Chapter 456 - Battle of the Ages

The crowd quickly got excited. Everyone was looking forward to this battle of the ages. With Xiao Ning getting closer and closer, the exclamation of the crowd was even greater, which made the snow on the cliff edge constantly slip off.

In an instant, Xiao Ning was less than ten thousand feet away from the peak. He strolled in the sky with ease like a god with powerful aura, the clouds within five kilometers radius behind him tumbled, like a tsunami in the sky.

The snow was falling fast, Gu Feng had stood up, staring at the man who was getting closer. His hair danced wildly behind his shoulders and the Raging Dragon Blade also vibrated as it howled, along with the five great swords behind him. At this moment, all of them vibrated and the iron chain on them cling-clang.

“Xiao Ning is here!”

With a loud voice, Xiao Ning had landed from the air onto the summit platform. As he stepped on the ground with his feet, the ice flakes flew. He stood upright with his halberd, his sleeves swayed with the wind, his eyes were like lightning, and he looked like a statue Ancient Valkyrie.

The people below were all holding their breath, and at this moment, two legendary figures of thousands of years ago finally gathered together. They were admired for their powerful aura and heroic spirit. To be able to witness this battle of ages in person was such a joy in life and one could show off about this in front of the others in the future.

Ziyun’er looked excited. She clapped and cheered, “Lord! Look! It’s Big Brother Xiao Ning! Big Brother Xiao Ning is here!”

Xiao Chen shook his head and smiled silently, but gradually, there seemed to be a sorrow of sadness between his brows. “Do they have to fight to death today?”

In the distance, Xiaoyue’s eyebrows were deeply locked. She knew more or less about Xiao Ning, but Xiao Ning’s grievances with Thousand Feathers Sect were difficult to telltale, after all, it was something that even her respected teacher, Su Nian Perfected Immortal, had been secretive about.

And Xiao Chen… As she thought, she turned to look at Xiao Chen and thought of the time in Wuwang Wind Cloud City. When Xiao Ning was mentioned, Xiao Chen looked very abnormal, and after the battle with Patriarch Guanshan as well. “What is the relationship between the two of them?”

On the summit, the snowfall was getting heavier and the cold wind blew with swirling snow. On the summit platform, Xiao Ning and Gu Feng stood face to face and were 100 over feet away from each other. Suddenly, Gu Feng stretched forth his hand and grabbed a large jar of wine in the air, with a whoosh, he pushed it to Xiao Ning.

The large wine jar whirled and turned in midair, causing the snow within 100 feet radius around it to spin as well. It was apparent that the wine jar was attached with unmatchable inner strength. A Nirvana Realm cultivator or even an Apotheosis Realm cultivator could be injured heavily within, having his internal organs explode if he was to forcibly catch the jar.

However, Xiao Ning stretched out his left hand and patted on that wine jar with a bang. The jar immediately stopped rotating. Then as he inserted the halberd into the snow with his right hand and the ice flakes flew, he raised the wine jar with his left hand, and with his right hand, he smacked open the sealing mud. The aroma of the wine soon burst out.

Gu Feng also picked up another wine jar. The two pushed the jar forward, and then they each drank from the wine jar they were holding. The crowd was shocked. “Ain’t they fighting each other to death today? Don’t they have a grudge that lasted for thousands of years? Why are they drinking together today?”

Everyone looked at each other. Those two large wine jars were filled with at least dozens of pounds of wine. At this moment, the two gulped down the wine, full of heroic spirits, the wine that spilled out dripped along their neckline and fell into the snow.

“Lord, since Big Brother Xiao Ning and Senior Gu Feng can drink together, why do they have to fight to their death?” Ziyun’er stood beside Xiao Chen, frowning slightly, her expression showed that she was feeling very puzzled.

Xiao Chen shook his head and looked at the duo drinking on the top of the mountain. He sighed and said, “A drunken dream of the mortal world is like yesterday, grudge of thousands of years to be canceled off in one strike, and this one strike is probably to life and death.” Imagine if one day Yi Tong and himself become enemies. Didn’t they have to drink for the last time before they died?

After a while, the two on the summit platform had finished all the wine. The two looked at each other, and at the same time pushed the empty wine jar in their hands to each other. “Boom!” The empty wine jars collided and smashed into pieces in midair. The force of the collision was turbulent, causing the snow on the cliffs to fall continuously, and the people who were close by below also shaken by the impact and some even had their eardrums bleeding.

“Ha!”

The two yelled loudly and lifted their weapons in the snow at the same time and ice flakes flew in that instant. Xiao Ning held the halberd and Gu Feng held the black misty Raging Dragon Blade. Both of them rushed at each other like flashes of lightning.

“Dang!” With a loud bang, the two weapons met each other, and the snow flew from the impact, and the whole mountain trembled. The people below flew out by this sudden strong shock, and those with strong skills immediately stabilized, and then quickly receded into the distance, while those with weaker skills spat out blood from the shock.

This was not expected by everyone. “Aren’t they looking to die? To be standing so close to the battle between such strong men?” For a while, everyone backed away to afar, retreating to at least a thousand feet from the platform.

It was like a snowstorm on the summit, both the hair of Xiao Ning and Gu Feng fluttered wildly with the wind. Every time the weapons of them collided, the mountain top trembled, as if tearing the space apart. Even when everyone had withdrawn 2,000 feet away at this moment, they could not help being shocked by this powerful vital force fluctuations.

