Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 261 - 254 Chaos Part 1

Chapter 261: Chapter 254 Chaos Part 1

"Ha ha.. ha... ha ha ha ha...."

Yin Mantuo’s many tentacles waved as he tried to describe his previous encounter using the mouths on those tentacles. However, there were too many mouths, and the sounds were so mixed up that nothing could be heard clearly.

"So, you didn’t manage to absorb the essence of flesh and blood from last night either?"

Lin Xin was speechless.

"Ha!" Yin Mantuo quickly nodded in affirmation.

"Forget it...." Knowing he couldn’t count on Yin Mantuo, Lin Xin felt helpless. He had known the moment he saw him that Yin Mantuo must have been subjected to a Qilin transformation to end up this way.

He simply sat down cross-legged by the small lake.

He summoned his spiritual energy all over his body and slowly began to use Inner Vision to check his own condition.

The talisman seed formed by the Giant Manta Ray Talisman Method was continuously absorbing the previously accumulated essence in his body, yet it showed no sign of reaching its limit.

"It doesn’t look like it’s storing anything, but rather like it’s transmitting something outward. This seems to be an autonomous sacrificial rune," he observed, frowning.

"Using the essence of flesh and blood obtained from me to make a sacrifice to some entity in exchange for increasingly perfecting the structure of its own rune. This kind of sacrifice is new to me...."

"And the reason it could harness the essence of flesh and blood afterward is actually through an exchange with the structure of the rune... So naturally, it can never be filled...."

Since he figured out that it was not for storage and could never be filled, he no longer spent energy on this layer.

Instead, he focused his attention on the Cultivation Techniques of Nine Morning Melodies and Bell Sound Method.

If the Nine Morning Melodies required contact with Fire Life to be fully transformed and thus enhanced, the Bell Sound Method was purely a Taoist Art to boost one’s qualifications.

Quietly perceiving the mysteries of the Bell Sound Method, Lin Xin sat quietly waiting for the force feedback from the netherworld to strike.

Having killed tens of thousands of creatures, the feedback force couldn’t possibly be so little; the previous ones must have been purely utilizing the Red Flower Sword’s devouring ability to absorb the essence of flesh and blood, while the force of the netherworld was much purer and stronger.

The delay had probably been due to a state of true confusion before, but now that he was back, an outburst was bound to happen sooner or later.

Lin Xin didn’t know why he felt this way, but his intuition told him so.

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Sunset rose and moon ascended, dawn appeared again.

The cycle of day and night continued, and he had sat by the lake for a full three days.

Finally, a faint mysterious light flickered slightly on his body.

Pfft!

Suddenly, Lin Xin spat out a mouthful of fresh blood forward.

The blood fell on the grass and immediately rose in acrid-smelling, corrosive black smoke.

Yin Mantuo hurriedly scurried from a distance and stood in front of Lin Xin, eagerly staring at him.

Ignoring him, Lin Xin closed his eyes and began to feel the violent force of the netherworld emerging within him.

Unlike the essence of flesh and blood absorbed through killing with the Red Flower Sword, this power was much purer, seemingly split into two separate parts.

The Red Flower Sword actually acquired essence of flesh and blood through Yin Mantuo’s devouring ability. Actually, it had to go through Yin Mantuo, whereas the force of the netherworld was absorbing souls, so the two did not conflict.

As a massive amount of netherworld force surged into his body, Lin Xin quickly directed it towards the core of the cultivation technique he had long considered.

Among all the cultivation techniques, the hardest to progress wasn’t the Nine Morning Melodies, but the Bell Sound Method.

Among all the cultivation techniques, the one he valued most wasn’t the Return to Origin Arts, but still the Bell Sound Method.

As the only decree that only one person in the world could master, Lin Xin had always felt that its true potential hadn’t been fully realized.

After all, even the nearly Fourth Grade artifact, Yin God Pearl, had only served as an ordinary container for storing this grand technique. Such a unique decree usually came from ancient top figures, far beyond what the contemporary practitioners could create.

So he suddenly thought, if he could forcibly enhance the realm of this unique decree through the power of the netherworld, there were bound to be unexpected surprises.

"Let’s give it a try this time...."

After all, using too much netherworld force on his own core Taoist Arts would only increase the risk of repercussions; it might as well be used on such valuable auxiliary decrees.

The massive amount of netherworld force, like invisible jelly, was drawn by Lin Xin into the core representing the Bell Sound Method within his body.

Tremendous amounts of netherworld force surged crazily in.

The core of the Bell Sound Method, located at the back of his head, looked like an ordinary speck of Inner Qi when seen through Inner Vision, but began to transform rapidly as the netherworld force rushed in.

From the size of a fingertip, it slowly bloomed into a pure white flower, and then the petals grew longer, turning into threads that wrapped around him layer by layer.

Then it formed a bud, then bloomed again, repeating the previous process.

After opening and closing nine times, the core finally transformed into a strand of translucent hue. It stopped in a state of full bloom, resembling a common beautiful lotus, quietly hovering inside the back of Lin Xin’s head.

At this point, much of the netherworld force had been consumed, leaving only a little residue, which surged into the Return to Origin Arts.

Instantly, the Return to Origin Arts moved from the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation directly up to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and from the first layer of Foundation quickly advanced to the second layer before slowly stopping. It was apparent that even this small portion of the netherworld force represented a terrifyingly powerful enhancement relative to the usual.

Lin Xin sat by the lake, his body suffused with a faint blood light, which was due to the continuous rolling of the crimson spiritual energy naturally covering the surface.

