788 A Weird Dao, Provocation!

Fang Zhengzhi was looking very confident. His confidence was annoying but he did not care. He continued to laughed on fearlessly.

He was not pretending to be relaxed. In fact, a scary thought had entered his mind.

At face value, it seemed that the leader of Ling Yun Tower was unwilling to see Lin Mubai and Ping Yang.

However, the truth was that…

This was only one of the possibilities.

The other possibility was that the leader of Ling Yun Tower was wasting time, mental energy and physical effort together with Fang Zhengzhi.

In other words, she was stalling.

Her reason for doing this was probably because of the old adage: if you know yourself and your enemy well, you will never lose your battles.

The leader of Ling Yun Tower was testing Fang Zhengzhi with her disciples. She had sent them against him one by one from weak to strong in order to test his prowess.

On the surface, it may seem like Fang Zhengzhi was gaining the upper hand by defeating all these disciples from Ling Yun Tower. However, the truth was that they were stripping layers off Fang Zhengzhi.

If the targeted person had been any more prideful, he would have been complacent by now and would have walked into the trap laid out by the leader of Ling Yun Tower.

Fang Zhengzhi had never seen anything like this before at the other Sects of the Holy Region.

The other Sects in the Holy Region relied on their own power to suppress enemies directly while Ling Yun Tower approached things differently.

Although they had never met, Fang Zhengzhi knew that the leader of Ling Yun Tower was a master in the art of forbearance .

She had remained calm in the face of Fang Zhengzhi's attempts to invade and humiliate. It was as if all these had nothing to do with her.

As the saying went, a correct decision made in camp will secure a victory thousands of kilometres away. Although Fang Zhengzhi was only speculating, the leader of Ling Yun was shaping to be scarier than he had expected.

Of course, whether or not his guesses were correct, Fang Zhengzhi had enough of being led by the nose. He did not want to reveal all his cards. Thus, he had to turn to deceitful tactics.

Successful warriors have always been crafty.

To become truly deceitful, he had to begin with concealment.

After all, the leader of Ling Yun Tower had not come out and Fang Zhengzhi was running out of ideas. Hence, he had to conceal his trump cards and construct something false in order to compromise the judgement of the leader of Ling Yun Tower.

Fang Zhengzhi had to make himself look unpredictable and opaque. This way, the leader of Ling Yun Tower would have to rely more on her imagination and guesswork.

However, Fang Zhengzhi's confidence and unpredictability did not seem to be working very well. Cang Yue and the five women did not seem to have bought his act.

"Countered?" Cang Yue was aware of the counteraction of different forces but she did not believe Fang Zhengzhi's talk of being able to counter them.

Still, she hesitated.

After all, Fang Zhengzhi remained unharmed and nonchalant. It was like what he had said. Their assault was not doing anything to him.

What was going on?

Cang Yue and the five women were all asking the same question. Why wasn't their assault working?

It was supposed to have succeeded.

What a deceitful occurrence.

The smiles of Cang Yue and the five women had stiffened. They found all that had happened extremely weird.

Ping Yang was beginning to figure things out but even the truth was mind boggling.

"Has the shameless fellow really become this powerful? How has he managed to achieve this?"

"It seems like you all don't believe me. Never mind, you can all try me again!" Fang Zhengzhi did not wait for their replies and rattled on.

Fang Zhengzhi was not in a hurry.

He had made up his mind to become unpredictable and had to refrain from looking impatient or fearful.

Thus, he continued to provoke them!

This provocation troubled the woman, who was wearing red and had hair that was slightly white, standing directly in front of him.

"Young Master Fang. Your methods are truly weird. Nonetheless, we are devoted to Ling Yun Tower and even if we cannot defeat you, we will defend our sect with our lives!" The woman in the red dress spoke and turned to the other four women.

The other four women nodded their heads in response and closed their eyes.

When they opened their eyes again, the green light emanating from their eyes had become a dark deep oceanic blue.

"Buzz!"

The green shimmer had turned dark blue as well. Water droplets fell from the sky and dewdrops rose from the ground.

A white mist hung in the air.

At the same time, the five women made their move. They pointed their index and middle fingers forward and dark blue swords with a sapphires embedded in their hilts appeared in their hands.

"Dance!" The woman in red called out.

The five women began to shift their positions. The red woman had moved from in front of Fang Zhengzhi to his left. Loud cracks split the air.

That was the sound of the air freezing.

A deathly cold breeze assailed Fang Zhengzhi.

The five women had their dark blue swords pointed towards Fang Zhengzhi. The swords had tips of white like they had just been dipped in snow.

"Indeed, they can display the same Dao!" Fang Zhengzhi could see that the Dao that they were displaying were based in water and crystals.

