Ding Huan saw Qi Xinyue reaching out to grab the cloth bag and knew it was bad. Without hesitation, he unleashed a dozen wind blades, followed by a full-body charge towards Zuo Shan Yi.
Zuo Shan Yi saw the large net covering Qi Xinyue, without the slightest surprise.
If Qi Xinyue can still avoid it this time, he will leave without hesitation.
If he can avoid it this time, it means that the first time was not just luck; rather, Qi Xinyue has gained the ability to counter him.
It was only when he was about to retract the net that he felt an extreme sense of unease.
Zuo Shan Yi didn't even think twice before retreating crazily. He wouldn't allow himself to be exposed to any danger.
Click click click click!
Dozens of unseen blade streaks struck where he had been standing just now, creating deep grooves in the cement floor.
Zuo Shan Yi was drenched in cold sweat, and if he hadn't retreated just now, he would have been dismembered into countless pieces.
With Zuo Shan Yi's caution and prudence, he would certainly know that Qi Xinyue had only been pretending earlier. Behind Qi Xinyue is a stronger individual, one who is drawing him out.
In that moment, Zuo Shan Yi had no intention of fighting with Ding Huan. Considering his cautious personality, even if he wasn't afraid of Ding Huan, he wouldn't want to fight either.
Just now, Ding Huan's intangible and colorless blade streaks had startled him.
The moment Ding Huan unleashed the blade streaks, he pounced towards Zuo Shan Yi. But even though he had seen Zuo Shan Yi, as he reached out to grab him, Zuo Shan Yi suddenly disappeared.
Earth Transformation?
Or another method of escape?
However, Ding Huan was not surprised. This guy can vanish in plain sight among so many strong individuals like Zhong Chi, and it would be strange if it were simple.
He didn't even continue to look for Zuo Shan Yi. He was very clear that since this person had escaped, it would be very difficult to find any traces.
It would be better to take care of the spoils first.
At this moment, Ding Huan wildly unleashed wind blade techniques, managing to slash out at least hundreds of wind blade techniques in just three breaths of time.
His wind blade techniques almost completely enveloped the space where Qi Xinyue was located, and at the same time, Ding Huan delivered ten punches.
These ten punches landed on the ground surrounding Qi Xinyue's body, forming a nearly circular pattern.
It wasn't that Ding Huan sensed something, but rather, he believed that a creature like the dung beetle, known for its endurance, would never leave behind a package of spirit crystal stones and that large net and then escape.
Even if he was going to run away, he would definitely have to take the large net and the packet of spirit crystal stones he had given to Qi Xinyue.
Because he himself had gone through it, and during his time on Changyi Continent, he had also done the same thing.
So, even though his divine consciousness didn't detect anything, he acted first regardless.
After all, even if it turned out to be a waste, it would only consume some true energy.
"Click, click..." Tearing sounds echoed in the air as if something invisible was being sliced by Ding Huan.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ding Huan's continuous dozen of punches had created deep pits around Qi Xinyue's surroundings.
The next moment, a grey shadow vanished like lightning from the edges of Ding Huan's divine consciousness.
Amazing, Ding Huan secretly stunned in his heart as he watched the grey shadow disappear in the direction he was looking. He didn't know how this guy had hidden here, and even his divine consciousness hadn't noticed it immediately.
At this moment, Ding Huan felt a shiver down his spine, glad that he knew the guy's nature was cautious and treacherous.
To strike without capturing the opponent with his divine consciousness.
As long as you remember to be careful and avoid major mistakes, it will be fine.
Otherwise, with his methods, before leaving, he would not only take the large net and that small packet but also ensure Qi Xinyue's life is in danger.
He doesn't believe that a dung beetle would spare Qi Xinyue's life.
With the strength of a dung beetle, it could kill Qi Xinyue with a simple thread before leaving.
Thinking of that thread, Ding Huan carefully scanned the surroundings with his divine consciousness.
Although he had severed dozens of them with his wind blade techniques, he hadn't seen what it really was because it was beyond the reach of his divine consciousness.
"Did the dung beetle escape?" Qi Xinyue felt shaken.
"It's gone. That guy is quite powerful." As he spoke, Ding Huan retracted the large net.
It was a large net that had been spread out, but once it was wrapped up, it was invisible in his hand, and he couldn't tell what material it was made of.
Knowing that he couldn't catch the guy, Ding Huan didn't bother to pursue him. In fact, even if he did manage to catch up to him, with the dung beetle's abilities, he feared it would be difficult to kill him.
His divine consciousness reached out, and the bag also fell into Ding Huan's hand.
To Ding Huan's surprise, there were indeed spirit crystal stones inside the bag. A scan with his divine consciousness revealed there were as many as twenty-one of them.
"He may have also obtained the Art of Invisibility. Only those with divine blood have the opportunity to learn divine abilities, and the Art of Invisibility requires divine power to be used." Qi Xinyue said.
"Art of Invisibility?" Ding Huan repeated the words, thinking that this thing is amazing, as even his divine consciousness couldn't detect it?
He had a concealment spell in his repertoire of spells, which was also a minor spell. However, this minor spell was truly insignificant.
To begin with, even in front of mid-level and land-level strongmen, the Art of Invisibility is probably not enough to conceal anything.
Seeing Ding Huan frowning and thinking about the Art of Invisibility, Qi Xinyue bit her teeth and said, "Brother, I'll teach you the Art of Invisibility."
