Chapter 23 : tempering himself in life and death battle

In the middle of the forest , there was 300 meter long and huge ice cave that had a huge hole on its top. The sky could be seen while coldness could be felt.

Few groups of humans were standing inside the ice cave. Nanashi and Chen mei watched above them.

"Whoosh" cold and creepy breeze passed though them making them feel chill down their spinal.

Growl~

"Swoosh" like a flying clouds , there were mist of darkness covering the sky.

Everyone's heart thumped for a moment. Nanashi secretly activated his [ devour ].

Chen mei frowned while watching those mist of darkness , covering the sky. The whole ice cave was encircled by the dark mist.

From the darkness , a howling could heard "howl"

Slowly and slowly , those dark mist started to form into a shape of huge wolves. Size of a lion , horse , donkey and even elephants.

They had dark eyes , sharp fangs with dark fur that were very silky and beautiful. Muscular build and sturdy muscles.their eyes were dark , leaving their eyeballs red.

They were showered in yin aura.

Looking at nanashi and others with disdain , those wolves growled proudly.

Gulp~

Those weak disciples felt their soul leaving them. Nanashi looked fearlessly even when he was scared. Showing weakness will not bring any good.

While Chen mei also glared back with arrogance and cold eyes.

"Peng" jumping down from the top , those night wolves charged at nanashi and others.

"Haaa! !!" Nanashi roared like a lion as if he was the king here. Moving his fan , he slayed down a weak night wolf and devoured it's yin qi.

While Chen mei , looking at those night wolves with disdains , she slashed her sword and slayed down a weak night wolf.

"Pat" those two dead corpses of nigh wolves fell down on the ground.painting the ground with bloods and covering the ground with their dead bodies.

Not long after slaying one , nanashi twisted his body in mid air and swung his fan once again making one dead corpse fall down on the ground.

While Chen mei used her sword to slay one after another.

"Can seniors handle them ? I feel like those monsters are very powerful " one disciple asked while staying inside the spiritual barrier.

While slaying one after another , nanashi was getting warm up. But suddenly from behind , one night wolf charged at him with its huge open jaw.

Nanashi felt like he shouldn't be careless so he opened his umbrella and blocked the attack. But who knew that the night wolf will turn itself into dark mist and dissappear.

"Swoosh" there was nothing when night wolf turned into dark mist. Out of nowhere ,the night wolf appeared from behind nanashi , before he could act , he was already late.

"Cang" the night wolf thought that it bit nanashi's shoulder but when it realised something , it was already late to regret.

The thing that night wolf bit was nothing but a scrap of metal that nanashi left. At the last moment when the night wolf charged at him , he turned himself completely into water and avoided death.

After the night wolf bit the scarp metal , it tried to run away because of sensing danger. But nanashi appeared from behind and used his fan to slice him into two piece.

While on the another side , Chen mei used her ice sword arts to freeze her enemies while slaying them.

One night wolf tackled her from behind ,making her fall on the ground . But when the night wolf tried to ambush her when she was still on the ground , Chen mei slayed it's neck and separated it's head apart from the body.

Nanashi and Chen mei came closer and placed their backs on each others , making sure that they would watch for each others.

Both were releasing their spiritual qi and covering themselves.

One after another , those night wolves kept trying to kill them. If not that they had used the special art of cultivators which attracts the beasts toward them than those disciples would have been first one to be targeted.

But even if they are using such as the special art to attract those yin beasts , if there are highly intelligent beasts than this art wouldn't work at them.

Getting bitten on the shoulder , nanashi let out a painful moan . But without any mercy , he chopped out the head of that night beast.

Killing one after another while getting bitten very badly , nanashi and Chen mei both were exhausted.

Chen mei had injuries all over body while being covered with bloods , her sword was getting crack marks all over while nanashi was also not in any good mood.

He was full of bloodshed and injuries , making his perfect handsome and charming face carry those scars.

His fan was dripping bloods while it was also painted in blood. His umbrella was used for shield to protect himself from those attacks that were coming from night wolves.

But the problem was those stupid rank 8 and 9 night wolves .

Suddenly throwing his fan at those night wolves , like a bomber rang , the fan flew while spinning around. Without delay , those weak one were caught and killed by getting their body slayed by the Chinese fan.

"Swoosh" the fan came back in nanashi's hand like a bomber rang would do. Than once again he threw his fan at them , but this time they all avoided while some few died.

But little did they know , the instant they avoided it , the fan turned into sharp threads that could cut through even metals . With that ,nanashi transformed his umbrella into a long , thin , strong thread and connected the knot between the thrown fan that had turned into a sea of threads and the umbrella that has turned into roots of thread.

Those threads danced in the air very elegantly and noble way. They formed into tiny tiny long swords that were emitting the aura of real swords. Thousands of swords made of threads were there in the air , dancing the dance of death.

While mei did similar to him ,she threw her sword up in the air while taking out 19 swords out from her storage ring.

Every single swords were at least peak grade swords. Those all swords floated in the air and went behind her. Rotating around her back , she was like sword immortal , ready to slay space and time at anytime.

But suddenly behind her back , those rotation of 20 swords illustrated the image of ice asterisk . The ice asterisk was spinning around her back like a supreme deity of ice.

