Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 440 - 434: Intercept Part 1

Chapter 440: Chapter 434: Intercept Part 1

"Not a Yuan Jing?" Lin Xin saw this scene with a strange expression on his face.

He had killed Kun Ji Shadowless and simultaneously forced back Zhou Huaisha and Quan Sheying from the Ma Family’s main hall. The news clearly had not spread yet, perhaps because Tianyun Dao and Zhou Huaisha were concerned about losing face and decided not to make it public, sealing the information.

But now, the experts who were gathering were still not at the Yuan Jing level. With his current strength, anyone not at Yuan Jing level was simply delivering themselves to him like a meal on a platter.

He lightly lifted his foot, yet his legs felt as if they were bearing the weight of ten thousand pounds, extremely heavy.

But Lin Xin merely lifted his foot lightly, then stomped down hard.

Boom!!!

The ground suddenly exploded, with countless fragments of stone, clumps of earth, and bricks flying in every direction. The entire Ma Family main hall collapsed instantly, and the surrounding walls shattered and flew off like artillery shells, hitting many of the Ma Family’s human race servants and causing innumerable deaths and injuries on the spot.

Centered around Lin Xin, a radius of tens of meters up in the air above the ground suddenly lit up with countless spiderweb-like green formation patterns.

But under this one stomp, these formation patterns emitted sounds of intolerable breaking, as if bearing a weight too terrible to withstand.

The group of old men floating in mid-air changed colors.

The first old man who had acted, holding a Golden Dragon Sword, hurriedly retreated. Three white talisman papers flew out from his body, swirling around him as if they were alive.

But the surging aura locked onto him directly, leaving no chance for evasion, forcing him to withstand the attack merely by enduring it.

"Save them!"

The three old men and old women behind him drew their swords simultaneously, with a myriad of golden lights bursting forth like the sun exploding in the sky above. Three golden dragons surged out frantically as well.

The longswords in the hands of the four seemed to form a giant golden light dragon sword array, merging into one entity and pressing down fiercely.

Below, in the Ma Family main hall, a blood-red sword shadow soared to the sky, slashing fiercely towards the golden sun!

That sword shadow was incredibly intense. When it first appeared, it was just over a meter long, but in an instant, it stretched to five meters, then ten meters, and twenty meters!!

By the time it reached the four, it had turned into a terrifying fifty-meter-long sword mark. Like a thin thread of blood, it slowly turned and slashed towards them.

Shii!

The terrifying red light and golden light burst forth, with the golden sphere instantly cut into two halves, exploding into countless golden sparks, and a mass of golden light burst open, particularly noticeable in the sky above Hua Drum Town.

The four elders were thrown out, vomiting blood, smashing into buildings in their respective directions, causing more panicked and alarmed cries to rise.

The remaining people in the air all had twisted expressions, as if they had not expected Lin Xin to be so terrifying at all.

But by then, the situation had escalated to a point of no return, and regrets were useless.

Before they could react, they saw another sword mark flash like lightning towards themselves.

The group immediately fought desperately, sacrificing their lifebound magic treasures and magic swords one after another. For a moment, the entire sky blazed with brilliant light, as if the sun were hanging in the sky.

But all of this lasted just for a few moments.

All of the light was directly split in two, cut apart by a sword mark that was twenty to thirty meters long.

Lin Xin reached out with his right hand, and immediately three orbs of dark red flame spiraled and converged in his hand, forming into a fireball.

"Go."

He aimed and threw it.

The red fireball shot out, exploding with a bang. The giant flame instantly tore through all the formations in the surrounding airspace.

The cultivators in the sky, whether from the Wanhua Sect, Kunlin Sword Sect, or Tianyun Dao, were all devastated by this fierce attack, torn to shreds without leaving a single piece of their bodies intact, falling to their deaths.

Lin Xin stood amidst the ruins, the Demonic Qi supporting the unconscious couple, Zhao Ke and his wife, and he casually put a headband on Lin Xiaoyu. Finally, he looked up at the sky.