Everyone was horrified. The strength of the two was at least above the Grand Completion Realm. Xiao Chen was also slightly surprised. The strength of the two at the moment was probably stronger than what it was a thousand years ago.

“Devil Devour Weather Spell!”

Gu Feng yelled suddenly and swang his blade. Hundreds of feet tall devil shadow suddenly appeared in the air and everyone was horrified. That devil shadow was surrounded by a black mist, and its eyes were like a lamp, as though to be devouring Heaven and Earth. Then it rushed towards Xiao Ning.

Xiao Ning did not even break a sweat. He swang his Heaven Scorcher Halberd, and he wiped on the halberd with two fingers. In that instant, the Heaven Scorcher Halberd was shining with several green radiances and attacked at the devil shadow in midair.

“Boom!” The whole mountain shook violently, and the snow fell from the cliff. The crowd was so in awe that before they could react, they saw Gu Feng leaping into the sky again and yelling, “Raging Dragon Seven Slay!” After which, he swang the Raging Dragon Blade and a black blade radiance of more than 100 feet rushed out. “First Slay – Form!”

“Clang!” With a loud bang, Xiao Ning held his halberd horizontally and blocked the attack. But under the impact, everything around him was shaken into powder. The mixture of snow and the stones rushed into the distance, and everyone joined forces immediately to support a Barrier to resist incoming stones.

“Second Slay – Mind!” Gu Feng slashed again fiercely like raging waves of the raging sea, which caused the whole mountain to tremble endlessly. Xiao Ning also suddenly leaped forward, and using the halberd as a blade, he attacked. “Deicide Ten-fold Slash!”

Suddenly, more than a 100 feet long blue halberd radiance rushed out, reflecting the black blade radiance of Gu Feng. The two forces collided together, immediately, the landslide broke, and the rubble continuously rolled down the cliff.

In the distance, everyone felt dizzy from the impact of the collision of the forces, for the impact had disrupted their breathing. On the summit, Gu Feng’s Raging Dragon Seven Slay was displayed one after another, and with each slash, it was getting fiercer and fiercer. Xiao Ning also used the halberd as a blade, and with each attack, the Deicide Ten-fold Slash was also getting more powerful.

The erupting power of the two people, the sword radiances that intertwined with each other, were apocalyptic. The crowd was far away at this moment, and if they were a little closer, they would be destroyed by an instant. While everyone was dazzled, someone exclaimed, “No! Why is the East Peak Emperor using the Dominant Sky Ten-fold Slash of the He Family!”

The exclaimed man was a pale-faced scholar. When he said this, the others around him immediately said angrily at him, “Are you blind?”

That scholar was stunned for a moment, still unwilling, and determined that Xiao Ning used the unique skill of the He Family, saying, “I’m sure! This is He Family’s Dominant Sky Ten-fold Slash! He is, however, a predecessor, and yet he secretly learned the martial arts of the He Family. He won’t be glorious today even if he defeats the Northern Mad Emperor…

Listening to him vilifying East Peak Emperor, a hot-tempered red-faced swordsman finally could not take it anymore. He walked hurriedly towards him, raised his collar, and yelled, “Where did this bastard come from! Stop spouting nonsense! Scram!” Then he slapped the scholar till he bled in the ears and nose and threw him out.

The scholar rolled a few times in the snow. He covered half of his face and shouted, “You, you! How can you hit someone without a word!”

“Underdog of the He Family! Get out!” The swordsman glared, scaring him to piss in the pants, and where the scholar ran to, indeed had a few He Family people.

In the distance, Ziyun’er stomped her foot and said angrily, “How can that man be so annoying! He deserved to be beaten! It is inexplicable that Brother Xiao Ning would steal the martial arts of other factions!”

Xiao Chen smiled and said, “There are so many people in this world who want to be popular; you don’t have to care.”

On the top of the mountain, Gu Feng and Xiao Ning were in the heat of their duel. Several nearby mountaintops had been leveled, and the five giant swords slanting into the ground had also been cut off.

At this moment, each of them stood on a broken sword while holding onto their weapons, and their robes flapped loudly against the wind. They let the icy snowflake drift across their cheeks, and their gazes stayed on each other and remained motionless.

Suddenly, the whole mountain trembled, a thick black devil flame rose from Gu Feng while a green flame rose from Xiao Ning. They looked at each other and the surrounding snow and ice melted quickly. Everyone was in shock. “Are the two finally going to start a real battle of life and death?”

Ziyun’er was anxious and could not help but stomp her feet endlessly. She said anxiously, “What should we do? Is Big Brother Xiao Ning going to fight against Senior Gu Feng to death for real? Lord, can you persuade Big Brother Xiao Ning?”

Xiao Chen frowned. If he could persuade him, he would already have. “Is it really necessary that only one of them survives today?” He was now a little worried. There must be someone with ill intentions peeping in the dark. Once they were both defeated and hurt, they would jump out immediately.

As he was worrying, in a glance Xiao Chen suddenly saw a woman wearing a fox fur coat and a cap walking quietly towards him. He was surprised and was about to speak when the woman immediately put her fair and slim finger on her lips, making a hush gesture.