Chapter 786: Cross-grade Technique!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

A young-looking youth was smiling at him. His face was like an angel but his eyes were like a devil.

"Are you human or ghost?" The middle-aged shouted fiercely. This young man was killed by him just now so how could he appear here?

"What do you think?" The young man continued smiling brightly.

The middle-aged man's eyes instinctively went to look for the young man's shadow. When the middle-aged man saw the young man's shadow on the ground, he repeatedly patted his chest as if to let out the fear in his heart. But, he still couldn't understand how this young man escaped from death, but since he was still human, there was nothing to be afraid of.

"You were lucky to escape once. Why did you follow me? You are really looking for death." The middle-aged sneered. He waved his hand and an ice arrow shot towards the young man. This young man had seen the embarrassing side of himself so he needed to kill him personally to cleanse the embarrassment he felt. Thus, the middle-aged man didn't show any mercy.

"That is the ice element?" The young man didn't retaliate. He just let the ice arrow hit his body. However, the moment the ice arrow touched his body, it broke and disappeared into the air. The young man was unharmed.

The middle-aged man was flabbergasted. He understood why this young man didn't die. He was a domain realm master too. Only domain realm masters were able to resist his attacks. But, he still didn't know how this young man disappeared without a trace after he was turned into ice. He didn't sense the young man's presence at that time too.

The young man's next action instantly cleared his queries. The young man was an ice element domain realm master too.

"That is not how you use ice!" The young man said coldly. He stomped his feet and powerful ice energy started to spread out from his feet. The ice quickly crept up to the middle-aged man's leg.

The middle-aged man was shocked. However, he still managed to jump into the air in time and evade the attack.

"Trying to dodge it? It is not that simple." The young man stretched his right hand and pointed at the middle-aged man. The ice energy on the ground suddenly shot up into the air, forming a huge mouth with sharp icicles as teeth, wanting to swallow the middle-aged man up.

"Ice world!" The middle-aged man shouted. A hail started to rain down around him. The frozen pellets were like a machine gun, it continuously shot at the icy huge mouth formed which was created by Ling Lan. The icy huge mouth also retaliated by blowing out wind in subzero temperatures

Boom! The two sides eventually reached their limit, before finally exploding in perfect unison. The huge explosion formed a deep crack in the manor.

"You are a titled domain realm formidable warrior." Ling Lan felt the power of her opponent's ice element. The techniques her opponent used were very different from hers. Although they were both ice element titled domain realm formidable warrior, the temperature of her opponent's ice element was higher than her own. Thus, her opponent's most powerful technique, which they both knew how to use, was weaker than hers.

"Same element, same rank, different amounts of power. So the domain stage is not fixed. How much you understand depends on your capabilities and how hard you work." Ling Lan was deep in thought. This was something new. The rules in the domain stage were weird. The combination of talent, comprehension, and hard work allowed for there to be a difference in power even with the same rank and technique.

'Survival of the fittest.' Ling Lan understood the true meaning behind this phrase. She knew why the Federation followed this rule, the only rule nature gave.

The middle-aged man noticed that his most powerful attack was not able to injure the young man. The young man must be a titled domain realm formidable warrior too. He might even have a deeper understanding of the ice domain. He had this thought because he felt a painful coldness deep in his bones. As an ice element domain realm master, he was not supposed to feel cold. Thus, the only explanation was that this young man was significantly more powerful than him.

As an ice element domain realm master, the middle-aged man could already feel the difference between them. If he continued fighting, he would be at more of a disadvantage. Thus, he threw another ice world technique at the young man. In the next second, he turned into ice particles and quickly escaped towards the manor.

But, the moment he moved, he was stopped. He wasn't able to move anymore.

"Why did you change into ice particles to escape when your enemy is an ice element domain realm master who is much stronger than you? I really don't know what to say." The cold voice rang beside the middle-aged man's ear. Then, his body started congregating. His arm was already caught by the young man. If one particle of his body was caught, he would be unable to escape anymore. This was the rule, and no one could change this rule.

