Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 474 - 468: Dark Sun 3

Chapter 474: Chapter 468: Dark Sun 3

Hiss.....

Lin Xin unleashed the Primitive Demonic Realm and the Silkworm Moon White Sword’s Yuan Jing Layer simultaneously. The entire surroundings of the back mountain turned into a sea of blood-red.

The cave burst open, with large chunks of rock hovering and scattering in all directions.

It had just been inside the cave, but in the blink of an eye, it seemed as though everything had moved to open ground.

"Just entering the Void Realm, you’ve just stepped into the Yuan Jing and already behave so recklessly!"

Daoist Master of the East Slope sneered coldly.

"Let me...."

Boom!!

A terrifying blood-red sphere, over ten meters tall, smashed directly into his body.

In just an instant, Daoist Master of the East Slope’s body radiated a white light from the Yuan Jing, but strangely, it was of no use.

The blood-colored sphere rolled like a gigantic grinding wheel, frantically rubbing against his Yuan Jing Soul Domain and smashing him backward.

Roar!!!

The sphere suddenly expanded and transformed into a giant blood-colored Qilin!

Boom!

The Qilin slammed its claw down fiercely on Daoist Master of the East Slope, seemingly trying to crush him into the ground.

A flash of white light as Daoist Master of the East Slope desperately unleashed an escape skill at a critical moment, but it seemed to be a magic artifact escape technique. The escape light had just flown out when the space distorted without going far.

Everyone then saw the blood-colored Qilin open its mouth and roar ferociously.

Roar!!!

The raging sound waves twisted the space, striking right at the escape light.

Bang!!

In mid-air, a cloud of blood mist exploded, and Daoist Master of the East Slope was instantly killed without leaving even a bit of shattered bone behind.

The Qilin dispersed, and Lin Xin still stood his ground.

But everyone still felt a chill suddenly shooting up their spines. From the top down, they felt utterly cold.

"Daoist Master of the East Slope....!" Celestial Maiden Mei’s face trembled, "Dead?!"

Ding.

Lin Xin held the Evil Soul Orb in one hand while the other hand held a red Demonic Sword upside down, emitting a sword clanging noise.

The Righteous Soul Pearl slowly floated past his eyes, and his eyes, originally light red, turned to black and red as if flames were burning inside.

"You guess?" he said with a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth.

Countless black runes like ants climbed up his skin. His black robe tore apart with a rip, revealing a luxurious silver robe underneath.

The silver robe fluttered without wind, slightly bulging, and the purple electric arcs inside the blood-colored Evil Soul Orb began to intensify, faintly emitting a sinister aura.

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A group of masters instantly left the Taoist Palace, and the Demonic Realm was dispelled.

Only True Monarch Taikun and others were saved by the Yuan Jing released by him, now recovering from their stiff posture.

Celestial Maiden Yuzhu, Dugu Lin, and several others had complex expressions, completely at a loss for words.

They hadn’t expected that among this group of veteran Yuan Jing ancestors, there would be a top expert who had traveled all the way from Central Prefecture.

They naturally heard the previous conversation as well.

True Monarch Taikun and the other disciples were baffled, but since they had already escaped danger, they could not let Spirit Heart Villa Master’s kindness go to waste.

Immediately send an order, activate the runes, and unsheathe the Divine Sword!"

With decisive action, Taikun quickly deployed the last resort.

"All disciples of the Pine Forest, retreat with me!"

Celestial Maiden Yuzhu directly sent out the order.

Meanwhile, the entire Taoist Palace, due to the explosion of compressed internal space, had at least thousands dead or wounded from the explosion that affected tens of thousands of people.

Only a few cultivators managed to flee on clouds, dragging the injured.

Still, some people, fearlessly, secretly rushed towards the Taoist Palace, clearly wanting to fish in troubled waters, hoping to profit from the misfortune of the Pine Forest Sword Sect.

But Celestial Maiden Yuzhu didn’t have time to care about that now and had to send out orders to organize the chaotic scene.

While Dugu Lin was helping with the orders, her mind was also in a mess.

She couldn’t understand how Lin Xin, who had just been at the Foundation Establishment level, suddenly erupted with a cultivation comparable to Yuan Jing.

Seeing Lin Xin’s head chopped off and transform into countless threads of silk, and recalling the earlier words of that Yuan Jing elder about the Old Red Flower Demon.

"Could it be that he was possessed by a demon?" As the thought occurred to her, she felt even more suspicious.

"It must be demonic possession. Lin Xin...."

For some reason, her heart began to tremble.

Cultivators possessed by demons, especially by powerful demons, almost never survived; everyone perished soul and body, devoured alive by the demon.

"Sister Dugu!"

Ji Lu and You Xuan, a couple, hurried over agitatedly.

Under the chaotic and dangerous environment filled with burning dark red or black demonic flames, the two were actually unharmed, not even suffering a scratch.

"Ji Lu, You Xuan, it’s good to see you’re safe!" Dugu Lin also breathed a sigh of relief. In the explosion just now, it was rare for only a few disciples of the Pine Forest Sword Sect to be killed or injured.

"What about Lin Xin?" Ji Lu asked somewhat anxiously. "Could Lin Xin really have been possessed by a demon?"

"Lin Xin...." At this moment, Dugu Lin could almost confirm his demonic possession.

Otherwise, so many masters from Central Prefecture wouldn’t have come to subdue him, treating it as a grave threat.

Lin Xin’s talent had always been only mediocre, being able to enter the Foundation Establishment Stage was already tremendous luck.

