Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 399 - 393: The Path to Supreme Power Eight

Chapter 399: Chapter 393: The Path to Supreme Power Eight

Even with numerous members, the Immortal Slayer Alliance’s significance is nil if not a single person can make it onto the Heavenly List.

As for the Central Prefecture’s Heavenly List, it has always consisted of only five top ranks.

The first is Huang Yuerong, acclaimed as the mightiest overlord in thousands of years, unrivaled by anyone!

Second on the Heavenly List is Yuan Qiuque.

The third are the two mysterious ladies from the Jade Purity Sect. The pair always advance and retreat together, facing any number of adversaries as a duo.

The fourth is the Great Demon Venerable of the Shape-Shifting Cave, enshrouded in mystery. It is said that they have been in seclusion for over five thousand years, with no one ever glimpsing their true visage.

The last one, ranking fifth, is the contemporary Sect Master of the Celestial Cloud Way, Lin Zun.

These five are collectively known as the Five Great Supreme True Monarchs. Unlike ordinary True Monarchs, their strength has completely transcended to another level, ascending to the realm of the profoundly mysterious.

Huang Yuerong is rumored to be able to communicate with the heavens of other worlds, able to endure a myriad of calamities without perishing.

Yuan Qiuque has comprehended the great Dao of life and death transition, finding a glimmer of survival amidst the predestined ultimate kills. No matter how desperate the situation, she always manages to turn danger into safety.

Each of the others possesses their own terrifying and absolute abilities, far beyond the reach of strategies such as ambushes and sieges.

Those who can make it onto the Heavenly List are all formidable top-level masters capable of suppressing one-fifth of the Central Prefecture; one such individual is equivalent to an entire army, invincible.

Hong Gui retracted his wandering thoughts.

"What we need to do," he said, "is to kill the Third Crown Prince with the utmost speed. If we’re too slow, it might spark greed in other covetous beings, leading them to think us weak and exploitable. Should they swarm us, even the full might of our Celestial Cloud Way may suffer heavy losses."

"It’s about creating deterrence. I understand," said Wan’er, her voice low.

The girl spoke softly.

"The Evil God’s primordial seed is a precious treasure and a significant source of wealth; such a pity..." Hong Gui shook his head and said no more.

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The fierce winds howled high in the sky, and thick dark clouds loomed, with lightning bolts ceaselessly streaking through the pitch-black firmament, converging mysteriously towards a spot in the air.

Kun Ji, the Demon Emperor of Brahma Net Mountain, floated among the clouds, surrounded by lightning bolts crazily fusing into him from all directions.

Yet each bolt of lightning seemed to vanish into thin air upon entering his body, leaving no trace whatsoever.

"He didn’t die? How is that possible?" His snake-like head squinted, filled with incomprehension and apprehension.

"Could it be some life-saving divine skill given by Huang Yuan? But didn’t Huang Yuan depart for the Outer Regions a long time ago?"

"If he really didn’t die, we must act quickly. We must wrap things up before the Immortal Slayer Alliance members arrive, or the opportunity will be much smaller."

Once again retrieving several transparent, amber-like special pebbles from his sleeve, he tossed them gently. The pebbles shook and danced into the air, slowly suspending themselves mid-air after a moment.

"Still alive??" Kun Ji’s eyes gleamed with astonishment, wholly unanticipated that a non-Yuan Jing fellow, after being struck by his own Golden Swallow Bow, could still survive and escape. The news alone could shake the whole world.

Even Yuan Qiuque, when she was under Yuan Jing, had to flee in a sorry state when faced with an elder of Yuan Jing’s strength. Meeting such a foe would surely result in instant death.

What virtues did this person have that he could stay alive even when his body had exploded?

"The location... is to my northeast, over three thousand li away." In terms of tracking, Kun Ji considered himself second to none in the realm of Yuan Jing, which was the key reason Hong Gui enlisted his help. Combined with the Golden Swallow Bow, which could mimic any cultivation technique aura or trace, it made for the perfect assassination tool.

Kun Ji, in fact, indeed originated from an assassin’s background.

"Since he’s not dead, then let’s kill him again."

With a flash of light, his figure abruptly vanished from the spot.

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Within a dense forest.

Lin Xin held a map of the entire Central Prefecture in his hands.

The entire Central Prefecture was shaped like a colossal egg, with the lower left corner already marked with some red dots.

"These are the places I’ve already visited. Next, I must gather Demon Talisman Seeds with the utmost speed," said Lin Xin.

This was the first time Lin Xin had come so close to death. Had it not been for his strong physical attributes and abnormal recovery power, he truly would have been doomed—after all, he’d bled dry, and without his resilience, survival would have been unlikely.

"And this..." he lowered his head to look at small green worms wriggling on his chest, burrowing into a wound and ferociously gnawing at his flesh.

He reached out and tore the worms off, crushing them to death.

"These worms left in my body by Yuan Jing serve a tracking purpose for sure. Even if they don’t, if he was able to find me once without anyone following, then knowing that my Life-Soul Lamp is still lit, he might as well find me again. It seems I have to fight a swift battle."

He had never feared combat nor being cruel to himself. In the Dark Palace, and now in the Central Prefecture, the same held true.

At this point, when it was a matter of life and death, there was nothing else to say.

"Whoever wants to kill me, I will exterminate their entire clan!" The murderous intent rose within him as Lin Xin scanned the map and a cloud of demonic Qi lifted off from under his feet, then he shot towards the distant sky.

