BXBX NOVEL Chapter 384 - Matrix Banners
Chapter 384 Matrix Banners
“Little guy, give me the Treasure, and I will spare your life.”
Long Eyebrow instantly retreated and avoided the punch, but made an empty show of shouting, wanting to play for time.
“Spare my life? But I don’t want to spare you.”
Ding Ning followed him like his shadow. With a kick, he moved like an arrow to Long Eyebrow.
Long Eyebrow sneered and used his old trick: All his white hairs turned into numerous flying threads, aiming at Ding Ning.
When he found that Ding Ning did not avoid his hairs or covered the important parts of his body, Long Eyebrow seemed to have seen his hairs pierce Ding Ning’s heart and could not help grinning fiercely and wildly. “Little guy, you are still too weak to be my rival. What a vigorous heart! It can make me live longer.”
“I think it is impossible for you to live longer, and today is your death day.”
Ding Ning suddenly shone with golden light. The moment these arrow-sharp hairs touched the golden light, they became soft and could not do any hard to Ding Ning.
Bang!
The moment Long Eyebrow froze, Ding Ning’s fist had hit his chest hard, making his chest bones cave in and sending him flying backward, and then blood gushed out of his mouth madly.
As his toes touched the ground, Ding Ning caught up with him without leaving any time for him to react and pounded him with fists.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The pounding on the flesh with the sounds of breaking bones and his screams resounded.
The middle-aged man’s face of Long Eyebrow began to age at a rate visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, it became covered with age spots and wrinkles. He became a bony old man who would be dead soon, looking extremely miserable.
This weird appearance made Ding Ning subconsciously stop hitting him, wanting to see what was going on.
But what happened next made his pupils shrink drastically and shoot an ice-cold look.
He just stopped for a moment, but Long Eyebrow’s face covered with age spots became young again as if a balloon was being blown, his broken bones made clicking sounds to repair themselves quickly, and his extremely weak blood also became energetic gradually. The rapidly growing momentum made Ding Ning feel extremely upset.
“What is this dark art?”
Ding Ning felt this was something bad and stamped hard at Long Eyebrow’s chest, but the latter moved horizontally to the side for five meters and sprang up, taking an energetic defensive posture. With a red light glinting in his eyes, he mumbled, “A heart is the essence of a warrior. The one who eats it will have a longer life, but he could not break through the current realm anyway. Only when he absorbed the essence of life when he fell from the pinnacle of his power, could he break the restrictions. This is the reason why I have not improved a bit in practice over the past 30 years.”
Ding Ning was shocked. Long Eyebrow’s momentum kept rapidly growing because he was about to break through his current realm. If he was in his golden time, he might not be so afraid of a Sky Martial Arts Realm Warrior, but now he could only use half of his usual fighting power. Just now he could hit Long Eyebrow so crazily because he used the Vajra Charm and took the chance to hit him when he was unprepared. Once he reached the Sky Martial Arts Realm, it was hard to tell who would win.
“I should never let him reach the Sky Martial Arts Realm. I must break his upgrading process.” With angry eyes, Ding Ning went to his side like lightning and punched at his head.
“Useless. I just ate Demon of Fire’s heart. All the essence of his martial arts is in me, and I can absorb it bit by bit. Now I am indestructible.”
With an arrogant laugh, Long Eyebrow aimed at Ding Ning’s fist with his palm.
With a “bang”, the palm and the fist met. Long Eyebrow stood still, but Ding Ning had taken three steps back because of the shock, his Qi and blood surged, and his face turned red. In strength, he was inferior to him.
Long Eyebrow stuck out his disgusting tongue to lick his lips, and his scarlet eyes glinted with greed. “So strong strength. With such energetic essential blood, I can reach a higher level.”
After finishing speaking before Ding Ning ridiculed him, he made his hands as dark as ink and went to grab Ding Ning’s chest like a fierce ghost demanding a life.
With an angry shout, Ding Ning suddenly had a silvery katana in his hand, made a shining arc in the air, and chopped hard at the “dark claw”.
“Clank!” When the silvery Tai saber with a reputation of cutting iron like mud reached the dark palm, it made a metallic sound.
Long Eyebrow sneered. “It’s a good knife, but unfortunately, it can’t hurt my Ghost Claw of Hell. Boy, go to hell.”
His claws left numerous faint traces in the air, aiming at Ding Ning’s heart.
Ding Ning thought fast. Long Eyebrow had not officially reached the Sky Martial Arts Realm, but he had almost made it. Reaching the realm was only a matter of time.
The most depressing thing was that Long Eyebrow’s upgrading was different from that of Long Xiaotian: He could upgrade while fighting. If this continued, Ding Ning would have an extremely unfavorable condition, so he must find a way to kill him soon.
He thought of what Long Eyebrow said just now: The fact that he could regain his power after losing it was entirely due to the essence of life provided by the heart of Demon of Fire. “What is this kung fu? Why is it so evil?”
In an instant, Ding Ning kept moving back like a ghost, vanished on the spot, and entered the Eight Wild Flame Matrix.
Without hesitation, Long Eyebrow followed him into the great matrix and sneered eerily. “The Eight Wild Flame Matrix is my arena. Even if you can protect yourself with some matrix techniques you learned, you are still on the way to hell.”
But then Long Eyebrow realized that something was wrong: 18 giant stone statues suddenly appeared and launched crazy attacks on him.
“What monsters are they?”
Long Eyebrow screamed and took steps back fast, wanting to leave the great matrix, but it was too late. The original gate of life turned into a dead gate at this moment. The main matrix banner in his hand was useless, and the roaring fire swallowed him.