In such a short time, even Nan Shunqing, who was once proclaimed a top-tier genius seen once in hundreds of years, couldn’t possibly have advanced into the Yuan Jing Layer so swiftly.

"If he is possessed by a demon, then we must find a way to help him break free!" Dugu Lin clenched his teeth and said.

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"This way! Quick, quick, quick!"

Lin Xinyuan was led by two Foundation Establishment Retainers toward the outskirts of Taikun Mountain.

A vast expanse of clouds and mist gradually enveloped them; streaks of light streamed overhead, belonging to Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had just escaped from the longevity feast.

The people from Spirit Heart Villa blended with a group of individuals in black robes, led by someone who took them around from the side of the mountain range.

Soon, everyone, including Lin Zhen and Lin Luo, had all gathered together.

The individuals from Radiant Sun Sect were all draped in black robes.

Rou Kui’s eyes shimmered with a strange luster as she gazed toward the back of the peak of Taikun Mountain.

"The sect leader has already engaged the attacker. Everyone, are you ready?"

A hiss of black-robed figures instantly appeared around her.

"Everything is already prepared."

"Today is the day we officially come into the public eye."

Two black-robed individuals stepped forward and said.

"The master has already started the battle...."

Two small figures in blood robes appeared, standing beside Rou Kui.

"Change in plans, initiate the backup, and proceed according to the list," Rou Kui said indifferently.

"What a trash plan, it’s just food anyway."

One of the blood-robed individuals scoffed.

No one responded; the black-robed figures dispersed in all directions, escaping towards the distance.

Only Lin Xinyuan and the others remained grouped together on one side.

"What on earth is going on?" As the vice villa lord, Lin Xinyuan had been timely escorted out by the experts of the Radiant Sun Sect, yet she was completely unaware of what had transpired.

Below, they had only seen an instance of explosion, followed by red haloes and dust mixed with chaotic shadows, making it impossible to discern anything clearly.

In a blink of an eye, the upper-level longevity feast had descended into complete chaos.

Previously, the gathering of veteran ancestors confronted Daoist Master Taikun in the pine woods, demanding he handed over Daoist Master Mingxin.

But the subsequent turn of events left everyone utterly baffled.

"It seems everything is within teacher’s plans," Lin Luo said calmly, his voice deep.

Some Manor disciples wanted to leave, but were immediately stopped by black-robed figures who suddenly appeared around them; after a low persuasion, they returned.

"Since father asked us to stay here, we should just wait patiently," Lin Zhen said with a frown.

"Though I’m not clear on the specifics of the arrangement, father certainly wouldn’t harm us. Rather than acting rashly when nothing is clear, it’s better to quietly stay here and wait for the outcome."

Lin Zhen, Lin Duan, and others all nodded in agreement.

Since Nan Shunqing’s disappearance, their generation had grown to assume power in the Manor, and their decisions were also absolutely obeyed by most of the Manor’s disciples, quickly stabilizing everyone in the situation.

Additionally, Radiant Sun Sect had early connections with the Manor’s disciples, so the attitudes between them were mostly gentle, with no frictions.

However, Lin Xinyuan faintly felt that the sounds from the back mountain were clearly related to Lin Xin.

She clenched her fists, looking in that direction.

"Please be okay... brother..."

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Boom!

The mountain wall violently exploded, forming a large human-shaped crater.

Lin Xin, holding a sword in one hand and a pearl in the other, his bloody hair fluttering wildly, resembled a demon.

Surrounding him were the Celestial Maiden of the Plum Blossoms, True Monarch Shang Yang, Lu Sanxi of Void Sword Cave, and the Vice Banner Master in green robes from the Red Spine Sect.

The four Yuan Jing elders formed a square, tightly encircling him. Each of them had a blaze-like semi-transparent flame rising from their bodies.

Those were the soul domains each Yuan Jing elder possessed, only becoming so compressed by the four to achieve maximum combat power, thus displaying such a state.

White, gold, black, and red flames flickered continuously, subtly cooperating to completely suppress every space around Lin Xin that he could possibly move into.

Yet, the crater on the mountain wall served as a constant reminder to everyone that just a moment ago, an unknown Yuan Jing had been smashed into the mountain wall by a single sword strike, with their life or death unknown.

If a Yuan Jing lost their soul domain, they were merely a high-level Golden Core Cultivator, posing no threat to Lin Xin.

"How so?" Lin Xin, holding his sword upside down, looked around.

"Aren’t you here to snatch the secret treasure? Why do you hesitate to act now?"

"You brat, do you really think we can’t handle you?" Lu Sanxi glanced at the other three, his expression slightly shifting. Others feared Lin Xin only because of his strong physical body, but he was precisely suited to handle such physically adept cultivators.

He pulled with both hands, and suddenly, a long, slightly curved transparent blade emerged between his hands.

"Supreme Spiral Honor! Infinite Brightness!"

He uttered the mantra, stepped the Four-Star Step, and the black flame around his body surged up into the sky.

"Rise!"

The long blade as a black streak shot skyward, turning mid-air into a black giant python resembling a flying dragon.

The python, tens of meters long, was wrapped in black smoke, spewing black water, and ferociously lunged towards Lin Xin.

On the other side, the other three individuals’ flames also rose simultaneously.

True Monarch Shang Yang opened his right hand, and a blob of golden-red flame immediately appeared in his palm.

The flame rapidly expanded, turning into a magnificent umbrella adorned with various pearls and gold. The surface of the umbrella faintly showed four vermilion runes flickering on and off.