Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 105: American-style Iaido

The first thing to do after killing someone is naturally to search the body.

Yang Ning picked up Manla's storage bag and was stunned after recognizing it as his own.

The space inside this storage bag was unexpectedly over four hundred cubic units!

It could be considered the Supreme Grade among Supreme Grades, the Rolls-Royce of the storage bag world!

However, after seeing what was inside, Yang Ning was a bit confused.

Apart from a pile of poultry and animal corpses, there were only square wooden boxes. There was nothing else!

"What is this?" Yang Ning took out a wooden box, which felt cold to the touch. It had actually been frozen!

Afraid that there might be a trap inside, he carefully placed it far away before opening it.

As soon as the lid was opened, a cold mist spread out, and Yang Ning also saw what was inside the box.

There were ten silver-white bugs, about the size of a thumb, arranged in two rows of five each.

Not just similar, they should be mutated cockroaches, because these bugs were indistinguishable from cockroaches in terms of biological characteristics, except for their different skin color.

"These should be the gu worms that the Man family bred from cockroaches. What material is the shell made of?" Yang Ning used tweezers to pick up one of the cockroaches, then removed its wings and handed them to Deep Blue for identification.

"The wings contain titanium, aluminum, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon elements. It is a type of alpha titanium alloy!"

"What the f*ck?" Yang Ning was somewhat surprised. "Titanium alloy? The Man family can produce titanium alloy?"

You really can't underestimate anyone in this world!

Although the Man family may not have made much progress in metallurgy or modern technology, they were able to take a different approach and use biology for metallurgy.

This line of thinking was simply amazing!

"Since they can smelt titanium alloy, it means that there should be titanium ore in the Man family's territory, and these bugs can also eat the titanium ore to produce titanium alloy!" This could already be called a gold-devouring bug.

It was just unclear whether the Man family used these bugs as weapons or for metallurgy.

Another major discovery was that these cockroaches were all alive!

As everyone knew, living creatures could not be stored in storage bags.

"So, they can be frozen into a state of false death?"

Yang Ning checked the other boxes again. Inside were various bugs about the size of a thumb, none of which Yang Ning recognized. He could only guess their purpose and put them back into the storage bag.

He had no use for these things, but throwing them away or destroying them would be disgusting. It was better to keep them. If anyone in the sect was interested in them in the future, he could hand them over for research.

Back in Yuntang Town, Yang Ning found another villager to study the Red-Tailed Mind Control Gu in his head.

As Manla had said, the offspring of this gu were the size of red blood cells and could not be found in the bloodstream.

Even if Yang Ning removed all the Red-Tailed Mind Control Gu from the person's brain, new ones would appear within two days.

"These people from the Man family are really disgusting!" For the first time, Yang Ning had the thought of killing all the people from this family and not wanting to have anything to do with them.

Who knows, if you shake hands with them or chat for a while, will they send parasites over to you?

After staying in the village for a few more days, Yang Ning discovered that the twisted nature of this mind control gu was not limited to this.

In the absence of a controller, the Red-Tailed Mind Control Gu would reproduce uncontrollably, filling up the brain and then spreading through the blood vessels to other parts of the body, until it occupied the entire person.

At this point, the person was no longer a human, but a format of consciousness formed by the Red-Tailed Mind Control Gu.

In science fiction terms, this person has become a zombie!

Controlled by the Red-tailed Mind-controlling Gu!

Not only has he died, but the breath he exhales when speaking also contains the seeds of the Red-tailed Mind-controlling Gu. These seeds will enter the human body through the skin, respiratory tract, and blood vessels, initiating a new round of reproduction!

Faced with this situation, Yang Ning is powerless.

After much thought, he can only gather the villagers, chickens, ducks, camels, and underground mice together and throw a bundle of thunder jelly.

He then sprinkles gasoline throughout the village and ignites it.

After this extermination process, there are no living creatures left in the village, but it also eliminates the possibility of the Red-tailed Mind-controlling Gu infecting newcomers.

Yang Ning suddenly understands why Yun Lang wanted him to choose a name that exudes a strong killing intent.

"Let's go!"

Yang Ning picks up the umbrella made of leaves and sways towards the town. After fifty miles, he feels bored walking like this and snaps his fingers, starting to sing.

"This person is a bit arrogant!" Two young men dressed in the same color as the rocks under a shady spot beneath a cliff two miles away from Yang Ning mutter, watching him walk and sing in the desert, occasionally spinning around. "Brother, should we take care of him?"

"No rush, can you recognize his identity?" the other person asks. "Don't provoke those major sects!"

"So what if they're major sects? We're all in the Physical Body Realm, who's afraid of who?" the other person says disdainfully. "I've killed people from the Medicine King Valley and the Dan Ding Sect, it's all the same!"