With a cold sweat on his forehead, Long Eyebrow could not understand why the great matrix he had made himself suddenly changed, putting him in despair.
But those 18 stone statues did not fear the fire and chased him closely as if they had targeted him, forcing him to keep running in the great matrix like a dog with its tail between its legs. If he had not finally reached the Sky Martial Arts Realm at the moment and could give off his True Qi to the outside, he was afraid he would have been burned to ashes by now.
Ding Ning hid in the depths of the matrix and observed all this, silently feeling fortunate that he had changed the great matrix secretly just now when Demon of Fire went out and turned the great matrix into a real Eight Wild Flame Matrix, which had the power several times of the previous one.
Seeing that Long Eyebrow was panicky at this moment and could not see through the changes of the matrix, he suddenly realized that Long Eyebrow’s matrix accomplishments were not as unfathomable as he thought. Instead, he was an unprofessional master of matrices.
Either the previous Trapping Matrix or the Matrix of Fire was only an incomplete matrix, incomparable to the real one. Otherwise, Demon of Fire would not have escaped from the matrix and would have been burned to ashes.
When Ding Ning thought this through, his fear was all gone. With a careful deduction, he found the reality of the matrix at once: The core of the matrix was that red boulder, which was the base of the incomplete Eight Wild Flame Matrix.
Ding Ning sneered. “Let Long Eyebrow become the victim of his evil deed and lose his way in the Eight Wild Flame Matrix.”
He moved the red stone secretly and changed the core of the Trapping Matrix, and he stuck a Fire-suppressing Charm to himself, waiting leisurely for his Long Eyebrows to end his own life.
“How can this be? This is impossible. I’m a master of matrices.”
Chased by the 18 stone statues, Long Eyebrow finally found the red stone, became overjoyed, and moved the red stone, ready to leave the matrix, but he found that he was still in the matrix. Stunned, he roared because he could not understand why he could not break the matrix, though this red stone was the core of the matrix.
“Nothing is impossible. What a useless master of matrices! In my eyes, you are only a joke.”
Ding Ning appeared silently, stood straight proudly with his hands knotted behind his back, and ridiculed Long Eyebrow. “You made a matrix full of flaws, but you dare to call yourself ‘Mater of Matrices’. You are so narrow-minded.”
“Boy, I will kill you.”
Long Eyebrow, who had always been proud of his great achievements in matrix-making, felt irritated, rushed to Ding Ning after a furious shout, and attacked his head fiercely with his “dark claws”.
“Humph!”
Ding Ning sneered dismissively and stood still on the spot, and Long Eyebrow went through his body. That was not his real body.
“What is this trick? Is it also the technique of the matrix?”
Long Eyebrow looked astonished, stared at the dozens of figures of Ding Ning that suddenly appeared in front of him, and asked with trembling lips.
“My matrix achievements are not something for a narrow-minded person like you to guess.”
Ding Ning’s elusive voice echoed in the surroundings, but he complained secretly, “D*mn, I focused on doing this experiment, but I forgot that the water mirror is the superpower of water.”
Fire and water could not coexist. Using the superpower of water in the great matrix of fire was torture because his superpower was being quickly consumed by the fire.
He did not dare to continue trying anymore and took back the water mirror’s superpower instantly, but the experimental result made him satisfied. After the water mirror’s superpower was shown through the power of ancestral magic, it became more fantastic: People could not see the water mirror, and what was shown was a substantial figure condensed by water.
“Let me go, and I can teach you how to live longer.”
Long Eyebrow panicked, instantly begged for mercy, and used his life-elongating method to seduce Ding Ning.
“Humph, swallow others’ hearts to elongate one’s life. Only a b*stard like you will use this insane method. I have no interest.”
Ding Ning said coldly, but his eyes glinted as he stared at the main matrix banner in Long Eyebrow’s hand. “This is a matrix banner. With it, I can make a matrix.”
Speaking of matrix banners, Ding Ning felt very depressed. At that time, Xuan Ji passed on the Inheritance of Matrices to him, but she did not teach him the most basic method of making a matrix banner, leading to the sad fact that he had learned so much basic matrix knowledge, but he had no banners to set up a matrix.
This was also the reason why he had never tried to make a matrix after he got the Inheritance of Matrices. Instead, he could only use it as a reference to study the Rune Doctrine.
Previously, he did not pay so much attention to matrices, but he became envious after witnessing the power of the Eight Wild Flame Matrix.
If he could set up a great matrix at home, his family members would be safe.
The Ghost Island where the Inheritance of Wu Shen Palace was located was in a precarious situation. In a short time, it was not a big problem, but after a long time, when people found that this island was not dangerous, even if the government would not turn it into a scenic spot, he was afraid that some Ancient Warriors or the special department would explore the mystery of the disappearance of the fog.
Even if others found the Inheritance Gate of Wu Shen Palace, they would probably not enter it, but if the news was spread, more people would know it and would do their best to open the Inheritance Gate.
The nonexistent Treasure had made people so crazy. This proved the temptation of practice resources to martial artists. If these people found that the ancient inheritance had appeared, no one knew what they would do. Maybe the deserted island would be bombed and sink. This was not something that he was willing to see.
If he had 81 matrix banners, he could cheat everyone and set up the Yinling Great Matrix. Without paying any price, he could take the deserted island, making it disappear from the sea and become his back garden.
As a Chinese saying goes, it is better to teach people to fish than to give people fish. Long Eyebrow only had eight matrix banners in total. Even if he took all of them, they were not so useful, so he wanted to learn the method of making matrix banners.