Chapter 1192: Chapter 1181: Unleashing the Invisibility Technique, Beating Up the Old Witch
“Hmm?”
Nalan Jiuhuang was in the process of forming an illusory fireball. Hearing the commotion, she immediately looked up and didn’t wait for the fireball to fully form before launching it at Ning Fan.
Boom…
Ning Fan’s defensive circle collided with the unformed fireball, causing it to explode and create ripples in the air.
In an instant, dust filled the sky, blocking out the sun.
Ning Fan’s legs continued to move, striking towards Nalan Jiuhuang with unabated momentum.
Bam…
Nalan Jiuhuang, seeing the urgency, couldn’t use any other moves and could only raise her arms to block.
Ning Fan’s legs collided with her arms, producing a fierce rumbling, and then Ning Fan was sent flying backward.
Nalan Jiuhuang also retreated over ten steps before steadying herself.
With unprecedented intensity in her eyes, she asked in shock, “Ning Fan, you’re just at the peak of the True Origin Realm, how do you have such strength?”
“Heh, as they say, ‘A chaotic fist can defeat a master,’ that’s exactly me.”
Ning Fan, though not sparing with his words, deeply understood the terror of an Aerial Mastery Realm expert; just from that clash, his insides were in turmoil, a frightening agitation.
If not for the Dragon Pearl’s Breath helping him offset a portion of the external True Qi, Ning Fan estimated he would have been shaken to the point of spitting blood.
The more critical the life-or-death situation, the more calm was needed. Ning Fan kept pressing down his hands, regulating the True Qi within him. Gradually, with the help of the Dragon Pearl’s Breath, the internal circulation and Extraordinary Meridians finally calmed down.
Ning Fan appeared unfazed, without any signs of damage.
“Impossible!” Nalan Jiuhuang exclaimed with surprise, seeing Ning Fan unruffled, which defied logic.
There was a substantial realm difference between Ning Fan and herself. In such a direct confrontation, their True Qi purity was vastly different. In theory, Ning Fan should at least cough up blood and collapse, or in severe cases, be unsalvageably injured.
However, Ning Fan now exuded a stability like a rock, as if standing unyielding and relaxed amidst adversity.
This toppled Nalan Jiuhuang’s understanding.
In the moment of her bewilderment, Ning Fan noticed something odd; when Nalan Jiuhuang released the first illusory fireball, her appearance instantly aged slightly.
The second fireball, not fully formed but forced out, seemed to retaliate significantly, making Nalan Jiuhuang age further.
Previously exuding the matured charm of a thirty-something woman, Nalan Jiuhuang now appeared as a four or five-decade-old crone, wrinkles etched on her face.
It seemed his guess was right; the Nirvana Phoenix Technique indeed burned life force!
Nalan Jiuhuang maintained her thirty-something youthful appearance merely by absorbing others’ life force, allowing her Everlasting Youth.
Then, as if thinking of something, Ning Fan smiled strangely, his figure flickered, vanishing from the spot.
“Hmm? Where did Ning Fan go?”
The bizarre scene made Nalan Jiuhuang’s pupils contract. At her level of realm, if Ning Fan disappeared using an advanced movement technique, it would surely leave traces.
Nalan Jiuhuang was confident in her keen eyes to detect such traces; however, after wiping her eyes several times and replaying the scene in her mind, she had to admit that Ning Fan had indeed vanished.
“Could it be he used the Earth Escape Technique? That’s too outlandish.”
In fact, Nalan Jiuhuang was only half-correct.
Ning Fan didn’t use any Earth Escape Technique; he merely employed the Invisibility Technique.
As his cultivation advanced, the duration of his Invisibility Technique extended. Now, he could remain invisible for a minute or even longer.
Knowing time was pressing, he didn’t delay any further, traversing through the void and quickly arriving in front of Nalan Jiuhuang.
Nalan Jiuhuang was still looking left and right, searching for Ning Fan, when her pupils contracted, sensing a twinge of danger.
Before she could react, Ning Fan landed a punch on her head.
With a bang.
Nalan Jiuhuang’s head swelled with a lump; she hurriedly kicked out defensively.
But she struck nothing; there was nothing in front of her.
“Ning Fan, what trick—Blinding Method—are you playing? If you have the guts, come out and fight me openly, not with these cunning schemes.”
“…”
However, there was no response to her query, only another unseen punch from the void.
Thwap…
This strike hit her chest, the forceful True Qi feeling like it would snap her heart meridian.
Whoosh…
From the earlier punch, Nalan Jiuhuang’s True Qi was already in disarray, and before recovering, another hit landed on her heart meridian, making her cough up blood uncontrollably, aging her further.
“Hmph!”
Nalan Jiuhuang, who had never suffered such a hidden loss since her debut, was now burning with anger, darting around, jumping here and there, doing her utmost to evade Ning Fan’s hidden strikes.
However, she underestimated Ning Fan. In a flash, Nalan Jiuhuang felt an excruciating headache as another blow landed from above, striking her Baihui Acupoint.
If not for her Intermediate Stage Aerial Mastery cultivation, she would have collapsed, worse than dead.
At this moment, Nalan Jiuhuang realized the severity of the situation. Even with her Intermediate Stage cultivation, facing Ning Fan’s unpredictable, invisible attacks meant more losses.
As time dragged on, her life force would continually deplete, and once reaching its limit, she would perish from exhaustion.
Fear finally surfaced on Nalan Jiuhuang’s face.
She feared nothing more than death.
The known was harmless, but the unseen could cause an unseen death.
Nalan Jiuhuang furrowed her brows, pupils narrowing, and in a split second, made a decision.
Her movement technique was engaged, fleeing downward to the flat mountainside.
Swoosh, swoosh…
Invisible, Ning Fan pursued relentlessly, landing punches and kicks in quick succession, using any means possible.
Bam…
Each strike heavier than the last.
Thwap…
Each strike more lethal than the previous.
This was almost overwhelming for Nalan Jiuhuang, her complexion grew older, her hair first black and shiny, then speckled with white, until fully white, and her skin from youthful dewiness to pallid and colorless, ultimately covered in wrinkles and age spots, resembling old bark.
In this gap, Nalan Jiuhuang had reached the mountainside, catching up with the hasty escape of Nalan Xiaotian and others.
“Protect me quickly!”