Layer by layer, the crimson spiritual energy transformed into spiritual light, enveloping his body. This process repeated, with the layers of spiritual light becoming more numerous and dense.

Several hours later, a suit of dark red translucent spiritual light armor gradually formed around Lin Xin.

He slowly opened his eyes, this was the Innate Spiritual Light Body Protection of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Below Foundation Establishment, for common Qi Cultivators’ cultivation levels, if there were no special means, even if a person at the Foundation Establishment Stage stood still and let the opponent strike, it might not be possible to breach the defense.

The Innate Spiritual Light Body Protection, divided into eighty-one layers, typically forms around ten-plus layers for ordinary cultivators, while stronger ones might form about thirty to forty layers, deemed formidable.

The Dragon King Dao base cultivators generally have more than sixty layers. Only later would it gradually reach Perfection as the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator increased.

Lin Xin carefully counted his spiritual light layers, totaling eighty-one layers of Perfection, a method attainable only at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

With the Dragon King Dao base combined with sufficient potent power from the ghost domain, eighty-one layers might not mean much in the eyes of people like Red Leaf. But for cultivators of major sects...

Lin Xin was aware how coveted a Foundation Establishment Cultivator with eighty-one layers of perfect protective spiritual light was in the Southern Mansion; even Dugu Lin only had about sixty layers of Dragon King Dao base level and was nearly invincible among his peers back then.

Comparable to her was Hua Yunu. In fact, Hua Yunu’s Dao base was even stronger, so her actual strength was a bit more formidable.

"The Protective Aura naturally evolves, and after being depleted, it can spontaneously condense and recover without replenishing from one’s own cultivation, but the urgent need takes time. This is the key difference that separates Foundation Establishment from Qi Cultivation...."

Looking at this layer of crimson armor, Lin Xin also felt emotional, having finally succeeded in reaching Foundation Establishment.

For many years, he had been stuck at the Qi Cultivation layer, unable to advance an inch; unexpectedly, his true breakthrough came with the aid of the power from the ghost domain.

"Regrettably, it was not my own power that broke through the bottleneck; I dare not consider it as core."

After a brief moment of emotion, he gathered his spirits and focused his attention on the white lotus at the back of his head.

The white lotus had forty-nine petals, each petal featuring a tiny cavity with serrated, variably shaped patterns around the edges, and the lotus’s stamen shimmered with faint rainbow-like luminescence, flickering uncertainly.

The more he looked at the lotus, the more familiar it seemed. It felt like he had seen a record of it somewhere but couldn’t recall at the moment.

He went back to review the imprinted Great Law Scriptures in his mind. Indeed, the bell tone technique’s records about this lotus precisely mentioned a line.

’The Heavenly Dao is lucid, the flower shape like a lotus.’

Upon seeing these words, Lin Xin immediately remembered the ancient records about this lotus.

"It is actually the Heavenly Falling Law Lotus!!!" It was the first time his face showed a hint of delight, even more than when he entered the Foundation Establishment through the Return to Origin Technique.

’The Heavenly Falling Law Lotus, also known as the Heavenly Dao Law Lotus, forms only when the principles and rules of cultivation resonate with the cosmos to a certain extent, a unique creation whose use is unclear, but only appears in ancient mythological records and has not been seen by cultivators for ages.’

Lin Xin had not expected that he would encounter such a mystical object that only exists in mythological scriptures.

This was a Heavenly Dao secret treasure, which only condensed when Heavenly Venerables and Buddha Ancestors preached in the myths.

With the initial shock subsiding, he began pondering what this object was primarily used for.

A Heavenly Dao secret treasure sounded impressive, but it needed to be applied practically and produce benefits.

Lin Xin once again reviewed the records of the bell tone technique, and indeed, there were newly extended contents about the Law Lotus.

He read through it and somewhat understood the origin of this Law Lotus.

’Bell tone technique’s First Layer, Spiritual Realm, can condense three Law Lotuses. It can be used to evolve and push a fully cultivated Taoist Cultivation Decision to a higher level. It can also be used when encountering a bottleneck, utilizing its evolving principles to comprehend true nature, significantly increasing the chances of breaking through realms.’

This was the effect of the First Layer of the Spiritual Realm; the subsequent realms remained unknown.

But just from seeing this, Lin Xin could not help but exclaim.

"Worthy of being the unique Decree, although there are only three layers, just the first layer is indeed worthy of its status as a top unique Decree!"

"With the Ninth Hour breakthrough, perhaps I can use this Law Lotus." A thought struck him, and he had an idea.

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Kunlin Sword Sect.

Early in the morning, the entire sect was thrown into chaos.

A Sword Heart-level powerhouse from the sect, He Jing, had been injured on the riverbank by an unknown masked assailant, and this incident had spread throughout the entire sect.

The patrols and searches along the river rapidly increased as a result. Many disciples who had been to the riverbank that night were questioned.

After all, the Kunlin Sword Sect had dominated the surrounding region for centuries, and this was the first time such a mysterious incident had occurred.

The little chubby girl was also called out early to help maintain order.

The small building area where they resided was the final target of the search, as apart from the sect disciples, it also housed many accompanying experts brought by various disciples, among whom were Sword Heart-level powerhouses.

It just so happened that Lin Xin had entered the ghost domain and disappeared, and since there was formation protection around the sect’s island, it was nearly impossible to leave without a pass, so he inadvertently avoided this search.

After all, the people of the sect did not believe anyone would flee at this time; the island was only so large, and even if someone escaped, there was nowhere to go.

This turmoil continued until today, and the culprit was still not found. This slight aftermath could only be seen as a continued show after failing to find the culprit.(To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)