Chapter 66: Trag Divine Ability

  “That was ihe case.”

  An Jing also aowledged the Sword Spirit’s caution: “One careless slip, and you would stray from the right path!”

  He sehe Taibai Restri Seed within his body and discovered that it normally did not i with external spiritual energy at all. It urely an internal cultivation teique.

  If spiritual energy resent, it could speed things up, yet even without it, cultivation proceeded just the same.

  After all, the Sword Spirit was once a Sword Immortal*. Even if He could not think of every detail, He could instinctively avoid certain dangers.

  The Radiant White Spirit Diviri recisely the sort of body refining cultivation teique that could make use of external materials for cultivation and happeo be the least susceptible to Demonic Qi ination.

  The superiority of body refining cultivation teiques iiernal Demonic Qi ination might well have been the reason the Huaixu Realm transformed from an Immortal Cultivation world into a Martial Path world.

  “Whether it is spiritual energy or the five metals, all of that is a resource from another world.”

  An Jing shook his head with a sigh. “It seems that if we want to do Qi Refining Immortal Cultivatioill have to go to the other world.”

  After that, he leaped down from the tree trunk, preparing to tinue on his way.

  Such was An Jing’s temperament; he never dwelled on matters he could not resolve.

  The spiritual energy ination in Huaixu was clearly a world?level camity and anomaly. Sihere was no fixing it, he preferred to pay it no heed.

  Moreover, although spiritual energy had been taihe natural products of the Huaixu Realm had not been inated.

  On the trary, they were extremely abundant!

  While running through the forest, An Jing casually grabbed a number of in?season berries. Most tasted sour and tained a bit of poisohey perfectly cut through the greasiness of pig meat and tempered the Internal Energy in his viscera.

  Yet iher world, aside from the near?gifted tusked pigs, he had hardly seen anything edible in the forest… All the shrubs and everees themselves were dark and rigid, and most of their leaves were needle?shaped, making them very difficult to e.

  For the half day, An Jing sprihrough the mountains and wilderness.

  It had to be said that the Huaixu Realm was immensely vast.

  From the time he had set out until now, An Jing had traveled over two thousand li. In his previous life, that distance would have spawo or three provinces.

  Yet in Huaixu, it only just barely took him from deep within the northwestern mountains to the hilly outskirts—a region with only st signs of human habitation.

  By the time An Jing emerged from those t a forests where the sky was blotted out, it was already the evening of the sed day, and he had finished all his stored jerky.

  Still, he did not o worry about food supplies, for from the top of these hills, he could faintly see the cooking smoke rising from several mountain vilges in the Bordernds of Great .

  “At st, I’ve returo the fringe of human civilization.”

  Dim evening light draped over the forest, shining through the gaps in the foliage onto the young man’s figure. Gazing with emotion at the smoke and fire in the distance, An Jing could not help releasing a long sigh: “After a few more days of walking like this, ces are I’ll reach the city in the northwestern frontier.”

  “This pn has gone much more smoothly than I had imagined. It looks like no one is pursuing me. Should I still head to the other world to evade any pursuit?”

  Acc to An Jing’s inal pn, after running at full speed for a day and a night and ohe Sword Spirit’s gate to the other world was fully charged, he would immediately hide in there.

  In that way, even if someoruly followed his trail all the way, upon reag a poputed area they would suspect he had cealed his identity and goo lie low in a mountain vilge, rather than sider, “This person disappeared without a trace—he must have crossed over into another world!” Such a notion would be inceivable.

  Heno one would remain at the inal spot lying in wait; they would instead go searg among the surrounding vilges.

  That had been An Jing’s initial pn.

  But now, whether or not anyone was chasing him, even if they were, An Jing believed they could no longer catch up to him.

  —He had already run this far. Would anyone really pursue him all that way just for his sake?

  The answer was “Yes”!

  “Do not uimate your own worth.”

