Assassination

What is the greatest difference between the Condensing Spirit and Xiantian realms?

Divine abilities.

Whether one is in the Houtian realm or the three stages of Xiantian, they are ultimately only refining their true qi and physical body.

In the end, they still belong to the category of mortals, and the destruction their attacks can cause is limited.

But the Condensing Spirit realm is different.

After a Three Flowers realm expert gathers the three flowers, they converge at the crown and transform into spirit, giving birth to a nascent soul.

At the moment of the nascent soul’s birth, everyone gains a mysterious ability.

Some can turn stone into gold.

Some can travel ten thousand miles in a day.

Or perhaps they can take a life from a thousand miles away.

This mysterious ability is called a divine ability.

Divine abilities are extremely difficult to comprehend.

Many Condensing Spirit experts might only have the one divine ability they automatically comprehend upon breaking through to the Condensing Spirit realm in their entire lives.

Occasionally, someone possesses three or four divine abilities, and such a person is considered extremely powerful even among the Condensing Spirit realm.

Of course, this kind of inhuman divine ability is not the greatest gap between Condensing Spirit and Three Flowers.

The greatest difference lies in the physical body.

Experts in the Three Flowers realm still have mortal bodies.

If their heart is pierced or their head cut off, they will still die.

Condensing Spirit is different.

For a cultivator who has condensed their nascent soul, their foundation is no longer the physical body but the nascent soul.

As long as the nascent soul is not extinguished, even if the physical body is completely destroyed, a Condensing Spirit expert can still survive.

Conversely, if the nascent soul is annihilated, no matter how intact the physical body is, it is merely a husk.

This is the truly terrifying aspect of the Condensing Spirit realm—they are very difficult to kill.

No matter how much an expert below the Condensing Spirit realm tries to ambush, it is extremely hard to assassinate a Condensing Spirit expert.

Let alone a frontal confrontation.

“Your strength is also extremely powerful among the Three Flowers realm.”

“Perhaps it won’t be long before you can try to gather the three flowers and condense your nascent soul.”

“Unfortunately, your opponent is me.”

The coachman clasped his hands behind his back, and his figure began to blur.

“Although my divine ability has almost no effect against experts of the same realm, against those below the Condensing Spirit realm, I am invincible.”

As his voice fell, the coachman completely vanished from Lu Yuesheng’s perception.

Lu Yuesheng’s pupils contracted slightly.

She flicked the tip of her sword, as if stirring ripples in a lake, and waves spread through the air.

The ripples continued to expand, but halfway, they seemed to encounter something and broke apart from the middle.

Looking at the shape of the break, it seemed to be a palm wind.

Lu Yuesheng sidestepped, narrowly avoiding the palm wind.

The palm wind struck the river not far behind her, splashing water several stories high.

“What a unique way to detect position.”

“Unfortunately, you can at most detect my attacks.”

The coachman’s voice came from somewhere, as if from all directions.

The ripples Lu Yuesheng had stirred had spread throughout the empty space, yet still could not locate the coachman.

In fact, that last palm strike had come quite suddenly.

Before the palm wind arrived, Lu Yuesheng had heard no sound, sensed no danger.

If she hadn’t instinctively used that probing technique after the coachman’s figure vanished, she would have surely been hit by that palm.

Pursing her lips, Lu Yuesheng felt the difficulty.

If it were a divine ability better suited for frontal combat, she might have had some way to deal with it.

But against this supportive-type divine ability that completely erased one’s presence and figure, she felt somewhat helpless.

The enemy hidden, she exposed.

Over time, she would inevitably be defeated.

As Lu Yuesheng pondered a countermeasure, her hands never stopped, continuously stirring up waves of ripples to probe for possible attacks.

But the coachman seemed very patient.

He did not look down on Lu Yuesheng as his words suggested.

Instead, he waited cautiously for the moment when Lu Yuesheng would relax.

At that moment, a thunderous fatal blow would await Lu Yuesheng.

Sweat gradually appeared on her forehead.

This method of continuously detecting attacks was very draining, and Lu Yuesheng could already feel her true qi beginning to falter.

On the other side, Liu Yang was only using his speed advantage to harass that Hunyuan realm expert.

Although, given more time, Liu Yang, with his absolute speed advantage, could likely wear down his opponent, it seemed there was no time to wait.

“It’s almost time for me to make my move.”

The coachman, hidden in the shadows, flashed a sharp light in his eyes.

He could see that Lu Yuesheng’s true qi was about to run out.

That was when he would launch his attack.

The next moment, Lu Yuesheng’s true qi circulation stuttered, and the continuous waves of ripples finally ceased for a moment.

“Now!”

The coachman’s eyes gleamed, and in his palm, dense true qi began to gather.

Just then, the coachman suddenly sensed a strange aura appear, carrying killing intent, heading straight for the Second Manor Lord’s wife.

“How dare you!”

The coachman flew into a rage.

That aura was only at the Xiantian One Qi realm, yet it dared to attack his mistress right under the nose of a Condensing Spirit expert like him.

What infuriated the coachman even more was that before this aura moved, he had been unable to detect its approach!

A cold gleam flashed behind the Second Manor Lord’s wife.

Lu Chang’an, who had been hiding in the shadows all along, finally revealed himself at that moment.

To prevent the smell of blood from being detected, Lu Chang’an had even changed clothes and hastily washed off the bloodstains on his body.

He used his muscles to seal the numerous small wounds on his body, stopping the bleeding.

And all of Lu Chang’an’s preparations were waiting for this moment.

“Why must you trouble a weak woman like me?”

The Second Manor Lord’s wife sighed.

She waved her sleeve toward the cold gleam, while quickly retreating toward the coachman’s position.

The Second Manor Lord’s wife knew very well that she was only a Xiantian realm expert built up by medicinal pills.

Her actual combat ability was far inferior to those who had cultivated through hard work.

So after only slightly obstructing the cold gleam, she retreated toward the coachman.

The sleeve she swept out failed to stop Lu Chang’an at all.

The moment the true qi-infused sleeve touched Lu Chang’an’s sword, it was shredded to pieces.

But the Second Manor Lord’s wife had retreated decisively enough.

Lu Chang’an’s sword did not touch her before the coachman intervened.

The coachman still did not reveal himself.

What blocked Lu Chang’an’s sword was a fierce palm wind.

Under the collision, Lu Chang’an only lasted a moment before his figure flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing onto the path.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

Lu Chang’an, knocked flying by a single palm, looked somewhat disheveled, but his face bore a somewhat wild smile.

“Such a weak Condensing Spirit.”

“It seems I might even slay a Condensing Spirit today and create a legend.”

“Then try it.”

The coachman laughed in extreme anger, his killing intent more intense than ever before.