Once the woman was dead, Ning swiftly got rid of the corpse Qi. It was getting very uncomfortable due to the heat and sound that he was generating.
After getting rid of it, he changed his clothes to ones that weren't so burned at all. Once everything was settled, Ning left the shocked masses behind and went elsewhere to help.
"Hey guys…what just happened?" someone asked.
"Did he just kill one of those women by himself?"
"Looks like it… although, am I really looking correctly?" someone else asked.
"Where did he go? He celebrated for a bit for some reason and just left. I wonder if he went somewhere to help the people," someone wondered.
"Speaking of which, we should go help too."
"Yeah, you're right."
Soon, the group gathered walked towards a different place to look for places where they could be of help.
Ning too went around helping more people. He noticed that the new sword he had gotten was very good and was at the very least on the higher side of Low-Grade Spirit Artifacts.
He still remembered how he had managed to bend the other spirit artifact he had come across some time ago using his spear, and yet now the same spear was destroyed using this sword.
'This must be really good,' he thought. He wasn't as good with a sword as he was with a spear. He used the sword more as a staff, hoping to hit people with the sharp side rather than masterfully controlling it.
Still, now that his spear was gone, he was left with this sword. By now, he had stopped worrying about helping the other people with the corpse Qi and thought more about defeating those who were spreading it.
'Are those all women from Eagle sect? How come I haven't seen a single man?' he wondered. He had fought only women until now and had yet to meet a man with blue skin.
Screams and explosions still occurred. In fact, they got worse as he got closer towards the center of the city. The attackers seemed to want to destroy that location first.
Suddenly, the walls of nearby housebreaking due to an attack. He swiftly ran towards the house to help the person who was thrown. However, to his surprise, the one getting thrown was actually a blue-skinned woman.
He wasn't expecting them to get overpowered by others at all. "You think a measly cultivator who just entered the Foundation Establishment realm can beat me?" A voice came from the side as a man emerged from the other side.
"You…" the woman was shocked that she couldn't beat the man at all.
"Oh, she might not be able to beat you, but what about if we both joined hands," Another woman came from the side, targeting the man.
Ning was not only surprised to see these two women in one place, but he was also surprised to see the man here.
"First Elder!" he said as he saw him. The man fighting was the first elder of the Pure Cleansing sect. He seemed to have an extremely strong cultivation base when compared to the woman.
However, when the other female arrived, he frowned a bit. He saw Ning arrive and was surprised. Ning could see both hesitation and relief in those eyes.
Ning quickly checked the other women's cultivation base and frowned.
One of them was in the 1st Foundation Establishment realm, while the one that just arrived was in the 2nd Foundation Establishment realm.
Ning swiftly checked the First Elder as well, and he was in the 3rd Foundation Establishment realm. 'Sh*t, just the first one should be enough trouble for him, and now the 2nd one arrived. Can I even help him in this situation?' he wondered.
The women's skin was unnaturally blue, even when compared to the other ones he had met before this.
"Volunteer Ning, Can you do me a favor? My disciple is buried under that rubble over there, can you take her away from this place, please?" he requested. "They are too strong for me together to protect her without distraction," he said.
Ning looked to the side and saw half the body of Mikaela sticking out from the rubble, all bloody. Without hesitation, he immediately started running to the side.
"You're going nowhere, boy. Become my servant," the woman with the 1st realm cultivation base jumped towards him, trying to touch him.
Ning immediately pulled out his sword and slashed behind him. However, the woman was too fast. She had already appeared in front of him and suddenly grabbed his neck, slowly pouring in the Corpse Qi.
Ning immediately used both of the yin conversion techniques, but it was too slow. He would die of choking before he could even suck away all the Corpse Qi. Even if he did manage to take it all away, the woman was still in the 1st Foundation Establishment realm and was a problem to fight against.
Ning used the sword in his right hand and swung at the woman. However, the woman just lifted her left hand and suddenly a blackish blue barrier appeared in front of her.
DING
A loud sound appeared as the sword struck the shield made up of the corpse Qi. Ning felt a massive rebound from the shield as the force traveled back to his arms through the sword. It hurt him a bit.
But, he was dying right now, and getting hurt was a lot better than the other result. So, he slammed the shield a few more times. However, each time the shield easily blocked the attack.
Ning was getting frustrated. Even though he was constantly consuming the Corpse Qi, the woman seemed to just have too much of a supply to empty her before he actually died.
In desperation, he could only make his attack stronger. A bright yellow glow appeared along the blade of the sword he was holding.
He swung the blade down with as much force as he could. The woman put up a shield once more to block the attack. However, something very unexpected happened.
The shield which was capably blocking every single one of Ning's attacks suddenly parted when the sword reached it, and let it pass through where the sword easily cut off the left arm of the woman.
"Eh?"