Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 437 - 431: Secret Treasure II

Chapter 437: Chapter 431: Secret Treasure II

"What brings Senior Sister here?" Lin Xin’s gaze shifted to Quan Sheying after Zhou Huaisha had left.

"I am here naturally for...."

"If there’s nothing else, why don’t you leave?"

Quan Sheying didn’t finish her sentence before Lin Xin interrupted her.

Lin Xin’s face was soft with a smile, but his eyes carried a cold murderous intent and madness.

Quan Sheying’s beautiful face instantly turned cold. Although she still had a smile on her face, her eyes were filled with frost.

"It’s been so long since we’ve seen each other, it seems that Junior Brother has forgotten how to speak to his Senior Sister...."

Boom!

A dark red blade appeared from nowhere, filling her entire field of vision.

Her reply was a domineering vertical slash!

From top to bottom, the dark red sword light split her view—and seemingly the entire world—into two halves.

Shick!

The massive sword light swiftly passed by where Quan Sheying stood, continuing its path far into the distance toward the mountain.

A ten-meter-long sword mark, like a never-fading red thread, quickly vanished from sight.

Rustle...

From afar came the sounds of trees and rocks being slashed and collapsing.

"Senior Sister, what were you saying just now? I didn’t catch it?"

Lin Xin said with a smile, yet there was a profound chill in it.

"Such a heavy murderous intent!" Quan Sheying pressed her lips together, opting not to speak again, but her gaze on Lin Xin below grew more grave.

She had been in the Sand Time Divine Palace this whole time and wasn’t aware of the outside events; but her Junior Brother’s current state seemed somewhat abnormal.

"Give me the secret treasure, and I’ll leave immediately!" With that thought, she decided to secure the Divine Palace’s Secret Treasure first.

"Secret treasure?" Lin Xin slightly turned his head to look at Zhao Ke beside him.

Zhao Ke chuckled nervously, retreating two steps with a heh-heh and whispered to Lin Xin.

"Brother Lin, you think I want to be chased to death? Damn it, I’ve been stuck with this secret treasure and can’t shake it off; without it, I’d be dead as well!"

Looking at him, Lin Xin couldn’t explain why, but he vaguely felt that something was amiss. This guy seemed to have undergone some inexplicable change. He clearly had no power of the Yu Mansion, but the aura emanating from him felt very similar to that of the Yu Mansion’s heir.

Just about to ask the man to take out whatever secret treasure he had, suddenly a voice vibrated in his heart.

"It’s the source of karma, protect him!"

The voice of the Red Leaf Sword Master suddenly rose from the depths of his heart.

"Huh?"

Surprise flickered in Lin Xin’s eyes. After studying Zhao Ke carefully for a moment, he turned away and no longer concerned himself with him. Instead, he looked up at Quan Sheying in midair.

"Senior Sister should leave. I don’t want to fight with you right now...."

He slowly lowered the Red Flower Sword he had just drawn, with the tip pointing towards the ground.

Quan Sheying took a deep look at Lin Xin. She hadn’t expected her Junior Brother to improve so swiftly. Although he hadn’t reached the Yuan Jing Realm, his current strength and power were infinitely close to the fifth level of the Yuan Jing Realm.

It wouldn’t be long before he could break through the limit and enter that powerful level.

Their teacher’s foresight was truly remarkable.

She inwardly praised, unaware that because of the issue with the Embryo of the Evil God, the True Monarch of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect had essentially given up on Lin Xin.

Even so, it was imperative that she took control of the secret treasure, which could lead one to brush against that legendary realm! Even if the True Monarch Huang Yuan himself were to arrive, he couldn’t stop her determination at this moment!

"I don’t wish to fight with Junior Brother either, but I am determined to obtain the secret treasure."

As she spoke, a sinister black aura faintly emanated from her, spreading quietly through the surrounding space like countless strands of hair.

"Yuan Jing Domain?"

Countless black threads surrounded Lin Xin on all sides, enveloping him and the four people below.

All the black strands converged on Lin Xin, binding him like numerous ropes.

Shush, shush, shush...

Threads as thick as fingers continuously wrapped around Lin Xin’s arms, neck, chest, thighs, and various other parts.

Clang!

All of a sudden, Ye Qingchang, who lay unconscious beside Lin Xin, came down hard with her sword on his lower back. Despite her apparent unconsciousness, her hands crazily hacked at Lin Xin with the sword.

Not only her, but Lin Xiaoyu, the woman who had been kneeling and weeping before, also puppet-like, charged towards Lin Xin, slashing wildly.

The only one unaffected was Zhao Ke.

He remained outside, blocked off by thick black threads with a faint light protecting him. All he could do was look on in desperation, shouting, though his voice couldn’t penetrate the unfolding Yuan Jing Domain.

"This is my Yuan Jing Domain... Puppeteer’s Strings," Quan Sheying’s complexion returned to normal, and she indeed began to smile lightly.

"It’s a pity. If there were other Dao Seeking cultivators here, you too could witness the true power of this Yuan Jing Domain that fears no group battle...."

Confidence shone in her eyes.

"Give up, Junior Brother, without reaching Yuan Jing, it’s impossible for you to overcome me."

Clang!

Lin Xiaoyu too struck Lin Xin on the head with a sword. Nothing concealed or obstructed the blow, landing straight on the black hair.

