Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 341 - 334: Testing the Sword III

Chapter 341: Chapter 334: Testing the Sword III

Behind Lin Xin, the fox spirits that had died were now revealing their true forms, turning out to be a group of beautiful, snow-white foxes.

The ones that hadn’t died were spewing blood in big gulps, looking like they were not far from death’s door.

The hot spring lake was filled with cries of sorrow, as the surviving women were all severely injured in an instant.

But the immense red sword light that Lin Xin unleashed also alerted powerful presences in the distance.

One of the strong presences nearby emitted an aura very similar to the pink mist emanating from the women, and it seemed to have sensed the situation here, sending an overwhelming fury and killing intent in this direction.

Lin Xin paused his steps and stopped, waiting for the other party to arrive.

He was just passing by this village, having heard of a fox demon harming the people, so he took the initiative to come and look. He did not expect to sense traces of a Demon Talisman Seed. Originally, his destination was not here, but another location given by Luo Xin’er. However, since he discovered the situation while passing by, he didn’t mind gathering the Demon Talisman Seed as well.

That led him to the journey to King Fortune Mountain.

King Fortune Mountain is one of the famous mountains in Central Prefecture where over a dozen Demon Kings gathered.

The Jade Fox King is just one of the more common amongst the Demon Kings. Lin Xin came here specifically because he heard that the Jade Fox King was a great menace.

Not long after, a stream of pink light shot rapidly from afar in the sky.

"You tiny cultivator, how dare you kill my daughters! Today, I must refine your soul and body into a corpse ghoul, doomed to never transcendence!!"

A fierce woman’s voice resounded violently in the air.

Lin Xin looked up to see a white fox the size of a small building viciously dive towards him.

The fox’s body cast a huge shadow, enveloping him completely within it.

With a slight closing of the eyes, he activated a secret technique and immediately sensed three Demon Talisman Seeds on the body of the Demon King.

He casually drew out the Red Flower Sword and executed a sword technique that he most commonly used back in the days at the Sword Sect, effortlessly using it.

"Songyang Needle."

A point of white light shot forth, heading straight for the diving white fox.

The white fox, towering two floors high, was contrasted by a point of white light not even the size of a palm, highlighting the stark disparity between the two.

But at the moment of ferocious collision,

The white light seemed unstoppable, bearing down heavily upon the white fox’s protective aura and causing violent gusts of energy to erupt chaotically.

Lin Xin, holding his sword, faced off directly against the gigantic white fox, neither yeilding to the other.

"Die!!" The giant white fox, seeing that it couldn’t overpower its opponent, was overcome with rage. Its tail lashed out furiously, striking harshly at Lin Xin’s side.

Bang!

But Lin Xin simply stretched out a hand and confronted the tail head-on.

Between his palm and the tail, the two protective auras were squeezed and deformed intensely—one red, one white, both strikingly visible.

"Fragrant Cloud Tail!" The Jade Fox King, unable to subdue him, decisively used her Innate Divine Ability that she had painstakingly cultivated for many years. It was also the Divine Ability aligned with her Taoist foundation during her transformation.

As the Divine Ability was activated, the giant white tail suddenly expanded massively. From its initial length of about twenty meters and width of five to six meters, it swelled several times over, nearly blotting out the sky as it swept towards Lin Xin again.

This Fragrant Cloud Tail was her strongest cultivated Divine Ability, and for beings of the Demon Path, their greatest strength often lies in the innate Divine Skills of their demon body. It was the same for her.

The Demons did not have as many tricks as humans, such as Talisman Techniques or Arrays. They were most proficient in their instincts, whether it was their demon bodies or the Divine Skills that came naturally, which were the ultimate evolutions of their innate talents.

Due to the lack of variety, their power can be surprisingly strong!

Lin Xin suddenly felt a bizarre Taoist intent surging towards him.

Enveloped by the massive white tail sweeping down,

He began to feel a dry mouth and a heat spreading throughout his body, a strong impulse rushing up from his lower abdomen, causing the Spiritual Qi within him to become somewhat disordered.

"This Taoist intent, it seems capable of arousing one’s desires."

As the thought flashed across his mind, he raised the Red Flower Sword.

It was just the Red Flower Sword Path that unfolded in an instant.

With lightning speed, he met the Fragrant Cloud Tail head-on, relying solely on power and speed to create a tremendous impact, colliding fiercely.

Buzz!

A ring of white ripples exploded from the point of impact.

The Jade Fox King staggered backward a distance.

Lin Xin also took more than a dozen steps back; with each step, a violent burst of air exploded under his feet, like bombs detonating.

The two faced off in midair once again.

Without employing any deadly moves, Lin Xin relied purely on the amplification of Spiritual Qi and his own physical strength and speed to confront the Jade Fox King.

He wanted to know, without using Formation Talismans or Taoist arts, how much strength he could wield purely on his own.

As Qi-Blood churned within him and had yet to settle, he saw the Jade Fox King roaring and charging at him again.

The immense Fragrant Cloud Tail covered a vast area, leaving nowhere to hide.

A fierce look flashed in his eyes,

And he raised his sword to meet the charge once more.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

A human and a fox clashed midair, face to face. Neither showed the slightest sign of backing down.