Fang Zhengzhi was not too surprised. The five women had been utilising the same technique ever since they stood in formation.

Whether it was the green previously, or the dark blue now…

The five women acted in unison, like they were clones of the same person.

Fang Zhengzhi could not help but feel awed by their methods.

After all, the usage of the same technique by the five women was proving to be very effective.

Besides, Fang Zhengzhi was sure that they would only grow stronger together. Still, he did not understand the rationale for only sending out these five women. Were they the only Ling Yun Tower members of this particular skill level, or were there any other special reasons?

Fang Zhengzhi had not figured these out yet.

The five women had thrust their dark blue swords towards Fang Zhengzhi from their various positions.

A dark chill, together with the sharp wind of the swords, pierced multiple spots on Fang Zhengzhi's body.

Fang Zhengzhi did not leap away.

In fact, he was unable to leap up at all. The five women had trapped his legs with the frost on the ground.

Also, there was a terrifying pressure coming down on him from above.

The five women obviously did not intend for Fang Zhengzhi to escape their assault.

Fang Zhengzhi did not mind that either.

The black fire rose from his body once more and attempted to resist the dark blue swords of frost. However, the impact of the dark blue swords were too powerful for it to handle.

"Boom!"

Fang Zhengzhi's body had been hit by the swords. Large cracks broke out on his black armour once more.

Not just cracks.

At the points where the swords had impacted the armour were large holes. The swords had transferred some of the frost over to the armour and the frost had spread all over it.

Dark blue light whirled about in the sky like the winds in winter. It was clearing up the remnants of the black fire.

"Impressive!" Fang Zhengzhi raised his head a little. His hair was covered in frost but the black fire in his eyes burned on.

"To be able to survive a combined blow from the five of us is quite an achievement. Your name will do the rounds in the Holy Region if you leave Ling Yun Tower alive!" The woman in red looked at Fang Zhengzhi with her deep blue eyes. Her red dress flapped a little. She was radiating more power than before.

"Does that mean that I have a chance of surviving this?" Fang Zhengzhi smiled and replied. The devilish purple light was still coursing through his sword.

"It was just a joke. Young master Fang, did you take it seriously?" The woman in red responded as her wrinkly lips curled into a smile.

"Am I not given any chance of surviving?"

"Nothing is more vicious than a woman's heart. Young master Fang, you must have heard of that, right?"

"I've heard of that indeed. However, that had always been claimed only by the men since a long time ago, so it's definitely biased. A woman has the most vicious heart because it contains hatred. The strongest hatred is definitely the result of the most intense love." Fang Zhengzhi looked up and replied while looking at Ling Yun Tower instead of the woman in red.

"You seem to be only 18 years old?" The woman in red looked a little surprised.

"Yup, the prime of my life." Fang Zhengzhi replied with a sincere look.

"I didn't expect Young master Fang to know so much about 'love' despite your young age, if…" The woman in red seemed a little down at this moment, before she regained her composure and continued, "Haha, Young master Fang, you're definitely a smooth talker. However, it isn't enough to save yourself!"

"Save myself?" Fang Zhengzhi was startled. Then, he smiled as if he had understood everything and said, "This is a mistake. Actually, I've been saying that my Dao counters your Dao. Hence, you guys couldn't hurt me at all. In that case, why do I need to save myself?"

As he said that, the black flame on his body extinguished, then, his eyes became completely filled with a deep blue colour just like the five women.

At the meantime, the five frosty sword tips that pierced through his black armour shattered and turned into spots of deep blue radiance in the air.

However, the deep blue radiance was surrounding Fang Zhengzhi in a friendly manner rather than attacking him.

"How is this possible!" The woman in red finally opened her mouth wide. If she was only surprised previously, this time, she was definitely dumbfounded.

She wasn't the only one. The four other women, as well as Cang Yue, were all dazed. They looked at the deep blue radiance surrounding Fang Zhengzhi, his calm expression, and the black armour that had returned to normal, as if they were looking at a demon.

"What's going on?"

"Does he really counter us? How is that possible? Furthermore, doesn't the concept of countering apply to Dao only? How could human counter each other?"

"Is that the Fang Zhengzhi who had shocked the Holy Region?"

The four women glanced at each other and saw the same emotion. They were truly stunned to their cores.

Ping Yang also opened her mouth wide at this moment with the same look of disbelief in her eyes. "How did this shameless fellow do that? Is he a genius? A freak? Or is his understanding so extraordinary? However, could he really get so powerful… Just by understanding?!"

Ping Yang found it hard to believe. She had always known about Fang Zhengzhi's incredible understanding of Dao. However, this was really overly ridiculous.

In fact, it was almost terrifying!