  In respoo An Jing’s misgivings, the Sword Spirit offered a reminder: “You possess a Strae, are a rare talent of the Martial Path, and are even the senior brother whom all the Children of Camity admire wholeheartedly… You are by no means some ordinary martial artist. You have boundless prospects and have even earned My aowledgment as a genius!”

  “Setting aside all those miseous personal es, such as whether a few of your panions might use their family ties to track you down—just your talent alone meaher the Demonic Sereat would ever give up trying to find you, even if it meaing to Divine Ability Teiques!”

  “Two thousand li may be a great distance for ordinary folk, but did you yourself not cover it in a single day? To cultivators and to martial artists who possess a Heaven?Ordained Fate’s Divine Ability, that distance does not even t as ‘far.’”

  “Just like right now, I vaguely see that you still have ‘Fate Threads’ and ‘Camity Qi’ on you. You are far from being in any safe situation.”

  “I stand corrected.”

  An Jing listened carefully to the Sword Spirit’s ear, thh remarks and then humbly aowledged them.

  He truly had been thinking too simply… Indeed, for ordinary people, two thousand li was already safe. For martial artists, it likely was not much at all.

  Furthermore, the other party might not o track him step by step… If there were some Heaven?Ordained Fate capable of calg his final destination, they could station people to intercept him from other dires, and no matter how far he ran, it would be pointless!

  And ihe facts proved the Sword Spirit’s reasoning was correct.

  For just as An Jing was about to hide himself a ready to cross into the other world at any moment, with senses far sharper than an ordinary martial artist, he suddenly heard a faint buzzing noise from the sky in the distance.

  A few breaths ter, the buzzing grew louder.

  And cealed within the forest, watg the sky with the utmost caution, An Jing opened his eyes wide.

  Because he saw a “ship” charging in from the horizon, floating in midair!

  It was a “Void-Crossing Flying Shuttle”!

  This flying shuttle was ne, only about five or six zhang ih. Its main body resembled some sort of ft?bottomed boat. There were four spiral propellers oher side to provide lift and thrust, yet there seemed to be no direal trols, so it must have been guided by some mystical art.

  Now this shuttle was h above the treetops, and then seven ht figures leaped straight down from several hundred meters above, drifting lightly as they spread out in midair. They nded in different dires, kig up rge clouds of dust before they immediately began searg rapidly.

  “The Huaixu Realm actually has Void-Crossing Flying Shuttles and skyships**? Are they ing for me? Is it Great or the Demonic Sect?”

  A jolt shot through An Jing’s mind, yet he did not timidly shrink away. Instead, he frowned and tio watch carefully: “How in the world did they find me?”

  He quickly got his a was the Demonic Sect.

  An Jing spotted two familiar figures on the flying shuttle.

  tally, these were precisely the two squad leaders*** who had once purchased his life ba the Northern Frontier.

  One was the one?eyed rider, the deputy uhe Medie Manor Lord of Hanging Fate Manor—the chief instructor, Instructor Li.

  The other was a bearer of a Heaven?Ordained Fate.

  He was that white?robed schor from back then, still dressed in white. On the back of his head was a light azure totem resembling an eye, which kept rotating as it sed the surroundings. He also appeared to be holding some obje his hand.

  “It’s him.” The Sword Spirit spoke with certainty. “He is the one using a Divine Ability Teique to track your location!”

  (End of Chapter)

  *I think the author meant 仙剑 (Immortal Sword) rather than 剑仙 (Sword Immortal), but since I'm not sure I'll tra as is in the raws.

  **战舰, which I've transted as "warship," would more exactly be a "battle warship," whereas 空舰 is a "void" or "flying" warship.

  ***The term 统领 emphasizes the act or fun of anding—leading forces in a general sense. I used "squad leader" sihey only and other instructors, and maybe some kids while they're training them. The ese term does not mention any "squad."

  In trast, 指挥使, which was used for the Red Armuard's "ander," denotes a specific title or position, referring to an individual appoio and.