The demon body of the Golden Core Demon King was indeed formidable; in less than the time it took for a cup of tea to brew, Lin Xin was somewhat overwhelmed and repeatedly lost ground, pressured by the Jade Fox King.

Huge white tails swept back and forth, each time smashing Lin Xin and sending him flying.

But even so, he never used any Spiritual Qi techniques, and later on, he barely used Spiritual Qi at all, only using it to heal bodily injuries and for defense.

The giant white tails continued to violently smash down, relentlessly pressing on.

Yet, Lin Xin maintained a calm expression, simply raising the Red Flower Sword to protect his vital points.

The protective aura had long since been unable to withstand the assault and completely shattered.

All that was left was for him to physically endure the punishment.

Strangely, the places where the white tails struck did gash open, but as soon as the tails lifted away, Lin Xin’s injuries would heal at a rate that left onlookers speechless.

"Only relying on my body, my strength is equivalent to the offensive power of a Golden Core Cultivator. Compared to the strength of this Demon King, if I don’t use any Formation Talismans or Spiritual Qi amplification, 57 points of damage should be about the level of the early Golden Core Stage."

After enduring another strike from the white tail, Lin Xin continued to calculate.

"Then, looking at it this way, the dividing line for the Golden Core Stage, in terms of attribute points, should be regarded as fifty points. Would the same apply to other attributes?"

Once again, he was violently smashed into a crater in the ground.

The injuries on Lin Xin’s body that had just surfaced were fully healed within a few breaths’ time.

"No, that’s not right, other attributes should vary. The protective aura should only be able to block attacks from the same level or below, but my Spiritual Qi cultivation should only be at the Foundation Establishment level, just that my combat power reached the Golden Core Stage. The protective aura even managed to withstand the Jade Fox King’s few innate divine ability attacks before shattering."

"Although it’s not very useful to me, its strength is far beyond that of an ordinary protective aura."

"This should be due to the bonus of my Defense Attribute. The biggest point of my attributes is that it can enhance objects directly related to Taoist arts and myself."

Lying in the crater, he pondered thoughtfully.

The Jade Fox King was panting heavily, lying on the ground and staring at the crater where Lin Xin lay as if looking at a monster.

"Is... is this guy... a monster?!"

She had used her innate divine ability dozens of times in succession, with each attack powerful enough to tear apart a human Golden Core mid-stage cultivator.

But that guy, he had actually managed to withstand them all.

As a Demon King in the early Golden Core Stage, she had encountered Demonic Cultivators of the Demon Path before, but never one whose body was even more formidable than those of their Demon Race.

Those other Demonic Cultivators were at most a bit stronger than other cultivators of the same level, but to compare with their Demon Race in terms of physical body strength, it was still unbelievable that without using Spiritual Qi Magical Artifacts for defense, one could physically withstand divine skills.

It wasn’t just her, groups of Jade Foxes attracted by the commotion from all directions were also gathered at a distance, observing. They saw their king continuously fighting for so long yet unable to do anything to the detestable human cultivator.

They all started to become somewhat panicked.

"This guy... his physical body is even stronger than our Demon Race of the same level..." The Jade Fox King suppressed the astonishment in her heart, staring intently at the crater. After such a long time using her divine skills, even she felt a little fatigued and needed to rest.

What she didn’t know was that Lin Xin’s physical strength wasn’t too impressive. What was truly formidable was his recovery ability.

The injuries she caused to him could be completely healed in just a moment’s time.

A powerful physique attribute, combined with the Dragon King’s innate foundation and the Primitive Demon Body, created this terrifyingly effective combination.

"Is it over?" Lin Xin’s figure slowly floated up from the crater.

"This special Taoist intent..."

He closed his eyes and felt carefully, sensing the surrounding air entwined with the Taoist intent of the Jade Fox King, a seductive and alluring Taoist intent.

It was also one of the abilities that Fox Demons excel at.

"You... you’re unscathed?!" The Jade Fox King couldn’t help but step back.

A giant white fox, two stories high, instinctively stepped back in the face of a human who was barely enough to get caught in her teeth.

The huge visual contrast left the surrounding white foxes, and those watching the scene from afar, somewhat astonished.

"Yin Mantuo."

Lin Xin raised the Red Flower Sword, and its blade lit up with faint red runes.

Hisss!

Suddenly, a thick black vine surged from the ground, entangling a Fox Demon around the waist and dragging her down into the earth.

Following this, a series of thick black vines burst from the ground, attacking the large group of Fox Demons.

About a dozen transformed Fox Demons joined with a group of men in human form, releasing a peach blossom-shaped pink basket together.

The basket soared into the sky, growing larger and wider, quickly encompassing all the white foxes within it.

The basket emitted waves of invisible fragrance that made the shooting vines become increasingly sluggish.

Lin Xin looked up at the basket, his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"You won’t succeed!" The Jade Fox King roared in anger, once again wielding her fragrant cloud tail, which covered the sky like a massive curtain as it bore down on Lin Xin.

Boom!

The tail crashed down on the crater’s edge, further breaking off a chunk of the crater.

Lin Xin’s figure, however, was nowhere to be found; he had appeared in midair facing the giant basket.

"Don’t touch it!"

The Jade Fox King became furious, bellowing ferociously as she lunged at him.

But it was already too late.

Lin Xin lifted the Red Flower Sword, lightly tracing a line forward.