Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 432 - 426

Chapter 432: 426

"Which one is the doppelganger, and which one is the real body?"

Shadowless and Kun Ji both felt a twinge of fear in their hearts.

"Could it be?" Kun Ji suddenly made a move, a blue light shot out, hitting the Lin Xin in front hard.

Boom!

Lin Xin, as if stimulated, exploded into countless golden lights, the power of the Infinite Golden Light Formation. But the light was instantly suppressed by the Illusory Yuan Jing, not even causing a ripple.

Yet Lin Xin’s body also directly dissipated, obviously another doppelganger.

"A very powerful move, such a pity it’s useless...." From the darkness, another Lin Xin slowly emerged and finally spoke.

In the blink of an eye, rings of black circles swiftly ensnared him, as if automatically sensing their target.

"Completely meaningless."

Trapped within the black circles, Lin Xin stretched out his hand and grabbed the ring.

A massive force inside the ring crumbled outward, so immense that Shadowless couldn’t react in time, suddenly feeling the Demonic Qi within rapidly draining.

He hurriedly took out some pills, pouring them into his mouth to replenish the lost Demonic Qi, and only then did he begin to stabilize.

Looking again towards Lin Xin, Shadowless’ pupils suddenly constricted.

The figure trapped by the Nineteen Rings was trembling against the immense force, reaching out towards Shadowless.

The black circular rings were being squeezed and expanded, deforming like rubber.

His arm grew longer, reaching out further and further. The circles trapping him grew larger and larger, beginning to flicker with an unstable halo of black and white.

Not just one or two rings were problematic, at this point all nineteen rings were distorted to varying degrees.

Crack....

Little by little, cracks started to appear on the rings.

"How is this possible!!?" Shadowless slowly backed away, his face showing a look of horror.

If an opponent of the same Yuan Jing level could break free from these rings, he might believe it, but the other party was merely Dao Seeking.

"Shadowless! Duck!"

Suddenly, a loud shout came from behind him, it was Kun Ji.

He ducked violently, immediately feeling a tremendously fierce and terrifying presence whip over his head.

It was an ice-blue Lightning Spear with strange energy lines like lightning on its tip. Engraved on the spear’s body was a slowly revolving odd flying snake, which, though it was a snake, had wings nonetheless.

"Retreat!"

After throwing the spear magic artifact, Kun Ji immediately shouted sternly.

The two great Yuan Jings quickly flew towards the tear in the sky above.

At the same time, Kun Ji’s Solidifying Yuan Jing burst forth, directly covering the Blood Silkworm Barrier around them.

"You won’t escape."

Immediately, over a dozen more Lin Xins rose from all directions, chasing after the two, but they could never catch up, always a step too slow.

"Which one is real and which one is fake?!" At this moment, Shadowless was also feeling somewhat panicked.

"Let’s pull out!" Kun Ji said in a deep voice.

As Yuan Jings, if they wanted to retreat, no one could stop them. After all, they had mastery over spatial rules. A slight jump or flicker and they could leave the battlefield.

However, the key now was to get out of the range of the Demonic Soldiers’ half-Yuan Jing coverage. Otherwise, to leave they had to retract their Yuan Jing Domain, but once the domain was retracted, they would immediately be covered by the Demonic Soldiers’ half-Yuan Jing.

That was why the two of them were trying to leave this range first.

Hum!!

An endless burst of blue lightning exploded below.

It was the terrifying damage caused by Kun Ji’s thrown Lightning Spear, at least half of the Blood Silkworm Barrier had been directly destroyed, turning to char.

But there were still Lin Xins emerging from the darkness, chasing after the two.

"Is the Silkworm Moon White Sword really that powerful?" Shadowless had heard of the legend of the Demon Sword, but it clearly was not nearly as ferocious.

These doppelgangers each had a terrifyingly strong aura, which meant they were all somewhat of a threat to them. This meant that the so-called ability to split only one doppelganger was simply a joke.

"I don’t know either...."

Kun Ji’s face was also somewhat pale.

He had been heavily injured before and was now still not recovered. Just now, using his Yuan Jing Domain and sacrificing a one-time magic artifact had already exhausted his Spiritual Energy.

"So many doppelgangers.... This is already on the level of Innate Divine Ability of differentiation at the Yuan Jing level! It can’t be possible with just that Demon Sword!"

Striving to maintain his Solidifying Yuan Jing, he soared towards the sky.

Within the barrier on the ground.

Lin Xin lurked in the shadows, quietly watching the two great Yuan Jings flying towards the exit above.

He knew the rules of Yuan Jing, they couldn’t be broken, but that didn’t mean he had no way of dealing with the two.

The power of the Silkworm Moon White Sword indeed exceeded his expectations.

He hadn’t expected that a fifth-grade Demon Sword, with the boost of attributes, could reach such a terrifying level.

The created doppelgangers not only possessed certain strength but also inherited a certain proportion of his own attribute enhancements.

All the surrounding attributes added to the Silkworm Moon White Sword seemed to have brought about a comprehensive enhancement of the Demon Weapon.

