Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 286 - 279 Temporary Suspension

Chapter 286: Chapter 279 Temporary Suspension

But none of these were important.

What was important was that all of the rot in his entire body had completely recovered, now entirely like that of a normal person. This kind of normal skin, which he hadn’t encountered for a very long time, made him a little uncomfortable when he first woke up, but after he came to his senses, he realized this must be the effect of the items given to him by the Red Leaf Sword Master.

That small bag of silver, mouse-like fruits was still in the storage bag, with only one eaten when he left the battlefield yesterday.

His body faintly felt that the illusion that could erupt at any time had also disappeared. What remained was perfect health without a single flaw.

"Five years, hm?"

He murmured to himself. Recalling everything about the Youfu, it felt like a dream, so unreal yet incredibly brutal.

"We’re almost at Naxi." Xiao Liu came over with a bowl of medicinal soup, the thick concoction steaming and emitting a strong bitter herbal scent.

"Sir, it’s time for your medicine."

"Thank you, Xiao Liu." Lin Xin said kindly, taking the bowl and drinking it in one go. This was a medicine for treating internal injuries and nourishing the body, originally meant for those with serious injuries, but now it was used to help him recover from his internal wounds. After all, with Lin Xin’s recovery ability, he would absorb the nutrients and heal at an extremely fast rate.

"Sir, you are a powerful and reclusive expert. If you hadn’t been trying to save us, you wouldn’t have had to suffer such serious injuries," Xiao Liu said with a flushed face, feeling guilty.

Shaking his head, Lin Xin no longer explained. From the time he woke up until now, he didn’t know how many times he had said it, but Xiao Liu and the people from the Escort Agency were convinced that he was injured while saving others.

"How much further?"

"We’ve been speeding up the journey. Last night, we traveled through the night without letting the horses rest, so now we’re probably two days away," Xiao Liu answered honestly.

"Two days, eh?"

Upon arriving at Naxi, which is the eastern division of the Radiance Society, he would be able to take an airship to the extreme west. Yet, after finding out that he had five years’ respite, Lin Xin vaguely had another idea—an audacious one, yet it might be the most effective approach.

"If, if I really won’t be affected by illusions and corruption for five years, as the Red Leaf Sword Master said, then this truly is the best opportunity for me to enhance myself at the fastest speed."

An idea started to agitate Lin Xin’s heart.

He tried to move his body, and it seemed his internal injuries had not fully healed, but his external wounds were almost gone. Gripping the Red Flower Sword, a thin and continuous warm flow was transmitted into his body, the special effect of a Heart Blood Sacrificial Refinement of a magical treasure, it could act as an extra organ of the body, aiding recovery.

On the other side, they were starting to prepare materials for cooking. Lin Xin stood up, descending from the carriage.

"I’ll take a look around. You guys go ahead and eat, I’ll be right back."

When he spoke like this, nobody around dared to say much, and Ling’er only stood up.

"Sir, your injuries haven’t fully healed..."

"It’s fine, it doesn’t hinder me anymore," Lin Xin said, waving his hand,

As the only reliance of the entire convoy, Lin Xin’s words were practically the sole command for the entire team. Even if others had doubts, they didn’t dare to say much.

Especially Uncle Wu and Ling’er, who had even guessed from the color of the spiritual energy Lin Xin had unleashed that he might be a Demonic Cultivator.

So they were even less likely to say anything.

Lin Xin left the convoy and walked towards the stream, passing through several clusters of slopes covered with sharp-spiked small red flowers.

Lin Xin coughed a few times and stood in an open spot, taking out a yellow talisman paper from the storage bag and giving it a gentle flick, causing the paper to ignite without flame.

"Soul Binding Summoning."

It had been a very long time since he had used talismans. Currently with severe internal injuries, he couldn’t mobilize too much spiritual energy, so he could only rely on talismans to leverage nature’s spiritual energy to achieve the desired effect.

The talisman paper burned rapidly, and then suddenly turned into a puff of white ash that exploded. A large amount of white ash circled his fingertips, spinning rapidly, and in a few moments, it wrapped around his index finger like silk threads.

"Come out!"

Lin Xin flicked his finger, and the white ash dispersed.

There was no movement around him.

Soul Binding Summoning was a special talisman used only by Demonic Cultivators.

This spell had no other purpose. Its one and only function was to summon vengeful spirits, to call forth the nearest vengeful spirits in the vicinity.

Lin Xin hadn’t encountered vengeful spirits in a very long time, partly because his cultivation level was so high - vengeful spirits had extremely strong senses and naturally wouldn’t seek death by appearing before him.

On the other hand, the more formidable among the vengeful spirits usually lurked in unique locations and wouldn’t easily venture out. Therefore, unless he went to some special places, it was highly unlikely he would encounter vengeful spirits.

But now that he was actively summoning them, that was a different matter entirely.

As the white ash dispersed,

Lin Xin carefully sensed his surroundings, focusing on any signs of the uncanny.

Suddenly, he turned around. Behind him stood a disheveled man who, without knowing when, had appeared. This man’s body was hazy, manifesting a semi-transparent state. Dressed in tattered black clothes, his exposed skin was mostly rotten and pocked with holes from insect bites.

This person was less than five meters away from Lin Xin, but seemed to be afraid of something and didn’t dare to get any closer.

