Chapter 641: Chapter 269: Unexpected Surprise, Xu Ning’s Rapid Growth

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Clang…

In just the next second, Xu Ning was completely stunned!

He didn’t even see how Xia Hong moved. He only felt a tremendous force strike his arm, and in the next second, he found that his Barrier Blade was already caught by a slender narrow long blade.

Merely catching it wasn’t the end, he felt the force he just exerted all rebound back, splitting his tiger’s mouth, his chest cavity trembled incessantly, and he almost stumbled backward.

Ssshh…

Xia Hong took advantage to guide the Yi Blade downward, forcefully alleviating more than half the force from the Barrier Blade. Then, just as the Barrier Blade was about to chop the big tree branch, he pulled it up with force, stopping Xu Ning’s blade less than an inch from the branch.

“More than three manes, similar to Yuan Cheng and Luo Yuan, very impressive!”

“Xu Ning pays respect to the leader!”

Xu Ning held the Barrier Blade, calming himself for three to four breaths. He first bowed respectfully to Xia Hong and then suppressed the shock in his heart, secretly forcing a bitter smile.

“I was foolish, with my level of strength, how could I possibly harm the leader.”

Two months ago when he just broke through to Cold Resistance Level, Xu Ning thought to himself that there was definitely still a gap between himself and Xia Hong, but the gap shouldn’t be too large. Even if they started fighting, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Thinking back at this moment, Xu Ning only felt his face burn slightly.

Just in that confrontation earlier, if Xia Hong hadn’t taken advantage of the flow to lower, resolving the recoil force of the Barrier Blade, he definitely would have been sent flying with the blade. In the end, the Barrier Blade would surely break, and even if he didn’t die, he’d probably be severely injured.

Despite having basic strength over three manes, at the moment of clashing with Xia Hong’s Yi Blade, he still felt a misperception as if he was using the Sheep Horn Chisel to till the ground and dig mines when he only had the cultivation of the Logging Realm, not only ineffective but also unable to bear the rebounding force.

“The leader’s basic strength is at least seven or eight times mine!”

If Xia Hong knew Xu Ning’s thoughts at this moment, he would definitely shake his head helplessly.

He hadn’t lied earlier, Xu Ning’s strength of over three manes is indeed quite impressive in the current Great Xia.

Aside from him, among those at Cold Resistance Level in the camp, the highest basic strength should be Peng Bo, with eight manes, followed by Chen Yingyuan with seven manes; then there’s Wu Tianxing and Chen Yingba, both with six manes;

Then comes Xia Chuan with over six manes; Yuwen Dao with over five manes; Yuan Cheng, Luo Yuan, and Xu Ning in front are all with over three manes; the next are Zhao Long and others, basically between over one mane to three manes.

Calculating purely by strength is naturally not feasible. With the qualification of the fourth level War Body, after breaking through to Cold Resistance Level, the most important aspect is obviously potential.

Peng Bo, Chen Yingyuan, and the others are all at the late stage Cold Resistance Level cultivation,

At breakthrough to Cold Resistance Level, having basic strength over two manes equals a superior War Body; over 1.6 manes equals an intermediate War Body; over 1.2 manes equals a lower War Body.

Which means, when they just broke through, the basic strength was generally only over one mane to two manes. Xia Hong observed that except for Peng Bo who is a superior War Body, among the other three, Chen Yingyuan is intermediate, while Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing are just lower War Body, among these four in the current batch of Cold Resistance Level, their potential is not considered high.

On the contrary, Xu Ning, having over three manes right at the breakthrough, definitely a Superior Battle Body, in the future as long as he steadily breaks through the mid-stage and late-stage, his basic strength will soon surpass Peng Bo and Chen Yingyuan.

“Xia Chuan and Yuwen Dao should be in the first tier, Yuan Cheng, Luo Yuan, and Xu Ning should be in the second tier, the others can only be seen as the third tier. The current Battle Body qualifications in Great Xia are quite numerous, and this doesn’t even include the boost from the Holy Pattern. In the future regarding Cold Resistance Level, Great Xia will definitely be much stronger than other camps!”

Xia Hong’s low mood due to the grouping martial competition within the Logging Realm improved greatly after seeing the Wuyuan selection situation and, of course, Xu Ning in front of him.

“Fortunate that you know to train these Logging Realm individuals in advance, this martial competition, Wuyuan should certainly shine. How many groups have advanced so far?”

Upon hearing Xia Hong’s praise, Xu Ning’s face immediately lit up with a smile and responded:

“The number of Logging Realm in Wuyuan isn’t large, we only divided into thirty-one small groups. We have carried out seven rounds of selection, and eleven teams have advanced. I’ve roughly calculated, in the end, there might be fifteen groups advancing.”

This number, when transmitted back to Xia City, could probably knock out Qiu Peng’s teeth in shock.

Thinking of this, Xu Ning appeared very proud.

“The selection situation in Xia City and the other four outposts is really too poor this time, you should find some time to go back and explain to Qiu Peng how you train the Logging Realm. If feasible, implement it directly moving forward.”

Xu Ning nodded immediately, feeling somewhat curious about how poorly Xia City and the other four outposts performed to this extent.

“It’s been nearly half a year since the four families in the Northern Mountain merged in, how is the situation in that large area north of Wuyuan now?”

After delivering the instructions, Xia Hong didn’t forget the purpose of his visit and inquired about the situation in the Northern Mountain area.

Hearing this, Xu Ning’s expression immediately brightened up, and he immediately took out a map made of beast skin from his arms, unfolded it, and handed it over to Xia Hong, saying:

“The territories that originally belonged to the four families of Northern Mountain have been basically thoroughly explored by us, and we found a total of two iron mines, four coal mines inside, with a large diversity of rare fruit and medicinal herbs. The Craftsmen Department specifically instructed us, everything that could be transplanted has been sent to Xia City, and as for those that are not easy to relocate, we will send people to patrol regularly. Once matured, they are picked immediately.”