Now, he felt a terrifying boost in attributes, even a casually conjured orb of Demonic Flame possessed power at the level of a Dao Seeking cultivator’s killing move.

At the moment when those people were still reeling from the slashes, he threw the Demonic Flame, which exploded and perfectly breached their protective auras.

In an instant, he had eradicated all the remaining people.

"Tianyun Dao sealed the information, simply to send you juniors to your deaths. Why bother with such futility?"

He did not care about the Ma Family’s betrayal. Having reached the territory of the Immortal Alliance, if Tianyun Dao did not react, they had only themselves to blame for their consecutive humiliations.

What he had not expected was why these minor sects around him were gathering to capture him.

No matter how many formations they set up, what was the point? He now had authentic Yuan Jing level combat power, and in the long history of the Central Prefecture, he had never heard of any Yuan Jing being overwhelmed and killed by mass tactics.

A formation capable of summoning a Demon God would have been more appropriate.

"Uncle!! Aunt!!"

Not far away, several Ma Family youths cried out, searching through the rubble for their relatives.

As for the young lady of the Ma Family, she was nowhere to be seen, clearly having made arrangements well in advance; those who remained were nothing but deliberate sacrifices.

"The heart can be quite ruthless."

Lin Xin glanced around and, with a leap, flew away with the three individuals toward the distance.

Following the direction of the sensation, he had already found the place in the town where the Spiritual Energy was most concentrated.

He streaked past a chaotic and noisy district. Below, many fearless Jianghu warriors ran out to watch the excitement, but most were looking for places to hide.

Because of the melee that had occurred, all the bystanders dared not fly, to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

Lin Xin flew swiftly with the group, exhibiting extreme arrogance.

It wasn’t long before he spotted a white flying carpet, thin as a silk scarf, hovering ahead with several somewhat familiar figures sitting on it.

There was the eldest daughter of the Ma family, Ma Jingxuan, accompanied by two black-robed Daoists with goat beards and a voluptuous beauty in her thirties or forties.

At the sound of the air tearing, they all turned their heads, and upon recognizing that it was Lin Xin, their expressions changed drastically.

The beautiful woman sitting at the back spat out a mouthful of blood and desperately drew several runes with tremendous energy, causing the flying carpet to surge in speed, almost doubling its original velocity as it shot forward.

With a flick of Lin Xin’s finger, a mass of black Demonic Flame shot forth like lightning, overtaking the flying carpet in the blink of an eye and exploding at its rear.

Their increased speed was still not fast enough to escape his casual strike.

Thump!

A muffled sound followed, and at least two of the figures on the flying carpet, set ablaze by the black flames, tumbled down screaming. Before they even reached the ground, they had turned to ash, leaving not even bones behind.

The flying carpet shattered, leaving only a petrified Ma Jingxuan and her mother suspended in the air. The two who perished were precisely the black-robed Daoists.

"Ancestor Red Flower, this matter truly doesn’t involve the Wanhua Sect too deeply—it’s not our affair! I only came to help out of respect for Huo Yinqi’s master!" the beautiful woman called out loudly.

"While death can be pardoned, other penalties cannot be avoided. Aside from Xuanxuan, the rest of you sever your own arms, and I’ll spare your lives," Lin Xin said indifferently, shrouded in a cloud of demonic energy.

Now, he was practically an enemy to the whole world. Whether it was the Immortal Alliance or the Red Spine Sect, many were eager to kill him. So any cultivator from Central Prefecture who sought his life was fair game, as they were mostly his adversaries anyway.

At this point, he didn’t care anymore. Anyone who wished to kill him, no matter who, would pay a steep price.

Lin Xin had not reached this level merely by the charity of his foes.

Hearing his words, the beauty’s face turned deathly pale, and Ma Jingxuan’s mother was also taken aback, not expecting to be implicated herself. She stared at Lin Xin, seemingly unable to believe her eyes.

