Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 451 - 445: Relics II

Chapter 451: Chapter 445: Relics II

The Queen Bee had already surpassed the Fourth Grade peak and began to approach the Dao Seeking level.

However, Dao Seeking level was not so easy to approach. This was still the Queen Bee who was originally at the Golden Core Perfection Realm. Only with a Golden Core at Perfection could one seek Dao, which required an extremely resolute will and an understanding of the natural laws.

Although the Queen Bee’s aura continued to strengthen, the Dao Seeking level required a state of the Spiritual Realm, which it couldn’t reach, so eventually, it was just a simple enhancement of blood energy and physical qualities.

Soon, all of Lin Xin’s attribute enhancements were completely borne by the Queen Bee.

This was, aside from Yin Mantuo, the first monster Lin Xin had encountered that could bear all of his attribute enhancements.

A monster at the Golden Core Stage, even within the Inner Regions, could be considered a formidable demon. Naturally, a monster of such level would be extraordinary after the enhancements.

After the Queen Bee finished its last enhancement, it had grown as large as an elephant, lying in front of Lin Xin.

She looked like a beautiful woman enveloped in an immense cotton, trapped within a huge cotton mass.

The upper half of her body was that of a seductive and strange woman, and instead of legs, the lower half was a large, four-meter-high, five-meter-wide mass of white insect abdomen resembling massive cotton.

Densely packed holes, the size of human heads, were arranged around the insect abdomen. At a glance, there were even over a thousand of them, causing a faint sense of panic in one’s heart.

"Human Race! Do you think this will make me, Feixius, submit?!" The Queen Bee viciously stared at Lin Xin below, not hiding her murderous intent in the least.

But she did not dare make any rash moves, as the link with her soul continuously sent waves of terror, incomparable even to the crisis she felt from the black-haired elder she encountered many years ago.

She could faintly sense that every single thought and idea of hers could be detected by the human in front of her at any moment.

That feeling of shame, as if her entire shell was being torn and stripped away, filled the Queen Bee Feixius with immense anger.

"You shall stay on the ship and act as a breeding machine," Lin Xin said, not even glancing at her, as he retracted his hand and issued the command directly through the soul link.

Despite Feixius’ frantic desire to resist, under the pact, her body honestly began laying eggs incessantly.

Suddenly, from the densely packed small holes around her massive white abdomen, oval-shaped insect eggs started to emerge continuously.

The eggs were a milky white color, each the size of a watermelon.

As soon as they were squeezed out and hit the deck, they began to crack and a large number of fissures appeared.

Crack.

Amidst the crisp sounds, in no time at all, over a dozen eggs slowly cracked open, and from within, purple-black human-faced bee insects flew out.

Each bee was about the size of a human head, with no eyes on their heads, but with an opening in their abdomen revealing a blood-red eye.

Their heads had the faces of beautiful women except where the eyes should be, there was nothing but a black strip similar to an eye-mask, somewhat eerie to behold.

Most shocking was that these newly born bee insects, as soon as they hatched, were emitting a dense black demon Qi.

Lin Xin reached out and captured one of the bee insects, smelling the black Qi emanating from its body.

"Third Grade level?" With a light squeeze, the bee’s body was actually protected by a transparent, gel-like film separating Lin Xin’s hand.

"This is Protective Demon Qi?" Lin Xin was slightly surprised.

It was like the Protective Aura, a sign of the Third Grade level.

While Lin Xin was inspecting them, the Queen Bee had already produced at least hundreds of eggs and continued to squeeze out more white eggs.

Dens of the purple-black human-faced bees hatched and flew into the air.

"Soul Contracts can control, but it seems to be weakened by a layer, much weaker." Lin Xin briefly sensed the influence he had over these bee insects and was slightly dissatisfied.

"Go," he said.

He waved his hand, casting the bee insect away, letting it flee in terror.

"Go kill everything you see. I need more blood, more slaughter...."

On the Void Ship, a large group of dense purple-black bee insects, along with bloodsucking mosquitoes, buzzed as they dived from the sky.

Flying towards the vast swath of dilapidated grey-white ruins on the ground. They looked like an overwhelming black cloud.

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Thump.

The wine glass smashed heavily on the table.

"What has happened to Brother Lin? Why does it seem like he’s becoming more and more...."

Zhao Ke was restlessly clamoring, continuously pouring himself wine.

"Indeed, Brother Lin wasn’t like this before. Why has he changed so much recently?" Ye Qingchang also expressed her worry.

Lin Xiaoyu from the Dao of the Heavens Cloud, who had been dragged here to discuss the situation, was sitting crossed-legged on a chair, his expression cold and impassive.

"It’s just death we’re facing; what’s there to fear? That demon... He has always regarded human life as grass, what’s so strange about it?"

"No, you don’t understand," Ye Qingchang shook her head. "Brother Lin has always been very kind. Although some of his methods were extreme, he would never blindly kill like he does now. Both me and my husband were once saved by him."

"It must be some trouble he has encountered," Zhao Ke said resolutely, "We must think of a solution!"

"What solution?" Lin Xiaoyu scoffed coldly, "After all, we are merely captives taken by that demon. You, nominally protected by him, do you really have a choice?"