With his speed bolstered by his ability to inflict damage, combined with the boost from the Demonic Qi Escape Skill, he was much faster than other high-level experts who cultivated similar grade Demonic Arts.

In the blink of an eye, he had vanished into the horizon.

Not even half an hour later, Kun Ji’s figure suddenly appeared where Lin Xin had just been.

"This is the place! Why is there no one here?" he frowned.

His Tracking Technique could be used only once a day; if he missed this chance, he’d have to wait until the next day.

He sensitively sensed the residual aura in the air.

"He just left. He’s quick to react. Maybe he’s just hurrying on his way?" Kun Ji mused, his brows furrowed.

"This fellow saw my true face. I must kill him quickly, or it will cause trouble if the Immortal Slayer Alliance finds out it was one of my kin." Although as a Yuan Jing elder, he rarely worried about falling, unless faced with an opponent with a vastly superior power level. But it was different for his kin. The Immortal Slayer Alliance might have no way to deal with him, but they could easily crush his kin.

This was also his first failure, his carelessness had let the enemy know his true face, leading to the current troublesome situation.

If that Lin Xin relayed his appearance to the Yuan Dou Demon Sect, things would become problematic.

With a flash of lightning, he vanished into the sky once more. He followed the increasingly faint scent.

Ahead in the sky, Lin Xin, whose distance was unknown, suddenly turned his head back.

"I can’t fly so conspicuously."

Although the opponent surely had ways to track him, he still had to avoid what could be avoided.

He waved his hand and threw out an octagonal-shaped Array Plate. It was a newly engraved Concealment Array Plate, meticulously etched with a thousand extremely fine micro Concealment Formation Techniques of the Third Grade.

No sooner had the Array Plate flown out than it completely covered his body’s aura without the slightest leak.

Having done all this, he continued to accelerate toward the next point.

An hour later,

Kun Ji’s figure appeared in this high sky and he carefully sensed around, only for his expression to suddenly change.

"The aura has disappeared?"

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Inside a narrow canyon, the ground was rugged, filled with people in white and yellow fighting each other.

The shouts of battle were continuous, and corpses were everywhere, with at least a few thousand people involved.

Higher up in the semi-air above the canyon, several figures were fiercely fighting. Golden glows and white frost kept colliding and flying out, and the attacks that missed often landed on the canyon walls, turning chunks of stone into ice and metal as golden as the attacks themselves.

"Cold Dew Palace will perish today! Gongsun Yuchang, your time of death has come! Hahahaha!!"

In the crowd wearing yellow, an old man—slightly plump and wearing a dragon crown—laughed loudly.

"Ou, the old thief! Today’s vengeance will be avenged one day!" A woman in white, with a few others guarding her, fled miserably into the distance. Blood dripped from her body.

"Even if you manage to escape, what then? The Bai Family is like the setting sun, lacking a genius in the next generation, without resources, without texts. What will you use to compete with me!?"

The plump old man said disdainfully.

Before his words had fallen, suddenly a loud, piercing whistle came faintly from the sky.

"What is that?!"

Someone shouted.

Looking up into the sky, the old man saw a blood-red streak of light, several meters in diameter, flying towards them from a distance.

Its speed was so fast it did not resemble the Escape Light of a cultivator, but more like a meteor from beyond the heavens.

"Could it be a meteor!?"

A beautiful woman at his side whispered.

"It should be... no, that’s not right!"

The old man’s expression changed slightly, he stared intently at the blood-red light, the beam was heading straight in his direction without deviating.

Hiss...!

By now, everyone present in battle heard the sound, as if the sky above the entire canyon had been dyed red, the light coloring the overhead sky red.

Some soldiers fighting each other couldn’t even bother to fight anymore. Seeing where the streak would land, they suddenly scattered in fear, looking for places to retreat.

In an instant, the red descended from the sky and smacked the ground hard.

Boom!!

Stones flew around, striking those who had not managed to avoid it, creating fist-sized bloody holes on impact.

Just this one impact momentarily halted the entire battlefield into a stunned silence.

There was now a deep red, scorching crater in the middle of the canyon.

Within the crater, a towering man in blood-colored fierce armor knelt down, slowly rising to his feet.

The man wore a black mask, long black hair draped over his shoulders, with a wide black cloak behind him, thick as a cape.

His armor was full of sharp spikes protruding everywhere, some areas even had rows of backward spikes. It was clearly the standard absolute brutal war machine.

"Hand over the Demon Talisman Seed. Otherwise, die!"

The man’s gaze burned like flames as he stared at the plump old man with the dragon crown.

The old man swallowed hard, his entire fatty body feeling almost evaporated by the surrounding heat.

"What... what Demon Talisman Seed... Esteemed one..."

Schlick!

In an instant, a red line whizzed by him, the old man’s body exploded in a burst of yellow light, and numerous Talisman Papers flew around, forming circles in flight around his body.

But all of it lasted only for an instant.

All the yellow light around him, along with the Talisman Papers, split in half with a schlick—along with his neck.

The man in red armor appeared directly behind him, holding a dark red Longsword across, with black qi surging from the fissures in his armor.

He reached out his hand towards the plump old man and a small black statue shot out, falling into his grasp.

The statue shattered, revealing a glint of dark gold.

"Palace Master!!"

The remaining protectors cried out in sorrow, yet none dared to move against the man. They stood silently in their spots, not daring to make a move.