The middle-aged man lost all hopes of escaping now. Thus, he made a huge decision. He vomited blood and then his body started greedily absorbing all the ice elements in the surroundings. The huge suction force caused Ling Lan to let him go. She moved back quickly and left the boundary of the suction force.

Ling Lan frowned. She got serious. A technique that could only be used after injuring himself must be a technique above his stage. The middle-aged man was prepared to give his all in this final attack.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man exploded into numerous ice needles. The ice needles altered their trajectory towards the direction where the shocked Ling Lan was at.

Ling Lan quickly swiped her right hand and an ice wall was erected up from the ground. The ice needles split into three groups. Two groups of ice needles flew around the ice wall while the last group of ice needles stabbed into the ice wall forcefully.

Multiple ice needles pierce through the ice wall, which completely collapsed the ice wall. Those needles were so powerful and sharp. They managed to destroy her ice wall in a blink of an eye.

The two groups of ice needles managed to go behind Ling Lan. The three groups of ice needles surrounded Ling Lan and simultaneously flew towards her.

Ling Lan decisively activated her most powerful attack, Ice Blockade. She tried to freeze the ice needles, but this time she miscalculated her strength. The ice needles broke through her Ice Blockade.

The ice needles pierced into the spot where Ling Lan was standing at. The ice needles all released a thick mist when they reached their destination which blocked one's vision. When the mist dissipated, the spot where Ling Lan was originally standing at was empty. When the ice needles noticed that they had missed their target, they flew into the air again and prepared themselves for the next round of attack.

Chapter 787: Half!

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"Condense!" Ling Lan suddenly appeared in mid-air. She clenched her fist and all the ice element in the area around her started to condensed rapidly, forming many perfectly shaped water droplets. In response to this, the ice needles turned into water droplets too. It was essentially a battle between two domain realm master with two different perspective and understanding of the ice elements.

Suddenly, red mist appeared out of mid-air, symbolizing the final fate of a titled domain realm formidable warrior.

Ling Lan looked at the red mist with cold eyes. She raised another hand and clenched it into a fist again.

"Ah!" A faint scream could be heard and all the water droplets exploded. The force from the explosion of the water droplets injured Ling Lan too. Fresh blood dripped down from the corner of her mouth.

"Just half a step more, then I can advance to the imperial level. But..." Ling Lan's understanding of her ice elemental domain was at the imperial level. What was stopping her from becoming an imperial level domain expert was her understanding of her own imperial level technique. She had only understood 50% of her imperial level technique, Condense. This was the name she had given to the technique.

An imperial level technique was given the term 'imperial level' because of the significance it had in one's domain stage battles. Every imperial level technique was the perfect blend of offense and defense, it was perfect in every situation depending on how much the user understood the technique. Unfortunately, Ling Lan only understood how to use Condense for defense as she was unable to comprehend its offensive power yet. Hence, she was stopped by this.

The ice needle technique the middle-aged man used almost reached the standard of an imperial level technique. If he just had a deeper understanding of his technique, Ling Lan would not be able to defeat his ice needles technique so easily. However, even if the ice needle technique reached the standard of an imperial level technique, it would still be incomplete as it only had its offensive power with no means to use it for defense. This was its lethal weakness.

Ling Lan didn't use Condense right from the start because she wanted to find an opportunity during the battle that could help understand her imperial level technique better. This kind of opportunity was difficult to find. Ling Lan didn't get enlightened even after she fought so many hard battles.

"Maybe the time is not right yet." Ling Lan was not frustrated. Since no results could be found now, she just pushed this thought to the back of her head. Her master had told her once before that she had progressed too quickly, resulting in a flaw in her foundation. Maybe this was why she was still unable to fully understand the imperial level technique.