Before she began to cultivate divine power, she had sworn that she would never impart it to outsiders, or she would certainly be hunted by the divine race.
She had previously believed that she would never be able to impart divine power to someone else, but Ding Huan was not an outsider in her eyes.
Ding Huan not only saved her but also imparted the Luo Shi Jing. In Qi Xinyue's heart, Luo Shi Jing is not inferior to divine power.
Ding Huan didn't mind at all; he passed on his cultivation method to Qi Xinyue. As for the Art of Invisibility, it was better for him to know about it.
Otherwise, if the dung beetle uses the Art of Invisibility to sneak attack him again, he really won't be able to defend himself.
This thing seems to be beyond the reach of divine consciousness, indeed it's quite powerful.
"When I was training the Art of Invisibility, my master told me that power and intention are actually interconnected. Only crude cultivators would think that power is the primary, and everything else is secondary..."
As Qi Xinyue began to teach Ding Huan the Art of Invisibility, Ding Huan felt that another door in front of him had been opened.
He had always believed that the cultivation method he had cultivated was the true Daoist refinement technique, far superior to ordinary gene cultivators.
Now he realized that his understanding of the path to cultivation was merely laughing at a hundred steps when he had only taken fifty.
That's not it. It should be fifty steps of laughter for every fifty steps of progress.
He had cultivated his divine consciousness and as his cultivation level improved, his divine consciousness became stronger, naturally making him feel that what he had cultivated was incredible.
Not only that, because he had cultivated his divine consciousness, he could even use his divine consciousness to coordinate with his true essence to perform the wind blade technique, greatly enhancing the power of the wind blade technique.
It was only from Qi Xinyue that Ding Huan realized that the divine consciousness and true essence could be completely integrated together.
Cultivators of divine power, even though they do not have the concept of divine consciousness, possess the concept of spirit power. The stronger the spirit power, the stronger the cultivator's divine power.
The Art of Invisibility involves merging spirit power with divine power and then, through the performance of specific divine incantations, achieving a state of unity with the surroundings.
This has some similarities with his concealment spell, which is also performed through a divine incantation and considered a type of spell.
His divine consciousness is still at the beginning stage, so he couldn't quickly detect the Art of Invisibility that the dung beetle used just now.
But if he were to fully integrate his divine consciousness with his true essence, he could easily sense the presence of the dung beetle, even catching the scent of its movements.
Thinking of this, Ding Huan suddenly had another question.
While it's good for the divine consciousness and true essence to be integrated, it loses the essence of the divine consciousness.
True divine consciousness is intangible. If his divine consciousness already contains the ability to attack with true essence, then why would he need to integrate the essence?
In this way, he can not only easily find the hiding place of the dung beetle, but also attack with his divine consciousness.
Just like before, when he was on the plane and thinking about being able to perform the wind blade technique through it.
The more he thought about it, the more Ding Huan felt it was feasible. He wanted to use his divine consciousness to continuously form attack blades.
However, he had never been successful with it.
Qi Xinyue didn't know that Ding Huan had already tried to use divine consciousness for attack, she was still explaining some techniques and methods of the Art of Invisibility, even spelling out each word for the invocation of divine incantations.
Not only that, she even began to explain the instantaneous transportation method through divine power.
It took nearly two hours for Qi Xinyue to initially explain her cultivation methods to Ding Huan.
Ding Huan could still not split wind blade techniques solely through divine consciousness, but he could sense everything around him by integrating his divine consciousness with his true essence.
This method was actually of little significance to Ding Huan, as he could already sense everything around him without using true essence.
The only advantage is that with true essence integrated, one can sense those who are hidden through divine power.
Ding Huan was a bit suspicious that the dung beetle would not be content with that, as long as this guy stayed in the shadows and gave him another sneak attack, it would be a big loss for him.
That translucent, five-colored thread is even more terrifying than his wind blade technique.
Before he had developed the ability to use divine consciousness for attack alone, he integrated true essence to scan his surroundings.
"Let's go, let's go back to the hotel first." Ding Huan gestured for Qi Xinyue to lead the way.
Ding Huan walked behind Qi Xinyue, with his divine consciousness covering a range of 500 meters around them.
Now he was a level seven gene cultivator, so his divine consciousness could cover over one kilometer alone.
The reason for covering a range of five hundred meters was that his true essence was attached to the divine consciousness, mainly out of concern for a sneak attack by the cunning dung beetle.
Qi Xinyue's pace was not slow, and in just one hour, they were nearly approaching the hotel.
A shadow appeared at the edge of Ding Huan's divine consciousness, and he clearly saw the dung beetle waiting about four hundred meters away from them.
The creature was concealed in the heart of a tree, its entire body blending in with the tree as if it had become one. If it hadn't been for Ding Huan's divine consciousness scanning, no one would have thought there was a person inside that tree.
When Ding Huan withdrew his true essence and used his divine consciousness alone, he still saw the dung beetle.
However, Ding Huan was clear that this was the result of him already knowing the dung beetle was inside the tree. Otherwise, his divine consciousness might easily have overlooked it.
Ding Huan acted as if nothing had happened, chatting casually with Qi Xinyue as they walked.
As the two approached the tree within a five-meter radius, Ding Huan suddenly rushed out, and the Starry Knife was already a single strike.
(That's it for today's update. Good night, everyone!)
(Chapter ends)