"That's true!" the brother next to him nods, but remains cautious, carefully observing Yang Ning.

"Wearing glasses, could he be from the Extreme Eternal Sect?"

"How is that possible? Although glasses were invented by people from the Extreme Eternal Sect, it doesn't mean only they have them!" As one of the top major sects, the actions of the Extreme Eternal Sect are always observed and imitated by other sects. Popular items from the Extreme Eternal Sect quickly become popular elsewhere.

So glasses are no longer exclusive to the Extreme Eternal Sect.

Even the white coat that just started to become popular in the Artifact Refining Master Association hasn't spread outside yet, but the young men don't recognize it and only feel that the clothes seem a bit special, but they don't know which sect dresses like that.

"If he dares to sing in a place like this, it means he's very strong and not afraid of attracting enemies with his singing!"

"What if he just arrived and doesn't know anything?"

"That's a good point you made!"

"Don't hesitate, let's go, the two of us against one, we can't possibly lose, right?"

"Well, let's play it safe, I'll go first, you wait for the right moment to strike!"

"Okay!"

The two quietly hide behind the cliff, disguise themselves, and then take action.

Five minutes later, Yang Ning sees a young man lying in the desert groaning.

The young man's lips are dark purple, and his face is pale, exactly like someone who has been poisoned.

When the young man sees Yang Ning, he immediately stops groaning, and his expression changes from pain to vigilance.

This acting is much better than before. This is the normal reaction when encountering a stranger in the desert!

"Brother, do you need help?" Yang Ning asks.

"No, I don't!" the young man immediately responds.

"Okay!" Yang Ning nods and walks around him, continuing on his way.

The young man is confused for a moment. Are you just going to leave like that?

This is not normal!

Even if you don't come to help, you should at least come and rob, right? Can you really turn a blind eye to such a weakling right beside you?

Seeing that his plan failed, the young man leaned over and discreetly revealed the purple heart stone hanging around his neck.

In the next second, a gust of wind blade flashed by, and the young man responded immediately, but a deep bloody gash was still left on his cheek.

"I am truly a divine doctor, curing the illness with medicine!" Yang Ning exclaimed, "You don't need to thank me, brother!"

"Who is your brother!" The young man angrily stopped the bleeding and said fiercely, "Did you already figure it out?"

"Figure out what?" Yang Ning shrugged, "Do I need to figure something out? Just kill anyone I see!"

"You're right!" The young man nodded, "You seem to be familiar with the rules here. It seems like you're not a newcomer. You should have a lot of purple heart stones on you. Give me half, and I'll let you go!"

"Do you think you have me figured out?" Yang Ning laughed.

"Heh." The young man took out a long spear from his storage bag. Under the scorching sun, the spear tip emitted a scorching hot fiery red light.

Peerless Grade Mortal Weapon!

"Try my life-taking Soul-Chasing Spear!"

In the blink of an eye, the spear tip arrived in front of Yang Ning, followed by a three-foot-long spear light. With the length of the spear itself, the attack range of this move reached an astonishing two meters.

"Martial cultivation!" Yang Ning stepped back to avoid the spear shadows and asked.

Even at the Ninth Layer of the physical body, there are differences between Ninth Layers.

For example, Xuan Shui Dao's Inch Fire, who cultivated his physical body through age, but his own Martial Dao technique was not good enough. He was easily defeated by Man La, who used poisonous insects and bees to assist in his attacks.

Man La, on the other hand, was young but practiced Gu. All his strength was in Gu, and his own Martial Dao cultivation was terrible. He was easily killed by Yang Ning.

The young man in front of him, however, was a pure martial cultivator. He had cultivated the true meaning of Martial Dao through practicing the Divine Shape Method, and then used the true meaning of Martial Dao to control his qi and blood, manifesting his spirit and breaking through to the Ninth Layer of the physical body.

This was the style of a major sect. Even if this young man did not come from Extreme Eternal Heaven, he must be from a renowned sect.

"You have good eyes!" The young man thrust his spear again. This spear was like a startled dragon, swift as the wind. If it weren't for Yang Ning's Deep Blue Eyes, he wouldn't have been able to react in time!

"Clang!" The sound of a sword being unsheathed rang out. Yang Ning first pushed away the long spear, then took two steps back.

"Tsk, using a sword against a spear?" The young man said coldly, "You must have bullied a lot of weaklings. Who do you think I am!?"

Yang Ning didn't respond, he just pointed his sword at the young man.

"Good, let me show you the power of my Soul-Chasing Spear!" The young man was about to thrust forward with his spear when suddenly there was a loud bang, and then it felt like his chest was hit hard by a hammer.

"What, what kind of move is this?" The young man lowered his head in confusion and found a fist-sized hole in his chest. His heart had been completely destroyed!