'Looks like I have to experience more battles.' Ling Lan thought to herself. After some time, once 250 Ace Mecha Clan was fully prepared, she would try to request to the division headquarters to send her mecha clan onto the battlefield. There would have enough battles for her to gain more experience on the battlefield.

Suddenly, Ling Lan frowned as she detected numerous domain realm masters running in her direction. Her battle with the middle-aged man probably had alerted the domain realm masters from the military as even Tang Ningyu and Mu Chaoran were in the cohort. Ling Lan had completed her mission and made Pei Shaoyun disappeared successfully so she didn't want to meet her roommates now.

Ling Lan snapped her fingers and her ice element energy around her dispersed a little. Then, a breeze of frosty wind blew by, completely shrouding Ling Lan from the world. When the wind finally went pass Ling Lan's original position, she was not there anymore.

A few seconds after Ling Lan left, many people appeared at the manor.

"What a strong ice element energy. There seems to be other domain energy as well. It's really messy. I can't put a finger as to what they are" Some of the domain realm masters tried to sense their surroundings.

"I felt a tinge of fire element." Mu Chaoran was sensitive to fire elements so he immediately sensed the faint fire element in the air. He frowned.

"There is lightning element too." Tang Ningyu was serious. Without a doubt, while the battle at the Azure Central Scout Academy was ongoing, a huge battle was happening here too. Tang Ningyu had the feeling that the people who fought here were those fake domain realm masters who had escaped from their headquarters. However, their new-found freedom was brutally taken away. Is there another secret organization observing them silently, waiting to profit as the third party?

"It's a pity that we can't trace them." Although they could only feel the huge mass of domain energy in the manor, no signs of domain energy could be found leading out of the manor. Looks like the other party was very careful and didn't leave any traces behind.

"Do you think that bastard died along with these people?" Mu Chaoran narrowed his eyes. He really hoped that the bastard didn't die that easily.

"The ice element here is dominating any other elements so we can conclude that bastard won his fight and got to flee before we got here. Plus, that bastard won't die so easily." Tang Ningyu didn't believe that an ice element titled domain realm formidable warrior could be killed in such a short time as only an imperial level domain expert could do such a deed. Plus, if there actually was an imperial level domain expert, the domain energy left behind in this area would be much greater than what they had detected.

Tang Ningyu felt the energy left behind by an imperial level domain expert in the past, that was why he didn't believe an imperial level domain expert was here. At that time, he had only just recently advanced to the domain stage, and unluckily while walking around, he stumbled across a tinge of energy left behind by an imperial level domain expert but it was enough to destabilize his domain. If his captain didn't save him in time, he might have been crippled for his entire life. This experience engraved the overwhelming strength of an imperial level domain expert into his mind. By his estimations, even a titled domain realm formidable warrior would be killed instantly if he were to meet an imperial level domain expert in battle.

The ice element energy in the manor was definitely suffocating but it wasn't as much of a stranglehold of an experience like the one he had in the past. The energy might just be left by an ice element titled domain realm formidable warrior.

'That's good too.' Tang Ningyu thought in his heart. If they couldn't kill this person personally, they wouldn't be able to feel appeased for the rest of their lives, becoming the devil in their hearts.

"What should we do now?" Mu Chaoran asked.

Tang Ningyu sighed. "Let's just go back and report our mission for now and the military will take care of the rest."

Mu Chaoran nodded. The two of them disappeared.

On the way back, Mu Chaoran suddenly remembered something. "This time, you lost to the person who took the same mission before you, right? Did you manage to find out who he is?"

Tang Ningyu remained silent for a moment. "Yes, I lost to him this time and I intend to fully accept my defeat. But until now, I don't know who he is. He might be among the transfer students or he might not. Honestly, I would have suspected Shaoyun if he didn't die. However, he didn't give me a chance to suspect him."