"Swoosh" pointing her hand toward the incoming beasts , she frowned. Following her signal , one sword directly charged at the beasts. When the sword moved , it froze the land on its shadow. When the sword touched the night wolf , it firsts froze and was destroyed into shards of ice leaving millions of pieces behind.

While nanashi used his long and thin string swords to pierce through those nigh wolves body. But not every night wolves were killed because of their ability to transform into dark mist.

Nanashi wasn't using hiss talisman's defence ability because he wanted to temper his body and see what limit would he go ? Exceeding limit is what a cultivator wants .

Watching Chen mei's a sword technique , nanashi said "[ note ] "with that with a "ding"

[ sword palace art ] has been recorded in [ skill manual ]

With a smile , nanashi turned his two weapons into two long , thin and sharp swords. Those two swords flew behind him and started to rotate while creating the illusion of ice asterisk. Spinning on his back , he was like some kind of sword god. But because of his noble aura he made himself look like noblest swordgod.

The tip of sword were facing toward where he was facing , with his thought those swords would charge his target.

"Seniors are so awesome " one disciple couldn't help but admire them. But another disciple was irritated and said " it's not that they are awesome . It's just that we are not their at level , fool "

"…" everyone nodded.

Nanashi was tempering himself while Chen mei was trying to finish as fast as they can.

But it was too hard for them to fight against those night wolves. They felt like they weren't fighting with night wolves but pure mist of darkness.

Those every singles wolves were jumping inside the ice and invading them like an archenemy.

Woooooo~

Howl~

Those 100-150 night wolves directly charged toward nanashi and Chen mei. Chen mei had a cold expression while nanashi had a smile on his face.

Baam~

Suddenly before those night wolves could even touch at nanashi , nanashi charged them with his fist. But when the fist was charged at them , those that managed to get nanashi's fist were left broken with their bones.

[ first gear : inner strength brutal rampage ]

His hands were hard as a metal which made those night wolves unable to stand after receiving just one fist.

Actually this [ first gear ] doesn't hurt only physically . Just like it's name , it is actually meant to hurt the target's inner power such as soul and spirit.

Bang~

At this moment nanashi and chen mei were already surrounded by the mist of darkness. Not knowing from where they would get attacked , both of them stood in guard. Rearing each others back , both duo didn't tried to underestimate those night wolves.

Those night wolves had actually already turned into dark mist and wreathe them. Nanashi and mei were in the middle of dark wreath.

[Note : according to dictionary :

[ wreath : a circle of smoke or clouds ]

[ wreathe : to surround or cover something ]

Like a hand in darkness that couldn't be felt , suddenly hundreds of claws started to invade those two in the middle of darkness.

Because Chen mei didn't had some battle arts or experience in darkness , she was forced to get injured inside the dark mist.

While nanashi had his [ assailant combat ] which helped him to avoid those surprise attack in the middle of dark mist

But he didn't , because he was tempering himself so why would he avoid those attacks ?

Was he an idiot to avoid the attacks while he was tempering himself ?

Chen mei lifted her right feet in the air and stomped the ground while crying " ice stomp : frozen zone "

"Cring" those land started to slowly and firmly , like an antarctica , started to freeze . Some few night wolves were even frozen to their death.

Nanashi smiled while watching this night wolves flying in the sky. Every single night wolves started to fly in the sky while howling out loud.

"Swoosh" leaping in the sky , nanashi caught with them and floated. He said " take care of those juniors while I take care of this bunch of dogs "

Chen mei was exhausted , she fell on her knees but luckily she was supported by her sword. Her twenty swords were stabbed on the ground creating the scene of merciless battlefield .

Running toward Chen mei , every single disciples were worried. They asked " senior sister , are you alright ? " "senior , be careful . You must have been exhausted from battle " everyone were worried for her.

While Chen mei just spit the blood from her mouth while watching the sky . She was thinking something.

She was horrified . She was scared. She was trembling from her legs and heart.

Her eyes carried fear and terror while at the same time an admiration.

She saw it.

She saw it.

" Those eyes that I saw , those smile that I saw.

They didn't belong to a young man that hasn't even seen the world. Those smile and eyes were someone that must have gone through countless life and death battles.

For a moment i saw an illusion ,but who was that ? What was that ? " Chen mei was thinking inside her heart.

The thing she saw was , when nanashi and her , were caught inside those dark mist , nanashi gave an illusion of someone else. He was totally different person.

His eyes were calm as a river and tranquil as those gentle breeze. A loneliness was carried in those eyes as if he has no match in the world. He was like a totally different person , despite wearing a robe , he had a long silver coat that had a long bottom .

His bottom was even reaching his half of his legs . Long hairs that were white and had a scar on his face. Handsome than he is now with his sharp chin and red blood like eyes.

She felt like he had a lines of myriad world rotating around his back , millions of tiny tiny stars were encircling his arms like a milky ways. A black sun that was burning and devouring the heaven was raging in the middle of his chest.

His while lower part was armoured by human and beasts bones like they were part of his own body.

A round halo like divine palace was floating behind his head. Making his existence that could rival the heaven. But the person that she saw was different and nanashi was different.

Those two were very different person so how can he create an illusion of someone different person.

That person had loneliness carrying on his eyes while nanashi had disdain carrying in his eyes.