Azure Ghost Ambush

"Whee-oo, whee-oo."

A line of patrol cars passed along the street, their piercing sirens always enough to set people on edge.

"Wonder where something's happened this time?"

Ning Baichuan sighed.

Three hundred years had passed since spiritual energy returned, and martial arts had spread into every aspect of life.

Martial artists tempered their qi and blood and were combative by nature.

To a certain extent, that had also made public order worse.

Fights between martial artists were a common sight in the city, even fights to the death.

Even under human law, such incidents were nothing unusual.

That was why, after Ning Yue was born, Ning Baichuan had spent a fortune-nearly everything he owned at the time-to buy a home in the South Bank Residential Complex.

He had just one goal: safety, safety, and more fucking safety.

Lei Zhan was just about to speak.

Then a red light flashed on his martial artist's wristwatch.

Lei Zhan's expression instantly turned serious.

He opened his wristwatch, glanced at the message, left a few words, and flew away.

"Something's happened at the Vast Sea Residential Complex. The Azure Ghost Race devoured the flesh and blood of everyone there. No one survived. I need to go take a look."

Watching Lei Zhan fly out the window,

Ning Baichuan and his wife's expressions grew grave.

"Hasn't that Azure Ghost with a bounty of several million yuan on his head been caught yet?"

The next morning, Ning Yue practiced the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art.

He felt the difference: the intent of life and death filled his chest, and his entire body rose and fell in reincarnation.

A tingling sensation spread through him.

Boom!

Suddenly, heaven and earth opened, all things rose and fell, and the primal beginning commenced.

A heavenly meridian shot out from behind him, breaking straight through to the eight-meridian stage and bringing him to a new level of progress in the First-Rank Realm.

Then the heavenly meridian sank into his body and coiled around his dantian with the other seven.

The eight heavenly meridians formed a disc, creating a mysterious foundation stone.

It was the foundation of the martial dao.

"Whew."

Ning Yue breathed out a mouthful of turbid air, checked the time, and nodded in satisfaction.

His cultivation speed was nearly twice as fast as before.

As for fusing a Martial Arts Second Rank cultivation art, there was no rush for now. Only by waiting until he broke through to the Second-Rank Realm and gained a corresponding understanding of Martial Arts Second Rank before starting the fusion could he create a cultivation art truly suited to him.

Even with the Bitter Bamboo Scripture's cultivation experience in his mind, he could only use it as a reference.

Without having truly experienced it himself, memories would always be just memories.

Besides, what he needed was to fuse the two cultivation arts into a new one, innovating through the fusion to transcend the original arts and reach the pinnacle of cultivation arts.

"Dad, Mom, when did Uncle Lei say the special training would start?"

When Ning Yue came downstairs, he saw both his parents there, but Uncle Lei was nowhere to be seen.

He thought that if he still had time, he would go to the martial artist exchange and trade away a few of the items he had.

Especially the Shadow Cat's crystal core and the one liang of Clear Spirit Dao Comprehension Tea he had received as a reward from Director Li.

If possible, he could sell the essence blood pill too.

He would decide what to do after seeing the prices.

He guessed that Clear Spirit Dao Comprehension Tea was probably a high-level cultivation resource that ordinary people could not obtain.

After all, last night, after fusing the cultivation arts, Ning Yue had searched the martial artist network and found only a few scraps of information about it. He knew nothing about its exact price.

Clear Spirit Dao Comprehension Tea: suppressed turbid qi in the blood and qi, and increased a martial artist's comprehension by up to nine times. It was the best supplementary spiritual medicine for comprehending cultivation arts and practicing martial techniques.

However, Ning Yue had the Martial Dao Myth cheat, so Clear Spirit Dao Comprehension Tea was not as valuable to him as he had imagined.

It might not even work.

"Your Uncle Lei told you to find him at the martial artist exchange. That's where today's special training will be."

Ning Baichuan explained Lei Zhan's arrangement.

His heart ached at the expense.

According to Lei Zhan, more than half of the ten-odd million yuan would be spent today alone.

"All right, Dad, Mom, I'm off."

Ning Yue nodded.

As it happened, he had been planning to go to the martial artist exchange too.

"Ning Yue, be careful on the way."

Before he left, Mo Zini gave him a word of caution.

Remembering what the Azure Ghost Race had done last night, she was a little worried about Ning Yue's safety.

"All right, Mom, don't worry. Your son's a martial artist, after all."

Ning Yue reassured his parents and strode away.

"Don't worry. The martial artist exchange is also in Xinyuan City's southern district. It's not far from here."

His father Ning Baichuan's comforting voice came from behind him.

Smoke Alley.

Shrouded in mist all year round, it was one of Xinyuan City's wonders.

At first, it had attracted many martial artists to investigate. Even a passing Eighth Grade True Fire Realm expert had gone in to investigate.

In the end, they had found nothing.

One so-called expert had summarized it thus: the place lay in a depression, and the rising water vapor could not disperse, forming a unique landscape of dense fog.

As Ning Yue passed by, curiosity prompted him to take a look.

"It really is a wonder of heaven and earth. How marvelous creation is," Ning Yue exclaimed.

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from behind him in an eerie tone:

"It certainly is a wonder of heaven and earth. Who would have thought the underworld's nether qi could be found here?"

"Who's there?"

Ning Yue's heart jolted. He had not noticed anyone here just now.

He rushed forward a few steps, circulating several cultivation arts at once.

Before he could turn around, he formed a sword with his right hand and slashed backward, using the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

A streak of sword qi tore across the sky, radiating a sharp, unstoppable intent.

At the same time, Ning Yue turned around to face the newcomer.

It was an old man with white hair and a white beard. The wrinkles on his face were deep enough to squash flies.

The old man looked at the sword qi slashing toward him and sneered.

"Young man, don't be so hot-tempered."

His tone was relaxed and his gaze contemptuous as he looked at Ning Yue as though he were a pig or sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

"Not bad. Plenty of qi and blood. A Martial Arts First Rank cultivator so young must taste tender and smooth... Aaargh!!!"

Before he could finish, the sword qi struck his palm.

Right behind the sword qi came Ning Yue's palm-sword, empowered by his Indestructible Vajra Physique.

The palm-sword broke through the old man's palm and struck his body, tearing his skin and leaving a deep sword wound.

"What a pity. If I had a C-grade alloy sword, I could definitely have cut this Azure Ghost in two."

At the same time, he decided that he had to buy a few weapons on this trip to the martial artist exchange, no matter what.

After the old man was wounded, his face suddenly turned blue and sprouted fangs. Ning Yue recognized his identity at a glance.

A piece of information appeared in the Eye of Heaven Observation.

[Aba Aba (Azure Ghost Race), Third Rank]

"Kid, I'll be back for you."

The Azure Ghost swayed and shot Ning Yue a venomous look. With a puff, he transformed into dozens of bats and took flight, preparing to escape.

"Next time? You're staying right here, you several million!"

Ning Yue was furious. He couldn't let a bounty of several million that had come knocking fly away.

He attacked with both hands at once, unleashing martial techniques without restraint.

"Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique!"

"Fist of Origin!"

"Ninefold Thunder Saber!"

"Eighteen Hammers of Hating Heaven for Having No Handle and Earth for Having No Ring!"