Perhaps it could no longer be called a fifth-grade lower rank demon soldier.

"The debt of the previous assassination, let’s settle it all today."

Lin Xin slowly floated up, watching as those two were about to leave the barrier.

He slowly bent his body, the Demon Sword held backwards on his right shoulder in a somewhat eerie posture, its tip aimed at the two in the sky.

Hiss.....

A sound as faint as trickling water continuously emitted from the ground around him.

Countless black tadpole-like runes crawled out from the ground, onto tree trunks, stones, corpses, covering everything possible.

It was as if ten thousands of black tadpoles were swarming, completely engulfing this area of several miles.

Lin Xin was entirely swallowed by darkness, the only illumination being the faint red glow emanating from the Silkworm Moon White Sword held backwards on his right shoulder.

In the red glow, as if something was burning, translucent flames shadow kept igniting from the blade. They grew denser and larger.

Just as the two figures in the sky had just burst out of the barrier, retracted their Yuan Jing Domain, and were about to use their space escape skill to leave,

Lin Xin’s eyes suddenly snapped open, a point of white light flaring up from his dark red pupils.

"Red Flower · Moon Silkworm!!!"

The Silkworm Moon White Sword on his body shot out suddenly, making no sound, as if it simply vanished into the void.

In an instant.

The originally overcast sky suddenly turned darker, as if day turned to night in an instant.

A huge blood-red sphere abruptly appeared above the clouds.

Bang!!!!!

The sphere exploded in an instant, gushing out a huge amount of silk like strands of hair. Countless terrifying blood-colored silks descended from the sky like raindrops, ferociously pummeling down and covering a range that included Brahma Net Mountain within its scope.

The two Yuan Jing level warriors had just initiated their spatial escape skill ripples when they were forcefully twisted and squeezed out by a massive wave of power.

Kun Ji looked up at the blood-colored silk falling from the sky, his pupils shrinking to their limit in an instant.

He froze for a moment, then seemed to remember something, turned his head with a roar towards the direction of Brahma Net Mountain.

"Run, Bai Er!!!"

Shadowless’s face turned pale as the spatial fluctuation was forcefully warped and squeezed back—this was not the power that a fifth-grade lower rank demon soldier should possess.....

Swish, swish, swish, swish!!!

The blood-colored silk raining down from the sky bombarded everything below like a natural disaster.

Centered around Brahma Net Mountain, an area of several tens of miles was completely enveloped.

With every strand of silk that fell, a massive explosion occurred, with countless blood-colored flames and broken silks scattering and burning, dyeing the whole area of tens of miles a bloody hue.

For a moment, the sky was also dyed red, with columns of black smoke from the towering flames even staining the nearby clouds black.

Boom!

Peals of thunderous noise echoed.

Time passed, and gradually the sky calmed down, the wild wind swept through, bringing down heavy raindrops, which in mere blinks turned from a moderate to a pouring rain.

Rustle....

The rain, skewed slightly by the wind, blurred the entire world.

The flames also gradually lessened. The area around Brahma Net Mountain was completely charred.

A few eagles flapped their wings as they flew low across the sky, approaching this place, but they seemed confused and dared not come close—the terrain had become completely unfamiliar to them.

The entire mountain as the center, a range of several tens of miles around it had become an extremely standard black circle.

Everything within the circle—trees, stones, soil, streams—had turned to scorched earth. All living beings, including the massive body of the Bai Er serpent, were all burned to pieces.

Many places were still emitting white or gray-black smoke.

Clack....

Lin Xin, holding the Silkworm Moon White Sword, slowly walked to a purple magic artifact in the form of a large bell at the center of the charred land.

The surface of the bell flowed with many intricate patterns and strange creature designs, yet it now seemed as if its light was fading, about to be exhausted, and tiny cracks were spreading slowly over it.

Lin Xin held the sword in front of the large bell, peering through a small crack at the figures of Shadowless and Kun Ji hidden inside.

"I was wrong...." Shadowless’s forehead trickled down with a line of blood. He had stopped maintaining his semi-transparent figure, returning to his solid form.

"I shouldn’t have fought you head-on with all my strength... If I had just maintained my distance and attacked you with the Golden Swallow Bow, even if you were twice as strong, you would have surely died by our hands!" Even in defeat, Shadowless couldn’t help but express his regret bitterly.

"That was the biggest mistake we made," Kun Ji also coughed up blood as he spoke softly. Life and death were part of fate; he had killed many people and had long expected to face such a day. Other than some regrets, he held no bitterness.

Lin Xin quietly looked at the two men inside the bell, slowly raising his sword.

The blade came crashing down, a terrifying force impacting the surface of the bell.

Boom!!!

The bell remained intact, but the booming sonority of the sword’s force caused the surrounding ground to collapse several meters deep, forming a perfect circle.

Pools of blood seeped out from the bottom of the purple bell, then began to steam up, turning into wisps of gray mist, enshrouding the bell from outside.

In just a few breaths, the bell that was taller than a man slowly turned into a gray stone giant bell.

"Your biggest mistake was encountering me."

Lin Xin, holding his sword, turned and left.