Chapter 712 - 701: Xiong Ba the Immortal
The region below seemed to have entered an apocalyptic scenario.
In just a brief moment.
The place Xiong Ba walked through had already turned to scorched earth.
Ding Ling cast his gaze toward the West.
The sight he beheld was also a desert region devoid of any greenery!
"Xiong Ba."
Ding Ling turned swiftly, resembling a bolt of lightning. With a whoosh, he landed in front of Xiong Ba, facing him directly, and shouted angrily. The overwhelming sound waves poured into Xiong Ba’s ears, causing them to bleed, and his chaotic eyes cleared slightly.
He slightly raised his head to glance at Ding Ling, seemingly recalling something, his pupils constricted and abruptly returned to chaos.
Roar!
Xiong Ba let out a fierce roar towards Ding Ling and suddenly swung his hand.
Whoosh!
Scorching flames appeared out of thin air, surging toward Ding Ling like a flying waterfall rushing to the sea.
Ding Ling leaped back a hundred yards, yet the flames followed, as if they wouldn’t rest until Ding Ling was burned to death.
Ding Ling swiftly drew the Emperor’s Sword, amplifying the Emperor Sword Dao ninety times.
Clang!
Clang clang clang!
A Sword Qi shot out from the sword tip, resembling a meteor piercing through the sky, passing through the flames and stabbing in front of Xiong Ba in an instant. Xiong Ba crazily reached out to grab it, thud!
The Sword Qi penetrated his palm and, with still some force left, shot into his chest, then completely pierced through!
Thud!
The Sword Qi pierced through Xiong Ba’s body, bringing out dotted blood-red flames!
Not blood.
Flames.
All of Xiong Ba, from head to toe, seemed to turn into a mass of fire.
Ding Ling was puzzled, overwhelmed, but his hand movements did not slow down. The Emperor Sword Dao showed its might, Sword Qi continuously shot out, clang clang clang!
Resembling falling rain, dense Sword Qi covered Xiong Ba.
In just an instant.
Xiong Ba was pierced through like a sieve.
Whoosh! Streams of flames flowed out of the holes on his shell-like body, Xiong Ba stood in the fire, looking fierce, pounding his chest as he roared at Ding Ling, like a fire ape.
Boom boom boom!
Xiong Ba took big strides, crazily charging toward Ding Ling’s position. The places he passed, trees withered, and the moisture in the earth seemed to evaporate cleanly in an instant. Before long, the area Xiong Ba walked through had turned to desolate soil.
Ding Ling frowned:
"Unafraid of pain, unafraid of death, what kind of monster is this?"
"What has Xiong Ba gone through, to turn into such a being?"
Ding Ling couldn’t think it through.
Since physical attacks were ineffective.
He decided to use spiritual attacks.
He amplified the Spirit Killing Sword ninety times.
Boom!
The Killing Sword surged forward like a torrent, the flames couldn’t block this Killing Sword at all, and soon, it covered Xiong Ba.
Xiong Ba’s frenzied body stopped this time.
He clutched his head, wailing and roaring.
His cries echoed across the eight levels of Heaven’s Edge.
His body trembled, suddenly tipping back and falling.
Boom!
He fell heavily to the ground, shaking the entire earth three times.
"Is he dead now?"
Ding Ling initially planned to spare Xiong Ba’s life.
But Xiong Ba’s mutation was too excessive.
Like a humanoid ferocious beast.
If such a monster invaded the Central Plains, it would certainly result in almost all rooms being empty, a thousand miles without a crow’s caw!
Ding Ling, as the Jiuzhou Human Emperor.
How could he allow such a thing?
Clang! Ding Ling sheathed the Emperor’s Sword.
Formed a seal with both hands, blew a breath toward the sky.
The next instant.
Rumble!
Whoosh!
Amidst the thunderous sound, the Nine Heavens Profound Wind descended, followed by drizzling frozen rain, falling on the ground, extinguishing those flames.
To Ding Ling’s surprise, these flames were extremely difficult to put out.
Even with the freezing rain targeting them, it took a considerable amount of time.
"This fire is extraordinary. No wonder it severely injured Guan Yu."
Even the Chaotic Heaven Demon Dao’s drizzling frozen rain took half a day to resolve the fire, revealing its scorching, stubborn, and powerful nature.
And this was with Xiong Ba lying on the ground, uncontrolled.
Controlled fire would definitely be stronger.
"Right."
After extinguishing the flames, Ding Ling walked toward Xiong Ba’s position, intending to examine Xiong Ba’s body more closely.
Because he suddenly recalled something.
"Guan Yu’s City-Overturning Love, Heaven and Earth Destruction, with one slash, he could instantly kill masters several ranks higher. Xiong Ba facing this move, wouldn’t be completely unharmed, right."
Clip-clop!
Ding Ling moved quickly, his Shrinking Inches speed allowing him to reach Xiong Ba’s side in just two breaths, reaching out to grab Xiong Ba when, boom!
Xiong Ba suddenly leaped without warning, a punch smashed heavily toward Ding Ling’s face.
Ding Ling exclaimed in surprise, reacting swiftly, amplifying Thunder Strike Fist forty times! And punched back toward Xiong Ba.
Boom!
The two punches collided heavily like mountains! Boom! Amidst the sound of thunder, Xiong Ba was blown away a hundred yards by Ding Ling’s punch, his entire arm exploded with cracking sounds, but he felt nothing, didn’t scream, didn’t cry, only roared like he had lost his sanity.
However, he seemed to retain some instinct.
Seeing he couldn’t defeat Ding Ling no matter what, even if Ding Ling had a high chance of completely erasing him, he suddenly turned around, dug his feet into the ground, whoosh!
Resembling a flash of firelight, he instantly fled toward the direction of the Western Realm.
So fast.
Like an aurora flash!
Even Ding Ling’s sharp eyes could only catch a glimpse of a firelight flashing in the void, then disappearing without a trace.
"Trying to run?"
Ding Ling raised his eyebrows, amplifying Free-Will Ascension Step forty times, Shrinking Inches he traveled, and soon, Ding Ling caught sight of Xiong Ba again.
His body was shrouded in firelight, seeming to be ablaze, his whole face and body becoming increasingly shriveled, but his speed was only getting faster.
"Is this an escape skill that consumes one’s Essence Qi and flesh to achieve!? No wonder the speed is so ridiculously fast!"
Ding Ling was relieved.
"But could Xiong Ba still survive after expending every bit of Essence Qi and flesh?"
Ding Ling deeply doubted.
He thought Xiong Ba may have already perished.
Only leaving behind a mutated corpse.
Otherwise.
Why would the Spirit Killing Sword, amplified ninety times, be ineffective?
This Killing Sword could slay sword spirits, slay the Great Demon God, like killing chickens, it should have no reason not to kill a mutated Xiong Ba.
"It seems Xiong Ba has turned into an Immortal, soulless, mindless, zombie-like character?!"
What is the true nature of a zombie?
Ding Ling wasn’t sure either.
He just suddenly remembered an ancient text.
This ancient text he had seen in the third batch of books.
It recorded various detailed circumstances of zombies.
Among them, it mentioned that if zombies descend into the mortal world, they are Immortal species! Unkillable by man, unburnable by fire, impervious to physical or spiritual attacks, overwhelmingly strong, considered an unbeatable foe!
If not for zombies being muddled, thoughtless, and emotionless, the mortal realm might long have been governed and completely overturned by zombies.
And Xiong Ba’s situation was a bit similar to the ’Fire Zombie’ recorded in the ancient text.
The meaning is simple:
A zombie awakened with a fire attribute!