At this moment, Lin Xin’s Protective Aura was dissipated by the unfolding Yuan Jing Domain. No matter how strong his Protective Aura was, against the Yuan Jing Domain, there was only one outcome.

Thus, he could only rely on his own body to withstand external attacks.

But without a doubt, even if relying solely on his physical body to withstand the blows, Lin Xiaoyu was no match for him.

Thump!

With a casual palm strike, Lin Xiaoyu was sent flying like a kite with its string cut, much like being hit by a truck, crashing heavily against a large tree, spitting blood and falling to the ground motionless, rolling his eyes and fainting outright.

Another, Ye Qingchang, was casually grasped by Lin Xin, who directly clutched her head and hurled her towards Zhao Ke.

Thump!

A two-meter wide crater erupted on the ground, right in front of Zhao Ke, who shuddered with shock.

Snapping back to reality, he hurriedly ran over to check on his wife, only to find that Ye Qingchang was largely unharmed, simply unconscious.

Quan Sheying, watching from mid-air, had her eyelids twitching uncontrollably at the scene.

This kind of brutal power was hardly inferior to some Elemental Demons of the Yuan Jing Realm that had transformed into human form. She had originally thought her junior brother only had some Body Cultivation Technique, and his physique was passable at best.

But she had not expected him to be this formidable.

The black threads tightly binding Lin Xin were completely useless. They snapped one after another as he moved freely.

"Sister, you’re injured."

Lin Xin, looking at the black threads breaking and scattering off his body, said with a hint of profound meaning.

Quan Sheying opened her mouth, but before she could react, she abruptly saw a cyclone on the ground explode, like a rocketeer blasting off towards her.

The Yuan Jing Domain, rather than hindering her opponent’s speed of movement, had no other effect whatsoever!

"How is this possible!?"

Her heart pounded violently; she tried to dodge but was too late.

Boom!!!!

The terrifying red blade, as if carrying the weight of a mountain, slammed down on her palms stretched out in front of her.

The two struggled mightily against each other.

The Red Flower Sword in Lin Xin’s hand landed heavily on her hands poised at her chest.

The white palms and the red blade were in a frenzied clash.

The horrible power vibrated outward in all directions, turning into rings of active white ripples.

Thump!!

Quan Sheying suddenly teleported, vanishing from the spot.

Where she had been, a blood-red Sword Light coalesced into a thirty-meter-long terrifying giant sword, slicing through the sky, piercing the clouds, and disappearing in a few moments.

Lin Xin hovered where Quan Sheying previously stood, pausing only for an instant before turning around.

Quan Sheying reappeared behind Zhao Ke, reaching out to grab him, only to feel a sharp pain at her side.

Boom!

As if struck by some beast, Lin Xin, holding a platinum Longsword in hand, was already beside Zhao Ke before anyone knew it.

Quan Sheying felt the blood in her already severely injured body hammer against her, churning violently, her body going numb.

Within her own Yuan Jing Domain, she was blasted away far into the distance and slammed against the slanted mountain surface with a thud.

Clouds of black ash billowed up.

A deep, bottomless black sword mark split the ground between her and Lin Xin.

"Cough cough cough...."

Quan Sheying emerged from the pit somewhat disheveled, and looking back at Lin Xin in mid-air, there was nothing but a lingering afterimage.

Turning her head suddenly, her pupils constricted sharply.

Lin Xin was already standing in front of her, the sword in his hand raised high.

Boom!!

A dark red pillar of fire blasted into the sky, piercing through the clouds, bathing the surrounding sky and ground in red.

Soon everything calmed down, the pillar of fire becoming thinner and smaller, until it finally dissipated completely.

Brahma Net Mountain had a small portion missing from its mass, resembling a cake with a bite taken out from the side, a terribly ugly sight.

In the gap on the mountain, within a crater tens of meters wide.

Two figures stood opposite each other in the center of the crater.

One was Lin Xin, and the other was Quan Sheying.

But at this time, Quan Sheying had lost her human form, her entire body had completely transformed into the shape of a giant cyan-gray dog, and her once beautiful and smooth face had now become the head of a massive dog the size of a washbasin.

Sharp canine teeth dripped with black saliva, and as the liquid fell to the ground, it corroded fist-sized deep pits.

She had also grown an extra pair of arms, just like Lin Xin, appearing as if she now had six arms. This was the state of Great Achievement of the Primitive Demon Body. Each arm possessed two extra limbs.

In this way, once she broke out with her full might, she could wield six times the strength of her normal state.

The explosion had only left a torn clothe on her shoulder, and it hadn’t caused any injury to her physical body. As a Half-Demon with a Divine Beast Bloodline, she too possessed a robust physique similar to Lin Xin’s.

"Are you certain you want to be my enemy, junior brother?" Quan Sheying had transformed into her Half-Demon Body and her voice had become hoarse and somewhat masculine.

Lin Xin stood less than five meters in front of her, and strangely, his hair was turning even redder. It was barely noticeable before, but now, hints of the change were beginning to show.

Now he had an additional sword rack on his back, firmly holding three swords, making a total of four swords including the Red Flower Sword in his hand.

The aura of these four swords was faintly connected as one, clearly forming a special Formation.

"You’re injured... sister..." Lin Xin didn’t answer but instead had a trace of madness and intent to kill in his eyes.