"American-style Iaido!" Yang Ning chuckled, "The Immortal Cultivation World special edition. I used explosive fire symbols as propellants, and the bullets were refined with my qi and blood. They are also Peerless Grade Mortal Weapons. Your death is not unjust!"

As early as when Barrett couldn't break through the Purple-Gold Coiling Dragon Body, he had thought about how to enhance the power of firearms.

Since people can cultivate, bullets can naturally be cultivated as well. For example, replacing ordinary metal bullets with Peerless Grade Mortal Weapons, or even Spirit Weapons, would greatly increase their speed and penetration power.

By replacing gunpowder with explosive fire symbols or thunder fire symbols, the power of the bullets could be further enhanced.

Because this kind of firearm used traditional cultivation methods for everything except the bullet firing step, it wouldn't attract the attention of cultivators.

Even if they noticed, Yang Ning wasn't afraid. He was no longer a servant boy, he was an official disciple!

Yang Ning hadn't planned to use this move so soon, but their positions just now were too perfect, he couldn't resist!

The young man couldn't understand what Yang Ning was saying at all, so he could only point at Yang Ning in frustration and then fell heavily to the ground!

"Brother!" A furious roar sounded behind Yang Ning, and his younger brother, who had been waiting for an opportunity, finally emerged.

He never expected that his powerful brother would die so recklessly, to the point where he couldn't react at all.

Even if he did react, what difference would it make? With bullets traveling at three times the speed of sound and a distance of only 5 meters between them, not to mention that he was just a Physical Body Realm cultivator, even if he were a Qi Refining cultivator, he might not be able to intercept them!

"Are you from the Halloween Alliance?" Yang Ning asked.

He had heard of the name Soul Chasing Spear before, which was the inheritance of a saint from the Halloween Alliance.

"Attack!" With his brother killed, the younger brother had no mood to chat with Yang Ning. The only thing he wanted to do was avenge his brother!

Picking up the long spear in his brother's hand, the younger brother angrily charged towards Yang Ning, shouting, "One spear to chase the soul!"

"Bang!"

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you!" Yang Ning tried to pick up the spear in his brother's hand, but he held it tightly and couldn't pull it out!

In that case, he could only cut off his fingers and also pick up their storage bags.

"Indeed, it is the Halloween Alliance. No wonder they are so strong! The spoils of this battle are also quite rich!" Both brothers' storage bags contained Amethyst Hearts, and together they had a total of 11!

Adding to the eight that Yang Ning already had, he now had a total of 19!

In other words, as long as he thought about it, he could go back!

Yang Ning looked through the other things in their storage bags.

Two silver long spears with red tips, the standard weapons of the Soul Chasing lineage of the Halloween Alliance.

In the younger brother's storage bag, there was also a manual called "Deadly Soul Chasing Spear" which seemed to have not been fully practiced, so he needed to carry it with him for constant study.

In addition, there were no silver coins in their pockets, but piles of black cubic crystals.

These were Obsidian Stones. The Halloween Alliance had very few silver mines in that area, so they used Obsidian Stones as currency.

There might be a chance to go to the Halloween Alliance in the future, so these stones should be kept.

Apart from that, there were the usual clothes, food, and water.

These things were also in Manla and Inchfire's storage bags, and Yang Ning had his own as well. Now, the accumulated amount was quite substantial.

However, Yang Ning had the White Dragon's Absorption Method, so he didn't have a big demand for food.

"But now I have collected enough Amethyst Hearts. So, should I continue or go back?" Looking at the 19 stones in his pocket, Yang Ning pondered.

Staying in this desert was quite boring, and he didn't like killing people either. Wouldn't it be better to go back and practice artifact refining?

But Amethyst Hearts could be exchanged for Spirit Weapons and Dao Weapons, which was something Yang Ning wanted more.

With 100 stones, he could exchange for spiritual energy, and with 1000 stones, he could exchange for a Dao Weapon. Yang Ning estimated that he would never encounter such a simple way to obtain a Dao Weapon in his lifetime.

Moreover, it seemed that collecting these Amethyst Hearts was not difficult. After all, up until now, he hadn't even used one-thousandth of his strength.

"But if I continue to collect, it will definitely attract the attention of the sect. After all, Yun Lang made it clear that she had never seen an outer disciple collect one hundred Amethyst Hearts!"

"I definitely don't want to become famous, but if it's for a Dao Weapon..."

Yang Ning shook his head!

This was a Dao Weapon, something that even Qi Refining cultivators had to risk their lives for. How could he hesitate?

After all, Spirit Weapons were the mainstream weapons for Qi Refining cultivators, and only cultivators above the Divine Ability Realm could use Treasure Weapons. Dao Weapons were even higher than Treasure Weapons!

"Not having a Dao Weapon is completely different from having one!" Yang Ning gritted his teeth and decided to continue the trial!

(End of this chapter)