Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 1046 In the end, Lu Jin still has to fight the Reversal of Eight Directions.
Ding Shian is no longer the Ding Shian of the past.

In the past, Ding Shian only learned some superficial techniques from various sects, relying on his talent, his life cultivation, and his ingenious ideas.

Like Pleasant Goat, he can always adapt to the situation and combine his various skills into unique moves that he can use to counter or even defeat his opponents.

Nowadays, Ding Shian has learned the most advanced and profound skills in the entire circle of supernatural beings. He is even familiar with the most secret skills of most sects and can use them with ease.

These skills alone are enough to win.

Ding Shian, who always had to think about how to combine skills, experienced the thrill of having plenty of ammunition for the first time.

“Master, this could easily corrupt me,” Ding Shian sighed, feeling that if things continued this way, he would eventually develop a path dependency.

As we all know, the brain gets better with use. But if you don't use it for a long time and just rely on the profound skills of various schools to bully your enemies, what will you be capable of when you encounter a truly evenly matched opponent? What will your own "way" be?
"Yes. The upgrade of Old Zhong's circle of extraordinary people can be described as a grand undertaking. During this period, many people, through their own talent or luck, obtained the opportunity to become immortals and received my personal guidance and teaching, thus standing at the forefront of the new era."

He Yuliang, standing below with his hands behind his back, said smugly, "Being at the forefront of this trend means endless glory, endless temptations, and endless risks. It all depends on how you manage it."

"It's like saying nothing at all." Ding Shian curled his lip. That's right, it was his old mentor, just like that. His mouth was full of rambling, something others couldn't learn—where did he get so much nonsense to say! The amount of nonsense he could improvise was more than what others could painstakingly write in a day.

Where can I go to seek justice?

Ding Shian could defeat Lu Jin using various methods. His cultivation of life force was higher than Lu Jin's, his path of reversal of life was longer, and he had more tricks up his sleeve. Lu Jin had absolutely no advantage over him. Furthermore, the existence of the triple power guaranteed a margin for error, making it impossible for him to be overpowered.

However, Ding Shian decided to use his own method.

Lu Jin suddenly sensed that Ding Shian's attacks had changed. He was no longer pursuing a massive output of Qi, but instead began to use very small-scale blocking and parrying. As a result, Ding Shian's body was constantly moving closer to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin immediately became alert and tried to create distance, but as mentioned before, being taught by the same master meant he couldn't break through Lu Jin's moves. Ding Shian quickly noticed Lu Jin's intentions and took every possible action to intercept him.

Soon, the distance between the two did not increase; instead, it continued to grow closer.

"Xiao Ding, what's wrong? You're already at the third level, and you still want to fight face to face?" Lu Jin looked at Ding Shian, who was right in front of him, his words seemingly full of disdain for that kind of fist-to-fist, foot-to-foot hand-to-hand combat, but he didn't hesitate to throw a punch first.

"bass!"

Logically speaking, Ding Shian shouldn't have dodged. It was just a punch, and hitting someone in this mystical state of triple Qi transformation wouldn't cause any damage. Even if the opponent was using reverse life Qi, it would still be the same.

But Ding Shian dodged perfectly, and then with a flick of his fingers, his sword cut a deep gash into Lu Jin's body, like a flower emerging from a leaf.

"What are you doing?" Lu Jin frowned.

In their current state, even a sledgehammer weighing tens of tons wouldn't necessarily harm them; they could even recover from shattered bodies, let alone using a narrow-bladed qi sword. Previously, their qi swords were aimed at intercepting or deflecting the opponent's ranged attacks. What's a cut? Forget about the third level; even at the second level, having half of one's hip severed by an enemy isn't a serious matter. Back when He Songling was at the second level, he liked to frequently rip off his hip and throw it around to kick people.

"wrong!"

Lu Jin quickly realized that this sword energy was not simple; it was hindering the gathering of his Qi, and in some cases, it was even eroding his Qi.

"What it is?"

Lu Jin was a little surprised.

Logically, this shouldn't be the case. Once you reach the second level and are deeply proficient, you become impervious to water and fire. By the third level, almost any physical attack, Qi attack, or special attack such as water, fire, or poison within the scope of "humanity" will have no effect.

When He Songling was at the third level, he even had the remarkable achievement of withstanding the Dan Shi and Zhang Tianshi's evil-slaying thunder.

To defeat someone at this level of the third stage, the only way is to use the same method as defeating Wugensheng: to suppress and wear them down with sheer force of life cultivation. At the first or second stage, simply striking vital points is no longer sufficient.

After reaching the third level, the body is completely shattered and transformed into Qi, making every part potentially fatal, yet also not necessarily fatal.

If it can withstand even the poison of Dan Shi, what kind of toxin can block the gathering of its Qi, or even have a corrosive effect?

“Turning things upside down, Uncle-Master,” Ding Shian laughed. “Just a simple little trick.”

"What do you mean by 'reversing the eight directions'?" Lu Jin was both shocked and furious. These four words reminded him of an old friend. Although in this history he didn't harbor such deep-seated hatred for this old friend, he was still astonished by his strength and disliked him.

After all, he was the culprit who instigated the Quanxing Sect Leader to storm the mountain together, almost driving his own old master to his death.

“Manipulation, force field.” Ding Shian spread his hands, making the wound on Lu Jin’s hip even larger. Clouds of energy flowed along the outline of his thigh, trying to gather, but it seemed as if there was some insurmountable chasm in between, and he just couldn’t cross it.

"In the end, the triple energy is also a kind of Qi. No matter how ethereal or light Qi is, even if it can make people fly, it is still a kind of physical entity. As a physical entity, it can be controlled by force fields."

Ding Shian uttered the words that Wang Ye's master, Yunlong, never had the chance to say in his life, thus taking his place as the "god of the concept of teleportation force".

"Actually, according to physics, even light and the human soul are forms of electromagnetic waves. As long as the gravity is strong enough, they still cannot escape. For example, black holes. Of course, I don't have that ability, but I do have the ability to deal with you, my senior uncle, and I'm very confident."

"Impossible! Even if that's the case, how could reversing the eight directions possibly push away my Qi?" Lu Jin was a little exasperated. It wasn't that he was refusing to admit defeat; it was simply beyond his common sense.

“You’re wrong, Uncle-Master. If you were at the second level, I really wouldn’t dare say that I could ‘turn’ you with the Reversal of Eight Directions. It’s because you’re at the third level that your Qi is dispersed. Although you are stronger overall, you have to use your main energy to deal with me. You can’t use your main energy to heal a cut, can you? Your power is dispersed and weak, which is why I was able to push you away.”

(End of this chapter)