Lin Xin noticed the invisible Protective Aura emanating from his body, a trademark of a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator. Even in his current state of weakness, this aura was not produced by him, but was restored by the natural replenishment of the spiritual energy from the environment. Hence, his aura was fully restored and extremely powerful.

He slightly retracted the aura around him.

"Can you speak?"

The man remained silent, just standing there motionless.

Shaking his head slightly, Lin Xin realized the other might have been dead for too long, having lost his reason and humanity.

He gently raised his hand.

Ssch!

A qi sword light flew from his fingertip, effortlessly piercing the man’s head.

Sss...

The man immediately melted like a candle, collapsing to the ground as his body released a large amount of white mist. Soon after, he completely turned into a puddle of liquid and vanished.

Lin Xin paid no heed to the changes around him; instead, he pulled back his finger and began to carefully feel for signs within his body.

"It’s too subtle..."

He shook his head, thought for a moment, and then quickly took out a blank talisman paper from his storage bag and lightly wrote on it with his fingertip after biting it.

Shortly, a simple Soul Binding Summoning Rune emerged, but he didn’t stop there. He kept forcing out droplets of blood from his finger, writing and carving on the talisman paper.

Before long, a dense array of Soul Binding Summoning Runes overlaid on top of each other on the paper.

Gently, he tossed the talisman paper outward.

Whoosh!

A spark exploded in mid-air, and the talisman paper turned to ash almost instantly, then scattered and burst in all directions.

"Come forth, all the wraiths around."

Lin Xin exhaled, letting the cut on his finger heal quickly, disappearing without even a trace of a scar.

Whoosh...

A cold wind whirled and howled past him.

With his blood and cultivation at the moment, the wraiths he summoned would definitely not be weak.

After a short while, a faint mist began to spread from the distance in the woods.

Boom.

Heavy footsteps slowly approached through the forest, one step at a time, coming closer to him.

The heavy footsteps continued, one after another, making the ground shake slightly.

Lin Xin waved his hand, and a burst of spiritual energy stirred the air, blowing away the fog around him and revealing the huge, looming figure of the creature approaching him.

It was a giant humanoid monster with a semi-transparent body, its overall gray-brown color, and with five mouths in a row on its head, each filled with dense, sharp teeth.

The monster had no nose and no eyes; its round, blob-like head resembled a large pus-filled blister atop its neck. It bent down slightly when it stood over four meters tall, not far in front of Lin Xin.

"Food... eat..."

Schick!

A flash of red light.

Lin Xin slowly withdrew his index finger.

The monster in front of him stiffened and then burst open with a boom, turning into a large mass of viscous, foul-smelling liquid that fell and spread apart.

"Attracted by the enticing scent of food from the talisman paper? If I didn’t suppress the spiritual light, I probably couldn’t have drawn in something so big."

Lin Xin carefully sensed his surroundings. A dense collection of various wraiths slowly emerged, step by step, toward this place.

Vague human and animal silhouettes slowly made their way out of the woods, covered by an inexplicable fog that spread out and couldn’t be dispersed by the wind from Lin Xin just a moment ago.

About a hundred different wraiths slowly stepped forward, encircling Lin Xin.

"Go. Eat."

Lin Xin tapped the Red Flower Sword and murmured softly.

The red light shone, and the Red Flower Sword unsheathed, turning into a red streak that shot out in all directions.

Schick, schick, schick...

Wraith after wraith was pierced without any resistance, turning into viscous liquid and collapsing.

Lin Xin stood still, quietly feeling the subtle energy inside him rising continuously.

He raised his hands, seeing no signs of decay on his arms, and also not feeling the slightest onset of illusions.

"There’s none... Indeed, there’s none..."

He carefully touched his own skin.

"No decay... It seems to be true, the thing that the Red Leaf Sword Master gave me can actually suppress illusions and decay."

A sense of inexplicable relief surged through him instantly—the two major problems that had been plaguing him seemed to have been temporarily alleviated so simply.

"If I really have five years... then this is my best preparation time. I can prepare for later suppression of illusions and decay."

He quickly planned in his mind.

"I can increase my cultivation madly without being affected. In that case, I can use these five years to massacre in large numbers, both in the Underworld and in reality, elevating my cultivation to the highest level I am capable of."

Schick.

A flash of red light, and the Red Flower Sword returned to its sheath at some point.

The surrounding wraiths had been completely eliminated.

Lin Xin closed his eyes, and a cool stream mixed with a warm flow began to enter the core of his Return to Origin technique, partly merging into his limbs, muscles, and bones. That was the effect of the Morning Chorus Melody.

His cultivation was rising, but he didn’t feel any side effects.

"Amazing..." Lin Xin felt more and more astonished.

Having confirmed that he was no longer affected, he felt uplifted and teleported to the side of the caravan with a few Flash Spirit moves, walking over slowly.

After eating with the group, everyone continued on their journey together, heading towards Naxi.

Along the way, Lin Xin’s injuries healed rapidly. The Dragon King’s Foundation was not unworthy of its name, for he initially thought that the injuries he assumed would take months to heal were much better after just a few days, and even his consumed spiritual energy had been replenished.

And just as he had fully recovered, the caravan finally reached Naxi. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)