With those words spoken, Zhao Ke was choked up and unable to refute.

"So we just watch Brother Lin fall deeper into the Demon Path?" Ye Qingchang retorted.

"We’re too weak, even if we have ideas, what can we do?" Lin Xiaoyu said indifferently.

"And then there are those monsters. There are more and more monsters on the ship, the demons are getting stronger and stronger. Even if we want to do something, we will be discovered by the ever-present watchers and then captured," Lin Xiaoyu continued to throw cold water on the situation.

"According to Big Brother Lin, we need to transfer to two points in the Outer Regions and then head to the Southern Mansion. Maybe we’ll find an opportunity to ask him in person. Right now, even if I want to go up to the deck, Miss Yin Mantuo is blocking us firmly, not letting us go up there. There are too many demons, she’s afraid that if we’re not careful, we’ll be attacked and eaten by the demons."

Zhao Ke had a trace of unwillingness in his eyes. Lin Xin had saved his life, and no matter what, he did not hope that Big Brother Lin would completely fall into the Demon Path, into madness from which he could not extricate himself.

Although Zhao Ke was no saint, he knew how to pay back a kindness and seek revenge for a grudge! Living for so many years, he felt he had done nothing to shame heaven and earth.

The life-saving grace of those years and the later support must find a chance to be repaid!

"Husband, no matter what you want to do, I support you!" Ye Qingchang also understood Zhao Ke’s temperament and nodded seriously at him. She chose to trust her husband unconditionally.

"Foolish!" Lin Xiaoyu looked at them, a trace of coldness flashing in her eyes. With just the two of them, as weak as her, what use could they be against that demon with terrifying power and seemingly no limits?

Ye Qingchang seemed to see the disdain in her and just smiled.

"The strength of one’s power is certainly one of the criteria for differentiating levels. But in this world, no matter how strong an existence is, it has its weaknesses. Strength does not determine victory or defeat, life or death. A Golden Core Stage might not affect an Undying Realm elder, it’s just extremely unlikely."

"You talk a good game," Lin Xiaoyu sneered.

"Don’t you understand?" Ye Qingchang shook her head.

"The level of cultivation only represents stronger power, greater destructive force, faster speed. Compared to someone at the first level, it’s like the difference between an adult and a child.

But can you say that a child will definitely not be able to kill an adult?"

Lin Xiaoyu was silent.

"Given the right opportunity, the right method, even a child can use external objects to defeat an adult. Nothing in the world is absolute," Ye Qingchang explained gently.

"But what if it’s a child and a giant?" Lin Xiaoyu said coldly.

"Even against a giant, there is still a glimmer of hope," Zhao Ke suddenly said decisively.

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On the land of the Outer Regions.

Gray and white buildings, like tofu crushed underfoot, some still retain traces of integrity, while others are completely trampled to mush.

The dim yellow sunlight fell evenly, and the air was filled with deadly poison.

At the steps in front of a building resembling a church, several bird-headed humanoids dressed in gray feathered clothing gasped heavily. The long spears they held in their hands served as support crutches like wooden sticks.

These bird-headed humanoids had the heads of eagles and the bodies of human males. Their gray feathered clothing, like rain capes, was layered thickly without leaving a gap, despite the heat.

"Has that guy caught up to us?!" a weary bird-headed humanoid asked.

"I don’t know," another bird-headed humanoid responded.

They spoke an ancient language full of ghostly tones, with some variation and dialect mixed in, but the main content was still understandable.

"But we have already escaped to this place, near the slant of the Ha Tribe. Further in is the slant itself, and if we encounter the Ha Tribe, we’re all dead," another older bird-headed humanoid said somberly.

"So even that guy should have some reservations about coming here to anger the Ha Tribe, at least...."

"It’s a shame.... the flesh of that void whale is gone...."

"Thinking about meat at a time like this!? Do you have no desire to live!?"

One bird-headed humanoid gave another, smaller one, a harsh slap.

Thump!

As they spoke, a huge booming vibration suddenly came from behind the building.

All the bird-headed humanoids shuddered, flapped their wings powerfully, and landed cautiously at the edge of the building, looking back.

"It’s him!! Bubulodi!! He actually followed us here!?," a bird-headed humanoid couldn’t help but shout.

Before the cry had settled.

Boom! A loud sound echoed.

The top of the church-like building, the pinnacle part, was smashed by a huge white arm.

In the midst of the crashing sounds, the entire building collapsed, tumbling into a pile of broken stones on the ground.

The dust was quickly blown away by the wind, revealing the monster that had destroyed the building.

It was a giant book over ten meters tall!

A massive book monster with milky white hands and feet!

In the middle of its gray-white page-like body, it had a human-like face with eyes, nose, and mouth.

Its giant mouth was full of jagged, sharp teeth, and it was laughing heartily with blood stains and flesh muddled around its mouth.

Its two arms, made of milky white clay-like substance, held an immensely large, ferocious black Wolf Fang Club, which it was slowly lifting from the rubble.

The whole monster looked like a fairy tale creature from a cartoon world, only magnified countless times.

Roar!!

The book monster, upon seeing the bird-headed humanoids, lowered its head and roared wildly, its two blood-red eyes exuding ruthlessly crazy colors.