On that day in the Sword Pavilion Star City, Yang Kai had fought a great battle with the mantis head. The mantis head had died, and Yang Kai had not had a good time. With a seriously injured body, he and Lu Xue supported each other as they left, and she brought him to a secluded place to recuperate. Yang Kai’s recovery rate was astonishing, and after three to five days, he was completely fine. Before he left, he did not even greet her.
After all, in Yang Kai’s eyes, the two of them were enemies, not friends. He was surprised that Lu Xue didn’t take the opportunity to plot against him, so how could he have called out to her before leaving?
He had thought that it would be difficult for them to meet again in the Great Ruins Boundary, but who would have thought that the Scarlet Flood Dragon would send a message today and learn that she was outside this Star City.
Scarlet Flood Dragon had been cut in the neck by Lu Xue at the Yuan Magnetic Mountain and nearly had his head chopped off. Naturally, he hated her to the bone and remembered her aura, so it wasn’t strange for him to find her.
Because of the enmity from that day, Scarlet Flood Dragon had repeatedly come to find trouble with Lu Xue, wanting to take revenge.
Unfortunately, Lu Xue had been avoiding it all this time. The moment the Scarlet Flood Dragon arrived, she had fled far away, waiting for it to leave before returning. After repeating this several times, the Scarlet Flood Dragon couldn’t do anything to her.
After seeing Yang Kai this time, it told him this news, probably wanting him to stand up for it .
Otherwise, why would Yang Kai come here?
It had been more than two months since their last meeting, and Lu Xue’s injuries were much better, but her aura was still somewhat unstable and her face was slightly pale. It seemed she had not fully recovered.
After all, she had been burned by the Golden Crow True Fire, so it would take her less than a year to fully recover.
“Is there something you need from me?” Yang Kai looked at her and asked. This woman didn’t have any murderous intent, nor was there any trace of hatred in her eyes. It seemed she wasn’t here for revenge.
Lu Xue nodded lightly.
“What is it? Speak.”
Lu Xue opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but after holding it in for a long time, she couldn’t say anything.
Yang Kai was a bit impatient. He was in a hurry to return to the Hidden Dragon Mountain to cultivate, so he didn’t want to waste any more time with this woman. Waving his sleeve, he said, “Then we’ll talk after you’ve thought it through.”
He turned to leave.
Lu Xue’s anxious voice came from behind him, “This Mistress wants to follow Sir!” Afraid that Yang Kai would really leave, she shouted a little too loudly.
Yang Kai turned his head and looked at her in surprise, “What did you say?”
He wondered if he had heard wrong, otherwise why would she make such a ridiculous request?
Lu Xue stared at him, her face slightly red as she lowered her head, “I want to follow Sir, please allow me!”
Hearing this, Yang Kai still found it hard to believe. Logically speaking, Lu Xue’s actions back in the Sword Pavilion Star City had left him somewhat confused, but now she had actually made such an incomprehensible request.
She had been tortured by the Golden Crow True Fire and almost lost her life, so how could she not have any resentment towards Yang Kai? Several hundred people from Sword Pavilion had been killed by him, and even a leader like Zhong Fan and Luo Qingyun had died at Yang Kai’s hands. If it had been anyone else, they would have found an opportunity to seek revenge.
However, in the Sword Pavilion Star City, she had taken the seriously injured Yang Kai to a remote place to recuperate.
Even if she was magnanimous enough to let go of all these grievances, at most, she would only be minding her own business, so how could she suggest following him?
Yang Kai couldn’t help wondering if she had ulterior motives.
“I don’t have any other intentions, I just want to follow you. The Great Ruins Boundary is dangerous, I want to leave this place alive,” Lu Xue raised her head and explained softly.
If she hadn’t seen the great change in the Sword Pavilion Star City with her own eyes, Lu Xue might not have had such thoughts, but even the Sixth Order Open Heaven Stage Sword Pavilion’s Pavilion Master had been killed, and there were traces of a Holy Spirit appearing in the Great Ruins Boundary. She was completely alone and didn’t feel safe.
After thinking about it for a while, she still felt that following Yang Kai would be safer. At the very least, he was the strongest person in the Great Ruins Boundary. If a great calamity really came, Yang Kai’s hope to survive would be the greatest.
The reason she was hiding here was because of her identity. After all, she was the leader of the Sword Pavilion. If she really went to the Scarlet Star City, she would definitely be captured. She had been observing the Star City just to see when Yang Kai would come out, but who would have thought that instead of Yang Kai, the Scarlet Flood Dragon would come here several times.
Yang Kai stared straight into her eyes, his gaze deep, as if he could see into the depths of her heart and see through her hidden thoughts.
Lu Xue remained calm, not showing any signs of guilt.
After a moment, Yang Kai grinned, “You really have such intentions?”
Lu Xue nodded seriously, “I’m not lying.”
“Don’t you feel wronged?”
“That Lady Yue He also followed Sir, she’s even stronger than me, does she feel wronged?” If it weren’t for Yue He, she really wouldn’t have made this request.
“Glib tongue, heheh,” Yang Kai slowly shook his head with his hands behind his back.
Lu Xue blushed slightly, “Are you afraid, Sir? Are you afraid I’ll recover and kill you while you’re unprepared?”
When she made this request, she was already quite embarrassed, but Yang Kai kept asking her about it, making her even more embarrassed and difficult to hold herself.
