gate Array, rendering the Ultimate Six-Pointed Star Magic Array powerless against it.

Master Yu Ran was stroking his long beard, looking at the glowing spot in the nearby sky.

The nuclear bomb fell from the sky, less than three miles from Jiming Temple.

Immortal Master Yu Ran turned to Immortal Master Jue Guang behind him and asked, "Have you ever seen a nuclear bomb?"

Master Jueguang looked up and said, "Is its power comparable to the Boundless level?"

"It is not quite at the level of Boundless. But it may be the closest thing to Boundless level immortal techniques ever created in the human world."

"Can that immortal master handle it alone?"

“That would have been possible. However, there are still people in Jinling who have not been evacuated, and we cannot afford any mistakes. We hope that Immortal Master Jueguang can lend a helping hand to ensure our safety.”

Master Jueguang nodded and raised his hand, saying, "The Immortal Master invites you in!"

"welcome!"

After saying this, the two immortal masters summoned auspicious clouds and flew one after the other toward the nuclear bomb.

At that very moment, the nuclear bomb emitted a dazzling purplish-red light, from which purplish-red spikes shot out. It was like a giant hedgehog suddenly appearing in mid-air with its spikes erected, and the spikes grew longer and longer, while the purplish-red light spots began to rotate.

Upon seeing this, Immortal Master Jueguang said, "I have heard that a nuclear explosion should produce a mushroom-shaped cloud, but this..."

Yu Ran hurriedly said, "Could it be that the magician just now was playing a trick? We must be very careful."

Before the words were even finished, the water in Xuanwu Lake began to surge upwards, flying towards the purplish-red light spots in the air. At the same time, the trees and soil on Zijin Mountain also began to detach from the ground and rise.

Looking down from mid-air, the cars that were parked in the city suddenly lifted off the ground and flew upwards at an ever-increasing speed. The radiant light of the magic array in the sky also seemed to be drawn downwards by the points of light, expanding into "bubbles".

"This is bad! It's definitely not just an explosion!"

Immortal Master Jueguang used his magic, sending a wisp of icy blue air to freeze the strange nuclear bomb.

A thick layer of ice immediately formed around the nuclear bomb, but at the same time, the ice layer collapsed inward and was swallowed by the nuclear bomb.

Immortal Master Yu Ran and his companion jointly cast a spell, shouting, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

The ice layer thickened dozens of times, but the collapse did not slow down. A sudden drop in temperature caused a flurry of snowflakes to fall, which instantly turned into fist-sized hailstones. After falling dozens of meters, the hailstones rose again, quickly attracted by the purplish-red specks of light.

A hurricane swept across the city, sending all heavy objects hurtling toward the spiky, purplish-red dot. The bomb's explosion, instead of creating a shockwave, blasted out a "death point" capable of swallowing everything.

Looking down, the bricks and tiles of the ancient Jiming Temple had long since collapsed and were mostly destroyed, and the Medicine Buddha Pagoda was like a candle flickering in the wind.

Immortal Master Jueguang made a hand seal, attempting to use a teleportation technique on the gravitational nuclear bomb. However, after the flash of blue light, the dot remained motionless in mid-air!

At this moment, the purplish-red dot began to expand again. When an off-road vehicle that had been attracted approached it, its body was pulled by an immense force. The steel plates of the entire vehicle twisted into a long, thin rope, and the parts closer to the purplish-red dot were stretched at an extremely high speed.

The SUV instantly transformed into a bizarre work of art, short and stubby at one end and as thin as a needle tip at the other, exuding a distorted shape.

The bizarre shape wasn't the end of the car's destruction; the needle-like end was closer to the dot and was pulled even faster. The force was so great that the slender steel plate didn't have time to break into pieces; instead, it was directly absorbed by the dot in powder form.

Immortal Master Jueguang cried out, "This point will devour everything. We must use immortal techniques to create a protective shield around it, otherwise Jinling City and all the gods will perish!"

Immortal Master Yu Ran then followed Jue Guang in chanting the immortal incantation, and a golden shell immediately appeared outside the purple dot. This move was indeed effective. Under the isolation of this primordial spirit shield, the gravitational and nuclear explosion power generated by the nuclear bomb was greatly reduced, and the object that was originally flying towards the purple dot fell back to the ground. The booming sound of objects falling from the sky could be heard continuously from all over the city.

However, the inner part of the primordial spirit shield formed by the immortal technique was still being continuously devoured by the gravitational nuclear explosion, and the entire golden shell rapidly thinned, immediately becoming transparent.

The two immortal masters had no choice but to guard the primordial spirit shield from the left and right, continuously channeling immortal power into the center. However, this channeling of immortal power was like rapidly drawing large amounts of blood from a mortal, and Immortal Master Yu Ran and Immortal Master Jue Guang immediately felt their strength failing.

On the contrary, the dots became even brighter and more dazzling, and the thickness of the spirit shield gradually could not keep up with the rate at which it thinned.

To the surprise of the two immortal masters, the dot suddenly emitted a flare, and the primordial spirit shield shattered with a crack. Immortal Master Yu Ran and Immortal Master Jue Guang were both absorbed by the dot.

Only then did they realize that what exploded in front of them was a terrifying curse they had never seen before.

(End of this chapter)