"Mr. Red Flower, Xuanxuan and you have deep feelings for each other. Please... for Xuanxuan’s sake..." the eldest daughter of the Ma family finally spoke up, her voice trembling, losing the assuredness she had once possessed.

"If it weren’t for Xuanxuan’s sake, do you think you’d still be alive?" Lin Xin replied tersely. By now, Zhao Ke and the others within the demonic cloud began to regain consciousness, their expressions turning to confusion as they tried to grasp the situation.

"You have three breaths," Lin Xin stated, not wanting to linger with them any longer.

The beautiful woman and the eldest daughter of the Ma family exchanged a look of despair.

With a flash of Sword Light, the beautiful woman amputated both her arms and those of the eldest Ma daughter in a single breath, then she used her floating blade to emit a green light, cauterizing the wounds.

Both women were stoic, their screams muffled even as they lost their arms, merely bowing their heads with a sense of mourning in their eyes.

In fact, they had greatly overestimated Lin Xin’s affection for Xuanxuan.

Truth be told, it had been Ma Jingxuan who was keenly in Lin Xin’s favor, as he had not only saved her but also imparted skills to her, qualifying as a half-mentor.

In reality, the Ma family had only provided an environment for Lin Xin to defuse the tension, and if anything, it was the Ma family who owed Lin Xin.

Unexpectedly, the woman had the audacity to invert the situation, demanding Lin Xin to remember past affections.

Seeing that they had complied, Lin Xin didn’t linger and flew past them towards the densest and most potent aura in the city.

Soon, a cyan jade shuttle-shaped void ship appeared ahead, its structure crowned with a large three-horned black cow that seemed somewhat blurry, evidently a creature manifested by the ship’s own formation.

No sooner had he arrived than a dozen young and middle-aged cultivators in green robes flew out from the ship. Upon seeing Lin Xin, their faces turned pale and they scrambled back into the ship like refugees.

"Sword Devil Red Flower! We are from the Kunlin Sword Sect under Daoist Master of Heaven..." a voice called out from the ship.

Boom!!!

A thick beam of Sword Light flashed like lightning, brief and fleeting.

The void ship froze for a split second before exploding violently, white-gold flames mixing with black Demonic Flame and copious amounts of blood, erupting like a dazzling, ornate flower.

The voices from inside the ship ceased abruptly.

"Such a ruthless heart."

An overwhelmed voice carrying a hint of terror drifted up from below.

Lin Xin looked down to see an old monk with white eyebrows, weak in cultivation but his eyes full of compassion.

"Who are you? Are you also here to kill me and seize the Secret Treasure?" Lin Xin asked casually.

The monk shook his head.

"Central Prefecture is abuzz with news that you, Lin Xin, the Sword Devil, have seized a Secret Treasure and are slaughtering all around, hands stained with blood, becoming a frenzied demon. I did not believe it at first, but now that I see..."

"The world hustles and bustles for profit," Lin Xin said indifferently. "If they want to kill me and take the Secret Treasure, naturally they must pay the corresponding price."

"All things in the world follow cause and effect; there is virtue for virtue and retribution for evil. With such a heavy toll of lives taken, are you not afraid of retribution?" the monk said earnestly.

"Retribution? My life is here. Whoever wants it, whoever can take it, should come and fetch it themselves," Lin Xin said as his hair began to turn red, his eyes demonic, seemingly stained with fresh blood.

The monk felt a chill in his heart and wanted to say more, but Lin Xin’s demonic cloud soared into the sky, disappearing into the horizon in an instant.

Without a Yuan Jing ancestor, no one could control him.

The monk sighed deeply, while the little novices beside him who scarcely dared to breathe were so terrified their bladders nearly gave way.

The oppressive aura of demonic energy and killing intent had slowed their heartbeats. That their master had dared to confront such a formidable demon directly was to completely disregard life and death.