“What’s there to be afraid of?” Yang Kai snorted. A Fourth Order Open Heaven Stage cultivator wasn’t much of a threat to him in the Great Ruins Boundary, so he decisively said, “Since you’ve delivered yourself to my door, this King will not refuse.”
He wanted to see what this little girl wanted to do. Rather than suspecting her motives, it would be better to bring her with him. If she really had any ulterior motives, he would definitely expose them and kill her.
Taking big strides towards Lu Xue, Yang Kai arrived in front of her in a few steps and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace as he shouted, “Don’t resist!”
Lu Xue’s eyes went wide as her nose and mouth were filled with a vigorous aura. Her mind was instantly thrown into chaos and she nearly sent out a palm strike.
What was he trying to do? Did he misunderstand something? She had only said she wanted to follow him and had no other intentions. Lu Xue wanted to cry but had no tears.
She wanted to resist, but thinking about Yang Kai’s terrifying strength, how could she resist in her current state?
In the blink of an eye, a phrase popped up in Lu Xue’s mind. A sheep entering the tiger’s mouth!
As she was lost in her thoughts, she suddenly felt the space around her distort and she fell into darkness. This darkness swallowed all of her senses, causing her to feel a great sense of fear.
In just an instant, her vision blurred and she recovered.
Yang Kai let go of her and grabbed the Azure Dragon Spear, walking forward as he said, “Your injuries have yet to heal, so you should heal yourself. If there’s nothing else, don’t bother me.”
Arriving a thousand feet away, Yang Kai quickly immersed himself in practicing his spear technique.
Lu Xue stared at him in a daze for a long time before regaining her senses and turning her head to look around. This was not the mountain peak she had just been on, but a completely different place.
Space Teleportation! Lu Xue’s expression became serious.
Only now did she realize that she had misunderstood. Yang Kai wasn’t trying to take advantage of her, but rather, he wanted to bring her along with him through the Void, telling her not to resist was for her own good. If she made any strange movements while traversing the Void, she might be swallowed by the Void and never be able to find her way back.
Her pale face was slightly red as she stood there quietly, watching Yang Kai brandish his spear and sweep through the void.
Soon, she discovered some clues. Yang Kai had used countless spear techniques, each one of them powerful, sometimes powerful, sometimes as dense as rain, making it seem like he had extraordinary power. Ordinary cultivators would never be able to withstand a single spear strike from him, and even if she were to use her Fourth Order Open Heaven Stage, she wouldn’t be able to last much longer.
But there was always a slight discord.
Lu Xue frowned slightly, not knowing what this discord was.
A few days later, Yang Kai once again displayed his spear techniques.
A few days later, the same thing happened again.
Lu Xue silently counted. From beginning to end, Yang Kai had used a total of 1134 Spear Dao Secret Technique, each of which was different and each time he used them again, it gave off a feeling of familiarity.
‘That’s right!’ Lu Xue suddenly understood what she had just seen.
That was immaturity!
Although the power of Yang Kai’s moves was extraordinary, he was like a toddler learning how to walk, exploring the path of the spear, each step more steady than the last.
In the blink of an eye, a month later, Yang Kai put away his spear and stood in contemplation.
Through this period of cultivation, Yang Kai had indeed gained a lot, but when he thought back to the mantis head’s swordmanship, he could still feel the vast difference between him and his opponent. The other party’s swordmanship was completely natural, each and every one of his blade was like an antelope’s horn, impossible to detect, and extremely powerful.
Was his cultivation method wrong?
As he was lost in thought, he suddenly heard a voice, “Is Sir cultivating the spear technique?”
Turning around, he saw Lu Xue walking over.
Yang Kai nodded. If she didn’t speak, he would have almost forgotten about her.
Lu Xue asked, “Does Sir intend to use a thousand spear techniques, trying to gather the strength of thousand families?”
“I have such thoughts, but I don’t feel like I’ve gained much,” Yang Kai said somewhat dejectedly. Compared to the beginning, he had indeed grown greatly in the Dao of Spear Techniques, but it was much smaller than he had expected, perhaps because he hadn’t cultivated for long enough.
Lu Xue slowly said, “Sir’s methods are quite similar to an old friend of mine.”
“Oh?” Yang Kai’s eyes lit up, “Your old friend also cultivated like this?”
Lu Xue nodded and said softly, “Yes, but the number of spear technique he has collected is not as many as Sir’s, only one or two hundred.”
Yang Kai was able to obtain so many Secret Book of Spear Techniques from the Space Rings of tens of thousands of people, so even if Lu Xue’s old friend was an Open Heaven Stage cultivator, he probably wouldn’t have such an opportunity, so collecting one or two hundred of them was already quite difficult.
“How was his final cultivation?” Yang Kai asked anxiously.
“Success,” Lu Xue said slowly, a look of reminiscence appearing on her face, “He spent dozens of years to gather the strength of a hundred families and cultivated his Sure Kill Spear. That spear was his strongest attack, and I once sparred with him. An Open Heavens Stage cultivator of the same grade would have a hard time resisting it.”
“Sure kill Spear!” Yang Kai couldn’t help showing a look of fascination, but after hearing Lu Xue say that this man had spent several dozen years, he suddenly became somewhat speechless.
If it took several dozen years to gather the strength of a hundred families, how many years would it take for him to gather the strength of a thousand families?
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