"I would rather suspect him and hurting him than him being killed by that bastard." Tang Ningyu clenched his fist. If Pei Shaoyun was still alive, their relationship might not be the same anymore after they had tricked him so much and took a lot of advantages of him. But, he still wished that Shaoyun would jump around in front of him, waving his finger at him and be angry at them for lying to him.

Tang Ningyu recalled the shy and timid young boy who always wore a smile on his face. He was heartwarming and considerate. However, he was now gone.

"Yes, even after he knew about everything and still broke ties with us, I will accept that, and I'll be comforted to know that there is still a Little Brother Shaoyun in the world being angry at us." Mu Chaoran was depressed. The image of Pei Shaoyun flashed past his mind. He could almost imagine how he would look if he was furious, the angry but helpless expression on his little brother's face when Shaoyun knew he couldn't do anything to him. In just a month's time, Pei Shaoyun let him, a lonely person, understood what brotherhood meant.

They suddenly stopped walking. They turned their heads side to side and realized that they had returned to the place where Shaoyun had died.

Chapter 788: That's Good!

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"Shaoyun, no matter where you are, have a good life..." Tang Ningyu said in a low voice.

"You must live a carefree life, remember that. I hope you have an older brother who pampers you. I hope your older brother will help you settle everything that was bothering you. I hope your older brother is not as evil as me. I hope he won't tease you, and I hope he would pamper you with all his heart." Mu Chaoran suddenly smiled. There were tears in his eyes. "Let him do the things I wasn't able to do for you. Don't be like me, a worthless person who sees no value in life. Don't live a regretful life like mine. Live happily..." He regretted not telling Shaoyun that he had already taken him as his brother. He really liked him.

Tang Ningyu looked at Mu Chaoran in surprise. He didn't expect him to develop such deep feelings towards Pei Shaoyun in just 30 days.

"I didn't expect it too. When I realized it, it was already too late." Mu Chaoran gave Tang Ningyu a forced smile. Then, he disappeared from his spot.

Tang Ningyu sighed. Pei Shaoyun was an obstacle that he and Mu Chaoran had to eventually get over. He disappeared thereafter too.

"Squeak?"

Little White looked around and was confused by what it saw. It was looking for directions in the forest. It looked up at the sky in resignation while crying.

That stupid person... he took me here and just threw me here! How irresponsible of him! How could he do this! Ahhh! I will curse you. May you not be able to get a wife! (What an evil curse.)

Little White tried to use the tall trees as indicators of which direction he took but... all the trees here look the same. It finally gave up. It hugged a tree trunk and admitted its mistakes.

'My dear master, Little White has learned from its mistakes.' Little White should not be so excited and accidentally throw you out Master, please come and bring Little White back. Don't leave me alone.'

'Sob, why isn't master here yet? Is it because my apology is not enough?'

Little White remembered how it ran away in times of danger and dare to escape from its master. It was enlightened. There was still a mistake it didn't apologize for. 'Sob, Little White learned from another from its mistakes. Little White shouldn't run away with a man whom I don't know the name of. I learned that running away is wrong. I won't dare to run away again. Master, please bring me home.'

The forest remained quiet. Little White was finally scared out of its wit. It finally made a decision and gave its promise. 'Master, if you bring Little White back, Little White promise to listen to you obediently and... and... you can do anything to me!'

The moment it finished relaying its thoughts, Ling Lan appeared in front of Little White.

Little White started crying furiously. 'God, you must be kidding. I just made a promise and master appeared. Sob, can I take back my words? I don't want my master to do anything to me! Ah!'

Little White scooped Little White up from the bottom of the tree and held it in her palms. She gave Little White a mysterious smile. "Did you say that I can do anything to you just now?"

Little White fell to the side and pretended to be dead. It was not going to admit it.

"Little Four!" Ling Lan suddenly called Little Four.

"Boss, I have recorded what Little White said. There is enough evidence. If he dares to deny what he said, I will ask Little Blossom to destroy it." Little Four